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Desert Body, Lauren Mckinnon
Desert Body, Lauren Mckinnon
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
This thesis is a collection of poems examining certain paradoxes of my body. As a survivor of sexual violence, my body relives trauma which makes it feel uninhabitable. I compare my experiences with the Southern Utah desert. The physical beauty, destruction and inhabitability of the desert teaches me to accept my body as both beautiful and full of grief. The poems move chronologically through my life, beginning with an abusive relationship at the age of sixteen, a move to Moab at nineteen, and becoming a mother at twenty-five. Ultimately, with the desert as my guide, I learn to accept my …
The Underappreciated Intersection Of Science Fiction And Satire, Christopher Nicholson
The Underappreciated Intersection Of Science Fiction And Satire, Christopher Nicholson
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
This thesis considers, from a creative writer’s perspective, the largely untapped potential for combining the strengths of satire and science fiction to create stories that provide both escapism and real-world commentary without sacrificing one for the other. It discusses background information and examples of both genres, and then illustrates the principles discussed with three original short stories.
A Mormon Missionary's Guide To Conversion Therapy Addiction Recovery, Shaun M. Anderson
A Mormon Missionary's Guide To Conversion Therapy Addiction Recovery, Shaun M. Anderson
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
This collection of essays explores my experience as a gay Mormon missionary, when I studied the Mormon Church's Addiction Recovery Program in an attempt to alter my sexuality. The initial four essays take place during the two years that I lived in Southern California as a Mormon missionary from 2011-2013. They present the text of the LDS Family Services Addiction Recovery Program workbook, with my own thoughts, experiences, and stories driven into the margins. Through these four essays, I demonstrate the hope, anguish, and longing of a gay man who desperately wants to live the model of a righteous Mormon …
Graphic Memoir As A Tool For Imaginative Leaping, Shay Larsen
Graphic Memoir As A Tool For Imaginative Leaping, Shay Larsen
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
The idea for this capstone was sparked in the last semester of my third year of undergraduate research at Utah State University. I had been researching the ways in which creative nonfiction writers approached the realm of surreality in their work with my honors contract advisor, Dr. Jennifer Sinor. Sinor herself had written a piece ("Holes in the Sky") that dealt heavily in abstractions paralleled with the works of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe. While discussing the difficulties of expressing surreality in writing I made an offhand comment along the lines of "makes you wish you'd been a painter instead of …
Giving Birth To Self, Gene Washington
Giving Birth To Self, Gene Washington
Gene Washington
In GIVING BIRTH TO SELF, the author, using the techniques of "thought-runs," meditates on Marquez's statement that "human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them to give birth to themselves. The focus in this essay is then on context and use, the "where" and the "how" of self. Where do representations of self, oneself and that of the other, typically occur in written texts and how does the author use self: how does it perform?
The Fascination Of The Unfinished, Abandoned And Wrecked, Gene Washington
The Fascination Of The Unfinished, Abandoned And Wrecked, Gene Washington
Gene Washington
The unfinished, abandoned (e.g., ruins), and wrecked provoke a strong reaction in such diverse persons as antiquarians, artists, writers and journalists. One can say that the UAW cause the new thing to appears. They are "news." In this book are a collection of unfinished MSS. The author invites the reader to, if not finish them, at least continue the ideas of each
"Hills Like White Elephants": Epistemic, Nonepistemic And Nonseeing, Gene Washington
"Hills Like White Elephants": Epistemic, Nonepistemic And Nonseeing, Gene Washington
English Faculty Publications
This essay, a though-experiment, explores the value of reading literary texts (with the example of Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants") from the point of view of epistemic, nonepistemic and nonseeing. Epistemic seeing is defined as seeing with "belief-content" nonepistemic seeing without it. The technique is to examine each example of the word "seeing" (or one of the members of its family, "look, watch," "blink") and let it "lead" you to the object, its contest, and implications in the story as a whole..
Shots In The Dark: The Presence Of Absence In Imaginative Literature (Iw), Gene Washington
Shots In The Dark: The Presence Of Absence In Imaginative Literature (Iw), Gene Washington
Gene Washington
Western metaphysics and IW can be described as a search for "first" presences, not absences. With the exception of philosophers like Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Aristotle, writers like Lord Rochester (John Wilmot), Jonathan Swift and Philip Larkin, no one, to my knowledge, has taken absence as a "first" and consequently as also a "last." This essay is a modest attempt to open the door, if only a crack, for investigations into the metaphysics and meaning of absence as a means of creating, and understanding an interesting IW—from the perspective of the presence of absence as "first" and as "last."
On The Benefit Of Sleeping In: An Exercise In Epistemological Irony, Gene Washington
On The Benefit Of Sleeping In: An Exercise In Epistemological Irony, Gene Washington
Gene Washington
Irony, as an Archimedean Point, is perhaps the most efficient way to reveal human delusions and downright stupidities. Three factors go into the construction of such a Point: 1) a standpoint independent of the subject; 2) a view of the whole, not the part, of the subject and 3) an inside view of its agency—who and what brought the subject into being and how did it terminate. "ON THE BENEFIT OF SLEEPING IN: AN EXERCISE IN EPISTEMOLOGICAL IRONY" exemplifies the above.
When Death Intercepts Life In Imaginative Writing, Gene Washington
When Death Intercepts Life In Imaginative Writing, Gene Washington
Gene Washington
The representation of death in imaginative writing is a "virtual" (as opposed to) an actual death. It always occurs in the context of a "virtual" (represented) life. In this text the author examines some of the ways death "intercepts" life in such writing. The subject is a vast, perhaps inexhaustible, one. The richest source, one the author dos not mine, is Shakespeare's interceptions of life by death.
Mystery At Mesa Verde, Gene Washington
Mystery At Mesa Verde, Gene Washington
Gene Washington
Short story: This story takes us back to the time Mesa Verde was inhabited by the Anasazi. The mystery involves a final footprint (larger than a humans) in the snow. What does it mean? Who made it? Where did it come from? The main character is Qlp, a character in an earlier story of mine (Published in the literary journal WEBER).
The Sleepy Hero: Romantic & Spiritual Sleep In The Gawain-Poet, Erin Kathleen Turner Hepner
The Sleepy Hero: Romantic & Spiritual Sleep In The Gawain-Poet, Erin Kathleen Turner Hepner
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
This thesis examines two accepted styles of writing in the Middle Ages, the romance and religious genres, and what purpose they perform in the Gawain-poet’s religious poem, Patience, and his romance poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (SGGK). One recently popular line of research among medieval scholars is examining the way medieval authors, such as the Gawain-poet, combine elements of romance and spiritual writings. By funneling the Gawain-poet’s intermingling of the medieval romance and religious genres through the specific lens of sleep, which is represented differently in medieval romance texts than in medieval religious …
Epistemological Vertigo, Gene Washington
Epistemological Vertigo, Gene Washington
Gene Washington
A ONE ACT PLAY. Three characters. A play of the absurd about a certain lack of knowledge about the characters location, how they got there, and how to go on from there (wherever that is).