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You Are Alive
No full textYou Are Alive is a novel addressing approaches to climate change through the lenses of two sisters: Elidi and Luz. Elidi’s approach to environmental relation is one of control, while Luz embraces adaptation and coexistence. The novel follows Elidi on a path of vengeance in a post-climate collapse landscape ravaged by a new ice age.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Englis
Letter to So-and-So from Wherever
No full textLetter to So-and-So from Wherever is a collection of poems, perhaps even a “poem-cycle,” initially inspired by the epistolary poems of Richard Hugo. This dissertation is essentially the author’s second full-length poetry manuscript, and consists of more of a single “project” than the author’s first collection, which was published in 2007. These poems here are rooted in concrete imagery, metaphor, hyperbole, irony, and voice. The style is influenced in part by Beat Generation writers Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, and to some extent Charles Bukowski.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Englis
Traveling Light
No full textThis thesis represents a compilation of eleven short stories (fiction) prefaced by one introductory essay presenting the major themes of the stories, which are families, love, loss and the fissures these create in the human heart.Master of Fine Arts (MFA)Englis
Investigation of the electrostatic and hydration properties of DNA minor groove-binding by a heterocyclic diamidine by osmotic pressure
No full textThese Things Could Not Be Resolved: Short Stories
No full textThis is a collection of short stories.Master of Fine Arts (MFA)Englis
More Stores About Disappointment And TV
No full textThis MFA thesis, More Stories About Disappointment and TV, is a collection of short stories. I see them as being interconnected, if only in the loosest possible sense. I have certain ideas and themes that recur throughout my work, which I hope gives the stories a sense of cohesion without making the collection feel too monochromatic. The stories vary in narrative approach and point of view. My stories are character-driven literary fiction, to put it broadly, though they often incorporate characteristics of genre fiction. Some of them are more realistic than others, but they almost always have elements of the weird, the fabulist, and/or the absurd.Master of Fine Arts (MFA)Englis
Husk: Poems
No full textThis collection of original poetry draws from the conventions of narrative and confessional lyric poetry and explores mythological and autobiographical relationships to motherhood, the physical body, and romantic partnerships. Based on thematic similarities, the collection is broken into three main sections that move between mother-daughter relations and the myths of becoming, transgressions against the body and the myths of fault, and the desire to remake the self with new familial ties and one’s own myths of being. The poems reference variant matters, including classic mythology, fundamentalist religion, physical and emotional traumas, and a persistent sense of hope. At its heart, the collection explores failed mother-daughter relationships and the complex journey of the daughter towards motherhood.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Englis
We Might Have Power
No full textThis collection contains an exploration of power through poetry. It will address issues such as religion, social hierarchies, education, athletics and family. Many of the poems written in first person examine the poet’s personal experiences as a child, a teacher, and a coach. Though most of the poems in the collection are written in free verse, a handful of poems are structured using traditional form and meter.Master of Fine Arts (MFA)Englis
: Modelling a Central Pattern Generator Controlling Paw-Shaking and Locomotion in Cats
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Hero Me Not: Mammy, Magical Negro and the Constructed Containment of Storm from the X-Men
No full textThis study explores controlling images as essential to the representation of black women’s lives within the media, especially the comic book character, Storm from the X-Men series. The researcher uses content analysis to examine the graphic images, text and dialogue of the comic books chosen for this study. Furthermore, the researcher juxtaposes Storm to the main controlling images that Patricia Hill Collins discusses in her seminal work, Black Feminist Thought, but also to expand this discussion to include the stereotype of the Magical Negro.Master of Arts (MA)African-American Studie