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The Redemption Of History: Poetics And Politics In The Modern Epic, Giacomo R. Bianchino Jun 2024

The Redemption Of History: Poetics And Politics In The Modern Epic, Giacomo R. Bianchino

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation, “The Redemption of History: Poetics and Politics in the Modern Epic.” provides a materialist theory of the modern epic, focusing on the way that the poets deployed this form towards political ends. Building on theories of the epic going back to the German Romantics, it argues that the modern form is predicated on the idea that it has departed from the conditions that made the ancient form possible. It examines the way that writers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century developed the idea that the immediacy of the social “totality” expressed by the ancient epopee was …


Lincoln's Carnegie Library: A History Of Community And Philanthropy, Emily Blomstedt May 2024

Lincoln's Carnegie Library: A History Of Community And Philanthropy, Emily Blomstedt

Honors Theses

Nebraska received 69 Carnegie libraries from the Carnegie foundation between 1899 and 1922. The first and most expensive Nebraska Carnegie library was granted to Lincoln in December 1899, after a fire destroyed Lincoln’s previous library. Lincoln’s main Carnegie library served the community between 1902 and 1960 before it was torn down in 1961 to build the present-day Bennett Martin library. This thesis explores the 60-year history of Lincoln’s Carnegie library, how it connects to national trends surrounding Carnegie libraries, and the role community and philanthropy played in the development of Lincoln’s public library system. These themes are examined through a …


The Divine Comedy: A Work Of Medieval Mythology, Jamie Alexander May 2024

The Divine Comedy: A Work Of Medieval Mythology, Jamie Alexander

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Prior to The Divine Comedy (1308-1321), ideas about Purgatory were in the early stages of development. Purgatory had loose rituals surrounding its existence and it lacked depiction in written works. Yet in the following centuries, the fear of Purgatory and the practices of penance and indulgences reached a fever pitch, ultimately leading to the Protestant Reformation. Purgatory as a celestial location, and not just the “purgatorial fires” of the Bible, only began to develop in the twelfth century, but its fearful description and imagery in The Divine Comedy not only solidified previously nebulous understandings of Purgatory, but also increased anxiety …


Creative Writing Pedagogy: Building Curriculum For High School Students, Elizabeth Lengel May 2024

Creative Writing Pedagogy: Building Curriculum For High School Students, Elizabeth Lengel

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This thesis serves as a rationale for the creative writing pedagogy I use and how it serves my high school creative writing class. As my school district made the decision to overhaul our English curriculum, the English department decided to add Creative Writing as an English class elective.

The work for planning these new classes was spread around the English Department, and I was assigned to design the curriculum for the new Creative Writing class. Designing an entire class from scratch leaves a lot of room for creativity and innovation. However, as excited for this new course as I was, …


My Little Poetic/Prose Book Of Words, Sayings, And Stories In Broken Spanish And A Little Bit Of German / Mi Libro Chiquito De Poética / Prosa De Palabras, Dichos, Y Historias Español Fracturado Y Un Poquetito Alemán, Sharon Ann Lucero May 2024

My Little Poetic/Prose Book Of Words, Sayings, And Stories In Broken Spanish And A Little Bit Of German / Mi Libro Chiquito De Poética / Prosa De Palabras, Dichos, Y Historias Español Fracturado Y Un Poquetito Alemán, Sharon Ann Lucero

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Acknowledgements

First and foremost, I would like to thank Jonathan Taylor and Sarah Thompson for the wonderful job they did in providing me with feedback. I took into consideration all their comments. Their comments aligned with Dr. Powers, and I really took a deeper look into my Spanish/English translations on whether I should have them or not. I found a happy medium for all of it. I also went back and looked at the rest of the class’s comments and made sure that I did not miss any of the details that were pointed out to me the first time …


Neo-Noir Investigations: The Art Of Directing And Writing An Interactive Experience, James Phillip Koehler Jr. Apr 2024

Neo-Noir Investigations: The Art Of Directing And Writing An Interactive Experience, James Phillip Koehler Jr.

Honors Projects

This project intends to explore the process behind writing and directing for an interactive experience; video games, specifically. A team, including artists, programmers, and a musician, was organized to work toward the completion of a playable demo. Included in this project is a video of the playable demo, alongside various other completed materials that were unable to be included.


Words Without Faces: Anonymous Social Media On Campus, Evelyn Kelly Apr 2024

Words Without Faces: Anonymous Social Media On Campus, Evelyn Kelly

Language, Literature & Writing Student Scholarship

"A new anonymous social media app, Fizz, has announced intentions to launch on Messiah University’s campus. Anonymous social media apps allow users to post within a set community without their comments being traced back to them. One such popular app around campus is Yik Yak..."


Irotas 2024, Xander Auman, Kat Beekman, Elizabeth Benfield, Jessica Grafe, Jed Nelson, Kate Nissen, Drake Onyx, Alex Peachey, Benjamin Rayburn, Mandie Schmidt, Kelly Stelzer, Kylie White, Jayde Yeates, Larissa Lopez, Alayna Majkrzak, Ashleigh Campbell, Alysen Endres, Lucy Severson, Kiera Norman, Samantha Bird, Keaton Riebel, Jaden Fleshner, Jaydon Wilson, Ian Mckinzie, Rachel Marzahn, Riker Weiler, Mushfiq Kabir, Taya Peterson, Mawatta Dukuly, Mal Bowman, Grace Guertin, Samantha Dischinger, Kieran Lombard, Ian Mckinzie, Grace Westphel Apr 2024

Irotas 2024, Xander Auman, Kat Beekman, Elizabeth Benfield, Jessica Grafe, Jed Nelson, Kate Nissen, Drake Onyx, Alex Peachey, Benjamin Rayburn, Mandie Schmidt, Kelly Stelzer, Kylie White, Jayde Yeates, Larissa Lopez, Alayna Majkrzak, Ashleigh Campbell, Alysen Endres, Lucy Severson, Kiera Norman, Samantha Bird, Keaton Riebel, Jaden Fleshner, Jaydon Wilson, Ian Mckinzie, Rachel Marzahn, Riker Weiler, Mushfiq Kabir, Taya Peterson, Mawatta Dukuly, Mal Bowman, Grace Guertin, Samantha Dischinger, Kieran Lombard, Ian Mckinzie, Grace Westphel

Irotas

Irotas is an annual student journal of the arts created and published by Winona State University students. Irotas is a sibling journal to the Satori Student Literary Magazine. This is the inaugural issue of Irotas (2024).

Student Editors: Xander Auman, Kat Beekman, Elizabeth Benfield, Jessica Grafe, Jed Nelson, Kate Nissen, Drake Onyx, Alex Peachey, Benjamin Rayburn, Mandie Schmidt, Kelly Stelzer, Kylie White, and Jayde Yeates.

Faculty advisor: Dr. Liberty Kohn


Satori 2024, Draconian Onyx, Xander Auman, Elizabeth Benfield, Samantha Bird, Elysia Beynon, Ashleigh Campbell, Lydia Domaille, Mawatta Dukuly, Alysen Endres, Jessica Grafe, Grace Guertin, Mushfiq Kabir, Nathan Kronbeck, Alayna Majkrzak, Rachel Marzahn, Noelle Mckinney, Ian Douglas Mckinzie, Dorothy Moore, Jack Mulvaney, Kaylee Nickisch, Kiera Norman, Alex Peachy, Sophia Porter, Sydney Porter, Keaton Riebel, Sophia Sailer, Lucy Severson, Kelly Steltzer, Celia Stern, Willow Swinbank, Jackie Velishek, Allen Wedekind, Riker Weiler, Jaydon Wilson Apr 2024

Satori 2024, Draconian Onyx, Xander Auman, Elizabeth Benfield, Samantha Bird, Elysia Beynon, Ashleigh Campbell, Lydia Domaille, Mawatta Dukuly, Alysen Endres, Jessica Grafe, Grace Guertin, Mushfiq Kabir, Nathan Kronbeck, Alayna Majkrzak, Rachel Marzahn, Noelle Mckinney, Ian Douglas Mckinzie, Dorothy Moore, Jack Mulvaney, Kaylee Nickisch, Kiera Norman, Alex Peachy, Sophia Porter, Sydney Porter, Keaton Riebel, Sophia Sailer, Lucy Severson, Kelly Steltzer, Celia Stern, Willow Swinbank, Jackie Velishek, Allen Wedekind, Riker Weiler, Jaydon Wilson

Satori Literary Magazine

The Satori is a student literary publication that expresses the artistic spirit of the students of Winona State University. Student poetry, prose, and graphic art are published in the Satori every spring since 1970.

The Satori 2024 editors are:

Design and Technical Editor: Draconian Onyx;
Fiction Editors: Elizabeth Benfield, Jed, Nelson, Kate Nissen, Mandie Schmidt, Kylie White, Jayde Yeates;
Poetry Editors: Xander Auman, Kat Beekman, Alex Peachey, Kelly Stelzer;
Art Editors: Jessica Grafe, Draconian Onyx Benjamin Rayburn.
The Satori 2024 faculty advisor is Dr. Liberty Kohn, Professor of English.


Persuasive Essay Assignment For Freshman Composition, Danny Katch Apr 2024

Persuasive Essay Assignment For Freshman Composition, Danny Katch

Open Educational Resources

A persuasive essay is a piece of writing that aims to get people to agree with your point of view. Your task for this assignment is to write an essay of 500-750 words that aims to convince others to change a policy or take an action around an issue related to the politics of language.


Engl110 Course Syllabus (Composition), James Andrew Grammer Mar 2024

Engl110 Course Syllabus (Composition), James Andrew Grammer

Open Educational Resources

Syllabus for Freshman Composition Course/Intro to Writing.


Untitled, Benjamin Gates Jan 2024

Untitled, Benjamin Gates

The Peregrine Review

Photo of sunset


He Has Brushed Away The Stone, Myles Lynn Jan 2024

He Has Brushed Away The Stone, Myles Lynn

The Peregrine Review

Oh, creatures, hear the trumpet sounds, He has brushed away the stone!...


Metallopoesis, Nik Lego Jan 2024

Metallopoesis, Nik Lego

The Peregrine Review

Pray, do not fear The baleful kiss of fire And say no elegies For the half-melted stone For as I watch you bleed You bleed…


Prayer, Ana Sakore Jan 2024

Prayer, Ana Sakore

The Peregrine Review

Sometimes I push my piano down the wishing well ivory tinkles slicing its Adam’s apple which convulses so three-year-old sweets are swallowed…


They Say / I Say, Abby Smoker Jan 2024

They Say / I Say, Abby Smoker

The Peregrine Review

a sparrow chirps there are memories in the riverbed they used to be silver treasures now i scoop them to the surface to see them clearly and they don’t even gleam—…


The Great Literary Marriage: Why All Good Readers Are Also Writers, Olivia Reardon Jan 2024

The Great Literary Marriage: Why All Good Readers Are Also Writers, Olivia Reardon

The Peregrine Review

I once heard a fellow English major say, “I read because I want to; I write because I have to.” In this particular instance, the student was lamenting all the papers she had to write and explaining that writing is simply the chore she must do in order to study literature, her true passion, in college...


Untitled, Becca Nicolson Jan 2024

Untitled, Becca Nicolson

The Peregrine Review

Photo of tourists on a stone walkway


...Nicked Myself Shaving Last Night, Eleanor Mund Jan 2024

...Nicked Myself Shaving Last Night, Eleanor Mund

The Peregrine Review

a flickering light blinks above my phone screams midnight as I prop my leg up on a plastic white shelf I didn’t want to do this tonight because I’m lazy— or defiant— or something else— who knows…


Frog, Connor Duncan Jan 2024

Frog, Connor Duncan

The Peregrine Review

Up close photo of a frog


Regrets, Tiffany Oponski Jan 2024

Regrets, Tiffany Oponski

The Peregrine Review

I stand in a green pasture filled with wildflowers. I am surrounded by my regrets, reminding me every hour. They lurk in the form of shadows…


Cherry Blossoms, Joseph Fan Jan 2024

Cherry Blossoms, Joseph Fan

The Peregrine Review

Look at the beautiful cherry blossoms…


Winter’S Harvest, Benjamin Gates Jan 2024

Winter’S Harvest, Benjamin Gates

The Peregrine Review

Photo of crisp, snowcovered field at sunrise or sunset


Brownstown, Usa, Timothy Shea Jan 2024

Brownstown, Usa, Timothy Shea

The Peregrine Review

A mild October evening. Streaks of orange and blue accent the night sky and the distant rhythmic tapping of high school drums echo on the other side of town another iteration of a great American tradition— the local community parade!...


Lakeside Reflection, Benjamin Gates Jan 2024

Lakeside Reflection, Benjamin Gates

The Peregrine Review

Photo of a lake and dock


Decolonize, Montika Smith Jan 2024

Decolonize, Montika Smith

The Peregrine Review

I wrap my fingers around my locs Favorite strands adorned with gold I tuck my masterpiece into a bonnet For the night…


The End, Lauren Mock Jan 2024

The End, Lauren Mock

The Peregrine Review

When they told us the news—through CNN, phone alerts, front pages of magazines, and televised messages from celebrities like Chris Evans and Emma Watson—we didn’t believe a word they said...


Solitude, Evelyn Kelly Jan 2024

Solitude, Evelyn Kelly

The Peregrine Review

It is time to stop living like this is an interlude in some masterpiece—just a few pages to skim— momentary instrumental bars to endure before the harmonizing begins…


Soft Hands, Alessandra Lageorge Jan 2024

Soft Hands, Alessandra Lageorge

The Peregrine Review

I want my daughter to have soft hands. Hands that don’t know the labor that mine are so familiar with. Hands that don’t know the repeated action that my body responded to by giving me these calluses…


Haarlem Church, Micaiah Saldaña Jan 2024

Haarlem Church, Micaiah Saldaña

The Peregrine Review

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