College of Arts & Humanities
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Item Repeating Figures(2007-12-17) Casalena, Adrienne; Plumly, Stanley; Creative Writing; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)A portfolio of poems addressing ekphrasis, composed in free verse and in some received forms, including a prose poem series. The formal poems include the sonnet, sestina, Japanese cinquain, pantoum and common meter. The prose poems use both a paragraph format and monostitchs. While ekphrasis is a persistent concern, some poems extend media such as photograph and still life into a trope for actively accumulating image.Item Strike Anywhere(2007-10-03) Pekkanen, John B.; Collins, Merle; Creative Writing; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)Strike Anywhere is a novel that follows Chance, a young man coming of age in the southern states. He leads the reader through his personal struggles as he attempts to define his place in the world, his family and his own sense of existence.Item A scenic design for Carlo Gozzi's "The Green Bird", performed at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland(2007-08-27) Van Wyk, Eric J; Conway, Daniel; Theatre; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)The purpose of this thesis is to document and analyze the scenic design process of Eric J. Van Wyk, of Carlo Gozzi's The Green Bird as it was produced at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland in March of 2007. This thesis analyzes the script written by Carlo Gozzi and covers a concise understanding of Commedia dell'Arte and Carlo Gozzi's theatrical views. Also analyzed is the visual research process and manifestation of the scenic design, as well as the approving and building process of the set design. Lastly, the thesis analyzes the final production in light of the collaborative design process.Item Science of Bleeding(2007-07-31) White, Christopher; Kalam, Murad; Creative Writing; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)This thesis represents my work in the Creative Writing department at the University of Maryland from 2003 until 2007. This thesis contains four stories and one uncompleted novella. My work is imaginative and at the same time realistic and evocative. The first three stories are interested in the bizarre and the macabre, while the other two sections find their focus in sports and the consequences of sports on sons and fathers during different times in American life.Item Life Story(2007-06-07) Ruggiero, Leigh Ann; Casey, Maud; Creative Writing; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)Writing stories is more than fantastic structure. It's character, too. This statement is something I hope to illustrate with my thesis: a collection of short stories that focus on characters at different stages in their lives. This thesis represents seven characters (not necessarily in search of an author, but an author in search of their story) who at one time were (some of them most likely still are) trapped in a structure imposed on them by their author. Though I do think these selections are more than character sketches. Maybe a better way to phrase it is character slices. If we take these stories, the first "crush" (though Brooke would be sure to call it love), the first death of someone you really cared about, the moment when all you want to do is disappear from "it all" (or try to), they are all of our stories.Item The Little Dancer and Other Stories(2007-06-13) Jantos, Jennifer Marie; Casey, Maud; Creative Writing; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)Set during the 1990s on the East Coast of the United States, this collection of short stories explores identity and diaspora where grief manifests viscerally. Be it the loss of a sister, the loss of a childhood home, the loss of health, or the loss of a grandmother's memory, the alienating event pushes characters into a perceived state of paralysis yet the ensuing emotional trajectories explore how fear and grief can be empowering when borne with emotional resilience and compassion.Item Landscape as Symbol(2007-05-17) Sykes, Brian Harrison; Pinder, Jefferson; Art; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)I see my work as intentionally mistaken metaphors about the rural/suburban American landscape. Infecting burlap sacks of tobacco leaves with vinyl siding within the privileged frame of the gallery, I create a catalyst for multivalent readings and multiple meanings. Wrapping straw bales with Wal-Mart brand plastic wrap creates a new object-a simulated product generated from the dialectical material interaction of the suburban/agricultural and the agricultural/suburban. These aforementioned materials act as visual metaphors that could easily be mistaken for metallic forms or plastic rope. This visual slippage allows for a pseudo-narrative to wind its way through the work. The hope is that the works that I create act as reflective symbols to an audience, who I believe at their core are symbol-mongers, while at the same time presenting an everydayness. This everydayness would be like the smell of Sunday dinner in the living room.Item Methods of Making(2007-05-15) Lock, Benjamin Christopher; Ruppert, John; Art; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)I am drawn to tools, their applications, and the way things work. The action and process of manipulating and transforming material to create formal visual statements is vital to my sculpture. I utilize and respond to material and process, allowing for the work to develop through its creation. Relationships of form and space interest me. Not only do I find beauty in material, it also exists in the tension and the power of a space within or between forms. These interactions in my work help formulate the visual language through which the metaphor is present. I hope to capture and express a sensibility to which one can relate. This thesis will further discuss the manner in which I make sculpture. It will be a compliment to the artwork and an attempt to put to words the conceptual basis for the forms I create and the spaces they compose.Item PushPullPow(2007-05-10) White, Adam; Richardson, W. C.; Art; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)I am interested in the concept of the narrative and how an idea can be taken through a series of events from one location to another location altogether. This focus on narrative was sparked through an attraction to the format of the comic book. A comic book requires two visual elements to convey its meaning: imagery and text. I am seeking to find an unnatural balance between the two elements and how the alteration of one and the absence of the other can affect the original story. This alteration is representative of how information of any kind is presented by one party and then received, in its original or altered form, by a secondary party.Item LIFE, NATURE AND PAINTING(2007-05-15) Gordon, Peter Andrew; Craig, Patrick; Art; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)Perception of memory, the present and the future is continually shaped and reshaped by sporadic incidence. Arriving as lucky strikes, freak accidents, poor health, chance meetings, and epiphanies of the mind, unforeseen events interrupt and alter routines, making our lives unpredictable and open to blind circumstance. Inspired by patterns and anomalies in the natural environment, these eight thesis paintings merge variation with repetition. They reflect the notion of shifting expectations due to unexpected occurrences.