Only The Eyes: A Novel,
2022
The University of Texas at El Paso
Only The Eyes: A Novel, Jason Michael Palomo
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
Only the Eyes revolves around a series of murders that take place in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates, the government of which suppresses the media to maintain the nation's reputation as a safe, innovative tourist destination. After the murders are leaked to the international press and can no longer be ignored, the Sheikhs of the country. decide to procure an investigative consultant through manipulative means to help them capture the unknown suspect. Former-Special-Agent Ramon Del Toro is now a true-crime writer, and he reluctantly takes on the difficult task of creating a psychological profile of the suspect, much to the …
Remember When We Tore Each Other Limb From Limb?,
2022
The University of Texas at El Paso
Remember When We Tore Each Other Limb From Limb?, Adam Ramsey
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
REMEMBER WHEN WE TORE EACH OTHER LIMB FROM LIMB? is a collection of short stories and surrealist prose poems. Most of these are not connected in terms of character or setting. However, there are two episodic stories that reoccur throughout the book, each of them grounded in real-life situations meant to offset the fantastical settings in which the majority of the other pieces are set. The first of these episodic stories is a series of vignettes about a character named Noah, a young man who is taking care of his elderly mother. The other is a series about a young …
The Underappreciated Intersection Of Science Fiction And Satire,
2022
Utah State University
The Underappreciated Intersection Of Science Fiction And Satire, Christopher Nicholson
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
This thesis considers, from a creative writer’s perspective, the largely untapped potential for combining the strengths of satire and science fiction to create stories that provide both escapism and real-world commentary without sacrificing one for the other. It discusses background information and examples of both genres, and then illustrates the principles discussed with three original short stories.
Kaboom,
2022
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Kaboom, Karstin Margaret Johnson
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This document is a collection of original poems written between Fall 2018 and Spring 2022.
Stop And Smell The Fractals: An Exploration Into Math, Poetry, And Everything In Between,
2022
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Stop And Smell The Fractals: An Exploration Into Math, Poetry, And Everything In Between, Caroline Jennings
English Undergraduate Honors Theses
Stop and Smell The Fractals is a collection of poetry written during my time at The University of Arkansas. These poems highlight the connections between mathematics and poetry, focusing particularly on their emergence in everyday life.
The Bad Thing,
2022
DePauw University
The Bad Thing, Meredith White
A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University
No abstract provided.
Good Soil,
2022
DePauw University
Good Soil, Harry Burgan
A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University
No abstract provided.
Chalk Outline,
2022
DePauw University
Chalk Outline, Marie Gurnon
A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University
No abstract provided.
Thanks,
2022
DePauw University
Thanks, Mariam Lobjanidze
A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University
No abstract provided.
Sacrificial Rites,
2022
DePauw University
Sacrificial Rites, Marie Gurnon
A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University
No abstract provided.
Venus Burning,
2022
DePauw University
Venus Burning, Elizabeth Swift
A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University
No abstract provided.
Former Poker Pro Reflects On A Life He Saw,
2022
DePauw University
Former Poker Pro Reflects On A Life He Saw, Harry Burgan
A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University
No abstract provided.
Save Our Love,
2022
Liberty University
Save Our Love, Jaime Constance Belk
Masters Theses
Andy Crouch wrote in his inspirational book, Culture Making: Recovering our Creative Calling that “culture is inescapable” and if we are dissatisfied with it, we must “make new culture” (140). These words have inspired my creativity and influenced my writing in so many ways. Romance literature is constantly growing in popularity, but the genre is not evolving. In a world of monotonous storylines and happily-ever-afters, I seek to shift the romance genre with my project, Save Our Love. This is a romance manuscript that tells the powerful stories of Joseph and Denver, two disparate college students who build a bond …
Our Faces Used To Be,
2022
Washington University in St. Louis
Our Faces Used To Be, Kelan Nee
Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
The End Of The Known World,
2022
Utah State University
The End Of The Known World, Madeline Thomas
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
This thesis forms the foundation for a poetry chapbook infused with Norse mythology and pain. It builds itself on two distinct strands. In the first, I reclaim the story of Hel, goddess of death, and attempt to humanize a figure historically branded as monstrous. Her life forms a narrative line through the collection that attempts to capture the whimsy and horror in myth. Intertwined with the goddess are poems centered around a contemporary speaker who suffers from chronic migraine, an autoimmune disease, unexplained tachycardia, and OCD. The poems in this personal strand vary heavily in both form and content but …
The Tinker Bell Jar,
2022
Utah State University
The Tinker Bell Jar, Kayla Berryman
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
This poetry thesis is a collection of poems thematically linked together. Each poem revolves around characters from fairy tales and children’s books who are stuck in situations with abusive or harmful family members and crave an escape. In Part One of this collection, the poems take place in what readers might identify as the real world. In Part One, the poems have elements of fairy tales in them, and the speaker, or narrator of the poems, uses fairy tales to understand and relate the relationship between her parents and brother in a way that she can understand. The speaker of …
Sporkling,
2022
Utah State University
Sporkling, Mia Jensen
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
For my thesis, I wrote and illustrated a graphic short story that captures the confusing experiences associated with aging out of childhood. My thesis, titled “Sporkling,” follows a twelve-year-old girl named Moira as she confronts her fears with the help of the recently thawed disembodied head of the quirky nineteenth-century inventor, Samuel W. Francis. The central topics of the project reflect on the unification of the body and mind. Whereas the young, naïve Moira represents the body, the disillusioned, decapitated Samuel represents the mind. As the two spend an afternoon trapped in Moira’s father’s secret laboratory, they must assist each …
Myth, Dream, And Resistance In Ninotchka Rosca And Emmanuel Lacaba’S Fictions,
2022
De La Salle University, Philippines; University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines
Myth, Dream, And Resistance In Ninotchka Rosca And Emmanuel Lacaba’S Fictions, Kathrine Domingo Ojano
Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance
Despite Ninotchka Rosca’s international acclaim as a Feminist novelist and Emmanuel Lacaba’s national renown as a martyred resistance poet, the dearth of scholarship on their collections of short stories—written from around the time of the 1970 First Quarter Storm to the early years of Martial Law—has also left unanswered how their fictions evinced a new paradigm of resistance literature as the critique and revision of modernity in the Third World. In this paper, I address this gap by looking into Rosca’s transformation of fiction into mythopoeic speculations in The Monsoon Collection (1983) and Lacaba’s experimentation with oneiric or dream-like narratives …
Lakas Ng Feministang Makabayan Laban Sa Patriyarkang Diktadurya Ng Imperyo: Pagsubok Sa Interpretasyon Ng Dekada ’70 Ni Lualhati Bautista (The Power Of Nationalist Feminism Against The Empire’S Patriarchal Dictatorship: Toward An Interpretation Of Lualhati Bautista’S Dekada ’70 ),
2022
Emeritus Professor, University of Connecticut, US
Lakas Ng Feministang Makabayan Laban Sa Patriyarkang Diktadurya Ng Imperyo: Pagsubok Sa Interpretasyon Ng Dekada ’70 Ni Lualhati Bautista (The Power Of Nationalist Feminism Against The Empire’S Patriarchal Dictatorship: Toward An Interpretation Of Lualhati Bautista’S Dekada ’70 ), E. San Juan Jr.
Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance
Ang Dekada ’70 ay dokumentong historikal at mala-alegorikong testimonya ng karanasan ng medya-klaseng taga-lungsod noong panahon ng diktaduryang Marcos. Nakakintal sa salaysay ng isang ina-asawa, Amanda Bartolome, ang pakikipagsapalaran ng kolektibong memorya at pag-asa. Sa realistikong pagsasadula ng ideolohiya ng maternidad, nilikha ni Bautista ang isang maramdaming salaysay ng pagpupunyagi ng ina/asawang isagawa ang ritwal ng malayang pag-asal na sumusuri sa patriyarkong awtoridad at imperyalistikong gahum. Gamit dito ang konsepto ng kontradiksiyon ng publiko-pribadong paghahati sa lipunan upang linawin ang diyalektika ng politikang seksuwal sa pagitan ng kalayaang personal at pagsisilbing pampamilya. Hinahamon ng proyekto ni Bautista na gawing makabayan …
Fictionalizing Error In Edberto Villegas’S Barikada,
2022
University of the Philippines Los Baños, Philippines
Fictionalizing Error In Edberto Villegas’S Barikada, Laurence Marvin S. Castillo
Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance
Barikada (2013), written by the late political scientist, writer, and consultant for the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) Edberto Villegas (1940–2020), is a novel that presents a counterfactual portrayal of an urban insurrection, waged by city-based national democratic (NatDem) revolutionaries who deviated from the Maoist rural-oriented protracted guerrilla warfare sanctioned by the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). This essay reads this NatDem fiction in relation to the debates about revolutionary strategy that surfaced during the movement’s crises-ridden years, and were taken up during the Second Great Rectification Movement. I undertake a detailed examination of the novel’s reworking …
