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Red, Yellow, Blue, Lauren Elizabeth Eyler
Red, Yellow, Blue, Lauren Elizabeth Eyler
Theses and Dissertations
Red, Yellow, Blue is a hybrid, metafictional novel/autobiography. The work explores the life of Ellis, Lotte, Diana John-John and Lauren as they wander through a variety of circumstances, which center on loss and grief. As the novel develops, the author loses control over her intentionality; the character's she claims to know fuse together, leaving the reader to wonder if Lauren is synonymous with Ellis or if Diana is actually Lotte disguised by a signifier. Red, Yellow, Blue questions the author's as well as the reader's ability to understand the transformation that occurs in an individual during long periods of grief …
William, Allison Marie Mcnutt
William, Allison Marie Mcnutt
Theses and Dissertations
William is a novel that examines the lives of a pair of protagonists who are separated by approximately three hundred years of history. Liam is a modern history PhD who studies the colonial south, specializing in the years immediately following the pioneering period of Carolana rice cultivation around the turn of the eighteenth century; this is the middle ground after survival in the colony was largely secured, but when social hierarchies and racial allegiances were still in flux as the cash crop best suited to the coastal settlements had only just been discovered. Will is Liam's historical counterpart and lives …
Some Assembly Required, Anthony Feggans
Some Assembly Required, Anthony Feggans
Theses and Dissertations
'Some Assembly Required' is a short story collection that explores the construction and deconstruction of identity within various fields of interest, generally hobbies or professions, and the type of people who do those professions or hobbies. It also explores dynamics of familial and romantic relationships.
The Finer Things, Jasmine Bailey
The Finer Things, Jasmine Bailey
Theses and Dissertations
It is through the grotesque that Flannery O'Conner's characters achieve grace, and often the only hope for self-actualization rests in death and malformation. This is perhaps her greatest irony. The protagonists of The Finer Things, however, never self-actualize: they simply act without understanding or questioning why. This is because they are rarely confronted with the grotesque; instead they actively seek it for themselves. The grotesque isn't revelatory, but rather, it satisfies romantic ideals and desires, or is pursued in effort to escape aggressive bureaucracies that typify Kafka's short stories. This characterizes the ironic aesthetic of The Finer Things. Working in …
The Seeded Underground, Shannon Renee' Blake
The Seeded Underground, Shannon Renee' Blake
Theses and Dissertations
The Seeded Underground explores the grave intricacies of identity and emptiness. Using the haptic experience as a focus, this work subverts plot in lieu of the individual experience in the seemingly mundane seconds of waking life. By questioning the physical as well as the mental, The Seeded Underground tunnels down into the dark and voided corners of the individual, makes meaning of their sordid lives and opens wide the darkness surrounding the world and nature.
And Still It Moves, Elizabeth Breen
And Still It Moves, Elizabeth Breen
Theses and Dissertations
This manuscript represents thirty-two poems written over three years. Major themes include: split selves, family, death, astronomy and fear of flying. I hope to showcase a diverse range of poetic forms while maintaining a consistent but fluid voice. The collection takes its name from unconfirmed anecdote about Galileo Galilei: when asked by the Italian Inquisition to recant his claim that the earth moved around the sun he did--and in doing so saved his own life. However, legend has it as he left he said under his breath eppur si muove or "still it moves." Regardless of what we say about …