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    Creator:
    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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    , especially Tracy Daugherty, Keith Scribner, and the incomparable Marjorie Sandor for her many careful

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    Creator:
    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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    stories; Marjorie Sandor, Tracy Daugherty, and Keith Scribner, who, for whatever reason, decided to give

  • Patoka : four stories of Southern Indiana

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    Drew, Christopher M. (Christopher Max)
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    These stories are an attempt to give a distinct literary voice to the people and places of rural Southern Indiana. They also strive to deal with certain elements indigenous to that region, some of which can be described generally as the tension between modernization and tradition, family and marriage as...
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    Sandor, Lisa Ede, and Douglas Warrick for their time and commitment; Tracy, Marjorie, and Keith

  • Ms. Miles is missing

    Creator:
    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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    Daugherty and Keith Scribner for their guidance and advice on craft during my time at Oregon State

  • Constructing heroic identities : masculinity and the western film

    Creator:
    Foster, Brad D.
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    This thesis employs the study of gender to demonstrate how recent Hollywood western films have constructed a hero that is reflective of contemporary beliefs regarding masculinity. Beginning with a New Historicist approach at studying gender, this work first considers the construction of masculinity in post World War II America and...
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  • Kiddie pool : stories

    Creator:
    Haskins, Isabelle
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    Kiddie Pool is a collection of eight short stories dealing in general terms with themes of culpability and control. The characters in the stories have their share of problems—car accidents, domestic violence, manic depression, obesity, unexpected deaths, truth or dare, religious crises—but they are resilient souls who keep on keeping...
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    invaluable. Thanks also to Ted Leeson, Marjorie Sandor, Karen Holmberg, and Keith Scribner, and to my

  • The fifth floor and other stories

    Creator:
    Mercer, Jacob Ian
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    The Fifth Floor and Other Stories is a short-story collection about missed connection and exposure—about lonely men in specific places.
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    : ______________________________________________________________________ Keith Scribner The Fifth Floor and Other Stories is a short-story collection about missed

  • Gender, genre, and the canon : teaching Aemilia Lanyer

    Creator:
    Jurgens, Jeremy
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    Traditionally, Renaissance studies have neglected or overlooked the contributions of early modern female poets, many of whom produced lively, engaging, and highly creative work despite the limitations imposed on them by a rigidly patriarchal society. In my thesis, I examine the life and work of Aemilia Lanyer, a 17th century...
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    powerfully patriarchal King. While still lacking in even the most basic human rights, and in large part

  • Kingston Beach

    Creator:
    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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    Abstract approved: Keith T. Scribner This thesis contains the first portion of Kingston Beach

  • A fool's marathon

    Creator:
    DeTal, Trev
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    "A Fool's Marathon" is a fabulist novel exploring themes of Platonic love, imagination and its relationship to reality, and psychological coming of age through the exploits of a young Oscar Duplenty. The work-in-progress is presented in two sections: the first a contiguous five chapters from the beginning of the newest...
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    , and one was tall: the short one was white, and the tall one was brown. “Who is king but Epiphanes