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Big Nothing: A Story About Bicycles And The Girls Who Ride Them In The Heart Of West Texas, Keziah Staska
Big Nothing: A Story About Bicycles And The Girls Who Ride Them In The Heart Of West Texas, Keziah Staska
Honors Program Theses and Projects
Their one-way road trip had started the day before when they left their home in San Bernardino for the final time. Paisley was afraid of moving away from the city she grew up in, but not for the same reasons many children her age would be. . So, her social life wasn’t her primary concern when it came time to abandon her home. Instead, she was afraid to leave San Bernardino because she had memorized all the perfect bike routes within a thirty-mile radius. On the other, the fear that their new home would have insufficient routes and roads compared …
Hija Del Sol, Cecilia Maria Martinez Tijerina
Hija Del Sol, Cecilia Maria Martinez Tijerina
Theses and Dissertations
In this fantasy novel themes such as patriarchy, magic, female empowerment, and fresh and new mythology are tackled. This novel consists of 10 chapters, each chapter covers different themes from the creation of the earth, the creation of the protagonist, her experiences on Earth and her challenging journey against her father’s raze. Everything concludes with an ending exposed to numerous possibilities and with a protagonist aware of who she is.
Alternate abstract:
En esta novela fantástica se leen temas como el patriarcado, la magia, el empoderamiento femenino y una mitología fresca y nueva. Esta novela consta de 10 capítulos, cada …
Delivering Extinction, Tatum Cordy
Delivering Extinction, Tatum Cordy
Honors College Theses
Living during a human extinction is something no one is prepared for. No one thought humans would last this long. Even the sun dies eventually. A child’s drawing with a dripping smile. Sun rays heating soil into dust, melting metals, and large pine trees would light like matches. Smoke would rise into the air blocking out everything but the fires taking over the once livable landscape of Earth. Then, it would be over. The sun would explode. Simple and quick, painless for the few who wouldn’t try to resist their demise. Too bad humans were a few million years early. …
Skeletons In My Closet: A Collection Of Personal Essays And Short Fiction, Macey Howell
Skeletons In My Closet: A Collection Of Personal Essays And Short Fiction, Macey Howell
Honors Scholars Collaborative Projects
My thesis will be a collection of personal essays and short fiction centered on examining the ties between fashion and identity and told through a Gothic literary tradition. I seek to explore my identity by examining my personal style using the mode of the Gothic. Through this project, I will encapsulate my sense of style, and therefore my sense of self, in words and explore the nuances of my identity through creative nonfiction and fiction.
I have a distinct sense of style that is inseparable from my identity as a woman, as an artist, as a human drawn to beauty …
Every Journey Begins With The First Step, Timothy Poisson, Dom Bull
Every Journey Begins With The First Step, Timothy Poisson, Dom Bull
CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal
No abstract provided.
Whispers, Taqdees Mela
White Noise, Pierce Ellinwood
The Owl Outside Our Window, Mark Travis
The Owl Outside Our Window, Mark Travis
CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal
No abstract provided.
Calling The Stars Home, Anna Koester
Calling The Stars Home, Anna Koester
CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal
No abstract provided.
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.
Depressed & Dis-Eased: Storytelling, Melancholia And The Rhetorical Affordances Of Affect, Carlee Franklin
Depressed & Dis-Eased: Storytelling, Melancholia And The Rhetorical Affordances Of Affect, Carlee Franklin
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
Because racial oppression is often internalized, this thesis examines literature written by POC about protagonists of color struggling with depression. The pieces are Gwendolyn Brooks’ Maud Martha, Haruki Murakami’s “Tony Takitani,” and Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Using literary concepts informed by Black feminist theory, decolonial theory, and affect studies, as well as rhetorical frameworks of silence and listening, this thesis attempts to better understand how the relationship between depression and racial oppression work to color the life expectancy and perspectives of depressed people of color
Entire Issue, Kyra E. Blair, Rachel Sedgwick
Entire Issue, Kyra E. Blair, Rachel Sedgwick
TYGR: Student Art and Literary Magazine 2018-present
No abstract provided.
Beat The Church Crowd, Evelyn Alston Tyer
Beat The Church Crowd, Evelyn Alston Tyer
Honors Theses
Beat the Church Crowd is a collection of poems that explores a variety of topics and themes, from personal family legacy and natural disasters to bestiary, ekphrastic, and southern locale poems. It is divided into four sections: “Blue Danube,” “Anecdotes,” “Urban Legends,” and “Something Worth Protecting.” While the subject matter and forms of the poems vary, the common thread weaving each poem to the next is the slight touch of the macabre.
The Red Swimsuit: Essays, Jacqueline Knirnschild
The Red Swimsuit: Essays, Jacqueline Knirnschild
Honors Theses
This thesis is a collection of creative non-fiction essays that offers a collage of ethnography, reportage and memoir. The Red Swimsuit blurs the lines between what is considered social science, journalism and art. These essays will become part of a book- length work of creative non-fiction that will explore what it’s like to grow up as a woman in a globalized world wrought with social media, hookup culture and cross-cultural interactions. The Red Swimsuit provides first-hand experience, reflexive narration, and reflection on life as a member of Generation Z, also known as iGen.
That Belongs To Me, Ellie Anne Greenberger
That Belongs To Me, Ellie Anne Greenberger
Honors Theses
A collection of fictional short stories and a novella that explores family relationships, specifically female family relationships that span across generational lines and what we inherit from our families whether intentional or unintentional. (Under the direction of Tom Franklin)
Initiate, Becca Anderson
Initiate, Becca Anderson
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
After the sudden death of her father, sixteen-year-old Cal Townsend is sent to live with her estranged maternal grandmother on one of Wisconsin’s Apostle Islands. She soon learns that she is descended from a long line of practicing witches.
The Criterion Collection, Mackenna Finley
The Criterion Collection, Mackenna Finley
Honors Projects
The Criterion Collection is an examination of truth in fiction and poetry. The goal of this project is not to create truth that is absolute, but instead to allow for the experience of its subjectivity. The interplay between fiction and poetry, reader and author illuminates the subtle warping of truth through human experience.
Brilliant Women: Prose And Poetry, Amelia Fisher
Brilliant Women: Prose And Poetry, Amelia Fisher
MSU Graduate Theses
This collection of creative writing explores themes and subjects relating to feminism, sexuality, performativity, societal woes, popular culture, and the different ways we communicate. The individual pieces often examine women’s empowerment and lack thereof. These stories, essays, and poems are introduced by a critical work situating the contents of the thesis within greater literary traditions, such as Viktor Shklovsky’s defamiliarization, which I claim can function on the structural level as well as the story level, and his theory of the Chronotope; time and place are significant threads I follow from one genre to the next to create a cohesive collection …
Skin: Stories, Poems, And Essays, Amanda G. Hadlock
Skin: Stories, Poems, And Essays, Amanda G. Hadlock
MSU Graduate Theses
This thesis begins with a critical introduction which analyzes the use of objective correlative and varying points of view in creative writing in order to generate dialogue on cultural issues. I relate theories from Edward T. Hall, T.S. Eliot, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Lubomír Doležel to my own writing. Additionally, I situate my own multi-genre writing with work of contemporaries such as Maggie Nelson and Claudia Rankine. My hypothesis is that writers can use an objective correlative (Eliot) from the top of the cultural iceberg (Hall) as an entry point to representing deeper, more fraught cultural issues. Additionally, by experimenting with …
A Poetic Ethnodrama: Discussing The Impact Of The Pressure To Publish On Creative Writers' Production, Abby N. Lewis
A Poetic Ethnodrama: Discussing The Impact Of The Pressure To Publish On Creative Writers' Production, Abby N. Lewis
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This study examines the presence of the pressure to publish while in college as an undergraduate or graduate student, and the impact that pressure has on students’ ability to produce creative work. After interviewing participants, the researcher created an ethnodrama to best represent participants’ emotions and unique experiences with publishing while in school. An examination of the literature reveals that master’s-level students are often overlooked in scholarly research on the subject of publishing. This study uses a qualitative research method to identify key emotional experiences from students at the master’s and undergraduate level in the hopes of providing a platform …
Living Document: An Exploration Of “Self” Through Lyric & Hybrid Forms, Shannon Sweeney
Living Document: An Exploration Of “Self” Through Lyric & Hybrid Forms, Shannon Sweeney
Honors Theses
In the famously confessional field of creative nonfiction, the question of preserving one’s privacy is perhaps best explored by means of lyrical or hybrid essays; an explorative piece found at the intersection of poetic form and prose, between objective fact and creative presentation, which “sets off on an uncharted course through interlocking webs of idea, circumstance, and language - a pursuit with no foreknown conclusion, [and] an arrival that might still leave the writer questioning,” according to Noam Dorr. This pursuit without strict purpose allows for writers to dissect and discover the intricacies of seemingly straightforward topics: truth, memory, even …
Tiny Furious Circles, Ann M. Herrington
Tiny Furious Circles, Ann M. Herrington
Theses
I have had time to live and time to reflect on that living. What I have found is that certain things present themselves, over and over, wearing different skins. And though they look different, there is a certain whiff of familiarity that activates the soul’s hindbrain and pulls you close. That’s how it has been for me. Because of this — my failure to learn the first time; my need to see a thing from all its sides; my constant picking at the half-healed — certain themes repeat. And because they have come to me at different times in many …
From The Shadows: Setting As An Expression Of Character Development In The Epic Fantasy Genre, Leah Henson
From The Shadows: Setting As An Expression Of Character Development In The Epic Fantasy Genre, Leah Henson
Senior Honors Theses
Epic fantasy is a genre defined by its setting. It offers writers the opportunity to be incredibly specific with the way setting contributes to the overall story, specifically as an aid character development. In order to successfully use setting to support character development, the writer must understand what preconceptions with which the reader enters the epic fantasy genre and what purpose setting plays in the overarching story world. The writer must determine what setting elements to include and, just as importantly, which to leave out. Finally, because setting is such an abstract component of writing, it is useful not only …
Banana Bread, Madeleine L. Quinn
Banana Bread, Madeleine L. Quinn
Student Publications
This poem describes a young narrators exploration of her grandmother's battle with dementia. Her grandma's unwavering love still finds ways to shine through.
Rejuvenation: University Of Maine At Farmington Honors Journal Spring 2020, University Of Maine At Farmington
Rejuvenation: University Of Maine At Farmington Honors Journal Spring 2020, University Of Maine At Farmington
Honors Journal
For the second time we have come together as an honors program and de- cided to showcase students’ work. Our honors students drive and motivation here at Farmington goes beyond expectation. Time and time again students push limits and comfort zones to come up with amazing ideas, thoughts, and advice to their fellow students and themselves. In their works it is clear the power writing and art has in their expression. It is our special privilege to be able to showcase the bold, authetic works each of our contributors brought here for publication.
The University of Maine at Farmington Honors …
Closure, Madeleine L. Quinn
Closure, Madeleine L. Quinn
Student Publications
This poem explores the idea of closure through various lenses of the narrators life.
Introductory Workshops In Creative Writing: Writing Prompt Phase 2 - Relearning The Craft, Noelle M. Nagales
Introductory Workshops In Creative Writing: Writing Prompt Phase 2 - Relearning The Craft, Noelle M. Nagales
Open Educational Resources
For this assignment, you will be required to do two things. One: visit a specific place of your choice. It can be anywhere, on own your free time (either on the train, at a museum, a restaurant, at the movies with your friends, or even at your local cafe). There, you will jot down on a sheet of paper (NOT on your phone) a bullet point list of all the things you hear or see (conversations and observations). The point is to not have your phone in hand and to be completely observant of your surroundings. Two: then …
Introductory Workshops In Creative Writing: Writing Prompt Phase 1 - Understanding The Self, Noelle Marie Nagales
Introductory Workshops In Creative Writing: Writing Prompt Phase 1 - Understanding The Self, Noelle Marie Nagales
Open Educational Resources
What is this idea of “self?” How do we define it or more specifically how do we represent ourselves (as the writer) on page and to what extent can we make our own voice visible? Anyone can write a story, but where do you as the author exist within your own work?
For this assignment, you will be required to write a memoir (a personal narrative) or a short piece of fiction that depicts some aspect of yourself or an attribute of it, present within your own life. You can either focus on a specific moment of time, place, person, …
Consulting On Creative Writing In Undergraduate Writing Centers, Alaina Taylor
Consulting On Creative Writing In Undergraduate Writing Centers, Alaina Taylor
Honors Projects
This project is intended to serve as a guide for present and future writing consultants in navigating creative writing-based consultations. Preliminary research was conducted among existing employees of the Frederick Meijer Center for Writing and Michigan Authors in order to gauge which aspects of consulting on creative writing they felt the most uneasy facing. These were narrowed down to four main areas. By combining discussions held during the Creative Writing Committee team and secondary research, strategies were designed in order to help navigate these specific areas.
Become What You Are: The Student Handbook To Fighting Nihilism, Jules Shinkle 20
Become What You Are: The Student Handbook To Fighting Nihilism, Jules Shinkle 20
Honor Scholar Theses
No abstract provided.