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Zona, Zachary Williams
Zona, Zachary Williams
Dissertations
This dissertation is a collection of poems written between 2011 and 2019. Zona the title of the book, meditates on themes of precarity, loss, imagination, and transformation. Drawing from both the Surrealist and Deep Image traditions, the book comments on life and aesthetic experience under late-stage capitalism.
Blazing Worlds, Bethany Kinney
Blazing Worlds, Bethany Kinney
Master's Theses
Blazing Worlds is a collection of short stories exploring themes of understanding, isolation, the world of work, and identity. These stories follow characters who are searching for connections to others, to their environments, to their work, and to themselves. The protagonists of these stories inhabit worlds that are slightly adjacent to reality, worlds cast into a near future, and worlds that operate by the logic of the campy and the fantastic. Through heightened technology, body horror, or blurred metaphysical boundaries, the residents of these blazing worlds pursue knowledge of their place in life and fight to establish and maintain their …
Unlonely: A Collection Of Short And Nonfiction, Mary Karnes
Unlonely: A Collection Of Short And Nonfiction, Mary Karnes
Master's Theses
The following work was produced by the author during her career at the University of Southern Mississippi.
Thirteen Unlikely Stories, Joseph Gray
Thirteen Unlikely Stories, Joseph Gray
Dissertations
Thirteen Unlikely Stories is a collection of fiction composed and revised at the
University of Southern Mississippi’s Center for Writers.
18 Dorset Ct., Allison Catherine Campbell
18 Dorset Ct., Allison Catherine Campbell
Dissertations
The following poems and essays were completed by the author between October 2012 and April 2016.
Material Matters, Thomas George Holmes
Material Matters, Thomas George Holmes
Dissertations
Material Matters is a collection of original poems written by Thomas G. Holmes, while a doctoral student at The University of Southern Mississippi. The poems explore the materiality of writing.
Achieving Relationships, Frederick C. Melancon
Achieving Relationships, Frederick C. Melancon
Master's Theses
These stories attempt to follow John Gardner’s instruction to create a dream that will engage the reader. Mirroring the goal that an author has to create a relationship with his audience, each story in turn focuses on emotional details that convey the characters’ feelings of isolation or, alternatively, inclusion in their communities. In the first story, a young man tries to recreate his father’s king cake. In the next, a middle school girl fixates on her relationship with her sister. Trying to recapture the memory of a lost daughter, a man searches for the perfect nectar snowball. A mom, then, …
Looker: Stories, George Robert Hargett
Looker: Stories, George Robert Hargett
Master's Theses
The following stories, completed by the author between August 2013 and February 2015, deal with love, obscurity, isolation, failure, vulnerability and insecurity, looking and losing, the fears tied up in all these, and, once in a while, gaining.
Another Word For Autumn And Other Stories, Henry Burgard Shepard Iii
Another Word For Autumn And Other Stories, Henry Burgard Shepard Iii
Master's Theses
The subject, style, and form of these stories are different from one another. At first glance, there seems to be no obvious thematic connection throughout this collection, no binding thread that ties them together. However, what allows these stories to exist side by side is their focus. The characters in these stories are human, no matter what situation they find themselves in, be it strange, fantastic, or mundane, they strive to achieve their desires. Each story takes a different approach to create a succinct feeling, all parts working toward eliciting a certain emotion. In one story, a family is powerless …
[Blip] And Other Noises, Jennifer Jacob Brown
[Blip] And Other Noises, Jennifer Jacob Brown
Master's Theses
[Blip] and Other Noises is a collection of short stories that explores the illusory nature of identity, time, space, and our experience of reality. Its principal characters include a sea captain, an Elvis fanatic, a space alien, and some very confused children. Its principal settings include small town Mississippi, the Gulf of Mexico, the Indiana wilderness, and uncharted (by humans) outer space. This collection is accompanied by a critical introduction.
Filipino, Too: Compositions On Culture And Identity, Randy Eugene Gonzales
Filipino, Too: Compositions On Culture And Identity, Randy Eugene Gonzales
Dissertations
“Filipino, too: Compositions on Culture and Identity” is a creative dissertation that documents my journey to understand my cultural heritage, focusing on my displacement as an expatriate and as a third-generation Filipino American.
This Animal, Elena Therese Tomorowitz
This Animal, Elena Therese Tomorowitz
Dissertations
This Animal is a poetic narrative about humans’ animalistic instincts and how we use them to navigate our relationships with others and the world around us.
Quarry Light And Other Stories, Claudia Lois Smith
Quarry Light And Other Stories, Claudia Lois Smith
Dissertations
Quarry Light and Other Stories is a collection of short stories and one novella articulating themes of violence, trauma, and sexuality. The stories in Quarry Light and Other Stories are arranged according the theme, movement, and tonality. Although they can stand alone, the stories are meant to be read interdependently. The collection is accompanied by a critical introduction.
Ladies And Gentlemen, Robert John Bartholomew
Ladies And Gentlemen, Robert John Bartholomew
Dissertations
This collection of short stories treats of the following diverse themes: the redemptive possibilities for seemingly despicable characters; the ways in which circumstances and the social environment affect characters' sexualities and personal relationships; the lengths to which characters are willing to go to get what they want, which want is often the desire to make contact with others; the struggle between characters' narcissism and their need to come to terms with a new self image, a self image which is often at odds with the one they wish for themselves; and the beauty of vulnerability. Additionally, one of the chief …
Daimon, Miranda Foster Merklein
Daimon, Miranda Foster Merklein
Dissertations
The following creative dissertation is a book of 57 poems.
Upstate Roadkill Memorial Service, Scott Christian Fynboe
Upstate Roadkill Memorial Service, Scott Christian Fynboe
Dissertations
Upstate Roadkill Memorial Service is a collection of poems that examines death and mortality and includes a critical preface.
Cryptid, Phillip Jarett Underwood
Cryptid, Phillip Jarett Underwood
Dissertations
Cryptid is a term from the field of cryptozoology, which ostensibly presents itself as the study of creatures that may or may not exist, such as – but not limited to – Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, and the Jersey Devil. The term itself, cryptid, refers to one of these unknown creatures. The novella presented here concerns a half-Native American man and his struggle to know not only his dead parents, but himself and his place in the world. While cryptids play a minor role within the boundaries of the narrative itself, the novella concerns itself more with the ways …
The Son's Return, Gary Charles Wilkens
The Son's Return, Gary Charles Wilkens
Dissertations
This dissertation is a collection of poems accompanied by a critical preface.
Room, Vallie Lynn Watson
Room, Vallie Lynn Watson
Dissertations
Room is a short novel written at The University of Southern Mississippi. It is accompanied by a critical preface.