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She Will Be the Last of UsAcosta Gaspar de Alba, Ana-Christina 07 February 2017 (has links)
She Will Be the Last of Us is a collection of closely interwoven short stories narrated by four generations of Mexican women. They are all members of the fictitious Belmonte family, once a stronghold in Mexican politics and high society, now nearing extinction. The collection explores the idea of legacy and repeated history, and what matters and remains when a family line dies out. Other thematic focuses include notions of class, nationalism, womanhood, and motherhood in Mexico and on the US-Mexico border. / MFA
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A veritable press : short storiesMyers, Nathan C. January 2007 (has links)
A Veritable Press is a collection of six short stories, focusing on the troubled relationships of its characters, exhibited both internally and externally. While the characters in these stories experience the effects of their own decisions, they are generally more affected by forces outside their control, whether those are the choices of others, or the inexplicability of nature. Most characters seek redemption, though they are denied the means to deliver themselves as they move towards an end that seems inevitable. This feeling of inevitability represents the arbitrary and seemingly unsystematic nature of circumstance. Through the use of distinct voices, multiple narratives, and metafiction, each piece works to exhibit an entirely realistic portrait of its places and characters, endeavoring to force its reader to face what is most unpleasant and appalling, in order to understand it. / You and I -- Violet in blue, swimming -- Mole hunt -- We three make up a solitude -- Savages -- Other books. / Department of English
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Chequebook journalism: a South African pictureStos, Susan Lisabeth 15 September 2009 (has links)
Chequebook journalism is the convention of paying for stories. It is considered
antithetical to good journalism, yet is essentially ignored in many codes of conduct.
This research report investigates television actuality programs Carte Blanche, Special
Assignment and Third Degree in which the theory, as well as the practice of
chequebook journalism was discussed with the journalists and executive producers.
Discussion expanded into other contingent, morally suspect areas of payment, and
the lines they felt should not be transgressed. Four focus groups of viewers then
debated chequebook journalism and the quality of these programs. It was
anticipated that the practice of journalism would be in line with audience views yet
the standard of journalism as herein established surpassed viewer estimation.
Whereas the topic has been written of extensively in many first world Englishspeaking
countries, no research has been conducted in South Africa, thus adding
valuable information to the study of journalism.
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Dark Smoke RisingKnutson, Matthew 23 May 2019 (has links)
A collection of short fiction set in and around Southern California.
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The shadow line : short storiesHouseholder, Aaron J. January 2007 (has links)
The Shadow Line is a collection of six short stories featuring characters whose lives take them near, and often across, the metaphorical Line that separates light from dark. Some of these characters indeed straddle that Line, living lives of apparent uprightness while harboring the seeds of inescapable menace. Some hover on the outside of some social structure and yearn to cross over, to leave the shadows of their lives outside for the apparent radiance within. And some live in worlds of brightness and comfort, only to find themselves confronting sudden moments of inexplicable terror. Told from various points of view, these stories invite the reader to listen to the characters — to explore the secrets they keep, the fears and doubts and dangers they face as they confront the darkness — and to inhabit with them, for a short time, the menacing world on either side of the Shadow Line. / A story to tell -- Grass grows greener -- Salvation -- Places -- The delivery -- The ivory tower. / Department of English
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The detective as social critic : the Spanish and Mexican detective novel 1970-1995 /Lake, Darlene Margaret. January 1999 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1999. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 205-212).
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Disconnected /Gifford, John. January 2010 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (M.F.A.), Creative Writing--University of Central Oklahoma, 2010. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf xxii).
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Literary investigations of modern American crime narratives /Nelson, Colby David. January 2005 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2005. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 280-292).
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Portland and Other StoriesCopelin, Amy 01 January 2016 (has links)
The collection of short stories explores relationships. Sometimes characters’ secret longings, fantasies, and frustrations drive them to make unusual choices or to fixate on inappropriate people and solutions to their problems. Some characters are sidelined by their inabilities to make their most important needs known to those closest to them. Miscommunication or failing to be understood is a common thread throughout.
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Billy and Me and Other StoriesChampion, Laurie 08 1900 (has links)
The thesis begins with an introductory chapter that explains the problems that short story theorists encounter when they try to define the short story genre. Part of the problem results from the lack of a definition of the short story in the Aristotelian sense. A looser, less traditional definition of literary genres helps solve some of the problem. Six short stories follow the introduction. "Billy and Me," "Queen of Hearts," "The Whiskey Man," and "Psychedelic Trash Cans" are representative of traditional short stories. "Mourning Coffee" and "Seven X Seven" might very well fit into other genres, but even these stories fit a loose definition of the short story genre.
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