Browsing by Subject "fiction"

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    • The Bildungsroman: Investigation And Creation 
      Stidvent, Chris (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 ...
    • The failure of storytelling to ground a causal theory of reference 
      Tanksley, Charles William (Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)
      I argue that one cannot hold a Meinongian ontology of fictional characters and have a causal theory of reference for fictional names. The main argument presented refutes Edward Zalta's claim that storytelling should be ...
    • The Last Educations: Genre, Place, and the American University 
      White, Lowell Mick (2012-10-19)
      The Last Educations: Genre, Place, and the American University consists of three interlocking novellas dealing with themes of change and dislocation in contemporary Texas, focused on the institution of the modern university, ...
    • Leaving Wisdom 
      Sherman, Zoe Allison
      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 ...
    • Lies: a collection of short stories 
      Wellington, Melissa June (Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)
      The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate understanding of the themes, techniques and traditions of creative writing, combining all of the knowledge gleaned from coursework in a body of original fiction. The thesis ...
    • Pilgrimage Sites in the American Southwest: A Narrative Exploration of Sacred Destinations 
      Kiolbassa, Courtney E
      Literature Review The study of pilgrimage covers a wide range of approaches: historical, personal, theoretical, literary, even artistic (Coleman and Elsner 8). No one view encompasses the richness of the pilgrimage ...
    • The Pirate Queen 
      Kuenzli, Jasmina Sara (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 ...
    • Thief of Flesh 
      McNease, Hannah Marie
      This project explores the effects of drug abuse and the role of culture and relationships on an individual’s upbringing. Drug abuse is becoming an increasing problem in the world, which is not only bad for individuals, who ...
    • A Thousand Golden Yesterdays 
      Edwards, Lewis William
      How can the chaotic, dissonant headspace brought about by trauma-induced dissociative disorders be effectively and accurately portrayed in creative fiction? A Thousand Golden Yesterdays, a novella-length creative artifact, ...
    • Why Billy?: visions of America's outlaw kid, 1981-1998 
      Kimbrough, Thomas Matthew (1998)
      Stephen Tatum's Inventing Billy the Kid: Visions of the Outlaw in America, 1881-1981 (1982) surveys the huge bibliography of materials relating to Billy the Kid in four phases of American history and relates them to their ...