Traps and other stories / by Wendy Tilley.

Author/creator Tilley, Wendy author.
Other author Whisnant, Luke, degree supervisor.
Other author East Carolina University. Department of English.
Format Theses and dissertations
Publication[Greenville, N.C.] : [East Carolina University], 2024.
Description1 online resources (71 pages)
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Summary This selection of four short stories treats low-culture plots, subjects, and storylines, with high-culture rhetorical techniques. Taking as its sources material B-movies, or Portuguese plays from the 16th century, this thesis believes that the distinction between high and low art is nonexistent, another binary created where binaries do not exist. Literature is for, and made of, drunks, prostitutes, and thieves, as much as many honorable people. It is also attempts to be American, in the sense that the plots hint at violence, aberrant sex, and Christianity, the American trinity.
General notePresented to the Faculty of the Department of English
General noteAdvisor: Luke Whisnant
General noteTitle from PDF t.p. (viewed January 21, 2026).
Dissertation noteM.A. East Carolina University 2024.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web.

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