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Full-Text Articles in English Language and Literature
Zephyrus, Wku English Department
Zephyrus, Wku English Department
Zephyrus
The fine arts magazine of Western Kentucky University at Bowling Green.
Eng 300: The Efficacy Of Bacteriophage & Lysin Antimicrobials In Industrial & Commercial Settings, Bella Norman
Eng 300: The Efficacy Of Bacteriophage & Lysin Antimicrobials In Industrial & Commercial Settings, Bella Norman
English 100-200-300 Conference
No abstract provided.
Eng 100: Things That Belong In The Garden, Ellen Sego
Eng 100: Things That Belong In The Garden, Ellen Sego
English 100-200-300 Conference
No abstract provided.
Eng 300: How Can Writers Use Aural Media Distractions To Their Advantage?, Madeline Miller
Eng 300: How Can Writers Use Aural Media Distractions To Their Advantage?, Madeline Miller
English 100-200-300 Conference
No abstract provided.
Eng 200: The Approaches To Grief By Robert Frost & Joy Harjo, Heaven Howard
Eng 200: The Approaches To Grief By Robert Frost & Joy Harjo, Heaven Howard
English 100-200-300 Conference
No abstract provided.
Crafting Character: Exploring Elder Identity Through Story, Cameron Fontes
Crafting Character: Exploring Elder Identity Through Story, Cameron Fontes
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
The following thesis is a culmination of several key activities I have engaged in as a creative writer with a single focus: to create fiction that employs the perspectives, the voices, of persons at later stages of their lives, a population vulnerable to disease and, more insidious, loneliness. First, I discuss my experiences reviving the Western Kentucky student organization Companions of Respected Elders. C.O.R.E. allowed undergraduates to work with local residential centers (nursing homes) by engaging their residents in the collaborative act of creating stories from picture prompts and encouraging questions, following the training and paradigm of TimeSlipsTM. …
Zephyrus, Wku English Department
Emmie And The Enchanted Orchid: Portraying Positive Disability Representation In Children's Media, Adrianna Waters
Emmie And The Enchanted Orchid: Portraying Positive Disability Representation In Children's Media, Adrianna Waters
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
Disability representation in media and storytelling is often negative or inaccurate, with disability narratives equating disability to evil or lesser than abled bodies. The harmful representation is especially prevalent and dangerous in children’s media as the depiction of characters with disabilities may be children’s first introduction to disability, and thus the portrayal is likely to stay with them, especially as stories for adults continue to perpetuate the inaccurate representation of disabilities. “Emmie and the Enchanted Orchid”: Portraying Positive Disability Representation in Children’s Media seeks to examine the harmful portrayal of disabilities in children’s media while also recognizing how disability can …
I Love You, Go Away (A Novel), John Matthew Steinhafel
I Love You, Go Away (A Novel), John Matthew Steinhafel
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
I Love You, Go Away, a novel set in Milwaukee, tells the story of a twenty-two year-old nobody, Gabriel Driscoll, who meets and befriends a middle-aged, drug addicted, recluse actor, Beau Brooks. But less than six months into their friendship Beau commits suicide. At the funeral Gabriel meets a twenty-nine-year-old corporate executive, Michelle, the daughter of Beau’s long-time girlfriend. Gabriel and Michelle bond over their mutual grief and quickly strike up a romance. At the same time, Gabriel’s semi-estranged mother, Sadie, a recovering heroin addict, reaches out to him in an effort to rebuild their relationship. What follows for Gabriel …
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.
Motions Like Sleep In Robert Penn Warren’S “Lullaby”, Cameron Fontes
Motions Like Sleep In Robert Penn Warren’S “Lullaby”, Cameron Fontes
Robert Penn Warren Essay Contest
No abstract provided.
“Where Inner And Outer Meet”: Dissociation And The Creative Process, Joseph Shoulders
“Where Inner And Outer Meet”: Dissociation And The Creative Process, Joseph Shoulders
Robert Penn Warren Essay Contest
No abstract provided.
Correspondence With The Season Of Autumn, Seth Nevin
Correspondence With The Season Of Autumn, Seth Nevin
Robert Penn Warren Essay Contest
No abstract provided.
Zephyrus, Wku English Department
Dark Magic Part 1, Rachel Quaid
Dark Magic Part 1, Rachel Quaid
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
Dark Magic is a novel that mixes old folklore with fantasy and a splash of modern day. This first part of the novel readies the readers to enter the world of the old Irish Aos Sì. Ophelia is a witch, living in the land of the fae. She signs up to help with a research study to better her chances at succeeding as a healer. Rhea is a member of the Tuatha de Danann, the fae folk who rule the land from their courts of old. She is sent by her caretaker to observe this study. Everyone knows witches and …
Ua37/44 Faculty Personal Papers Gordon Wilson, Wku Archives
Ua37/44 Faculty Personal Papers Gordon Wilson, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Personal papers of Gordon Wilson.
Sadie Jane, Esther French
Sadie Jane, Esther French
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Sadie Jane is a novella set in the town of Gypsum, a fictional location in rural Kentucky. The introduction covers the inspiration for the novella, which is based on Southern storytelling traditions and features the adventures of Sadie Jane, an independent octogenarian who returns to her hometown after many years. Sadie experiences the internal challenges of regrets and grief as well as the external challenges of busybodies and car thieves before finding her place in the community.
Kentuckiana, And A Dash Of Cambodia: A Collection Of Short Stories, Brodie Lee Gress
Kentuckiana, And A Dash Of Cambodia: A Collection Of Short Stories, Brodie Lee Gress
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The following is a collection of five short stories set in regions familiar to me: “Dewberry Park,” “YouLead,” and “The Color Violet” in Indiana; “Mens Rea” in Kentucky; and “Tory Ride” in Cambodia. Gay identity plays a role in many of these stories, and other themes explored include family, region, socioeconomics, gender, mentality, and change. These stories are concerned with people on the brink, failing and surviving all the same. Some of them are intended to weigh, and some to satirize. I hope they all nick their readers.
Brennan, Mary Kate (Fa 1284), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brennan, Mary Kate (Fa 1284), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1284. Student interview conducted by Mary Kate Brennan with renowned Appalachian poet Jim Wayne Miller. Brennan’s focus throughout the interview is on “the cultural sensitivity and awareness that permeates Miller’s poetry.” Miller also touches on what he considers to be the central themes of his work, the struggles and triumphs of communities within the Appalachian region, and pride in cultural heritage. The collection contains a detailed index, interview summary, transcription, index cards with questions, and a reel-to-reel audio tape of the interview.
Eng 100: The Effects Of Social Media On College Students: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, Emily Porter
Eng 100: The Effects Of Social Media On College Students: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, Emily Porter
English 100-200-300 Conference
No abstract provided.
Appalachian Goodbyes, Emily Houston
Appalachian Goodbyes, Emily Houston
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
This is a collection of poetry and nonfiction using the Japanese poetic form of haibun (a back and forth between haiku and prose, both sections attempting to clarify and further each other while approaching the subject in entirely different manners) as a form of memoir instead. This collection is about my home that has not always felt like home and what it means to love and hate an Appalachian identity. It is also about my relationships, both with Appalachia and the world outside it and with the people who call it home and the people I have met when I …
Ua68/6/2/5 Potter College Of Arts & Letters English Student Organizations Dramatics Club, Wku Archives
Ua68/6/2/5 Potter College Of Arts & Letters English Student Organizations Dramatics Club, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Records of the Dramatics Club.
Run Me Dusk, Zane Truman Dezeeuw
Run Me Dusk, Zane Truman Dezeeuw
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
This is a full-length novel with a critical afterward. Run Me Dusk is a falling-out of love narrative about twenty-seven-year-old Milo who, after being broken up with by his boyfriend Red, flees from Illinois back to his hometown in southwestern Colorado to meditate on his place and purpose in life. The themes covered in this book are gay relationships, family relationships, mortality, and the natural world.
Break Us Beautiful, Elizabeth Upshur
Break Us Beautiful, Elizabeth Upshur
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The problem addressed in this thesis is cultivating an answer to the question: what creates or comprises the sum total of my Blackness as a modern American woman living in our current political climate? I primarily use a read/call and response methodology, responding to both lived and hypothetical experiences that explore or demonstrate the ways that identity, race, gender, sexuality, regionality, religion, and the historical thumbprint intersect. The results are this collection of poems that is at times mythological, at times irreverent, both abstract and formal as it seeks to fit these pieces into a singular mosaic. The conclusion drawn …
Unfound, Samuel C. Kessler
Unfound, Samuel C. Kessler
Sierpinski’s Square
"Look on past the horizon and there; rest your eyes then. But alas, this place you cannot see, but you feel it from your core, tis what you seek, surely there; indeed, yes, that is where it rests; but "it" is not, and "where" is never near nor far, for you forget in onlook as you seek, the thing that lies beneath Your feet A dwelling place Of peace unfound."
Zephyrus, Wku English Department
Arizhio: Tales Of Glorious Manifest Destiny, Clinton Craig
Arizhio: Tales Of Glorious Manifest Destiny, Clinton Craig
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
This is a book of short stories with a critical introduction. In theme, the stories seek to find the border between the Midwest and the Southwest of America by focusing on Ohio and Arizona. Some of the stories seek to exemplify “experimental” fiction, while the critical introduction seeks to define “experimental.” In addition, the introduction theorizes about the role of setting in linking collections and characterization.
Zephyrus, Western Kentucky University
Zephyrus, Western Kentucky University
Zephyrus
The fine arts magazine of Western Kentucky University at Bowling Green.
Watersheds In Life, Molly Morgan
Watersheds In Life, Molly Morgan
Robert Penn Warren Essay Contest
No abstract provided.
The Systems Of Life, Madeline Stephenson
The Systems Of Life, Madeline Stephenson
Robert Penn Warren Essay Contest
No abstract provided.