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  • Northwest of normal

    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...
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    Masters Thesis
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    clearly could have said, “Your writing sucks.” Marjorie Sandor (writer, reader, teacher, angler, and

  • 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...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    a friend. Thanks as well to my committee members: Dr. Marjorie Sandor, who first welcomed me into

  • The fading

    Creator:
    Ni Bhraonain, Lisa
    Abstract:
    As I began to explore the evocative nature of language, the creation of themes and images, and the rhythm and beauty of words that I feel must accompany meaning, I discovered that I had always seen and heard and felt the world as many of my characters do; in this...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    advisors: Marjorie Sandor, Tracy Daugherty, and Chris Anderson With special thanks to Mildred Hawkins And

  • 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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    . ______________________________________________________________________________ Vicki deTal, Author ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Tracy Daugherty, Marjorie Sandor, Keith

  • Modern apostles

    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,...
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    Masters Thesis
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    attempts, treating each one with the seriousness they (I felt) often did not deserve, Marjorie Sandor

  • Patoka : four stories of Southern Indiana

    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...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Sandor, Lisa Ede, and Douglas Warrick for their time and commitment; Tracy, Marjorie, and Keith