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Creator:: Schultz, Aaron A.
Abstract:: This thesis uses a series of non-fiction vignettes to explore objects, agencies, and networks, applying theories of rhetoric and composition directly to experience and vise versa. Focusing on agency--as understood through sociology's actor-networks, post- humanism’s Object Orientated Ontology, and Ecocriticism's ecological approach--I look at events, landscapes, and partnerships that have...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , activist, artistic, or mixture of all three. Environmentalists try to preserve areas of wilderness or

Creator:: Hill, Eric R.
Abstract:: 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....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: thesis is the first of three sections in what will be a book-long project of creative nonfiction essays

Creator:: Tuma, Teresa K. Easterling
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: losing a baby that, ultimately, reminds me of my father. This leads into three essays, "Down Home

Creator:: Dahlin, Angela
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . My sisters would fall asleep, but I'd stay awake, belting out my vocals, "When I think I'm going

Creator:: Lubbock, Jay Erik
Abstract:: 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 nature of his surroundings. This thesis explores, through the combination of related past events with an interspersed...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Pi. I looked at the ad, and remembered what my sister had told me about houseboys. She had been

Creator:: Knotts, L. William
Abstract:: In a story of his life Les reflects on what he has gained and what he has lost while seeking success in the moving and shifting of military and academic life through homes and schools all over the United States. He describes himself as between races, languages, and cultures.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: playground. I could tell you that my three brothers and three sisters called me "Apple-polisher" and "Fat

Creator:: Harrell, Anna M.
Abstract:: 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 first chapter includes several narratives from her childhood experience. In the second chapter, the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: across his chest, as my older sisters tried to dethrone the ever-reigning King of the Mountain. I can

Creator:: Loshbaugh, Robert B.
Abstract:: This thesis is a work of literary non-fiction. It is divided into six sections. The first, "A Sense of Place," and the last, "Pulling a Geographical," are collage essays which establish and then reiterate major themes in the work: movement, work, geography, climate, people, and education--some curricular, some not. The...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: had picked out in Grandma's forty-year-old recipe pamphlet. It was the same cake my kid sister had

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