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Grim Reaper, Carl Beauchamp

Bryant Literary Review

It's only natural
A black gown
And sharp sickle

Contributors

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.

Blocked: Short Story Manuscript, Christopher Hazle-Cary

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

Blocked is a manuscript of short stories designed to explore conceptions of selfhood as represented in the fictional story. In the manuscript, I investigate issues of performance and authority as they relate to how characters define themselves in relation to the other—both the other characters in the story as well as the socio-cultural structures they have come to inhabit.

The loss of authority is a theme that I explore throughout my work. I am interested in authority as another aspect of performance—another role that people play, a mask (or face) that they take on. It also relates directly to the …

Among The Stars, Bradley Cook

Boise State University Theses and Dissertations

The left-fielder lays the boy’s things across the passenger seat: a jersey worn by the left-fielder two seasons ago, an autographed baseball in a glass cube, new glove. He folds the note from the boy’s father and slides it into his shirt pocket. Errands: bank deposit, clothes to the cleaners, a list from his wife of items at the store—bread, coffee, Capri Sun for Karl’s lunches. He sits behind the wheel and watches Karl, his son, roughhouse with the neighbor kid. His son is tough, like he used to be. Different neighborhoods, but boys can be tough anywhere. The left-fielder …

Room, Vallie Lynn Watson

Dissertations

Room is a short novel written at The University of Southern Mississippi. It is accompanied by a critical preface.

5ive Minutes To Madalyn: Why Do You Have A Lantern?, Calliope

Calliope

No abstract provided.

Wraith Walking, Jason Coley

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

With this work I wanted to explore the space between memory and imagination: namely, how much imagination fills the fissures that run though our knowledge of our past. The protagonist, Joshua, has been estranged from his family for nine years and learns of his father's death while in China. But without explanation, Joshua is awaken one morning by an old fabrication of his childhood imagination--a character now very real--who accompanies Joshua on his search for a fantastical object.

Pareidolia is the phenomenon of seeing figures and faces in vague stimulus, such as clouds and wood grains. It is commonly believed …

Circuit Rider, Kimberley Harris Idol

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

An historical novel set at the end of the American Civil War focusing on the week between President Lincoln's assassination and John Wilkes Booth's death. The backdrop of the story is comprised of the historical events and political figures that shaped this period in time in America. The plot is also configured around the fictional histories of three young souls, the spirit of a murdered Chinese immigrant girl, and a brother and sister who's home in the Appalachians was destroyed during the war. All three are escaping the devastating consequences of the war and seeking a new start in the …

Mind The Gap: And 2 Other Mysteries, Jared Brown

IWU Authors Bookshelf

Mind the Gap, a novel, concerns a murder that occurs in London in 2001. Eight students from a university, accompanied by two faculty members, take a "theatrical tour" of London and Stratford, during which they see and discuss twelve plays. But their tour is ruined when one member of the group is murdered. The two other mysteries in Mind the Gap and 2 Other Mysteries, "The Value of Books" and "Midtown Detectives," are relatively brief -- longer than short stories, but decidedly shorter than novels. They both present intriguing tales of suspense, and both are written in styles …

Hair Trigger 31, Columbia College Chicago

Hair Trigger

An anthology, edited by students, featuring the fiction, prose and creative non-fiction work of students, alumni, and staff. Editors: Joshua Alletto, Jeffrey Brennan, Shana Cooper, Sheree L. Greer, Brooke Hennen, Nadine Kenney, Nicolette Kittinger, James Lower, Santiago Martinez, Ingrid Rojas, Ilana Shabanov, Stephanie Shaw. Cover photograph: Dave Anderson. 304 pages.

Santa Clara Review, Vol. 96, No. 2, Santa Clara University

Santa Clara Review

No abstract provided.

The Lantern Vol. 76, No. 2, Spring 2009, Chelsea Catalanotto, Robert Whitehead, Callie Ingram, Paul Rossman, Katherine Murphy, Maire Moriarty, Pete Lipsi, Josh Aungst, Nathan Taylor, Ellyn Rolleston, Liz Brennan, Nicole Dillie, Stephanie Bartusis, Robert Evans, Amber Hyppolite, Kevin Bendis, Christopher Schaeffer, Shane Kowalski

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Coffee and Morning
• Charlie Brown Testifies at the Trial of Westley Allan Dodd, Convicted Child Killer
• In a Women's Bathroom
• The Naming
• An Urban Nightmare
• In the Yellow Kitchen
• City Streets
• Engineering
• Walter Bixby Walks Through Hunsberger Woods
• Sing a Happy Tune
• Apology
• Will You Wear a Helmet?!
• Molly Can't Answer the Phone
• Marked Man
• He's Under a Lot of Pressure
• Ne Me Quitte Pas
• Last Night
• All of Our Second Hand Books are Lightly Worn

2009 Spring Quiz And Quill Magazine, Otterbein English Department

Quiz and Quill

No abstract provided.

Man Of Steel, Bryan M. Furuness

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

No abstract available.

Skunk River Review 2008-2009, Vol 21, Jonathan Mills, Trent Ray, Donnie Deaton, Ryan Dornbusch, Frank Mcnew, Shonna Peters, Merlin Serrano, Leonard Glover, Rachel Cordes, Julie Van Cleave, Shelby Blackford, Carter Vos, Andrew Robertson, Kim Bell

Skunk River Review

No abstract provided.

Nakajima Atsushi Influences Of Romanticism And Taoism, Evelyn Huang

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

Abstract Nakajima Atsushi (1909-1942) is an erudite writer who has combined Eastern and Western thoughts in his short stories. This thesis focuses on the influences of Romanticism and Taoism on his writings. Nakajima is skeptical of civilization and yearns for a natural and simple existence. The concepts central to Nakajima's works as articulated by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Lao Tzu are introduced in chapter l. Chapter 2 examines Nakajima's upbringing and the influences of his family, education, and work on him, as well as his thoughts revealed in his autobiographical fiction. His nostalgia for the past and nature, which concurs with …

Reaching For The Sun, Elise Hopkins

Undergraduate Research Conference

No abstract provided.

Chasing Martins, Jade Hellen

Honors Capstones

Capstone submitted as a graduation requirement for the BSU Honors Program.

Westview: Vol. 29, Iss. 2 (Fall/Winter 2009)

Westview

No abstract provided.

The Flats Of Paradise, Pamela Baker

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The Flats of Paradise is a collection of personal essays exploring the interconnectivity between humans, land, identity, and belonging. Through the perspective of my experience as a nurse, these essays probe the friction created when borders rub up against each and the comforts gained through connections both spiritual and physical. "Avoiding the Stepladder," for example, examines a near lightning strike on a mountain in relation to the potential pain caused by the human need for touch. "The Dust Trail," a meditation upon various traditions for disposing of the placenta (burning vs. burying), also looks at the problem of finding home …

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.

Silence As Insubordination: Friday And Michael K’S Wordless Weapon, A Post-Colonial Approach Toj.M. Coetzee’S Foe And Life And Times Of Michael K, Cody C. Mullins

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

While most critics of J.M. Coetzee’s fiction focus on silence as a weapon of imperial oppressive forces to subjugate representations of the "other," this thesis argues that, on the contrary, characters representing the traditional colonially oppressed use their silence as a weapon to in turn oppress the representations of imperial power. Through close reading explication and the use of the post-colonial theories of both Homi Bhabha and Edward Said, I focus on the inverted oppression, the shifting of identity, and the role of authorial authority within the novels, Foe and Life & Times of Michael K. By engaging in this …

Table Of Contents (V. 17, 2009)

Intertext

No abstract provided.

Volume 41 (2009), C. V. Davis

The Broad River Review

The 2009 edition of The Broad River Review was edited by C. V. Davis. The publication contains fiction, non-fiction, art, poetry, and photography. The cover, "Crossroads, 14th Street Series," was painted by Trudy Roth. The winner of the J. Calvin Koontz Poetry Award, given annually for a portfolio of poetry to a senior English major, is Lauren Quesenberry. The Broad River Review Editor's Prizes in Fiction and Poetry are chosen among all submissions from Gardner-Webb University students. The winner of the Editor's prize in Poetry is Sarajane Burroughs for her work titled, "Daddy." The winner of the Editor's Prize in …

Flaming Red Wig, Carla Christina Howl

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

"Flaming Red Wig" is a collection of short stories and prose poems with a critical preface. Both the preface and the creative work explore notions of artifice, apposition and entering into a text (both written and character) with stillness or intrusion. I try to create an examination and communion with language on much the same level, ultimately yielding a musicality that creates a rhythmic discourse and dynamic between the significance and the notion. The title of my thesis refers to the obvious motif of artifice and the reoccurring theme of emotional pain attached to gender and humanistic role within specific …

The Perception Of Aids, Margaret Spinosa

Intertext

No abstract provided.

Litmag 2008-09, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

Litmag

Litmag is a student-run literary magazine published annually each spring through the English Department. Our purpose is to promote the creative work of students and staff and increase awareness of the ever-present literary talent on UMSL’s campus. We aim to produce a high quality journal that gives emerging writers and artists a venue to display their work and experience the world of professional publishing.

Santa Clara Review, Vol. 96, No. 1, Santa Clara University

Santa Clara Review

No abstract provided.

The Spectrum Of My Identity, Sable Nerette

Intertext

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I Believe, Stephanie Belk

Intertext

No abstract provided.