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Refracted Memories, Renice Desrosins

English Undergraduate Publications

The essay was a project for Professor Marie Hulme’s Creative Nonfiction class. Renice Desrosins also presented her work at the 2022 Sigma Tau Delta English honors conference in Atlanta, Georgia.

Best Friends, Brent A. Middleton (Class Of 2015)

English Undergraduate Publications

“Best Friends” is a dialogue that between two close pals about what a best friend is, and how important it is to have one. One of the two then tells the story of how he lost the only best friend he ever had, and reflects on the impact of such a loss.

“Mad-Speak” And Manic Prose: Nick Cave’S Presentation Of Insanity In And The Ass Saw The Angel, Laura Hardt (Class Of 2014)

English Undergraduate Publications

Nick Cave’s novel And the Ass Saw the Angel attempts to exist firmly within the Southern Gothic tradition, pulling direct inspiration from authors such as William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, and Flannery O’Connor. However, Cave’s novel seems to lack the careful construction and purposefulness of these writers, with its graphic violence, constantly shifting tone, style, narrative voice, and employing an utterly bizarre and arcane vocabulary. This essay aims to illustrate that although this may make the work seem poorly composed and somewhat slipshod, the manic prose of Cave’s novel is actually rather purposeful, presenting the protagonist’s descent into madness in an …

Female Resurrection In Poe's Tales, Laura Hardt (Class Of 2014)

English Undergraduate Publications

The female characters that populate the stories of Edgar Allan Poe are often ethereal creatures of great beauty, ghost-like figures that exist on the fringes of the narrative, very rarely taking part in the action of the plot. This, for the most part, is the case with regard to the female characters featured in Poe’s “Ligeia” and “The Fall of the House of Usher”. Both the eponymous Ligeia and Madeline Usher exist as virtual non-presences for the vast majority of these stories – at least until the point of their mysterious deaths. After these women pass away due to strange, …

A Woman’S Heart Drives Forces In Directions Distant, Justine Quammie Bassomb (Class Of 2013)

English Undergraduate Publications

The Insider -- Maelstrom -- My Story of "The Veil".

Three pieces from the portfolio for the Senior Writing Capstone course with Dr. Jonas Zdanys, English Department, Sacred Heart University.

Presented at the 2013 Sacred Heart University Academic Festival.