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Hi God: An Autoethnography Of Loneliness In Graduate School, Grace Elisabeth Mertz
Hi God: An Autoethnography Of Loneliness In Graduate School, Grace Elisabeth Mertz
Dissertations and Theses @ UNI
I may have started college too early. My fifteen-year-old homeschooled mind could not have predicted the identity shift that higher education would demand of me. I did not expect academia to be filled with people who shared my background and beliefs, but I was, in many ways, unprepared for the way my Christianity would be challenged in the classroom and in my professors’ offices. After seven years of education within the structures of academia, I certainly have not lost my faith, but the way I think about, talk about, and practice it has tangibly changed. The questions I ask of …
Wandersoul Of The South: Situating 20th Century Alabama Poet Clement Wood In A Literary Tradition, Skye Rozario
Wandersoul Of The South: Situating 20th Century Alabama Poet Clement Wood In A Literary Tradition, Skye Rozario
Honors Program Theses
The following is a literary study on 20th century Alabama poet Clement Wood. As a writer, Wood lived and worked mainly in Alabama and New York, and was greatly involved and connected to the literary movements Modernism, the Southern Renaissance, and American Romanticism. He published many poems, short stories, and criticism in a variety of literary magazines, wrote his own columns, and edited journals as well. Though Wood was heavily involved in this community, his work is under-researched on the whole. Wood’s poetry attests to his mastery of rhyme and form and mainly focuses on the value of nature in …
Waiting For The Mail: A Collection Of Short Stories, James Matthew Keane
Waiting For The Mail: A Collection Of Short Stories, James Matthew Keane
Dissertations and Theses @ UNI
This collection of six pieces of original short fiction is, in general, a reflection upon my on-going questions concerning identity. In particular, these stories delve into the nature of masculinity through an exploration of male relationships—fathers, sons, husbands, and brothers.
It Starts With "F": A Collection Of Short Stories, Arielle Irvine
It Starts With "F": A Collection Of Short Stories, Arielle Irvine
Dissertations and Theses @ UNI
It Starts with “F”: A Collection of Short Fiction consists of five short stories that share a family-centered theme while tackling tough topics such as death, separation, adoption, and personal fulfillment.
Beauty Outside Our Doors: Conservation Stories Of Black Hawk County, University Of Northern Iowa. Environmental Literature (Spring 2017).
Beauty Outside Our Doors: Conservation Stories Of Black Hawk County, University Of Northern Iowa. Environmental Literature (Spring 2017).
Environmental Literature Project
Beauty Outside Our Doors collects stories, poems, essays, and interviews with people of Black Hawk County, Iowa, giving voice to their relationship to the land, in their own words. From beekeeping to family farms to kayaking down the Cedar River and nature therapy, this work serves as a witness to the beauty to be found here—and the challenges we still face as citizens and lovers of the natural world.
Published as a collaboration between the Soil and Water Conservation District and students in the Spring 2017 Environmental Literature class at the University of Northern Iowa, this unique anthology invites you …
Huckleberry Finn And The Picaresque As Lens Against Debt Peonage, Cory Dahlstrom
Huckleberry Finn And The Picaresque As Lens Against Debt Peonage, Cory Dahlstrom
Annual Graduate Student Symposium
The literary genre of picaresque originated in Sixteenth Century Spain, but has become a prominent staple in American culture–especially post-Civil War. This project specifically discusses the role Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn played in analyzing the failures of reconstruction’s provision toward African American freedom and equality.
The Cultural And Rhetorical Elements Of American Picaresque, Cory James Dahlstrom
The Cultural And Rhetorical Elements Of American Picaresque, Cory James Dahlstrom
Dissertations and Theses @ UNI
The picaresque is a literary genre with a long and rich history. Although protean in nature, it is essentially the fictional autobiography of a likeable delinquent or rogue, who survives a series of adventures and a life of hardships by his or her wits and affinity for trickery. Stemming from a long line of tropes dating back to Greek mythology, the picaresque comes into its own fruition towards the end of the Spanish Golden Age with the anonymous publication of Lazarillo de Tormes (1554). Since then, the antihero of the picaresque, the picaro, has become a literary figure across a …
The Stuff That Affects You: Fiction, Poetry, And Doggerel, Lisa D. Brodersen
The Stuff That Affects You: Fiction, Poetry, And Doggerel, Lisa D. Brodersen
Dissertations and Theses @ UNI
Inevitably writers write about the stuff that affects them. Maybe the stuff that affects them is life-altering, or in some way profound or sublime, like untimely death, divorce, or being in love. Or maybe it's the mundane stuff, like marbles, cats, crows, weeds, wind, rain, or riding a bike. This thesis includes fiction, poetry, and light verse (which I prefer to call doggerel) triggered by all of that stuff, but I've twisted and embellished it beyond the literal or whole truth, until what remains is nothing but the truth.
Creating A Textual Performance Piece, Karen Pitcher
Creating A Textual Performance Piece, Karen Pitcher
Presidential Scholars Theses (1990 – 2006)
When posed with the challenge of creating a senior thesis project, I was boggled as to what to do. As an English major, I knew my options were very open, and I was determined to make this project one that I would enjoy throughout my senior year. In order to do so, I had to broaden my scope to include not only an element of my major, but also components of my communications minor and my first major, theatre. In order to do this, I turned to oral interpretation, an activity that involves dramatic interpretation of texts written by others. …
All Our Days Are Numbered --: Journey Through Breast Cancer With Traditional And Alternative Medicine, Tomma Lou Maas
All Our Days Are Numbered --: Journey Through Breast Cancer With Traditional And Alternative Medicine, Tomma Lou Maas
Dissertations and Theses @ UNI
All Our Days Are Numbered--Joumey Through Breast Cancer with Traditional and Alternative Medicine brings hope to women who must face breast cancer. In four books, Lorna Jordan shares the events leading up to her disease; her traditional breast cancer experience; her search for alternative medicine which will improve her health; and her journey into good health. Book One, "In the Beginning," presents evidence of Lorna's developing ill health. Beginning in adolescence, Lorna's exposure to mercury, antibiotics, and DDT contribute to her poor health. Later, in early adulthood, she begins to have mood shifts and menstrual disorders. When she takes birth-control …
"Ego, Scriptor Cantilenae": The Cantos And Ezra Pound, Steven R. Gulick
"Ego, Scriptor Cantilenae": The Cantos And Ezra Pound, Steven R. Gulick
Dissertations and Theses @ UNI
Can poetry "make new" the world? Ezra Pound thought so. In "Cantico del Sole" he said: "The thought of what America would be like/ If the Classics had a wide circulation/ Troubles me in my sleep" (Personae 183). He came to write an 815 page poem called The Cantos in which he presents "fragments" drawn from the literature and documents of the past in an attempt to build a new world, "a paradiso terreste" (The Cantos 802). This may be seen as either a noble gesture or sheer egotism.
Pound once called The Cantos the "tale of the …
Lake Topelo, New Zealand With Mt. Cook [Photograph], Irving Herman
Lake Topelo, New Zealand With Mt. Cook [Photograph], Irving Herman
dead letter: uni magazine of the arts
No abstract provided.
Untitled 2 [Forteen Days And, Poem], Michael Swanson
Untitled 2 [Forteen Days And, Poem], Michael Swanson
dead letter: uni magazine of the arts
No abstract provided.
Catchin' Some Heat, Dave Gibson
Catchin' Some Heat, Dave Gibson
dead letter: uni magazine of the arts
No abstract provided.
Untitled 1 [Threw Away Two Yellowed Roses, Poem], Michael Swanson
Untitled 1 [Threw Away Two Yellowed Roses, Poem], Michael Swanson
dead letter: uni magazine of the arts
No abstract provided.
Cover - Front Matter - Table Of Contents
Cover - Front Matter - Table Of Contents
dead letter: uni magazine of the arts
No abstract provided.
Untitled, Torso [Drawing], Carol Hagen
Untitled, Torso [Drawing], Carol Hagen
dead letter: uni magazine of the arts
No abstract provided.
Scraps For A Thesis, Craig Vala
Scraps For A Thesis, Craig Vala
dead letter: uni magazine of the arts
No abstract provided.
The Slaughter, Pamela Lee
Mostel, The Cello Player, Amy Lockard
Mostel, The Cello Player, Amy Lockard
dead letter: uni magazine of the arts
No abstract provided.
Dead Letter, Volume 1, Issue 1, 1987 [Download Entire Issue]
Dead Letter, Volume 1, Issue 1, 1987 [Download Entire Issue]
dead letter: uni magazine of the arts
No abstract provided.
Untitled 3 [Speaking Loudly, Poem], Michael Swanson
Untitled 3 [Speaking Loudly, Poem], Michael Swanson
dead letter: uni magazine of the arts
No abstract provided.
Untitled [I Sat At Your Desk Today, Poem], Sandy Reno
Untitled [I Sat At Your Desk Today, Poem], Sandy Reno
dead letter: uni magazine of the arts
No abstract provided.
Reflections On The "In-Between:" A Romanian Expatriate In America, Michael J. Mckinlay
Reflections On The "In-Between:" A Romanian Expatriate In America, Michael J. Mckinlay
dead letter: uni magazine of the arts
No abstract provided.
Untitled [Shadow Figure, Photograph], Pam Bunkofske
Untitled [Shadow Figure, Photograph], Pam Bunkofske
dead letter: uni magazine of the arts
No abstract provided.
Raking Leaves, Ann Ellsworth
Raking Leaves, Ann Ellsworth
dead letter: uni magazine of the arts
No abstract provided.
The Puh-Puh-Puh Slap Of The Canoe Paddle Against The Water [Drawing], Nicholaus Stewart
The Puh-Puh-Puh Slap Of The Canoe Paddle Against The Water [Drawing], Nicholaus Stewart
dead letter: uni magazine of the arts
No abstract provided.
Bone Shadow I [Photograph], Tim M. Mcaninch
Bone Shadow I [Photograph], Tim M. Mcaninch
dead letter: uni magazine of the arts
No abstract provided.
Mothers' Day In The District, Craig Vala
Mothers' Day In The District, Craig Vala
dead letter: uni magazine of the arts
No abstract provided.
Portrait Of Self [Photograph], Nicholaus Stewart
Portrait Of Self [Photograph], Nicholaus Stewart
dead letter: uni magazine of the arts
No abstract provided.