University of Southern Maine USM Digital Commons Stonecoast MFA Student Scholarship 2020 Words and Power: Four Stories of Women and the Unseen World Elisabeth Brander University of Southern Maine,
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[email protected]. Words and Power: Four Stories of Women and the Unseen World A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF FINE ARTS UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE STONECOAST MFA IN CREATIVE WRITING BY Elisabeth Brander 2020 THE LTNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE STONECOAST MFA IN CREATIVE WRITING May 20,2020 We hereby recommend that the thesis of Elisabeth Brander entitled Words and Power, Four Stories of [4/omen and the Unseen World be accepted as partial fulflrllment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Fine Arts JI\ Advisor Nancy uol@ 77"-¿"aa' Çeaz- Reader Th.odo.u Go., A I !t Director o J Þ Accepted Dean, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Adam-Max Tuchinsky Abstract Stories do not appear out of nowhere. Every story is \ryoven from preexisting threads of inspiration: history, mythology, tales that have already been told by another.