This thesis is a collection of short stories prefaced by an aesthetic statement. The stories themselves deal with characters and their struggles with their own shortcomings. The characters have to come to terms with their ...

The starting point for the writer not practising the traditional type of mimesis is consciousness. The fictionist concerned with internal mental life does not search for an absolute foundation for knowledge in truths that ...

This thesis is a collection of short fiction preceded by a critical essay. The critical essay, a work in three sections, examines the writer's role in reflecting human subjectivity and ontological dilemmas. The essay ...