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- Creator:
- Hoch, Jamie
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- The Modern era, roughly the time between 1860-1930, brought about a significant restructuring of artistic mediums. From the canvas to the page, artists of the twentieth century turned towards collaboration as a means by which they could reconfigure their works. Painters, writers, and dancers, borrowed aesthetic techniques from one another...
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- Masters Thesis
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- theory is a viable source from which the field can more aptly engage in the scholarly inquiries of other
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- 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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- Masters Thesis
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- .” Thomas stroked his goatee. “Mostly big fish. A bunch of us did a trip to Costa Rica for sailfish last
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- Millet, Terrance Lane
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- This thesis, a collection of short fiction, attempts to surface some of the discrepancy between inner and outer lives, between who these characters want to be and who they've become, between the lives they might have had and those they've chosen because the former are too chancy and the latter...
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- Masters Thesis
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- Creator:
- Buchanan, Sherry
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- 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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- waited until my dad 22 made another trip to the kitchen, and slipped a joint into my pocket. When he
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- Creator:
- Kroll, Adam L.
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- This collection of six individual writings, both fiction and creative non-fiction, is an exploration in narrative first-person voices and multiple themes, such as the loss of innocence, modernization versus traditions/myths, the California Central Valley, death, creativity, language, change, and the pressures of the future. Though abstractly linked at times, these...
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- Masters Thesis
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- in that house they’d stay. I’d stumble and trip, perhaps climbing the Altamont between the
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- 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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- Masters Thesis
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- bedroom freshly showered, wearing her field clothes, tan slacks and a blouse that she wore when preparing
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- 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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- Masters Thesis
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- trip. The family stopped to rest at a corner bench. They took turns sipping from a metal water
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- Creator:
- Van Handel, Lucinda S.
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- 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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- the dry field. A smell would rise, of ground becoming damp, and water in dry air, and the sprinklers
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- 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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- Masters Thesis
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- , nine years as a field reclaimant, and six as Eastern Board Director of Reclamation. In those fifteen
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- 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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- Masters Thesis
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- Creator:
- Bernard, Sean
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- 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
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- through the city. The park had been there fifty years. The trailers rimmed around a small desolate field
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- Martens, Jacob L.
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- These essays are an attempt to rebuild memories that explore the nature of work and family. They explore how work knocks against the joints of the body and against the joints between family members, and, as time passes, how the next generation inherits the family line of work only to...
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- Masters Thesis
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- turned gray and sharp. Frosty dew fuzzed the curled brown heads of Queen Anne's lace in his field. We
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- Creator:
- Watterson, Jaclyn
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- My thesis is a collection of short stories in which I explore themes like loss, identity, and memory. The collection includes both short stories and short short stories, and through in-depth exploration of character and form, the stories here attempt to fit into a tradition of writers articulating the experiences...
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- Masters Thesis
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- Creator:
- Sharp, Kimberly A.
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- 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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- people, never witnessed their lifestyle, never even watched a picker in a field, Unpianted became a
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- Wells, Jerome B.
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- 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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- like you two are sportsmen. Phil and I like to fish." She told Ann and Cathy about a fishing trip she
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- Dmitriev, Vladena Aleksandra
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- Vladena Aleksandra Dmitriev, in her collection of fiction and nonfiction The Mercurial: Stories and Essays, examines the conflicts inherent in language, whether in her own experiences as a non-English speaking immigrant from the Soviet Union to the submersed anger and resentment that emerges quietly in disintegrating relationships. What unites these...
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- Masters Thesis
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- Creator:
- Raleigh, Elisabeth A.
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- 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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- steadily grown louder as the sun rose higher: a thresher downing hay in the field behind their house
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- Creator:
- Stephens, Nia C.
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- Scenes from the Tarot is a novella that explores the desire to control time. The narrator, Truth Aiken, spurred by fear of her own death, recounts the story of her sister Beauty's death and its effects on Truth's highly unusual family. Proceeding backwards through time, Truth describes her tumultuous relationships...
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- Masters Thesis