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- Creator:
- Hayes, Timothy
- Description:
- Milling is a collection of three linked narratives working with shared characters and themes in the literary genres of magical realism and Eco Literature. These three stories explore diverse uses of points of view, which work at shifting the reader’s eye away from expected storytelling techniques. This change in perspectives is used to create disquiet within the reader, a key aspect of magical realism. It also ties into Eco Literature as these stories attempt to transfer the source of meaning for the narratives from a human perspective to that of nature. This project is meant to illustrate the work I have done in working with the ever evolving art of magical realism as well as share my own discoveries in Eco Literature, which is only recently an emerging art form.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Chico
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- Monroe, Nicholas
- Description:
- “Deadheading” is a collection of poems that can be viewed as a travelogue. This is a documentation of exploration. These poems move. They cover terrain—terrain that is physical, emotional, temporal, cultural, and spatial. This travelogue explores many elements of the world in order to convey the essence of the human condition through a variety of voices and poetic techniques. The characters portrayed within, a rich variety of personae, navigate through the literary wilderness of eastern Tennessee in “Southern Gothic,” go to market and return with little to show for their work in “The Muleteer Returns Home from Market,” watch native islander culture clash with the now inseparable tourist trade in “Aloha from Hawaii,” and experience urban decay in the “Baby Puke Bus” sequence of poems. Other characters encounter mental illness for the first time in “Jeff Takes a Ride Through Alta Heights, 1989,” commune with the natural world in “From bouldered perch I see” and “of bark, of branches,” and come to terms with their own grief in “In You I Recognize Myself” and “days like this keep me warm.”
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Chico
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- North, Jill
- Description:
- Secondhand Stories is a collection of four short stories that seek to present a variety of social issues thought the lens of a small town. The collection was written with the theme of small towns in mind to show how that specific community problematizes those issues. A small town setting highlights the unique ways that a small town confronts issues found in society. It is not always pretty, but at times it can be beautiful because of the small and intimate community. The stories tackle a range of topics such as: LGBTQ issues, depression, gender stereotypes, and homelessness. In my critical introduction I discuss the ways that I am seeking to go beyond the stories in the LGBTQ community that only address a character’s sexuality by choosing not to center the plot of most of my stories on sexuality. The introduction discusses my desire to move beyond the traditional queer narrative by writing in many different voices and though the lens of many different communities. The introduction discusses the history, responsibility and expectations that come with writing within the boundaries of a marginalized community. For myself, the relationship to those boundaries are filled with conflicting feelings.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Chico
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- Bowersox, Sylvia
- Description:
- Catherine Talbot’s Two Days in Iraq is a novel-in-stories that takes the reader along with Catherine and her Army unit on their deployment to wartime Iraq. The stories explore the poignant changes and trauma that occur in a soldier's life when they are living on a daily dose of destruction. The narrative follows a young woman and her groups of misfits, bosses, and enablers as they bring freedom to the Iraqi people. We watch Catherine develop from a neglected child to absentee mother; from an orphan warrior to an overwhelmed, suffering woman. This project is divided into four parts: an introduction, entering the war zone, Catherine at work in the combat zone, and the descent into the hell of the Baghdad morgue. Catherine' s story invites the reader to experience the personal world of the men and women, who face confusion, heartache, and occasional exhilaration while serving in a far off land that few understand, least of all Catherine and her compatriots.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Chico
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- Dunk, Eric
- Description:
- Manzanitas at Gunsight Lookout is a collection of poetry to question the world. This collection explores the aspects of life I consider vital to human experience: these poems explore relationships, memory, love, emotion, and the ultimate uncertainty of these experiences. The poems in this collection embrace many poetic qualities, including lyric poetry, experimentation with memory, imagination, and philosophical questions. Ultimately, these poems are meant to serve as a bridge between my experience and the experience of fellow humankind, seeking to empathize and create a common understanding.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Chico
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- Sandoval, Nathan
- Description:
- Over the past two years, I have researched the complexities of e-textbooks and how the rise of new digital media has influenced the network of the textbook industry. My research traces various connections and disconnections within this network that affect the educational practices of both student and professors within the university. My findings show a fundamental disconnect between students and the rest of the network of the textbook industry. This disconnect stems from students’ lack of choice and authority in the final textbook product and needs to be understood by educators in order to address student needs. Textbooks have been used for several decades as the primary references for many students and professors/instructors within the university. With Web 2.0, the organization of the used book market, and the proliferation of new digital media, the textbook industry has shifted its approach to the university student market. This shift requires further exploration.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Chico
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- Gill, Catherine
- Description:
- The intention of this thesis is to discuss the ideas of narratology in reference to different disciplines, and to show how the topic of narratology moves through to help people develop and understand the world around them. To start the discussion, there will be a literature review that covers the theories around the structure of narrative followed by the cognitive development in making meaning in narrative. These theories will be used to discuss how story and the working memory aid in writing development, how meaning making is derived from classic tales such as Cinderella and lastly, how these different disciplines become tangible in areas like legal discourse.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Chico
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- Arriola, Francisco J.
- Description:
- This study examines the idea of cultural hybridity in the United States by using Brando Skyhorse’s The Madonnas of Echo Park (2010) and Richard Rodriguez’s autobiographical novel Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (1982). First, this thesis explores the effects of cultural dislocation of Mexican immigrants and the hybridity of language in the U.S. as it relates to identity. By studying Skyhorse and Rodriguez’s texts we are presented with an examination of Spanglish in the U.S. and how it contributes to a hybrid identity. Also, this thesis examines two films, Spanglish (2004) by James L. Brooks and A Better Life (2011) by Chris Weitz, which contribute to the study of linguistic identity and give us a better understanding of contemporary immigrant experience in America.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Chico
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- Haydon, Amanda
- Description:
- The purpose of this research is to observe and document the learning practices of affinity groups known as guilds and their functions within collaborative virtual spaces. This ethnographic study follows a guild known as Acta nøn Verba as they progress during the “Warlords of Draenor” expansion. The primary methodology used when conducting this research included utilizing participant-observation structures to document and analyze the affinity group during the gameplay and conducting semi-structured interviews with members of the guild. The data that was collected while observing the gameplay of the guild illustrated the ways in which affinity groups function within massive virtual spaces like World of Warcraft. Since the scale of this virtual space was so extensive, the researcher relied on Bruno Latour’s Actor-Network Theory (ANT) in order to show the relationship between the learning networks that both individual members and the affinity group engaged in, and the central actors that were observed within these networks including language and literacy development, cultural norms, cognitive distribution, digital trust and respect, outside research methods, and the importance of leadership roles. The work that came out of this study has implications for the ways in which affinity groups are structured within virtual spaces, and the ways in which learning practices and literacy are constructed and maintained within these groups.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Chico
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- Skripek, Matthew Paul Stephens
- Description:
- Terraforming Hell is a collection of poems that explore the dark terrain of reality, the fantastic, and the rift that lies between. It traverses the æther and the dreamstate. Some poems find their footing in the natural world while others walk beyond it. Like skeletal remains, these poems are spare in structure and ask readers to bring their own interpretation of the details to each work. These poems are meant to encourage reexamination of the familiar so new ideas may take form. Here, nothing is static nor concrete. The purpose is redefinition.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Chico
- Department:
- English