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These Places We Walk : Stories Of Mental Illness In American Society., Rachel Grace Trimble
These Places We Walk : Stories Of Mental Illness In American Society., Rachel Grace Trimble
College of Arts & Sciences Senior Honors Theses
This paper examines research on mental illness and mental health literacy as well as an examination of literary elements in interlinked stories in order to write a linked collection of five short stories about mental illnesses. Depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Useless, Seth Stone
Useless, Seth Stone
Graduate Thesis Collection
Useless is a short story collection about people who feel lost in the world and go searching for fulfillment. Six disconnected stories about six disconnected people. The collection deals with themes of loss, identity, loneliness and the exploration of niche subcultures.
Skin And Other Stories, Brenna Croker
Skin And Other Stories, Brenna Croker
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
The horror genre is a broad umbrella under which a number of subgenres and subcategories fall. Skin and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction stories which take on the horror genre. These stories serve to explore, test, and defy the conventions of the horror genre, making use of its tropes and traditions in some instances, abandoning and rejecting them in others. The stories in this collection connect to a number of horror subgenres, including body horror and environmental horror, in an attempt to define and exemplify these categorizations. Furthermore, these stories make use of the horror genre as …