Atelophobia,
2015
SUNY Geneseo
The Escape Artist,
2015
SUNY Geneseo
Achieving Relationships,
2015
University of Southern Mississippi
Achieving Relationships, Frederick C. Melancon
Master's Theses
These stories attempt to follow John Gardner’s instruction to create a dream that will engage the reader. Mirroring the goal that an author has to create a relationship with his audience, each story in turn focuses on emotional details that convey the characters’ feelings of isolation or, alternatively, inclusion in their communities. In the first story, a young man tries to recreate his father’s king cake. In the next, a middle school girl fixates on her relationship with her sister. Trying to recapture the memory of a lost daughter, a man searches for the perfect nectar snowball. A mom, then, …
Home And Away: Imagining Ireland Imagining America (2013),
2015
University of Massachusetts Boston
Home And Away: Imagining Ireland Imagining America (2013), Shaun O’Connell
New England Journal of Public Policy
From the 2013 Editor's Note by Padraig O'Malley: Shaun O’Connell has lost none of his touch. In “Home and Away: Imagining Ireland Imagining America,” O’Connell juxtaposes two novels: Alice McDermott’s Charming Billy (1998) and Colm Toibin’s Brooklyn (2009) and reveals the parallels and contrasts that enrich the discussion of Irish and Irish American identities. Toibin, an Irish writer, would have us see an America, land of the free, as an open, inviting place but exacting in redeeming promises made; McDermott, an American writer, portrays an Ireland that is magical, a little bit of heaven, but finally a closed and bitter …
Nature's Tattoos,
2015
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Mending,
2015
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Stepfather,
2015
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Peeling The Grief Until The Onion Is None,
2015
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Peeling The Grief Until The Onion Is None, L. C. Atencio
Westview
No abstract provided.
Twins' Birthday, 9/15/13,
2015
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Mary Spillwater,
2015
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Inside Work,
2015
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
The Woodpile,
2015
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Chestnut,
2015
Freelance
Before Dawn In Nebraska,
2015
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Time's Needle,
2015
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Confluence,
2015
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Animal Ways,
2015
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
All Night Diner,
2015
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Christman Card,
2015
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
The Two Emotions Of Dogs,
2015
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
