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Selections from Inventions in the Key of C is a collection of essays about cancer and issues related to cancer. Books on the topic of cancer are plentiful. There are a number of narrative memoirs including The Red Devil, by Kathryn...
It seems as though I always hearken back to the same themes, in whatever I write. This mix of genres I have pieced together hinges off the idea of how there is what is, and how we perceive it to be. I feel that the non-fiction piece is...
In My Own Hands is a novel that follows the life of Abbie, a young woman with an overbearing, needy mother and absentee father. As a young child Abbie witnesses the abuse of her mother at the hands of her biological father. While seh...
This thesis documents and analyzes events ignited by complaints to the Florida Elections Commission (FEC) against the fledgling, independent newspaper, The Wakulla Independent Reporter; its publisher, Julia Hanway; and her business, ...
Authority is a much contested concept often connected to notions of violence and control, and it emanates variably from class, institution, and now—as I argue—from digital convergence, which is the availability and shareability of...
This dissertation collects stories that range from traditional realism to more experimental forms often exhibited by contemporary fiction, but never to the point of breaking what John Gardner defines as the "vivid and continuous dream"...
The premise for this short novel, The Afterlife, with Harry Houdini, derives from the legend that Houdini made a pact with his wife, Bess, to return to her and explain his experience after death; also, from the fact that he died on...
A book of poetry that uses avant-garde, post-modernist writing practices such as fragmented syntax, disjunctive narrative, a multiplicity of speakers and collage to explore female American identity in the 21st century as a historical...
The Age of Strongmen is the opening excerpt of a novel in progress. The excerpt covers the opening four chapters and follows the parallel stories of two characters: Jules, the child of a poor woman and a delinquent father; and Sunra, ...
My thesis is a collection of five short stories, each dealing with characters who continue to wrestle with issues from their youths, specifically unresolved conflicts with their parents that affect their present lives. Having lived in...
My thesis consists of three essays: "Dennis, Would You Take a Quick Look at This, and Community Center." I also have included four short stories: "The British Are Coming, Like Frankenstein, Woman's World, and Auto-Man." The...
The late nineteenth and early twentieth century in America is an interesting time when examined through the lens of property ownership and self ownership. Technically and legally, married women could own property and many had enjoyed...
This dissertation is a collection of short stories that take place in Vietnam and the United States. The stories are small in scope: narrated in either the first-person or close-third person, they are centered on the family and romantic...
The Fabian Strategy is a short, dystopian novel following Henry Byrne as he attempts to rebuild his life after a tragic war and the decine of American civilization.
Despite This Pearl is a memoir inspired by the incidental discovery of a brain tumor. Living with the constant possibility, the constant probability, of the tumor growing and one day requiring surgical removal incites the author to...
When news of the most recent Kuomingtang invasion arrived, Ping and the other platoon members were more interested in its carrier, a new comrade that would join their unit--a girl this time--named Yong. She had transferred to Iron Well...
This work is a collection of five short stories, each of which deal in some way with romantic love. This is not to say that these are all typical "love stories, wherein characters pursue each other in various ways for the purpose of...
Selections From Keri Pack: Stories From the Tomato Field is a collection of works based on my experiences as a child growing up in the world of agriculture and near the Everglades, it is a memoir about my life and my family's 57 years in...
This manuscript is a novella entitled, After the Sun Fell, which traces the early lives of its two main characters, Shin Moon-Cha, a young Korean girl who meets, falls in love, and marries an American Soldier, Robert Asher, and moves...
Comic books printed during the 1930s and 40s contained stories and characters that supported the New Deal and America's entry into World War II. Though comic books are typically seen solely as reflections of the decades; the comic books, ...
A young man is recovering after breaking up with his dear love. He soon becomes deeply involved with an intriguing new love interest. She is also being pursued by a free-spirited wanderer. The earlier love reappears in our hero's life...
This thesis examines aspects of American culture and society in Post-Revolutionary upstate New York through the lens of James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Pioneers. While scholars have looked to The Pioneers as an object of literary...
These stories use history as a backdrop to explore the push and pull of relationships both romantic and familial, setting individual sorrow and happiness against some of humanity's greatest achievements and failures. Several stories...
The poems in The Lubbock I Carry primarily operate according to traditional free-verse poetic convention, working to render, as a means of both illumination and interrogation, the emotional and physical landscapes of the past, how they...
This thesis is a collection of lyric poetry and personal essays. The two genres are spliced together in a design intended to use their visual differences and contextual similarities to more fully understand the people, places, and events...
This dissertation examines the psychological repercussions of the collapse of regional, tradition-oriented unitary narratives and the rise of a mass consumer culture during the early 20th century in America. I demonstrate that there is a...
Florida Stories is a collection of short fiction that takes as its setting the most distinctive state in the union. In Miami, a physicist is forced to face his inability to love; in Palm Beach, a girl relates the aftermath of her tragedy...
The novel focuses on the story of a group of fifteen year olds living in the same hallway at a prestigious, international, all-girls, catholic boarding school in Geneva the spring Azeneth, a new student, arrives. The story is told from...
The stories comprising the dissertation manuscript, Hellions, for the most part take place in the skewered and surreal landscape of Florida, a south not quite the south, but instead a swampy terra incognita that reflects the dislocation...
My Heart is With You in This Sad Time is a collection of first-person narratives with female protagonists set in the Florida panhandle. While their ages, educations, socioeconomic levels and domestic circumstances vary greatly, they are...
This thesis examines the ways in which the underground newspapers of the late 1960s corroborated the growing sentiment that movement women were not considered as valuable to the revolution as movement men, thereby helping the then...
My thesis contains one novella and two short stories about only children in China. My novella is woven around a Chinese only child with needles in her head. Not long after Fang left home for college, she meets a doctor who finds out that...
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