Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1975. / Typescript. Vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 245-252).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1977. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 174-186).

Thesis (M. A.)--Florida State University, 2005. / Advisor: Mark Winegardner, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 15, 2005). Document formatted into pages; contains iv, 88 pages.

Thesis (M.A.)--East Tennessee State University, 2002. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 71). Original full text available as a .pdf file via the Internet. Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader software.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1974. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 242-266).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1972. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliography.

Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of English, 2006. / Title from first page of PDF document.

abstract: This thesis contains stories about loss and the trauma that's felt in its wake. Within all of these stories, characters struggle with the notion of "healing" and "moving on." Whether it be a young boy who deals with his grief by cannibalizing his mother in "A Simple Request", or a teenage girl who wishes her chronically suicidal mother would finally kill herself in "Little Accidents," all stories within this collection explore the very unique, and human ways, in which people deal with grief. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.F.A. English 2012

AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF JANELLE JUNE BLASDEL, for the Master of Fine Arts degree in ENGLISH, presented on April 5, 2011, at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. TITLE: THE NATURE OF THINGS MAJOR PROFESSOR: Professor Beth Lordan The Nature of Things is a collection of short stories divided into two parts. While both parts are thematically linked and include similar recurring themes, such as childhood, motherhood, maturation, and the menace that follows characters from one phase of life and into the next, each part experiments with different formal and tonal writing elements. Part I exercises a closer narrative voice that is more character-driven and maintains a strong sense of realism. Part II, in contrast, employs a much more distant third person narrative voice and elements of the surreal.

A collection of formally diverse short stories focusing on how people deal with tragedy and estrangement.