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Believing details

Harrell, Anna M. (2001-04-23)

In this creative non-fiction thesis, the author reads her own life, suggesting that she believes in the details of experience and knows truth in and through experience even though the truth is not always clear. The fir ...
Elementary Music

Treat, Tanya (2000-04-18)

The four stories and one essay within are linked by themes: love, sex, truth, and music. Three of the stories are told by first person narrators who are also musicians. In "Elementary Music," a young girl views her par ...
Full of his details and other essays

Tuma, Teresa K. Easterling (1995-05-19)

This collection consists of autobiographical essays which center around my father, my first husband, and my backyard. All of the pieces are recollections, and most occur either from my study inside the house, or from t ...
A houseboy's handbook

Lubbock, Jay Erik (1995-05-25)

Past experiences have relevant truths for the present. An uncommon work and living situation from this writer's undergraduate days shows how prejudice and stereotype can be subtly arranged, and participated in, by the ...
The infinite margin : living in reading

Kleiman, Alicia J. Alicia J. (2001-04-25)

This thesis, a collection of creative non-fiction essays, explores the nature and influence of reading and school in the author's life. After a brief introduction explaining the title, part one describes the sensory di ...
Invitations to the writing life : a study of popular writing books

Finley, Devon (1998-08-27)

The field of composition studies has concerned itself with the way in which people learn to write and the role schooling plays in writing development. Recently a trend has developed within the field towards exploring w ...
Paxton : a cartography

Hogg, Charlotte (1996-05-07)

This thesis is a collection of essays about Paxton, a small town in western Nebraska, and an exploration of the contradictions and complexities found there. It is also a reflection on the layers of history and connect ...
Violence and voice

Dahlin, Angela (2002-04-24)

Violence and voice seem to be related. In this thesis I detail personal experiences with violence, and then put them into the context of research done about the ways in which violence affects the writing voice, as well ...
Where we are buried : a conversation of diaries

Hill, Eric R. (1999-05-05)

This thesis is the first of three sections in what will be a book-long project of creative nonfiction essays. The book will parallel the author's diary with three other family diaries, spanning four generations. This the ...
The wild flesh of Gary Snyder's "natural language"

Hanson, Michael (Michael Edward) (2006-06-15)

This paper explores the language theories of Gary Snyder, an important modern environmental author whose early work was associated with the Beat movement of the early 1950's. I am particularly interested in Snyder's th ...