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The Freedom Of Flexibility: Lessons From The Child Characters In Flannery O'Connor, Kathryn Matheny
The Freedom Of Flexibility: Lessons From The Child Characters In Flannery O'Connor, Kathryn Matheny
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Flannery O'Connor had a penchant for repetition, often revisiting the same character types, plot devices, and overriding ideas in two or more stories. This repetition always goes hand in hand with reinterpretation. Even when the characters and plots seem suspiciously similar, the differences signal both O'Connor's fascination with her subject and her persistent attempts to understand it. This thesis will explore O'Connor's revisions of stories in which child characters play an integral part. The later story in the three pairs I will examine gives a clearer picture of what O'Connor believed were the freedoms of childhood. O'Connor's adults rarely arouse …
The Underground House: A Body Memoir, Aubrey Videtto
The Underground House: A Body Memoir, Aubrey Videtto
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The creative non-fiction genre, in particular memoir and travel writing, is in a state of constant evolution. Furthermore, as we progress further into postmodern times, writing (both fiction and non-fiction, as well as poetry and drama) becomes more and more confessional and fragmented. These two facts make it difficult to classify the following memoir. It is both travel narrative and memoir on the body, but perhaps none of the traditional writers in either of these camps would claim my piece. Nevertheless, I call it a body memoir, and under essay it should be filed. In three sections (plus an introduction …
Melting Beeswax Bodies: The Queen Bee, The Hive, And Identity In Women's Writing, Leigh Johnson
Melting Beeswax Bodies: The Queen Bee, The Hive, And Identity In Women's Writing, Leigh Johnson
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The works examined are poetry by Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, and Audre Lorede, novels by Starhawk, The Fifth Sacred Thing, and Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees, and a drama by Elizabeth Bussey Fentress, The Honey Harvest. In looking at how the women writers construct identity using bee imagery, I propose that they actually subvert the societal devaluation of women. The beeswax bodies represent gendered constructions of how women should behave. The characters "melt" these bodies by refusing to fit the mold and by redesigning the mold to fit themselves.
Buried Alive: Hard Science Fiction Since The Golden Age, Bonny Mcdonald
Buried Alive: Hard Science Fiction Since The Golden Age, Bonny Mcdonald
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
A substantial body of science fiction authors, critics and fans appreciate the literary attention the New Wave of the '60s and '70s brought to the genre of science fiction, but regret the seemingly lasting move away from the hard science classics of the '50s and before. They argue that "the hard stuff' is at the very heart of sf and that its future—still on the path set by the New Wave—is ostensibly a dead end. Many important critics along with hundreds of sf fan websites display this fatalistic concern, asking over and over "Is hard science fiction dead?" The answer …
Baptism, Mark Melloan
Baptism, Mark Melloan
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
One of my favorite movie characters said he'd worn lots of shoes, meaning he'd been a great many places and done a great many things. Well, I've never been to war or run across America or founded a shrimp company or shook the President's hand or returned kickoffs for the University of Alabama. But I did grow up in a church, come of age, and stay there, which is perhaps as interesting. I am now a husband, worship leader, singer-songwriter, and college writing instructor, struggling to capture fragments of who I was before I was any of these things, and …