I Used To Weave Crowns: A Novel,
2022
Boise State University
I Used To Weave Crowns: A Novel, Natanya Biskar
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
This novel-in-progress explores the nature of memory, grief, and the complexities of coming of age. Through the voice of the narrator, Ada Strunsky, who is by turns both prickly and tender, we are drawn into the world of San Francisco at the end of the 19th century, a time of social and economic upheaval, when monopolists made fortunes and oyster thieves roamed the Bay. Through an associative structure, the novel seeks to capture the feeling of memory, which is often non-linear, more impressionistic than logical. As Ada seeks to untangle her complicity in crimes both literal and emotional, she takes …
The Kiss Turns: A Play On Aural Manor,
2022
Boise State University
The Kiss Turns: A Play On Aural Manor, Meredith Higgins
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
The Kiss Turns: A Play on Aural Manor is a poetic work that explores the nature of being and selfhood as they are expressed and modulated through the hearing, speaking, and writing of language. The Manor and surrounding Grounds here are presented as a fluid junk-mosaic: colorful, clamoring, thing-filled, magical, and on the move. Seven characters reside on the Manor’s property and live out their respective longings and loves, apprehending horror, tragedy, abundance, and the possibility of play through accepting and collaborating with the unknown depths of being.
Horsonnets,
2022
Boise State University
Horsonnets, Shriram Sivaramakrishnan
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
‘Horsonnets’ was conceived and written between September 2019 and December 2021. As the name suggests, the collection is centered around horses, as objects of desire, metaphor, tropes. The collection is structured into four sections: ‘the way a horse frames blueness’, ‘to nurse a hurt’, ‘horsonnets’ and ‘landscape with horns’. Together, they all address different kinds of pain (horses became emblematic of that): bodily (‘the way a horse frames blueness’), historical (‘to nurse a hurt’), cultural (‘horsonnets’), and spiritual (‘landscape with horns’).
That Hidden Country: The Travels Of Jacob Singleton, A Novel,
2022
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
That Hidden Country: The Travels Of Jacob Singleton, A Novel, James Earp
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
Thomas Jefferson believed, or wanted to believe, that mammoths foraged the grasslands of the continental American interior. This was not an uncommon belief among the learned in Jefferson’s time and place, so it is not altogether remarkable that Jefferson did charge Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, when they led the Corps of Discovery to the Oregon coast, with keeping an eye out for signs of the living mammoth. This novel attempts an aesthetically viable narrative synthesis of American myths in several layers, the top layer being, in the words of cultural critic Cintra Wilson, a ‘‘ripping yarn’’ in the traditions …
Horse Loose: Essays On Fear And Attachment,
2022
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Horse Loose: Essays On Fear And Attachment, Alyse Burnside
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
I began writing my thesis about my grandmother, who lived out the last few years of her life as a new age healer speaking in tongues and believing she was the channel for an ancient Lemurian shaman. We were not close until the very end of her life, and even then I felt far away from her. Not in the least because of her estrangement with the rest of my family. I tried and tried to write about her but always ran up against her mystery. She was not a woman many knew, and if you did know her, you …
In Our Shoes,
2022
DePauw University
In Our Shoes, Mahogany Brim '22
Honor Scholar Theses
In Our Shoes has lived inside of me for a long time. As someone who has always been fully immersed in my own culture, I was born into this duality of identity. I realized early on that I existed in two different worlds: the one shaped by my Bajan identity and the one shaped by my American one. I wasn’t fully a Black American. I had deep ties to this tiny island in the Atlantic, famous for flying fish and Rihanna. And I wasn’t one of those immigrant children that had never set foot on the island that they were …
Qcq Discussion Protocol,
2022
CUNY College of Staten Island
Qcq Discussion Protocol, Michael Maslankowski
Open Educational Resources
This is a protocol designed to help students led and run discussions with a text that has been assigned to them. This protocol helps student prepare for in-class discussion by giving them a protocol to follow that allows everyone to fully participate in the discussion.
Longing,
2022
DePauw University
Longing, Abel Bates
A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University
No abstract provided.
Entomology // Placebo,
2022
SUNY Geneseo
Postmarked 2022,
2022
Rhode Island School of Design
Postmarked 2022, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives
All Student Newspapers
Postmarked was a publication started during the COVID-19 pandemic by three RISD architecture students. The first issue has the theme of "sonder" and contains student writing and artwork on postcards that deal with this theme.
Love Needs No Wings,
2022
SUNY Geneseo
Black, White, And Red,
2022
SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology
Six Of Cups Reversed,
2022
SUNY Geneseo
Little One,
2022
SUNY Fredonia
Aliens,
2022
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Aliens, Lizbet Cantu Montiel
Theses and Dissertations
Aliens is a collection of poems exploring the concept of alienations though heavy usage of figurative language and rich, dark language. Each poem will portray a variety of issues around the author and the world around the author of the work. Other important issues as underlying themes of the work explore diversity in different means through the concept of alienation, or not belonging, in a certain circumstance. Each poem also uses a variety of literary devices, especially the heavy usage of figurative language in order to portray the issues or themes at hand revolving around the concept of alienation.
Chimaera: A Collection,
2022
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Chimaera: A Collection, Robert Ren
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
Chimaera is a collection of short stories as well as excerpts from a novel in progress, Cassandra & Charon. While this collection bears some resemblance to a short story cycle, these selections are not intended to be published together outside of this dissertation. Nevertheless, this dissertation features these selections side by side as these stories and chapters overlap thematically and consequently create resonances that would not exist otherwise. The short stories predominately feature Chinese American characters often as outsiders or third parties to other relationships. Other stories also feature retellings of classic stories including Goldilocks, Snow White, and Dracula, at …
Haibun, To Hirozo,
2022
DePauw University
Haibun, To Hirozo, Emma Von Werder
A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University
No abstract provided.
Purple,
2022
DePauw University
Purple, Madeline Harper
A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University
No abstract provided.
Marrying Buddha,
2022
DePauw University
Marrying Buddha, Mana Kunimatsu
A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University
No abstract provided.
Monitor,
2022
DePauw University
Monitor, Cameron Sanford
A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University
No abstract provided.
