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- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- Chico
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- Perry, Brian Phillip
- Description:
- Through a series of interrelated short stories, Makeup presents a variety of relationships spanning the human existence from unborn child to old age. These relationships all suffer from our natural inclination to cover up the truths about each other and about ourselves we don’t want to face due to our unexpressed fears—fears about how others see us and about how we see ourselves. The more the characters focus on their own problems and fears, the less they are able to see of each other and the further they push themselves away from the truth about themselves. Without either condemnation or excuse, Makeup presents a hope for what might be possible if we can find a way to face the truths from which we so desperately hide.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- Wilson, Tara
- Description:
- The interesting thing about writing is that language is alive and evolves through interpretation and memory. As in quantum mechanics and calculating the exact position of a photon, being both wave and particle, the exact meaning of a word, being both symbol and sign, changes in meaning within a given perspective. The trouble I had with my story was pinpointing the meaning between various real and not so real memories already written upon the page. Then one sunny day, I started watching a documentary on Derrida. In French, with a city skyline speeding behind his words in translation at the bottom of the screen, he said: an unexpected future, l’avenir, a future to come. Instead of watching the rest of the film, I hit rewind and watched again, and the thread for my piece came alive, a narrative structure and point of view that created a past, a reflection thereof, and a future, in search of l’avenir. And so I sat in pure pleasure. My words had found meaning upon the page.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- Micsa, Carmen
- Description:
- In my memoir, I analyze the topic of freedom: personal, political, philosophical, and psychological freedom. Through my immigration journey to the United States from my native country Romania I explore the multi-faceted notions of freedom, as I grapple with my new identity. While struggling to become part of a new country and leaving behind family, friends, and my Romanian heritage, I reflect on what it takes to be truly free. Is there such a thing as total freedom? Does happiness result from being free? To sum things up, my intention was to depict a universal journey of becoming a United States citizen, while trying to attain personal and spiritual freedom, even though in gaining freedom, I lost my old self. Yet, the promise of a better life was alluring and fulfilling.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- Jenks, Eleanor Cesander
- Description:
- It was the purpose of this candidate to write a volume of poetry, entitled The Froward Mouth and Other Poems. The Froward Mouth may be described as a long lyric with a background narrative depicting the tragic degeneration through loss of moral restraint of the Loudon family over a period of some sixty years. The other poems are short lyrics: sonnets, cinquains, blank verse, and free verse, twenty-five in all, on a variety of themes, mostly serious in nature.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- Wehrman, Ann Caviness
- Description:
- These deeply autobiographical poems explore primary areas of my life thus far: childhood memories, past and current relationships, abuse and healing, artistic expression, and spirituality and religion. The manuscript title refers to the dragon of Frank Herbert's Dune series and to the 'evil' dragons of Western lore. It is my hope to triumph over the power of evil thus represented by becoming a woman of God-centered love, one who can Dance on the Backbone of the Dragon.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- English