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Overgrowth, Anna Laura Reeve
Overgrowth, Anna Laura Reeve
Masters Theses
This collection of poetry explores themes ranging from ovarian cancer and inherited disease to the fertility of the natural world, discovering the vitality of both wanted and unwanted growth. The author uses a variety of poetic forms, from prose poems to free verse, experimenting with aerated and dropped lines, employing vivid and striking images as she writes of her local ground, tensions between native and non-native flora and fauna, the spiritual life, and the female body.
A New Dressing, Damon S. Murrah
A New Dressing, Damon S. Murrah
Masters Theses
In A New Dressing Damon Murrah presents a collection of short stories where characters find the dramatic amongst the ordinary. The everyday situations and conflicts of these characters’ lives offer no formula, but rather inspect the complexities of the overlooked or ignored.
Like A Terrible Fish: A Collection Of Stories, Hannah Ledford
Like A Terrible Fish: A Collection Of Stories, Hannah Ledford
Masters Theses
In this collection of stories, Hannah Ledford examines fairytales and domesticity to portray the difficulties of characters at many different stages of life, particularly as they deal with growing up and building relationships with family. Her characters are often restricted by their society in some way, and they attempt to either reconcile themselves with or break free from expectations of femininity, sexuality, motherhood, and grief.
Death In Canada: A Short Story Collection, Leanna Rose Wharram
Death In Canada: A Short Story Collection, Leanna Rose Wharram
Masters Theses
Leanna Wharram’s Death in Canada explores themes of family, betrayal, friendship, love, and death in four short stories, set in various locations across Canada: “The Elephant Goddess,” “Paddleboat Drowning,” “The Dog Groomer,” and “Social Observation Study – Observer#A2651.” The collection also includes a critical introduction detailing the use of foreshadowing techniques and narrative perspective.
The Wharton Place: A Novel, Allison Yilling Wear
The Wharton Place: A Novel, Allison Yilling Wear
Masters Theses
The Wharton Place is a novel told from the first-person retrospective point of view of Kate Wharton, an eight year old girl from Kentucky. When Kate’s estranged grandfather dies, Kate’s family unexpectedly inherits a piece of property in rural Tennessee. Faced with mounting financial trouble and his own concerns about his legacy, Kate’s father moves the family to the farm, even though he has no experience working the land. The novel will cover Kate’s adjustment to her new life as well as her maturation into a young woman.
The critical introduction to this piece analyzes two classic novels, To Kill …
Wiser For The Time: A Collection Of Poetry And Short Fiction, Jeff Przech
Wiser For The Time: A Collection Of Poetry And Short Fiction, Jeff Przech
Masters Theses
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A Trail Hiker: A Historic Memoir Of An Appalachian Trail Thru-Hiker, Justin Anderson
A Trail Hiker: A Historic Memoir Of An Appalachian Trail Thru-Hiker, Justin Anderson
Masters Theses
Table of contents only.
Dolus's Doctrine, Gretchen Schaible-Smith
Dolus's Doctrine, Gretchen Schaible-Smith
Masters Theses
Marta Hoyle has lived her entire life in the safety and security of the New Republic where she tries to live a life that is in accordance with The Book of Law and Faith. Her Radical parents put her under the government's constant scrutiny, and even though she's resided with her pious Aunt Grace for over five years, she finds herself in danger of being tried and eliminated as a Radical.
When Marta receives a warning from a soldier of the danger in store, she decides to risk a visit to a Radical meeting in hopes of finding safety and …
Fragile Glass, Christopher Robison
Fragile Glass, Christopher Robison
Masters Theses
Fragile Glass is creative nonfiction. It is autobiographical and I tell my story in a series of vignettes. The vignettes begin when I was a child, around eight or nine years old, and then progress through adolescence, until early high school. I not only write about my family and friends, but also the people with whom I grew up. Also, I have written about what it is like to live in rural, blue collar, Illinois during the mid-1970s to the early-1980s.