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The Swallow Dance, Kristyn M. Gerow
The Swallow Dance, Kristyn M. Gerow
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The Swallow Dance is a novella which examines the chronically ill body in a moment of crisis. The narrative draws on trauma theory to dissect the main character’s reactions to an ill body. Eve, the novella’s narrator, is thrust into this space where her mind and body are at a discord because of a chronic illness. As part of her treatment, Eve cannot eat or drink. This destabilizes her from her traumatized body. The farther Eve disassociates from her condition, the more she feels like something is watching her. Then, she is contacted by a messenger from a different place. …
On How A Fisherman Supports Fishermen: Oral History With Patrick Shepard, Natalie Springuel
On How A Fisherman Supports Fishermen: Oral History With Patrick Shepard, Natalie Springuel
The Catch
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Catching Up With Robin Alden, Kathleen Ellis
Reflections On The Water, Patricia S. Ranzoni
The World Is Your Oyster, Aliya Uteuova
Editor's Note: The Catch Volume Vi, Catherine Schmitt
Choking Hazards, Tessa Hathaway
Choking Hazards, Tessa Hathaway
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The following manuscript is a creative writing thesis in poetry. The goal of the thesis was to expand my abilities as a poet and find a cohesion in my work. I wanted to utilize some skills gain in a fiction workshop and apply them to poetry, as well as gain influences in various fields of expertise through the other courses I’ve been taking in the English department. Essays for a poetics class, novels for an American literature class, and short stories for a fiction workshop gave me a base from which to work from and draw inspiration. Not only was …
Dionysus, Cody Bursch
Dionysus, Cody Bursch
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The manuscript below is an amalgamation of farce with the purpose of exploring a character within an inescapable existence. Indeed, the narrator is so deep in the trench that he has been manipulated twice over at a two-fold distance from the thesis writer. First, the narrator’s story is being retold by the narrator himself from memory, then he employs the story-within-a-story cliché by placing this retelling in a narrative which he wrote on a collection of notecards. After this, the notecards themselves have been rearranged to an uncertain degree by a Professor of Philosophy somewhere in Florida after the notecards …
The Backs Of Leaves, Shelby L. Colburn
The Backs Of Leaves, Shelby L. Colburn
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This thesis is a novella that explores themes of emotional abuse, grief, toxic masculinity, sexuality, and gay violence. The author deploys a frame narrative that encompasses short stories that are tied by a narrator in the novella. The narrator’s stories create a continuity between “real,” realistic, and surrealist fictions. These explorations of fiction create a conversation between the frame narrator’s “real” life and that of her stories. As the novella’s plot progresses, the frame narrator’s sanity deteriorates, which allows her to become increasingly grotesque. The grotesque situates how macabre the frame plot is, creating a connective tissue between the “real” …
End Of The Beginning, Peter Lowe
End Of The Beginning, Peter Lowe
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This thesis is a collections of short stories which explores the use of non-conventional genres. The research contained within this thesis follows the oldest line of inquiry open to featherless bipeds: what does it mean to be human? As humans compose on and in increasingly multi-modal platforms and sites, the stories we tell will shift in unpredictable ways. This collection is an attempt to capture narrative in these 21st century spaces.
Discourses On Fantasy: A Narrative Allegory, Reuben Dendinger
Discourses On Fantasy: A Narrative Allegory, Reuben Dendinger
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This project, though officially designated by the English Department as a creative thesis, is really a hybrid work that combines creative writing with literary criticism. The work is structured as a "dream vision," a literary genre popular in the Middle Ages in which a narrator receives some form of instruction or wisdom through an allegorical dream. Examples include The Pearl, The Romance of the Rose, and Chaucer's House of Fame. In this thesis, the allegorical space of the dream vision provides a platform for a series of essays structured as dialogues. These dialogues explore the aesthetics and …
Toward A Theory Of Boundariness: The Co-Construction Of Agency In The First-Year Writing Classroom, Nicholas Sanders
Toward A Theory Of Boundariness: The Co-Construction Of Agency In The First-Year Writing Classroom, Nicholas Sanders
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Research in composition and rhetoric has not investigated the potential congruence between writing prompts used in the first-year writing classroom and the ways that students understand themselves able to act in relation to such prompts. This thesis therefore examines the link between student’s perception of agency and assignments prompts used in the first-year writing classroom by employing a grounded theory analysis of a first-year writing classroom, where data was collected using ethnographic tools such as student interviews, document collection, and classroom observations. Based on collected data and analysis, I articulate what I call a theory of “boundariness,” which directs our …
Daughters You Could Not Burn, Alex Terrell
Daughters You Could Not Burn, Alex Terrell
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This thesis is a collection of eight original stories that explore the intersection of the Black female body and magical realism. This work uses fiction as a means to explore such issues as Blackness, Womanness, Witch-ness, birth, death, mothers, sisters, southern space and the vagina as both a force of destruction and construction. From a research perspective, the thesis is in conversation with the African American Oral Tradition of storytelling using elements of southern folklore and myth as a motif. This includes legends of the “boo-hag” from the Gullah region, haints, and the “loup garou” from New Orleans. Other themes …
Lawless (Gary) Papers, 1970-2010, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Lawless (Gary) Papers, 1970-2010, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Finding Aids
Gary Lawless is a poet, bookstore owner, book editor, and publisher, born in Belfast and living now in Nobleboro, Maine. He is an associate professor of literature at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, where he teaches courses in creative writing and environmental literature.
This collection features many publications by Gary Lawless, including works with other poets. These include small poetry booklets, manuscripts, drafts, and entire books. There are newspaper clippings on Lawless's poetry, activism, The collection also includes event flyers and some correspondence between Lawless and other poets.