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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Fiction and Nonfiction"”.
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Everyone is Moving: A Collection of Short Fiction and Nonfiction
<p>This collection of stories and essays was written over three years in the fiction and nonfiction workshops sponsored by the Center for Writers.</p>
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Some String or Another: Fiction and Nonfiction Stories of Connection
Some String or Another: Fiction and Nonfiction Stories of Connection, a creative thesis, explores patterns of change in stories from the perspective of connection and disconnection. The preface examines the effects of temporal disconnection, the relationship of conflict and connection to narrative …
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Debatable lands : exploring the boundaries of fiction and nonfiction through family history
… essay that examines the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction. It tells the story of a Victorian family from Cornwall, whose lives were transformed by the age of steam and empire. The men went to sea as sailors or engineers, while the women became schoolteachers and governesses. These …
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Looking At A More Comprehensive Picture Of Reading As Enacted By Second-Grade Readers
<p>This study examined the reading of fiction and nonfiction text by second grade readers. A comparison of their reading processes, comprehension, and perceptions are highlighted. The study was conducted given the changing demands of reading in the 21st century and the current literacy experiences …
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Nine Exits: A Collection of Short Stories
<p><em>Nine Exits</em> is a collection of fiction and nonfiction written over the span of two years in workshops provided by the Center for Writers.</p>
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The Luxury of Tears: A Secondary Survivor's Story
… impact of sexual assault on male survivors and their partners, this document examines the visual texts of both the fiction and nonfiction genres. Specifically, I contend that fiction film manufactures male survivorship with regard to rape events in such manner which contributes to the …
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Stories: Strange Men and Thinking Girls
What is the boundary between fiction and nonfiction? What happens if the line between the two is crossed? Can we possibly recall events in our lives exactly as they happened? In creative nonfiction, such as memoir, the audience expects the writer to recall things exactly as they happened, with no …
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(Dis)Locations, (Dis) Placements and (Un) Belonging in Zimbabwean White Farmer's Auto/biograhies 1995 to 2010
This study interrogates white auto/biography and exposes the ambivalences, ambiguities, paradoxes and dilemmas that arise in the claims for belonging and the premises for the authority behind such claims. It gestures to white autobiography and biography writing as an opening to what in Zimbabwe has …
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The effects of using Smartboard and interactive games to improve reading comprehension of secondary students with moderate cognitive disabilities
… investigated the effects of using the Smartboard and interactive games to improve reading comprehension skills of secondary students with moderate cognitive disabilities. A total of 11 9th and 10th graders in a special services school participated in the study. A single subject design of ABC …
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Beyond Narrative
… Barca," explores the traditions behind narrative and documentary film construction. With this project, my goal was to blend narrative story telling techniques - for example continuity editing - with that of documentary approaches in order to communicate the story of my Italian grandmother, Nunna, …
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Drawing the Line: Visible and Invisible Disability, Identity, and Intersectionality in Award-Winning Graphic Novels for Teens
… theory guided a critical analysis of both text and imagery to explore how visible and invisible disabilities are portrayed in award-winning graphic novels from the past five years (2020-2024). This includes an examination of characters with multiple identities, such as the coexistence of visible …
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'All Other Faculties Must Be Silent': Victorian Motherhood and the Divided Female Self
… mid-to-late nineteenth-century discourses, and proposes a physiological analysis of motherhood that is predicated upon an attenuated vision of female agency, a rejection of the body, and a severely compromised view of female selfhood. Chapter two discusses Elizabeth Barrett Browning's overt …
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Reading V.S. Naipaul : fiction and history 1967-1987
… S. Naipaul has published almost equal amounts of fiction and nonfiction; he maintains that his nonfictional writing is an integral part of his work. This thesis is concerned with the way readers process the two types of narrative, with special reference to historical writing and the novel. After a …
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Erotics Of Education: Queering Children In Nineteenth- And Twentieth-Century Boarding Schools
… marginalized populations in the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries in North America: Native American boarding schools, reform schools, schools for children with disabilities, and African American industrial schools. Through analyzing institutional materials from schools’ early histories …
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Representations of Anglo-Saxon England in Children's Literature
… literary accounts of Anglo-Saxon history and literature that have been written since the mid-nineteenth century. Authors of different ages emphasize different aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture as societal need for and interpretation of the past change. In studying these changes, I show not …
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Bureaucracy and other stories
… the product of three years of intensive research and trial and error. You’ll notice it’s divided into two sections: fiction and nonfiction. However, one of the research questions central to this project is: What are some of the reasons such genre differences matter? What follows aims to trouble …
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Realism & Language: How Luis Alberto Urrea Uses Bilingualism to Elevate His Works of Realism
… Alberto Urrea stems from autobiography, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, yet his works are not widely taught in academic settings, nor is there substantial scholarly work discussed on his published works. This thesis focuses on Urrea’s trajectory in order to situate him as a realist writer, as I …
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Mining the garrison of racial prejudice: The fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt and turn-of-the-century White racial discourse
"This dissertation analyzes the fiction of Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932), the first black fiction writer published by a major American firm and widely reviewed and read by white critics and readers. My analysis focuses on the conflict between Chesnutt's anti-racism and his attempt to make …
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