Dissertations / Theses: 'Other creative arts and writing'

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Feger, Phil. "Fairdealing: Book One and Other Stories." VCU Scholars Compass, 2014. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/590.

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The following is a collection of works of fiction set mostly in Western Kentucky, with one short story taking place in Richmond, Virginia, in the year 2063. No characters in this collecting of fiction is meant to depict any real, live person, and no setting is meant to portray an existing place on earth. These works were written between February, 2012, and April, 2014.

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Wells, Logan Scott. "Among the Stars and Other Stories." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1524325230197327.

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Kabot, Joel. "Hemlock and Other Stories." VCU Scholars Compass, 2012. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/401.

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Hemlock and Other Stories is a collection of short stories focusing primarily on the importance of geography and cultural identity in modern America. Other stories explore similar themes but contain international and/or historical settings. Ultimately, most characters in the selected stories must find ways to reconcile heritage with present-day demands.

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Lager, Amanda Rene. "Renovations and Other Stories." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5385.

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Renovations and Other Stories is a linked collection of ten fiction stories that examines the ways by which women renew or restore themselves. The collection is set in the imaginary city of St. Clair, South Carolina, a town balancing historical accuracy with the sensational tourist industry; Carolinians who trace their ancestries back to the American Revolution with suburban newcomers; and the notion of cherishing the past with moving forward. Many of the characters struggle with identity, whether it is regional or feminine individuality. The protagonists must challenge self-image when faced with situations that make them reconsider their places in their marriages, schools, jobs, and in their lives. Relationships among women, especially mother-daughter bonds, are an important motif throughout the collection. These stories cover the lifetimes of two generations of Carolinian women. A baker struggles to break free of her Northern transient upbringing. A history student yearns to escape her past as a victim of bullying to form a new, confident identity while saying goodbye to her estranged mother. Another girl explores the confused social politics of the South which alienate her from a childhood friend. I intend to examine, through fiction, how people come to appreciate one another, often a moment too late, and how sometimes we completely misunderstand ourselves.
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M.F.A.
Masters
English
Arts and Humanities
Creative Writing

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Childress, Catherine Pritchard. "Other: Poems." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1138.

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This creative thesis is a collection of original poems entitled Other. The poems in Other reflect my study of the aesthetics of poetry as well as that of how women are represented as poets and as the subject of poems. Some of these poems are the product of my particular interest in the use of persona. Most reflect my desire to achieve self-reflection, to write from my experiences and perception, while still maintaining the universality that is an essential element of successful poems. The critical introduction situates my poems within the framework of the poetic mode Personal Classicism—poetry that is emotionally based but relies on formal techniques and controlled elements in order to maintain distance. My primary goal in the critical introduction is to link my poems to the Personal Classicist lineage, which includes H.D., Elizabeth Bishop, and Louise Gluck – to whom I will pay particular attention.

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Kinkade, Natalie. "Fox Dreams and Other Essays." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1620380678047587.

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Horack, Bruce. "Grand Isle." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2011. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/820.

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A novel about a man injured while working on an oilrig in the Gulf of Mexico, set primarily in Louisiana, Nevada, and California. While recovering from his injury, the protagonist is contacted by his dead brother’s daughter—a person whom he did not know existed—and he journeys to San Francisco in search of her.

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Forkapa, Dan. "The Other Side of Fun." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1513106622529833.

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Mattingly, Stacy. "The hit and other writing." Thesis, Boston University, 2012. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/32034.

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Thesis (M.F.A.)--Boston University. Please note: creative writing theses are permanently embargoed in OpenBU. No public access is forecasted for these. To request private access, please click on the locked Download file link and fill out the appropriate web form.
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Ayars, Katherine. "The burgundy room and other stories." Thesis, Boston University, 2012. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/31502.

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Thesis (M.F.A.)--Boston University. Please note: creative writing theses are permanently embargoed in OpenBU. No public access is forecasted for these. To request private access, please click on the locked Download file link and fill out the appropriate web form.
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Donate, Charles Alfredo. "I got revolution and other stories." Thesis, Boston University, 2012. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/31539.

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Thesis (M.F.A.)--Boston University. Please note: creative writing theses are permanently embargoed in OpenBU. No public access is forecasted for these. To request private access, please click on the locked Download file link and fill out the appropriate web form.
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Gavin, James. "The copy chief and other stories." Thesis, Boston University, 2012. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/31558.

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Thesis (M.F.A.)--Boston University. Please note: creative writing theses are permanently embargoed in OpenBU. No public access is forecasted for these. To request private access, please click on the locked Download file link and fill out the appropriate web form.
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Du, Preez Angela Jane. "The other animal : poems." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17866.

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Frye, Samantha. "Satisfaction guaranteed and other stories." FIU Digital Commons, 2004. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3421.

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SATISFACTION GUARANTEED AND OTHER STORIES was a collection of dark short fiction that explored the nature of hubris. Hubris was not limited to the definition of overbearing pride and arrogance, but bore a connection to love, curiosity, greed, and covetousness. In each story, the main characters' hubris sparked a desire that often lead to extreme actions. The stories' characters ranged in age from five years to centuries old. Their backgrounds were also diverse: a condemned spirit, a sculptor, a succubus posing as a psychiatrist and her empathic patient, a Rosarian, an entomologist, and a mural artist, The plots of the stories were simple and drawn from elements of myth and legend. In the essence of Edgar Allan Poe and Henry James, the stories developed the uncanny to give introspection concerning the darker human qualities.

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Kapilevich, Amichai Nikita. "The Hobbyist and other stories." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7825.

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Davids, Carol-Ann. "Plastic city and other stories." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7967.

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Plastic City and Other Stories is a set of inter-connected short stories that capture moments in the lives of members of one family. The stories traverse more than five decades of the family's years lived in Cape Town, South Africa. While the stories are essentially about the individual, greater matters - outwardly beyond the character's experience - affect and influence the decisions, choices and, ultimately, the lives of each character. The collection is underpinned by several themes - the most pertinent being the familial bond which serves as a link between stories and enables the reader to become acquainted with the characters through several perspectives as they recur through-out the collection. There are also other, more subtle themes that fonn a connection between events happening decades apart. A, not entirely unobtrusive, narrator links these independent allegories together via inter-leading pieces, adding another dimension to the collection by virtue of her role as, not only narrator, but also as family member. Nine stories with nine inter-leading chapters make up the collection of Plastic City and Other Stories.

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Neill, Diane C. "Dead drunk and other stories." Thesis, Boston University, 1988. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/38087.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University
PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
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Russell, Julia D. "The lease and other stories." Thesis, Boston University, 1988. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/38092.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University
PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
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Riber, Henrik, and Pontus Sjögren. "Motivation in Creative Writing." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-35292.

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This paper aims to investigate to what extent creative writing promotes motivation for EFL learners to write. A report published by the National Assessment Project (NAFS) commissioned by The Swedish National Agency for Education evaluated the national tests in English for Swedish students during 2018/2019, documenting that the Swedish students obtained the lowest English scores on writing. This result corresponds with the national test scores in English from earlier years. According to The Swedish National Agency for Education (Skolverket, 2019) motivation is a necessary component for L2 learning, and teachers are expected to play a fundamental role in creating student motivation. However, research within the area of motivation indicates that the understanding of motivation in L2 learning is limited. Likewise, the research indicates a need for the understanding of motivation to be both revised and subject to further research, both to understand the nature of motivation and to define tools on how to push motivation in L2 writing. One such tool could be creative writing (CW). Thus, to understand to what extent CW can motivate EFL learners to write, we explore recent studies that examine how different implementations of CW activities and CW courses can motivate students to write within a school context. In the study, we argue that CW motivates EFL learners to produce text. CW seems to facilitate relevance for the student and empower writing activities that consider the student’s self-interest as well as bring new life to the student’s understanding of writing. The insights of this study hold pedagogical values for L2 writing in the EFL classroom.

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Loker, Byron. "Hemingway drank here & other stories." Thesis, University of Cape Town, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6722.

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Schlesinger, Kira. "The filmmaker's apprentice and other stories." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10703.

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"The Filmmaker's Apprentice and Other Stories" is a novella and six short stories set in a contemporary South Africa more complicated than ever, where people are constantly moving, young people are trying to forge identities and an older generation struggles to adapt to a radically altered reality. Characters struggle to relate meaningfully across socioeconomic, gender, national and racial divisions, bumping up against their own prejudices and perceptions in a way that makes it difficult to really see each other.

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Andrews, Hilda. "Visklippie and other Cape Town stories." University of the Western Cape, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/5715.

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Magister Artium - MA (English)
Visklippie and other Cape Town stories is a collection of short stories, inspired by my experiences having grown up in the 1960s and 1970s in Cape Town. This is a fictional work that, however, uses memory and oral history as the main sources for the stories told. I have conceived my project in the context of South African short stories from the mid-twentieth century, a very significant part of our literary history, since it encapsulates the volatile years of Apartheid. Unlike most of the writing of this period, my stories will try to highlight individual experiences, especially female subjectivity. My fictional engagement is also narrowed down by region since I will focus more on the short stories which emerge out of and represent Cape Town. This collection will aim to reflect the diverse voices of the people who have lived in divided communities in Cape Town. The stories will cover the period from the 1960s to contemporary times. They will be stories told from the perspective of children and women, but a few will be focalised through marginal male characters. The collection will be grounded in local community experience and centre on family relationships where there is triumph over political and personal adversity. The voices that emanate from these stories are seldom represented despite the great diversity in South African literature. These voices will sometimes emanate from the perspective of individuals condemned and ostracised by the same people dispossessed by Apartheid. The stories will aim for individual perspectives, complex interior explorations, ironies and paradoxes that will reveal fleeting connections and triumphs despite adversity.

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Walsh, Jill M. "Letters from Mrs. Chenowith and other stories." The University of Montana, 2007. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-04262007-150435/.

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Villers, Jodi Lynn. "Morley, Morla, M and Other Small Wonders." NCSU, 2007. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04212007-145315/.

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De, Maci Lola De Julio. "Curriculum design in creative writing." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1012.

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Childrey, John Albert. "Howardsville Depot and other stories." FIU Digital Commons, 1994. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2332.

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The collection of stories recreates an impression of a lost time and place. In "Howardsville Depot," the stories are set in rural Virginia and span the years from 1929 to 1969. While kernel situations are based in identifiable events, the stories explore the subtle dreams and aspirations of characters in the community which has the railroad depot as it hub. In "Head-on Collisions," protagonists find themselves in inevitable situations provoked by their own limitations. The only choices are forced and evolutionary with no clear solutions.

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Cochran, Joan Lipinsky. "Tootsie's regret and other stories." FIU Digital Commons, 2009. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2393.

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Tootsie's Regret and Other Stories is a collection of fifteen interlinked short stories that explore the relationship between Tootsie Plotnik, an aging Jewish gangster turned- legitimate businessman, and his daughter, Deborah, a middle-aged, recently divorced writer who learns of her father's unsavory past. The stories show how Deborah's divorce colors her perception of her father, while her growing intimacy with the older man forces her to reexamine her assumptions about his past and one's ability to know another human being. The stories' style was influenced by The Yiddish Policeman's Union, in which Michael Chabon intertwined Yiddish expressions with the hard-boiled style of mystery writing. As with Mitch Albom's Tuesdays with Morrie, the stories are told over a series of visits between father and daughter. Though particular to the Jewish-American experience, the stories echo universal themes about facing the aging and loss of one's parents while accepting them as vulnerable, imperfect human beings.

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Rohloff, Gregory W. "How We Live Today and Other Stories." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2019. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2638.

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How We Live Today is a collection of stories about family connections and the process of making amends to keep a family whole. The families are not just traditional families, but also arrangements constructed out of necessity, circumstance, or convenience. The title story tells how a man ends a lengthy divide with a stepmother for the sake of her, his son, and ultimately himself. We see adolescents do the right thing in their circumstances at the risk of losing peer standing or to avert future social damage. An older golfer encourages a younger golfer, easing guilt but realizing that respect for the game ties golfers together. A young professional steps outside of his bounds to help a family of necessity, a group of gay men stricken during the first AIDS outbreak. Another man erases anxiety by dismissing the differences he has perceived in his relationship with his son. And finally, a young man sinks irretrievably into self-destruction over broken family ties.

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Beaty, David. "The short reign of Sultan Osman and other stories." FIU Digital Commons, 1998. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1471.

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A character discovering and testing the limits of his emotional or psychological range most interests me. What will he choose to do? Stay within his old boundaries? Or try and go beyond them? What does he learn about himself in the process? And, finally, what price will be exacted, either for his staying where he is, or for his choosing a new level of self-knowledge? "The Short Reign Of Sultan Osman and Other Stories" is a collection of short stories set in either the United States, Greece, or Brazil, and ranging in time from 1972 to today. Each story presents its protagonist with challenges unique to a specific time and place. In most of these stories, the protagonists are driven by an urge for love or for mastery, and these urges send them across landscapes of delusion or folly before they can arrive at some sense of self-knowledge.

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Tokarz, Beverly Joan. "Landscape beyond Corot and other poems." Thesis, Boston University, 1991. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/35679.

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Jowell, Joanne. "On the other side of shame : a non-fiction account." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8094.

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Lynette Langman's telephone rang on a Sunday night in 2001, heralding the call that would unravel her life. For forty long years, she had waited to hear news about the son she gave up for adoption when she was virtually a child herself. His birth had remained a closely guarded secret, hidden even from those who knew her best. And now his disclosure would unleash years of bottled questions and confessions.

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Johnson, Charles Seth. "Working Man and Other Stories." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10982069.

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This dissertation consists of a critical essay and a collection of short fiction. The essay discusses how testing the structures of authority is a central component in the signature novels of Jack Kerouac and John Barth. This is visible in both narrative structure and content. As the road becomes the embodiment of Kerouac’s rebellion against a social order that ultimately leads to a disintegration of the family, stories that highlight their own artificiality become Barth’s protest against a literature exhausted by its realist devices. In content (Kerouac) and in form (Barth), both authors seek redemption—a new purpose. But behind every failure stands the figure of the Father/Author. Several themes unite the five stories that form the collection, the most prominent being the male protagonist’s struggle for purpose in a chaotic, hostile, and grotesque world to which he feels no connection. The stories use dark humor and, at times, fantasy against a realistic background to capture a feeling more than a type of character: a sense of lostness, of wandering without direction in a world where the road is the purpose and running away or being silent is a way of being.

The collection is tied together and framed by a series of email conversations between a fictional character and the fictional construct of the author, Seth Johnson. Seth is nearing the end of his last semester in an English graduate program and will be returning to work in South Texas, and his old logging buddy, Don Bush, is eager for his friend to join him once again on the oil rigs.

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Wehmann, Andrew. "Sad White Man Stories: and other banana fantasies." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1460984420.

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Prevatt-Harris, Sarah Bethany. "Moonflowers and Other Stories." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2007. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2160.

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"Moonflowers" and Other Stories is a collection of short stories focusing on complex relationships among characters who are estranged from their families and their pasts; some seek to reestablish connections, while others decide to simply walk away. All of the stories are set in Florida. In "Stained Glass," Abby returns home after seventeen years to help care for the father who disowned her. In "Blue Green Red," Melaney is compelled to find her brother after years of lying about his existence. Selina, the protagonist of "Fatty Walsh" is so embarrassed by her family she will not tell her friend Alucia where she lives, although she must ultimately choose between her younger brother and her friendship with Alucia. All of the stories in this thesis find characters desiring to establish or restore relationships despite past mistakes and grievances, evidence of their innate longing for human connection.
M.F.A.
Department of English
Arts and Humanities
Creative Writing MFA

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Busby, Robert. "The Dead Fish at Twenty Mile and Other Stories from Bodock, Mississippi." FIU Digital Commons, 2011. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1870.

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THE DEAD FISH AT TWENTY MILE AND OTHER STORIES FROM BODOCK, MISSISSIPPI is set in a mythical town of nine-hundred-and-forty-eight Bodockians on the northwest corner of fictitious Claygardner County. Much like the canon of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha works, the stories in this collection contribute to the myth of Bodock-from the fictional town's origins sometime in the 1830s, to the turn of the twenty-first century-while exploring such themes as mortality, regret, folklore, the New South at the end of the twentieth-century, and the relationship between man and nature. With the exception of the title story, the occasion for these stories is the ice storm which devastated much of the Mid-South in 1994. To accomplish this myth creation, the stories often employ folklore, magical realism, pathos and comedy, and storytelling, as influenced by Lewis Nordan's Welcome to the Arrow-Catcher Fair and Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man is Hard to Find.

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Parker, Miriam. "What's bad for the Jews and other migratory snow birds." View electronic thesis, 2008. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2008-1/rp/parkerm/miriamparker.pdf.

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Dionne, Angel T. "The Elephant and Other Stories & Guilt and its repercussions : Bernard Malamud's 'The Magic Barrel'." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/77314.

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The Elephant and Other Stories is an original collection of short stories that depict themes of unfulfilled expectations, relationships, and isolation. The stories explore the complexities of the choices people make, particularly when they are wrestling with feelings of grief and guilt Guilt and its repercussions: Bernard Malamud’s ‘The Magic Barrel’ examines how guilt and suffering function in Malamud’s narratives as moral lessons. The thesis explores the philosophical questions of guilt, being, and relationships by interpreting Malamud’s work through the lens of Buber’s teachings. Throughout the project, attention is drawn to the art of storytelling, and how both Malamud and Buber believed storytelling to be useful in depicting the moral quandaries inherent in human existence . Three stories from Bernard Malamud’s The Magic Barrel are examined against the backdrop of Martin Buber’s “Guilt and Guilt Feeling” as well as his seminal texts I-and-Thou and Between Man and Man. The stories are “The Magic Barrel”, “The Mourners”, and “The Bill”, with a short introductory analysis of The Assistant in the first chapter. Although the primary focus is a reading of Malamud’s work as moral teaching, the secondary focus is on the power of story-telling to breathe life into complex and often times obscure philosophical and ethical concepts.
These (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2020.
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PhD
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Donnelly, Dianne J. "Establishing Creative Writing Studies as an Academic Discipline." Scholar Commons, 2009. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3809.

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The discipline of creative writing is charged "as the most untheorized, and in that respect, anachronistic area in the entire constellation of English studies (Haake What Our Speech Disrupts 49). We need only look at its historical precedents to understand these intimations. It is a discipline which is unaware of the histories that informs its practice. It relies on the tradition of the workshop model as its signature pedagogy, and it is part of a fractured community signaled by its long history of subordination to literary studies, its lack of status and sustaining lore, and its own resistance to reform. These factions keep creative writing from achieving any central core. I argue for the advancement of creative writing studies. As a scholarly academic discipline, creative writing studies explores and challenges the pedagogy of creative writing. It not only supports, but welcomes intellectual analyses that may reveal new theories.Such theories have important teaching implications and insights into the ways creative writers read, write, and respond. My study explores the history of creative writing, its workshop model as its primary practice, and the discipline's major pedagogical practices. Through its pedagogical and historical inquiry of the field, this study has important implications to the development of creative writing studies. Its research includes a workshop survey of undergraduate creative writing teachers as well as scholarship in the field. My argument envisions a more robust, variable, and intelligent workshop model. It considers how an understanding of our pedagogical practices might influence our teaching strategies and classroom dynamics and how we might provide more meaning to the academy, our profession, and our diverse student body. At a curricular level, my study offers course and program development, and it justifies the importance of including graduate level training for teacher preparation to further explore the field's history and pedagogy. Through my inquiries and research, I advance creative writing studies, define its academic home, and better position the discipline to stand alongside composition studies and literary studies as a separate-but-equal entity, fully prepared to claim it own identity and scholarship.

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Christiansen, Paul. "Blotto in the Lifeboat." FIU Digital Commons, 2015. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1932.

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Blotto in the Lifeboat is a book of poems that investigates natural processes and idiosyncrasies of human societies. Ranging from the absurd to the scientific in tone, the poems in Blotto in the Lifeboat situate themselves on the blurry-line between fact and imagination, employing a style that Thomas Lux describes as “imaginative realism.” The middle of three sections is comprised solely of the long poem, “A Compendium of the True and Wondrous,” which collages remarkable facts and anecdotes to highlight the strange realities of the world and the rapidity of change. The first and third sections contain shorter, narrative poems in which the surreal or comic is often employed. The language of the poems in BLOTTO IN THE LIFEBOAT reflects a similar desire to affix the fantastic to the familiar. Metaphors in the tradition of Elizabeth Bishop and Charles Simic rely on wild leaps of imagination to illuminate the real world.

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Chambless, Cathleen F. "Nec(Romantic)." FIU Digital Commons, 2015. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1933.

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NEC(ROMANTIC) is a poetry collection thematically linked through images of insects, celestial bodies, bones, and other elements of the supernatural. These images are indicative of spells, but the parenthesis around romantic in the collection’s title also implies idealism. The poems explore the author’s experiences with death, grief, love, oppression, and addiction. NEC(ROMANTIC) employs the use of traditional forms such as the villanelle, sestina, and haiku to organize these experiences. Prose poetry and a peca kucha ground the center of NEC(ROMANTIC) which alternates between lyrical and narrative gestures. NEC(ROMANTIC) is influenced by Sylvia Plath. The author uses Plath’s methods of compression, sound, and rhythm to create a swift, child-like tone when examining emotionally laden topics. Ilya Kaminsky influences lyrical elements of the poems, including surrealism. Spencer Reese’s combination of the natural and personal world is also paramount to this book. Adrienne Rich and Audre Lorde influence NEC(ROMANTIC)’s political poetry.

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Lotze, Cynthia Grier. "From Below Table Mesa." VCU Scholars Compass, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10156/2018.

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Pavlik, Louisa. "Radical Enough and Family Stuff." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1596091803557718.

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Gilyot, Danielle J. "New Houston and Other Stories." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2011. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1381.

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Chacko, Mathew. "Broadcast from the flood and other stories /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9999277.

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Burke, Roberta A. "The Influence of Rubrics on High School Students' Creative Writing Skills." Defiance College / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=def1281546270.

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Cassorla, Leah F. "Tutor attitudes toward tutoring creative writers in writing centers." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0000404.

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Thomas, Hilary. "Writing ourselves, reading each other : relationships and their role in a text-based online creative writing programme." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.724985.

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My research began as an exploration of text-based interactions and the part that these relationships played in the development of students’ writing in an online Masters programme in Creative Writing. As well as a discussion of my findings, this thesis chronicles my research journey and the evolution of my ‘intersubjective methodology’. While harnessing an approach that I characterise as informed by grounded theory, my methodology foregrounds the role I played in generating and interpreting data; and it provides the rationale for my reflexive orientation and the resulting approach to presenting this research (part of which includes the use of creative writing). This thesis, then, both gives an account of my research topic and serves to present a way to understand the research process. My ‘findings’ point towards the potential for trust, intimacy and support within the text- based environment. While I found that the process of creative writing development is contested, participants identified wider goals that were related to their becoming writers, and it is here that I found the part played by the relationships on the programme. To extend the potential of the programme I conclude that more might be made of students working together At the same time, in order to facilitate this, it is to tutor development that I suggest attention should be turned in order to enable a shift away from the traditional student-tutor relationship.

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Kovach, Stephen. "Theodicy." VCU Scholars Compass, 2011. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/222.

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The poems in this collection are, in a sense, experiments in the employment of voice, wordplay and mythopoetic structures. The purpose, in so much as this collection can be said to have a purpose, is to celebrate the alienation and absurdity common to modern day life by depicting and dramatizing their connection with the culture we have inherited from classical tradition.

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Högberg, Emil. "Collaborating With Other Musicians Online : Exploring the creative process between collaborators." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för konst, kommunikation och lärande, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-79873.

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I’m a music producer that is active in several different subgenres in electronic dance music (EDM). A music producer is a person that oversees the recording process, most often the creative side and decides how everything should sound like. You can compare it to a film director. During the last decade, the role as a music producer has progressed into a factotum position, which means you usually have several different roles yourself: you can be a songwriter, mixing engineer, recording engineer and even a singer. Another thing that has changed is the workplace. It’s common nowadays that people are sitting at home and producing their own beats/songs. This is foremost possible because of how the technology has evolved and made everything smaller and more efficient. If you rewind back 25 years this was an impossible task. You needed big studios, with big rooms to record drums, guitars, keyboards and vocals, and a huge mixing table with big tape machines to record it all. Nowadays you have everything you need with a laptop, an audio interface and with access to the internet. You can easily find pre-recorded vocals, hire vocalists online, buy sample packs with drum loops and make your own melody sounds with virtual synthesizers. There’re also huge digital libraries with sounds that real instrumentalists recorded which you can use to create your own chord progressions or melodies. So, you basically have everything you need to make a big dance record with only a simple laptop sitting in your own garage in the Bronx. It’s also easy to get in touch with other artists, producers and singers through social media and other sites on the web. In my essay I want to explore how the process looks like when you are collaborating with others online. It could be between other producers, singers, songwriters or even instrumentalists. How do you start a collab? Are there any pros and cons with collaborating? I also would like to examine what people do if they are having trouble getting along while collaborating. How do you maintain a good chemistry with the others? And if your creative process differs compared to when you are writing music by yourselves.

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Carfoot, Gavin. "Deleuze and music : a creative approach to the study of music." Thesis, University of Queensland, 2003. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/69425/1/69425.pdf.

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The work of Gilles Deleuze has influenced an increasing number of music scholars and practicing musicians, particularly those interested in experimental, electronic and popular music. This is despite the notoriously complex nature of his writings, and the specialised theoretical vocabulary that he employs. This thesis both demystifies some of the key terms and concepts of this vocabulary, before demonstrating how Deleuze’s ideas may be put to work in new and fruitful ways; this is achieved with specific reference to the relationships that music has with thought, time and machines. In Chapter 1, Deleuze’s understanding of the power of thought is examined, in particular his approach to communication, transcendence and immanence, and the “powers of thought.” Each of these concepts helps us to understand Deleuze’s work within broad problem of how to think about music immanently: that is, how to maintain that thought and music are both immanent aspects of life and experience. Chapter 2 examines time within a Deleuzian framework, linking his work on cinema with the concept of the “refrain”; both of these areas prove crucial to his understanding of music, as seen in Deleuze’s approach to the work of Varese, Messiaen, and Boulez. In addition, Deleuze’s understanding of time proves fruitful in examining various aspects of music production, as seen in contemporary electronic dance music. Finally, Chapter 3 looks at the concept of the machine, as developed by Deleuze and Guattari, with reference to the sorts of “machinic” connections that a Deleuzian approach encourages us to seek out in music. Once again, examples from contemporary electronic music are presented, in relation to the notions of becoming and subjectivity. Throughout these chapters, Deleuze’s broad understanding of philosophy as the “creation of concepts” is deployed. This means introducing new ideas and specific types of music that encourage creative and novel engagements with the study of music.

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