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v.1 is a publishing platform for the ongoing work, ideas, discussions, debates, and aspirations of students at the Rhode Island School of Design. The Spring 2024 issue contains articles on rewilding in Southern Africa, digital folklore, the RISD Musem exhibition on Nancy Elizabeth Prophet "I Will Not Bend an Inch," student musings on Indian identity, queering domesticity and gender in China and Taiwan, interviews of RISD students, the second Black Biennial, displaced ceremonial objects, the defunct student club RISD Quickies and interdisciplinarity at RISD, a student's queer identity, and flirting with GPTs, along with student creative writing.

Forest Thought, Narrativity, And Counterinsurgency In Yñiga, Glenn L. Diaz

Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance

In this paper, I investigate the ways in which the tropical forest can assume the position of discourse, formal design, and textual form in fiction. I think about how, beyond its usual role as space, its vitality and various logics can facilitate a different way of storytelling, one that seeks to embody the historical resistance that the forest has long incubated. I demonstrate this by looking at the forest as a critical element in the spatio-poetics of my novel Yñiga (2022), and how its literal and conceptual manifestations--or "forest thought"--can help illuminate the ways in which history is imagined in …

Stony Brook Souvenir And Other Translated Poems, Christian Jil R. Benitez

Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance

This essay preliminary elucidates on the process of translating Jaya Jacobo’s poetry from Filipino to English. It briefly recounts the unprompted beginning of this translation work, citing it as an instance of a gift; as well the author’s general translation practice in his scholarly work, as demanded by the contemporary academic culture. Recognizing that translation is an argument in and of itself, the gesture—as it is hoped to be demonstrated here in five of Jacobo’s poems, gathered here on their comparable staging of encounters with gifts that cleave time, space, and category of matters—ultimately insists on a careful attention to …

The Khronicon Part One: A Child Of The Sancti, Richard Gerard Catoire

English Theses & Dissertations

The Old Dominion University Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program requires students to produce a professional-quality manuscript in their area of concentration, whether that area be fiction, creative non-fiction or poetry, to serve as their thesis. Students in the fiction genre can chose to write a novel length manuscript of at least 120-pages in one fiction sub-genre (fantasy, historical, horror, literary, mystery/crime, romance, science fiction, suspense/thriller, westerns, and young adult), or they can chose to write a collection of short stories across multiple genres that adds up to a minimum of 120-pages.

The Khronicon Part One: A Child …

Orpheus, Spring 2024: Reincarnate, University Of Dayton

Orpheus: UD's Literary and Artistic Magazine

No abstract provided.

Psalms Of Unknowing: Poems, Heather Lanier

College of Communication & Creative Arts Departmental Research

No abstract provided.

The Weight Of Gratitude And The Burden Of Truth, Joshua Macer

Masters Theses

The roots of this thesis lie in a daily journal written in a tattered notebook while deployed to the war-torn city of Baghdad, Iraq. The artist's statement tells the story of how the tragic events of 9/11 led to a decade of service in the military and how a simple daily journal kept during combat became the foundation for a memoir. Times passing, memory issues from injuries sustained overseas, and conflicting stories led the author to question the accuracy of military memoirs. The critical theory paper evaluates authenticity in memoirs, the challenges to truth and memories, and the consequences of …

Analyzing The Cynical Perspective Of Death In The Book Thief, Dorothy Elizabeth Hollar

Masters Theses

In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, death is used as a theme and a character to convey the plot of the story. The character of death is used as a device to show the life of a young girl living in Nazi Germany through the eyes of something more sinister and pessimistic. The story explores trauma, friendship, and the power of words when it seems all hope is lost. This thesis will explore the aspect of death as a character and will examine how it works in the story. The creative portion of my thesis will examine the themes …

Pretty Girls Don't Eat Pizza: How An Eating Disorder Taught Me I Am Enough, Hannah Kuhn

Masters Theses

Eating disorders have become one of the most fatal mental disorders, and yet many people still don’t know anything about them. This allows society to misinform people on what this disorder is, and for those suffering from it to feel misunderstood and alone. Patients and their families don’t need more medical advice on the topic. They need to hear a raw, honest and messy story from someone who is not cured, but overtime has found the resources, hope and strength to continue living with it everyday until healing is granted. This is a story that both informs and shows the …

Three Years With Buffalo Bill, Russell Storman

Masters Theses

John Muir is the father of modern creative nonfiction in the outdoor adventure/nature genre. His passion inspired generations of Christian writers, especially within the genre, to draw connections between the God of their faith and His hand that they see in the natural world. Set in a forty-two-mile hike through northwest Wyoming’s Buffalo Bill State Park and continuing in the example set by Muir, the manuscript Three Years with Buffalo Bill establishes that faith is an essential element of modern life.

Shaping Character: The Role Of Mythology In Society, Jaclyn Weist

Masters Theses

Throughout history, man has told stories. Some stories were written on walls, tablets, or bits of parchment. Others have been passed down to posterity through oral tradition. Every culture worldwide has a rich tapestry of legends and myths. It is my intent to demonstrate that these stories use the tools of character development within their various plot lines to both express and shape beliefs, superstitions, and life lessons. Whether they are religious in nature or simply trying to make sense of the world, these stories, myths, and legends have played a part in shaping society into what it is today.

Fortune, Abby Petersen

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.

Haunted Playground, Gon Carlson

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.

A Midsummer Daydream, Kira Symington

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.

An Object Lesson In The Humane And Ethical Treatment Of Others, Charles Henry

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.

The Cold, Brenden Kimpe

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.

A Cold Line: A Ten-Minute Play, Adam March

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.

Meta, Kira Symington

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.

Lunch Break, Korbyan Chavez

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.

Oranges And Losing You, Clara Anderson-Cameron

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.

Seasons, Rachael Erickson

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.

Two Poems, Chad Erickstad

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.

Invocation October 2023, Casey Fuller

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.

Words Meant For A Notecard, Brenden Kimpe

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.

Nohoilpi, John Michael Luckett

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.

Everyday, Alyssa Martinez

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.

Three Poems, Dani Ogawa

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.

Return To Soils, Jasmine Patera

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.

Ode To The Mento Moon, Abby Petersen

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.

Flicker, Chloe Piekkola

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.