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Some Comfort To The Order Of Things: A Journey Through The Terrain Of Silence, Grief, And Nature, Laura Derr
Some Comfort To The Order Of Things: A Journey Through The Terrain Of Silence, Grief, And Nature, Laura Derr
Honors Program Theses
My Honors Thesis engages my personal narrative surrounding the death of my father, who passed away of lymphoma in October, 2010, with Terry Tempest Williams’ autobiographical memoir, Refuge, exploring the paradox between our modern medical system and the natural order of life and death. Williams' memoir presents a close relationship with the natural world as an avenue through which it is possible to face grief and loss in a more healthy, calm and even spiritual way-- a way that is not traditionally presented in our highly medicalized society and was starkly absent from my father’s final days, despite his life-long …
3 Requirements For Meaningful Memoir Writing, Jeff Rasley
3 Requirements For Meaningful Memoir Writing, Jeff Rasley
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Guest blog post for Novel Spaces on the three requirements for meaningful memoir writing.
Memoir Writing From Diary To Publishable Piece, Jeff Rasley
Memoir Writing From Diary To Publishable Piece, Jeff Rasley
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Guest blog for Indies Unlimited on memoir writing.
Life Knots, Meghan Melissa Mcdonald
Life Knots, Meghan Melissa Mcdonald
Masters Theses
This collection of creative nonfiction essays is framed by M.M. Bakhtin’s concept of the chronotope, the concrete juncture of time and space. Chronotopes include technical relationships between those elements, as well as worldviews. Each essay examines a different thing or place as a chronotope, including maps, a well house, boxes, a dining room, periodical cicadas, and a sand dollar. All of the essays, however, share themes, including the search for unity (and for what actually constitutes unity), relationships between ways of knowing, and relationships between the personal, spiritual, environmental, and cultural. The essays span genres, from the personal and academically …
Memoir Writing With A Purpose, Jeff Rasley
Memoir Writing With A Purpose, Jeff Rasley
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Guest blog for Morgen Bailey’s Writing Blog on memoir writing.
Meaningful Memoir Writing, Jeff Rasley
Meaningful Memoir Writing, Jeff Rasley
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Guest blog for Say This Write on memoir writing.
Escape Artist, Alejandro Mujica
Escape Artist, Alejandro Mujica
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
My thesis, Escape Artist, is a composite novel written as a fictitious memoir, similar in style to Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, that describes my experiences between the years 2001 and 2011. During that time I went through Marine Corps Boot Camp, became a military police officer, patrolled Yuma, AZ, was sent to Iraq for a sevenmonth tour as a security detail just before the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom, and made it back home four years later. The novel also looks into my struggles with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder symptoms, how they affected the people around me, and what …
Segmented Life Of Cf, Anna Novak