LOVE WILL TEAR US APART: A NOVELLA

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Date

2012-05

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Department

Hood College Arts and Humanities

Program

Humanities

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This work is embargoed and the Hood College Library is not authorized to lend it.

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Abstract

Love Will Tear Us Apart: A Novella is the culmination of "The Evolution of the Modernist Novel," a concentration formed out of graduate coursework in the area of modernist literature. This novella, most profoundly inspired by Virginia Woolf's 1931 novel, The Waves, traces the intertwining lives of five young adults over a period of three years and explores the depths and challenges of human communication in keeping with the modernist tradition. Various thematic and stylistic elements are influenced by the works of modernist writers Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, and William Faulkner, as well as more contemporary writers such as Margaret Atwood and Raymond Carver.