Browsing University of Central Oklahoma by Author "Petete, Timothy"
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89th and Pine.
Dicus, Blaize (2018)89th and Pine is a creative project that challenges the conventions of genre. While this work is labeled as a collection of poetry, the ultimate goal of the project is to subvert the norms of the genre, appropriately honor ... -
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 ... -
Antithetical dialogue: claiming rhetorical sovereignty in contemporary American Indian literature
Thomson, Amy L. (2010)"Canonical Euro-American literary and historical discourses exhibit American Indians in stereotypical terms. The characterization of American Indians in Euro-American discourse creates a silent absence in which American ... -
Anything dead coming back to life hurts : Beloved, Bastard out of Carolina, and Gods in Alabama as contemporary female gothic.
Paruolo, Melissa (2011)The contemporary Female Gothic is characterized by the highlighting of the monstrosities of patriarchal ideology's failures in order to point to a more positive space created by the agency of the female heroine and her ... -
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, ... -
Cher ami.
Homen, Cheryl (2015)Cher Ami is based on a real pigeon that flew in WWI and saved the Lost Battalion, an American outfit led by Captain Whittlesey. Gaining a popular following immediately after the war, Cher Ami is displayed in the Smithsonian, ... -
Constructing contemporary ethnic American identities by reconceptualizing ancient narratives.
Seagraves, Meredith R. (2014)For many ethnic Americans, forming a cultural identity is a complicated and arduous endeavor. Entrenched in an environment in which mainstream ideologies leave ethnic practices and histories vulnerable to marginalization, ... -
Crocus Albiflorus & other short stories.
Morris, Angela (2014)Crocus Albiflorus and Other Stories is a collection of 10 literary realism short stories. The collection is set in a broad scape of countries throughout the world, but all stories share the commonality of basic humanistic ... -
Deconstructing the domestic sphere : the American sentimental novel as feminist metafiction.
Hull, Abbey (2018)Since the late twentieth century, sentimental literature has seen a resurgence in literary study, with many nineteenth-century American women writers receiving critical attention for the first time. However, this attention ... -
Drag me down
Pixler, Patricia; Pixler, Patricia (2021)This thesis is a creative project titled Drag Me Down. Though labeled a poetry collection, the project is a hybrid of multiple genres. The bulk of the collection consists of prose poetry that follows a narrative of two ... -
E.D.E.N. Southworth : a little learning is a dangerous thing.
Neal, Rose Ann (2012) -
Frederick Samuel Barde: chronicling the Muskogee (Creek) Indians, 1890-1916
Jones, Abigail H. (2012)Journalist and photographer Fredrick Samuel Barde chronicled territorial Oklahoma, fully covering topics such as local agriculture, railroads, statehood, and the actions of the Five Civilized Tribes. His interest in the ... -
Hemingway : insights on military leadership.
Dillon, Shawn (2014)The literature of Ernest Hemingway is rich with military lessons derived from his lifetime of proximity to war and his understanding of soldiers and leaders at all levels as presented through his characters. Hemingway wrote ... -
Infidels.
Rupp, Zacharia A. (2012)Infidels is a short story collection dealing with a myriad of themes, most centrally of failed parenting, love, and yearning for the divine through spiritual brotherhood. The world the characters of Infidels inhabit is one ... -
"Leaving the rez" : indigenizing urban space in selected short stories by Sherman Alexie.
Korsmo, Jamie (2011)As the world continues to move away from rural forms of living, so too do Native Americans struggle with this transition, both within the realm of literature and in the real world around us. The plight of modern Native ... -
Meat makes the man : the hierarchies of masculinity and meat eating in Shakespearean drama.
Brush, Nicholas A. (2018)This thesis explores how Shakespeare's dramatic works highlight the complex relationships between the hierarchies of masculinity and meat eating. The theoretical backing consists of both gender-based and ecocritical writings. ... -
Poetry of literary studies.
Hope, Ronald R. (2017) -
Secrets of a Pepto Bismol casa.
Temblador, Alexandra (2014)Secrets of a Pepto Bismal Casa explores the journey of a young, Mexican American girl named Martha in Laredo, Texas, in 1990. The novel is set in first person point-of-view and is split into two threads--what occurs in ... -
Sheiks and sherifs : western portrayals of the middle east between the World Wars.
Yuill, Brendon (2018)Oftentimes, when there are analyses of E. M. Hull's The Sheik or discussions of Lowell Thomas's presentations over Lawrence of Arabia, the intertextual nature between these works--as well as the historical and cultural ... -
Supernatural bodies : the intersection of Nigerian feminism and body autonomy.
Crystal, Jacob Allen (2019)Many Nigerian women are depicted in literature as possessing little to no personal agency. Due to socio political issues, these women are often relegated to the margins of discourse surrounding Nigerian literature. Because ...