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  • 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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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Kimberly A. Sharp for the degree

  • 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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    Double exposure AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Elisabeth A

  • A fool's marathon

    Creator:
    DeTal, Trev
    Abstract:
    "A Fool's Marathon" is a fabulist novel exploring themes of Platonic love, imagination and its relationship to reality, and psychological coming of age through the exploits of a young Oscar Duplenty. The work-in-progress is presented in two sections: the first a contiguous five chapters from the beginning of the newest...
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    Masters Thesis
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    of Fine Arts in Creative Writing on April 29, 2011. Title: A Fool's Marathon Abstract approved

  • The mercurial : stories and essays

    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...
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    Essays, examines the conflicts inherent in language, whether in her own experiences as a non-English

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

  • Houses along fourth street

    Creator:
    Yee, Ann L.
    Abstract:
    This thesis consists of four short stories and Chapter 1 of a novel in progress. Each of the four stories are thematically linked through a common protagonist, Nancy, and through a relatively chronological following of events in her life. I chose to tell Nancy's stories in an attempt to gain...
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    approved: Tracy ISaugherty This thesis consists of four short stories and Chapter 1 of a novel in progress

  • 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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    novel follows a year and a half in the life of a young girl as she comes of age. A water rights

  • Beckett, Barthelme, and Vonnegut : finding hope in meaninglessness

    Creator:
    Britten, Alex M.
    Abstract:
    This thesis is a study of the shifting philosophical trends in the works of Samuel Beckett, Donald Barthelme, and Kurt Vonnegut as representations of a greater shift from modernism to postmodernism. I have chosen to explore Beckett's plays Waiting for Godot and Krapp's Last Tape, Barthelme's short stories "Nothing: A...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . Daugherty This thesis is a study of the shifting philosophical trends in the works of Samuel Beckett

  • Circles in the sand

    Creator:
    Amsk, Allyn W.
    Abstract:
    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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    Frank. "A good luck charm." He smiled and waved at Tommy and drove off before Frank could thank him

  • Connections

    Creator:
    Millet, Terrance Lane
    Abstract:
    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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    luck during the Depression because there was no work, were reduced to having pumpkin soup as a meal at