Date of Award
4-2025
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts
Department
English
Program
Creative Writing (MFA)
First Advisor/Chairperson
Jon Billman
Abstract
This hybrid collection of linked essays, poems, and collages seeks to interrogate the relationship between emotional literacy and scientific literacy. The author uses ballet, grizzly bears, radioactive isotopes, infamous scientists, genetic mutations, the Apollo missions, and other subjects to hold beside her own experiences so that she might better understand how to cope with the death of a loved one. Particularly, in this collection, the author seeks to understand the difference between what endures and what remains through a chain reaction of creative, emotional, and scientific inquiry.
Recommended Citation
Lounsbury, Barbra J., "Per Mutations" (2025). All NMU Master's Theses. 882.
https://commons.nmu.edu/theses/882
Access Type
Open Access
Justification for Restricting Access
This document contains creative and intellectual property for which I plan to pursue book publication for in the future. Having parts of or all of this document open to the public would disqualify it from book deals or other means of publication in literary world.
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