Browsing by Subject "creative writing"
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What does form do for the way creative nonfiction is read, and what effect does it have on our ability to express narrative truth? Many definitions of creative nonfiction have understood the genre as dedicated to communicating ...
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This is a creative work that looks at the practice of ritualistic human sacrifice throughout different ages and cultures and how this custom affects the people of that society. While it is commonly known that ancient ...
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My thesis is a novel which aims to tell the story on an angel who is banished from Heaven and goes on a journey to attempt to return. My novel seeks to portray a journey of spirituality and sexuality through the format of ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)This thesis is a book of poems, containing two major sections. The first part is a critical introduction to the creative writing; the second part consists of poetry that I have composed, revised, and revisited during the ...
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(1996)I began this creative project with two main goals in mind. I first planned to lay the intellectual framework for the fiction that I would write by reading books that were recognized as part of the bildungsroman genre. I ...
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My project is a 50-80 page fantasy novella, dealing in themes of courage, changing institutions, and interpersonal relationships. It is the story of Vas Pennery, a young farm boy whose quiet lifestyle is threatened when a ...
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(2010-07-14)My thesis includes a collection of short stories that showcases my growth and potential as a fiction writer. The thesis also includes a critical introduction that highlights my aims and the influences on my work. My ...
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Each day, we might find our attention drifting to somewhere else: the things we need to do, the things we shouldn’t have done, or a fantasy that popped into our heads. For most people, mind wandering happens in fleeting ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)This study analyzes and reports on the characteristics of writing-triggered peak experience and other positive human experiences and explores some possible factors that can bring about such moments. Three basic questions ...
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Greatest Hits is a graphic novel about a group of 20-somethings sharing a room in the city trying to get by, while simultaneously attempting to create a following for their band. When given an opportunity to expand their ...
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This thesis breaks down the ideas and processes of an adaptation. It investigates the methods for adapting artistic materials from one medium to another and how my process changed the more I learned. Originally this was ...
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This creative thesis takes the form of a short story and accompanying expanded plotline. The analysis and creative artifact study a self-described lack of understanding about half of my ethnic culture. This is within the ...
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The Rio Grande Valley has been in recent years the attention of media outlets, literature, and art. And while not all that is portrayed is accurate, the depictions of the Valley are created from stereotypes and its people ...
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Leaving Wisdom is a novella, based around historical and sociological research on New York City in the 1980s. The creative work follows seventeen-year-old Joanna Reese as she tries to make it on her own in New York City ...
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This project explores the ways that narrative trauma was represented in fiction after the Vietnam War. Trauma is not only felt in the survivors of the War but is also inherited by the generations that follow. This inherited ...
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This creative piece was written to explore self-discovery in a new age. College has become an experience that more and more people are going through as they attempt to invent or reinvent themselves, and the protagonist of ...
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(2009-05-15)This original novel with a critical introduction is a summary and capstone of my study of creative writing at Texas A&M University. The introduction uses storytelling traditions in genre science fiction as well as non-genre ...
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In my novella, “Peas, Bees, and Birds,” I will integrate what I have learned in biology with what I have studied in my creative writing classes (including the Aggie Creative Collective), constructing a bridge that connects ...
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(2019-03-29)This thesis contains the critical introduction and the full text of my original science fiction novel, The Pirate Queen. The critical introduction details the literary, theoretical, and historical influences that led to ...
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Queen of a Sun-Drenched Land centers around Ramona Santos Riojas, a graduate student of animal science at the University of Sao Paulo. She enjoys her studies and is eager to discover the newest innovations in the field of ...