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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Stories, plots, etc"”.
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These are the people I've been telling you about
The stories in this collection were written over the course of the past three years as I completed the MEA program in Creative Writing at Colorado State University. These stories follow the struggles of characters as they attempt to build meaning out of lives at once absurd and banal. Toward this …
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Into the water
Into the Water features eight stories. The stories are written in the mode of magical realism, which can be described in terms of the merger between the realistic and the fantastic. A main consideration addressed in specific definitions of the mode is how completely the reader believes in the …
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A content analysis of young adult novels featuring mentally and emotionally disabled characters
<p>The purpose of this study was to closely examine twenty works of young adult fiction that featured a character with either a mental or emotional disability. Specifically, it addressed the following research questions: 1.) What percentage of the books evaluated portrayed the disabled character as …
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Poisoners, larcenists, and the mad chambermaid: Villainy in late Victorian detective fiction
<p>This thesis seeks to identify patterns of villainy in late nineteenth-century detective fiction in order to examine middle class conceptions of criminality and the way those models reflect the values of Victorian society. Through a study of more than sixty pieces of short detective fiction, this …