Eastern Illinois University
Xavier University - Cincinnati
Ursinus College
SIT Study Abroad
Loma Linda University
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Portland State University
Seattle Pacific University
Ateneo de Manila University
Falling Down The Rabbit Hole: World Building In Ya Literature,
2023
East Tennessee State University
Falling Down The Rabbit Hole: World Building In Ya Literature, Claire Webb
Undergraduate Honors Theses
World building is a key component to many young adult novels, but what is world building and what are some different styles and techniques that authors use when constructing fictional universes? In this thesis, Falling Down the Rabbit Hole: World Building Techniques in YA Literature, I will examine Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865), The Princess Bride by William Goldman (1973), and my own unpublished novel, The Sun Kingdom, to compare different techniques and styles of world building. These works will be explored through the aspect of world building, focusing specifically on the importance of the geography, language, …
Daughterly Narratives In Search Of Voice: Fadwa Tuqan, Latifa Al-Zayyat, And Samar Attar,
2023
American University in Cairo
Daughterly Narratives In Search Of Voice: Fadwa Tuqan, Latifa Al-Zayyat, And Samar Attar, Rania Bedeir
Theses and Dissertations
A myriad of pressures and struggles affect Arab women as they are coming of age due to the familial and societal constructs they face. As daughters, they yearn for a voice amidst a plethora of generational boundaries, transmissions, and ideals. The intricacy of the psychological and interconnected structural factors is augmented by their gender in societies that are motivated, and often governed by, the implications of gender roles. While multiple layers of influence such as familial and sociocultural institutions affect how consciousness is formed, generational transmission, through the maternal figure, is paramount. Daughters, therefore, cannot narrate their personal stories without …
Personas, Issue 1, 2023,
2023
College of the Redwoods
Personas, Issue 1, 2023, Jonathan Maiullo
Personas: Multilingual Creative Writing Journal
This multilingual creative writing journal from the College of the Redwoods is intended to advance the conversation of multilingualism. Primarily because there is a great deal to be communicated on the subject which has gone under-considered or consigned to the realm of graded writing. Hopefully, in reading this journal, you will find something communicated to you that shifts your understanding and inspires you to (re)examine your perception of culture and language. We hope that you’ll then write something on the subject to share with us for the next issue which will continue to advance this conversation. -Editor, Jonathan Maiullo
Nella Larsen’S Passing: Ambiguous Symbology & Weather,
2023
Portland State University, University Honors College
Nella Larsen’S Passing: Ambiguous Symbology & Weather, Sara Casten
Anthós
Nella Larsen wrote Passing in 1929, a novella that explored the relationship between two women of mixed race: Irene and Clare. This article highlights the complimentary weather elements with the emotional turbulence experienced by Irene as she tells the story; Clare’s warmth and beauty to Irene’s cold and lack thereof. This article also explores the skills of Larsen to write these ambiguous complimentary weather elements in Passing by highlighting her other novella Quicksand, published the year before.
Le Chemin Détourné,
2023
Portland State University
Le Chemin Détourné, Ailie Coffey
University Honors Theses
Le Chemin détourné is a fairy tale in French about Melisende and Olivier Fournier. One day, Melisende disappears on her way home. Although her disappearance is a mystery, she was taken prisoner by the fairies as revenge against her mother. Her father Jehan and brother Olivier are very distressed, Jehan goes out after her immediately but, worried about Olivier’s safety, asks him not to go out after his sister. On the third night that she is gone, Olivier decides to go out to look for her anyways, and even though he is terrified to leave home, he sets out on …
Any Way You Like It,
2023
Cal Poly Humboldt
Making Then Meaning,
2023
Rhode Island School of Design
Making Then Meaning, Ben Denzer
Masters Theses
This is an artist talk contained within a book. It is 816 pages and 49 minutes long. Closed captions run across the spreads. A video of this talk can be watched on bendenzer.com/making-then-meaning
At RISD, I’ve been prompted to expand the scope and tools of my practice and to reflect on questions of meaning in my work.
I spend my days making things, but I’ve never really had good answers to questions of why I make the things I make, or what their meaning is. I don’t think there are simple answers to these questions.
I think meaning comes from …
How To Grow Blurry: Poems,
2023
Santa Clara University
How To Grow Blurry: Poems, Nathaniel Metz
Canterbury Scholars
In this collection of poems, Nathan D. Metz explores the distance between the word for a thing and the touch or feeling of a thing. Using a variety of forms both established and innovative, as well as free verse and ekphrastic response, these poems are a celebration of art, color, and the sounds of words. After the collection is a series of poems translated both from the original Japanese and Haitian Creole.
The Little Magazine In The Digital Era: A Startup Guide,
2023
Portland State University
The Little Magazine In The Digital Era: A Startup Guide, Dan Chilton
University Honors Theses
The primary goal of this project is to outline steps for success in the development of the little magazine (aka, the literary magazine) in today's digitally dominated world. Through literary analysis, interviews with established editors from various fields, houses, and magazines, and a consideration of my own time working with multiple publications, I've set out to offer a startup guide for those interested in delving into the impactful world of literary forums, herein referred to as little magazines.
Woman Flytrap,
2023
CUNY Bernard M Baruch College
Woman Flytrap, Brianna Jo Hobson
Student Theses and Dissertations
Woman FlyTrap is a short story zine collection that explores the topic of sexual violence through the perpetrator and victim relationship with an explicit lens. Replete with cultural and entomological themes and motifs, Woman Flytrap seeks to remind survivors that we are not alone. In our bodies or in our lives. Neither in the world. There are over a million insects to every human, proving that there is strength in numbers. All five stories in the collection present different abstracts: revenge, transformation, justice, healing, body image, self-harm, mourning, etc. There is also a playlist and a section about the author. …
Fever Dive: A Novel,
2023
Seton Hall University
Fever Dive: A Novel, Sofia Ohrynowicz
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
This is the craft reflection, prologue, and first five chapters of Fever Dive, a novel in progress.
Creating Project Contrast: A Video Game Exploring Consciousness And Qualia,
2023
Seattle Pacific University
Creating Project Contrast: A Video Game Exploring Consciousness And Qualia, Pierce Papke
Honors Projects
Project Contrast is a video game that explores how the unique traits inherent to video games might engage reflective player responses to qualitative experience. Project Contrast does this through suspension of disbelief, avatar projection, presence, player agency in storytelling, visual perception, functional gameplay, and art. Considering the difficulty in researching qualitative experience due to its subjectivity and circular explanations, I created Project Contrast not to analyze qualia, though that was my original hope. I instead created Project Contrast as an avenue for player self-reflection and learning about qualitative experience. While video games might be just code and art on a …
Santa Clara Review, Vol. 110, No. 2,
2023
Santa Clara University
Santa Clara Review, Vol. 110, No. 2, Santa Clara University
Santa Clara Review
No abstract provided.
Mirrored Demise,
2023
University of North Dakota
Maria,
2023
University of North Dakota
Gail And His Snails,
2023
University of North Dakota
Dear Already Amused Reader,
2023
University of North Dakota
Dear Already Amused Reader, Lala Guse
Floodwall Magazine
Winner of the 2023 John Little Fiction Scholarship
Bees,
2023
University of North Dakota
Bees, Amanda Babcock
Floodwall Magazine
Runner-up for the 2023 John Little Fiction Scholarship
I Hope You Read This And Feel Awful,
2023
University of North Dakota
I Hope You Read This And Feel Awful, Clara Anderson-Cameron
Floodwall Magazine
No abstract provided.
The Dark House And Its Inhabitants,
2023
Washington University in St. Louis
The Dark House And Its Inhabitants, Emily Bielski
MFA in Illustration & Visual Culture
From the inception of the genre, Gothic horror has been fixated on the domestic space in distress. This essay explores domestic archetypes and roles of the Gothic novel, serving as a “tour of the house”, analyzing the iconography of the dark castle, and how it externalizes and exacerbates the fears and behaviors of its inhabitants. The power dynamic of the household is starkly divided by the expectations and authority of masculine and feminine figures. In turn the “house” becomes a vehicle for the anxieties of the inhabitants—both experienced and inflicted—regarding gender, sexuality, isolation, and abuse. Exploration of the visual and …
