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Lonely This Side Of Nowhere, Anne Okonowski 2018 Northern Michigan University

Lonely This Side Of Nowhere, Anne Okonowski

All NMU Master's Theses

In this creative work, the writer explores familial relationships as well as what is home. Combining nonfiction essays, fiction, poetry, and images in one narrative, this work is comprised of multiple stories to create a related narrative. This project is a celebration of storytelling through multiple genres, and draws from multiple sources of inspiration, including both creative and critical works.


Insect Light: Stories, Sacha Michael Idell 2018 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Insect Light: Stories, Sacha Michael Idell

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

A collection of short stories. Literary fiction.


We're All Girls Here, Suzanne Danielle Monroe 2018 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

We're All Girls Here, Suzanne Danielle Monroe

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This is a collection of short stories.


Buckyboy, Marissa Canarelli 2018 SUNY Geneseo

Buckyboy, Marissa Canarelli

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.


She Was The Wall, Elana Marcus 2018 SUNY Purchase College

She Was The Wall, Elana Marcus

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.


We Went To The Ocean To Forget, Hannah McSorley 2018 SUNY Geneseo

We Went To The Ocean To Forget, Hannah Mcsorley

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.


Dear Me, Hannah Patricia Farley 2018 Missouri State University

Dear Me, Hannah Patricia Farley

Graduate Theses/Dissertations

This collection of fiction includes short stories and a partial novella. A critical introduction provides background on the author’s writing and a theoretical framework as it pertains to the fiction highlighted in this thesis. The works presented explore aspects of genre fiction including magical realism, absurdism, and the bildungsroman. The partial novella relies heavily on epistolary form, confessional style entries, and continuous stream of action. The main characters of the included works serve as focal points which address themes of family life, addiction, mental illness, minority languages, and voice.


Narratives Of Loss, Carla R. Stine 2018 Missouri State University

Narratives Of Loss, Carla R. Stine

Graduate Theses/Dissertations

My research revolves around impermanence, loss, and the grief that accompanies loss. My thesis work consists of digital collages interlaced with short stories, an interactive digital media piece, traditionally-made collages, a picture book, art objects, and an assortment of other supporting work. My ultimate aim is to employ both traditional techniques and digital skills to create visual narratives that supply glimpses into my personal history of loss and that speak to life’s brevity.


The Presentation Of Postmodern Sexuality In Short Fiction, Allie J. Kapus 2018 Liberty University

The Presentation Of Postmodern Sexuality In Short Fiction, Allie J. Kapus

Senior Honors Theses

Shifting norms in twentieth century western society, coupled with emerging postmodern thought in the 1960s, radically changed the ways in which people viewed sexuality, gender roles, and the institutions of marriage and the family. The literature of the postmodern era, namely short fiction, also reflects such ideological shifts. Literature is a powerful communicator of the human condition as well as a crucial means for reflecting the customs, beliefs, and norms of a society at the time of its writing. Such evolving differences as were occurring in the realm of sexuality came to be represented in postmodern literature. This thesis aims …


Translation Of View From The Ossuary By Antoine Volodine, John Thomas Mahany 2018 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Translation Of View From The Ossuary By Antoine Volodine, John Thomas Mahany

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This is a literary translation from the French of Antoine Volodine’s Vue sur l’ossuaire. Additional creative embellishments have been included in the form of translator’s notes and epigraphs in order to enhance the fictive reality of the work.


May It Come Easy, Joshua Idaszak 2018 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

May It Come Easy, Joshua Idaszak

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

May It Come Easy is a collection of stories and a novel excerpt.


Episode 12: All Things In Murderation, Tanner Elrod 2018 University of Dayton

Episode 12: All Things In Murderation, Tanner Elrod

Season 3: Standards of Behavior

No abstract provided.


Episode 11: Blunt Force Drama, Michael Painter 2018 University of Dayton

Episode 11: Blunt Force Drama, Michael Painter

Season 3: Standards of Behavior

No abstract provided.


Ashbelt: Volume Five, Ash Belt 2018 The University of Akron

Ashbelt: Volume Five, Ash Belt

AshBelt

No abstract provided.


Episode 10: He's Come Undone, Kristen Daly 2018 University of Dayton

Episode 10: He's Come Undone, Kristen Daly

Season 3: Standards of Behavior

No abstract provided.


Waxing, Waning, Waking: A Collection Of Poetry And Prose, Brook VanBruggen 2018 Western Michigan University

Waxing, Waning, Waking: A Collection Of Poetry And Prose, Brook Vanbruggen

Honors Theses

Waxing, Waning, Waking: A collection of poetry and prose is a digital magazine featuring a body of creative writing pieces that were written during my undergraduate career. The written word is powerful and adaptable and can accomplish any number of difficult tasks. The pieces included here were chosen from a number of genres, including poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, to reflect and explore some of the countless ways that we use words. The title of the collection reflects the elements of space, light, and darkness that appear as motifs throughout the larger body of work, which discusses:

  • Family
  • Nature …


Episode 09: Killer Heels, Rachel Collinsworth 2018 University of Dayton

Episode 09: Killer Heels, Rachel Collinsworth

Season 3: Standards of Behavior

No abstract provided.


How To Be The Perfect Asian Wife!, sophia hill 2018 Macalester College

How To Be The Perfect Asian Wife!, Sophia Hill

Art and Art History Honors Projects

“How to be the Perfect Asian Wife” critiques exploitative power systems that assault female bodies of color in intersectional ways. This work explores strategies of healing and resistance through inserting one’s own narrative of flourishing rather than surviving, while reflecting violent realities. Three large drawings mimic pervasive advertisement language and presentation reflecting the oppressive strategies used to contain women of color. Created with charcoal, watercolor, and ink, these 'advertisements' contrast with an interactive rice bag filled with comics of my everyday experiences. These documentations compel viewers to reflect on their own participation in systems of power.


Episode 08: Ghost In The Rearview Mirror, Kate Devantier 2018 University of Dayton

Episode 08: Ghost In The Rearview Mirror, Kate Devantier

Season 3: Standards of Behavior

No abstract provided.


Perennial: An Undergraduate Thesis In Poetry, Austin Wines 2018 Western Michigan University

Perennial: An Undergraduate Thesis In Poetry, Austin Wines

Honors Theses

A chapbook of poetry that explores sexuality, gender identity, mental illness, naming, and the experience of the contemporary non-binary, male bodied, Queer. "Perennial" functions as a force of resistance to hegemony, celebration, mourning, and eroticism. Through the cultivation and implementation of a personal and/or familial folklore, the poems culminate a century of inter-generational knowledge as the author draws upon the symbols of their childhood to explicate the violence and tenderness of their own Queer experience. These poems serve as a poetical feminist history and reclamation of the author's matrilineage, and the simultaneously paramount and arbitrary nature of language as it …


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