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Explorations: Five Science Fiction Stories, Daniel Joseph Pinney
Explorations: Five Science Fiction Stories, Daniel Joseph Pinney
Dissertations
These stories explore a universe populated by the stuff of space opera—enormous space stations, mysterious alien artifacts, starships and terraforming and emission nebulae, a human civilization that over millennia has spread across the galaxy. These explorations are not conducted by the usual swashbuckling heroes of space opera, however, but rather by the sorts of people who would have to live and make a living in such a future.
The perspectives from which this future is explored include those of an asteroid miner who loses his ship even as he is discovering the wonders of art, a man whose misuse of …
Foxfire: The Selected Poems Of Yosa Buson, A Translation, Allan Persinger
Foxfire: The Selected Poems Of Yosa Buson, A Translation, Allan Persinger
Theses and Dissertations
My dissertation is a creative translation from Japanese into English of the poetry of Yosa Buson, an 18th century (1716 - 1783) poet. Buson is considered to be one of the most important of the Edo Era poets and is still influential in modern Japanese literature. By taking account of Japanese culture, identity and aesthetics the dissertation project bridges the gap between American and Japanese poetics, while at the same time revealing the complexity of thought in Buson's poetry and bringing the target audience closer to the text of a powerful and moving writer.
Currently, the only two books offering …
The Untiring Game, Yrene Santos, Isabel R. Espinal
The Untiring Game, Yrene Santos, Isabel R. Espinal
Isabel R Espinal
These are translations of most, but not all, the poems in the book El incansable juego, by Yrene Santos (Santo Domingo: Editorial Letra Gráfica: 2002). The poems that have not been translated were already translated elsewhere by others, according to the poet.
The Unthinkable Botanical Gardens: Poems, Travis Oliver Green Smith
The Unthinkable Botanical Gardens: Poems, Travis Oliver Green Smith
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The Unthinkable Botanical Gardens is a book of poems in five sections. The first, third, and fifth sections present a speaker navigating a wondrous and often hostile world. The second and fourth sections are long poems: "Zodiac B," a sequence inspired by obsolete or forgotten constellations, and "Elbow Island," which tells the story of the beluga whales exhibited in Barnum's American Museum.
Literary Know-How : Restructuring Creative Writing And Literary Studies, Jonas Casey-Williams
Literary Know-How : Restructuring Creative Writing And Literary Studies, Jonas Casey-Williams
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
The emerging field of creative writing studies has provided new conceptions of creative writing's role within the English discipline. These conceptions focus on the relation of creative writing to composition studies, and there remains a need to reconsider creative writing's relation to literary studies.