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Grand Prix: A Trainer's Guide To Show Ring Success, Lauren Rebecca Allen
Grand Prix: A Trainer's Guide To Show Ring Success, Lauren Rebecca Allen
Theses and Dissertations
This is a memoir of my experiences as a horse lover and professional horse trainer, and the startling parallels I discovered in the Los Angeles equestrian and entertainment industries. Both worlds revolve around commodifying something that is rooted in beauty but somehow gets bruised in the process of spinning art into business. I found that my taste for romance and adventure spurred me to new heights and simultaneously crashed against reality. In pursuit of the big prizes, I was willing to slowly sell off the things I cared about most to get what I wanted, until I woke up to …
Receiver Of Wreck: A Memoir, Brandi Lynn Perry
Receiver Of Wreck: A Memoir, Brandi Lynn Perry
Theses and Dissertations
Receiver of Wreck: A Memoir is a third-person, present tense narrative that covers the span of my graduate program at the University of South Carolina. This point of view was chosen as it provides a level of separation between the author, me, and the abuse and also the reader and the abuse - this serves the dual purpose of not retraumatizing the reader and allowing me more of a removed perspective to focus more on the exterior and less on the interior. The memoir has dual narrative trajectories: while I am recovering from sexual abuse and depression and becoming a …
Volumes, Matthew Brooks Stark
Volumes, Matthew Brooks Stark
Theses and Dissertations
Volumes is a book-length work of poetry in three parts. Volumes investigates the process of art, wherein the creative act constructs both the created object and its creator the artist. I use the term "creation" rather loosely: I propose such an act to be present within one's self-recognition, imaginative contextualization of oneself within a setting, or performance of a role. Volumes, through Ars Poeticas, struggles with ideas of self-awareness, wherein the artist achieves a unique determinacy before and after a creative act because the artist is necessarily changed by the act of creation. The project struggles against the opaqueness of …
"Man, Who Parts The Windblown Grasses", And Other Stories, Ryan Kennerly
"Man, Who Parts The Windblown Grasses", And Other Stories, Ryan Kennerly
Theses and Dissertations
"Man, who Parts the Windblown Grasses," and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction based on common themes of violence, loss and grief, and humanity's struggle to reconcile the primal demands of the id with the desires and restrictions of the superego. Written from many different perspectives, representing all manner of walks of life, the collection seeks to question the ways in which violence is presented, defended, and understood, and what that means for humanity as a species.
Bluefield, Jennifer Sharain Bartell
Bluefield, Jennifer Sharain Bartell
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis uses poetry to explore the history of my childhood neighborhood Bluefield, which lies outside of the city of Johnsonville. Several factors have gone into the writing of this manuscript: interviewing elders of the neighborhood; researching land deeds; conducting water and soil samples to explore the possibility of environmental causes of high cancer rates; and exploring my individual grief and the collective grief of an aging and dying community. Bluefield is a community that is Southern, predominately Black, and low income; the voices of its residences, along with my poetic voice, pervade the manuscript, which includes elegies for the …
Smokers, Ajit Dhillon
Smokers, Ajit Dhillon
Theses and Dissertations
Smokers is a multi-perspective surveillance spy thriller that juxtaposes the days leading up to the financial collapse with the days leading to the Bay of Pigs in Cuba. The first three chapters of book set up the multiple narrative point of view construct that will drive the narrative. Opening in New York, March 2007, a year before the financial collapse or the knowledge of the collapse and its implications becomes available to the public. We follow James, an administrative assistant at a hedge fund in the financial district. As the chapter unfolds we learn more about his home life. His …