OUT OF VIEW is a collection of stories set in the American Southwest about people coping with loss—the death of parents, children, ideals, innocence. The characters in this collection reap or resist lessons of life as they struggle to find their place in the world. In “First Rain,” 15-year-old Tessie struggles with the loss of her father and the demands of her mother as she navigates the rocky terrain of adolescence. In “Monsters,” middle-aged Maury has to choose between a new relationship and protecting the well-being of his 4-year-old ‘daughter.’ The stories are influenced by the Western realism of Maile Meloy and the playful plotting of Ron Carlson. These stories are inspired both by the Sonoran Desert—expansive, sun-soaked, unrepentant—and by the people who live, love, and lose in the interstices between Manifest Destiny and the Reconquista.

A considerable number of students undertaking pre-registration nurse education in the UK are international students from Zimbabwe. The aim of this study is to listen to their narratives in order both to understand their experiences and to make suggestions for improving their educational management. The context from which the Zimbabwean students have migrated is discussed, outlining the current Zimbabwean educational and health care systems; prevailing social mores, religion and kinship ties; and the more recent sharp economic downturn in the Zimbabwean economy and the effects of the prevalence of HI VIA IDS in Southern Africa. Nine pre-registration nursing students from Zimbabwe attending one UK university, and one further respondent who had qualified as a nurse and was practising in the same locality were recruited to take part in life-history interviews. The interviews covered experiences in Zimbabwe leading to migration to the UK; accounts of arriving in the UK and challenges experienced in starting the course, working in health care settings as placements, and becoming reconciled to life in the UK. Factors prompting migration to the UK are reported to include the emphasis on education as a means of social mobility; the economic crisis, and the disruption of family ties by the HIV epidemic. Educational courses for nursing are the means to prevent their aspirations for professional occupation floundering on current economic and political instability in Zimbabwe, rather than a positive career choice. The reliance of the NHS on internationally-recruited students to cover shortfalls in labour in the UK contributes to this process. Experiences upon arrival in the UK include problems with visas, immigration officials and banking facilities. Zimbabwean students find it challenging to adapt to self-directed learning styles, to combine studying in a context without their familiar domestic help, and under financial pressure to remit monies home. They also report experiences of racism both in the college and in placement settings. Despite these challenges the next step seems more likely to be to work in nursing in the UK and to bring family to join them when financially possible. These life-histories have implications for the educational management of Zimbabwean nursing students at the level of the University, the University International Office, the School of Nursing and Midwifery, the individual nurse tutor, and the local NHS placement settings. They also have implications for the future prospects of Zimbabwe after the Mugabe regime.

This study analyzes these stories in their original and later forms, both to discover the types of changes Faulkner made and to determine whether or not he followed any pattern in the revisions.

Dissertation (MA (Sepedi))--University of Pretoria, 2005. / African Languages / unrestricted

Orientador: Ana Maria Carlos / Banca: Wellington Ricardo Fioruci / Banca: Álvaro Santos Simões Junior / Resumo: Este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar o primeiro livro do escritor-jornalista Rubem Braga (1913-1990), O conde e o passarinho, coletânea de crônicas publicadas em 1936. No decorrer da vida, o escritor capixaba ficou marcado por escrever para jornais quase que exclusivamente textos de crônicas, muitas delas publicadas, posteriormente, em coletâneas ao longo dos anos, inclusive após a sua morte. Nosso estudo buscou respaldo tanto nas teorias literárias a respeito do gênero crônica, sobre suas características, história e processo de "adaptação" no Brasil, como na fortuna crítica do cronista. A análise crítico-interpretativa do corpus procurou evidenciar as estratégias textuais empregadas pelo autor e o diálogo que, muitas vezes, se estabelecia entre os textos da obra. Desse modo, partindo dessas categorias analíticas, tentamos ressaltar as questões mais significativas do objeto artístico estudado, sobretudo a recorrência de alguns temas em seus textos, como a defesa aos menos favorecidos, a descrição da mulher brasileira e seus comentários sobre leis e notícias da época. Também buscamos abordar e analisar as personagens presentes na antologia, bem como destacar as referências culturais utilizadas pelo autor, sejam elas literárias, musicais ou cinematográficas e, por fim, apontar o recurso frequente à metalinguagem na construção de parte das crônicas. A partir desse recorte, nossa análise buscou compreender os aspectos sociais, econômicos e políticos da década de 1930, sobretudo porque a crônica, gênero híbrido, caracteriza-se por transitar entre as esferas do jornalismo e da literatura e também entre o particular, o tempo vivido pelo cronista, e o universal, que permite ao cronista explorar a essência humana / Abstract: This study aims to analyze the first book of the writer-journalist Rubem Braga (1913- 1990), O conde e o passarinho, a collection of chronicles published in 1936. Throughout life, the writer from Espirito Santo State was marked by writing for newspapers almost exclusively chronicles, many of them published later in collections over the years, even after his death. Our study sought support both the literary theories about the chronic gender, on its characteristics, history and process of "adaptation" in Brazil, as in the critical fortune of the chronicler. The critical interpretive analysis of the corpus sought to highlight the textual strategies employed by the author and the dialogue that often was established between the texts of the work. Thus, from these analytical categories, we have tried to highlight the most significant issues of the artistic object studied, especially the recurrence of certain themes in his writings, as the defense of the underprivileged, the description of Brazilian women and his comments on laws and news of the that time. We also tried to address and analyze the characters present in the anthology as well as to highlight the cultural references used by the author, whether literary, musical or cinematographic ones and, finally, to point out the frequent recourse to metalanguage in building part of the chronicles. From this side view, our analysis sought to understand the social, economic and political aspects of the 1930s, mainly because chronic, a hybrid genre, is characterized by transitions between the spheres of journalism and literature and also between the private, the time experienced by the chronicler, and the universal, which allows the chronicler to explore the human essence / Mestre

This thesis is a short story collection revolving around the central theme of pop culture. The first story, "After the Win," follows the character Cecil, whose wife Rhonda has recently won The Great British Bake Off. Trouble ensues in Cecil and Rhonda's family as Rhonda starts to focus on her post-Bake Off fame instead of her relationships with her husband and daughter. "Making Friends with a Monster" is about Rick, a half-human, half-lake monster living on the shores of Bear Lake. Because of his existence in an in-between place between man and monster, Rick struggles to find companionship in life. That is, until Anna (AKA the Loch Ness Monster) arrives in his lake and presents him with an enticing offer: to return with her to Loch Ness. The story culminates in Rick's decision. The next story, "The Fourth Wall," is the story of Max and Abby, who are close to getting engaged. Max confronts Abby about her family, who she has never told him much about. Finally, she agrees to take him for a visit to meet her parents. As soon as Max arrives, it becomes apparent that Abby's parents believe they are Ricky and Lucy from the beloved sitcom I Love Lucy, and Max is soon sucked in to the illusion. The last story in the collection is "Feelin' Groovy in Point Pleasant, West Virginia,"which is the tale of a Simon and Garfunkel tribute band that encounters the legendary Mothman monster in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, who happens to be an avid Simon and Garfunkel fan.

This thesis is a short story collection revolving around the central theme of pop culture. The first story, "After the Win," follows the character Cecil, whose wife Rhonda has recently won The Great British Bake Off. Trouble ensues in Cecil and Rhonda's family as Rhonda starts to focus on her post-Bake Off fame instead of her relationships with her husband and daughter. "Making Friends with a Monster" is about Rick, a half-human, half-lake monster living on the shores of Bear Lake. Because of his existence in an in-between place between man and monster, Rick struggles to find companionship in life. That is, until Anna (AKA the Loch Ness Monster) arrives in his lake and presents him with an enticing offer: to return with her to Loch Ness. The story culminates in Rick's decision. The next story, "The Fourth Wall," is the story of Max and Abby, who are close to getting engaged. Max confronts Abby about her family, who she has never told him much about. Finally, she agrees to take him for a visit to meet her parents. As soon as Max arrives, it becomes apparent that Abby's parents believe they are Ricky and Lucy from the beloved sitcom I Love Lucy, and Max is soon sucked in to the illusion. The last story in the collection is "Feelin' Groovy in Point Pleasant, West Virginia,"which is the tale of a Simon and Garfunkel tribute band that encounters the legendary Mothman monster in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, who happens to be an avid Simon and Garfunkel fan.

This dissertation studies the treatment of fantastic or magical objects in the short stories of Silvina Ocampo (1903-1993), member of the Sur literary group in Argentina which included some of the most influential writers of the twentieth century such as her friend and contemporary Jorge Luis Borges. I study how Ocampo's narrative technique uses objects to interrupt the protagonists' sometimes mundane lives as they reveal a hidden desire. These everyday, seemingly trivial, objects are also often the source of the fantastic element present in Ocampo's exemplary short stories. The first chapter places Ocampo in a literary context, highlighting her role in the Sur group. I study texts in which objects are directly related to the creative process of writing and link them to specific works by Borges, one of her salient influences. The second chapter provides textual analysis of the presence of fantastic objects in Ocampo's work: those that make their way into the textual space through dreams as well as others that trigger or undergo a metamorphosis. Articles of clothing play an important symbolic role in Ocampo's narrative as shown in the third chapter where the use of garments as a symbolic-fantastic element is analyzed. Before starting her literary career Ocampo studied painting under Giorgio de Chirico and Fernand Léger in Paris. The fourth chapter examines Ocampo's relationship with visual art, including the representation of paintings, photographs and other images in her work. Since desire may be viewed as a longing for something that has been lost and comes into being only through its absence, my conclusions address how Ocampo's protagonists frequently wrestle with hidden desires and how fantastic objects are associated with unsettling outcomes.

In this collection of short stories, I abduct experiences from my own life and take them on an imaginative journey. I experiment with elements of structure and point of view, often incorporating the magical or surreal to amplify the narrator’s internal landscape. As demonstrated in the title story, “Almost Astronauts,” these stories all deal with a sudden and sometimes destructive shift in the narrator’s perspective.

This thesis describes the work of Uruguayan-born author Javier de Viana and his imagery of Uruguayan rural life in his short stories and novellas.