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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"story cycle"”.
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Flight: A Story Cycle
Short story collection.
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College Dreams: A Short Story Cycle
Short fiction.
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Holly Springs, Virginia: Narratives for a Short-Story Cycle
… this project will be incorporated into a short story cycle entitled <em>Holly Springs, Virginia</em>, a fictional small-town that I position geographically to the west of Blacksburg, Virginia. </p> <p>A short story cycle is a collection of stories that are in various ways interconnected, whether …
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Open destinies : modern American women and the short story cycle
… thesis examines the juncture between the short story cycle form and gender politics. It explores how twentieth-century women from the United States have been using the form to represent and question gender identity. The introduction outlines commentaries on the story cycle and considers …
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Those Living in the Shadow of Death: A Short Story Cycle
<p>My capstone is a short story cycle centered around broken people finding faith. The title of the collection, <em>Those Living in the Shadow of Death</em>, references Matthew 4:16: “on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned.” Each story features a character walking …
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"Driving Circles Around the Holler:" Liminality and the Grotesque in Donald Ray Pollock's Knockemstiff
<p>Donald Ray Pollock’s 2008 short story cycle, Knockemstiff, is a regionalist work of grotesque Grit Lit featuring characters from a small, rural holler community in southern Ohio. This work examines the form, narratives, and characters through close reading, illuminating the layers of different …
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The Sites of Uncertainty: The Politics and Poetics of Place in Short Fiction by James Joyce, Sherwood Anderson and William Faulkner
… place. Focusing on these writers’ short story cycles and drawing on short story theories, I argue that the main characteristic of the modernist short story cycle is the creation of interiorly diversified chronotopes. My main argument is that these writers create uncertain fictional places …
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The path of Lucius Park and other stories of John Valley
… and nine short stories which form a short story cycle. The introduction addresses the issue of perspective in realist and magical realist fiction, with special emphasis on magical realism and belief. The stories are a mix of realism and magical realism, and are unified by characters and the …
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The canon of memory and rhetoric as a way of knowing in selected Miranda stories of Katherine Anne Porter
… in a number of instances in her Miranda short story cycle. For example, her sense of memory adheres to the philosopher Henri Bergson's concept of time as pure duration. Bergson defines time as a state in which the present is not separated from the past or the future and one in which time is not …
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Shadows of the Ravine: Mortality-Themed Discards from Bradbury's Illinois Novels
… a focused examination of thematically-related story-chapters that Ray Bradbury originally intended for his first novel concept—Summer Morning, Summer Night, a book set in the vivid memories of his own small-town Midwest childhood. The stories at the heart of this thesis were discarded from the …
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Sudleigh: place and politics in the modern short story
This thesis consists of a short story collection and an accompanying critical commentary. The story collection comprises ten linked stories all set in a fictional small town in southern England: the eponymous Sudleigh. The cycle examines ordinary lives within that landscape. While the stories may …
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Subjectivity and Embodied Experiences of Time in Contemporary English-Canadian Fiction and Film
… novel Anil's Ghost (2000), Dionne Brand's short-story collection Sans Souci and Other Stories (1983), Jeff Lemire's graphic narrative Essex County (2009), and David Cronenberg's film Spider (2002)-- to demonstrate their engagement with embodied experience. This study argues that subjective …
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Publishing short stories : British modernist fiction and the literary marketplace
The short story was the most profitable literary form for most fiction-writers of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries because it was quick to write, relative to novels, marketable to a wide variety of periodicals, and able to be re-sold, in groups, for book collections. While the …
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Dirt Road Magic
… This book is based on and includes my short story, "Dirt Road Magic," which won the Writers of the Future award in 2019. That story was about a boy from the trailer park who finds out that the magic his mentor is teaching is addictive. </p>
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Counter-discursive strategies in first-world migrant writing
… literary genres, such as Novelle, short story cycle, autobiography, Bildungs roman and quest novel, rather than of a particular text, as in other post-colonial contexts, is the most prevalent form of "writing back" in migrant literature. Texts written by migrants not only creatively …
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Seasonal Roads
… to me—intuitively—nonlinea. I’m interested in story cycles that examine Truth from different points of view, usually nonlinearly; and I’m interested in the way setting reveals Truth and how it reveals character. I’m interested in Faith—a kind that is not irreconcilable with science, the kind it …
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Mars, Tennessee
… – that define them as people. In the short story “Beyond Our Raising,” Lynn “Duke” Norris suffers material loss but gains emotional power, learning how to open up, finally speaking about the loss of a child. “Clean-Room” places the main character, Adrian Schope, in a situation where he must …