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Dark Side of the American Dream - Reinventing Noir Fiction for the 21st Century
The critical essay portion of my thesis provides an overview and analysis of classic noir fiction. The essay explores Dashiell Hammett's groundbreaking work in the early twentieth century and takes into account the further ...
Tragic Vision in the Verse Narratives of New Formalism
This thesis explores mid-length verse narratives, written by Dana Gioia, Sydney Lea, and Robert McDowell and tries to understand how we might better approach these poems, which represent the central experiments of the New ...
Pretirement
(2023-04-20)
This thesis includes the first seven chapters of an original creative work, a humorous romance novel titled Pretirement. The novel’s protagonist, Drew, is a thirty-year-old Massachusetts transplant in Los Angeles. ...
The 13 Bookson Architecture, Love and Villainy, by Cletus
(2023-01-10)
Juxtaposing text and illustration can induce a state of subtle confusion in the
reader and “defamiliarize” select elements of literary craft—in the case of this thesis, the
authorial mask in a work of historiographic ...
"As Far As You Can Go": Carnality and the Catholic Conscience in David Lodge's Fiction
This thesis investigates the evolution of David Lodge's philosophy and depiction of sexuality and Catholicism in four of his novels spanning four decades: The British Museum Is Falling Down (1965), How Far Can You Go? ...
The Time Trials
(2023-01-23)
A young optimistic girl competes for her Time Traveler’s License only to discover that time travel isn’t real and that she’s been unintentionally destroying parallel universes instead. It’s a story about acceptance and ...
Journey Key
(2022-12-21)
Nora Burroughs, the protagonist of this novel, Journey Key, finds herself embroiled in a centuries-old curse—a curse that, if not broken, would put other women, including her daughter, in mortal danger. The hitch is that ...
The Grosvenor Romance: A Novel (Chapters I-VII)
(2023-04-25)
The story takes place in a coastal Massachusetts town, Grosvenor, in the autumn and winter of 1850. The protagonist is 18-year-old Margaret Browne, a young lady beginning to experience the first stirrings of a need for ...
The Truth-Teller Told a Lie
(2022-12-22)
The Truth-Teller Told a Lie is Darrin Reed Abplanalp-Cowan’s first memoir, telling
the story of one of America’s first out-LGBTQ+ television anchors before the days of
marriage equality or workplace and housing protections ...
Elevated by Art: Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Literary Ambitions to Transcend Sensation
(2021-05-11)
By any measure, Mary Elizabeth Braddon was one of the most successful novelists of the Victorian era, publishing more than eighty novels between 1860 and 1915 and earning the title of “queen of the circulating libraries.” ...