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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"original fiction"”.
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The Pink Papers
… of four chapters. Each piece is a work of original fiction. The preface addresses the female writer and the female voice in fiction. "Broken Clock" and "Pink Paper" are the stories of two girls coping with endometriosis. "Normal Capacity" looks at the loss of a dream through the eyes of a …
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If Only I Knew: The Stranger in the Twentieth-Century Short Story.
… and David James Duncan. The second provides five original works of fiction that represent my understanding of the genre. Observations in the first section fall into three basic categories: "The Mysterious Stranger: Character," "The Tough Guy: Conflict," and "The Nature of Knowing: Theme." "The …
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The Cicada Summer
The Cicada Summer is a work of original fiction concerned with the inhabitants of a small Midwestern town and the turbulent events that beset their lives over the course of one summer. In these eight stories, constructed from various narrative points-of-view and employing a variety of stylistic …
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Singularity Deferred
Singularity Deferred is a work of original fiction. It is a science fiction novel that features Mitchel Creek, a man with a young family, who finds himself mysteriously transported onto a spacecraft centuries into the future—alone save for a strange device and a dead body. As he discovers how he …
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[Blip] and Other Noises
<p><em>[Blip] and Other Noises </em>is a collection of short stories that explores the illusory nature of identity, time, space, and our experience of reality. Its principal characters include a sea captain, an Elvis fanatic, a space alien, and some very confused children. Its principal settings …
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Providence Lost: Natural and Urban Landscapes in H. P. Lovecraft's Fiction
<p>S. T. Joshi, the preeminent scholar of weird fiction, considers H. P. Lovecraft a “topographical realist,” noting that, in his later fiction, Lovecraft creates realistic and painstakingly detailed settings. In “Providence Lost: Natural and Urban Landscapes in H. P. Lovecraft’s fiction,” I …
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Marguerite Poland and the Shades Archive: The Use of the Author s Archive in Close Analysis
… ancestors to create a novel which utilises fictionality for postcolonial criticism and a search for identity. Shades is therefore deeply situated within the historical archive on which the text leans heavily to provide credibility to the semi-fictional historical narrative. However, a closer …