Treatment Plan
| dc.contributor.author | Cutler, Betsy | en |
| dc.contributor.committeechair | D'Aguiar, Frederick M. | en |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Falco, Edward C. | en |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Mann, Jeffrey A. | en |
| dc.contributor.department | English | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-04-24T16:03:01Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2017-04-24T16:03:01Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2010-04-29 | en |
| dc.date.sdate | 2010-05-12 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | There is a tradition of experimentation in fiction. From Laurence Sterne’s <u>Tristram Shandy</u> to B.S. Johnson’s <u>The Unfortunates</u>, we see an exploration in content and delivery of story. In Sterne’s <u>Tristram Shandy</u>, he uses tactics such as drawings and deletion of pages. In Johnson’s <u>The Unfortunates</u>, he shifts control to the readers by giving them the opportunity to shuffle sections of the book. Here, as the reader, you have a choice. You can read <u>Treatment Plan</u> as it is arranged, or you can jumble the sections labeled with an image in any order within the dated sections. What must remain in order are the sections that begin with a date. The book is a medical-model case study fashioned in experimental fiction. The cropped images which indicate the shuffled sections were taken of two stained glass windows at Salisbury Cathedral in the United Kingdom. *Please note that <u>Treatment Plan</u> is meant to be read in its printed form which consists of twenty four sections, twelve of which may be shuffled within the dated sections.* | en |
| dc.description.degree | Master of Fine Arts | en |
| dc.identifier.other | etd-05122010-080848 | en |
| dc.identifier.sourceurl | http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05122010-080848/ | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77474 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
| dc.publisher | Virginia Tech | en |
| dc.rights | In Copyright | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | en |
| dc.subject | experimental | en |
| dc.subject | hospital | en |
| dc.subject | fiction | en |
| dc.title | Treatment Plan | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |
| dc.type.dcmitype | Text | en |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Creative Writing | en |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | en |
| thesis.degree.level | masters | en |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Fine Arts | en |
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