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War On Love, Jill Patterson 2013 Parkland College

War On Love, Jill Patterson

A with Honors Projects

This is an alternative writing assignment for an Introduction to Fiction course. This a short story is written in a non-traditional format and told in a medieval time setting, similar to those read throughout the course


The Confessions Of A Backslider, Henry Clay Morrison 2013 Asbury Theological Seminary

The Confessions Of A Backslider, Henry Clay Morrison

Heritage Material

No abstract provided.


Potluck, Robert J. Zajkowski 2012 LSU New Orleans

Potluck, Robert J. Zajkowski

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Little Town Blues, Jeannette Brown 2012 University of New Orleans

Little Town Blues, Jeannette Brown

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

"Little Town Blues" is a novel about a woman burdened by a childhood accident and surviver's guilt. She sneaks into a vacation house on Friday nights to read a novel. Bored with her marriage and her work as a hairdresser, her behavior becomes increasingly riskier.


Rendezvous: Stories And A Novella, Heath Fisher 2012 University of New Orleans

Rendezvous: Stories And A Novella, Heath Fisher

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

People are often a product of their environment, and each of the characters in this collection is an example of that shaping effect. These stories take you to the southern plains–land of red dirt, Bluestem, and prairie wind. Themes like hope, loss, and the exploration of frontier appear throughout the collection. In each story the setting becomes a character, forcing us to recognize the importance of place in our lives.


Children's Book: Pandas, Christina Timpe 2012 Bemidji State University

Children's Book: Pandas, Christina Timpe

Honors Capstones

Capstone submitted as a graduation requirement for the BSU Honors Program.


Caffeination And Loop: Approaches To Literary And Science Fiction, Griffin O'Hara 2012 Gallaudet University

Caffeination And Loop: Approaches To Literary And Science Fiction, Griffin O'Hara

Undergraduate University Honors Capstones

Griffin O'Hara's critical introduction to two of his original stories discusses the author’s merger of two genres, popular science fiction and literary fiction. Previous experiments with this combination appear in the novels of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest and Samuel Delany’s Dhalgren. O’Hara’s analysis of Foster’s and Delany’s influences on his stories delineates the strengths of both science fiction and literary fiction and explains how the merger results in expanded communication between author and reader. The two original stories resulting from his experimentation and illustrating these ideas are “Caffeination” and “Loop.” “Caffeination” is a work of fiction that follows the …


One Last Lead Kiss Goodbye, Kevin Kimlinger 2012 Bemidji State University

One Last Lead Kiss Goodbye, Kevin Kimlinger

Honors Capstones

Capstone submitted as a graduation requirement for the BSU Honors Program.


Cleaved Open, Amanda Kelley 2012 Morehead State University

Cleaved Open, Amanda Kelley

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A project thesis submitted to the faculty of Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Bachelor of Fine Arts in the Department of English at Morehead State University by Amanda Kelley in December of 2012.


Entre France Et Vietnam : Linda Lê Et La Problématique Mémorielle, Hervé Tchumkam 2012 Southern Methodist University

Entre France Et Vietnam : Linda Lê Et La Problématique Mémorielle, Hervé Tchumkam

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Building on Paul Ricoeur’s work on memory and forgetting, this article analyzes exile and identity in Linda Lê’s Calomnies, a novel that narrates the peregrinations of a young girl exiled from her native Vietnam because of French war but nevertheless living in France. Building on the contention that identity is somewhat problematic in exile, I argue that while the narrator’s resort to her relatives in order to remember her past, her struggle to battle oblivion often takes shape against the backdrop of collective memory. More specifically, I investigate Calomnies to show that the narrative of exile and the subsequent quest …


Langue Et Identité Chez Leïla Sebbar. Vers Une Filiation Renégociée, Cécilia W. Francis 2012 Université Saint-Thomas

Langue Et Identité Chez Leïla Sebbar. Vers Une Filiation Renégociée, Cécilia W. Francis

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

In Je ne parle pas la langue de mon père (2003), L’arabe comme un chant secret (2010a), as well as in other components of her intimate prose, Leïla Sebbar reflects on her sense of dispossessed identity due to linguistic exile and an unknown heritage, resulting from ruptures in her paternal filiation. Drawing from the works of Jacques Derrida, Régine Robin and Simon Harel, which form the basis of our argumentation, we examine various dimensions of the severed parental bond. The article proposes to examine how Sebbar’s autobiographical writings, which incorporate scenarios dealing with legacy transmission expressed in terms of auditory …


Réalisme Magique Et Réalisme Merveilleux Dans L’Oeuvre D’André Et De Simone Schwarz-Bart, Charles W. Scheel 2012 Université Paul Verlaine-Metz

Réalisme Magique Et Réalisme Merveilleux Dans L’Oeuvre D’André Et De Simone Schwarz-Bart, Charles W. Scheel

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

André Schwarz-Bart’s novels have elicited occasional mentions of magical realism as a literary “style” by critics, while Simone Schwarz-Bart’s fiction has been approached in relation to the “poetics” of the “marvelous real” developed as for 1949 by Alejo Carpentier. This essay argues that in André’s The Last of the Justs and The Morning Star, as well as in Simone’s The Bridge of Beyond, both authors practice almost constantly a form of poeticizing of the narrative that fuses reality and mystery in a narrative mode I have defined under the label marvelous realism; but they both also have occasional recourse to …


Quarry Light And Other Stories, Claudia Lois Smith 2012 University of Southern Mississippi

Quarry Light And Other Stories, Claudia Lois Smith

Dissertations

Quarry Light and Other Stories is a collection of short stories and one novella articulating themes of violence, trauma, and sexuality. The stories in Quarry Light and Other Stories are arranged according the theme, movement, and tonality. Although they can stand alone, the stories are meant to be read interdependently. The collection is accompanied by a critical introduction.


R.A., Fred G. Leebron 2012 Gettysburg College

R.A., Fred G. Leebron

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Necroburbia, Sebastian Gregory 2012 Kennesaw State University

Necroburbia, Sebastian Gregory

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects

The first 150 pages of novel set in an imaginary Houston suburb. It tells the story of two families connected by a murder that happened twenty-five years ago.


Interview With Monsters Of The Midway Author Jeff Rasley, Jeff Rasley, John Warner 2012 Butler University

Interview With Monsters Of The Midway Author Jeff Rasley, Jeff Rasley, John Warner

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Interview with John Warner for Indie BookSpot about the author’s experience writing, publishing, and marketing his books.


Kayleigh's Australian Adventure: A Story For Children, Diane A. Wetmore 2012 Western Michigan University

Kayleigh's Australian Adventure: A Story For Children, Diane A. Wetmore

Honors Theses

This is a children's book for upper elementary students (3rd/4th grade) as an introduction to Australian culture


Best Laid Plans And Other Betrayals, Kimberly Clouse 2012 University of New Orleans

Best Laid Plans And Other Betrayals, Kimberly Clouse

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Nowhereland, Matthew Bains 2012 University of New Orleans

Nowhereland, Matthew Bains

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

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Evolution, Bryan M. Furuness 2012 Butler University

Evolution, Bryan M. Furuness

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

No abstract available


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