Browsing University of Central Oklahoma by Author "Givan, Christopher"

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    • A false feminism : the objectification of women in Isabel Allende's The stories of Eva Luna. 

      Griggs, Elizabeth (2012)
      Isabel Allende is often praised for creating heroines that liberate themselves from oppression, often through their freedom of sexuality. In her collection of short stories, The Stories of Eva Luna, the female protagonists ...

    • A more perfect union. 

      Milligan, Noah (2011)
      A More Perfect Union is a realistic novel set in contemporary Oklahoma City and follows Elijah McClure, a young poker pro who wishes to ask the First Daughter of Oklahoma, Kathryn Cook, to marry him the night her father ...

    • Blood, bone : poems. 

      Eden Long, Katelyn S. (2016)
      A creative thesis of deep image and narrative medical poetry influenced by the photography of Eudora Welty, family, and personal experience. A collection exploring the human experience through the lens of medicine, ...

    • Confessions of a Band Shirt Vigilante. 

      Fadum, Michael Torg (2012)
      The work is divided into six sections, which represent the emotion or motivation behind the speaker's obstacles in society. These obstacles may become reminders of the triumphs and failures of a young man's experience, ...

    • Degrees of oblivion. 

      Bradley, Miranda D. (2010)
      "These poems are chiefly concerned with self-awareness and the degree to which each poem's individual speaker is, either voluntarily or involuntarily, oblivious to his or her particular circumstance within the poem. This ...

    • Dirty whirlwind. 

      Mirll, Jeanette (2013)
      My thesis is a collection of short stories. Most were written in workshop with the members of my committee, and the others I wrote for the purpose of inclusion in this thesis. The principal statement I wish to convey through ...

    • Hatch 

      Hau, Melonie (2008)
      Hatch is a novel which examines the struggles of urbanization, drug additiction, alienation from community, and shame which threaten a rural Oklahoma family. The Metzers live on a farm in Hatch, a town formed in the 1890s ...

    • Red pterodactyl. 

      Mingura, Corey D. (2011)
      Inspired by the surreal poetry of Russell Edson and the sound-driven poetry of Theodore Roethke, the poetry collection Red Pterodactyl explores the fine line between reality and the surreal by intertwining commonplace ...

    • Some assembly required 

      Maib, Jennifer M. (2015)
      A creative thesis of lyric poetry. A collection exploring the struggles and beauty of childhood, relationships and desire as they play out in front of a Western Oklahoma backdrop.

    • Summer of excess. 

      Growall, Kassidi (2013)
      On graduation day in May 2013, Olivia "Liv" Grigsby and her three friends have a rowdy night that endangers Liv's pot operation. The friends help to keep one another in good spirits as they encounter unexpected opportunities ...

    • The house of life. 

      Guo, Hongjun (2015)
      The story is set in a Chinese village, during 1970s. Souyuen, a woman in her forties, is the mother of two sons and three daughters. The Chinese tradition of males carrying the family name has given Souyuen, and her ...

    • The pop-up principle. 

      Mirll, Teresa (2014)
      This collection of short stories follows the conventions of postmodern literary fiction, and features conflicts between middle-class family members who predominantly live in Texas and Oklahoma. My main objective in this ...

    • The run. 

      Cherry, Matthew (2014)
      The Run is a novella-length creative work that follows Dust, a Marine Corps Reservist who performs military funeral services all across Nebraska. In his civilian life, Dust is an English teaching assistant at Nebraska ...

    • Valentine, Texas 

      Hawk, Victor (2008)
      Valentine, Texas begins with two men, lifelong friends, hunting buddies, guys who shot reflector lights out of mailbox posts and fought cowboys and Indians in grade school, and now find themselves on opposite sides of the ...

    • Weapons of the gods : sword of victory. 

      Keeton, Andrea (2013)
      When eighteen-year-old Edana's father, King Cian of Eire, dies, the gods visit Edana in a dream and warn her of the struggles that she will soon face, claiming that Edana must be the one to assume responsibility if Eire ...