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    Words into worlds
    (2020-07-17) Raker, Cecelia Anne; Engelman, Liz; Lynn, Kirk
    This thesis will articulate the ways I use words to build worlds, channeling my love of lyrical language into sustainable craft practices by mapping out a cycle of tools I use in making my work. I will investigate how my own experiences of conflict and code-switching teach me to pay attention to language as a basis for story and character. Using examples from my plays Bog Butter and Webbed Hands and my opera Good Country (with cameos by the other work I’ve made during graduate school), I will chart how the meanings and physicalities of language can teach us the values, tensions, and potential stories latent in a fictional world. I’ll examine how I’ve used these insights in generative writing and in the revision process. And I will marvel at how clarifying my relationship to trauma and language has helped me more confidently trust myself as an artist and as a human