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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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    Northwest of Normal by John J. Larison A THESIS submitted to Oregon State

  • West of Ellis

    Creator:
    Tafolla Young, Kathryne M.
    Abstract:
    Ellis, a booming mid-sized town in California's Central Valley, is packed with farmers and commuters, and plagued with a dwindling sense of itself and its history. Set against the backdrop of a failed murder-suicide, a secret affair and a wealthy local mogul's attempt to develop the town into something it's...
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    Masters Thesis
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    of Ellis by Kathryne M. TafollaYoung A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial

  • 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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    submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for

  • The practice of home

    Creator:
    Goodrich, Charles
    Abstract:
    If home is the hearth, a place of safety and centeredness, it is also the portal, the magic door. From home we go out into spaces more humanized and technologized, or into spaces more natural, more other-than-humanized. We dress up and head downtown, or we pack up and head for...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree

  • The long house

    Creator:
    Harris, Gregory A.
    Abstract:
    The Long House explores belonging and commitment. Jennifer Hawley, an American graduate student in linguistic anthropology, arrives in the early 1990s in Long Awan, a Dayak village in the remote highlands of Borneo. Her research concerns oral history among Punan families, traditionally nomadic, which have recently decided to settle in...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    Graduate I understand that my thesis will become part of the permanent collection of Oregon State

  • The Yogiebogeybox

    Creator:
    Boothman Duyck, Tracy
    Abstract:
    The Yogiebogeybox is a novel-in-stories. This novel explores spiritual transcendence and the connection of art to that spiritual journey. A variety of points of view are employed in the narrative in order to depict the journey of the protagonist, Ant Malo, through this journey. Some of the narrative threads are...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    Duyck A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for

  • 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...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
    Full Text:
    THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree

  • Comic toast

    Creator:
    Ruch, Alison Louise
    Abstract:
    Comic Toast is a novel depicting a transition period in the life of the comic book artist character, Monica Holliday. This document includes a prologue, which provides details of a trauma in Monica's distant past, in order to inform Monica's adult reactions to the situations she finds herself entangled in....
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    Masters Thesis
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    by Alison Louise Ruch A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the

  • On top

    Creator:
    Richter, Amanda M.
    Abstract:
    This collection of stories spans a range of content: the personal, the domestic, the political, and the downright terrifying. In “Ilka the Flyer,” a young man is faced with his own crisis and that of his veteran uncle. Sister relationships bloom and fade as the entire family deals with changes...
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    Masters Thesis
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    School I understand that my thesis will become part of the permanent collection of Oregon State

  • b

    Creator:
    Oleson, Wendy E.
    Abstract:
    This thesis is the first third of a coming of age novel called i. In this selection the central character, Bea Bouvier, prepares to see her estranged mother on a cruise ship to the Bahamas. She hopes her parents will decide to reunite as a family, though it becomes increasingly...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine