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The Sting In The Green City, Nicole Tsakoumagos
The Sting In The Green City, Nicole Tsakoumagos
ETD Archive
In an irradiated, alternate earth, where a mysterious supernatural phenomenon caused a near-apocalypse, the human race is back on it’s feet. Four major cities dominate the landscape: New Sparta, The Mel, The Nocturn and Oz. In the first installment of “The Sting” series, explore the emerald, Greene Mob run metropolis, Oz. Gun-slinging, Ex-mercenary Kyra `The Sting’ Lee is living quietly in the outer part of the city with her dog, Doogie. The only family she has are the Castellanoses, a Greek four-part ensemble that own Kyra’s favorite greasy spoon diner. Maria Castellanos is Kyra’s best friend and her seemingly unobtainable …
Ring Rust, Suzanne D. Mcwhorter
Ring Rust, Suzanne D. Mcwhorter
ETD Archive
The world of professional wrestling, or in the case of Ring Rust, semi-professional wrestling, houses its own culture, and its own sense of family and identity. The two chapters presented here are part of the larger work set in this world and told from four perspectives: Brooks "Jack Raptor" Murphy, star of the Rustbelt Wrestling Alliance Vivian Murphy, his estranged sister Gunnar "The Swedish Storm" Olsen, whose career is intertwined with Jack's and Maxine Hunter, local wrestling blogger. Though only Brooks and Vivian are represented in this excerpt, the lives of all four of these characters intertwine. The relationship between …
Eliza Haywood And The Narratological Tropes Of Secret History, Rachel K. Carnell
Eliza Haywood And The Narratological Tropes Of Secret History, Rachel K. Carnell
English Faculty Publications
Eliza Haywood’s novels and political writings are often considered in isolation from each other; however, there is a discursive thread that links her fictional and political works: her engagement with secret history. Across her career, in her novels as well as her political pamphlets and periodicals, Haywood deploys two important narratological tropes of the secret historian: the tendency to reveal the secrets of public figures while concealing the author’s own political position and the tendency to muse self-reflexively about the author’s own role as a writer of history. Haywood’s facility in deploying these dual narratological devices of concealment and confession …
Clarissa: An Abridged Version (Review), Rachel K. Carnell
Clarissa: An Abridged Version (Review), Rachel K. Carnell
English Faculty Publications
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The Protestant Whore: Courtesan Narrative & Religious Controversy In England, 1680-1750 (Review), Rachel K. Carnell
The Protestant Whore: Courtesan Narrative & Religious Controversy In England, 1680-1750 (Review), Rachel K. Carnell
English Faculty Publications
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Merely A Pictorial Subject: The Turn Of The Screw, Adam Sonstegard
Merely A Pictorial Subject: The Turn Of The Screw, Adam Sonstegard
English Faculty Publications
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