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  • Chrysalis

    Creator:
    Harrison, S. S.
    Abstract:
    A creative work of literary fiction, Chrysalis is the story of Rachelle Long: a young woman who struggles to find her identity in a world marked by changing (and often, conflicting) ideas regarding sexuality, economics, gender roles and relations, and individual rights. Just one year into the workforce following her...
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    started to walk back toward the door, however, I heard the sound of U2's "Trying To Throw Your Arms

  • 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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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Lucinda S. Van Handel for 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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    attention given to American "proletarian" fiction of the 1930's. Because of their politics and supposed

  • Northwest of normal

    Creator:
    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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    waterlogged root balls. And in one place, the serpentine S-curve of the river bed was now a straight line

  • 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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    doubled business, then Diner 's Club tripled it. We sold the other restaurants and by the time I turned

  • 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...
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    screech. Often I lie awake till dawn and I think and make plans and the sounds of the bar come in the

  • 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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    cigarette between his fingers. That dawn was maybe the first time in my life that I actively reasoned

  • The athlete and two stories

    Creator:
    McDonnell, Peter A.
    Abstract:
    The purpose of this document is to display a portion of the work I have completed over the last two years. The Athlete is the recently written opening to a novel of the same name. I've decided not to excerpt a longer section of the novel because the novel isn't...
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    it was cobalt blue out, a sheer dawn that made glass the color of steel. I did hold Mary's hand. We

  • Scenes from the Tarot

    Creator:
    Stephens, Nia C.
    Abstract:
    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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    be nearly dawn. Though the outside lock was broken I had installed a new one on the inside, which I

  • 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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    three of us there that morning when the dawn broke through the darkness and stole quietly across the