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Bicknell, William.
Thank God for Rosie Roth: A Novel.
Degree: MA, English, 2007, Wright State University
► Rosie Roth is an elderly Christian widow with a heart of gold…
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▼ Rosie Roth is an elderly Christian widow with a heart of gold who, one summer, encounters supernatural forces when her new neighbors, one of whom is a demon-possessed ten-year-old, move into the neighborhood. Rosie, by unwittingly exorcising the demon, finds herself thrust into a tangled web of secrets, conspiracies, and plots. Out to stop these plots is Atlas, a recovering amnesiac who is sent to exorcise the demon, only to find that Rosie has already done the job. While Rosie attempts to reconcile these supernatural forces with her own faith in God, Atlas struggles to live up to his own heroic ideals, to redeem himself for his years of sloth, and to save the day. Ultimately, Atlas must go face-to-face with the past he has struggled to forget, while Rosie must overcome the scheming of those close to her in order to prove her worth in spite of her age.
Advisors/Committee Members: Allen, Brady.
Keywords: Novel; Mythology; Myth; Exorcism; Comedy; Fantasy; Fable
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Davis-Allen, Pamela Marie.
Gypsy Soul, Wolf Spirit.
Degree: MA, English, 2009, Wright State University
► Gypsy Soul, Wolf Spirit is a collection of thirty-six poems; the majority…
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▼ Gypsy Soul, Wolf Spirit is a collection of thirty-six poems; the majority of the poems are written in - or evolved from drafts written in - iambic pentameter. Writing formal poetry was a challenge I decided to embrace because I believed that it would allow me to evolve as a poet. The themes that connect these poems are represented by the collection's title: Gypsy Soul, Wolf Spirit. There is the dominant thematic presence of both the natural world and the spiritual realm within the collection. My intention was to lift the reader to a state of mind, through language, where he or she could get lost in the peaceful beauty of nature - even when that beauty is found through powerful images of the bear or wolf - and feel the spontaneous gypsy soul of the divine universe.
Advisors/Committee Members: Pacernick, Gary.
Subjects: English literature; Fine Arts; Language arts; Literacy; Teaching; Womens studies
Keywords: Poetry, poems, nature poems, formal poetry, sonnets, free verse poetry, wolf, gypsy, universe, soul, nature
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Evans, Theresa Marie.
Down at the Bowl: A Novel.
Degree: MA, English, 2007, Wright State University
► Evans, Theresa Marie. M.A., Department of English Language and Literatures, Wright…
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▼ Evans, Theresa Marie. M.A., Department of English Language and Literatures, Wright State University, 2007. Down at the Bowl: A Novel. Novel set in late-1970s Cincinnati, on its traditionally conservative, Catholic west side. Karen is a sheltered seventeen-year-old girl, who gets a job bussing tables at a bowling alley restaurant. Unlike the friends she has struggled to fit in with throughout high school, Karen finds she is immediately welcomed into the group of teenagers who work there. She tries to become more street smart like her new friends, but finds herself jolted by their casual attitudes towards drinking, drugs, and sex. Along with the coming-of-age theme, the story addresses issues of homosexuality in a time when gays were just beginning to come out publicly. Karen struggles with her search for truth and love against the seventies’ backdrop of social upheaval and economic insecurity. While the subjects are serious, the first-person narrator has a sense of humor and enduring hope that reflects the bittersweet and fleeting nature of teenage melodrama.
Advisors/Committee Members: Flanagan, Erin.
Subjects: Literature, American
Keywords: Teens; 1970s; Cincinnati; Coming of Age; Young Adult
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Hall, William L.
The In Pulse.
Degree: MA, English, 2008, Wright State University
► A collection of poems composed as an exercise with imagination and the…
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▼ A collection of poems composed as an exercise with imagination and the attempt to convey the mind as medium for experience without forgetting the reader remembers something else.
Advisors/Committee Members: Pacernick, Gary.
Subjects: English literature
Keywords: poetry, mind, consciousness, waves, in pulse, calm, language, syntax, poetics, semblance, meander, cool, germ, collective, peace, volume, music, signal, search, water
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Haponek, Ken.
LAST MONDAY.
Degree: MA, English, 2007, Wright State University
► Last Monday is the first half of a novel-in-progress. The conception, rationale,…
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▼ Last Monday is the first half of a novel-in-progress. The conception, rationale, and structural framework of the novel are explored further in the introductory essay. The work begins in a suburb of Indianapolis, with the story centering on a family of four whose oldest son is killed while serving in the Army during the Iraq War. The characters’ experiences are told through a series of brief vignettes, currently ranging anywhere from one to twelve pages in length, in order to tell the events from the perspective of the four main characters from the Brennan family. The point-of-view of each section is third limited, shifting between the four main characters.
Advisors/Committee Members: Flanagan, Erin.
Subjects: Literature, General
Keywords: Orion; Jude; Settinger; Chad; Laura; Mr; Brennan
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Harris, Andrea Dinah.
Dinah: A Novel.
Degree: MA, English, 2007, Wright State University
► Three years after her rape, Dinah begins to have visions of other…
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▼ Three years after her rape, Dinah begins to have visions of other rapes. Her visions are prompted by physical contact with the rapist or his victim. She decides that the visions are being sent to her so that she can stop the rapists. Although questioning her sanity and the morality of her actions, she begins killing the rapists. When Dinah later decides that the killings are futile, the ghosts of women who have been killed begin to haunt her. However, as Dinah begins to understand how the killing of rapists by a woman helps dismantle the social construction of women as victims, she recognizes these ghost women as her allies. Despite the complications of her personal relationships and the growing suspicions of police detectives, Dinah ultimately embraces the killings as her spiritual mission.
Advisors/Committee Members: Flanagan, Erin.
Keywords: rape; violence against women
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Ireland, Ryan Patrick.
Beyond Aurora.
Degree: MA, English, 2011, Wright State University
► Set in 1888-9, this historical fiction narrative chronicles the events leading up…
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▼ Set in 1888-9, this historical fiction narrative chronicles the events leading up to, and following the Martin brothers' failed quest for vengeance. The brothers work as mercenaries for a Plains sheriff before being sent into exile. They eventually part ways and each of them spirals into their own brand of madness.
Advisors/Committee Members: Flanagan, Erin.
Subjects: Literature
Keywords: Western, Utah, Bakhtin, North Dakota, justice, natural order, allegory
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Leingang, Brian P.
Moving On: A Novel.
Degree: MA, English, 2007, Wright State University
► Hank Fossett had the perfect life with his girlfriend, Liz: a steady…
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▼ Hank Fossett had the perfect life with his girlfriend, Liz: a steady job, a promising career as a local artist, a healthy relationship with a wonderful woman, all while living in the cosmopolitan city of Blophton. But Hank was just dumped and didn’t see it coming. Now, after four years with his girlfriend, he’s alone and must figure out how to get over the girl who broke his heart. turns to his friends to help him try to get Liz back. Instead, they help Hank get over Liz in a series of twelve steps crafted by Hank’s old friend and war veteran, Chuck. Many of these steps are intuitive, such as feeling sorry for yourself and remembering the bad times. Other steps lead Hank back into the direction of his friends and then encourage him to make new friends. Eventually, with the help of his friend Cheryl, who introduces him to the world of online dating, Hank dates again. As Hank follows the steps to move on from his relationship, he begins to realize that his friends, and his father, have more serious problems: Chuck has Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from his time in Afghanistan, Cheryl is trying to get over being sexually assaulted, Hank’s father, a physician, still blames himself from the death of Hank’s grandfather. While Hank is moving on, another narrator fills in the past, moving backwards from days just before Hank was dumped to the very first time Hank and Liz met. In these passages, we learn that his relationship with Liz wasn’t as solid as he thought it was. Hank accepts his mistakes and moves on from Liz as the twelve step program leads him in new directions in life he never expected to go.
Advisors/Committee Members: Allen, Brady.
Subjects: Literature, American
Keywords: broken heart; break up; twelve step program
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Montagne, Twyla Dawn.
Paradox of Love.
Degree: MA, English, 2008, Wright State University
► A collection of poems centered on the theme of the paradoxical nature…
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▼ A collection of poems centered on the theme of the paradoxical nature of love. Within love are oppositional tensions that produce pain as well as joy. This collection explores what it means to live with a heart awakened by love – one that is made whole by being broken. The poems are written in free verse with a simple structure that often takes the form of stanzas. As a whole, this work is an invitation to find deeper meaning in life.
Advisors/Committee Members: Pacernick, Gary.
Subjects: Literature; Religion; Romance literature
Keywords: love; paradox; heart; faces; eyes; tears; cry; smile
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Stoermer, Carolyn E.
Locked Rooms and Interpreting Readers: The Role of Embedded Texts in the Locked-Room Mysteries of Poe, Leroux, and Christie.
Degree: MA, English, 2008, Wright State University
► As closed narratives, locked-room mysteries risk the sense of interpretive play for…
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▼ As closed narratives, locked-room mysteries risk the sense of interpretive play for which the larger detective genre is known. To mitigate this risk, writers like Edgar Allan Poe, Gaston Leroux, and Agatha Christie incorporate embedded texts into their locked-room stories. These recreated documents encourage readers' involvement by eliciting culturally specific interpretive reactions. Studying how these authors' embedded texts simultaneously innovate and conserve within the locked-room subgenre brings critics closer to understanding exactly how the detective story earned its reputation as one of the most engaging forms of fiction.
Advisors/Committee Members: Guthrie, James.
Subjects: Literature
Keywords: detective fiction; locked-room mysteries; embedded texts; reader-response; Wolfgang Iser; Edgar Allan Poe; Gaston Leroux; Agatha Christie
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