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  • Stillness

    Creator:
    Lont, Steven
    Abstract:
    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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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Steven Lont for the degree of

  • Living by the wayside and other stories

    Creator:
    Buchanan, Sherry
    Abstract:
    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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    Masters Thesis
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    Writing r of Department of English Dean of G"rdte School I understand that my thesis will become part

  • The dry country

    Creator:
    Van Handel, Lucinda S.
    Abstract:
    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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    Masters Thesis
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    Dad shook me, then he said, "See that there?" I held very still, and he pulled me in close. I could

  • Fortunate son

    Creator:
    Bernard, Sean
    Abstract:
    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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    Masters Thesis

  • 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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    Masters Thesis

  • Angel of Tough Love and other stories

    Creator:
    Wells, Jerome B.
    Abstract:
    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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    Masters Thesis
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    presented on May 10, 2000 APPROVED: Major Proessor, re esenting English r of Department of English Dean

  • Double exposure

    Creator:
    Raleigh, Elisabeth A.
    Abstract:
    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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    Masters Thesis
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    the truck shifting off one of its blocks. Josie blinked as if puzzled then shook her head. "Oh, Judy

  • The athlete and two stories

    Creator:
    McDonnell, Peter A.
    Abstract:
    The purpose of this document is to display a portion of the work I have completed over the last two years. The Athlete is the recently written opening to a novel of the same name. I've decided not to excerpt a longer section of the novel because the novel isn't...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . Harold, my Harold, oh what happened? She grabbed him by the arms, shook him desperately, but his

  • Outside our periphery

    Creator:
    Sharp, Kimberly A.
    Abstract:
    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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    Masters Thesis
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    , 2004. APPROVED: Major Profes Creative Writing r of the Department of English Dean of th' tad6ate

  • Chrysalis

    Creator:
    Harrison, S. S.
    Abstract:
    A creative work of literary fiction, Chrysalis is the story of Rachelle Long: a young woman who struggles to find her identity in a world marked by changing (and often, conflicting) ideas regarding sexuality, economics, gender roles and relations, and individual rights. Just one year into the workforce following her...
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    was the refresher course of Male Psyche 101, Spring of 1996, Professor R. Long, two-hour seminar