Waveland

• Other Authors: Plante, Jessica M. (Jessica Marie) (author)
• Format: Others
• Language: English; English
• Published: Florida State University
• Online Access: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/2019_Spring_Plante_fsu_0071E_15059

The dissertation manuscript, Waveland, is a sequence of lyric and narrative poems that form a loosely-structured story about the life of a character called The Navy Wife. The poems in the collection explore trauma and healing through braided topics and motifs, and the manuscript is arranged so that The Navy Wife’s exploration of self develops along a hero’s journey narrative arc. A hero’s journey includes the following components: a call to action, acceptance of the call, rising action, defeat, death and rebirth, atonement, the journey home, and the establishment of a new normal. As a hero’s journey, Waveland’s narrative structure is circular; the speaker ends where she began though she is now transformed by her reconciliation with her past. === A Dissertation submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. === Spring Semester 2019. === April 19, 2019. === Dating, Death, Divorce, Marriage, Miscarriage, Poetry === Includes bibliographical references. === David Kirby, Professor Directing Dissertation; Bryan Cuevas, University Representative; Barbara Hamby, Committee Member; Diane Roberts, Committee Member; Robert Stilling, Committee Member.