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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
¡Escriba! ¡Write! Volume 4, June 2006, Hostos Community College Library
¡Escriba! ¡Write! Volume 4, June 2006, Hostos Community College Library
¡Escriba!
No abstract provided.
Seeking An Aesthetics Of Metafiction, Erin J. Vachon
Seeking An Aesthetics Of Metafiction, Erin J. Vachon
Senior Honors Projects
According the Oxford English Dictionary, metafiction is ‘fiction in which the author self-consciously alludes to the artificiality or literariness of a work by parodying or departing from novelistic conventions…and narrative techniques.’ In short, metafiction announces itself as a textual artifact and examines the very nature of fiction. Metafiction has been defined as such, but I seek the effect of the text upon the act of reading and the reader: into what space is the reader initiated when the boundaries between author-text-reader become dismantled or confused? What does the act of reading become, beyond a mere analytic exercise? I am searching …
New Tricks (2006), John Nelson
Florida Pure, Lauren A. Doyle
Florida Pure, Lauren A. Doyle
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
FLORIDA PURE is a satiric novel set in the orange juice industry of contemporary Florida that begins when the deaths of four migrant workers lead to the demise of the orange juice company, Florida Pure. The novel follows three plot lines that result from this demise. The company's fallen president has to cope with the loss of the company as well as the more recent loss of his wife, who has left him for the governor of Florida. A former Florida Pure trucker purchases an orange grove to make juice "honestly." And three brothers from Brazil seek to destroy the …
Broken Heroes, Michael Creeden
Broken Heroes, Michael Creeden
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
BROKEN HEROES is a mystery novel set in the modem day Southern California rock music scene. The protagonist is Declan St. James, 35, an alcoholic ex-musician and frustrated music journalist who, with friend and former bandmate, Stevie Richards, investigates the mysterious death of mentor Art Schulman. The search ultimately leads them to PowerTrash, a cult favorite band which, years earlier, suffered a mysterious death of its own. The novel is told in Declan's first-person voice looking back on these events. Like A.S. Byatt's Possession, the book uses the study of artists and their work to connect past and present …
A Nonfiction Fictitious Remembrance Of Wendy Wasserstein, Marleen S. Barr
A Nonfiction Fictitious Remembrance Of Wendy Wasserstein, Marleen S. Barr
Publications and Research
This is a short story.
The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 14 - 2006, University Of Massachusetts Boston
The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 14 - 2006, University Of Massachusetts Boston
The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)
No abstract provided.
The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 15 - 2006, University Of Massachusetts Boston
The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 15 - 2006, University Of Massachusetts Boston
The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)
No abstract provided.
Et Cetera, Marshall University
Et Cetera, Marshall University
Et Cetera
Founded in 1953, Et Cetera is an annual literary magazine that publishes the creative writing and artwork of Marshall University students and affiliates. Et Cetera is free to the Marshall University community.
Et Cetera welcomes submissions in literary and film criticism, poetry, short stories, drama, all types of creative non-fiction, photography, and art.
0749: Nelson Slade Bond Collection, 1920-2006, Marshall University Special Collections
0749: Nelson Slade Bond Collection, 1920-2006, Marshall University Special Collections
Guides to Manuscript Collections
Nelson Slade Bond had a varied writing career that spanned 70 years. Primarily known for science fiction short stories, Bond also wrote plays, radio and television scripts, newspaper and magazine articles, poetry, public relations material, and books. The collection reflects the author's professional and personal lives consisting of writings, correspondence, business papers and financial records from 1925 to 2005. The collection was donated in four installments during and after Bond’s life from April 2006 to September 2007. The order in which the materials were received is maintained with only minor modifications. Input from Nelson Bond and his family members was …
Wigmore's Shadow, Annelise Riles
Wigmore's Shadow, Annelise Riles
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Riles relates how John H. Wigmore, professor and Dean of the Northwestern Law School, fanned her interest in legal and literary fiction. Wigmore provided dozens of examples of legal fictions bundled together in the singular, and seemingly straightforward technical device of modern collateral. From this premise, she analyzes the difference between a legal fiction and a literary fiction, and examines the factors that make legal fiction distinctively legal.