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  • Literary proletarianism : a critical re-vision of the Gastonia novels

    Creator:
    Nieberding, Jon
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    My primary purpose in this thesis is to continue the refocused attention given to American "proletarian" fiction of the 1930's. Because of their politics and supposed artistic inferiority, many of these works have been marginalized by American literary critics. However, many contemporary scholars are reconsidering this genre and devoting more...
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    state interference in the literary circles, the Soviets enjoyed a flourish of new literature that

  • Northwest of normal

    Creator:
    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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    the house. Beside it was another driftboat, a new fiberglass boat, “Osprey Guide Service” written

  • Music for strings

    Creator:
    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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    her husband dies in a bike crash. As she casts about to populate a new life, a geographer, a

  • Chazzonos

    Creator:
    Rockler, Lyle
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    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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    I?" "Mirthgate Lake," Hal answers. "I know that..." 24 "Mendota County, State of New Jersey

  • Circles in the sand

    Creator:
    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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    W. Amsk A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirement

  • Modern apostles

    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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    Casas A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for

  • You stay here

    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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    All Rights Reserved You Stay Here by Michael A. Bluhm A THESIS submitted to Oregon State

  • Stillness

    Creator:
    Lont, Steven
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    This collection of stories explores moments of stillness in human relationships: moments during an argument when there is nothing to say, moments of quiet contemplation which precedes inevitable--and often unwelcome--life changes, moments of frustration, confusion, despair, and grace. In the chaotic lives of these characters, stillness is neither tranquil nor...
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    Rights Reserved Stillness Steven Lont A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial

  • Things not seen, and other stories

    Creator:
    Walsh, Amy M.
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    These six stories investigate characters who must begin to understand their own actions, which are often made in response to authority. In the lives of these characters, there are schemas which they believe they fit, certain rules placed on them by society that they each feel they must obey. It...
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    , and Other Stories by Amy M. Walsh A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in

  • Patoka : four stories of Southern Indiana

    Creator:
    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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    submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for