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Sweet Silence, Ryan C. Kyner May 2019

Sweet Silence, Ryan C. Kyner

Calliope

No abstract provided.


The Night I Imagined My Impending Death, Carolyn Lee May 2019

The Night I Imagined My Impending Death, Carolyn Lee

Calliope

No abstract provided.


Exploring The Academic/Creative Writing Binary, Jessica O'Leary May 2019

Exploring The Academic/Creative Writing Binary, Jessica O'Leary

Honors College Theses

I began to work on this study in my ENG 201: Writing in the Disciplines class during my junior year at Pace University. After being asked to write a paper on what writing looks like in my discipline, I realized that my perceptions of the kinds of writing done by faculty and students in a university English department were limited and constricting as a result of the binary way in which I viewed academic and creative forms of writing. For instance, I had trouble believing that my creative writing professor studied pre-med in undergrad. I continued my research on this …


En La Guarida/Where The Wolves Eat The Lion, Jose Rodriguez Ventura May 2019

En La Guarida/Where The Wolves Eat The Lion, Jose Rodriguez Ventura

Theses and Dissertations

En la Guarida/Where the Wolves Eat the Lion is a work in the tradition of Latin-American hybrid literature. It transitions between prose, poetry, and prose-poetry, as it details the family history of its narrator and traces the South-to-North crossing Mexican immigrants undertake in order to pursue a better life north of the Reynosa/Hidalgo border. The thesis details the difficult life mothers, daughters, and sons face as they try to assimilate into the first-world, whether linguistically, or culturally. It is concerned with the power dynamics between men and women, fathers and mothers, and daughters and sons in Mexican American Culture in …


"A Complicated Story, An Unsolved Mystery": An Experiment In Poetry And The Ethics Of Representation, Darren Wood May 2019

"A Complicated Story, An Unsolved Mystery": An Experiment In Poetry And The Ethics Of Representation, Darren Wood

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

The New York Juvenile Asylum, founded in 1851, was one of New York’s first institutional responses to the problems associated with the poor. It, and the theories of asylum that undergird the institution, still exist today in the form of Children’s Village. The location of Children’s Village, located just a few hundred yards from my home, prompted me to consider the distance between my family and the children who reside at Children’s Village; between my historical context and that of the children who resided at the New York Juvenile Asylum - and their parents who surrendered them there; and between …


What's In A Genre?: The Relationship Between Reader And Text, Anabelle Mahoney May 2019

What's In A Genre?: The Relationship Between Reader And Text, Anabelle Mahoney

Senior Honors Projects

The way in which literary genres are understood shapes how one reads and interacts with different texts. Genre expectations affect both how individuals choose texts to read, and then how those texts are understood. Therefore, labeling literature as a certain genre affects the relationship between writer and reader. Literary nonfiction is unlike most genres as it promises a certain truth to its readers. One cannot deviate too far from “the truth” in nonfiction writing and still fulfill the genre; the relationship a reader has with a text changes if it is not considered “true enough.” Author James Frey, who marketed …


Floating Head Touching Earth, Carrieann Cahall May 2019

Floating Head Touching Earth, Carrieann Cahall

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Floating Head Touching Earth is a collection of short stories centered on themes of identity, historical and intergenerational trauma, familial duty, and self-discovery delivered through prose that is often tinged with surreal or strange elements. Inspired by the craft of writers like Flannery O’Connor and Aimee Bender, my work seeks to explore the power that seemingly small or forgotten experiences can have on one’s psyche in ways that ripple throughout a lifetime. The stories are organized in a manner that track an unraveling of the body, history, relationships and the minds of its various protagonists. The Buddhist mudra, or gesture, …


Empire And Other Stories From The Black Rock, Alex Zenz May 2019

Empire And Other Stories From The Black Rock, Alex Zenz

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

This thesis is a collection of stories submitted as required by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas for completion of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. These short pieces of fiction are narrated by women from a small town on the edge of the Black Rock Desert in the northern part of the state of Nevada as they engage with outsiders passing through, interact with the harsh expanses of wilderness surrounding their home, and contend with the changing economic landscape of the area.


Forget Me Not & Other Stories, Zach Wilson May 2019

Forget Me Not & Other Stories, Zach Wilson

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

My thesis manuscript Forget Me Not & Other Stories is composed of several short stories and the first section of a novel. The first drafts of these stories were written during my first and second years in the program while my primary focus this semester has been the novel. I believe this thesis reflects my growth as both a writer and critical reader of fiction as a result of my time here. Much of the work included here began as assignments for a creative class, including an imitation of Marilyn Robinson’s’ Gilead written for Professor Doug Unger’s Forms of Fiction. …


Literal Dope, Frank Johnson May 2019

Literal Dope, Frank Johnson

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Literal Dope draws from the rich literary traditions of hip-hop and the broader umbrella of Black American art traditions. It seems to me that perhaps the best way to honor the language which raised me, taught me, and literally saved my life is to explore it, praise it, weaponize it when necessary, and deploy it as a tool for Black liberation. The work’s theory is deeply informed by bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Lucille Clifton, and a number of Black feminist artists. The world needs Black folks—especially Black men—who know love; who know how to love each other and know they …


Alone, Amy Elizabeth Bishop May 2019

Alone, Amy Elizabeth Bishop

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.


A Profound Valor, Nilson Thomas Carroll May 2019

A Profound Valor, Nilson Thomas Carroll

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.


Allein, Bianca Döring May 2019

Allein, Bianca Döring

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.


The Nudist, Jay May 2019

The Nudist, Jay

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.


The Charadriiform On Matters Of State, Erin Kae May 2019

The Charadriiform On Matters Of State, Erin Kae

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.


Nursing Home, Joshua Keller May 2019

Nursing Home, Joshua Keller

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.


Galatea In Blue, Sarah Hopkins May 2019

Galatea In Blue, Sarah Hopkins

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.


Visiting Detroit, Nathan Lipps May 2019

Visiting Detroit, Nathan Lipps

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.


Rolodexed Apologies For My Ex-Girlfriends, Lucia Lotempio May 2019

Rolodexed Apologies For My Ex-Girlfriends, Lucia Lotempio

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.


In Jackson Heights, My Father Outsmarted Puberty, Bibi Lewis May 2019

In Jackson Heights, My Father Outsmarted Puberty, Bibi Lewis

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.


In The Summer Of 1982, As Told By Dad, Sara Munjack May 2019

In The Summer Of 1982, As Told By Dad, Sara Munjack

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.


Holiday, Isabel Owen May 2019

Holiday, Isabel Owen

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Where A Boundary, Elizabeth Pellegrino May 2019

Where A Boundary, Elizabeth Pellegrino

Gandy Dancer Archives

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A Priest, Joseph Sigurdson May 2019

A Priest, Joseph Sigurdson

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.


Breaking The Fourth Wall, Esther Elizabeth Karram May 2019

Breaking The Fourth Wall, Esther Elizabeth Karram

Masters Theses

This creative, non-fiction thesis is written in memoir form and analyzes how a person perceives reality, how that perception is broken, and how a person copes with the limitations of a new reality. In examining my life, I came to realize that many of my performative tendencies stemmed from a desire to be loved and the belief that love was contingent upon perfection. What follows is my struggle to try to maintain that perfection, the failure to do so, and the slow acceptance of being an imperfect person in an imperfect world.


Merciless: A Crude Hagiography, Lindsey Ann Klessens Appell May 2019

Merciless: A Crude Hagiography, Lindsey Ann Klessens Appell

Boise State University Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is the culmination of a project that began as an attempt to explore my relationship, as a teenager, with the Main Street of my hometown, Roundup, MT. In the process of looking through the Roundup Record-Tribune archives and revisiting adolescent memories, I began to see connective tissue between the autobiographical aspects of this documentary project and the work I had been doing in reclaiming, repurposing, and “translating” folklore and mythology in my poetry. Coming out of classes in Old English and translation theory, I had also developed an interest in experimental and creative translation of early medieval texts, …


The Birthday Boy And Other Boys, Charles Mccrory May 2019

The Birthday Boy And Other Boys, Charles Mccrory

Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Three Poems: Qhuab Ke; I Was Basking In The Lights Of New York City, You Were Buried In Laos; In Pretense, Chelsey See Xiong Apr 2019

Three Poems: Qhuab Ke; I Was Basking In The Lights Of New York City, You Were Buried In Laos; In Pretense, Chelsey See Xiong

Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement

Poems for the living and the dead, in conversation between the two worlds.


[Title Unknown], Mielle Hubbard Apr 2019

[Title Unknown], Mielle Hubbard

The Oval

No abstract provided.


The Battle For Crystal Hill, Parker Spadt Apr 2019

The Battle For Crystal Hill, Parker Spadt

The Oval

No abstract provided.