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Openings, Vol. 2 (2023), Bill Boerman-Cornell

Openings

Literary Arts: 6 - Dead as the Desert - Elizabeth Peterson / 18 - A DQ Love - Emilie Lindgren / 26 - Poem - Jayley Fairgreives / 28 - Sleeper - Jonah Mudlaff / 40 - When We See Ourselves Bleed - Njoki Mukuria / 42 - All the things you can do when you cut class - Dr. Sierra’s ENGL 356 Class / 44 - Ars Poetica - Trinity Curley / 45 - Control - Alyssa Kuehl

Visual Arts: Cover - Jonah Mudlaff - “Hopeful Future 2” / 17 - Viva La Vida - Karla Rosales / …

Openings, Vol. 3 (2023), Bill Boerman-Cornell

Openings

Literary Arts: 6 - Snuffed Out - Elizabeth Peterson / 20 - Fourth Reich - Nick Morrison / 30 - Found - Njoki Mukuria / 32 - Awake - Samantha Hoffman / 34 - Don’t Be Fooled - Njoki Mukuria / 42 - Ars Poetica - Abby Tillema / 44 - The Heart’s Lament - Alyssa Kuehl /

Visual Arts: 33 - Hopeful Future 2 - Jonah Mudlaff / 43 - Hopeful Future 1 - Jonah Mudlaff / Cover - Jonah Mudlaff - FLORA

Openings, Vol. 4 (2023), Bill Boerman-Cornell

Openings

Literary Arts: 6 - Into the Fog - Ava Kelly / 13 - Paloma - Abby Tillema / 24 - Ars Poetica - Trinity Curley / 25 - Control - Alyssa Kuehl / 26 - The Wind - Morgan Meinders / 28 - The Forest - Isabelle Neibert / 34 - Prose Poem - Trinity Curley / 35 - Icarus - Samantha Hoffman / 36 - Powerlines - Ren Amador / 37 - Phoebe and Natasha - Anonymous

Visual Arts: 12 - Obuelo’s Puerto Rico - Mia Diaz / 23 - Lalis y Ojitos - Mia Diaz / 33 - …

Openings, Vol. 1 (2023), Bill Boerman-Cornell

Openings

Literary Arts: 6 - Shuddering by the Fire - Bill Boerman-Cornell / 10 - Shimmer in the Glade - Elizabeth Peterson / 18 - Unknown Answers - Lauren Cox / 32 - The Power of a Hymn - Sarah Kroese / 34 - That Rat - Jonah Mudlaff / 38 - Taking Life, One Stride at a Time - Erica Nurczyk / 43 - The Monsters - Sarah Kroese / 44 - Untitled - Alyssa Kuehl

Visual Arts: 9 - Great Smoky Mountains - Deividas Taras / 17 - Strawberry Girl - Mia Diaz

5. A Chicana Pedagogy For Digital Pen Pals, Diana Noreen Rivera, Leigh Johnson

Literatures and Cultural Studies Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Gamblers And The Game Of Life: A Literary Examination Of The Professional And The Addict, Annika Ozizmir

CMC Senior Theses

The gambler is a mysterious persona in life and in literature. Who is the gambler? While we can envision the gambler as many different kinds of people, this thesis seeks to answer this question by focusing on certain literary figures who gamble. Its author analyzes two archetypes in particular, that of the professional gambler and that of the addict. To illustrate these types, the author looks to four protagonists from a mix of four novels and short stories: Casino Royale by Ian Fleming, “A Gentleman’s Game” by Jonathan Lethem, “Queen of Spades” by Alexander Pushkin, and The Gambler by Fyodor …

Masculinidades Insubordinadas Y Subversivas. La Construcción De La Figura Del Gaucho Rebelde En La Literatura Rioplatense A Través De La Representación De Tres De Sus Tipos Humanos Más Característicos: El Cantor, El Matrero Y El Caudillo, Miguel Angel Martos Maldonado

Theses and Dissertations--Hispanic Studies

This research work explores the construction of the masculinity of the rebellious gaucho in several literary works written by authors from the River Plate, and how it serves as a vehicle for the transmission of ideas –often of political content– of their creators. The basic concept underlying this study is that some writers of works set in the rural world show a serious social commitment, and often combine their literary activity with politics. For this reason, they choose as a key figure in their writings a gaucho who rebels against authority and, emphasizing in him the traits traditionally considered as …

La Voz 2023, Loyola Marymount University, Modern Languages & Literatures Department

La Voz Student Journal

LA VOZ is published by the Modern Languages & Literatures Department, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA.

Milk Tooth, 2023, Macy Bernard, Victoria Bohney, Mathea Brink, Mackenzie Britton, Shawn Cruze, Madelyn Dakken, Jada Dokken, Isaiah Dunham, Liz Fisher, Brooke Froehle, Oak Greyson, Gordon Hess, Joseph Kettelhodt, Hannah Lewis, Marissa Marxhausen, Hunter Meland, Autumn Miles, Natalie Nelson, Emma Niessink, Lauren Winkelman, Luke Yartz

Milk Tooth

"Writings by Bemidji State University Students". Sponsored by the Bemidji State University English Department.

“What Do Any Of Us Really Know About Love:” A Discussion Of Irony Within Raymond Carver’S Short Story Cycle What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Niyonna Johnson

Honors College Theses

With minimalist technique, Raymond Carver manages to accurately depict a depressed working-class America. Current contemporary criticism has focused on the main themes of Carver’s work such as the struggle with identity, alcoholism, disconnection, and domesticity hardships; the one ideal that has seemed to be missing is the irony that lies within the lives of the characters. This paper will analyze, in depth, short stories from a short story cycle of Raymond Carver and detail how their current situations are directly juxtaposed by their occupations and how this benefits the currently discussed themes of his work.

“Thinking Across Bodies”: Percepción Woolfiana Y Giro Material En La Cuentística De Rodoreda, Roig, Alós Y Riera, Ana Álvarez Guillén

Theses and Dissertations--Hispanic Studies

Conventional understandings of perception have long undergirded traditional readings of Modernist texts in adopting a predominantly subject-centered perspective that separates subject from object in a vertical and hierarchical relationship. I argue that a consideration of Virginia Woolf’s short stories in dialogue with four generations of twentieth-century Catalan women writers who followed her work closely suggests an entirely different epistemological framework of perception in which subject and object are fluidly and horizontally organized. Mercè Rodoreda, Concha Alós, Montserrat Roig and Carme Riera establish a horizontal fictional dialogue that constitutes a return to matter that decenters the subject, resulting in an alternative …

Doing The Work -- Collectively Pursuing Anti-Racist And Equitable Teaching: One High School English Department’S Journey, Sharon Murchie, Anthony Andrus, Pat Brennan, Gina Farnelli, Shelby Fletcher, Dawn Reed, Emily Solomon, Benjamin K. Woodcock

Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Our district has long been heralded as a beacon school, one that delivers exceptional education in an exceptional community. Peeling back the layers, however, revealed a district that lurched towards the traditional, even with the hiring of DEI faculty and the step away from an historical indigenous mascot. In a time where teachers are exhausted and afraid of community backlash, our

English department dared to tear off the scabs of old wounds and united to push toward what is best for our changing community and students. Hard conversations, difficult topics, and months of legwork at last successfully provided the impetus …

Pathos, Winter 2023, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Editor: Bret Steggell

Ruptures In Indentures In Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter Of Maladies And Unaccustomed Earth, Prabal D. Gupta

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

Jhumpa Lahiri (1967) is one of the prominent American writers of Bengali descent, contributing mainly to diaspora literature to depict the nuanced aspects of Bengalis in their immigrant lives. Lahiri’s stories in Interpreter of Maladies (1999) and Unaccustomed Earth (2008) illustrate the challenges of the Bengali diaspora due to their indentured identity, which I have used to refer to the Bengali people’s culturally-rooted identity. This study investigates how the diaspora’s native cultural identity fluctuates in connection with the host culture. The research renders a reconfigured image of “home” because the concept of home changes for these people after migration in …

Virginia Woolf: The Bookbinder And The Bibliophile, Geoffrey Bridgman

Dissertations and Theses

The triumph of Virginia Woolf’s career as a novelist is one of the most famous stories of the 20th century. Her career as a publisher of her home-grown Hogarth Press is a little less widely acknowledged. But Virginia Woolf is known to have engaged herself for many hours folding, stapling, sewing and gluing the publications which she and her husband Leonard had tried printing (at least to start) with the small platen press they had set up in their home. What is even less acknowledged is that Virginia Woolf maintained a private practice re-wrapping the books in her own library …

Violencia Doméstica, Alicia Partnoy, Julia Horton

Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

"Variety": A Look At Several Genres, Ryan Dean Carlin

Honors Program Theses

This thesis was made to both explore the impact on a writer’s mind and thoughts that writing different genres could cause, as well as stretch the limits of creativity that any one writer can bring about. The following stories are the result of a single writer’s efforts. Following them will be the writer’s own observations about his approach as he wrote each, as well as any ways that the restrictions of the genre stumped his attempts at writing. Each work is no fewer than ten pages, and each story attempts to stretch the boundaries of writing and imagination through unique …

Joining A Conversation Research Project, Nicole Green, Deborah Minter

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Description: This unit is a culminating (end-of-semester) project designed to have students bring together the knowledge they have developed throughout the semester in the service of purposefully joining a real-world conversation, addressing a specific audience (or related set of audiences) who are part of that conversation. This unit has a small number of texts that the whole class reads and/or analyzes together. Instead, a lot of the work happening in this unit is project-driven and process-oriented.

Time Frame: This unit was designed/paced as the last unit of the course (and it followed an earlier unit focused on rhetorical analysis of …

Biutiful: En Los Márgenes De La Cosmópolis Neoliberal, Alberto Ribas-Casasayas

Modern Languages & Literature

In Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Biutiful, the city operates as a sort of anti-model exposing the dark side of neoliberal economies in larger fashionable cities, with an emphasis in precarization and exclusion and dynamics of violence against migrant populations. To this end, he uses an aesthetics of incongruence and a focus over a motley society, in permanent tension and negotiation between variegated groups. These strategies coexist with two other themes: exclusion represented as a form of expulsion or excrecence, and the appeal to memory as an ethical imperative that disrupts the logic of monetary calculus in which the main characters …

Race In J. R. R. Tolkien’S The Lord Of The Rings And In Katherine Addison’S The Goblin Emperor, Robin A. Reid Dr.

Journal of Tolkien Research

Recent scholarship on how Tolkien's Orcs influenced popular fantasy agrees upon the spread of racist clichés and stereotypes. Dieter Petzold, in "'Oo, Those Awful Orcs!': Tolkien's Villains as Protagonists in Recent Fantasy Novels," analyzes how four novels attempt but fail to present orcs as focal and sympathetic characters. In Race and Popular Fantasy Literature, Helen Young argues that the influence Tolkien's Orcs had on fantasy literature, film, and games is that of structural racism in which "race [is] the conventional framework around which difference is built " (35). She acknowledges that critical reading of Tolkien's works can "provide background …