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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"fiction writing"”.
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Pathos : a metaphoric exploration of cannibalistic, gluttonous and consumptive impulses in fiction writing
… nouns, when used as metaphors, operate within fictional writing, by examining them in relation to my thesis novel Pathos. To conduct this examination, the developed metaphors of autophagia / cannibalism, gluttony and consumption are applied to three distinct yet intertwined concepts in the …
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Fourth-Grade Narrative Fiction Writing: Using Content Analysis to Examine the Intersection of Place, High Ability, and Creativity
Writing gives children a chance to practice self-expression and creativity (Dobson, 2015b; Millard, 2005) as they learn needed literacy skills (Calkins, 2003). When children write, they appropriate semiotic materials from popular culture, literature, and the world around them (Dyson, 1997, 2003, …
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Interior Music: An Examination of the Sociocognitive Abilities of Fiction Writers
… to investigate the relationship between fiction writing and social cognition: the ability to make inferences about the mental states of others. First, an online survey was administered that assessed beliefs held by the general public about the social cognition of fiction writers compared …
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Judith and the Head of Holofernes and Other Love Stories
… and revised over the last two years in the Fiction Workshops at The University of Southern Mississippi's Center for Writers. It is the author's intent that this collection shows her progress in the art of fiction writing while at the Center for Writers. While proof of growth is proposed, the …
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Triptych: Off Thresher Road
The following works of fiction are meant to demonstrate understanding of various fiction writing concepts, techniques, and considerations as learned by the author in the creative writing program. As with any work of fiction, the events are based on the experiences of the author to a greater or …
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Out of Nowhere the Mind Comes Forth: A Practice-Based Exploration of the Relationship Between Buddhist Thought and Creative Writing
… the relationship between Buddhist tenets and fiction writing. The novel is based around a writing festival and includes a selection of narratively connected yet self-contained short stories. It explores several themes, including the natures of fiction, cognition, self, and justice. The …
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Ethics and Aesthetics in Muriel Spark’s Authorial Strategies
… which contrasts with Muriel Spark's highly metafictional novelistic production, with an almost obsessive tendency to explore and expose the very nature of fiction and the complex relationship between life and art. Therefore, her autobiography ends with the idea of being “completed” or …
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The modern coterie: Fan fiction writers as a community of practice
Female coterie writing groups have had certain characteristics in common across centuries that can be seen today in fan fiction writing groups online. This dissertation focuses on one group of such writers who are active at the LiveJournal blog site. Through the use of virtual ethnography, data has …
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Wildlife: Stories
<p><em>Wildlife: Stories </em>is a flash fiction collection written with many influences from contemporary postmodern and fabulist writers. The collection is broken up into two projects, <em>Brothers Monsters</em> and <em>The Condition of Marjorie’s Feet</em>. The first project is a novella written …
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Virginia Woolf's Interpolated Fiction and Humor
… manipulator of her craft to have used her fiction writing talent as an enhancement of her nonfiction works, and which included humor in the process.
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Women of the Mere: stories
… the macabre. Based on personal experiences but fictionalized through the poetic lens of negative capability, each story takes place in modern Tennessee and follows female protagonists with uncanny, “familiar”-like connections to animals that are stereotypically portrayed as horrifying or …
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Marivaux's <i>La Voiture embourbée</i>: a translation with critical introduction
… transitional period in the development of prose fiction. A number of recent works deal with the struggles of novelists in this period to create a “better” fiction through experimentation with form and format. Rosbottom refers to the situation of fiction writing as “the crisis of literary forms,” …
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The dark South
… essay titled “The Use of Plain Style in Modern Fiction Writing.” The craft essay examines how a plain style of writing can be used to great effect in fiction. I explore how simple writing can improve action, description, and exposition, and provide examples of writers who take advantage of these …
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Politics of popular creativity and popular knowledge: on the case of adbusters and Harry Potter fans
… second case involves Harry Potter fans and fan fiction writing. Specifically, I investigate the politics of closure or stereotyping involved in a copyright dispute over the publication of the so-called Harry Potter Lexicon. </p> <p>Methodologically speaking, I am `on the case'. In being `on the …
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Mezze: A Short Story Collection-in-Progress
… for one's reading pleasure.What I like about fiction writing is the guilt free, guileless freedom to tell a little lie and then grow it into a really big one! My sole purpose as a fiction is to entertain. the reader may smile or chuckle. I certainly hope that one's heart will be lighter and …
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Swimming: Writing Childlessness, a Novel and Exegesis
… The novel, Swimming, in the first volume, is the fictional narrative of one woman's life and her experience of being childless. Kate, the protagonist of the novel, is not me though she has a number of similar experiences. Kate is the subject of her own narrative, a woman, whose existence presents …
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Knowing his place : How Welsh are the "Border" trilogy of novels by Raymond Williams?
… life and reflect issues he examined in his non-fiction writing, especially his increasing focus on Welsh culture from the late 1960s. The study focuses closely on textual detail and discusses: (a) the problematic ‘Welshness’ of the border region where Williams grew up; (b) responses to the …
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Folklore for a New Generation: Charles Chesnutt's Updated Trickster Figure
<p>Amidst a surge of plantation fiction writing during the era of American Realism, Charles Chesnutt was arguably one of the most controversial yet prolific authors to address the recent advent of slavery. <em>The Conjure Woman</em> was a publication of seven frame narratives that employed the …
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The writing of Betty Miller: 1933-1949
… thesis is the first comprehensive study of the writing of the author, journalist, reviewer and scholar Betty Miller (1910-65). As such it seeks to develop a language with which readers might think about her work. Analysing the ways in which commentators have redrawn the critical maps of the …
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The Outward Turn: Personality, Blankness, and Allure in American Modernism
… and displayed. However, hiding in American writings of the long modernist period (1880s-1940s) is a conception of personality as the innate capacity, possessed by few, to attract attention and elicit projection. Skeptical of the great American myth of self-making, such writers as Henry …
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