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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
What Makes A Great Opening Line?: Allegra Hyde Considers Love At First Sentence, Allegra Hyde
What Makes A Great Opening Line?: Allegra Hyde Considers Love At First Sentence, Allegra Hyde
Faculty & Staff Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Earth Needs Help, Rhiannon C. Barto
Earth Needs Help, Rhiannon C. Barto
English Department: Research for Change - Wicked Problems in Our World
Humans destroy earth by polluting the atmosphere and wiping out other living things. Climate change is a human created problem that is increasing the rate at which the damage is occurring. The temperature is increasing at the fastest rate that it has in 10,000 years. With change happening this fast, it is hard for nature and animals, including ourselves, to adapt. Climate change is one of the biggest things causing this change and it is crucial to take action before it is too late. We need to stop deforestation, stop CO2 emissions, and stop the use of fossil fuels. The …
(Fun)Ction: Developing Games From A Narrative Standpoint, Julian Barocas
(Fun)Ction: Developing Games From A Narrative Standpoint, Julian Barocas
English Summer Fellows
My goal with this project has been to deepen my understanding of why people play games, how to make games narratively compelling, and what technical methods are effective in play. This has allowed me to investigate both the technical, scholarly assessments of board game dynamics while also exploring their real-world applications, successes, and weaknesses. Building on my research, my project has culminated in a full prototype of an original board game that has both narrative structure and an engaging gameplay structure. I have also produced a reflection paper on the experience and an annotated bibliography of my research texts and …
Pitiless Cruelty: Cynicism, Capitalism, And Gambling In The Writing Of Mario Puzo, David Schwartz
Pitiless Cruelty: Cynicism, Capitalism, And Gambling In The Writing Of Mario Puzo, David Schwartz
Executive Vice President & Provost Faculty Publications
The Godfather made him a wealthy man, but Mario Puzo’s long years as a struggling writer and childhood in New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen conditioned him to treat money—and those who made a great deal of it—with suspicion. This paper explores how Puzo’s cynical views of capitalism were buttressed by his experiences as a self-described “mildly degenerate” gambling, and how they are expressed in both his fiction and non-fiction.
The Toxicity Of Otherness, Justin Malone
The Toxicity Of Otherness, Justin Malone
English Department: Traveling American Modernism (ENG 366, Fall 2018)
This article discusses the dangerous philosophical principle of Othering, wherein a group of people are ostracized for being different from the majority. While categorization of information is a fundamental aspect of how the brain works, the categorization of people homogenizes their complexities. In doing so, a group is seen as a single entity, rather than individuals, which strips them of their humanity. After a group has been Othered, society will inevitably invoke some method of forced displacement upon them. Additionally, the article emphasizes the importance of affected individuals telling the stories of their experiences with oppression from Othering. Sharing one’s …
The Influence Of Individualistic Ideas On American Mobility, Markus Magiera
The Influence Of Individualistic Ideas On American Mobility, Markus Magiera
English Department: Traveling American Modernism (ENG 366, Fall 2018)
In this paper I showcase the influence of individualistic thinking ranging back as far as Age of Enlightenment on the development of mobility in America since the eighteenth century. My goal is to identify the factors that shaped the evolution of travel. In order to do so I start by analyzing texts from the early nineteenth century, where travel by foot was the common thing. Next I focus on new means of mobility; first the bicycle, and later on the automobile. I aim to convince that modernity's main instigator was the change in thinking brought forth in the Age of …
Fading Landscapes: The Culture Of Exile And The Open Road, Marc T. Rentschler
Fading Landscapes: The Culture Of Exile And The Open Road, Marc T. Rentschler
English Department: Traveling American Modernism (ENG 366, Fall 2018)
This article seeks to analyze the complex relationship between material culture and hegemonic constructions of ideology along with their tendency to make their way into larger institutional apparatuses of society. For this study this interaction is explored through the symbolic construction of the american roadways and a selective. Drawing on Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Baudrillard’s America, and William Least Heat Moon’s Blue Highways, this work attempts to combine critical perspectives on the formation of public space with the events of these works in order to formulate how the ideological values which are subsumed by the representational space of ‘The …
Special Glasses, Matthew Gavin Frank
The Essayist In Search Of The Essay: Research Strategies, Matthew Gavin Frank, Jill Talbot, Peggy Shinner, Nicole Walker, B. J. Hollars
The Essayist In Search Of The Essay: Research Strategies, Matthew Gavin Frank, Jill Talbot, Peggy Shinner, Nicole Walker, B. J. Hollars
Journal Articles
No abstract provided.
Adios, Ramon Gonzales, Bryan M. Furuness
Adios, Ramon Gonzales, Bryan M. Furuness
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
No abstract provided.
Writing On Demand, Virginia Exton
Zephyrus, Western Kentucky University
Wku Zephyrus, Western Kentucky University
Wku Zephyrus, Western Kentucky University
Student Creative Writing
No abstract provided.
Zephyrus, Western Kentucky University
Zephyrus, Western Kentucky University
Zephyrus, Western Kentucky University
Student Creative Writing
"The fine arts magazine of Western Kentucky University at Bowling Green."