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Old Crow And Men, Emily Howard Pasmore

Student Theses and Dissertations

Old Crow and Men is a novel about a young woman's coming of age. The story takes place in the hometown of the protagonist, and depicts a number of relationships she has with men over a period of eight years. Some of these relationships are with family members, some are friendships, and others are romantic. The narrative moves along based on the relationships the protagonist encounters and the effects they have on her.

N'Awlins Po Boy, Warren J. Graffeo

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Abstract

N’Awlins Po Boy draws heavily on the author’s memories and recollections of growing up in the New Orleans of the 1940s and 1950s, but it is a work of fiction. Although the settings and scenes are rendered as accurately as memory allows, the circumstances, situations and people are entirely fictional. During the immediate post-WWII decade, the city went through a rapid series of changes, some calm and nearly unnoticed, others turbulent and upsetting to the natural order that had prevailed for more than two centuries. This is an account of those changes as they might have been seen through …

Aimé Césaire, Jacques Roumain Et L’Équivoque Du « Retour », Fritz Calixte

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This article adresses the issue of return in Aimé Césaire and Jacques Roumain’s works. These writers, like many other Caribbean writers, have the particularity to update the old dream of return to homeland of the slaves transplanted to the New World. They reproduce by fiction the uncomfortable legacy of colonial societies. But the authors depicting this theme, usually do so in the form of an obsessive search for an ideal life to realize somewhere else than here. Jacques Roumain is in this tradition with a few additions. Aimé Césaire for his part, proposes in his notebook of a return to …

Aimé Césaire : Un Être De Papier Dans Le Roman Antillais Contemporain, Édouard Mokwe

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This paper aims to scrutinize various aspects in which Aimé Césaire is represented in the Caribbean novel as a personage, on the basis of Théorie et fiction by Milagros Ezquerro. We discover that, because of the great halo and notoriety of the eminent cultural and political figure that he was, Aimé Césaire has been put on stage by several Caribbean novelists. So Césaire has become a literary material, as well as a theme with various patterns.

Redemption Of A Common Life, Blythe L. Hunt

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the Caudill College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Blythe L. Hunt in December of 2011.

Scopophobia, Kristin Eller

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

[First paragraph of Preface]

I set out to write an essay three years ago that started with the line “I always find God in the bathroom—don’t ask me why,” which is entirely true and says so much while explaining so little. Within a page and a half I briefly introduced a scene, a memory,where I had sequestered myself in a toilet stall in the bathroom on my sorority’s dorm floor at Eastern Kentucky University. I mentioned the scenario—I was hiding from a serial rapist who, for some reason, decided I’d be a good target—in just a few paragraphs and moved …

Son Of A Thousand Fathers, Colter Patterson Cruthirds

Dissertations

The following collection, which explores the often tenuous relationships between fathers and sons, was written by the author between 2008-2011.

The Watchmaker Series, Christopher Michael Seelie

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The Watchmaker Series celebrates and inquires into time as a biproduct of consciousness and practices the application of this notion in poetry. The series begins with the numeral poems, all of which relate directly to the theoretical and polemical aspects. Along the way, other poems with individual titles are interspersed to reflect or redirect the abstract considerations to more concrete subjects. Gradually, as the series progresses, the interacting and recurring associations meld theory and practice into a compositional whole.

The central notion that contemporary poetry is not a machine made of words but rather, like the watch that gives itself …

And They Were Thirteen, Daniel Sanchez

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

In the critical introduction to my thesis, I explore how the progression of my creative work straddled the gap between fiction and nonfiction and how, in trying to make the creative work a combination of both, I failed to make it work as successfully as I could have as a narrative. I then segue into my research on Joseph Campbell’s monomyth and how it has even affected narratives focusing on teachers. I then explain how elements present in my work coincide with aspects of the monomyth. Because of the prevalence of the monomyth in American pop culture, I make an …

Ladies And Gentlemen, Robert John Bartholomew

Dissertations

This collection of short stories treats of the following diverse themes: the redemptive possibilities for seemingly despicable characters; the ways in which circumstances and the social environment affect characters' sexualities and personal relationships; the lengths to which characters are willing to go to get what they want, which want is often the desire to make contact with others; the struggle between characters' narcissism and their need to come to terms with a new self image, a self image which is often at odds with the one they wish for themselves; and the beauty of vulnerability. Additionally, one of the chief …

Nova2011, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

Unpublished manuscript from November 1-6, 2011 from Robert Kelly Archive.

Novh2011, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

From November 2011 in Robert Kelly Archive

Novf2011, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

From November 2011 Robert Kelly Archive

Poem No. 106, November 2011, Huntsville Literary Association (Huntsvile, Ala.)

POEM

The Huntsville Literary Association was founded in 1967 to provide a community for writers, readers, and artists through workshops, readings, and educational programs. One of their key contributions is the literary magazine titled POEM which showcases original writings from both established and emerging writers. This issue features poems from various writers.

Wolf Man, Part Ii, Ryan Flanagan

CutBank

No abstract provided.

Slab City: Life On The Fringes, Heather Quinn

CutBank

No abstract provided.

I Am Your Youngest Poet, And Fill Your Bed With Ink, Wendy Xu

CutBank

No abstract provided.

Fiction Fix 10, April E. Bacon, Lindsay Oncken, Anna Pennington, Dewitt Brinson, James Claffey, Clarence Young, Joe Kilgore, Marty Correia, Alex Miller, Brad Hall, Lauren Liebhaber, Brandon Bell, Grant Tracey, Jj Cromer, Andrew Gretes, Scott Laudati, Ron Ennis, Merlin Flower, Marisa Roman, Jim Miller, Robert Wexelblatt, Malachi King, Julie Hayward, Jennifer Falkner, Kevin Roberts, Jonas Mueller, Sarah Barnett, Michael Clough

Fiction Fix

No abstract provided.

The Mindstorm, Jeffrey P. Harrison

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

The Mindstorm is the story of Marcus Hamilton, a gay, African-American, teenager who is born with incredible telekinetic powers. He has the ability to levitate considerably large objects with his mind, create telekinetic force fields, and fly. After preventing a convenience store hold-up, he decides to become a superhero and takes the name Mindstorm.

There are two story arcs: 1) Marcus’ everyday life and high school problems, including racism, homophobia, and his first same-sex relationship; and, 2) Marcus, as Mindstorm, developing his powers and confronting Nathan Vaughn, a corrupt industrialist/weapons developer, terrorist, and main antagonist.

Love Everlasting: A Memoir, Arthur Harris

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

This is a collection of memories shared by the author and his wife.

A Collection Of Reportage, Lynn Marie Waltz

English Theses & Dissertations

This creative nonfiction thesis contains four stories written while I was a student in the Master of Fine Arts Program from June 2008 through December 2011. All four represent experimentation with form and are in progress. The theme of a common person faced with uncommon challenges runs through all the stories, which are based on numerous interviews, extensive research of National Labor Relations Board hearing transcripts and findings, civil and circuit court transcripts, government findings, and published ai1icles. Topics include labor fights at Smithfield Foods' Tar Heel slaughtering facility, military sexual trauma, wrongful criminal conviction, and victim misidentification.

Pathos, Fall 2011, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Editor: Joel Eisenhower

Issue 16

Jacmel, Haiti, Kelly Reeves

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

No abstract provided.

Brass Lion, Jent Botterman

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

No abstract provided.

Strange Places, Alex James Morris

Dissertations

Strange Places is a collection of short stories and short shorts written during my time at The University of Southern Mississippi. Set primarily in Akron, Ohio, the stories in this collection explore a range of themes, such as trauma, death, alienation, social class, and the struggle to connect to others. This collection is preceded by a critical introduction.

Wait Six Months, Cynthia N. Malone

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Breakout, Heather N. Miller

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the Caudill College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Heather N. Miller in July of 2011.

Recycle Bin: A Collection Of Interconnected Sudden Fiction, Kathleen Brewin Lewis

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

Contains a collection of ten stories, all works of fiction, linked together by the appearance of a recycle bin in each story. The introduction and closing essay relate the author's process as a student and a writer.

The Body, Kristen Brooke Harrison

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

A collection of poetry.

¡Escriba! ¡Write! Volume 9, June 2011, Hostos Community College Library

¡Escriba!

No abstract provided.