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  • There Has Never Been Anything Truly Wrong with You 

    Warren, Erin (East Carolina University, 2011)
    These stories are about obsessive, lonely people. The characters might seem insane but really, they are just lonely and maybe a bit neurotic. They are introspective characters who began life as sweet children, but grew ...
  • The Things We Hear in the Nighttime & Other Stories 

    Geer, Aaron M. (East Carolina University, 2015)
    THE THINGS WE HEAR IN THE NIGHTTIME & OTHER STORIES is a collection of five short stories and five pieces of flash fiction. The writing in the collection focuses on the ever-changing American identity of the 20th and 21st ...
  • Thrown Voices : A Series of Dramatic Monologues, With a Discussion of the Genre 

    Finch, Matthew (East Carolina University, 2010)
    This thesis examines the complex nature of the poetic genre of the dramatic monologue by providing multiple perspectives on the genre--namely, those of the literary critic and the creative writer. This thesis provides a ...
  • To Love Me Too 

    Johnson, Brianna (East Carolina University, 2021-05-10)
    My flash non-fiction practice is influenced by Randon Billings Noble and Jennifer Marie Brissett, while my imagery and interest in black diaspora is rooted in slave narratives, and African and African American literature. ...
  • "The Tonic of Wildness" : Thoreau's Critique of Industrial Capitalism 

    McMillan, Bryan Todd (East Carolina University, 2015)
    This thesis is a critical intervention in contemporary Thoreau scholarship. It argues against Ashton Nichols's application of his concept of "urbanature" to the writings and philosophy of Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau's ...
  • TRANSHUMANISM, FRANKENSTEIN, AND EXTINCTION 

    Feder, Helena (2018)
    Shelley's novel has been fertile ground for ecocritics over the last two decades. In Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture (2014, 2016) I wrote about Frankenstein and culture's dialectical horror of nature. As a narrative ...
  • The Tub and Other Stories 

    Metzger, James (East Carolina University, 2012)
    This portfolio of creative writing includes four full-length short stories and two pieces of flash fiction. In each of the full-length stories, a male protagonist gets caught up in circumstances over which he has little ...
  • Ubiquitous in Time: Towards a Description of the Supernatural Folklore of Time Travel 

    Budasoff, Adam (East Carolina University, 2023-04-21)
    The proliferation of mass-media representations of time travel has, since the late 1800s, created a metatraditional perception that all such variants originated from that selfsame sphere of influence. This has manifested ...
  • UNDERSTANDING HOMOSEXUAL IDENTITIES IN MODERN YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE: AN ANALYSIS OF RAINBOW BOYS, OPENLY STRAIGHT, AND BOY MEETS BOY 

    Littlefield, Justin (East Carolina University, 2016-05-03)
    Alex Sanchez, Bill Koningsberg, and David Levithan hold a large market share of the young adult (YA) literary genre that feature homosexual young men. These authors have written characters that use broad terms like masculine ...
  • Universal Language 

    Almutairi, Norah (East Carolina University, 2016-04-08)
    Universal language is the language that everyone can use to communicate with others without considering their spoken language. Nonverbal communication is an effective, universal method of successful communication. The ...
  • Usage Error in Technical Communication 

    Flanagan, Suzan (East Carolina University, 2014)
    College students who seek careers as technical communicators must master technical writing and editing skills to succeed in the workplace. Effective technical communication stems from the communicator's ability to perceive ...
  • USING NARRATIVE ANALYSIS AND DISCOURSE ANALYSIS TO DETERMINE PATTERNS OF MEANING IN THE SERMON LANGUAGE OF WOMEN PREACHERS 

    Hopkins, Pamela Davis (East Carolina University, 2010)
    Throughout Western history, women preachers have been marginalized. Even though women have filled the pews as members of the congregation, acted as Sunday school teachers, cooks, and members of the choir, in addition to ...
  • The Visit, Like Sisters, Storjka 

    Aeby, Elizabeth Carpenter (East Carolina University, 2013)
    This master's thesis is comprised of three short film scripts: The Visit, Like Sisters, and Storjka.  The Visit, a Depression-era dramatic short film, is filled the realities of hard living in the dust bowl of America's ...
  • "Visual Culture and the 'Alice' Books" by Erin Clark Frost 

    Frost, Erin Clark (2017)
    This presentation asserts that John Tenniel’s illustrations were and are integral to the Alice books and that those illustrations changed text-image relationships in history. First, we note that Tenniel’s illustrations ...
  • Visualizing Images in Writing : Pedagogical and Professional Implications of Image Analysis 

    Hurley, Frank P. (East Carolina University, 2013)
    A recent and growing discussion among rhetoric and composition scholars has emerged surrounding the ways in which images influence the evolving nature of contemporary text. For the most part, scholars in the field agree ...
  • Voices of Desire : Heteroglossia in Graham Greene's The End of the Affair 

    Scott, Cheryl Modlin (East Carolina University, 2010)
    The voice of the author permeates the novel, according to Mikhail Bakhtin, and this voice is not isolated to the words or convictions of a particular character. The characters in the novel are masked with dialogue, ...
  • The Waltzing Dead : The Merit of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies 

    Koballa, Katherine (East Carolina University, 2013)
    When Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was published in 2009, the parody of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice that now takes place in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, few expected the novel to be more ...
  • Welcome to the Fun Box 

    Miller, Kelly P (East Carolina University, 2020-11-18)
    As my focus in English is creative writing, my intent for my thesis is fiction work. To be specific, I have written three short stories and three flash fiction stories that I feel especially align to a certain theme, and ...