Xavier University - Cincinnati
Eastern Illinois University
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
SIT Study Abroad
Providence College
Olivet Nazarene University
Louisiana State University
Seattle Pacific University
Portland State University
And Your Eyes Open,
2022
Western Michigan University
And Your Eyes Open, Benjamin Yusen
The Hilltop Review
This piece explores the realties of dreams, and the blurring of dreams and reality.
World Upside Down,
2022
Western Michigan University
Pollination,
2022
Western Michigan University
How To Make Cemetery Tea,
2022
Western Michigan University
Identity In The 21st Century Nigerian Fiction: A Case Study Of Blackass By Igoni A. Barrett.,
2022
Texas Tech University
Identity In The 21st Century Nigerian Fiction: A Case Study Of Blackass By Igoni A. Barrett., Ogochukwu B. Ossai
Beyond the Margins: A Journal of Graduate Literary Scholarship
This paper attempts to examine the allegorical narrative strategies and politics of identity—race, and gender, using postcolonial and racial frameworks. The novel, Blackass written by a Nigerian writer is a 21st century fierce comic satirical adaptation of Metamorphosis, a novella by Franz Kafka. The intricacies and culture within a society and ethnicity in a nation such as patriarchy are explored through the language, characters, and development of the plot in Nigerian literature. For this essay, I enter into the discourse of race by analyzing the social and cultural phenomena that occur throughout the structure of the fictional work.
Soviet Space,
2022
Dartmouth College
Scenes From The Screenplay The Interloper,
2022
Dartmouth College
Scenes From The Screenplay The Interloper, Michael Wiener
CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal
No abstract provided.
A Walmart With No Televisions,
2022
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
A Walmart With No Televisions, Samuel A. Bickford
LSU Master's Theses
A Walmart with No Televisions is a deconstructed novel about the perils and heartbreak of adolescent drug addiction. What begins as a fad, a social affectation, quickly becomes a guiding light. The novel illustrates hope as a potentiality, and escape from oneself as something always in question. Happiness is uncertain, but the experience is not.
A Perfect Escape: Fantasy, Place And Narrative In Adolescence,
2022
Washington University in St. Louis
A Perfect Escape: Fantasy, Place And Narrative In Adolescence, Cydney Cherepak
MFA in Illustration & Visual Culture
This essay explores the realms of special places, the literary genre of fantasy, narrative, and comics. These topics are traversed alongside subjects of adolescence and the creation of stories for middle-grade readers. Framed with personal stories, as well as peaks into my process, I investigate these subjects through the lens of my own life and work, specifically my thesis project, a comic for middle-grade readers titled Beyond the Castle Walls. Beginning with adolescence in association with special places, I consider the work of developmental psychologists David Sobel and Edith Cobb as they pin-point the role of secret forts, nature, and ...
Meet Me In The Middle Ages: Engaging With Fantasy, Reality, And Collaborative World-Building,
2022
Washington University in St. Louis
Meet Me In The Middle Ages: Engaging With Fantasy, Reality, And Collaborative World-Building, Amanda Greene
MFA in Illustration & Visual Culture
This critical essay accompanies and describes my thesis project, Medievalia Miscellany, a magazine for middle-grade readers which explores the world of medieval fantasy through art, comics, stories, and activities. Throughout the essay, I use my own term “archaeological upcycling” to discuss and explore a variety of relationships between ideas of parts and a whole. I then use it to characterize the way stories are created out of many different parts and how these parts help a reader to relate to both the world of the story and the world in which they live. I describe the genre of medieval fantasy ...
Grieve Not,
2022
Wayne State University
Grieve Not, Joy Notoma
The Woodward Review: A Creative and Critical Journal
No abstract provided.
Three Confusing Interactions I Had With Men Today,
2022
Wayne State University
Three Confusing Interactions I Had With Men Today, Megan Cox
The Woodward Review: A Creative and Critical Journal
No abstract provided.
The Shrouded Parent At Midnight,
2022
Wayne State University
The Shrouded Parent At Midnight, Susan L. Lin
The Woodward Review: A Creative and Critical Journal
No abstract provided.
End Destination,
2022
Wayne State University
End Destination, Lucy Zhang
The Woodward Review: A Creative and Critical Journal
No abstract provided.
Batter: A Creative Writing Portfolio,
2022
Kennesaw State University
Batter: A Creative Writing Portfolio, Hannah Newman
Master of Arts in Professional Writing Capstones
My capstone project, Batter, is a collection of creative writing pieces, consisting of short stories, flash fiction, and two creative nonfiction essays. I decided to do a portfolio because creative writing is simply what I enjoy the most and have been intrigued by since I took my first fiction writing class at Kennesaw State University. Composing stories, imagining how characters could behave believably, their problems and their solutions, all of it combined gives me a sense of creative determination that I have not found in any other area of work or craft. I believe I’ve been rather lucky because ...
The Laurels,
2022
Skidmore College
The Laurels, Emma Mackinnon
English Honors Theses
A Russian ice hockey player, Nikita Morozov, enlists the help of a retired, American goaltender, Tate Beacon, to defect from Russia so that he can play for the NHL team, the Laurels. Nikita struggles against pressures from his team and government to remain in Russia, while Tate confronts a past he thought he had left behind for good.
Gender Roles Reviewed Through Shakespeare’S Twelfth Night With Twenty-First Century Applications,
2022
Olivet Nazarene University
Gender Roles Reviewed Through Shakespeare’S Twelfth Night With Twenty-First Century Applications, Hannah Lewis
ELAIA
This thesis accompanies a modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, which aims to emphasize the importance of gender equality as a moral imperative in the twenty-first century. In his original play, Shakespeare drew attention to gender stereotypes in the Elizabethan age through character representation. Although Shakespeare does not put much emphasis on gender equality in Twelfth Night, this equality is an important factor in the modern adaptation, in which a young woman named Vivian pursues her desire to start a business but is faced with financial issues and seeks a job under a misogynistic boss named Owen. Owen questions ...
Lessons From The Aisles: A Collection Of Short Stories,
2022
University of Mississippi
Lessons From The Aisles: A Collection Of Short Stories, Drew Jones
Honors Theses
This thesis is a collection of short stories, each set in a separate aisle of Walmart. By exploring the relationships and conflicts of these characters, I hope to illustrate that life’s complexity can be shown in a place as simple and mundane as Walmart.
Sandstorm Spring 2022,
2022
The University of Texas of the Permian Basin
Sandstorm Spring 2022, Leslie Malland
Sandstorm: A Journal of Arts and Letters
Full Manuscript
College Slasher Novel,
2022
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
College Slasher Novel, Jeff Hill
Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research: Department of English
This project was completed in hopes of creating a new novel that combines the research and craft worlds of composition and creative writing while merging the social worlds of teaching and campus Greek life, as well as making relevant contemporary commentary on the genres of satire and horror. In preparation, beyond necessary course work completion and time to outline, write, workshop, and revise, I read numerous novels and articles and watched dozens of films and television episodes as well as conducted research regarding current campus demographic to compose the best novel I could write in my time within the program ...
