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Missed Connections, Laura Rose Mulrooney
Missed Connections, Laura Rose Mulrooney
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Missed Connections is a collection of short stories exploring queer and peculiar women navigating the minutae of their existences in cities across southern Ontario; Hamilton, Burlington, and Windsor, in particular. Missed Connections navigates the complexities of identities that are mutable and in flux, reflected in part through the youthful state of most of the protagonists. Some stories in Missed Connections include: “Stick-N-Poke” which follows a bisexual high-school drop-out who struggles with addiction and infatuation, “Ephemera” in which a militant lesbian unwittingly falls for a drag queen and meditates on desire, and a triptych, which is composed of “Catfish,” “Vernacular,” and …
Big Exit, Jordan Edward William Turner
Big Exit, Jordan Edward William Turner
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Big Exit is a novella which chronicles the dialogic interactions of a series of narrator-protagonists from Vancouver, each using first-person points of view. This multi-voiced narrative showcases the often dysfunctional lifestyles of a small group of youths from the lower socio-economic group. The narrative structure rotates irregularly through the characters' perspectives and features spatiotemporal jumps to reflect the psychic dissarray of the community and the deeper psychological fragmentation of Luke, a character diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. The juxtapositions of these differing narrative perspectives generate ironies that are not evident to the narrator-protagonists, but are apparent to readers as they move …
Field Guide To Kleptoparasitism, Braydon Beaulieu
Field Guide To Kleptoparasitism, Braydon Beaulieu
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Field Guide to Kleptoparasitism is a collection of episodic fictions centring on a protagonist, Tony Gordon, who perceives himself as both human and ant. Tony's situation within the liminal space between human and nonhuman positions Field Guide to Kleptoparasitism in the absurdist tradition. The stories use various styles, formats, and lengths - mimicking the frenetic movements of insects within their structure - in order to explore nihilism and meaninglessness, as well as the importance of self-acceptance. Field Guide to Kleptoparasitism depicts a character that self-actualizes because of his unique metamorphoses and faults. The stories' focus on individualism serves to forward …
Border Markers, Jenny Ferguson
Border Markers, Jenny Ferguson
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Border Markers is a novel-in-flashes composed of thirty-three, inter-connected flash fiction stories set in Canada's only border city, Lloydminster. The flashes in this novel are complete stories, with a beginning, a middle and an end, each composed of under 1,000 words. Some of the themes explored in this novel-in-flashes include how communities create insiders and outsiders, and the different ways individuals and communities deal with guilt.
The Sweetness Barrier, Sarah Berneche
The Sweetness Barrier, Sarah Berneche
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The Sweetness Barrier is a collection of eight short stories representative of the impact the food industry has had on North America. Unlike other popular Canadian food writing, which focuses on the jovial and humorous aspects of food culture, this collection details the ways in which we, consumers and producers of food, have been eating, growing, buying, and distributing irresponsibly. While food may aid in emotional, mental and physical recovery, this thesis highlights the ways it also wreaks havoc, ravishes and destroys us. The convictions behind this work originate in Samuel de Champlain's Order of Good Cheer and in the …
The Conditional, Amir Khan
The Conditional, Amir Khan
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'The Conditional' is a story that presents the Great War not as an historical event to be understood, but as an historical monstrosity to be transcended. The characters in the field, in this case, are on the "spiritual cutting edge," unable to coach themselves, morally, into believing in ' any' cause. They desert their units, foregoing action in favour of spiritual reflection and contemplation away from the front lines, in a secret ashraam on the Western Front.
Hesitant Bodies., Julie Homenuik
Hesitant Bodies., Julie Homenuik
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many bodies strewn across these pages in various stages of desire. they are measured with the muscles beneath the skin. they are embedded with nervous anticipation. each poem is a negotiation of space anxious with desire. curved lines into sheets waiting to be touched.Dept. of English Language, Literature, and Creative Writing. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis2006 .H66. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-01, page: 0089. Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 2006.
Like Bone From Skin (Original Writing)., Jenny Sampirisi
Like Bone From Skin (Original Writing)., Jenny Sampirisi
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In October 1983, 8-year-old Christine Jessop went missing from the tiny Ontario town of Queensville. The discovery of her body months later sparked one of Canada's most embarrassing murder investigations. Like Bone From Skin revisits Queensville in the days after Christine Jessop's disappearance and discovery, recreates the fixed image of death and public record, and focuses its lens on five fictional characters who face the challenge of looking at the events of their own lives while watching the death of a child unfold in their midst. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-01, page: 0080. Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 2006.
Seasons Of Salt, Teeth, And Plastic (Original Writing, Short Stories)., David Miller
Seasons Of Salt, Teeth, And Plastic (Original Writing, Short Stories)., David Miller
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Incorporating stories in the modes of realism, marvellous realism, and autobiography, Seasons of Salt, Teeth, and Plastic is a Petri dish for examining how realism can be, and often is, limited in short stories so that the story suggests, rather than represents, reality. Realism is limited for reasons of plot, coherent themes, and ease of reading, because true realism would be less coherent and less interesting. Despite this, each story in Seasons is realistic, employing strategies to suggest that the realism portrayed is less limited than it actually is. This balance between suggesting and limiting realism is a tool for …
In/Pulse (Original Writing, Poetry)., Jessica Raffoul
In/Pulse (Original Writing, Poetry)., Jessica Raffoul
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in/pulse is a collection of poems written to the beat of the body a collection of poems that reclaim the body in/pulse is within the body Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-01, page: 0089. Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 2006.
The Red Memory Of My Hand (Original Writing, Autobiography), Kendall Mcculloch
The Red Memory Of My Hand (Original Writing, Autobiography), Kendall Mcculloch
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This Creative Writing Project, The Red Memory of My Hand, is Part One of my autobiography and it explores the narrator's developing subjectivity in the context of a dysfunctional matriarchal family. I wrote this autobiography to seize my own power from my existing family structure. In breaking the taboo of silence around my family history and risking rejection by both my family and readers, I claim the right to my history and identity. I am declaring my own agency, my right to tell my story, in the transgressive act of writing The Red Memory of My Hand. As the title …
No Resort (Original Writing, Novel)., David Drouin
No Resort (Original Writing, Novel)., David Drouin
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When Jack travels to Mexico with his girlfriend, Lesley, he isn't expecting her to abandon him in a hotel room. This, however, forces him to begin living the trip he ignored and come to grips with the life and emotions he continuously tried to hide from. Along the way he meets a host of characters who will help lead him through a country, which seems alien according to his preconceptions of Mexico. Jack's journey to Mexico becomes more than a tourist romp and along the way he just might discover what it means to be a traveller. This novel is …
Traveling Music (Original Writing), Dale M. Wood
Traveling Music (Original Writing), Dale M. Wood
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Abstract not available. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 44-04, page: 1608. Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 2005.
What Is Here. And What Is Not (Original Writing, Poetry), Andrea Paolini
What Is Here. And What Is Not (Original Writing, Poetry), Andrea Paolini
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a collection of poems about what is here. and what is not. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 44-03, page: 1144. Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 2005.
R/Evolution: Social Medicine In Ink., Philip Morais
R/Evolution: Social Medicine In Ink., Philip Morais
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R/Evolution: Social Medicine in Ink, positions composition of written words in print vis-a-vis dominance of wider social communications via multi-sensory communications media. Given no mass medium is more of an "antibiotic" perceptually for this contemporaneous "incubation" than specialized visual fragmentation of the Latin alphabet typographically set on pages, marginalized ABCs machines press in ink provide modified relevance in supplying new "circuit breaker" demands for an "electronic" jungle we swamp ourselves with. Writers who disembody their expressions by descendants of Gutenberg's technology thusly fully capitalize by writing in the mask of the artist-critic, to service to all atypically fit for facing …
For Home--- (Original Writing)., Daryl Sneath
For Home--- (Original Writing)., Daryl Sneath
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Abstract not available. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 44-04, page: 1608. Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 2005.
Cedar Fingers (Original Writing, Short Fiction)., Lesley Belleau
Cedar Fingers (Original Writing, Short Fiction)., Lesley Belleau
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Cedar Fingers is a twenty-one chapter compilation of short fiction that is Native American in theme, expressing many significant elements of this culture such as stereotypes, the colonized condition of Native American Peoples, an acknowledgment of the traditional way of living, and an emphasis on the importance of healing past wounds for a present recovery of identification. The stories are told in many cases in the first person by a nameless protagonist who is a young Native American woman, using a distracted rhetoric told in simplified linguistics with definite underlying Aboriginal cultural images. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-01, page: …
The Measure Of A Woman (Original Writing)., Tracey Grozier
The Measure Of A Woman (Original Writing)., Tracey Grozier
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This creative project deals with the issue of measurement in its multiple representations. Though my work is autobiographical, it is my hope that readers will be able to experience a personal recognition in the recounting of my memories. I have set an extra place for you at my Sunday dinner table. Pull up your chair and enjoy. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 43-01, page: 0059. Adviser: Susan Holbrook. Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 2004.
Linguistic Like Me: Sharp As Two Metaphors In A Bush (Original Writing)., Ryan J. Cox
Linguistic Like Me: Sharp As Two Metaphors In A Bush (Original Writing)., Ryan J. Cox
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Abstract not available.Dept. of English Language, Literature, and Creative Writing. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis2004 .C69. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 43-01, page: 0058. Adviser: Susan Holbrook. Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 2004.
Allegories Of Walking In The Modern Age., Andries Alkema
Allegories Of Walking In The Modern Age., Andries Alkema
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In The Origin of German Tragic Drama, Walter Benjamin presents the allegory as monadic in shape. Borrowing from Gottfried Liebniz, Benjamin sees the allegory as having similarities with the monad in that both are singular yet whole: the entire is condensed within the particular. In Benjamin's schema, the truth can only be gained piecemeal; the whole can only be grasped through the minutiae. Accordingly, that which previously remained out of reach---the whole---becomes graspable through the fragment. Employing Benjamin's understanding of the monadic properties of the allegory, this paper follows three allegorical figures of walking: Benjamin's flaneur, Louis Aragon's surrealist stroller, …
Sing The Body Cyborg: The Dialectic Of Embodiment In Technological Praxis., Kumar Saha
Sing The Body Cyborg: The Dialectic Of Embodiment In Technological Praxis., Kumar Saha
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This act of making is always mediated by technology of some form. As both Marx and Engels argue, since we are essentially makers and creators, and the process of making always involves the application of the technological, it seems worthwhile to approach the problem of embodiment through the lens of the cyborg---a hybrid of machine and organism. Donna Haraway writes that the cyborg symbolizes the reconstitutive human. The cyborgian figure articulates our current reality. In our wearable computers and our pacemakers, we find our organicism continually breached, such that "the difference between natural and artificial, mind and body, self-developing and …
Ellisheva Gold (Original Writing, Novel)., Leanne Lieberman
Ellisheva Gold (Original Writing, Novel)., Leanne Lieberman
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My novel, Ellisheva Gold, tells the story of an Orthodox Jewish teenager living in Toronto. Ellisheva, or Ellie never doubts her strict religious upbringing until she falls in love with another girl at her grandmother's cottage. Aware that her homosexuality and Jewish observance clash, Ellie feels forced to either change her sexuality or leave her community. While Ellie finds Judaism limiting, her mother, Chana, is convinced she has a messianic role to play, Chana tries to help other Jews be more observant, and expresses her religious devotion through song. Both Chana and Ellie ultimately violate the taboos of their community …
For The Off (Original Writing)., Nicole Dixon
For The Off (Original Writing)., Nicole Dixon
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Four stories of love and conflict. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 43-01, page: 0058. Adviser: Darryl Whetter. Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 2004.
Tada(Da)! I Found It! (Original Writing, Poetry)., Alethea Power
Tada(Da)! I Found It! (Original Writing, Poetry)., Alethea Power
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Tada(da)! I Found it! is a collection of experimental poetry and fiction. One of the central themes throughout the work is "found material." While the poetry cannot be classified as "Found Poems" in the strictest sense of the term they do draw on various textual sources (car advertisements, the Internet, both canonical and non-canonical poetry, etc.) for inspiration. In my Statement of Poetics I link my work to both Dada and contemporary Canadian experimental writers such as bpNichol, Christian Bok and Darren Wershler-Henry. Reader accessibility is a big concern for me and I see myself as writing for a broad …
The Uncanny Valley (Original Writing), Renee Griffiths
The Uncanny Valley (Original Writing), Renee Griffiths
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Abstract not available. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 43-01, page: 0059. Adviser: Darryl Whetter. Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 2004.
De Die In Diem: A Grieving Process (Original Writing, Poetry, Prose)., Helen Edith. Newell-Beattie
De Die In Diem: A Grieving Process (Original Writing, Poetry, Prose)., Helen Edith. Newell-Beattie
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Abstract Not Available. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 42-02, page: 0417. Adviser: John Ditsky. Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 2003.
Everything Must Go (Original Writing, Short Stories)., David Gregory. Burke
Everything Must Go (Original Writing, Short Stories)., David Gregory. Burke
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Reading group discussion guide. (1) Is the proliferation of footnotes in the work an effort by the author, as Norman Mailer suggests, to compensate for his small genitalia? (2) The author writes primarily of lonely, college-age men who live in quiet apartments. As a biographical reading, can this be seen as a fear of aloneness considering the author's inability to move out of the house in which he still, at age twenty-six, comfortably lives with his parents? (3) The author has asked the reader to send, in total, $1941.09. Given the author's penchant for sleazy women and Snapple, where do …
Beyond The Blazon: The Female Body As Experienced In Four Eighteenth-Century Novels By Women (Charlotte Lennox, Sarah Scott, Fanny Burney, Maria Edgeworth)., Susan Colleen. Mcneill
Beyond The Blazon: The Female Body As Experienced In Four Eighteenth-Century Novels By Women (Charlotte Lennox, Sarah Scott, Fanny Burney, Maria Edgeworth)., Susan Colleen. Mcneill
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This project shows how four eighteenth-century women writers dealt with the dawning of consciousness about the forces acting on the female body and the embodiment that consequently shapes the role of women in society. The issue of female experience in the body is explored in Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote (1752), Sarah Scott's A Description of Millenium Hall (1762), Fanny Burney's Evelina (1778), and Maria Edgeworth's Belinda (1801). In each of these novels the issues of female self-awareness, the cultural construction of femininity and the female body, and the concepts of education, masquerade, deception, illness, and sexuality are explored with …
Migration And Hybridity: Stereoscopic Vision In The Novels Of Rushdie, Mukherjee, And Ghosh (Salman Rushdie, Bharati Mukherjee, Amitav Ghosh, India)., Idil. Bozkurt
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This thesis analyzes migrant fictions written by three Indian-English writers who examine both the difficulties and the prospects of displacement by presenting characters that undergo radical changes in their sense of space, social identifications, self and body image as a result of movement. It is founded on the argument that the plurality in a migrant's experience endows her with multiple subject positions that can negotiate contradicting cultural discourses. Hybridity, which signifies the embodiment of multiple subject positions and cultural belongings, provides an energy field of differences out of which creativity and resistance to master narratives of dominant cultures emerge. The …
Liminality And The Vanishing American: Discussions Of The Imaginary Indian In Selected Works Of Zane Grey., Joseph Clifford. O'Neill
Liminality And The Vanishing American: Discussions Of The Imaginary Indian In Selected Works Of Zane Grey., Joseph Clifford. O'Neill
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This paper closely analyses the Native American stereotype as presented in selected novels of Zane Grey. Brief explanations of the western formula novel, the Imaginary Indian and American colonial attitudes, and the anthropological concept of liminality provide theoretical background for the paper. This leads to an exegesis of selected Zane Grey novels in order to determine how the Native American is presented. The paper argues that while Grey makes use of the Indian stereotype, he does so in a fashion appropriate to the plot of each novel, and he gradually moves from stereotyping to the creation of developed Native American …