Canary is a novel.

More Abundantly explores the complexities of addiction, pregnancy, and the search for personal salvation against the backdrop of a small Central Pennsylvania town. The novel weaves together the lives of Ruby Jean, a college student and part-time stripper grappling with an unexpected pregnancy, and a cast of characters each searching for their own form of redemption. / Master of Fine Arts / More Abundantly is a novel.

A Dance in Memory is a speculative fiction novel about two estranged dancers who reunite to choreograph a ballet based on their ill-fated partnership. To discover the truth of what drove them apart, they turn to a futuristic technology that allows them to re-experience their shared memories. This intense and intimate experience challenges their understanding of the past, each other, and the work of art that they craft together.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2008. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-196).

Vladimir Giorgio Scerbanenco naît à Kiev en 1911, s’installe en Italie à six mois et meurt à Milan en 1969. Auteur d’une centaine de romans, de plusieurs nouvelles et de nombreux articles, il pratique avec aisance tous les genres littéraires, véritable « machine à écrire » qui n’obtient qu’une gloire assez brève auprès du public et de la critique avec ses romans noirs de la fin des années soixante. Le protagoniste récurent y est alors Duca Lamberti, un jeune médecin expulsé de l’Ordre pour avoir pratiqué l’euthanasie qui devient une sorte de détective privé travaillant aux côtés de la police de Milan. Dans ces romans, pour la première fois en Italie, il ne s’agit pas seulement de résoudre une énigme, mais plutôt de représenter et comprendre la sphère des souffrances individuelles dans ses déterminations sociales plus larges, qui pèsent fatalement sur la possibilité d’expérimenter rationnellement la réalité. A la forme toujours égale des romans policiers, Scerbanenco ajoute des éléments référentiels nouveaux qui nous placent face au paradoxe continuel du couple dialectique « répétition/innovation ». En effet, c’est avec ces romans violents reposant sur ce personnage, Duca Lamberti, que la littérature de masse, grâce à l’accumulation hyperréaliste des éléments les plus évidents de la contemporanéité, commence à montrer la transformation rapide de la vie quotidienne italienne. / Vladimir Giorgio Scerbanenco was born in Kiev in 1911, but moved to Italy as a child and died in Milan in 1969. Author of more than a hundred novels, several short stories and numerous articles, he practiced all literary genres and reached a brief critic and public success only with his hard boiled novels from the late sixties, who see as a recurrent protagonist Duca Lamberti, a young doctor expelled from the Order for practicing euthanasia who becomes a sort of private detective, working with the Milan police. For the first time in Italy, these novels are not only about solving an enigma, but rather representing and understanding the sphere of individual suffering amid its wider social determinations, which inevitably compromise one’s opportunity to rationally experience reality. Scerbanenco added new referential elements to the formal identity of the detective novel that leave us facing the continuous repetition of the dialectic couple « repetition / innovation » paradox. Indeed, thanks to the hyper-realistic accumulation of the most evident elements of contemporaneity, it is with these novels, centered on the character of Duca Lamberti, that mass literature begins to reveal in a violent form the rapid transformation of the Italian daily life.

Scholars argue that Coetzee’s novels critique and disavow the origins and legacy of the novel tradition and its influence on the contemporary novel. They also claim that J.M. Coetzee’s novels herald in the demise of the contemporary novel. These interpretations are motivated by the political readings of postcolonialism and postmodernism. The premise of this dissertation is to depart from those postcolonial and postmodern approaches and offer close readings of Coetzee’s novels through the origins and legacy of the early eighteenth-and nineteenth century novel. My study argues that several of Coetzee’s novels allude to the intellectual, historical, and cultural legacies of the eighteenth-and nineteenth-century novel. I argue that the origin and rise of the English novel and its subgenres provide Coetzee with ideas to use in his own novels. These paradigms in Coetzee’s novels espouse —rather than renounce — the influence and tradition of the early novel, showing that its inspiration remains relevant in the contemporary novel. Thus, the general premise of this dissertation is that Coetzee does not necessarily “write back” to the canon and the origins of English novel, but rather he writes through and with those enduring forms and structures. This study shows that there are literary connections between the early beginnings of the novel and the contemporary novel that offer cogent examinations —examinations that find compromise between the past and present rarely made through postcolonial or postmodern approaches.

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This dissertation examines the way violence in Colombia, in its multiple forms and manifestations, has shaped the representations about eroticism in three contemporary novels: Héctor Abad Faciolince's Fragmentos de amor furtivo, Fernando Molano's Un beso de Dick and Albalucía Ángel's Misiá Señora. This project specially focuses on the different forms in which violence has become a factor in the way these works represent eroticism and its discourse. Drawing from the theoretical framework of authors such as Slavoj Žižek, Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, the dissertation proposes the existence of an erotic violent space in which three elements intertwine. The first element, evident in Faciolince's work, is the design of a new form of urban space based on the need to be protected in a dangerous city. This form of cartography restricts mobility for the city's inhabitants, opens up new spaces for segregation based on movement and access to space and restricts erotic manifestations to the boundaries of a ghetto-type city. The second element, from Molano's novel, deals with the establishment of gender roles based on homoerotic desire. The violence in this piece is connected to family and school institutions, and the way they determine the creation of public and hidden forms of identity. Finally, Angel's novel deals with the different ways in which the female body can be used as a symbolic battlefield where patriarchal and religious discourses try to impose limitations, promoting the establishment of alienated women.I propose that eroticism is the intimate space where social, discursive and ideological violence is executed, while simultaneously acts as the sphere of individual life where resistance can be enforced. In a country where so much attention is given to the overt, material consequences of violence, such as the number of deaths, massacres and kidnappings, it is easy to overlook the importance of how violence impacts identity and intimacy.

This thesis is a creative novel depicting the adventures of Tim Collier, a small-town broadcaster in his new job in the big city.