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Creator:: Olson, Rebecca (Rebecca Jean)
Abstract:: Her Hair is an Open Hand is a collection of free verse poems exploring unity and division through the lens of myth and place. The collection is organized into three sections. The first reflects on division: alienation between the speaker and physical landscapes, isolation within romantic relationships, and the violation...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Her Hair is an Open Hand by Rebecca Olson A THESIS submitted to Oregon

Creator:: Elbom, Emily Rebecca
Abstract:: In Everybody Doing Pretty Here, a collection of eight interconnected short stories, Emily R. Elbom chronicles the lives of a married couple, Max and Willa. Both characters survive various forms of physical, emotional, and social abuse, and seem to stay married because of this connection. In spite of their codependency,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________________ Susan J. Rodgers In Everybody Doing Pretty Here, a collection of eight interconnected short

Creator:: Zellers, Michelle
Abstract:: Body of Water is a collection of short fiction about women navigating shifting relationships to their bodies; their bodies of memory and knowledge; their family histories; and their natural and cultural environments. Most of the stories depict girls and women beginning to perceive and push against the bounds of gendered...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: place to develop as a writer. I’m grateful to Rebecca Olson and George Caldwell for their service on

Creator:: Roush, Stephanie Rae
Abstract:: Something Mortal I Could Fall Upon is a collection of poetry exploring geographical, emotional, and cerebral permutations of home. These poems ask: What is home? What does it mean to give up a place? How does, or can, one rebuild the home? Although it is clear the speaker loves the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ________________________________________________________________________ Karen E. Holmberg Something Mortal I Could Fall Upon is a collection of poetry

Creator:: Sharp, Kimberly A.
Abstract:: The characters in each of these pieces exist outside the periphery of the so-called norm. In "Through Parted Curtains," "What They Do Besides Eat," and "Two Lambs," June wishes to enter the adult world that tends to exclude her (though she will only enter conditionally). June is, of course, about...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Kimberly A. Sharp for the degree

Creator:: Starr, Peter W.
Abstract:: The purpose of this thesis was to create a sustained piece of fiction that both represented my growth as a writer throughout my time at Oregon State University, and wove together a mixture of imagination, language, and creativity. My hope was to write a novella that incorporated and drew from...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Abstract approved: Tracy Daugherty The purpose of this thesis was to create a sustained piece of fiction

Creator:: Buck, C. Nathan
Abstract:: Always Talk to Strangers contains the first seven chapters to a novel. The novel focuses on the friendship between Amanda and Maria, two fourteen-year-old girls who are experiencing their last summer before high school in Madison, Wisconsin. Their friendship is a complicated one: Maria was kidnapped four years ago, the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Abstract approved: Marjorie Sandor Always Talk to Strangers contains the first seven chapters to a novel

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