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Incremental Storytelling And Calypsis: A Hypertext Fiction A Critical Introduction, William Trent Hergenrader

Theses and Dissertations

This critical introduction to Calypsis: A Hypertext Fiction argues that university creative writing programs should make full use of the institutional space, time, and resources available to them by introducing students to different types of writing projects and engage students in critical discussions about creative production, activities that they are unlikely to find outside the university's walls. These activities includes experimenting with digital tools, creating multimedia compositions, and producing collaborative work, as well as situating creative writing as an embodied act within specific historical, political, and material conditions. Herein I forward my theory of incremental storytelling, which is informed by …

Strange Land, Nicole Rae Hall

Theses and Dissertations

My dissertation, Strange Land, is about the transition from youth to adulthood as it follows a young woman that travels to India to seek change. There she finds challenges and comforts that she did not expect, as well as a new sense of normality that she didn't know she craved. My work is concerned with how a young woman copes with being simultaneously pushed into adulthood and held back in childhood.

The crossover fiction between young adult and adult literature influenced me heavily in the writing of this novel. In particular, Kristin Cashore's novel, Graceling, explores the ideas of identity …