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Must Be Nice, Bryan M. Furuness Oct 2010

Must Be Nice, Bryan M. Furuness

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

No abstract available


Welcome To Boomland, Cebrun Abe Gaustad Aug 2010

Welcome To Boomland, Cebrun Abe Gaustad

Doctoral Dissertations

Abe Gaustad's first collection of stories, Welcome to Boomland, explores the lives of disparate characters longing for some escape. Whether a paraplegic blues aficionado or a boy who finds a strange object in the woods, they are each searching for a way out of their stagnation. Yet each character is trapped by their own unique circumstance: some of them by their mistakes, some by ruthless dictators, some by the very notion of death. As they search for their freedom, they find out new things about themselves and manage to wage quiet rebellions against those that would control them. In the …


Six City: A Novel, Leah Bailly Aug 2010

Six City: A Novel, Leah Bailly

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Six City is a 93 000 word voice-driven novel that traverses six countries as it follows its protagonist, a woman known only as S---, after she is reported missing by her family. A lingerie-shop owner and politician's wife, S--- reinvents her identity from Barcelona to Morocco, through Mauritania, Senegal and Mali, and eventually into Sierra Leone. S--- is hotly pursued by a devoted "Following," but when search efforts descend south into sub-Saharan Africa, the Following discovers that S--- has been found dead in the outskirts of Freetown. The result: a massive chase across multiple continents, tracing the steps of a …


Out Cold, Fred G. Leebron Jul 2010

Out Cold, Fred G. Leebron

English Faculty Publications

Walter had just completed his five-mile route on the treadmill and was headed from the gym to his car in a nearby parking lot - he was in fact circumnavigating a field on which a few idiotic teenagers were kicking a soccer ball at a field hockey goal, so as not to approach near their game - when he was struck in the side and back of his head by something large and forceful and solid and round, and it sent his glasses flying from his face and his bright white tennis cap skittering from his head and it flattened …


Drink Me, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Blog, James Arthur Goldberg Jun 2010

Drink Me, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Blog, James Arthur Goldberg

Theses and Dissertations

Language itself is a technology, and the advent of each major technology of language transmission (from the alphabet to the printing press to the Internet) has changed the range of speaker-audience dynamics which are the starting point for all creative writing. In this thesis, a writer, armed only with his blog archives and a smattering of John Tenniel illustrations, guides the curious reader through various issues raised by creative writing in the blog form. Topics discussed include self-presentation, the juxtaposed brevity and expansiveness of online texts, nonlinear reading, alternative models for revision, the literary possibilities of the hyperlink, speaker-audience-time relationships …


Byzantium 2010: Cal Poly's 20th Literary Annual, Mateja Lane, Beth Shirley Jun 2010

Byzantium 2010: Cal Poly's 20th Literary Annual, Mateja Lane, Beth Shirley

English

The concept behind this year's theme, "Bold," actually came from concepts our art director, Melissa, showed us during our first meeting. We had tossed around ideas of "Timeless," "Enduring," and "Vintage," amidst our discussions of how in the world we were going to raise money for the journal this year. With the economy tanking, we knew art programs like ours would be the first to suffer. We wanted to find a theme that captured how we felt about art and how art made us feel. We kept coming back to the same idea: We have to just be bold and …


Meddlesome Markets And Epistolary Escapes: Mediating Discourses In Gissing's New Grub Street, Robert Fanzo May 2010

Meddlesome Markets And Epistolary Escapes: Mediating Discourses In Gissing's New Grub Street, Robert Fanzo

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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Through Grace Alone, Lynne Adair Moir May 2010

Through Grace Alone, Lynne Adair Moir

Masters Theses, 2010-2019

Through Grace Alone by Lynne Adair Moir.


Tierra Blanca, Andrea Lewis May 2010

Tierra Blanca, Andrea Lewis

Bryant Literary Review

I had what I wanted. I was alone with Charles.


Without Breath, Michelle Soucy May 2010

Without Breath, Michelle Soucy

Bryant Literary Review

I'm eight years old and my parents make me sleep in my sick younger brother's bed with him in case he stops breathing again


Pages From The Textbook Of Alternate History: Plato, King Of Syracuse, Phong Nguyen May 2010

Pages From The Textbook Of Alternate History: Plato, King Of Syracuse, Phong Nguyen

Bryant Literary Review

When Dionysus II first offered to Plato the city of Syracuse, jewel of Sicily, for the philosopher to rule as his own, there was a moment of hesitation


The Aloha State, Adam Berlin May 2010

The Aloha State, Adam Berlin

Bryant Literary Review

It wasn't our honeymoon but it was Hawaii. It had been all sky and water for thousands of miles, blue above, blue below.


Doing The Math, Martin Cloutier May 2010

Doing The Math, Martin Cloutier

Bryant Literary Review

James was experiencing a breach -- a psychic breach. Like his real self was coming into contact with a parallel universe self.


To Be So Dead He Sure Is Big, Phillip Gardner May 2010

To Be So Dead He Sure Is Big, Phillip Gardner

Bryant Literary Review

Donnie Swank said, "He sure was big."


Light, Extra Sugar, No Patsy, Nancy Lee Craven May 2010

Light, Extra Sugar, No Patsy, Nancy Lee Craven

Bryant Literary Review

"1992: A slice of life when dollars to donuts sometimes bought more than an even dozen"


Pretty Ballerina, Kerry Jones May 2010

Pretty Ballerina, Kerry Jones

Bryant Literary Review

It's just one of those things that sometimes happens to me: I'll find myself walking by a playground, or I'll be walking through the mall, and I'll see a little girl about eleven or so, and that's when my mind takes on a life of its own.


Ten Words You May Want To Strike From Your Manuscript If Reading To Middle-Schoolers, Bryan M. Furuness, Amy Minton Apr 2010

Ten Words You May Want To Strike From Your Manuscript If Reading To Middle-Schoolers, Bryan M. Furuness, Amy Minton

Bryan M. Furuness

No abstract available


In An Instant, Renee Cotten Mar 2010

In An Instant, Renee Cotten

Honors College Theses

I will never forget my junior year of high school; not because of the parties, the dances, or the school trips. That year does not stay with me because of the people I met, but rather because of the people I lost. The month before the school year began, I lost my father to a sudden and unexpected heart attack. I entered the school year already dealing with feelings of grief, but those feelings were only intensified as the year progressed. Five students died that year, three from my graduating class. Nights that my best friend and I should have …


Mama's Boy, Jamie T. Berger Jan 2010

Mama's Boy, Jamie T. Berger

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

"Mama's Boy" is a book of fiction and nonfiction by Jamie Berger. It deals with mothers and sons and feminism and pornography and poker and love and New York and San Francisco and Western Massachusetts.


What You Can See From The Top, Alicia Bones Jan 2010

What You Can See From The Top, Alicia Bones

Lawrence University Honors Projects

A series of interrelated vignettes about a family of circus people and a sixteen-year-old girl who becomes involved with them in strange ways.


A Catalogue Of Everything In The World: Nebraska Stories, Yelizaveta P. Renfro Jan 2010

A Catalogue Of Everything In The World: Nebraska Stories, Yelizaveta P. Renfro

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

A CATALOGUE OF EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD: NEBRASKA STORIES is a collection of linked short stories, all set in Nebraska, that explore the ways in which the forces of geography—being from or choosing to live in a particular place—affect identity and influence the course of lives. They feature a wide range of characters, from a bus driver mourning the death of his infant daughter to an octogenarian former doctor preparing for her death, from a young girl trying to cope with her parents' divorce to a woman whose obsession with a decades-old crime has literally taken over her life. Just …


Trauma And The Representation Of The Unsayable In Late Twentieth-Century Fiction, Katina Rogers Jan 2010

Trauma And The Representation Of The Unsayable In Late Twentieth-Century Fiction, Katina Rogers

Publications and Research

This dissertation explores the ways in which several fiction writers from France, the U.S., and Latin America experiment with the form of their works in writing about traumatic experience, as they navigate the tension between a propulsion toward expression and toward silence. Some of these traumas are vast, as in Edmond Jabès’ Le livre des questions (1963-1973), which addresses not only the Holocaust, but also questions of exile and identity. Others are on a smaller scale, such as Jacques Roubaud’s Quelque chose noir (1986), Julio Cortázar's Los autonautas de la cosmopista (1983), and Macedonio Fernández’s Museo de la Novela de …


Glass Eye, Hal Charles Dec 2009

Glass Eye, Hal Charles

Charlie Sweet

No abstract provided.