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Alice And Me, Myself, Little David, And The Right Side Of My Brain, David Cohen

Theses and Dissertations

This is an honest and open memoir of David Cohen’s life as it fits into the 13 years of therapy with Alice. The story is of David learning about his inner child and making a deal with him through non-dominant-hand writing. The result is for David to quit drinking and for the adult part of him to finally take control of his life. The narrative reviews key experiences of his past that influence the current issues.

The background research includes concepts from five key books that support Alice, the therapist’s, theories that have over 30 years of experience have developed …

Life In/Verse: A Poetry Collection, David A. Estringel

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Life In/Verse: A Poetry Collection embodies the collected poetic works of Xicanx writer/poet David Estringel. The collection sequentially follows his growth as a poet and overall creative development, highlighting organic shifts in poetic voice, use of language and space, theme, and rhythm. Through poetry, the nuances and multiple facets of his identity are explored, ultimately leading to a clearer sense of self and poetic voice, demonstrating maturity and seasoning that can only come with time, experience, and acceptance. Pulling from literary influences, such as Homer, Raymond Carver, and Federico Garcia Lorca, significant and all too human …

Huérfanos: A Memoir, Mauricio Garcia

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If you look hard enough, there are stories of children in foster care. Tales of their plight, longing for love, the love of their parents, love from the foster care system, or a foster care family. However, despite their existence, so much is left in the unknown. The story of how this child’s life came into the world, what outcomes transpired for a parent to give up a child, and the journey the child may have to take for closure. Answers to the why. Why was I given up, why was I not sought out, why did my family …

Live, Love And Lyft, Daniel Olivarez

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My thesis has a critical introduction that gives a short history of creative nonfiction. I focus on Lee Gutkin’s contribution to creative nonfiction. I also gave some examples of creative nonfiction in my introduction. I included Mary Karr, Lauren Slater, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and William Shakespeare. My thesis contains twelve pieces of writing ranging from narrative nonfiction to poetry, highlighting my experiences growing up in a single parent home in a small border town. I utilize the literary aspects of totemic writing, the journey to the green world, the motif of loss and growing up in a small town, and the …

Serendipityblah, Amanda Linn Kunkel

English Theses & Dissertations

So, you’ve stumbled upon my neck of the woods, where the weird and fantastical reside. Wit and humor may save you here but beware of what draws near. Beneath the bright and smiling facade, you may find the danse macabre. Within these pages you’ll find magic and wonder, darkness, and failure. The setting is post-March 2020 in Norfolk, Virginia. An urban city at the heart of Hampton Roads where the lines between reality and otherworldliness blur. Witches protect ghosts in a downtown Abbey. The fae break new ground in the art district of Ghent. Even Death stalks the halls of …

Pretty Ugly, Nina Collavo

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Waterworks, Matthew Ineman

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Snapshot, Misty Yarnall

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Dog Names, El J. Ayala

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Mother's Hands, Rebecca Yoo

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Stony Brook Girl, Emma Rowan

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On Bruised Knees, Mollie Mcmullan

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Daughter Of The Irishman And The Honeybee, Mollie Mcmullan

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There Are Things I Love About Being Home // The Object Being Crushed Beneath Me, Katherine Welch

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Untitled, Oil On Canvas // Gambler's Luck, Susan Romance

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I Was The Moon Stalking The Castaway, Alexis Santos

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Submission To Literary Journals.Docx, Kiel M. Gregory

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Letting Go Of Past Shame And Guilt, Allyson Voerg

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Yosemite, Post-Knee Surgery, Alexandria Wyckoff

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Self Sacrificial // Where My Head Lays, Lidabel A. Avila

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Leslie Pietrzyk's Admit This To No One: A Review, Alison Dicesare

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An Interview With Leslie Pietrzyk, Maria Pawlak

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What The Dead Know By Act Three, Marianne Jay Erhardt

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Poetic Justice: Connecting The Modern American Prosecutor To Her Rhetorical Roots, Michael Caves

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Poetic Justice: Connecting the Modern American Prosecutor to her Rhetorical Roots explores the gap between rhetoric and the American prosecutor, to eventually advocate for a more creative, inventive trial practice for prosecutors that embraces the spirit and methods of narrative, poetics, and Ulmeric mystories, with the prosecutor’s unique ethical obligations forming the basis of a new prosecutor’s rhetoric. This research opens with an autoethnographic account of the author’s own path to criminal prosecution, to give the reader a sense of the author’s ethos, to identify the shortcomings of rhetorical training in law school pedagogy, and to outline the rhetorical …

Operatic Mysticisms: Mountains, Deserts, Waterscapes, Andrew Demczuk

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Operatic Mysticisms: Mountains, Deserts, Waterscapes examines the ways we encounter environments as readers/viewers of operas, literature, film, and sound recordings, and how each medium requires different detail-gathering techniques. Respective to the previously mentioned mediums, Sun & Sea (2017), Mount Analogue (1952), El Mar La Mar (2017), and Energy Field (2010) are analyzed by engaging with environmental media studies and invention. Reflecting the nature of each landscape—summits of mountains, aporias of deserts, and mysteries of waterscapes—an elemental approach is taken in investigating how these spaces may be noticed, internalized, recorded, and traversed by both the artist and viewer. …

Vagabondage, Andrea Lora Castillo

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Vagabondage is a novel about grief and identity. The novel opens with its protagonist, Jilly, learning about her brother Parisâ??s death via a phone call with her grandma. Throughout her time of grief, she must contend with her husband, James, taking advantage of her grieving state and using her as a model for his photography careerâ??a career in which he amasses quite a reputable amount of fame. As Jamesâ?? career grows, Jilly is introduced to his best friend, Michael, a musician in a rock band. He and Jilly begin a love affair, and it is through this relationship that Jilly …

Indumentaria Contra La Mujer, Ines Gallo De Urioste

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A translation of Anne Boyer's Garments Against Women.

The Strain, Jonathan Maltz

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My project, The Strain, began as a screenplay, but has now evolved into a novella/novel potentiality. The Strain, positioned in the genre or tradition of speculative fiction, concerns the tumultuous goings-on of Ben Gottman, an underground journalist who reports on the war front infecting the planet. He returns to the city of Terra, feeling darkly removed and dissociated from domestic life as result of having witnessed the violent totality of war. No sooner has he returned then he is summoned by his supervisor, Victor Proto, who, facing the pressures of a dissolving press, as the inhabitants of Terra are rapidly …

Recortes, Ana Mayela De Velazquez Farfan

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Recortes es un libro organizado en fragmentos discontinuos con la intención de narrar sin un orden cronológico, para evocar el proceso de la memoria: los recuerdos surgen o son rememorados, en ninguno de los dos casos aparecen en el orden temporal en el que se vivieron. La búsqueda de la intimidad en Recortes consiste en capturar testigos involuntarios, se mantiene en la superficie, no construye una narración; no busca recuperar una esencia, reproduce los recuerdos como surgen en una asociación libre: de los viajes en tren de mamá a las camas infantiles que compartieron dos hermanas, de la nostalgia del …

An Imaginary Man, Benjamin Bouvet-Boisclair

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Novella about an American expat nicknamed Tintin and his search for intimacy in all the wrong places. While teaching English in South West France, Tintin struggles to confront his mother tongue, the deaths of his grandfather and great-grandfather, and the end of his long-distance relationship with Ela. Brushes with violence, French history, and other lonely, wayward men, frame an exploration of masculinity, desire, and loss.