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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 …
Doing And Teaching, Roderick Watson
Doing And Teaching, Roderick Watson
Studies in Scottish Literature
Discusses the decision at the University of Stirling, Scotland, in the late 1960s, to appoint a Scottish poet, Norman MacCaig, to the permanent faculty, and to include creative writing options within the English studies degree program. Assesses subsequent developments and argues for the value of such integration for all literature undergraduates.
Hobsbaum And His Legacy, Adrian Hunter
Hobsbaum And His Legacy, Adrian Hunter
Studies in Scottish Literature
Recounts and assesses the impact of the poet and critic Philip Hobsbaum (1932-2005) on the development and role of creative writing within university English departments, both at Queern's University, Belfast, but more especially after he moved to the University of Glasgow.
Tartan Noir And The Scottish Literary Canon, Matt Mcguire
Tartan Noir And The Scottish Literary Canon, Matt Mcguire
Studies in Scottish Literature
Takes up Willy Maley's recent critique of Scottish university literature teaching (in SSL 38) and argues that Scottish creative writing, especially the crime novels that James Ellroy labelled Tartan Noir, has stimulated new critical readings of such earlier Scottish writers as James Hogg and Robert Louis Stevenson.
'They Gang In Stirks And Come Out Asses': Creative Writing And Scottish Studies, Liam Mcilvanney
'They Gang In Stirks And Come Out Asses': Creative Writing And Scottish Studies, Liam Mcilvanney
Studies in Scottish Literature
Recounts the experience as a student of the New Zealand poet James K. Baxter and discusses the interrelation of creative writing and literary scholarship, in Scottish universities and in New Zealand.
After Macdiarmid: Creative Writers, The Canon, And The Academy, Alan Riach
After Macdiarmid: Creative Writers, The Canon, And The Academy, Alan Riach
Studies in Scottish Literature
Discusses the changed situation of writers within Scottish universities since the 1960s, the role of creative writers in introducing American poets into the Scottish teaching canon, and the value of creative writing in stimulating critical reading.
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 …
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 …
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 …
"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.
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 …
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 …