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The Spinners' Tales, Sierra N. Offutt May 2020

The Spinners' Tales, Sierra N. Offutt

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

“The Spinners’ Tales” is a loosely connected story collection exploring the lives of a variety of supernaturally gifted characters, referred to within their own community as Spinners.


Lockwood To Elgin, Bryan Washington Dec 2017

Lockwood To Elgin, Bryan Washington

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

A linked collection featuring a young gay man -- the son of a black mother and a Mexican father -- coming of age in contemporary Houston.


Whatever It Is We're Competing For, Ferris W. Mcdaniel May 2017

Whatever It Is We're Competing For, Ferris W. Mcdaniel

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

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Time Enough, Lb Kovac Dec 2016

Time Enough, Lb Kovac

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Rampant Love, Erica F. Deveer May 2016

Rampant Love, Erica F. Deveer

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Like Branches On A Tree, Meiloni C. Erickson May 2016

Like Branches On A Tree, Meiloni C. Erickson

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


The Cunning Folk, Erin N. Wylie May 2016

The Cunning Folk, Erin N. Wylie

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

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Alsobrook, Harvey S. Bartlett Iii May 2015

Alsobrook, Harvey S. Bartlett Iii

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

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The Isle Of Flightless Birds: A Concise History, Carin Chapman Aug 2014

The Isle Of Flightless Birds: A Concise History, Carin Chapman

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

N/A


A Sister's Mythology, Robin Baudier May 2014

A Sister's Mythology, Robin Baudier

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Some New Place, Nicole Mayeux May 2013

Some New Place, Nicole Mayeux

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


It's Good To See You're Awake, Maurice C. Ruffin May 2013

It's Good To See You're Awake, Maurice C. Ruffin

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is a short story collection set primarily New Orleans and focuses on the subject of fathers and sons. It explores the effect that the absence of a father figure or the presence of an unsuitable father may have on boys and men. The stories are literary fiction.


Wisteria And Other Stories, Michael Clayton Dec 2011

Wisteria And Other Stories, Michael Clayton

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

We are forever shaped by the worlds we live in. The following stories are musings on the importance of time and place and on the conflicts that arise for characters who are born into and who live with or rail against those forces. The stories are set in and around Laurel County, Georgia over a period of decades. They look at the people who are made there and the lessons they learn or fail to learn as they work to make their way there.


Adolescent Transformation In The Short Stories Of Carson Mccullers, Ashley-Ann Dorn Woods May 2010

Adolescent Transformation In The Short Stories Of Carson Mccullers, Ashley-Ann Dorn Woods

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Carson McCullers's neglected short stories "Sucker", "Like That", and "The Haunted Boy" depict stark adolescent crises. Her character analyses dramatize important elements of many theories of adolescent psychology. Each of these stories depicts what happens when something goes horribly wrong in the course of an already difficult stage of life. In "Sucker" two different stages of adolescent development collide. Pete and Sucker go through different psychological adjustments. The two boys discover the difficulties of adolescent romance, hero-worship, peer group formation and exclusion, and power reversal. The narrator in "Like That" struggles with her Peter-Pan complex as she witnesses her sister …