The Holy Ones: Stories
| dc.contributor.advisor | Benning, Sheri | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Lynes, Jeanette | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Evenson, Brian | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Bandco, Lindsey | |
| dc.creator | Nelson, Josiah | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-09-27T16:00:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-09-27T16:00:52Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2023 | |
| dc.date.created | 2023-11 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-09-27 | |
| dc.date.submitted | November 2023 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2023-09-27T16:00:53Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | The Holy Ones is a collection of five short stories and two novellas exploring relationships and solitude through a fabulist prism. In keeping with the tenants of fabulism, most of these stories take the primary world as their starting point and imbue it with one magical, mystical, or absurd quirk. While these stories are somewhat strange, they attempt to find relevance and resonance in the banality of their characters’ desires: a wizard wishes to rent the perfect apartment, a group of boys want to ask their crushes to the school dance, a Mennonite girl wants to climb a sycamore tree, and so on. The Holy Ones, like many fabulist collections, combines the mystical with the banal in an attempt to defamiliarize common emotions and experiences—like a fear of commitment, adolescent love, a search of a higher power, and so on—and perhaps, at least momentarily, return these emotions and experiences to their original state of strangeness. | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10388/15072 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.subject | fabulism, short stories | |
| dc.title | The Holy Ones: Stories | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| dc.type.material | text | |
| thesis.degree.department | English | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Writing | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Saskatchewan | |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) |