The Cythara
Date of Award
2019
Document Type
Bibliographic Record
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Stonecoast
First Advisor
Elizabeth Searle
Second Advisor
Breena Clarke
Third Advisor
Justin Tussing
Abstract
The Cythara tells the tale of two mothers, living one hundred and fifty years apart, who dwell on the same hardscrabble land in Downeast Maine in very different times. Each suffers the loss of a first born child and their losses threaten to derail them. The bereaved women connect through elusive spirits and an old hymnal. The Cythara explores time, memory and grief in a cautionary contemporary tale with a decidedly gothic twist.
Phoebe and Alexis reflect in the daily work they do the expectations of theirwidely disparate generations yet their lives' experiences remain deeply the same. Neithercould foresee nor forestall the unexpected consequences of complicated grief.
Recommended Citation
Collier, Sandra Hylander, "The Cythara" (2019). Stonecoast MFA Theses and Capstones. 121.
https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/stonecoast/121
Comments
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