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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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    happened, Tess was six months old. Piz had come home from work at dawn, had looked at Tess in her crib

  • 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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    rainy pre-dawn, as visibility was minimal. Investigators said that they will look into flight data

  • Revisioning grandeur : an exploration of intertextuality in Alice Munro and Virginia Woolf

    Creator:
    King, Michelle L.
    Abstract:
    In this thesis I argue that Alice Munro’s work takes part in an ongoing feminist discourse that examines alterations in male and female gender relations, as they have been represented in domestic fiction by women writers since the late nineteenth century. I analyze two short stories written by Munro: “Meneseteung,”...
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    trivial” (262). Furthermore, Munro’s earlier work was regarded by some critics as “piece[s] of fluff

  • 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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  • Night dreamer walks

    Creator:
    Groves, John M. (John Martin)
    Abstract:
    In Night Dreamer Walks, the first eight chapters of a novel of the same name, John M. Groves imagines the predicament of a young Native American man living 8,000 years ago in Oregon's Klamath Basin. Beginning as a story to avenge his father's death during an unusual outbreak of tribal...
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  • May we all wake up one by one

    Creator:
    Ludden, Jason
    Abstract:
    May We All Wake Up One By One is the beginning of a novel set in the West African country of Guinea. The story follows Sean Wake, a twenty-something American who finds himself working for the Feed the World Program as the country falls apart around him. While his co-workers...
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