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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
The Language Of Breathing, Brian Wallace Baker
The Language Of Breathing, Brian Wallace Baker
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The Language of Breathing is an eclectic collection of 18 creative nonfiction essays that capture moments from the author’s life and attempt to give them meaning through narrative and metaphor. They deal with relationships, nature, faith, and often rely on background research to pair art, mythology, current events, and science with personal experience.
The Memorialist, Lindsey Houchin
The Memorialist, Lindsey Houchin
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The Memorialist is a work of creative nonfiction. In this long-form essay, the author digests the memories and secondhand stories unearthed while exploring the junked, rusted, and wrecked life of an eccentric uncle who was preceded in death by his sister, the author’s mother. Through its associative and slippery structure, it follows the author as she untangles two histories halted—connected, contrasting lives disrupted by death. Meditative and metaphorical, the narrative explores both the beauty and burden of death through the eulogy form in a quest to determine how to memorialize a life defined by what death leaves behind.
The Ray Family Backstory, Department Of Library Special Collections
The Ray Family Backstory, Department Of Library Special Collections
Ray Family Papers
No abstract provided.
Ray Family Photo Album, Department Of Library Special Collections
Ray Family Photo Album, Department Of Library Special Collections
Ray Family Papers
No abstract provided.
Caverns: Kentucky Middle School Poetry (Volume 2, 2019), Roxanne M. Spencer Editor, Kelly Hancock Associate Editor, Cynthia Houston Associate Editor, Amanda Kennedy Associate Editor
Caverns: Kentucky Middle School Poetry (Volume 2, 2019), Roxanne M. Spencer Editor, Kelly Hancock Associate Editor, Cynthia Houston Associate Editor, Amanda Kennedy Associate Editor
CAVERNS
No abstract provided.
Symmetrically Significant: Essays, David Stephen Haydon
Symmetrically Significant: Essays, David Stephen Haydon
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
This collection of personal essays explores the use of symmetry as a metaphor of normality in contemporary American culture. These essays use formalistic exploration to enter into a conversation with the reader regarding the body, sexuality, gender, and mental illness. Each piece aims to dismantle and explode the metaphorical significations of symmetry through the use of interdisciplinary research combined with memoir.
Ua37/30/4 Faculty Personal Papers Lowell Harrison, Sam Bruer, Bess Mchone, Wku Archives
Ua37/30/4 Faculty Personal Papers Lowell Harrison, Sam Bruer, Bess Mchone, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Personal papers created by and about Lowell Harrison.
Ua37/35/2 Faculty Personal Papers O.J. Wilson Publications, Wku Archives
Ua37/35/2 Faculty Personal Papers O.J. Wilson Publications, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Publications written by O.J. Wilson.
Azimuth, Leslie Fox
Azimuth, Leslie Fox
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
This is a book-length, creative nonfiction collection of essays with a critical introduction. These essays are illustrating the conflict of fitting within socially-formed identities. In theme, this collection explores class, gender, and sexuality of the self. Each section is introduced with a brief reflection which links the essays together.
Ua94/6/2/15 Athletes, Beggars & Rock Stars (Or) Forget About The Olympics Tony, Ross Munro
Ua94/6/2/15 Athletes, Beggars & Rock Stars (Or) Forget About The Olympics Tony, Ross Munro
Student/Alumni Personal Papers
Reminiscences of former WKU track athlete Ross Munro regarding the exploits of Swag Hartel, Nick Rose, Chris Ridler, Tony Staynings and other members of the 1973 track team.
Ua94/6/2/15 Incident At Hangman Valley, Ross Munro
Ua94/6/2/15 Incident At Hangman Valley, Ross Munro
Student/Alumni Personal Papers
Reminiscences of former WKU track athlete Ross Munro regarding the 1973 National Collegiate Cross Country Championship held in Spokane, Washington.
An Arithmetic Expedition, Aaron T. Kirtland
An Arithmetic Expedition, Aaron T. Kirtland
Sierpinski’s Square
An arithmetic expedition through a student's life as he encounters new fields and finds their logic within himself. As he moves from Calculus to Linear Algebra to Numerical Analysis, he finds new realizations and thoughts for the future. Can binary mathematics fully express sociality and nature?
Otherwise Sinking, Lena Ziegler
Otherwise Sinking, Lena Ziegler
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
This is a book-length work of prose including fiction, creative non-fiction, with small amounts of prose poetry all focusing on the exploration of female sexuality, gender roles, relationships among men and women, and mothers and daughters. The aim of the individual pieces in this collection is to enter the cultural conversation of these issues by presenting a hybrid of genres that beg for an understanding of truth vs. fiction, and the fine line between those things when dealing with matters of the body and mind.
What’S In A Name?: The Evolution Of The Female Identity In Shalimar The Clown, Jessica Barksdale
What’S In A Name?: The Evolution Of The Female Identity In Shalimar The Clown, Jessica Barksdale
Undergraduate Conference on Literature, Language, and Culture
No abstract provided.
English Grammar: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, Wendy Delk
English Grammar: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, Wendy Delk
Undergraduate Conference on Literature, Language, and Culture
No abstract provided.
Until Valhalla, Mr. Krebs, William J. Williford
Until Valhalla, Mr. Krebs, William J. Williford
Undergraduate Conference on Literature, Language, and Culture
No abstract provided.
Hold Them Down: Oppression Of Film Noir's Working Woman, Shaire Blythe
Hold Them Down: Oppression Of Film Noir's Working Woman, Shaire Blythe
Undergraduate Conference on Literature, Language, and Culture
Introductory Paragraph:
The struggle for women’s rights and roles in society has been an ongoing battle, since the beginning, with Adam and Eve. The subjugation that was presented upon Eve, because of her fault and easiness to be deceived, has trailed behind mankind, and film noir would not be excluded. The femme fatale seems to play the role of what Eve started, seducing men with her sexuality to carry out wicked schemes and being the downfall of all men. Thus, men began to identify women as a threat to their very essence but, yet, still cannot resist the temptation women …
Burch, Kelly Calvert, B. 1964 (Sc 3001), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Burch, Kelly Calvert, B. 1964 (Sc 3001), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3001. Script for a one-act play titled “Allen County: A Work in Progress” written by Kelly C. Burch in commemoration of the bicentennial of Allen County’s formation in 1815. Includes script, program, DVD, and news clipping about the play’s performance on 28 June 2015 at Allen County-Scottsville High School.
What Do You Mean, "Practice"? Theorizing The Writing-Music Connection, Callie Elise Compton
What Do You Mean, "Practice"? Theorizing The Writing-Music Connection, Callie Elise Compton
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Researchers in the field of composition studies have frequently made allusions to musicians when they’ve discussed the role of practice in gaining skill. In doing so, however, they’ve risked making speculative rather than testable claims and separating composition studies from recent insights on practice from other disciplines such as education and music psychology. These fields, I argue, offer testable frameworks with which composition instructors and scholars can teach and study writing practice. Such frameworks are necessary because composition researchers need to supplement qualitative studies of writers and writing with quantitative data to generate replicable tests of teaching methods that may …
2016 Jim Wayne Miller Contest Winners, Creative Writing Committee
2016 Jim Wayne Miller Contest Winners, Creative Writing Committee
Mary Ellen and Jim Wayne Miller Celebration of Writing
No abstract provided.
Confessions Of An American Ginseng Addict, Addison Davis James
Confessions Of An American Ginseng Addict, Addison Davis James
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Confessions of an American Ginseng Addict uses the Lazy Branch Holler in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky as a setting for a creative nonfiction work, which uses history, confession, remembrances, and digressions to tell the story of a man dealing with loss, mental health issues, environmental sustainability, and the power of ginseng. In the style of Desert Solitaire and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the narrative is a discursive work of raw unadulterated gonzo writing.
Babel, Anais Dorian Norman
Babel, Anais Dorian Norman
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
babel is a collection of nonfiction essays in which I explore a female twenty-something’s crossdimensional dilemma of spirituality, racism, art, and love in the wake of Bible-belt hipsterdom. I board the train that is human pride, that great metal snake by which we essayists craft our lives, and measure out my stories by cities and coffeespoons—dotted with dark roast, preferably. The train of my collection glides through the first ‘burg and its Godlike aspirations, Babel; travels a ways to Virginia, specifically Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University and Prince Edward County, which was the hotbed of the Civil Rights in Education Movement; …
2015 Jim Wayne Miller Contest Winners, Creative Writing Committee
2015 Jim Wayne Miller Contest Winners, Creative Writing Committee
Mary Ellen and Jim Wayne Miller Celebration of Writing
No abstract provided.
Cyberbook: An Introduction To Topics In Cyberculture, Western Kentucky Univeristy Department Of Communication
Cyberbook: An Introduction To Topics In Cyberculture, Western Kentucky Univeristy Department Of Communication
Communication Student Publications
No abstract provided.
2014 Jim Wayne Miller Contest Winners, Creative Writing Committee
2014 Jim Wayne Miller Contest Winners, Creative Writing Committee
Mary Ellen and Jim Wayne Miller Celebration of Writing
No abstract provided.
Ua68/6/2/3 Potter College Of Arts & Letters English Student Organizations English Club, Wku Archives
Ua68/6/2/3 Potter College Of Arts & Letters English Student Organizations English Club, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Records of the English Club including minute books, programs, and banquet records.
Ua68/6/2/4 Potter College Of Arts & Letters English Student Organizations Sigma Tau Delta, Wku Archives
Ua68/6/2/4 Potter College Of Arts & Letters English Student Organizations Sigma Tau Delta, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Records of Sigma Tau Delta.
The Kentucky Barbecue Book, Wes Berry
The Kentucky Barbecue Book, Wes Berry
English Faculty Book Gallery
Kentucky’s culinary fame may have been built on bourbon and fried chicken, but the Commonwealth has much to offer the barbecue thrill-seeker.
The Kentucky Barbecue Book is a feast for readers who are eager to sample the finest fare in the state. From the banks of the Mississippi to the hidden hollows of the Appalachian Mountains, author and barbecue enthusiast Wes Berry hit the trail in search of the best smoke, the best flavor, and the best pitmasters he could find. This handy guide presents the most succulent menus and colorful personalities in Kentucky.
While other states are better known …
The Weight Of A Human Heart, Jane Olmsted
The Weight Of A Human Heart, Jane Olmsted
Diversity&Community Studies Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
2013 Jim Wayne Miller Contest Winners, Creative Writing Committee
2013 Jim Wayne Miller Contest Winners, Creative Writing Committee
Mary Ellen and Jim Wayne Miller Celebration of Writing
No abstract provided.