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Drink Me, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Blog, James Arthur Goldberg Jun 2010

Drink Me, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Blog, James Arthur Goldberg

Theses and Dissertations

Language itself is a technology, and the advent of each major technology of language transmission (from the alphabet to the printing press to the Internet) has changed the range of speaker-audience dynamics which are the starting point for all creative writing. In this thesis, a writer, armed only with his blog archives and a smattering of John Tenniel illustrations, guides the curious reader through various issues raised by creative writing in the blog form. Topics discussed include self-presentation, the juxtaposed brevity and expansiveness of online texts, nonlinear reading, alternative models for revision, the literary possibilities of the hyperlink, speaker-audience-time relationships …


Byzantium 2010: Cal Poly's 20th Literary Annual, Mateja Lane, Beth Shirley Jun 2010

Byzantium 2010: Cal Poly's 20th Literary Annual, Mateja Lane, Beth Shirley

English

The concept behind this year's theme, "Bold," actually came from concepts our art director, Melissa, showed us during our first meeting. We had tossed around ideas of "Timeless," "Enduring," and "Vintage," amidst our discussions of how in the world we were going to raise money for the journal this year. With the economy tanking, we knew art programs like ours would be the first to suffer. We wanted to find a theme that captured how we felt about art and how art made us feel. We kept coming back to the same idea: We have to just be bold and …


Meddlesome Markets And Epistolary Escapes: Mediating Discourses In Gissing's New Grub Street, Robert Fanzo May 2010

Meddlesome Markets And Epistolary Escapes: Mediating Discourses In Gissing's New Grub Street, Robert Fanzo

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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Through Grace Alone, Lynne Adair Moir May 2010

Through Grace Alone, Lynne Adair Moir

Masters Theses, 2010-2019

Through Grace Alone by Lynne Adair Moir.


The Nightingale Of Austerlitz, Lindsay Marianna Walker May 2010

The Nightingale Of Austerlitz, Lindsay Marianna Walker

Dissertations

The Nightingale of Austerlitz employs poetry, fiction, and nonfiction to articulate the theme of (mis)communication. A pliable, multi-genre approach was necessary to convey the urgency of two central characters’ desire to connect despite the impossibility of doing so. Prose interrupts and challenges the set precision of poetry in order to embody the stops and starts—the literal and figurative breakdowns—of communication. The juxtaposition of genres dramatizes dialogue, silence, affective distance, and desire. Song, sound, repetition (using lullaby, referencing music, thematizing the ear) further assert the power of language as performance and aesthetics as consolation, and provoke a particular kind of attention …


Pretty Ballerina, Kerry Jones May 2010

Pretty Ballerina, Kerry Jones

Bryant Literary Review

It's just one of those things that sometimes happens to me: I'll find myself walking by a playground, or I'll be walking through the mall, and I'll see a little girl about eleven or so, and that's when my mind takes on a life of its own.


The Scarf Club, Mari Ramler May 2010

The Scarf Club, Mari Ramler

All Theses

A novel comprises this creative thesis, which has been submitted in partial fulfillment for the degree of Master of Arts in English literature. This manuscript is the story of Lucy Merdock and how two major losses during her senior year of high school change the way she sees herself.


Through Stolen Eyes, Sarah Hannah May 2010

Through Stolen Eyes, Sarah Hannah

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.


The Disappearing Japanese, Tabitha Russo Parker May 2010

The Disappearing Japanese, Tabitha Russo Parker

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.


Tierra Blanca, Andrea Lewis May 2010

Tierra Blanca, Andrea Lewis

Bryant Literary Review

I had what I wanted. I was alone with Charles.


Pages From The Textbook Of Alternate History: Plato, King Of Syracuse, Phong Nguyen May 2010

Pages From The Textbook Of Alternate History: Plato, King Of Syracuse, Phong Nguyen

Bryant Literary Review

When Dionysus II first offered to Plato the city of Syracuse, jewel of Sicily, for the philosopher to rule as his own, there was a moment of hesitation


Without Breath, Michelle Soucy May 2010

Without Breath, Michelle Soucy

Bryant Literary Review

I'm eight years old and my parents make me sleep in my sick younger brother's bed with him in case he stops breathing again


Doing The Math, Martin Cloutier May 2010

Doing The Math, Martin Cloutier

Bryant Literary Review

James was experiencing a breach -- a psychic breach. Like his real self was coming into contact with a parallel universe self.


The Aloha State, Adam Berlin May 2010

The Aloha State, Adam Berlin

Bryant Literary Review

It wasn't our honeymoon but it was Hawaii. It had been all sky and water for thousands of miles, blue above, blue below.


Light, Extra Sugar, No Patsy, Nancy Lee Craven May 2010

Light, Extra Sugar, No Patsy, Nancy Lee Craven

Bryant Literary Review

"1992: A slice of life when dollars to donuts sometimes bought more than an even dozen"


To Be So Dead He Sure Is Big, Phillip Gardner May 2010

To Be So Dead He Sure Is Big, Phillip Gardner

Bryant Literary Review

Donnie Swank said, "He sure was big."


Scores: A Story Collection, Robert Paul Moreira May 2010

Scores: A Story Collection, Robert Paul Moreira

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

This is a short story collection dealing with the themes of identity, immigration, death, and ethnicity, all juxtaposed with the game of baseball. The critical introduction of this thesis begins with a detailed survey of the baseball fiction genre, with a focus on seminal works and their respective authors, and their place in American literature. I examine major authors outside the genre who have employed baseball (metaphorically, symbolically, synecdochically) in their own works, as well as analyze the effect and evolution of realism in baseball fiction, and the themes of ethnicity and identity. I explore my own works in the …


Seven Fictions, Stephen Leech May 2010

Seven Fictions, Stephen Leech

All Theses

A collection of seven short stories focusing on issues of reality and unreality, particularly such issues as they arise in America, both as a political ideal and a manifest nation. The collection uses genre fiction as a means to illuminate these issues in new and relevant ways.


The Waiting Unknown: Stories, James R. Miller Apr 2010

The Waiting Unknown: Stories, James R. Miller

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

These collected stories are a narrative exploration of a collective life in middle‐class suburbia. Here the reader is introduced to a troop of characters who share a community but yet they are adrift in the atmosphere between identity and memory. At times, as in “When to Lie” and “Afraid of the Question” we see conflict arise when the suburban religious dogma alters character identity, leaving behind haunting memories and scar tissue. Memory and identification play an important roll when, as in “Rx” the protagonist is faced with the sudden loss of his family as he struggles to keep their memories …


The Lantern, 2009-2010, Ronak Darji, Callie Ingram, Robert Whitehead, Scott Sherman, Katherine Murphy, Josh Ecker, Sophia Lazare, Elisa Diprinzio, Allison Cavanaugh, Sarah Brand, Nathaniel Rosenthalis, Pete Lipsi, Ellyn Rolleston, Shane Kowalski, Josh Aungst, Ciara Adams, Gianna Paone, Brooke Haley, Connor Mcnamara, Sarah Schwolsky, Arielle Ross, Greta Martikainen-Watcke, Katie Simmon, Stephanie Bartusis, Ross Whitehurst, Jared Ellis, Amanda Schwartz, Shaun Frank, Judson Monroe, David J. Hysek, Sean Rosenberg, Maeve Sutherland, Nicole Feight, Edwin Kosik, Tanja Johansson, Maire Moriarty, Elizabeth Cannon, Elizabeth Mathis, Amber Spurka, Josh Krigman, Lindsay Hogan, Samuel Stahller '10, Deanna Hayes '10, Anne Johnson, Matt Whitman, Kieslana Wing, Ananda Holton Apr 2010

The Lantern, 2009-2010, Ronak Darji, Callie Ingram, Robert Whitehead, Scott Sherman, Katherine Murphy, Josh Ecker, Sophia Lazare, Elisa Diprinzio, Allison Cavanaugh, Sarah Brand, Nathaniel Rosenthalis, Pete Lipsi, Ellyn Rolleston, Shane Kowalski, Josh Aungst, Ciara Adams, Gianna Paone, Brooke Haley, Connor Mcnamara, Sarah Schwolsky, Arielle Ross, Greta Martikainen-Watcke, Katie Simmon, Stephanie Bartusis, Ross Whitehurst, Jared Ellis, Amanda Schwartz, Shaun Frank, Judson Monroe, David J. Hysek, Sean Rosenberg, Maeve Sutherland, Nicole Feight, Edwin Kosik, Tanja Johansson, Maire Moriarty, Elizabeth Cannon, Elizabeth Mathis, Amber Spurka, Josh Krigman, Lindsay Hogan, Samuel Stahller '10, Deanna Hayes '10, Anne Johnson, Matt Whitman, Kieslana Wing, Ananda Holton

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• I'm Pregnant. It's Yours
• The Nightmare
• What Death Became After Cyparissus
• Substances
• Ain't That a Man?
• Portrait
• The 100th Chemo
• Looking into Her Toy Box with a Lover
• They Used to Talk About Burning Cities
• MESSAGE: Absence for Allen Ginsberg
• Lunch with Candide
• Behold! Man of Unbelief! Behold!
• Dream #1 Final Strophe
• Patience (Things You Will Discover)
• Four Years
• He Falls Like Leaves
• The Quilt
• Ariel (Turning Tricks at Fisherman's Wharf, Monterey, California)
• Extranjera
• The Taste of Morning
• Fear …


2010 Spring Chapbook, Otterbein English Department Apr 2010

2010 Spring Chapbook, Otterbein English Department

Quiz and Quill

No abstract provided.


2010 Spring Quiz And Quill Magazine, Otterbein English Department Apr 2010

2010 Spring Quiz And Quill Magazine, Otterbein English Department

Quiz and Quill

No abstract provided.


Bryan Furuness Is Writing An Essay On Facebook Status Updates, Bryan M. Furuness Apr 2010

Bryan Furuness Is Writing An Essay On Facebook Status Updates, Bryan M. Furuness

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

No abstract Available


Fiction Fix 07, April E. Bacon, Marianne Mckey, Louise Freshman-Brown, Devin Balara, David Greenwood, Dan Buyanovsky, Malcolm Murray, Harmony Neal, Russell Gift, Chad Senesac, Travis Wildes, Stephen Williams, Tim Gilmore Apr 2010

Fiction Fix 07, April E. Bacon, Marianne Mckey, Louise Freshman-Brown, Devin Balara, David Greenwood, Dan Buyanovsky, Malcolm Murray, Harmony Neal, Russell Gift, Chad Senesac, Travis Wildes, Stephen Williams, Tim Gilmore

Fiction Fix

No abstract provided.


Empire's Ghosts, Ashley Phillips-Tirey Apr 2010

Empire's Ghosts, Ashley Phillips-Tirey

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects

Novel.


Glimpses Of Truth, Sally Kilpatrick Apr 2010

Glimpses Of Truth, Sally Kilpatrick

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects

Novel, with an introduction by the author.


Faith In Fiction? Solzhenitsyn's One Day As A Practical Defense Of Fiction, Bob De Smith Mar 2010

Faith In Fiction? Solzhenitsyn's One Day As A Practical Defense Of Fiction, Bob De Smith

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.


In An Instant, Renee Cotten Mar 2010

In An Instant, Renee Cotten

Honors College Theses

I will never forget my junior year of high school; not because of the parties, the dances, or the school trips. That year does not stay with me because of the people I met, but rather because of the people I lost. The month before the school year began, I lost my father to a sudden and unexpected heart attack. I entered the school year already dealing with feelings of grief, but those feelings were only intensified as the year progressed. Five students died that year, three from my graduating class. Nights that my best friend and I should have …


A Floating World: Stories, Karen Best Jan 2010

A Floating World: Stories, Karen Best

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A Floating World is a collection of short stories inspired by fairy tales. Often set in worlds where the mundane and the fantastic come together, these stories explore moments of strangeness that slip beyond the bounds of realist fiction. Fantastical events intrude into mundane reality as characters attempt to reconcile the known with the unknowable.


We Will Make Your Head Explode, Jaclyn Sullivan Jan 2010

We Will Make Your Head Explode, Jaclyn Sullivan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

We Will Make Your Head Explode is a collection of short fiction stories that explore themes of friendship, family, love, lust, jealousy, loyalty, and disappointment. The characters in these stories are utterly human; they are pushed, pulled, and often fall victim to circumstance. A woman grapples between her love of roadside attractions and her boyfriend's grief. A son is forced to decide whether or not to honor his mother's final wishes. A college student is blind to her brother's evolution beyond their family. A woman discovers new possibilities while stalking graveyards to escape the memory of a man who left …