Browsing by Subject "Fiction"

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    • And the Cat Looked 
      White, Meredith Renee
      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 ...
    • Literacy and its discontents: modernist anxiety and the literacy fiction of Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence and Aldous Huxley 
      DuPlessis, Nicole Mara (Texas A&M University, 2008-10-10)
      Literacy theory, a multi-disciplinary, late-twentieth century endeavor, examines the acts of reading and writing as cognitive and social processes, seeking to define the relationship between reading and writing and other ...
    • Monsters in the East 
      Morgan, Mason Lyle (2013-09-24)
      This research is an attempt to implement various artistic aesthetics inspired by the world wars into a fictional narrative focused an artist’s struggle in wartime. Works by Tristan Tzara, William Burroughs, Andre Breton, ...
    • The researched novel : definition, explication of five examples, and theoretical discussion of research in fiction 
      Yost, Carlson War (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1982)
      This dissertation examines the role of research in the novel. The "researched novel" is defined as a work of fiction founded upon a particular area of information that illuminates or explores a particular "truth" that is ...
    • Rewriting Place: Appalachia Beyond the Stereotype 
      Morris, Laura Leigh (2015-05-06)
      This dissertation argues that Appalachian writers can reappropriate and rewrite the stereotypes that have come to stand in for realistic representations of the various cultures and populations living within the region. It ...
    • Robert Penn Warren's internal injuries: ''a picnic on the dark side of the moon'' 
      Samaha, Marylouise (2009-05-15)
      Robert Penn Warren has a facility for transforming region and history into fiction and poetry. His novel Flood: A Romance of Our Time (1964) and his poem sequence “Internal Injuries” (1968) stand out insofar as they share ...
    • Short fiction creative writing: storytelling with a film perspective 
      Francis, James (Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)
      The research and material contained in this thesis will examine short story theory from current perspectives in the field and provide a response to questions posed about the composition of short fiction. A critical ...
    • Under Water: A Novel with Critical Introduction 
      Foster, Amber Nicole (2015-05-28)
      Under Water is a literary novel that follows the life experiences of Jess, a solo female scuba diving instructor living and working on Roatan, an island off the coast of Honduras. She learns of the death of her father on ...
    • The Year God Learned English 
      Baker, Rachel (1997)
      King Henry VIII dissolved every monastery and convent in England between 1535 and 1539. William Tyndale published the first English translation of the Bible in 1534. In the midst of political maneuvering around theological ...