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Creator:: Dmitriev, Vladena Aleksandra
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: in front of her with a nylon/rayon black asymmetrical-necked shirt similar to something I had seen

Creator:: Drew, Christopher M. (Christopher Max)
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Kroll, Adam L.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ever ask for in an MFA program; George Saunders, Dave Eggers, Woody Allen, Federico Fellini, Jean

Creator:: Walsh, Amy M.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: around each other, circling and observing. Most of the women wore black, as if it were some

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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the window. I glanced at Rosie but she still stared intently at the black-and-white boxes before her

Creator:: Haskins, Isabelle
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the noise— the stillness up and down this wide black road) be my fault? 13 He keeps his mind

Creator:: Larison, John J.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Casas, Ruben
Abstract:: 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,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: seen walking out of the Black Rose in Boston, Massachusetts last Friday evening with the mysterious

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