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Dark Magic Part 1, Rachel Quaid
Dark Magic Part 1, Rachel Quaid
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
Dark Magic is a novel that mixes old folklore with fantasy and a splash of modern day. This first part of the novel readies the readers to enter the world of the old Irish Aos Sì. Ophelia is a witch, living in the land of the fae. She signs up to help with a research study to better her chances at succeeding as a healer. Rhea is a member of the Tuatha de Danann, the fae folk who rule the land from their courts of old. She is sent by her caretaker to observe this study. Everyone knows witches and …
The Hidden People, K. C. Mead-Brewer
A Great Chaos Of Sound: Alternative Practices Of Working Through Madness, Alienation, And The Aesthetics Of Catastrophe In 60s Britain, Mark Harris
Counterculture Studies
After Bomb Culture, Jeff Nuttall’s valediction to 1960s relentless anti-system experimentation, what kind of call to order were the Portsmouth Sinfonia’s commitment to community DIY practice and Veronica Forrest-Thomson’s withdrawal of language from meaning? Nuttall’s Laingian references to madness acclaim culture as symptomatic of living with the H-bomb. This essay considers alternative expressions of intimacy and apartness like Doris Lessing’s writing on women’s madness, the Caribbean Artists Movement’s understanding of schizophrenic post-colonial consciousness, and Kate Millet’s and Robert Wyatt’s eulogies to friends and partners, as marginalized by the aesthetics of catastrophe of Nuttall and his Destruction in Art Symposium …
Catch Hell Blues, Nick Jebsen
Catch Hell Blues, Nick Jebsen
Senior Projects Spring 2020
My novella features four friends attempting to navigate the transition between high school and adulthood while coming of age in the midst of political turmoil and an American epidemic of substance misuse. They attend a house party, inebriate, and drive around Los Angeles in a 1996 BMW 7 series while waxing philosophic about God, free-will, and beauty. After purchasing more alcohol, they vandalize a Confederate flag, which incites a road-rage incident. The second half of the novella details their separation from one another and struggles with personal loss and substance abuse.
Son Of Red Earth Or The George Story: Novel Excerpt, Callie Ann Atkinson
Son Of Red Earth Or The George Story: Novel Excerpt, Callie Ann Atkinson
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
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