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The Present Giver And Other Stories On Human Connections, Erin B. Waggoner
The Present Giver And Other Stories On Human Connections, Erin B. Waggoner
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
The Present Giver and Other Stories on Human Connections is a collection of seven short stories dealing with individuals that struggle to connect to another person. However, the stories also explore that these characters still feel the need to connect, stories very indicative of my own struggles with apathy and relationships. The critical analysis takes on a creative non-fiction approach as a way to show my development as a writer and how these stories relate to what I've learned through the years from my love of reading.
"A Long Wonder The World Can Bear & Be" : Narrative Strategies In The Dream Songs, Cooper Childers
"A Long Wonder The World Can Bear & Be" : Narrative Strategies In The Dream Songs, Cooper Childers
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
This thesis examines the narrative development of The Dream Songs while viewing Henry as the locus and the impetus of the various narrative strategies deployed therein. Through the abundance of generic and literary allusions present in The Dream Songs, Berryman's sequence functions both to engage and to interact with the Western literary canon. The first chapter of this thesis locates The Dream Songs within Petrarchan sequences. The second chapter treats Henry's and the unnamed speaker's local language and shows how their competing speech genres inform the sequence's modes. The third chapter examines the role of epic codes in creating the …