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- Creator:
- Gates, Andrew E.
- Description:
- This thesis is an investigation into the role of names within Olga Grushin’s Forty Rooms, in order to in understand the protagonist, Mrs. Caldwell, as an “everywoman” in which readers can see themselves. I use the names of the male characters to show them as the patriarchy, and I use their actions to show them as oppressors. Conversely, I investigate the names of the women to show their universality and characteristics that keep them blind to their existence in an oppressive social atmosphere. I go on to emphasize the importance of the protagonist’s namelessness and show how several rhetorical devices and images – namely the use of pronoun confusion, first to third person narrative perspective switch, mermaids and mirrors – are used to help readers understand the protagonist as a hybrid and representing the masses of oppressed women.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Chico
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- Ellet, Hannah Camille
- Description:
- American contemporary and multicultural literature focuses on issues surrounding race. This project analyzes race through differing spaces, places, and environments in three works of 20th and 21st century American literature. Despite their differences in time and place, each novel deals with the restriction or removal of a marginalized group from a space or environment. Because an essential part of one’s identity is rooted in their relationship to the various physical environments or spaces of which they are a part, this project asks questions surrounding identity, heritage, and the creation of self. It also looks at the movement of individuals between spaces, focusing on the different ways an individual’s identity changes within urban and rural environments.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Chico
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- D'Augelli, Carissa
- Description:
- “Mother Outsider” is a collection of poems that explores non-conventional motherhood while also pushing against cultural assumptions of motherhood. Questioning these societal assumptions and the speaker’s own questions of herself are central to the poems in this collection. Uncertainties surrounding whether or not step-mothers are “true” mothers is also a major aspect. Some poems in this collection will talk back to the societal voices saying that motherhood happens when a woman gives birth. “Mother Outsider” invites readers to see an alternative mother on a journey through legitimacy and validation.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Chico
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- Allen, Ian T.
- Description:
- Reasons to Worry is a collection of short stories and flash fiction focused on the traditions of literary fabulism and speculative fiction. Their genres span across cyberpunk, gothic, folklore, science fiction, horror, magical realism, and cosmicism. Each narrative explores different aspects of anxiety, self-identity, and personal metamorphosis, often interweaving humor, satire, and hyperbole to emphasize these themes and to create undercurrents of meaning. Reasons to Worry also seeks to blur the lines between what is considered the real and the fantastic, posing the question of “what if?” and seeks to eventually supplant this speculation with the revelation of “what is.” The critical introduction of this project provides a deeper examination of its incorporated craft elements such as the strategic use of genre, subtlety, and form. It expands on these with examples supplemented by the works of Charles Baxter, Rob Davidson, Tara L. Masih, Herman Melville, Maria Romasco Moore, Annie Neugebauer, Virgilio Piñera, and Neal Stephenson. Additionally, it touches on a few of its methods of inspiration, revision, and the evolution of its overall style into its current iteration.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Chico
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- Smith, Jennifer L.
- Description:
- Touch the Stars/Touch the Earth is a collection of four short stories that explore themes of grief, death, loss and agency through the medium of fiction, specifically using the genres of fabulist and science fiction. Each story has a central theme of loss and a regaining of agency. Each story uses genre to get at issues that are utterly mundane: the loss of a loved one, feeling stagnant, the process of being depressed and possibly suicidal, an unwanted pregnancy. Prefacing these stories is a discussion dwelling on the influences, theories, and popular culture that have helped shape the creative work, in particular the writing of Ursula K. Le Guin, English folk ballad Tam Lin, and numerous discussions that have taken place both online and in the real world regarding representation and how diversity is echoed or not echoed in popular fiction.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Chico
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- Martinez, Zeth M.
- Description:
- The Cost of Freedom and Other Stories is a collection of interconnected fictional short stories that turn the internal conflict into a tangible obstacle the characters must overcome. By exploring themes of escapism, obsession, and toxic patterns, The Cost of Freedom and Other Stories takes a hybrid approach to the genres of Cyberpunk and Fabulist Fiction. This hybridity allows the fabulist elements to take on a more active role in the plot of the story. The critical introduction discusses the craft elements of defamiliarization and characterization as they explore the fabulist elements of the stories. The authors discussed in the critical introduction are Kôbô Abe, Charles Baxter, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Gloria Naylor, Marge Piercy, and Victor Shklovsky.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Chico
- Department:
- English