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Zeilig, Hannah. "Older people and their families in 1920s popular fiction : fictions of age and their importance for social gerontology." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313516.

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Andrade, Emily Y. "Illegal immigration : 6 stories from an American family." Virtual Press, 2007. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1365172.

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Illegal Immigration: Six Stories from an American Family is a collection of stories derived from and inspired by the author's personal life experiences, dreams, and family history, as a Mexican American woman. The stories also hold distinct archetypal patterns, images, storylines and symbolism due to the author's connection to the collective unconscious through meditation. The stories tell character driven stories of adversity, and the search for home, and identity by linking main characters to their family members in each story. The collection as a whole reveals generational patterns, histori

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Moxley, Leanna Gwyn. "High Places." PDXScholar, 2014. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1545.

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Esther Cain is living on her own for the first time, trying to make sense of a childhood as a missionary's daughter in Alaska, a past that was defined by prophecy, visions, and the voice of God as interpreted by her father. Alex Fuller is studying medicine and muddling through a relationship with his first boyfriend. But when Alex and Esther are drawn back to the mountains of South Carolina where they briefly knew each other as children, they must each confront questions of faith, sexuality, and the painful ties of family.

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Johnson, Catherine Ann. "A New Meridian." PDXScholar, 2017. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4006.

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Brogan, Patrick. "Walter's Rules for Getting By." PDXScholar, 2018. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4343.

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This novella focuses on the lives of Walter, his mother Sabine, and his would-be love Bernadette. Walter is an awkward, unemployed thirty-year-old that still lives at home with his mother pressed into the pursuit of love by an obsession with romance novels. Walter is an outstanding cook and dishwasher but has no other notable talents. He eventually finds a job and manages to lose his virginity but changes little otherwise. The narrative is interested in the failures of family, love, and traditional societal expectations. It is interested in seeing and being seen. It is interested in a path aro

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Wensink, Patrick Ronald. "Nine Times Out of Ten, You Don't Die." PDXScholar, 2019. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/5039.

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My novel, "Nine Times Out of Ten, You Don't Die," is the story of Layla Wisnewski and her quest to write a book about her famous father. In the 1970s, "Big Dan" Wisnewski was a motorcycle stuntman who broke more bones than anyone living. He jumped cars and buses and rivers atop a white Harley Davidson. Big Dan was considered an American Hero. Fast forward forty years, Big Dan has been dead for decades, and his daughter Layla is writing a book about his life. While researching the book, she learns she was kidnapped as a baby. This triggers a domino effect that leads Layla on a trail to uncover

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Miller, Laura Anne. "The Let Going: Death, Buddhism and Connection." PDXScholar, 2014. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1800.

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After turning forty and the unexpected death of her father, the narrator seeks to make sense of the story of her father's life and her own. Reflections on Buddhism, death, family history and community flow through the narrator's journey from the backcountry of the Colorado Rocky Mountains to the rolling farmland of the Midwest, from a retreat center in Oregon to the ancient geography of Wisconsin's Driftless Area. With clues gathered from her family home in Waterloo, Iowa, the narrator returns to her current home in Portland, where she comes to understand for herself the significance of the ph

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Pfaff-Shalmiyev, Sophia. "] To Mother." PDXScholar, 2015. http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2535.

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Four weeks before the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 an eleven-year-old flees the Soviet Union with her young father. As political refugee determined to eventually settle in the United States they hastily abandon the girl's estranged alcoholic mother, future stepmother, their friends and relatives, their collection of books and all but a handful of family photographs. She eventually attempts to seek out and recover the people, ideas and objects lost on that voyage to America by going back to a much changed Russia and stitching together the scattered and forgotten pieces in between her old

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Barry, Juli. "American families in fact and fiction : decentering a constrictive ideal /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9835407.

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Engammare, Juliette. "Familles de part et d'autre de l'écran : fiction, expérience et transmission." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCA176.

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Ce travail est une confrontation. Une rencontre entre familles réelles et familles fictionnelles par écran interposé, afin de comprendre comment l’expérience fictionnelle interagit avec l’expérience de la vie. À cet effet, nous avons mené une enquête auprès de sept familles du Nord-Pas-de-Calais et avons choisi trois séries significatives en matière de représentations familiales, fortement plébiscitées par toutes les chaînes du groupe M6 et dont les circonstances de diffusion les réunissent à plus d’un titre : La petite maison dans la prairie (NBC, 1974-1984), Malcolm in the middle (FOX, 2000-

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Welch, Alisa Eve. "Short Stories." PDXScholar, 2012. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/811.

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In these six intertwining fictional short stories, one fateful decision ripples through the lives of multiple generations. Annie is an unmarried young mother during World War II when she leaves her young daughter in the care of a childless couple. When Annie fails to return for the child after days and then years, a new and fragile family is formed only to be tested by Annie's eventual return. The other stories in this collection follow the daughters and granddaughters who have to navigate their own lives in the shadow of this abandonment. Spanning multiple decades, Annie's decision remains a

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McDaniel, Ferris W. "Whatever It Is We're Competing For." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2017. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2345.

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Ye, Qing. "Reading Bodies: Aesthetics, Gender, and Family in the Eighteenth-Century Chinese Novel Guwangyan (Preposterous Words)." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/20508.

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This dissertation focuses on the Mid-Qing novel Guwangyan (Preposterous Words, preface dated, 1730s) which is a newly discovered novel with lots of graphic sexual descriptions. Guwangyan was composed between the publication of Jin Ping Mei (The Plum in the Golden Vase, 1617) and Honglou meng (Dream of the Red Chamber, 1791). These two masterpieces represent sexuality and desire by presenting domestic life in polygamous households set within a larger social landscape. This dissertation explores the factors that shifted the literary discourse from the pornographic description of sexuality in Jin

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Derrick, Sandra Kelly. "Motherland: Collected Stories." PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1216.

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Collected Stories revolves around characters in Pennsylvania, California, and Oregon. Though the stories are not linked, the theme of displacement and abandonment are explored throughout my work. Characters are displaced, such as Vietnam veterans and Russian international students living in America. Some protagonists are displaced simply by the actions or circumstances of their parents. Such parents choose not to act as parental figures or have passed away, leaving the children to figure out their roles in their families. The children decide, essentially, how to redefine themselves.

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Coleman, Britta M. "Prudence Stories." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2008. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12099/.

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This collection of three original short stories is an excerpt from a novel about an East Texas family whose common bond is the need for a second chance. A preface dealing with the use of setting as a character precedes the short stories.

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Cowgill, Geoff. "The grim word : 'home' in fiction by Graham Greene /." View online, 2008. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131461671.pdf.

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Warren, Sean Patrick. "Since I've Been Away." PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1093.

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The remains of James Oliver Plunkett are dug up one night from their grave at Mount Calvary Cemetery by two college adjunct writing professors, Bob Rusher and Phil Pike. Having chopped through Plunkett's coffin with a pick, Rusher lifts Plunkett's skeleton from the coffin and pronounces his name--and in this moment Plunkett returns to consciousness as a cognitive vapor. The reason that Plunkett has been dug up is hinted at: After writing many unpublished novels and stories during his lifetime, and dying utterly anonymous, Plunkett's fiction has somehow been posthumously published, to great acc

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Morgan, Verity. "'The nature of things'." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1999.

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This is the story of Beth. And Beth's father, Jack. Her earliest memory is of her mother making a lot of noise. At first it makes her cry. Then her mother is there, picking her up and rocking her. Her mother is warm and soft. 'It's all right, it's all right Bethy.' She puts her hand up to feel the red stuff on her mother's mouth. It sticks to her fingers. Wet and warm. It tastes of salt when she puts them in her mouth. Her mother smiles and Bethy is happy. Then her father puts his hand, and it is a big hand, on her head and sings. 'Tu ra Lura Lura. Tu ra lu ra li. Tu ra lu ra lu ra.' He sings

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Gjellstad, Melissa L. "Mothering at millennium's end : family in 1990s Norwegian literature /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6581.

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Phillips, Noelle. "Families, fictions, and seeing through things : re-reading Langland, Chaucer, and the Pearl-Poet." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/33280.

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This dissertation explores the generation of meaning in medieval texts and suggests ways in which we can regenerate that meaning by deploying medieval hermeneutic models. Unlike previous scholarship in this particular area, much of which focuses upon how scholasticism and the classical inheritance influenced medieval reading practices, this project brings together two relatively new theoretical models in order to re-evaluate our understanding of some well-trodden ground: the work of William Langland, Geoffrey Chaucer, and the Pearl-Poet. These two models are genealogy and thing theory – two pe

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Mondok, Larisse. "About Home." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1556055157714489.

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Newberry, Rachael Louise. "'Hunger is nothing' : the politics of food and famine in the 1840's : mid-nineteenth century fictional narratives of consumption, abnegation and desire." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.423020.

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Soldan, William R. "In Just the Right Light." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1491431274838911.

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Lettera, Christopher A. "Carlini." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1342553175.

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Haugen, Hayley Mitchell. "Writing the "self-determined" life representing the self in disability narratives by Leonard Kriegel and Nancy Mairs /." Ohio : Ohio University, 2006. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1147369805.

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De, Monte James B. "Dago Red." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1240241112.

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Pinot, Anne. "Expérience et sens du déracinement dans l’œuvre romanesque de Dostoïevski et de Bernanos." Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040045.

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Les romans de Dostoïevski et de Bernanos se rencontrent sur la frontière fragile de la littérature et de la métaphysique ; l’incarnation des personnages dans des espaces et des lieux que leurs cœurs troublés contaminent donne au texte son symbolisme essentiel, qui n’est ni le « paysage choisi » romantique, ni l’espace surdéterminé des réalistes. L’incarnation ne contredit pas les règles de la création romanesque, puissamment remodelées par les deux auteurs, mais les refondent dans des histoires familiales archétypales où la maison paternelle peut être le lieu d’un meurtre moral initial. Derriè

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Pillainayagam, Priyanthan A. "The After Effects of Colonialism in the Postmodern Era: Competing Narratives and Celebrating the Local in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1337874544.

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O'Mealia, Sean. "Consuming fictions : trauma and ideology in Irish famine literature /." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10288/1256.

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Kotwasińska, Agnieszka. "Transformations of the Family in Contemporary American Horror Fiction by Women." Doctoral thesis, 2017. https://depotuw.ceon.pl/handle/item/1898.

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Abstract My doctoral dissertation concerns the transformation of familial structures in contemporary American horror fiction by women. The starting point of my analysis was the acknowledgment of certain gaps in horror scholarship, namely, the exclusion of women’s works and the virtual lack of family-themed analyses. The three main goals of my dissertation were then as follows: the close analysis of genre boundaries within the horror canon and its thematic subgenres, the recovery of forgotten or little known women writers of horror, and, finally, the exploration of the role and place of interp

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van, Toledo Samara. "Schooling sexuality: an intergenerational investigation of the educational experiences of Australian gay men and teens." Thesis, 2021. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/42966/.

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This study (re)presents the intergenerational experiences of gay men in Australian schools, communities and families across a fifty-year period. A snowball sample of six participants, ranging in age from fifteen to sixty-five, participated in life history interviews that focussed on eliciting narratives of (re)membered school experiences connected to the social and cultural discourses of (homo)sexuality. This study contributes to the scholarship of sexuality in Australian contexts. A particular gaze is directed on how schooling, family and community norms form and storm subjectivity and identi

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