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  • 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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    watering. They are a German sort of sausage and remind me of when I was young even though we were Irish

  • Elementary Music

    Creator:
    Treat, Tanya
    Abstract:
    The four stories and one essay within are linked by themes: love, sex, truth, and music. Three of the stories are told by first person narrators who are also musicians. In "Elementary Music," a young girl views her parents' divorce through the lens of an orchestra concert in which she...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • 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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    grace. It stood motionless for a time and I thought how he had loved these birds, and as it stood there

  • Riding lessons

    Creator:
    Brisker, Kathy Jo
    Abstract:
    In this collection of nonfiction essays, Brisker recounts her path of recovery after suffering traumatic brain injury. The memoir opens with her first waking moments in the hospital one week after she was thrown from her horse and fractured her skull, and her beginning attempts at piecing together her fragmented...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis