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Between Magic And Realism: The Ashes Of The Forest, Guzide Erturk Guzeldere May 2024

Between Magic And Realism: The Ashes Of The Forest, Guzide Erturk Guzeldere

Student Research Symposium

My presentation is on a novel, The Ashes of The Forest, which is my undergraduate honors thesis and was published in Turkey on March 8th of this year. What if birds had disappeared from the earth? In which direction could you go to find them? If the sea receded from your shore and never returned, what would you do? The narrative centers around the mysterious events in the seemingly ordinary Mossy Village along the shores of the Aegean Sea, the tensions between the characters, and their inner reckonings. When the sea withdraws far away, the main character, Azra, a young …


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.


Greenbrier, Paige Phillips Apr 2024

Greenbrier, Paige Phillips

Senior Theses and Projects

This thesis is the first sixty pages of a horror novel set in the Pacific Northwest. It attempts to navigate the liminal space between monstrosity and humanity. The narrative centers on fourteen-year-old Wren as she encounters a strange new boy, investigates her father's disappearance, and attempts to solve the abductions that plague her home.


The Lindenwood Review, Issue 14 (2024), Full Issue Feb 2024

The Lindenwood Review, Issue 14 (2024), Full Issue

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

No abstract provided.


Contributors Feb 2024

Contributors

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

No abstract provided.


Fever Dive: A Novel, Sofia Ohrynowicz May 2023

Fever Dive: A Novel, Sofia Ohrynowicz

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

This is the craft reflection, prologue, and first five chapters of Fever Dive, a novel in progress.


Storytelling & Holistic Mental Health: A Fiction Collection, Grace Holmes May 2023

Storytelling & Holistic Mental Health: A Fiction Collection, Grace Holmes

Self-Determined Majors Final Projects

In this collection, I have used fiction to explore my academic focus on the holistic perception of mental health and healing. In my time at Skidmore College, I have explored all kinds of perspectives– religious/spiritual, psychosocial, medical, anthropological– what I have found is that the only generalizable thing is our need to tell a story about what we’re going through. My collection strives to show the value in the experiences of people with mental illnesses and addictions: how these experiences are often sidelined or seen as inferior/incorrect/out of touch with reality, but how these “alternative” realities can create inspiration, excitement, …


Coalescing Pedagogies: Creative Writing And The Esl Composition Classroom, Kariana Anderson May 2023

Coalescing Pedagogies: Creative Writing And The Esl Composition Classroom, Kariana Anderson

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

I have proposed an intersectional pedagogy between second language acquisition (SLA), creative writing principles, and translingual composition classroom pedagogy. The purpose of this paper was to demonstrate a need for a comprehensive, creative writing-based composition class by integrating existing research ideas, introducing new activities and assignments, and demonstrating how these pedagogies that were once considered distinct can be bridged together to develop more competent and engaged learners and users of English. In the first section of this thesis, I presented an in-depth review of each theoretical framework: translingual composition pedagogy, creative writing philosophies and educational applications, and Teaching English as …


Καθαρός: The Pure - Setting Narrative In The Fourth-Century Roman Empire, Emma Branstetter Apr 2023

Καθαρός: The Pure - Setting Narrative In The Fourth-Century Roman Empire, Emma Branstetter

Scholar Week 2016 - present

My presentation illustrates the development of the Christian historical fiction novella named Καθαρός set in the early fourth century of Christian history closely following the events of the Great Persecution and its long-term effects on Christian communities in Asia Minor and North Africa. Previous Christian novels set in the Roman era primarily focus on the first century, and with the significant thematic potential found in later centuries after the life and resurrection of Christ, I embarked on this writing project. The research that affects my narrative is separated into four categories: the history and effects of Diocletian’s Great Persecution, fourth-century …


The Lindenwood Review, Issue 13 (2023), Full Issue Feb 2023

The Lindenwood Review, Issue 13 (2023), Full Issue

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

No abstract provided.


Contributors Feb 2023

Contributors

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

No abstract provided.


Metanoia: A Short Collection, Liddy Elizabeth Franco Jan 2023

Metanoia: A Short Collection, Liddy Elizabeth Franco

The John Carroll Review

No abstract provided.


Requiem For A Grocery List, Jonathan Green Jan 2023

Requiem For A Grocery List, Jonathan Green

The John Carroll Review

No abstract provided.


Anthropomorphism, Tina Lindberg Jan 2023

Anthropomorphism, Tina Lindberg

The John Carroll Review

No abstract provided.


Harvest: A Story Of Afropessimism, Briana Williams, Briana Williams Jan 2023

Harvest: A Story Of Afropessimism, Briana Williams, Briana Williams

Dartmouth College Master’s Theses

Afropessimism is the idea that Black people will never be able to truly overcome the centuries of racism and oppression they have faced. A bleak notion, the idea heavily contrasts with Afrofuturism, the ways in which Black people use technology to regain their autonomy and rise from the societal binds they’re placed in. This story focuses on how even in the supposedly more evolved and progressive political landscape of the modern world, Black people still cannot escape the shackles of racism, particularly in the United States. Taking the common themes of and ideologies of Afropessimism, Harvest follows the story of …


Samozvanets (The Pretender), Matthew Garrell, Alikzandr Malakov Jan 2023

Samozvanets (The Pretender), Matthew Garrell, Alikzandr Malakov

Dartmouth College Master’s Theses

he Russian word Samozvanets most directly translates to Imposter in English. However, for this thesis, I have selected the alternative interpretation of Pretender. Imposter implies the taking or assuming of another’s position. Pretender, more personally, carries the meaning of presenting self as something one is not. It is through the lens of the Pretender that I examine the idea of what it means to be a member of a particular ethnicity, and to engage with one’s cultural heritage. I do this through a collection of fictional stories, investigating various lives within the Russian diaspora following the dissolution of the Soviet …


The Dazzled Rope Of Lightning Against The Cloud Is Not The Downward Bolt But The Compelled Upstroke Through The Heated Ether: Stories, Jack S. Muth Jan 2023

The Dazzled Rope Of Lightning Against The Cloud Is Not The Downward Bolt But The Compelled Upstroke Through The Heated Ether: Stories, Jack S. Muth

Senior Projects Fall 2023

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.


Καθαρός, The Pure: Setting Narrative In The Fourth-Century Roman Empire, Emma Branstetter Jan 2023

Καθαρός, The Pure: Setting Narrative In The Fourth-Century Roman Empire, Emma Branstetter

Honors Program Projects

This thesis illustrates the development of the Christian historical fiction novella named Καθαρός set in the early fourth century of Christian history closely following the events of the Great Persecution and its long-term effects on Christian communities in Asia Minor and North Africa. Previous Christian novels set in the Roman era primarily focus on the first century, and with the significant thematic potential found in later centuries after the life and resurrection of Christ, I embarked on this writing project. The research that affects my narrative is separated into four categories: the history and effects of Diocletian’s Great Persecution, fourth-century …


Yes, Baby: Essays, Amy Gault Jan 2023

Yes, Baby: Essays, Amy Gault

MSU Graduate Theses

This creative thesis includes thirteen flash nonfiction pieces and one fiction short story exploring emotions and experiences that have changed who I am today. These writings are personal experiences or are inspired by personal experience. These creative works interrogate deeply transformative events and situations, such as familial relationships, trauma, poverty, living in the Midwest, patriarchy, and the beauty in existing. In the thesis’s critical introduction, I examine how my flash nonfiction pieces employ Milan Kundera’s theory of the appeal of play and Charles Baxter’s concept defamiliarization. I analyze how the succinct form of the flash essay allows my nonfiction writing …


Payton's Final Master's Portfolio, Payton Boshears Dec 2022

Payton's Final Master's Portfolio, Payton Boshears

Master of Arts in English Plan II Graduate Projects

Here is my final Master's Portfolio. I did not have specialization for the English program, so for the portfolio I chose four different projects that represent the variety of courses I have taken during my time here at BGSU.


Western Wall, Jerusalem, Judi Yitti Koval Nov 2022

Western Wall, Jerusalem, Judi Yitti Koval

The John Carroll Review

No abstract provided.


The Old Man, Madeleine Polcyn Nov 2022

The Old Man, Madeleine Polcyn

The John Carroll Review

No abstract provided.


Migraine During A Late Night Drive, Julia Kashuba Nov 2022

Migraine During A Late Night Drive, Julia Kashuba

The John Carroll Review

No abstract provided.


The Kitchen Table, Emily Elvoid Nov 2022

The Kitchen Table, Emily Elvoid

The John Carroll Review

No abstract provided.


Unexpecting, Mara Bahmer Nov 2022

Unexpecting, Mara Bahmer

The John Carroll Review

No abstract provided.


Peeling, Jessica Disalvatore Nov 2022

Peeling, Jessica Disalvatore

The John Carroll Review

No abstract provided.


Two Or Three Days Ago, Marcie Blandford Nov 2022

Two Or Three Days Ago, Marcie Blandford

The John Carroll Review

No abstract provided.


Optimal View, Andy Penk Nov 2022

Optimal View, Andy Penk

The John Carroll Review

No abstract provided.


Brown Bear, Ashley Bernett Nov 2022

Brown Bear, Ashley Bernett

The John Carroll Review

No abstract provided.


The Haunting Of Wright Manor, Katherine Holzman Aug 2022

The Haunting Of Wright Manor, Katherine Holzman

Honors Program Theses and Projects

The Haunting of Wright Manor explores the fear of the unknown, and more specifically, the hereditary nature of evil. “The phrase ‘nature versus nurture’ was first coined in the mid-1800s by the English Victorian polymath Francis Galton in discussion about the influence of heredity and environment on social advancement”(Serpell 2013), writes Mick Serpell in the British Journal of Pain. Essentially, “Nature versus Nurture” boils down to a debate of which character traits are inherited and which are the result of external environmental factors. Wright Manor’s protagonist, Victoria Mariano, finds herself struggling with the aforementioned debate. At the age of 12, …