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  • From the encoded to the explicit in the 20th Century Irish romance : a study of Elizabeth Bowen's The last September and Edna O'Brien's The country girl's trilogy

    Creator:
    Breeden, Shobana L.
    Abstract:
    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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  • Commercial

    Creator:
    Aguilar, Joseph R.
    Abstract:
    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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    ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF UJoseph R. AguilarU for the degree of UMaster of Fine ArtsU in UCreative

  • Steelhead

    Creator:
    Willis, Stephen E.
    Abstract:
    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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    TV. She was fat and liked to cook. You could see where Eddie got his tubbiness. 10 Their little

  • Remaking myths and subverting the mainstream : teen girls come of age on and off the screen

    Creator:
    Hentges, Sarah Duncan
    Abstract:
    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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  • Geography and other stories

    Creator:
    Cook, Molly Larson
    Abstract:
    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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    changed. "Hey, Eddie," he calls. "You better wait on your customer. She's a Noo Yawker!" They both laugh

  • Chazzonos

    Creator:
    Rockler, Lyle
    Abstract:
    Chazzonos, as presented here for my thesis, represents three chapters of what will be a novel of the same name. Chazzonos is about Hal Perlmutter, a cantor, who at the outset of the novel, is resigning his position of twenty years. The novel progresses as Hal decides where he will...
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    his toys on the kitchen floor. Doris Day. Vaughn Monroe. Eddie Fisher. His mother, Hinda, dotes on

  • Music for strings

    Creator:
    deTal, Vicki
    Abstract:
    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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