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Many Miles Away: A Cautionary Tale, Charles H. Smith
Many Miles Away: A Cautionary Tale, Charles H. Smith
Faculty/Staff Personal Papers
Reporter Kerry Phillips is in for the surprise of her life: her television station has been contacted on a matter so important that 'scarcely anything could be of greater interest,' and she has been asked to follow up on the story. Little does she know just how interesting her job is about to get!
I Love You, Go Away (A Novel), John Matthew Steinhafel
I Love You, Go Away (A Novel), John Matthew Steinhafel
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
I Love You, Go Away, a novel set in Milwaukee, tells the story of a twenty-two year-old nobody, Gabriel Driscoll, who meets and befriends a middle-aged, drug addicted, recluse actor, Beau Brooks. But less than six months into their friendship Beau commits suicide. At the funeral Gabriel meets a twenty-nine-year-old corporate executive, Michelle, the daughter of Beau’s long-time girlfriend. Gabriel and Michelle bond over their mutual grief and quickly strike up a romance. At the same time, Gabriel’s semi-estranged mother, Sadie, a recovering heroin addict, reaches out to him in an effort to rebuild their relationship. What follows for Gabriel …
The Language Of Breathing, Brian Wallace Baker
The Language Of Breathing, Brian Wallace Baker
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The Language of Breathing is an eclectic collection of 18 creative nonfiction essays that capture moments from the author’s life and attempt to give them meaning through narrative and metaphor. They deal with relationships, nature, faith, and often rely on background research to pair art, mythology, current events, and science with personal experience.
The Barren Springs Songbook, Caroline Grace Sutphin
The Barren Springs Songbook, Caroline Grace Sutphin
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The Barren Springs Songbook is a poetry collection exploring Appalachian themes through the lens of three representative characters and my own experience. The poems presented are in blank verse and lean heavily on musicality, as each poem features an epigraph from my own Great Uncle Henry’s song lyrics. The poetry explores themes of poverty, folklore, feminism, and Christianity within the context of Barren Springs, an insular Appalachian community. The characters of Henry, India, and Myrtle provide a glimpse into how things have been in my family history, and the more modern poems representing myself show the cultural shifts that are …
Ua37/2 We Lived Happily During The Plague, Tom C. Hunley
Ua37/2 We Lived Happily During The Plague, Tom C. Hunley
Faculty/Staff Personal Papers
Poem written by WKU English professor Tom Hunley during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Ua37/2 If This Next Apocalypse Gets Canceled Or Postponed, Tom Hunley
Ua37/2 If This Next Apocalypse Gets Canceled Or Postponed, Tom Hunley
Faculty/Staff Personal Papers
Poem written by WKU English professor Tom Hunley during Covid-19 pandemic.
Ua37/2 We Will Survive, Tom C. Hunley
Ua37/2 We Will Survive, Tom C. Hunley
Faculty/Staff Personal Papers
Poem written by WKU English professor Tom Hunley during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Ua37/2 Love As The World Ends, Tom C. Hunley
Ua37/2 Love As The World Ends, Tom C. Hunley
Faculty/Staff Personal Papers
Poem written by WKU English professor Tom Hunley during Covid-19 pandemic.
Ua37/2 Lockdown Haiku, Tom C. Hunley
Ua37/2 Lockdown Haiku, Tom C. Hunley
Faculty/Staff Personal Papers
Haiku written by WKU English professor Tom Hunley during Covid-19 pandemic.
Ua37/2 Autism Isn't Coronavirus, Tom C. Hunley
Ua37/2 Autism Isn't Coronavirus, Tom C. Hunley
Faculty/Staff Personal Papers
Poem written by WKU English professor Tom Hunley during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Hero: The Musical, Owen Mefford
Hero: The Musical, Owen Mefford
Gatton Academy Student Research Outcomes
Over the past year and a half, I, aided by my research mentor, have undertaken the process of writing the libretto for an original stage musical. The concept is an idea I have somewhat developed for years, that of a musical based on a spoof of the superhero genre and its many tropes. The musical follows Danny, a young college kid who has just moved to the big city and gains the power to freeze time. As he becomes a blossoming super hero, he must balance his romantic interest in his friend Sam, a reporter, with his new duties. Along …
The Memorialist, Lindsey Houchin
The Memorialist, Lindsey Houchin
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The Memorialist is a work of creative nonfiction. In this long-form essay, the author digests the memories and secondhand stories unearthed while exploring the junked, rusted, and wrecked life of an eccentric uncle who was preceded in death by his sister, the author’s mother. Through its associative and slippery structure, it follows the author as she untangles two histories halted—connected, contrasting lives disrupted by death. Meditative and metaphorical, the narrative explores both the beauty and burden of death through the eulogy form in a quest to determine how to memorialize a life defined by what death leaves behind.
Old Man Young Man Snake, Bradley Hathaway
Old Man Young Man Snake, Bradley Hathaway
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
A young man in rural and frigid North Dakota is on the run for committing a crime. He finds refuge at a secluded bible camp from a mysterious old man that may or may not have his best interests in mind, and the young man must decide if the old man’s protection is worth the cost. Exploring ideas of free will, God, nature, and visions, Old Man Young Man Snake, a screenplay, quietly tells their story.
"O Lost Moon Sisters" : Feminist Revisions In Diane Di Prima's Loba, Chelsea Megan Mathes
"O Lost Moon Sisters" : Feminist Revisions In Diane Di Prima's Loba, Chelsea Megan Mathes
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
In her master work, Loba, Diane di Prima revises a variety of traditionally malecentered narratives from a feminist viewpoint in the long tradition of feminist revision that is a cornerstone of Second Wave Feminism. This thesis examines five of the revisions of Christian, Jewish, and Greek stories present in Loba: The Virgin Mary, Eve, Lilith, Helen of Troy, and Persephone. Di Prima revises these stories to include the full— physical, spiritual, and emotional—experience of the woman, often from her own point of view, to give the woman agency over her own story and subvert the woman-as-object tradition present in male-authored …
Motions Like Sleep In Robert Penn Warren’S “Lullaby”, Cameron Fontes
Motions Like Sleep In Robert Penn Warren’S “Lullaby”, Cameron Fontes
Robert Penn Warren Essay Contest
No abstract provided.
“Where Inner And Outer Meet”: Dissociation And The Creative Process, Joseph Shoulders
“Where Inner And Outer Meet”: Dissociation And The Creative Process, Joseph Shoulders
Robert Penn Warren Essay Contest
No abstract provided.
Correspondence With The Season Of Autumn, Seth Nevin
Correspondence With The Season Of Autumn, Seth Nevin
Robert Penn Warren Essay Contest
No abstract provided.
Zephyrus, Wku English Department
The Ray Family Backstory, Department Of Library Special Collections
The Ray Family Backstory, Department Of Library Special Collections
Ray Family Papers
No abstract provided.
Ray Family Photo Album, Department Of Library Special Collections
Ray Family Photo Album, Department Of Library Special Collections
Ray Family Papers
No abstract provided.
Dark Magic Part 1, Rachel Quaid
Dark Magic Part 1, Rachel Quaid
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
Dark Magic is a novel that mixes old folklore with fantasy and a splash of modern day. This first part of the novel readies the readers to enter the world of the old Irish Aos Sì. Ophelia is a witch, living in the land of the fae. She signs up to help with a research study to better her chances at succeeding as a healer. Rhea is a member of the Tuatha de Danann, the fae folk who rule the land from their courts of old. She is sent by her caretaker to observe this study. Everyone knows witches and …
Ua37/44 Faculty Personal Papers Gordon Wilson, Wku Archives
Ua37/44 Faculty Personal Papers Gordon Wilson, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Personal papers of Gordon Wilson.