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20130815: Et Cetera, 1937-2005, Student Publications

Guides to University Archives

These items include materials from the student publication, Et Cetera, Marshall's Literary Magazine. Items within this collection span from 1937-2005 and what we have digitized and available online is located HERE. Items from this specific collection were received in 2013. Please download the finding aid for a full list of contents.

Ghosts That We Knew, Cara E. Cotter

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is a collection of fictional short stories about loss and the left behind, seeking to confront grief in terms of hope, humor, and getting the oar back in the water to row on.

Days Of Forgetful Pirating And Other Stories, Daniel Morales

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Being The Beautiful Fool, Ashley N. Gore

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Ernest Hemingway wrote to F. Scott Fitzgerald that “The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life — and one is as good as the other” (305). With that, I created a collection of short stories that analyzes my generation of women’s struggles. Framing the thesis are two stories involving three women, Lindsey, Jenny, and Sarah, “The Generation of Discontent” and “Revisions,” with the characters attempting to sort through love, success, and happiness in society. The piece “The Bachelor” has Amanda …

Greyhound, 1984, Lisa K. Sandlin

Writer’s Workshop Faculty Publications

In "Greyhound, 1984," fiction writer Lisa Sandlin grabs and holds onto the reader with terse, rhythmic language, unique imagery, and a story that's both unsentimental and poignant.

Just Across Town, Robert Weaver

Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.

Math Stories: Learning And Doing Mathematics Through Fiction Writing, Frederick Chen, Janna Raley

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

In this paper, we advocate the writing of mathematical fiction (i) as an aid for students in learning mathematics, and (ii) to engage students in doing mathematics.

Eyeth: A Novel For The Deaf, Kelsey Young

Undergraduate University Honors Capstones

Kelsey Young’s science fiction novel Eyeth, to use Tom Humphries’ phrase, is important for deaf literature because it exemplifies “culture talking” not the proof (“talking culture”) of a monolithic culture apart from the mainstream but complex deaf life on its own terms. It also focuses on a wide range of deaf people involved in intra-­deafcentric conflicts; deaf sub-­‐groups include a range of communication preferences (speaking, cued speech, signing) as well as multiple physical differences (deaf-­blind, cerebral palsy, wheelchair users) though not ethnic diversity. A critical introduction to the novel explains that science fiction allows the creation of a world that …

Da Vinci's Ristorante Tustin, California, Mark Axelrod

English Faculty Creative Works

Did you know Leonardo da Vinci was a secret restaurateur?

All Begins To Bloom: Stories, Daniel Drew Schlegel

Dissertations and Theses

A collection of short stories, All Begins to Bloom follows a range of young protagonists living in the greater Los Angeles area. In a time when even the most underground lifestyles are commodified, when Independent media is just another genre, when every mode of living has seemingly been exhausted, these characters struggle to forge an identity in the face of adulthood.

From a group of surfers reeling from a careless death ("The Pier") to a young artistic couple brought together by the will to overcome an eating disorder ("All Begins to Bloom"), these stories explore the hollow promises among various …

When Sweet Me Meets Experience And Pink Panther In High Heels, Christina Raiford

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.

The Intertwining In The Museum, Latoya Pickett

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.

Surfacing, Kelsey Mooney

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.

Sand’S Reprisal, Chukwudi Mogbo

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.

A Hamtramck Horror, Gerald Messier

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.

Dogs Galore, Bonnie Kelly

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.

David Hershel Johnson, Laci Turner

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.

The Hidden Truth Of Owensville, Gerald Messier

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.

A Stranger’S Revenge, Maeghan Bradshaw

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.

Cancer Spaceship, Christian Powell

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.