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Her Name Is Quintana Roo: Essays, Poetry, Memoir, Linda Q. Lambert MFA 2015 University of Southern Maine

Her Name Is Quintana Roo: Essays, Poetry, Memoir, Linda Q. Lambert Mfa

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Her name is Quintana Roo is a collection of essays, poetry, and memoir through the lens of the author's experience as a child, mother, wife, journalist, and librarian. The dominant thread is the establishment of a septuagenarian's enchantment with words and writing.


The Healing Power Of Horses: On Riding, Writing & Grieving, Cathy La Forge MFA 2015 University of Southern Maine

The Healing Power Of Horses: On Riding, Writing & Grieving, Cathy La Forge Mfa

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The Healing Power of Horses: On Riding, Writing & Grieving is a collection of essays that bring together the three stated themes-grieving, writing and horseback riding-as a means of healing that I discovered following the death of my husband. Each essay centers on one of these themes contributing to the telling of an entire story


The Essayist In Search Of The Essay: Research Strategies, Matthew Gavin Frank, Jill Talbot, Peggy Shinner, Nicole Walker, B. J. Hollars 2015 Northern Michigan University

The Essayist In Search Of The Essay: Research Strategies, Matthew Gavin Frank, Jill Talbot, Peggy Shinner, Nicole Walker, B. J. Hollars

Journal Articles

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Special Glasses, Matthew Gavin Frank 2015 Northern Michigan University

Special Glasses, Matthew Gavin Frank

Journal Articles

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The Editorial Double Vision Of Maxwell Perkins: How The Editor Of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, And Wolfe Plied His Craft, Rachel F. Van Hart 2015 Virginia Commonwealth University

The Editorial Double Vision Of Maxwell Perkins: How The Editor Of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, And Wolfe Plied His Craft, Rachel F. Van Hart

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Scholars and literary enthusiasts have struggled for decades to account for editor Maxwell Perkins’s unparalleled success in facilitating the careers of many of the early twentieth century’s most enduring and profitable writers, among them F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe. This study seeks to penetrate that mystery by dissecting Perkins’s editorial practice and examining how he navigated the competing tensions between commercial success and aesthetic integrity in various circumstances. At play in the construction of his literary legacy are prevailing perceptions of authorship, complex interpersonal relationships, and the inherent battle between art and commerce. Focusing on his day-to-day …


Passings, Lisa M. Tillmann Ph.D. 2015 Rollins College

Passings, Lisa M. Tillmann Ph.D.

Faculty Publications

The author, a heterosexual woman, and Gordon Bernstein, a gay man, have been friends and research collaborators since 1995. In 2004, the author accompanied Gordon on a trip to his hometown of Philadelphia to conduct fieldwork and interview family members. This project ethnographically explored personal and relational opportunities and challenges associated with coming out in a family system defined by avoidant communication, hegemonic masculinity, and terminal illness.


State Of Unions: Politics And Poetics Of Performance, Lisa M. Tillmann Ph.D. 2015 Rollins College

State Of Unions: Politics And Poetics Of Performance, Lisa M. Tillmann Ph.D.

Faculty Publications

At the 2005 International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, the author delivered a poem and slide show, “The State of Unions: Activism (and In-Activism) in Decision 2004.” The performance processed the election in the context of her research community, a network of gay male friends—marginalized by sexual orientation but privileged by sex, gender expression, race, class, and education. Audience members offered mixed responses, some praising its provocative content, others criticizing the author’s position and tone, which some perceived as hostile, even as “gay bashing.”


Volume 12, Issue 1: Full Issue, 2014 Butler University

Volume 12, Issue 1: Full Issue

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Vignettes, 2014 Butler University

Vignettes

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Panorama, Betty Ann Mills 2014 Butler University

Panorama, Betty Ann Mills

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The sights we saw ranged from vast stretches of beautifully colored deserts to lofty mountain peaks...


Return To Shangri La, Norma Messmer 2014 Butler University

Return To Shangri La, Norma Messmer

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My hand groped over the weather beaten pine door for the rusty lock which would unfold our "Shangri La." Meeting no resistence from the tiny device, I proceeded blindly to feel for the light switch which would show the way for the rest of our crew. As my searching hand passed over fuses, wires, switches, and knobs, I was conscious of the "special" cabin aroma, a composition of ant' killer, mouse poison, ashes from last and the "springy" exhilarating Lake week's wiener roast, scent of the fresh, Hollybrook air.


A Strange Stable, Donita M. Evans 2014 Butler University

A Strange Stable, Donita M. Evans

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One day while walking in Washington, D. C., at a particularly busy time of day, I turned into what I thought was an alley leading to another street. As I wandered back through the alley, I suddenly noticed that I was in a courtyard. It was a beautiful place with houses looking from two sides into the cobblestone court. There was an enormous tree growing in one corner of the yard with a circular bench built around its base. As I investigated the yard further, I found that the building directly in front of me was a stable. Discovering that …


A Winter Paradox, Betty Ferguson 2014 Butler University

A Winter Paradox, Betty Ferguson

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A blinding snowstorm was sweeping through the night, covering the dark and dreary countryside with a soft, clean blanket of feathery white crystals. The icy flakes drove earthward with an uncontrollable centripetal force...


Basement Room, William Tobin 2014 Butler University

Basement Room, William Tobin

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The stairway that led to the basement room, where all the actors spent their free time, was always dark. The light that was supposed to illuminate the stairs had burned out long ago. A wooden hand railing ran along the wall and served as a guide and brace for anyone who felt his way down the eleven cement steps. Once down the steps, the basement hall seemed darker than the stairs, although I hardly think it possible. At the end of the hall, shining through the blackness, was the faint outline made by the light from within as it shone, …


Chicago's Street Of Streets, Barbara Consodine 2014 Butler University

Chicago's Street Of Streets, Barbara Consodine

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Michigan Avenue is a sophisticated young lady who strolls from Roosevelt Road up toward the Gold Coast with one shoulder lowered. Across this shoulder thee sees the green beauty of the park and the masts and sails of white yachts on the blue lake.


Mitosis (The Second Lesson In Botany), Alma Miller 2014 Butler University

Mitosis (The Second Lesson In Botany), Alma Miller

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They Will Do It Every Time, Donald Goben 2014 Butler University

They Will Do It Every Time, Donald Goben

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To relax in a large, comfortable chair and listen to soft music after a long day's work is my idea of heaven on earth. Each evening I arrive home tired, dirty, and rather ill-humored. After washing and cleaning up a little, I settle down in my easy chair and turn on the little push-button radio.


Many Are Called, Patricia Hanley 2014 Butler University

Many Are Called, Patricia Hanley

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Once upon a time there lived a wise king whose only family was his son. When this boy became of proper age to marry, the king thought for many hours upon the kind of wife he should pro cur for him. At last he called together all his most trusted knights and said to them, "I want you each to bring to me the most mannerly maiden you can find."


Wendell Willkie, Francis Talkington 2014 Butler University

Wendell Willkie, Francis Talkington

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Wendell Willkie was a liberal man and a man with a great American spirit...


Two Literary Immortals, Diann DeWeese 2014 Butler University

Two Literary Immortals, Diann Deweese

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Around the first quarter mark of the nineteenth century two writers struggled for existence and recognition.


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