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dc.contributor.authorSmith, Catherine
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
dc.contributor.departmentEnglish
dc.date2024-03-29T14:44:05.000
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-26T16:38:43Z
dc.date.available2024-05-10T00:00:00Z
dc.date.issued2019-01-01
dc.date.submittedMay
dc.description.abstractIt is psychologists, psychiatrists, neuroscientists, and philosophers who most often attempt the formal study of consciousness: it is writers who observe the impossibility of any such study. In the spirit of Joseph O'Neill, Muriel Spark, and J.K. Rowling, with reference to cross-disciplinary thinkers like Donella Meadows, Douglas Hofstadter, and Rudy Rucker, Tree of Knowledge concerns itself with the mystery of mystery and the knowledge of knowledge. This collection of short stories bespeaks the human observer's paradoxical situation in all its the diverse implications, including moral confusion, tragedy, and violence, but also comedy, beauty, and the possibility of transcendence.
dc.description.degreeMaster of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7275/14376558
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5351-3502
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/23334
dc.relation.urlhttps://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1125&context=englmfa_theses&unstamped=1
dc.source.statuspublished
dc.subjectknowledge
dc.subjectweird
dc.subjectshort story
dc.subjectdark humor
dc.subjectredemption
dc.titleTree of Knowledge
dc.typecampus
dc.typearticle
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