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Enquêtes Occultistes : Les Policiers Antillais Face Au Surnaturel, Françoise Cévaër

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Being rational and Cartesian, the detective novel is often bound by powerful constraints which seem not very compatible with the supernatural and the fantastic often defining West Indian writing. Through the analysis of Martinican Patrick Chamoiseau’s Solibo Magnifique (1988) and Haitian Gary Victor’s Les cloches de la Brésilienne (2006), we will nevertheless see how well they work together, the irrational taking hold of the detective novel, leading paradoxically to the progressive elimination of Cartesian practices and challenging an exclusively rational portrayal of the world.

The Promethean, Volume 17, Contents May Be Hot, 2009, English Department, Concordia University-Portland

The Promethean

During our first meeting, I let the staff know my expectations for the 2008-2009 Promethean edition. Like previous years, I imagined fresh, bold writing and raw talent. With the same inspiration, I imagined a bolder journal; a journal with power and authenticity; a journal that would forever be memorable for the quality, quantity and impression. The Promethean staff grounded these ideas, while the contributors shaped them. I've never felt prouder of The Promethean. Graduating and leaving the position to Kristine never scared me; I knew we had the same visions, and I give all the credit to her.

-Jess Bouchard, …

Companionship Through Standard Question And Answer Routines, Ryan Saxon Davidson

Dissertations

Companionship through Standard Question and Answer Routines is a collection of short stories and short shorts dealing with the nature of human relationships and the ways in which people get to know each other.

The Naming Of Strays, Erin Elizabeth Smith

Dissertations

The Naming of Strays is a collection of poems that deal with issues of place, gender power, sexual fidelity, and transience. While the majority of the poems are written in free verse, the dissertation also features a handful of formal poems including sonnets, sestinas, and prose poetry. n

Poem No, 101, May 2009, 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.

Blocked: Short Story Manuscript, Christopher Hazle-Cary

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

Blocked is a manuscript of short stories designed to explore conceptions of selfhood as represented in the fictional story. In the manuscript, I investigate issues of performance and authority as they relate to how characters define themselves in relation to the other—both the other characters in the story as well as the socio-cultural structures they have come to inhabit.

The loss of authority is a theme that I explore throughout my work. I am interested in authority as another aspect of performance—another role that people play, a mask (or face) that they take on. It also relates directly to the …

Among The Stars, Bradley Cook

Boise State University Theses and Dissertations

The left-fielder lays the boy’s things across the passenger seat: a jersey worn by the left-fielder two seasons ago, an autographed baseball in a glass cube, new glove. He folds the note from the boy’s father and slides it into his shirt pocket. Errands: bank deposit, clothes to the cleaners, a list from his wife of items at the store—bread, coffee, Capri Sun for Karl’s lunches. He sits behind the wheel and watches Karl, his son, roughhouse with the neighbor kid. His son is tough, like he used to be. Different neighborhoods, but boys can be tough anywhere. The left-fielder …

Static And Accent, Naomi Beth Tarle

Boise State University Theses and Dissertations

This thesis continues my ongoing interest with art and writing, and my concern with investigating both of them as a subject I find difficult and frightening. I manipulated, and integrated sources from various disciplines, until the major source text became accessible. Tension regarding inheriting personal and general history is a vital aspect of the work. My engagement with art and writing is in line with Max Ernst and Norma Cole. Their works exhibit the energy of collaboration between multiple mediums and forms.

The rewrites are a type of translation, interpretation; they are an alternate version of the original. The rewrites …

Hartford Circus Fire (1944), John Surowiecki

Bryant Literary Review

All we were told was that the animals
were saved and the children died;

The Sweet Air, Ann Braley Smith

Boise State University Theses and Dissertations

1. April

1986: Wind melds sky turns to rain turns to snow turns to white closes in.

A South Dakota blizzard is a shape-shifter, undulating, hiding, revealing little of what lies beneath. In its aftermath, fallen snow is delicate, ephemeral. It quells noise, erases the line between earth and sky. It envelops sound: footsteps, passing vehicle, a runaway dog, cannot shatter this silence. The tired scraping of a metal shovel against idewalk is the only thing penetrating the quiet, quiet hush, as I wade through snow in my Sorels, clearing the walk. Breathing in, I feel my nostrils sting. I …

5ive Minutes To Madalyn: Why Do You Have A Lantern?, Calliope

Calliope

No abstract provided.

Circuit Rider, Kimberley Harris Idol

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

An historical novel set at the end of the American Civil War focusing on the week between President Lincoln's assassination and John Wilkes Booth's death. The backdrop of the story is comprised of the historical events and political figures that shaped this period in time in America. The plot is also configured around the fictional histories of three young souls, the spirit of a murdered Chinese immigrant girl, and a brother and sister who's home in the Appalachians was destroyed during the war. All three are escaping the devastating consequences of the war and seeking a new start in the …

“Jugando En Serio” And Other Works, Shoney Flores

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

In the critical introduction of this thesis, I explore how the different choices we make as creative writers affect the targeted audience of a work. I focus on the endless battle between genre writing and literary writing, in hopes of there being a style of writing that can utilize the best of both. I write about the issues and themes of the works in this thesis that come close to being nonfiction. Finally, I highlight how stylistic choices in bilingual writing can change or destroy potential audiences. These are aspects that have shaped the creative writing included in this collection. …

Room, Vallie Lynn Watson

Dissertations

Room is a short novel written at The University of Southern Mississippi. It is accompanied by a critical preface.

Hair Trigger 31, Columbia College Chicago

Hair Trigger

An anthology, edited by students, featuring the fiction, prose and creative non-fiction work of students, alumni, and staff. Editors: Joshua Alletto, Jeffrey Brennan, Shana Cooper, Sheree L. Greer, Brooke Hennen, Nadine Kenney, Nicolette Kittinger, James Lower, Santiago Martinez, Ingrid Rojas, Ilana Shabanov, Stephanie Shaw. Cover photograph: Dave Anderson. 304 pages.

Columbia Poetry Review, Columbia College Chicago

Columbia Poetry Review

Literary journal produced annually. Student editors: Thoma DeRoma, Tyler Flynn Dorholt, Richard Dugan, Andy Koszewski, Meghan M. Lee, Meg Reilly, Andrew Terhune. Editorial Board: Carl Aagesen, Joe Bly, Zach Green, Helen Kiernan, Dolly Lemke, Kyle Miner, Nate Olison, Steve Smaczniak, Abi Stokes, Chris Williams. Cover: Wayne Smith.

The Oval, 2009

The Oval

The Spring 2009 issue of The Oval features more of the great poetry, artwork and prose by University of Montana students. With contributions from Ashley Loyning, Lena Viall, Ross Robbins, Kate Olp, Amanda Eggert, and many more.

2009 Spring Quiz And Quill Magazine, Otterbein English Department

Quiz and Quill

No abstract provided.

Pathos, Spring 2009, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Editor: Nataliya Pirumova

Issue 9

Black Box 2009, Jack Anderson, Alana Greenwalt, Kb Middleton, Brian Cutler, Albert Lewis, Jennifer Canfield, Joseph Latta, Arturo Clamont, Scott Peeler, Richard Byrd, Jonathan Wilson, David Mcleod, James Conomea, Erich Skoor, Walter Johansen, Stephen Von Fange, Ryan Krogstad, Rick Chew, Rhondale Tso, Casey Hill, Kyle Arcurio

Black Box

The Black Box is a student-based creative publication serving the ERAU campus. It is our goal to provide a showcase for the creativity and talent of ERAU students. Please browse these pages and enjoy.

2009 Literary Review (No. 22), Sigma Tau Delta

The Greenleaf Review

No abstract provided.

A Tin Of Shoe Polish Mostly Used Up, Christian Anton Gerard

English Theses & Dissertations

A Tin of Shoe Polish, Mostly Used Up is a collection of poems that explores the author's anxieties concerning his position as a young man, husband, and poet. The collection moves between the author's actual experience and the experience of a fictional older couple in an effort to better understand the human elements of personal growth, connection, and fulfillment.

Sisyphus Uphill, April K. Phillips

English Theses & Dissertations

Sisyphus Uphill is a collection of poems inspired by the mythic struggle of one man who angered the gods by trying to be too much like them. Sisyphus was cursed to roll a heavy boulder up a mountaintop and then watch it tumble back down to the bottom for all eternity. The pitfalls of hubris and the seeming pointlessness of our daily attempts to get ahead both in the rat race and in personal relationships may not contain the high drama of myth, but this material is rife with hidden comedy and tragedy. These poems deal with the everyday and …

Shark Diving And Other Poor Decisions, Robert G. Currin

English Theses & Dissertations

The following is collection of humorous, nonfiction travel stories that include a Cape Buffalo attack in Africa, a trip to Belize, a first encounter at a gentlemen's club, a vignette of three weddings, shark diving in Hawaii, and a profile of a grandfather in a retirement home.

Aftertaste, Matilda W. Cox

English Theses & Dissertations

This collection of poems is a collage of my experiences and observations. Some of the poems emerge from an attempt to make sense of contemporary events or the day-to-day minutia of my daily life in twenty-first century America.

The collection is divided thematically into three sections. The first has to do with the past and its impact on the future. The second has to do with the sensual and the romantic (for lack of a better term). The third section is concerned with the impact of socio-political issues on the individual. These categories arose naturally from the subject matter, but …

The Stories We Tell The Stars, Andrea Nolan

English Theses & Dissertations

The Stories We Tell The Stars is a collection of interconnected short stories united by character, place and theme. The stories radiate from Argos Island, a fictional Chesapeake island, and follow the characters of David, Roy, Josephine and Brianna. Thematically, the stories are concerned with the question of how to reconcile the existential conditions of separation, exile and meaninglessness. They also explore man' relationship with place, both in how place shapes us and in the longing to return to, or to escape from, home. Finally, the stories explore the ways myths and mythmaking create meaning and purpose in our lives.

Westview: Vol. 29, Iss. 2 (Fall/Winter 2009)

Westview

No abstract provided.

Cuban Jam Sessions In Miniature: A Novel In Tracks, Diego Rincon

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This is the collection of a novel, Cuban Jam Sessions in Miniature: A Novel in Tracks, and an embedded short story, "Shred Me Like the Cheese You Use to Make Buñuelos." The novel tells the story of Palomino Mondragón, a Colombian mercenary who has arrived in New York after losing his leg to a mortar in Korea. Reclusive, obsessive and passionate, Palomino has reinvented himself as a mambo musician and has fallen in love with Etiwanda, a dancer at the nightclub in which he plays—but he cannot bring himself to declare his love to her. His life changes when he …

Crashing Against The Wood, Jessica Ryan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In this collection of short stories, the characters struggle to recover equilibrium in their lives that have been turned upside down. They struggle against one another, against change, and against the loss of loved ones. No matter what bonds hold the characters together, the underlying tension of change and reaction permeates their relationships and threatens what they know to be true. A theme of discontent runs in these stories. Something beneath the surface is not right, and the characters struggle to climb out of the mess their lives have become. Some of them have been stifled, like the narrator in …

The Flats Of Paradise, Pamela Baker

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The Flats of Paradise is a collection of personal essays exploring the interconnectivity between humans, land, identity, and belonging. Through the perspective of my experience as a nurse, these essays probe the friction created when borders rub up against each and the comforts gained through connections both spiritual and physical. "Avoiding the Stepladder," for example, examines a near lightning strike on a mountain in relation to the potential pain caused by the human need for touch. "The Dust Trail," a meditation upon various traditions for disposing of the placenta (burning vs. burying), also looks at the problem of finding home …