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The New Writing Series, Spring 2016, The University Of Maine Honors College
The New Writing Series, Spring 2016, The University Of Maine Honors College
Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series
In its thirty-fourth consecutive semester of programming, the New Writing Series will host six readings featuring four poets (John Keene, Prageeta Sharma, Divya Victor, and John Yau) and two fiction writers (Emily Fridlund and Joanna Walsh).
These writers are all highly active across the full spectrum of literary activity. They are editors, publishers, and anthologists; translators and tale-tellers; art-makers and trail-blazing scholars.
The New Writing Series brings innovative and adventurous contemporary writing to the University of Maine's flagship campus in Orono on selected Thursdays at 4:30pm.
Blood At The Root, April Schofield
Blood At The Root, April Schofield
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
This is a coming of age story about two very different boys – Jason, a Northerner who ends up stuck in a small Southern town and Billy, a Southern boy with an abusive father. The boys become friends and grow up learning the dark secrets that are allowed to fester in a tiny southern town ruled by the Good Ol’ Boy System of justice. The story chronicles how their shared experiences change them in ways they never imagined and ultimately destroys their friendship and their lives. Through a history of violence and prejudice, Billy and Jason learn who they really …
High Clear Bell Of Morning By Ann Eriksson, Lauri Chose
High Clear Bell Of Morning By Ann Eriksson, Lauri Chose
The Goose
Review of Ann Eriksson's High Clear Bell of Morning.
The Dove In Bathurst Station By Patricia Westerhof, Matthew Zantingh
The Dove In Bathurst Station By Patricia Westerhof, Matthew Zantingh
The Goose
Review of Patricia Westerhof's The Dove in Bathurst Station.
Vergilian Allusions In The Novels Of Willa Cather, Nathaniel Wagner
Vergilian Allusions In The Novels Of Willa Cather, Nathaniel Wagner
All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects
This work aims to explore the nature of Vergilian allusion in the novels of Willa Cather - how the author implicated classical language in her own texts as well as the purpose and efficacy of such allusions. By surveying traces of Vergilian passages and rhetorical techniques such as ecphrasis and anacolouthon across three of the writer's major novels, My Antonia, The Professor's House and Shadows on the Rock, this study reveals an important and persistent aspect of Cather's artistic program. The author intentionally and regularly uses Vergilian language and figures to lend a sense of grandeur to the small, individual …
Pecan Grove Review Volume 16, St. Mary's University
Pecan Grove Review Volume 16, St. Mary's University
Pecan Grove Review
Creative writings by students, faculty, and staff of the St. Mary's University community.