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Lightning Flowers
| Title: | Lightning Flowers. |
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| Name(s): |
Rupert, Nickalus, Author Neal, Mary, Committee Chair Hubbard, Susan, Committee Member Poissant, David, Committee Member University of Central Florida, Degree Grantor |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Date Issued: | 2015 | |
| Publisher: | University of Central Florida | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Abstract/Description: | Lightning Flowers traces the psychological collapse of Waylan Dranger, an East Texas construction worker / folk artist. Waylan suffers from hallucinatory encounters with Reeve, his missing brother. Reeve often blames Waylan for his disappearance and implied death. Waylan also worries that Sam, his live-in girlfriend, will leave him before he can resolve his own increasingly erratic behavior. Largely, Lightning Flowers is preoccupied with the consequences of nostalgic thinking. Among others, the novel grapples with the following questions: What defines contemporary notions of (")brotherhood(")? To what extent does one's survival necessitate self-delusion? How do social stigmas inform our experience of mental illness? | |
| Identifier: | CFE0006054 (IID), ucf:50988 (fedora) | |
| Note(s): |
2015-05-01 M.F.A. Arts and Humanities, English Masters This record was generated from author submitted information. |
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| Subject(s): | fiction -- nostalgia -- Old West -- East Texas -- derangement | |
| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0006054 | |
| Restrictions on Access: | campus 2020-11-15 | |
| Host Institution: | UCF |
