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Slices Of Life, Julia M. Franks
Slices Of Life, Julia M. Franks
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
In this collection we explore death, loss, joy, love, and life. “Smiles through tears has always been my favorite emotion.” (Steel Magnolias) And that’s what this is, smiles through tears. Everyone is slightly depressed, there are some happy moments in there. A lot of love, and a lot of friendship. Slices of life, little bite sized nuggets of stories I’ve used to mimic my own life.
Victim Impact: The Manson Murders And The Rise Of The Victims’ Rights Movement, Merrill W. Steeg
Victim Impact: The Manson Murders And The Rise Of The Victims’ Rights Movement, Merrill W. Steeg
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Serious Men, Michael Jesse Bass
Serious Men, Michael Jesse Bass
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
This thesis is a Fiction story collection written in fulfillment of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of New Orleans.
The Spinners' Tales, Sierra N. Offutt
The Spinners' Tales, Sierra N. Offutt
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
“The Spinners’ Tales” is a loosely connected story collection exploring the lives of a variety of supernaturally gifted characters, referred to within their own community as Spinners.
The Seven Temptations Of The Sea And Eight Other Tales, Greta C. Hayer
The Seven Temptations Of The Sea And Eight Other Tales, Greta C. Hayer
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
This short story collection is a thesis in fiction written in fulfillment of the Master in Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of New Orleans.
Infants Are A Collection Of Cells, Helena M. Blanco
Infants Are A Collection Of Cells, Helena M. Blanco
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
The poems in this collection represent three main themes within the work. The first theme relates to family and memory; how it changes over time and generation. The second theme focuses on music as influence outside of instruments; how poetic voice is a type of music in its cadence and rhythm. The third theme includes pop-culture’s lasting effect on current society and its nostalgic feel on the millennial population. Each theme embodies the poems messages of universal meanings along with abstract topics including certain groups such as geek culture and heavy metal fans.
Keywords:poems, pop-culture, music, family
Mise En Place, Amie M. Geistman
Mise En Place, Amie M. Geistman
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Mise en Place is a collection of essays that chronicles the author's experiences working as the lone female line cook in the culinary boy's club of professional restaurant kitchens. These essays follow the author's descent into a wild love affair with food, the burnout and gender dynamics associated with the job, and how she navigates the passion and the stress that the kitchen brings out in her.
Dictation From The Moon, Leland Monson
Dictation From The Moon, Leland Monson
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Much of my poetry concerns twelve-step recovery, brushes with suicide, and other related incidents. With more poetry coming out, there was more recovery and other influences. Some manifested themselves through imitation. Sometimes they came through form. Sometimes inspiration manifested through language. Some came from goodness knows where. An accumulation of all of it, each poem follows one or more of these guiding principles.
Forgotten Diary, Heather J. Richardson
Forgotten Diary, Heather J. Richardson
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
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Big Infinity: A Cancer Journey, Christy L. Lorio Mrs.
Big Infinity: A Cancer Journey, Christy L. Lorio Mrs.
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
New Bruises, Katelyn Aquilo
New Bruises, Katelyn Aquilo
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
The following manuscript is a collection of poetry based on experiences. Religious hypocrisy and abuse thread throughout the collection with both first hand experiences and fictional ones. It is divided into three parts: the hometown, the bodily abuse, and then, finally, the religion.
Sugarcane Crossroads, Sean Carrero
Sugarcane Crossroads, Sean Carrero
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
The following manuscript is a collection of lyric poetry that touches on themes of family history, love, and labor in the service industry. It is divided into three sections. The speaker in the work dwells in mostly private spaces and deals with private symbols such as, water, to represent the father figure in the poems.
The Gulf Between, Christine Baniewicz
The Gulf Between, Christine Baniewicz
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Great swaths of Southeastern Louisiana are drowning, land giving way to water at an alarming rate. Since the 1920s, Louisiana has lost more than 1,800 square miles of wetlands to open water, an area about the size of the state of Delaware. In the same amount of time it takes to watch an episode of Breaking Bad, our state loses the equivalent of a football field’s-worth of solid ground to the rising seas. My thesis is the first part of an accessible creative nonfiction book that tells the story of what’s happening in my home state. To what extent is …
Sixth Form, Adrienne Barton
Sixth Form, Adrienne Barton
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
The ten stories in this short story collection explore the liminal spaces created by certain physical spaces as well as times in the characters’ lives. The stories are largely related to a school environment, and the relationships and experiences that are unique to the players living and moving within that context. How much are the relationships and actions of the characters influenced by the setting. What weight do institutional forces and tradition carry in the characters’ lives, and how do they exploit it for their own will or conform?
Crossroads And Crow Feathers, Travis E. Bowman
Crossroads And Crow Feathers, Travis E. Bowman
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
This thesis uses the short story form to examine the influence of myth, magick, and the supernatural on the interstitial areas of the United States. The power of words as a force for change figures prominently in these stories. This thesis looks at the monstrous as it moves in the darkness and in the minds of humans, but also at the tremendous depths of compassion and courage we find in ourselves when faced with monstrous situations.
Summer Troubles And Other Poems, Jeremy Thomas Burke
Summer Troubles And Other Poems, Jeremy Thomas Burke
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Following the example of Gary Snyder's "Axe Handles," I introduce my poetics and poems in the preface. Other influences, including Lucille Clifton, John Ashbery, and Anne Carson, are also explored. The original poetry that follows the preface attempts to enact the language of philosophical exploration, relationships, memory, conversation, and meditation while paying close attention to the musicality of everyday speech and avoiding clear and specific conclusions.
Road Closed To Thru Traffic, Jordan C. Crook
Road Closed To Thru Traffic, Jordan C. Crook
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
This collection of nine fiction stories explores the journeys of men and women who find themselves unable to continue on the path they've set for themselves. So often, the roads we follow are dictated by social conditioning. This collection considers how are paths are predetermined by social norms and follows the characters as they react to unexpected obstacles encountered in common scenarios. Will they forge new paths? Turn back? Or will they take a detour and return to their original road?
Her Sweetest Comeback, Kelly Gangeness Le
Her Sweetest Comeback, Kelly Gangeness Le
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Kelly Gangeness Le’s poetry manuscript focuses on paradoxical values concerning horror and humor paired with family and isolation. With the aesthetic approach that poetry ought to resemble the emotional intensity of music, Le strives for animated language. Her influences come from coarse, post-hardcore music and Lucie Brock-Broido’s scholarly yet brutal poetry. Thus she negotiates between lowbrow and literary dynamics. Family; Horror; Humor; Dissonance
The First Rule Of Improv, John M. Gilder
The First Rule Of Improv, John M. Gilder
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
The First Rule of Improv is a collection of fictional short stories concerned with loss, life’s unfairness, the weight of the past, and how people succeed or fail in coping. Each story explores these notions through its characters, who vary wildly in terms of both dramatic severity and success in the face of adversity, with the first rule of improv—to accept and build—being suggested by the author as the healthiest manner of approach, if not necessarily the easiest.
Undertow, Adam Karlin
Undertow, Adam Karlin
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
A short story collection that explores themes of culture, history, race, movement, stagnancy, and freedom. All stories are connected by elements of water, swimming, rivers, or wetlands. All contain characters seeking to escape their circumstances, with varying degrees of success. For some characters, the arc of their development lays in their movement; for others, it lays in their learning to live with a lack of movement.
Dark Smoke Rising, Matthew Knutson
Dark Smoke Rising, Matthew Knutson
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
A collection of short fiction set in and around Southern California.
Escape Artist, Justin Lamb
Escape Artist, Justin Lamb
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
This poetry manuscript explores themes of family and addiction, education and New Orleans, and fear and escape in the span of three parts. Its preface examines the poet’s background and influences, his relationship with performance and humor, and the levity he hopes to create in his work.
“To Be Men, Not Destroyers”: Developing Dabrowskian Personalities In Ezra Pound’S The Cantos And Neil Gaiman’S American Gods, Michelle A. Nicholson
“To Be Men, Not Destroyers”: Developing Dabrowskian Personalities In Ezra Pound’S The Cantos And Neil Gaiman’S American Gods, Michelle A. Nicholson
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Kazimierz Dabrowski’s psychological theory of positive disintegration is a lesser known theory of personality development that offers an alternative critical perspective of literature. It provides a framework for the characterization of postmodern protagonists who move beyond heroic indoctrination to construct their own self-organized, autonomous identities. Ezra Pound’s The Cantos captures the speaker-poet’s extensive process of inner conflict, providing a unique opportunity to track the progress of the hero’s transformation into a personality, or a man. American Gods is a more fully realized portrayal of a character who undergoes the complete paradigmatic collapse of positive disintegration and deliberate self-derived self-revision …
How We Live Today And Other Stories, Gregory W. Rohloff
How We Live Today And Other Stories, Gregory W. Rohloff
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
How We Live Today is a collection of stories about family connections and the process of making amends to keep a family whole. The families are not just traditional families, but also arrangements constructed out of necessity, circumstance, or convenience. The title story tells how a man ends a lengthy divide with a stepmother for the sake of her, his son, and ultimately himself. We see adolescents do the right thing in their circumstances at the risk of losing peer standing or to avert future social damage. An older golfer encourages a younger golfer, easing guilt but realizing that respect …
Nest Morale, Nora Seilheimer
Nest Morale, Nora Seilheimer
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Nest Morale is a collection of personal essays that explores race through the lenses of education, marriage, homeownership, and parenthood.
The Half-Lives We Were Living, Chelsey K. Shannon
The Half-Lives We Were Living, Chelsey K. Shannon
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
This short story collection deals with themes of race, kinship, desire, subjectivity, and appearance vs. reality.
Philadelphia Stories, Leigh A. Stuart
Philadelphia Stories, Leigh A. Stuart
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
These stories provide a look at a Philadelphia family over decades.
Lx: A Life In Light, Glennis Waterman
Lx: A Life In Light, Glennis Waterman
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
The author looks back over a long career working as a stage lighting technician in the American theatre, sharing personal experiences, and providing an insider’s view of the art, history, and culture of theatrical lighting.
Creating The Water Clock, Amy C. Laws
Creating The Water Clock, Amy C. Laws
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
This thesis will discuss the making of my short film The Water Clock at the University of New Orleans from its inception to its final short film form. Part One discusses the balancing of content and style and explores the relation between time and water as inspirations for story. Part Two details the preproduction process and major crew members’ collaborations and contributions before filming. Part Three describes daily successes, struggles, and direction while in production. Part Four describes every phase of the post-production process as the film is completed. Lastly, I will analyze my personal growth as a filmmaker.
The Black Mage Reader, Shaina Monet
The Black Mage Reader, Shaina Monet
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
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