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We'll Hang Ourselves Tomorrow, Samuel Brendan Ruddick
We'll Hang Ourselves Tomorrow, Samuel Brendan Ruddick
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This is a collection of short stories. They are all first person narratives. Most of them are told by men in their late twenties to mid-thirties. A couple of them are told by boys on the verge of adolescence. I can not tell you what they are about. I can tell you that they are very sad. I can also tell you that they are full of hope and wonder. Hence the title, a line taken from Godot. The reference to suicide might sound grim, but I would argue that if the world were without hope, we would hang ourselves …
Marathon, Ohio, Alan Guido Rossi Jr.
Marathon, Ohio, Alan Guido Rossi Jr.
Dissertations
Marathon, Ohio is an original collection of fiction, accompanied by a critical introduction. All of the stories were written between 2005 and 2008 at the University of Southern Mississippi's Center for Writers. The stories are arranged for a thematic and formal effect, rather than by chronology.
Watermark: A Short-Story Cycle With An Introduction To The Genre And Scholarship Including A Close Reading Of The Text, Wanda Elizabeth Huber
Watermark: A Short-Story Cycle With An Introduction To The Genre And Scholarship Including A Close Reading Of The Text, Wanda Elizabeth Huber
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Watermark, a short story cycle, as defined by Forest Ingram, Susan Garland Mann, and James Nagel, consists of twenty-five individually complete and interrelated stories and vignettes. Along with common characters and settings, the individual stories within Watermark resonate with themes of violence, love, cyclical behavior, amputated potential, self-denial, poverty, and imagination as escape. Through a process that Ingram calls recurrent patterns of development, these themes, amplified through repeated intertextual imagery, shape a larger narrative that conveys the developing artistic potential of Liz, one of many recurring characters. Typical of the short-story cycle, the title serves as a central unifying symbol. …