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- Title
- Animalization.
- Creator
- Borowsky, Alex, Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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Animalization is a creative nonfiction manuscript comprised of essays which are able to stand on their own, yet gain complexity as they inform one another. Each essay epitomizes the narrator’s attempt to reconcile with emotional instability, self-destructive behaviors, dangerous relationships, the ethics of who has to suffer, and a masochistic brain disorder. This manuscript follows its narrator’s young life as she attempts to understand herself through lived experience, as well as the lives...
Show moreAnimalization is a creative nonfiction manuscript comprised of essays which are able to stand on their own, yet gain complexity as they inform one another. Each essay epitomizes the narrator’s attempt to reconcile with emotional instability, self-destructive behaviors, dangerous relationships, the ethics of who has to suffer, and a masochistic brain disorder. This manuscript follows its narrator’s young life as she attempts to understand herself through lived experience, as well as the lives of some extroadinary family members. The narrator’s lifelong fascination with animals supports her desire to understand pain as an applied ethical consideration and an enactment.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2024
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014391
- Subject Headings
- Creative writing, Creative nonfiction
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Consider the Flowers of the Field.
- Creator
- Sutton, Trina M., Furman, Andrew, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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Consider the Flowers of the Field is a novel-in-progress about four daughters who are raised in deep-hollow Appalachia. When their parents finish rehab and prison stints, they start their own church and force the girls to participate in the ministry. The story follows the girls into adulthood and examines the ways each is affected by history, environment, birth order, memory, secrets, and religion. One daughter renounces her parents and God and spends her life in academia and social work, one...
Show moreConsider the Flowers of the Field is a novel-in-progress about four daughters who are raised in deep-hollow Appalachia. When their parents finish rehab and prison stints, they start their own church and force the girls to participate in the ministry. The story follows the girls into adulthood and examines the ways each is affected by history, environment, birth order, memory, secrets, and religion. One daughter renounces her parents and God and spends her life in academia and social work, one takes up the preaching mantle, one is the promiscuous, drug-addled antithesis of what her parents stand for, and one daughter is born after her parents start their new life so she has no concept of how things used to be. Consider the Flowers of the Field asks, “How do we transcend, embrace, or reject the dogma of our youth?”
Show less - Date Issued
- 2018
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013028
- Subject Headings
- Novels, Creative writing, Dogma
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- About Her: A Novel.
- Creator
- Mattingly, Mary, McKay, Becka, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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About Her is a story of grief, regret, and the lengths some of us will go to avoid confronting and healing from trauma. Charlotte Day is a twenty-year-old college student embarking on her senior year of college when her younger sister Abby dies in a botched fake suicide attempt. In the wake of said tragedy, Charlotte is left behind with her loving, well-intentioned father and sedated, increasingly distant mother. As Charlotte attempts to cling to normalcy, her efforts fail once she returns to...
Show moreAbout Her is a story of grief, regret, and the lengths some of us will go to avoid confronting and healing from trauma. Charlotte Day is a twenty-year-old college student embarking on her senior year of college when her younger sister Abby dies in a botched fake suicide attempt. In the wake of said tragedy, Charlotte is left behind with her loving, well-intentioned father and sedated, increasingly distant mother. As Charlotte attempts to cling to normalcy, her efforts fail once she returns to school, seeking out a path of unhealthy relationships and partying, which culminates in the former honors student dropping out of her senior year. A coming-of-age story at its core, About Her explores the dysfunctional ways one young woman navigates grief and fractured relationships while learning to forgive herself along the way.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2019
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013237
- Subject Headings
- Novel, Creative writing, Grief
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- YOU CAN STILL FALL IN LOVE AT THE END OF THE WORLD.
- Creator
- Buijk, Cherri, McKay, Becka, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Date Issued
- 2020
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013464
- Subject Headings
- Creative writing, Fiction
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Whose Names I Do Not Know.
- Creator
- Martin, Kathleen, McKay, Becka, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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The nature of conflict occupied my mind as I pieced together the 2016 election. Much of my dazed shock was the weight of hearing all at once a group of people who had felt ignored. I felt compelled to write about the nature of conflict — how opposing sides see one another with similar levels of skepticism and derision that comes from fear that something essential will be lost. I wanted to write about this without directly discussing politics. Instead, I used nature. I find warmth and...
Show moreThe nature of conflict occupied my mind as I pieced together the 2016 election. Much of my dazed shock was the weight of hearing all at once a group of people who had felt ignored. I felt compelled to write about the nature of conflict — how opposing sides see one another with similar levels of skepticism and derision that comes from fear that something essential will be lost. I wanted to write about this without directly discussing politics. Instead, I used nature. I find warmth and stillness when I’m unanswerable to any other person as the steady and constant presence of trees and sky contrast my frantic mind until it slows down. This collection uses nature as a vehicle for conflict – a piece of land at war with itself, and the fragility of the family who tries to make their home there.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2018
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013027
- Subject Headings
- Creative writing, Conflict
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Into Memory: A Novel.
- Creator
- Garber, Madison, Papatya Bucak, Ayse, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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In Into Memory, memory is no longer something which resides in the past. Instead, it is a substance which can be extracted and consumed like a hallucinogenic drug, immersing consumers in a vivid and immediate past whose physical effects linger long after the images of that memory disappear. For Paul Mendez, these memories offer an escape from a present defined by grief, while former professional football prospect Calvin Long seeks to reconnect with a past too long stained by regret. For law...
Show moreIn Into Memory, memory is no longer something which resides in the past. Instead, it is a substance which can be extracted and consumed like a hallucinogenic drug, immersing consumers in a vivid and immediate past whose physical effects linger long after the images of that memory disappear. For Paul Mendez, these memories offer an escape from a present defined by grief, while former professional football prospect Calvin Long seeks to reconnect with a past too long stained by regret. For law school student Kara Douglas, selling erotic memories is simply a business transaction—that is until she considers removing the parts of her past that stand in the way of the future she desires. Set in the rolling hills of contemporary Tallahassee, Into Memory explores the relationships that we maintain, for better or worse, with our pasts and what we will do to avoid, restore, or change them.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2019
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013206
- Subject Headings
- Novels, Creative writing, Memory
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Inheritance.
- Creator
- Rowland, Natalie K., Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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This thesis is a second draft of a novel about an orphaned girl and boy, Kate and Penn, who befriend one another on a Midwestern college campus and discover belonging and a sense of self, as well as a fantastical quality they both possess called Influence. The story explores themes of family, friendship, community, fear culture, and adult identity.
- Date Issued
- 2018
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005997
- Subject Headings
- Novels, Fiction, Creative writing
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- MET4MORFOSES.
- Creator
- Padavano, Anthony James, McKay, Becka, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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MET4MORFOSES is an interactive multimedia project marrying ancient mythic narrative, tabloid celebrity worship, bombardment of consumerist driven advertising, social media, high technology, and futuristic forms of communication with speculative science fiction.
- Date Issued
- 2018
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005977
- Subject Headings
- Creative writing, Interactive multimedia
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Locust, Emerge.
- Creator
- Wilson, Jason M., Furman, Andrew, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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Locust, Emerge follows Hyatt Wrinkler, a twenty-nine year old do-nothing with growing anxieties about his world and his orientation in it. Though resistant to change, the landscape of his world is shifting around him, whether he's ready for that change or not. Over the course of a day, which the narrative follows him through the places he goes and people he comes into contact with, he must choose to either joining the world that has been spinning uninhibited during his self-imposed exile, or...
Show moreLocust, Emerge follows Hyatt Wrinkler, a twenty-nine year old do-nothing with growing anxieties about his world and his orientation in it. Though resistant to change, the landscape of his world is shifting around him, whether he's ready for that change or not. Over the course of a day, which the narrative follows him through the places he goes and people he comes into contact with, he must choose to either joining the world that has been spinning uninhibited during his self-imposed exile, or join it and endure the pain and frustrations that come with that admission.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2019
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013280
- Subject Headings
- Creative writing, Fiction
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- SMALL STORIES.
- Creator
- Kiplagat, Daphne, Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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“Small Stories” offers a glimpse of the kinds of stories that risk going unknown: stories of historical Africa and its sustained influence on the present and future, voices of women, community, and communal resistance to expulsion from history. At a macro level, the intent of this collection is to demand diversity and inclusivity in the modern literary, social, and academic culture. Rethinking history by inaugurating a wider set of evidentiary sources from the past does not mean escaping to a...
Show more“Small Stories” offers a glimpse of the kinds of stories that risk going unknown: stories of historical Africa and its sustained influence on the present and future, voices of women, community, and communal resistance to expulsion from history. At a macro level, the intent of this collection is to demand diversity and inclusivity in the modern literary, social, and academic culture. Rethinking history by inaugurating a wider set of evidentiary sources from the past does not mean escaping to a complete amnesia about the current position of Africans in literary arts, but recognizing that no single form of historical evidence can be used to accurately incorporate our story into literature
Show less - Date Issued
- 2021
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013689
- Subject Headings
- Stories, Creative writing
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- These Things Leave Traces.
- Creator
- Tucker, Renae, Schmitt, Kate, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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These Things Leave Traces is a collection of essays, some lyric, centered on themes of control, consent, feminism, and ethics. Reflecting on personal experience and drawing from fairy tales, this collection explores the ways in which trauma manifests and, further, how these traces of trauma can be found both in a body and in a body of work.
- Date Issued
- 2021
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013684
- Subject Headings
- Essays, Creative writing
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- body as /.
- Creator
- Keane, Haley Bell, McKay, Becka, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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body as / is a collection of poetry exploring the body, mental health, spirituality, environment, and family.
- Date Issued
- 2022
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013898
- Subject Headings
- Poetry, Creative writing
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- I Would Rather Talk About Persimmons.
- Creator
- Feimi, Mary, McKay, Becka, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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I Would Rather Talk About Persimmons aims to understand the roots of trauma, addiction, and lineage. A discovery of what it means to be half American, half Albanian. A discovery of loving the people in our lives no matter how imperfect, no matter how painful no matter the sacrifice. The work seeks to understand the existence of joy and pain in the ways they work together and by doing so we see that emotions of the human experience are not linear, rather chaotic.
- Date Issued
- 2023
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014208
- Subject Headings
- Creative writing, Poetry
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Self-Gardening.
- Creator
- Reeves, Naudia, McKay, Becka, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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Self-Gardening seeks to explore the oftentime selfish rationale behind seemingly selfless decisions. In dissecting my motivation, I found insecurity. I don't garden for the joy of it, I garden to feel valuable. Beneath my desire for children, lives the terrifying hesitation of putting more bad into the world. While this thesis does look to shine a light on uncomfortability and insecurity, it has no interest in poking or prodding them. Acknowledgement and awareness are enough.
- Date Issued
- 2023
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014194
- Subject Headings
- Creative writing, Poetry
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- NAMELESS IN Z.
- Creator
- Salazar, J. Q., Furman, Andrew, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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The stories in Nameless in Z take place in the fictional city of Z, located on the northwestern coast of the US. The throughline of this collection tracks alternate versions of the same male narrator as he subconsciously pursues relationships in an attempt to supplant his own destructive addictions. The first half of this book dwells more in the relationship aspect, while the second half owns up to the consequences of the first half. Each story involves the titular city tormenting the...
Show moreThe stories in Nameless in Z take place in the fictional city of Z, located on the northwestern coast of the US. The throughline of this collection tracks alternate versions of the same male narrator as he subconsciously pursues relationships in an attempt to supplant his own destructive addictions. The first half of this book dwells more in the relationship aspect, while the second half owns up to the consequences of the first half. Each story involves the titular city tormenting the narrator in a way that physically and/or spiritually manifests his specific addiction. Speculative fiction elements hang around the fringes of each of these stories, typically through different forms of the supernatural. The purpose of this work is to give a voice to underrepresented aspects of addiction and to disentangle my own demons; the ones I’ve inherited as well as the ones I’ve created as a direct result.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2023
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014157
- Subject Headings
- Creative writing, Speculative fiction
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Letters for Burning.
- Creator
- Precanico, Joseph Dante, McKay, Becka, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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This creative thesis is a collection of poems and lyric forms that explore queer identity and difference through the fraught navigation of heteronormative spaces and institutions such as the American school system, the Catholic Church, and marriage. Included are letters-as-poems, journal fragments, and extended lyrical sequences that serve to highlight the significance of community and chosen family to queer identity. When they aren’t addressed to an imagined recipient, they are dedicated to...
Show moreThis creative thesis is a collection of poems and lyric forms that explore queer identity and difference through the fraught navigation of heteronormative spaces and institutions such as the American school system, the Catholic Church, and marriage. Included are letters-as-poems, journal fragments, and extended lyrical sequences that serve to highlight the significance of community and chosen family to queer identity. When they aren’t addressed to an imagined recipient, they are dedicated to or in conversation with friends, family, lovers, strangers, past selves, and other writers. Although the three sections (LETTERS, FIRE, and HEARTH) that demarcate this work chart a thematic chronology that organizes stages of a queer life, memory isn’t cleanly linear. Poems pour into and echo each other, signifying embodied history in the present and the past’s bearings on queer (re)imaginings of the future.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2023
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014152
- Subject Headings
- Creative writing, Poems
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Imagine Me Like That.
- Creator
- Wilcox, Kate, McKay, Becka, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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Imagine Me Like That offers an exploration into an experience of one coming to terms with one’s unique trans and queer identity through ecological and nature-based connections, as well as through interpersonal connections. This collection utilizes both poetry and lyric essay to offer insights into the joys of queer ways of living, while also acknowledging the difficulties of occupying a marginalized identity. Ultimately, Imagine Me Like That seeks to affirm and acknowledge the multi-faceted...
Show moreImagine Me Like That offers an exploration into an experience of one coming to terms with one’s unique trans and queer identity through ecological and nature-based connections, as well as through interpersonal connections. This collection utilizes both poetry and lyric essay to offer insights into the joys of queer ways of living, while also acknowledging the difficulties of occupying a marginalized identity. Ultimately, Imagine Me Like That seeks to affirm and acknowledge the multi-faceted modes of queer existence.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2023
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014201
- Subject Headings
- Creative writing, Poetry
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- FROM PAINESVILLE, OHIO: A COLLECTION OF PLACES.
- Creator
- Melnick, Lorien Rae, Bucak, Ayşe, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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This thesis is a collection of essays related to place, including meditations on different landscapes, examinations of historic place-based research, and an exploration of environmental and cultural issues.
- Date Issued
- 2023
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014147
- Subject Headings
- Essays, Creative writing
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Hoops and Other Essays.
- Creator
- Hibbard, Jacob, Bucak, Ayşe Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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Hoops and Other Essays is a collection driven by form and lyricism threading themes of grief, fatherhood, joy and anxiety. I place myself within an American landscape spanning South Florida, Northern Alaska, and Montgomery County, Maryland. Anchored by non-linear structures, an exploration of trauma, and a delight for language, these essays depict the coming of age of a thirty-year-old man who seems to be still coming of age. Poop is a theme; Nature is a theme. Speaking aloud to no one is a...
Show moreHoops and Other Essays is a collection driven by form and lyricism threading themes of grief, fatherhood, joy and anxiety. I place myself within an American landscape spanning South Florida, Northern Alaska, and Montgomery County, Maryland. Anchored by non-linear structures, an exploration of trauma, and a delight for language, these essays depict the coming of age of a thirty-year-old man who seems to be still coming of age. Poop is a theme; Nature is a theme. Speaking aloud to no one is a character trait, and iguanas are a motif. Hoops and Other Essays pulls free the particulars of the universal struggle of trying to be okay when things hardly ever seem okay. The collection comments on the inevitably of dying shared among the living and the pleasure and pain that emerges from loving what has to end. The essays were written over the course of two years after the sudden loss of my brother which was quickly followed by the birth of my son. In the end, Hoops and Other Essays tries to unravel how one fits between the polar opposites of human existence, with the hope to uncover more likeness than difference in the way we enter and the way we leave it.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2023
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014366
- Subject Headings
- Creative writing, Essays
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- AGGREGATE.
- Creator
- Singh, Daniel, Schwartz, Jason, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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Aggregate is a collection of short stories that chronicle the coming of age of its first-person narrator. He is a half Indian, half American boy who lived in 1990s New York City. The stories begin in childhood and run into his early twenties. They illustrate his experiences growing up and being othered in different ways. Themes of neglect, addiction, sexual assault, and violence create a cycle of abuse that repeats throughout his life. Each story can be read as a standalone piece, but when...
Show moreAggregate is a collection of short stories that chronicle the coming of age of its first-person narrator. He is a half Indian, half American boy who lived in 1990s New York City. The stories begin in childhood and run into his early twenties. They illustrate his experiences growing up and being othered in different ways. Themes of neglect, addiction, sexual assault, and violence create a cycle of abuse that repeats throughout his life. Each story can be read as a standalone piece, but when taken together they become a tapestry of trauma and a life of addiction. These stories aim to highlight the connection between trauma and addiction.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2022
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013886
- Subject Headings
- Short stories, Creative writing
- Format
- Document (PDF)