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  • Foodmaster and three stories

    Creator:
    Starr, Peter W.
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    The purpose of this thesis was to create a sustained piece of fiction that both represented my growth as a writer throughout my time at Oregon State University, and wove together a mixture of imagination, language, and creativity. My hope was to write a novella that incorporated and drew from...
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    writers that I had grown up with, like Edgar Allen Poe and Ray Bradbury also influenced me. Beyond the

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

    Creator:
    Nieberding, Jon
    Abstract:
    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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    English Chair of Department of English Dean of Gradualtle School I understand that my thesis will

  • Living by the wayside and other stories

    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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    Writing r of Department of English Dean of G"rdte School I understand that my thesis will become part

  • 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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    . 1997. APPROVED: Major Profesor, representing Chair of Department of English Dean of Grad I

  • Shuddering blood

    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...
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    , representing Creative Writing Chair of the Department of English Dean of the Graduate School

  • The dry country

    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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    , Representing Creathe Writing Chair of Department of English Dean of the Gradua I understand that my thesis

  • Kiddie pool : stories

    Creator:
    Haskins, Isabelle
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    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...
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    the Department of English Dean of the Graduate School I understand that my thesis will become part

  • 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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    : Major Professbr, reptesent ng English Chair of Department of English Dean of Gr uate School I

  • Scenes from the Tarot

    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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    : Major Professor, representing Creative Writing Head of the Department of English Dean of the Gracfte

  • Angel of Tough Love and other stories

    Creator:
    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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    presented on May 10, 2000 APPROVED: Major Proessor, re esenting English r of Department of English Dean