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This collection of personal essays and short fiction investigates a post-9/11 America locked in forever war. Centered upon the American veteran and the veteran family experience, Anchor & Knife showcases wide-ranging narratives that...
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...
In The Eight of Swords, a novel, Meredith Sutton finds herself a single mother with no job and no place to live after her husband pleads guilty to several types of theft, leaving her to return to the bank their mobile home and the land...
Darwin Walking Backward follows Nolan and Elsa Grey, estranged half-siblings, whose father is suspected of drowning himself off Leap’s Island. Their father was an eminent evolutionary biologist whose fall from grace led him to Leap’s, ...
My dissertation research focuses on how students create knowledge in a classroom community, more specifically how taking an online course impacts students' learning and ultimately, students' knowledge making. Since the online course...
U.S./Southeast Asian exile narratives, or "refugee literature, tend to be classified as autobiographies, testimonials and personal narratives, and not with other literary genres such as the pastoral. Pastoral representations of the...
The poems in this thesis manuscript deal specifically and theoretically with the concept of finality, and echo influences as varied as Robert Haas, Harvey Shapiro, and Paul Auster. The poems investigate the many forms, structures, ...
The evolution of the concept of penance during the Middle Ages in England reflects the influence of many geopolitical sources, as well as the expanding influence/maturation of the Roman Catholic Church and the development of sacramental...
“The dislocation of man in the modern age”: The Pilgrim Condition and Mid-Twentieth Century American Catholic Literature highlights the ways in which the major Catholic voices in mid-twentieth century America—Flannery O’Connor, Walker...
My theis is a collection of five stories, centered around the eponymous "What Is Visible, which title speaks for all of the work. Three are modern, hyperurban tales; one is set in 1850, and another is a road story.
Maison is a collection of poems that operates as a novel in verse. As such, the collection probes the construction of genre, the possibility of using linguistic play as a narrative tool, and the reinvention of traditional poetic forms...
This dissertation is a creative non-fiction manuscript following in the combined literary traditions of the American Captivity Narrative (e.g., Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl), Hélène Cixous's écriture feminine, ...
During the twentieth century, American literature witnessed a transformation in representations of apocalypticism and nature. The apocalypse changed from a theological, divine force to a secular, manmade crisis and nature was no longer...
The poems in Else are lyric explorations of paradox. Specifically, they meditate on the idea that what gives comfort also has the potential to cause great harm. The central focus of the collection is a troubled relationship, but regional...
This dissertation explores questions about how writing about life, loss, and experience leads to growth in students as both writers and thinkers. Through a qualitative teacher research study, Hodges Hamilton examines how a writing...
The Plum Queen is a historical novel submitted as a creative dissertation in fiction. It traces a complex, lifelong friendship between two women: Phoebe Eberhardt, the heiress to an agricultural fortune, and Lenore Foster, the brilliant...
American Thunder is a collection of narrative lyric poems broken into four sections according to thematic, tonal, and formal patterns and tied together as one manuscript by its speakers' concerns with community, violence, embodiment, ...
The poems in this manuscript synthesize three locations in my experience. These locations embody some combination of geography, space, and time specific to the South (Georgia), Southern California, and my heart. The heart is ultimately...
A collection of short stories detailing backpackers in foreign countries, Dominican Americans coming to terms with their identity both here and abroad, and the quintessential American return to home.
A Season in Hell with Rimbaud forms an allegorical travelogue that chronicles two brothers' mutual descent into hell. When the older brother runs off by himself, the younger brother begins roaming Hell's different landscapes in search of...
In this thesis project, I explore the rhetorical consequences of mixed race Black people's racialization in Pre-Reconstruction nineteenth century. Toward this end, I ask: How did the language surrounding mixed race Black people's...
This collection of short stories is set in Cabo Verde, California, New York, Massachusetts, and Missouri. It tells the stories of, among other people, a young woman disillusioned with her boyfriend’s struggle to live a moral life, and a...
Woman by the Water and Other Stories is a collection of four short stories that range in setting from a touristy beach town in the Florida Gulf to a party school in northern Appalachia, and from old-fashioned Midwestern suburbia to a...
Sequent Introduction is a rejection of Richard Rorty's assertion that traditional philosophical problems are no longer of use. This text is strong poetry, introducing new vocabularies and metaphors to redescribe traditional philosophical...
The poems in Dear Exorcist are derived from my own experience. The poems portray the struggle of working class individuals as well as my desire for self-actualization after recovering from physical, spiritual, and verbal abuse. As...
Through an application of Kenneth Burke's theory of dramatism, my study identifies in the first-person shooter (FPS) game genre what I call visual tropes: the repeated use of specific visual situations to provide cues and instruction to...
In an effort to enhance disciplinary understanding of agency especially for women, recover evidence of women exercising agency historically, and shed light on current debates concerning the interaction between word and image in rhetoric, ...
Children's literature emerged as a new genre in the eighteenth century. In order to break away from the unrealistic and non-educational fiction available and attractive to children, writers began to create rational tales. John Locke's...
The poems in the dissertation 81st Division explore British colonialism and its legacy in Nigeria. The dissertation adopts various European poetic styles as a way of acknowledging European influences in Nigeria while breaking the rules...
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 response to a need within the field of composition studies within the Anglosphere (the English-speaking world) for further investigation into the teaching of composition in non-Anglo contexts, this thesis seeks to provide a...
Beasts in the Dark is a collection of poems held together by an elemental voice in search of identity. Multiple selves are revealed on the journey for identity, and the poems ask hard questions, probe into suffering corners of human want...
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...
In order to survive the perpetual abuse and subjugation of a White supremacist patriarchy, Black women have historical operated within the ideological framework of Black Feminist Thought. The onset of colonial expansion, along with the...
This thesis opens for speculation the idea, largely neglected in scholarly research to this date, that women were instrumental in creating and administering the basic and complex magical/medical procedures in Anglo-Saxon society, not...
This dissertation argues that the rhetoric of the transatlantic birth control movement has roots in the aesthetics of literary modernism. Not only did Anglo-American modernism and the birth control movement come of age at the same moment...
Set in rural North Carolina, BEWILDERNESS explores the current opioid crisis and the link between addiction and trauma, specifically PTSD and sexual assault. Narrating the story is Irene, a part-time food server who pairs a cynical...
This study is an attempt to provide a new alternative to understanding the way that motherhood and the mother-daughter relationship is drawn and conceptualized in Caribbean Women's Writing in relationship to propertied relationships that...
My thesis project, titled Crumbling Masculinities: Adaptations, Filtration, and the Crisis of Masculinity, addresses the construction of masculinity through what I label "filtration." By building on the work of gender scholars like...
With the theme of leaving home to return home, my dissertation starts with my memory of being born like a stranger in the extended family and growing up as an only child in Wuhan, the hometown’s history and current struggle examined...
Originally Nothing is a poetry collection that traces the intersection of immigrant experience, place, obsession, distance, loss, and avoidance through a balance of lyric, narrative, minimalist, and serial modes. The book’s core second...
Some saints have poverty. Others, the ill or indigent. Evelyn Ellenberger has herself. This novel deals with themes of asceticism and sainthood as the main character, Evelyn, experiences mystic visions of St. Catherine of Siena and tries...
In the United States authors whose work concerns ethnicity face a host of problems, of which the most obvious remains the preconceived notion that ethnicthemed literature is subordinate to Eurocentric literary work. Despite continued...
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...
Playing House: Stories is a collection of short fiction submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the MFA. Each story stands on its own and features a unique protagonist, but some commonalities in theme and subject matter...
The poems in the dissertation manuscript Odd Bloom Seen From Space, are, among other things, lyric pursuits of the author's fascination with the uncanny. They shape experiences of "intellectual uncertainty" in language, and seek to...
This is a novel that takes place primarily in 1947 – 1948—the immediate postwar period—in a fictional British Caribbean island named St. Francis. St. Francis, while a distinct fictional space, is strongly based off the island I grew up...
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