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- Tuma, Teresa K. Easterling
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- 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 the deck outside, looking at the yard. The Preface is the story of how I...
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- made, and a trip I took to Arkansas. Chapter II, "Cemetery," recalls a meteorology class field trip
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- Weber, Joshua D.
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- The Gospel: According to Matt is a novel, told in the first person, simple past tense, depicting the struggle of a young man attempting to make sense of his relationship with his estranged father as he wrestles with a growing crisis of faith. Matt is deeply sincere in his desire...
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- first of these details Matt's trip across the county with his father, a rowdy truck driver. Matt's
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- Hoch, Jamie
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- The Modern era, roughly the time between 1860-1930, brought about a significant restructuring of artistic mediums. From the canvas to the page, artists of the twentieth century turned towards collaboration as a means by which they could reconfigure their works. Painters, writers, and dancers, borrowed aesthetic techniques from one another...
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- theory is a viable source from which the field can more aptly engage in the scholarly inquiries of other
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- Jameson, Sara
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- Mike Rose researcher, professor, scholar, and author of numerous articles and books including the literacy memoir - Lives on the Boundary - has been active in the field of education and composition for over 30 years. This thesis looks back at the development of the discipline of composition studies to...
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- articles and books including the literacy memoir Lives on the Boundary has been active in the field of
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- Katz, Tanya
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- This thesis contains the first portion of Kingston Beach, a redemptive novel about a horrific event. The book chronicles the aftermath of a tragic plane crash in which Jay and Margot lose two of their three children while vacationing at the beach. Jay is a pediatric heart surgeon already highly...
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- a pediatric heart surgeon already highly successful in his field. However, after this personal
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- Jaramillo, John Paul
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- In 7 composite stories--shifting from the roads of Southern Colorado neighborhoods, the fields and unpaved roads of Northern New Mexico, and the streets of Culver City, California--Penitence follows Relles Ortiz and the bleak peripheral existence of the voiceless suburban people living in disorder and disorientation within the harshness of their...
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- Masters Thesis
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- baseball field, and then he told another woman who I never saw the face of that he was living closer to
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Literacy politics and literacy education : thematic perspectives in contemporary Chicana/o narrative
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- Bowman, Christine D.
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- Literacy is often considered to be a basic set of skills to be mastered by the student; the conventional wisdom maintains that the individual who has mastered these skills is then literate. Scholars in the field of literacy studies, however, argue that such assumptions about literacy fail to take into...
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- skills is then literate. Scholars in the field of literacy studies, however, argue that such
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- Fath, Lauren
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- Lauren Fath, in her non-fiction collection Half-Life: Essays, examines the underpinnings of her upbringing in suburban Fort Wayne, Indiana, focusing primarily on familial relationships and the importance of hindsight in understanding how our families make an imprint on our lives. By looking at our relationships through the lens offered by...
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- and I shared them. 6 Jon knew the landmarks of our trip home, and pointed them out to me: The
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- Allen-Spencer, Patricia C.
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- Post World War II victory culture and its fallout-the consensus ideology-led to the creation of a middle class willing to conform to a prescribed set of ideals, safely removed from all danger, and enjoying the material benefits of a growing middle-class income bracket. Walt Disney and Hugh Hefner, two seemingly...
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- business into a new facility on Hyperion Avenue. On a trip to New York to meet with his distributor
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- Fawbush, Vanessa
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- I have elected to write a creative nonfiction thesis because it serves to demonstrate my proficiency in the areas of rhetoric and composition. This thesis consists of a series of personal essays based on my effort to reclaim my voice as a writer. In order to organize these essays, I...
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- energy was boundless. The summer before we got married, he made a solo cross- country trip by hopping
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- Hill, Eric R.
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- 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 thesis deals with the first of those diaries, written by Antonio Bonetti's, the author's great-grandfather....
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- . And at that particular leg of our trip, after having been subjected to countless encounters with my
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- Harris, Gregory A.
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- The Long House explores belonging and commitment. Jennifer Hawley, an American graduate student in linguistic anthropology, arrives in the early 1990s in Long Awan, a Dayak village in the remote highlands of Borneo. Her research concerns oral history among Punan families, traditionally nomadic, which have recently decided to settle in...
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- for once the inevitability of an early, industrious rise. It had already been a productive trip: she
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- Oberst, Gail D.
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- The 13 personal essays in Water over Stones: Oregon Watershed Stories explore the author's experiences in dozens of Oregon watersheds. Using the genre of the personal essay, the author, a fifth-generation Oregonian and amateur ecologist, writes about her life and family relationships in stories that are saturated with the waters...
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- author's co- conspirators in the field of Rhetoric and Composition, Sara Jameson and Melissa Weintraub
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- Larison, John J.
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- Northwest of Normal is the first part of a novel that takes place along an imaginary Oregon river called the Ipsyniho. The story grows from valley’s fertile loam like a blackberry vine, entangling a group of locals—fly fishing guides and midwives, artists and dope growers—just as a posse of wealthy...
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- .” Thomas stroked his goatee. “Mostly big fish. A bunch of us did a trip to Costa Rica for sailfish last
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- Wisniewski, Stephanie E.
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- Ms. Miles is Missing—the beginning of a novel—is the story of a woman who, in her early thirties comes to realize that the life she is living is not the life she wants. She yearns for her lost childhood, and tries to come to terms with her mother’s death. Martha...
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- a month; the final stroke had come without warning. Her last trip to Fair Acres hadn’t been any
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- Henkel, William B.
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- The four stories within, "Jim of India," "Shooting the Breeze," "Bridge," and "Point Reyes," are part of a longer work in progress, tentatively titled The Andy Stories. The stories follow Andy, a woman in her 50s, on a voyage across the continent and into herself. Of these, all are written...
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- serious faced engineer, six-foot-six, already imagining retirement and a trip through Europe and on to
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- Bravo, Simon Gabriel
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- Renovations or “Miracles” is a collection of poetry that exposes the miraculous within the mundane by bearing witness to where we come from and where we are going. Ranging in style from the lyric to the narrative, the personal to the political, these poems explore the relationship between individual and...
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- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Letters from and to Bagram Air Field
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- Elbom, Emily Rebecca
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- In Everybody Doing Pretty Here, a collection of eight interconnected short stories, Emily R. Elbom chronicles the lives of a married couple, Max and Willa. Both characters survive various forms of physical, emotional, and social abuse, and seem to stay married because of this connection. In spite of their codependency,...
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- happy couple. The picture was crossed out with a large red X. It said: IS YOUR TRIP NECESSARY
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- Jordan, Robin Lee
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- Porchless Staircase is a collection of poetry investigating a wide range of themes: consumerism, death, sexuality, alcoholism, religion, writing, family, and, most frequently, isolation. At times toying with notions of the sublime and surrealism, the confessional and the imagistic, these poems vary in form, process, and style, but are loosely...
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- the pile of leaves my feet strew about, 8 of how I would trip over it had it been
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- Peacock, Jonathan Austin
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- The Skipping Stone is a collection of poetry investigating a wide range of themes: self-displacement, southern heritage, identity of the Self, loss, and grief. At times, the poems confess a kind of anxiety associated with experiencing the death of loved ones, acting as a coping mechanism for loss and self-exploration....
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- . The irony: Clods of peat. Home. Vestibule floor. The prodigy. The sheep. The poppy field beside
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- Rhoten, Karalee N.
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- The words we use to define our lives are often determined by the way we render any given moment. Every instance of writing is a moment of remembering, and a non-fiction essay gives the author free rein to unravel an instance, paint a portrait of what time has already come...
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- is a soured hiking trip, one short walk turned into a painfully, frighteningly long one. Perhaps the
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- Treat, Tanya
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- 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 parents' divorce through the lens of an orchestra concert in which she...
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- are desperately unhappy because their fathers only took them on one fishing trip. And they have fears
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- Hiatt, Bryan
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- Recent conflicts in America concerning the environment (the harvesting of old growth timber in the Pacific Northwest, or the proposed opening of public lands in southern Utah to mining interests, for instance) have precipitated a personal examination of "historical others" (Jensen 64), individuals that possess very different sensibilities from a...
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- The Bean Field An Eco-Consciousness 14 15 Philanthropy 16 Self-Reliance 17 III. Gary
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- Lutz, Kevin W.
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- Fallow is a creative non-fiction book of memory and place. It chronicles the lives of William and Vera Lutz and their lives of struggle on the Northern Plains of North Dakota. It follows a narrator and his attempts to make sense of, and connect to their, lives following both of...
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- support it once. A field of flax looks like a head of fine auburn hair, the stalks grow so close together
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- McIntyre, Katharine L.
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- This thesis is the first third of a novel in progress called Rose, Thou Art Sick. In the selection, Rose loses her mother in a freak accident in Boston, is threatened by her evil uncle Charlie, and packs up and moves to Kansas to live with her father, whom she...
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- South Station stop. She waddled down the stairs of the station and boarded a train. She knew this trip
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- Aguilar, Joseph R.
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- This novel-in-progress is an attempt to struggle with the complicated process of forging one’s identity in the murk of urban Northwest life. The protagonist of this piece is confused, to put it lightly: bi-racial, torn between the affections of divorced parents, unsure about his religious views, and baffled by his...
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- mount. After a plunge through doug firs, you arrive at a field, football sized, with a central
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- Duerst, Gretchen
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- In this creative non-fiction thesis, I present a collection of personal essays that examine my significant moments of awkwardness with failed communications or frustrated relationships when I wanted to draw people closer with language, but was unsuccessful. In the twelve stories, I discuss these issues in my interpersonal communication interwoven...
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- Grandma and the children growing up the field trip to the moon, vacations running out of gas all the
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- Gelper, Cynthia H.
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- This is a collection of eight short stories, all of which deal on some level with alienation and the struggle to find meaning in one's life. Although most of the stories deal with issues related to women or feature female protagonists, I did not set out to create a political...
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- Masters Thesis
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- Brisker, Kathy Jo
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- In this collection of nonfiction essays, Brisker recounts her path of recovery after suffering traumatic brain injury. The memoir opens with her first waking moments in the hospital one week after she was thrown from her horse and fractured her skull, and her beginning attempts at piecing together her fragmented...
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- , and you’re really not in any shape for a trip to Costco.” “I don’t care. I need to buy a Mercedes
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- Dieter, Thomas Edward
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- The following thesis explores the potential for autoethnography to serve as an enabling method for developing a grounded understanding of literacy, performance, gender and sexuality. As autoethnographic writing insists that even the seemingly most personal aspects of a researcher's character are deeply embedded in larger political and sociocultural narratives, this...
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- for my parents a performance of The Velveteen Rabbit that I had seen on a class field trip. By then
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- Millet, Terrance Lane
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- This thesis, a collection of short fiction, attempts to surface some of the discrepancy between inner and outer lives, between who these characters want to be and who they've become, between the lives they might have had and those they've chosen because the former are too chancy and the latter...
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- Masters Thesis
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- Buchanan, Sherry
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- Living by the Wayside and Other Stories explores the tension between control and dependence and how that tension affects the ability to sustain intimate relationships. These are stories about women who struggle for independence, but experience the cost of self-rule as isolation. Living by the Wayside and Other Stories focuses...
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- waited until my dad 22 made another trip to the kitchen, and slipped a joint into my pocket. When he
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- Baker, Jessica A.
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- This thesis is a work of fiction.
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- front door clattered open, the screen still unlatched from an early trip to the Coventry post office
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- Creator:
- O'Sullivan, Erin
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- Home Afterwhile, a collection of eight short stories and an essay, explores issues of family and maturation from the landscapes of the Midwest. Generations are connected through a sense of place—from small cornfield towns to Chicago and its suburbs—as well as through what gets retold and what goes unspoken. Characters...
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- stomping through that field and, because of a little bit of money, his granddaughter was going to be one
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- Creator:
- Kroll, Adam L.
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- This collection of six individual writings, both fiction and creative non-fiction, is an exploration in narrative first-person voices and multiple themes, such as the loss of innocence, modernization versus traditions/myths, the California Central Valley, death, creativity, language, change, and the pressures of the future. Though abstractly linked at times, these...
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- in that house they’d stay. I’d stumble and trip, perhaps climbing the Altamont between the
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- Kleiman, Alicia J. Alicia J.
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- 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 dimensions of reading. Part two discusses the author's work as a student and teacher and the contradictions...
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- , itineraries, exchange rates, accents. Three weeks into our trip, this was the first time I had to myself. I
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- Cook, Molly Larson
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- This thesis comprises a collection of six short stories written and developed in the Creative Writing program at Oregon State University and particularly in fiction workshops with Dr. Tracy Daugherty and Marjorie Sandor. These stories explore the human condition, and human connections, in contemporary society. The characters here are ordinary...
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- , who live outside Manhattan's magnetic field in places where they hear only the bad news (although
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- Amsk, Allyn W.
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- The creative writing project Circles in the Sand began as a collection of interrelated short stories but is now the three opening chapters of a novel, a chapter and an early draft of what was originally the ending to a novella, and one short story. The landscape is the upper...
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- bedroom freshly showered, wearing her field clothes, tan slacks and a blouse that she wore when preparing
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- Creator:
- Bluhm, Michael A.
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- You Stay Here is the beginning of a novel that centers on the notion of family, community, and the expectations that drive our interactions within these circles. The novel tells the story of brothers Mills and Nance O'Malley as they interact with their parents, Richard and Margaret. The brothers own...
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- trip. The family stopped to rest at a corner bench. They took turns sipping from a metal water
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- Van Handel, Lucinda S.
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- Set in the dryland farming country of Eastern Oregon in the late 1950's, this novel follows a year and a half in the life of a young girl as she comes of age. A water rights dispute, the plight of nearby ranchers, disappointments in her own family and a harrowing...
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- the dry field. A smell would rise, of ground becoming damp, and water in dry air, and the sprinklers
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- Dahlin, Angela
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- 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 as the speaking voice. Helene Cixous' writings about the writing voice and...
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- back, some old people are waiting in the lobby, talking about a field trip they are about to take, or
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- Creator:
- Bremicker, Heather
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- This collection of poems and essays is about the folklore of family and the shadowy imprint family myth can leave on its members. At the center of the argument is a struggle about coming to terms with these shadows from a speaker trying to find a sense of a self...
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- to show me what some call “The Switzerland of Alaska.” But when my mother urged this fishing trip
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- Creator:
- Gallagher, Scott V.
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- The six stories within, "Still and Silent," "Cold Comfort," "The King of Porn," "Miscuts," "In Between," and "Renovations," are part of a work in progress. They attempt to show how the characters, although they may seem to struggle for independence from the family unit, are in fact strengthening the bonds...
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- bench looked like a green triangle on a field of black. He scratched at the surface; the sound
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- Creator:
- Casas, Ruben
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- Modern Apostles actively attempts to blur the line between academic scholarship and narrative fiction for the purpose of satirizing the social and the political assumptions of its contemporary moment. By appropriating the loudest voices in dominant American culture, the inter-textual narratives (1) call attention to the voices that go unheard,...
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- , nine years as a field reclaimant, and six as Eastern Board Director of Reclamation. In those fifteen
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- Creator:
- Willis, Stephen E.
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- The thesis is the first third of a novel entitled Steelhead. The story takes place in and around a small southern Oregon town in the summer of 1967. The narrator, eighteen-year-old hot-rodding Emil Reese, discovers hippies swimming naked in the river near his house. The hippies, newly arrived from San...
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- must have heard that wrong. "Sit down, Sara," Roger said. "He's doing a fucking head trip on us," she
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- deTal, Vicki
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- In this collection of linked stories, four characters navigate space between selves they’ve been and those to come. Alice must invent an autonomous identity after her husband dies in a bike crash. As she casts about to populate a new life, a geographer, a violinist, and a clarinetist emerge at...
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- Nadelson, Scott
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- The six stories in this collection center around an extended Jewish family in the New York Metropolitan area and the curse its members relentlessly wish upon themselves. The protagonist in four of the six stories is Daniel Brickman, younger brother in a very ordinary and chaotic household in suburban New...
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- having to make an extra trip to the butcher in West Orange. For six months, I'd 4 slept every night
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- Creator:
- Hinderliter, Robert
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- The eight stories in Wild West Love Songs explore issues such as loss, suffering, and betrayal, but perhaps the most consistent theme is the examination of the ways we are haunted by our past. All the protagonists in these stories are haunted. Sometimes they are haunted literally, by a ghost...
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- rough, winding through a thin hardwood forest. Abbie and I were on a summer road trip. We’d spent
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- Bernard, Sean
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- The narrator of Fortunate Son is Jake, a 21 year-old who has recently arrived in Tucson, Arizona, after the death of his mother. He's spent his entire life on the road with his mother, possibly followed and antagonized by his father, whom Jake has never seen. He has come to...
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- through the city. The park had been there fifty years. The trailers rimmed around a small desolate field
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- Richter, Amanda M.
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- This collection of stories spans a range of content: the personal, the domestic, the political, and the downright terrifying. In “Ilka the Flyer,” a young man is faced with his own crisis and that of his veteran uncle. Sister relationships bloom and fade as the entire family deals with changes...
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- just to check on her,” he announced. “Dad,” I said quickly, “There’s a field trip coming up. To see a
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- Duncan, James Bryan
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- In Culture and Imperialism, Said illustrates that we have no "autonomous cultural forms," but rather "impure" ones that are the products of historically "discrepant experiences." American culture has an interesting relationship with the history of imperialism. The Europeans that settled the U.S. imported slave labor to assist in the growth...
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- Creator:
- Bacon, Julie M.
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- This thesis is arranged in three chapters which explore Wharton’s representations of nature in three novels: The House of Mirth (1905), The Fruit of the Tree (1907), and The Custom of the County (1913). This thesis contends that Wharton’s novels reveal changes in the interplay between representations of nature and...
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- : “ why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field…they neither toil nor spin; yet
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- Shum, Michael Shou-Yung
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- This collection of loosely-linked stories explores the lives of a set of characters who exist in the margins of society, but quietly so. In the opening story, "Two-Minute Histories," an ostensibly negative act—breaking and entering, among other verifiable crimes—is demonstrated to lead to some positive outcome such as a moment...
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- is an obscene revelation for anyone working in the substance recovery field. But still, she is 63
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- Martens, Jacob L.
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- These essays are an attempt to rebuild memories that explore the nature of work and family. They explore how work knocks against the joints of the body and against the joints between family members, and, as time passes, how the next generation inherits the family line of work only to...
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- turned gray and sharp. Frosty dew fuzzed the curled brown heads of Queen Anne's lace in his field. We
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- Creator:
- Carpenter, Claire
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- These stories follow the lives of women in a variety of roles—housewife, deli employee, artist, bird keeper, and sitter for the elderly—and at different stages of life. In “Beneath this Roof,” a young housewife’s life is rocked by a visit from an old friend who has changed in unexpected ways....
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- .” She smiled and licked up a clump of salt sliding down her glass. “I’m glad I made the trip. Looks
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- Boothman Duyck, Tracy
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- The Yogiebogeybox is a novel-in-stories. This novel explores spiritual transcendence and the connection of art to that spiritual journey. A variety of points of view are employed in the narrative in order to depict the journey of the protagonist, Ant Malo, through this journey. Some of the narrative threads are...
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- the poem, "My Trip Through the Afterlife," on page ninety-two was contributed by Dr. Christopher
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- Morrison, Rowan
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- Down the road is a collection of short stories written in the post-Stonewall tradition of gay men's literature, which has focused on works that reflect gay experience and specifically autobiographical fiction; a desire to write for gay readers without having to explain circumstances or points of view to readers unfamiliar...
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- fine. It was a Saturday in October and that tournament trip began, as they all seemed to do, with a
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- Creator:
- Martin, Brian D.
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- This thesis is a study of Herman Melville’s symbolism. I have chosen to investigate the elemental images of water, fire, and stone in Moby-Dick (1851), Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities (1852), and Clarel; A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876). This work is a semiotic study, insofar as the...
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- ). 2 I hope to bring to the field of Melville studies an analysis of Melville’s symbology
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- Watterson, Jaclyn
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- My thesis is a collection of short stories in which I explore themes like loss, identity, and memory. The collection includes both short stories and short short stories, and through in-depth exploration of character and form, the stories here attempt to fit into a tradition of writers articulating the experiences...
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- Creator:
- Robinson, Tracy Ann
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- Curricular models and teaching techniques that support college students as the primary authors of their writing-across-the-curriculum experiences remain largely unexplored. This thesis addresses that research gap by investigating the use of a start-of-term writing self-assessment and goal-setting questionnaire (STQ) for upper-division undergraduates taking writing-intensive (WI) college courses in their majors....
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- good writing in their field, and personal writing goals
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- Creator:
- Turner, David N.
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- Walt Whitman looked to the natural world, which he considered an original example of divine creation, for insights into the methods and patterns of the Creative Force; the poet then intuited connections between these divine natural patterns and human existence and spirituality. Convinced of the divinity of the human body,...
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- [ ... ] Where trip- hammers crash, where the press is whirling its cylinders, [ ... ] Where the steam-ship 14
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- Goodrich, Charles
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- If home is the hearth, a place of safety and centeredness, it is also the portal, the magic door. From home we go out into spaces more humanized and technologized, or into spaces more natural, more other-than-humanized. We dress up and head downtown, or we pack up and head for...
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- Creator:
- Scott, Ron
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- This thesis examines the ways in which cyberpunk science fiction novels and short stories reflect our cultural relation with technology, a series of relationships predicated on the way that corporate control of knowledge industries increased during the 1980s. The document begins by locating the means of corporate control in the...
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- Artificial Intelligence and Cyberpunk Technology: the scientific study of the artificial or...the field of
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- Bowman, Natalie A.
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- Rethinking the Dualism: Don DeLillo's White Noise and the Ecocritical Possibilities of the Nature/Culture Mix questions current applications of ecocriticism and offers that these applications are inadequate in dealing with the perceived nature/culture dualism. This thesis suggests that ecocritics need to stop thinking in dualistic terms, but instead must consider...
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- . The result is an equalized playing field upon which humans and nature can enter into a more
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- Moy, Shaleena
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- Not only does the publication of Ovidian adaptations online increase public awareness of Ovid, but it also offers new material for research and pedagogical purposes. Consequently, in this thesis, I explore both the historical tradition of Ovidian adaptations, specifically adaptations of Ovid's Orpheus tale, and the modern presentation of Ovidian...
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- ‐emerged in the field of literature. In fact, the majority of the scholarship cited in this essay comes
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- McGrath, Cole P.
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- In his Nick Adams stories, Ernest Hemingway traces the life of a single man as he moves from boyhood to adolescence to adulthood to fatherhood. From the beginning of Nick Adams life, it is clear that he does not fit into the role of the traditional hero. In addition, Nick...
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- work defined the field of Hemingway studies, critical analysis of the Nick Adams stories focused on
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- Bryan, Frederick Clark
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- The alien abduction phenomenon has garnered considerable media attention in the last fifteen years, including many representations in books, film, and television. An overview of significant abduction literature is presented. Contrasts and comparisons are noted between popular written accounts and both the visual representations they engender and reports outside the...
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- research bears the stamp of slipshod amateur efforts and fan-club enthusiasm, but the field has always
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- Wyckoff, Elizabeth
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- In Can You See Me?, a collection of nine short stories, Elizabeth Wyckoff explores the conflicting desires of young women who long for connection, but struggle to find the balance between concealing and revealing themselves. The female protagonists in these stories simultaneously yearn to be seen, recognized, and acknowledged; and...
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- cross-legged on the edge of the field, chewing on grass and twisting stems into little rings around
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- Breeden, Shobana L.
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- This thesis uses both feminist and new historic theories to argue that the women's romance novels The Last September (1929) by Elizabeth Bowen and The Country Girl's Trilogy (1960, 1962, 1964) by Edna O'Brien are tragic bildungsroman that subvert and challenge the Irish patriarchal marriage expectations of their respective time...
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- , Anglo-Irish society provides a broad field of contexts for Bowen’s character Lois. Lois may enjoy
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- Hess, Demian
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- These six stories represent a child's search for identity. The first story, "Road Map," is intended to be independent from the other pieces in this collection, but has been included because it is clearly set in the same place and explores many of the same themes of the other pieces....
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- , making the field tilt from side to side, stunning my ears. "I'm deafl I'm deafi" I screamed, and ran
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- Sharp, Kimberly A.
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- The characters in each of these pieces exist outside the periphery of the so-called norm. In "Through Parted Curtains," "What They Do Besides Eat," and "Two Lambs," June wishes to enter the adult world that tends to exclude her (though she will only enter conditionally). June is, of course, about...
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- people, never witnessed their lifestyle, never even watched a picker in a field, Unpianted became a
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- Tafolla Young, Kathryne M.
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- Ellis, a booming mid-sized town in California's Central Valley, is packed with farmers and commuters, and plagued with a dwindling sense of itself and its history. Set against the backdrop of a failed murder-suicide, a secret affair and a wealthy local mogul's attempt to develop the town into something it's...
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- preparatory period began. He drove his orange '89 Ford pickup to the field beyond the school gates and smoked
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- Maybaum, Lenore D.
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- This quasi-ethnographic research documents the autobiographical utterances of incarcerated women taking part in a narrative writing course, Life Writing, at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility. The purpose of this research was to cultivate a better understanding of how incarcerated women move through different discourses of identity via narrative writing, and how,...
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- research and writing in the field of English literature. Education, I had come to believe, should be
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- Wells, Jerome B.
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- The overarching theme of these stories is the relationship between love and hate, especially the connection between kindness and violence. In this fictional world, love often begets hate, and hate, love: a man's capacity for empathy serves as the catalyst for an act of brutality; a character's loneliness, his desire...
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- like you two are sportsmen. Phil and I like to fish." She told Ann and Cathy about a fishing trip she
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- VanKooten, Crystal
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- Kate Chopin, author of the proto-feminist novel The Awakening, was also a prolific writer of short stories. Nineteen of her stories were originally published in Vogue magazine between 1893 and 1900. This study looks at six of these stories, "The Father of Desiree's Baby," "A Respectable Woman," "The Dream of...
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- coming advertising field of the future. Cheap magazines have seriously depreciated the monthly, except
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- Ludden, Jason
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- May We All Wake Up One By One is the beginning of a novel set in the West African country of Guinea. The story follows Sean Wake, a twenty-something American who finds himself working for the Feed the World Program as the country falls apart around him. While his co-workers...
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- Mosher-Knoshaug, Jessica M.
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- The eighteenth-century female of sensibility was characterized by delicate nerves that allowed her to feel her surroundings and enabled her to choose virtue over vice more consistently than males. While females were considered virtuous, their "innate" delicacy or weakness became their dominant trait and the true focus of male admiration....
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- , crosses "field after field at a quick pace, jumping over stiles and springing over puddles with
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- Ruch, Alison Louise
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- Comic Toast is a novel depicting a transition period in the life of the comic book artist character, Monica Holliday. This document includes a prologue, which provides details of a trauma in Monica's distant past, in order to inform Monica's adult reactions to the situations she finds herself entangled in....
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- farmer-father often waved at her from wherever he was in the field. Monica liked to watch Mr. Pifful on
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- Boulware, Taylor J.
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- This thesis undertakes an examination of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, as a layering of genres. A futuristic dystopia that imagines late twentieth-century America as having fallen into neo-Puritanism and totalitarianism following widespread infertility and violence, The Handmaid’s Tale invites contemplation of various forms of fundamentalism, radicalism, and...
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- criticism. Notable contributions to this field include Shirley Neuman’s “‘Just a Backlash’: Margaret
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- Carothers, April D.
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- What students need most from instructors’ written response on their texts is commentary that evokes a sense of exchange. Teachers often believe that their job is to point out the deficits in a student’s paper and help eliminate those deficits. While this is a part of the function of response,...
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- still working hard in the field of composition, striving every year to know more, understand more, and
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- Dmitriev, Vladena Aleksandra
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- Vladena Aleksandra Dmitriev, in her collection of fiction and nonfiction The Mercurial: Stories and Essays, examines the conflicts inherent in language, whether in her own experiences as a non-English speaking immigrant from the Soviet Union to the submersed anger and resentment that emerges quietly in disintegrating relationships. What unites these...
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- Hentges, Sarah Duncan
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- For at least 30 years American culture has failed to provide empowering myths and symbols to its adolescents as they come of age and try to make sense of their selves, sexuality and the culture that surrounds them. This lack of myths and symbols is especially harmful to girls and...
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- Rosenberg, Valerie P.
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- The five short stories included in this thesis depict characters who struggle as they try to balance their responsibilities to each other, and their own independent desires. Whether those desires include personal freedom, another relationship, or self-protection, these characters are at least minimally aware that obtaining what they most want...
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- believe you," Liz says carefully, picking her way through the mine field of possible arguments with her
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- Butcher, Ian
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- This thesis is an exploration of literary representation of professors, specificially in Willa Cather's The Professor's House and Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin. I explicate the political unconscious of these texts by teasing out the tensions and ironies stemming from the conflict between the radical political consequences of the titular characters' scholarship...
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- Raleigh, Elisabeth A.
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- DOUBLE EXPOSURE is a novel concerned with the phenomenon of memory. The story explores such questions as: To what extent does "memory" (and the narratives we construct from it) explain who we are? How is memory influenced by others-and does it matter if it is? Can a memory that is...
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- steadily grown louder as the sun rose higher: a thresher downing hay in the field behind their house
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- Stephens, Nia C.
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- Scenes from the Tarot is a novella that explores the desire to control time. The narrator, Truth Aiken, spurred by fear of her own death, recounts the story of her sister Beauty's death and its effects on Truth's highly unusual family. Proceeding backwards through time, Truth describes her tumultuous relationships...
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- Miftaraj, Andre M.
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- There Were Bears and Rumors of Bears is a collection of stories that explores spiritual injury and recovery using a variety of interior and exterior narrative approaches to depict the profane and sacred, the mundane and non-ordinary, aspects of experience. In each story, the characters encounter situations in the physical...
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- Dietrich, Rhonda
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- A prevalent belief during the Victorian age was that the world was divided between inferior beings governed by passion and superior reasoning beings. On the political level, this idea separated inferior passion-driven natives from superior reasoning Europeans. This division contributed to the maintenance and expansion of imperialist rule in distant...
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- , each field of knowledge that discussed the Orient in Victorian society exercised authority over it
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- Buck, C. Nathan
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- Always Talk to Strangers contains the first seven chapters to a novel. The novel focuses on the friendship between Amanda and Maria, two fourteen-year-old girls who are experiencing their last summer before high school in Madison, Wisconsin. Their friendship is a complicated one: Maria was kidnapped four years ago, the...
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- Goodrum, Emily A.
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- This paper defends a reading of Hennan Melville's Moby-Dick that elevates Ishmael's status from mere narrator of Ahab's tragedy to that of protagonist of his own story, a novel of epistemological seafaring. As a metaphysical quester, Ishmael provides the novel's only reliable and complex vision of the condition of man...
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- Masters Thesis