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Hold, Hold, My Heart, Andrew Berthrong
Hold, Hold, My Heart, Andrew Berthrong
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
This thesis consists of a traditional introduction followed by a first-person, fictional story told in seven chapters. The story begins with the protagonist in his apartment preparing to write, a brief account of his stalling, and then his beginning to write. Those chapters taking place in the vicinity of the apartment are in the present tense and those relating past adventures are written in third person, one chapter for each adventure: Africa, sailing, and Navajo Mountain. After each adventure, the narration returns to the apartment.
This piece is the embodiment of both the vigorous internal work in search of understanding …
Lessons In Humanity: A Memoir, Chelsi Joy Sutton-Linderman
Lessons In Humanity: A Memoir, Chelsi Joy Sutton-Linderman
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
In the opening pages of his work, Dog Years; A Memoir, Mark Doty explains: Love for a wordless creature, once it takes hold, is an enchantment, and the enchanted speak, famously, in private mutterings, cryptic riddles, or gibberish. This is why I shouldn't be writing anything about the two dogs that have been such presences for sixteen years of my life. How on earth could I stand at the requisite distance to say anything that might matter? (1)
In this thesis I argue that Doty, among other respected contemporary writers, is saying something that matters when he writes of …