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Strangers And Intimates: A Collection Of Short Stories, Kathy Marie West Nov 2009

Strangers And Intimates: A Collection Of Short Stories, Kathy Marie West

Theses and Dissertations

This creative thesis includes five short stories that explore paradoxical ways in which people can feel alone, even if they are together. Although a combination of isolation and intimacy can occur in any human relationship, the stories in this collection spend much of their time with family circles in particular, considering the way that our closest, most permanent relationships can simultaneously prove the most intimate and the most isolating. The critical introduction that precedes the collection examines each story individually, discussing strategies and subject matter in terms of the collection's guiding concept. The introduction discusses the binary of intimacy and …


The Song Of Louise Blue Feather, Zan Bockes May 2009

The Song Of Louise Blue Feather, Zan Bockes

Bryant Literary Review

I played violin in high school.


Exposed, Michelle Soucy May 2009

Exposed, Michelle Soucy

Bryant Literary Review

This should have been a clue, an omen.


The Last Transgression, William Peacock May 2009

The Last Transgression, William Peacock

Bryant Literary Review

August 31. Valerie cut her foot on a shell this afternoon and acted like she was going to die.


Counting, Mitzi Mcmahon May 2009

Counting, Mitzi Mcmahon

Bryant Literary Review

Counting is important. Not that you're able to count because an idiot can count.


One More Time For Donny Deadborne, Stephen Roger Powers May 2009

One More Time For Donny Deadborne, Stephen Roger Powers

Bryant Literary Review

I'm a feature comedian.


Karel And Eva, Michael Pikna May 2009

Karel And Eva, Michael Pikna

Bryant Literary Review

I wake up next to Eva again but I don't remember getting into bed with her or how dad's gun got into my left hand which is crazy I know.


Young Boy Riding The Wave Of Desire Out Of This Poem, Ken Meisel May 2009

Young Boy Riding The Wave Of Desire Out Of This Poem, Ken Meisel

Bryant Literary Review

The young boy who is about ten years old and sitting on the front step of a burned house and bouncing a small rubber ball on the charred garbage strewn sidewalk


Jerome And The Angel, Jennifer Anne Moses May 2009

Jerome And The Angel, Jennifer Anne Moses

Bryant Literary Review

Jerome had two secrets, both of them so beautiful that he wanted to burst open, just burst right open at the seams, spilling himself everywhere, all over the floor


How Far Is Home, Robin Caine May 2009

How Far Is Home, Robin Caine

Bryant Literary Review

Her younger sister, Beth, met a Venezuelan man at a wedding, where she was a bridesmaid and he was the best man.


The Other Betty, Pat Schultheis May 2009

The Other Betty, Pat Schultheis

Bryant Literary Review

Grow old and you'll become a stranger to yourself.


Colfax With The Sound Off, Erika T. Wurth May 2009

Colfax With The Sound Off, Erika T. Wurth

Bryant Literary Review

Pushing his head out of her lap, she stands.


A Critic In Her Own Right: Taking Virginia Woolf's Literary Criticism Seriously, Yvonne Nicole Richter Apr 2009

A Critic In Her Own Right: Taking Virginia Woolf's Literary Criticism Seriously, Yvonne Nicole Richter

English Theses

Considered mostly ancillary to her fiction, Virginia Woolf’s prolific career in literary criticism has rarely been studied in its entirety and in its own right. This study situates her in the common critical practices of her day and crystallizes basic tenets and a critical theory of sorts from her critical journalism published 1904–1928: the author argues that Woolf does not advocate a policing role for the critic, but rather that critics foster art in collaboration with readers and writers. Finally, this work discusses Woolf’s appeal to writers to invest all their energy in improving their skills in character portrayal to …


Angelic Demons: Witchcraft And Sorcery In Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, Melanie Bussiere Jan 2009

Angelic Demons: Witchcraft And Sorcery In Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, Melanie Bussiere

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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