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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Blood Of The Monster: Book 1 In The Covenant Trilogy, Emily Hayes
Blood Of The Monster: Book 1 In The Covenant Trilogy, Emily Hayes
Honors Program Theses and Projects
No abstract provided.
Easy Hearts: A Novel, Andrew J. Olsen
Easy Hearts: A Novel, Andrew J. Olsen
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Easy Hearts is a novel set in contemporary Texas. Justin Borchard, just paroled after three and-a-half years in prison, returns to his hometown in East Texas where his wife, Melinda, has been tending bar at the Shortleaf Inn. After Melinda confesses to a brief affair with a local oil executive named Waylon Goodwin, an affair she has ended, and facing limited prospects in their hometown, Melinda and Justin make the hard choice to accept a proposition from Waylon: they will leave home for Hearts County, a desolate swatch of hardpan in the Permian Basin of West Texas, where Waylon has …
Calle Panadero, Giselda Aguiar
Calle Panadero, Giselda Aguiar
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This collection of nine short stories follows Adelia Villalobos and Isidoro Belmonte, two Cuban Americans solving crimes in present-day South Florida. The former best friends have grown apart during college, but when Adelia is drawn into a murder case, the outcome leads Isidoro to return home and the pair to found the unlicensed detective agency, Calle Panadero (Spanish for Baker Street). Their cases explore the underside of many facets of the community, including bigamy, fraud, and criminal organizations. Along the way, they deal with love, death, and family obligations, and arrive at a new understanding of how their destinies are …
Alcoholism, Miscomprehension And Salvation : Edwin O'Connor's The Edge Of Sadness, Eamon Maher
Alcoholism, Miscomprehension And Salvation : Edwin O'Connor's The Edge Of Sadness, Eamon Maher
Articles
No abstract provided.
The New Writing Series, Spring 2016, The University Of Maine Honors College
The New Writing Series, Spring 2016, The University Of Maine Honors College
Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series
In its thirty-fourth consecutive semester of programming, the New Writing Series will host six readings featuring four poets (John Keene, Prageeta Sharma, Divya Victor, and John Yau) and two fiction writers (Emily Fridlund and Joanna Walsh).
These writers are all highly active across the full spectrum of literary activity. They are editors, publishers, and anthologists; translators and tale-tellers; art-makers and trail-blazing scholars.
The New Writing Series brings innovative and adventurous contemporary writing to the University of Maine's flagship campus in Orono on selected Thursdays at 4:30pm.
Listen To Me, Bryan M. Furuness
Letters To Mr. Carter, Jasmin S. Eddy
Letters To Mr. Carter, Jasmin S. Eddy
Student Publications
This final project synthesized discussion and learning from four different books: "To Teach: The Journey in Comics" by W. Ayers and R. Alexander-Tanner, "Musician and Teacher: An Orientation to Music Education" by P. S. Campbell, "Teaching as a Subversive Activity" by N. Postman and C. Weingartner, and "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" by P. Freire. Through a series of letters to a teacher, Mr. Carter, the letter writers demonstrate the important ideas presented in each of the books.
The Trials Of A New Teacher, Diego A. Rocha
The Trials Of A New Teacher, Diego A. Rocha
Student Publications
Tim, a new teacher, faces challenges as he works towards changing the environment in a high school music program.
Notes From Mrs. Hadgu's Class: Conceptualizing Music Education Curriculum For A Changing World, Logan B. Santiago
Notes From Mrs. Hadgu's Class: Conceptualizing Music Education Curriculum For A Changing World, Logan B. Santiago
Student Publications
How can we conceptualize curriculum and school knowledge to better address important questions of social change, contingency of knowledge, life in mediated worlds, and inequalities? To answer this question I wrote fictional stories from students about their favorite moments from their 8th grade music class. Each account deals with a specific activity or instance in which the teacher included social change and/or student centered knowledge in the curriculum. The explanation at the end of the accounts details the reasons for creating each activity and the relation of the stories to texts utilized in class.
Remembering ‘The Dark’: Fifty Years On From The ‘Mcgahern Affair’, Eamon Maher
Remembering ‘The Dark’: Fifty Years On From The ‘Mcgahern Affair’, Eamon Maher
Articles
It is difficult to believe that 50 years have passed since 260 advance copies of John McGahern’s second novel, The Dark, were seized by Irish Customs and Excise officers. The Censorship of Publications Board would deem that the novel posed a risk to public morality because of its “indecent or obscene” content.
The Abandoned, Elizabeth Ivey
The Abandoned, Elizabeth Ivey
Faculty and Research Publications
I didn’t always know what I was, but I knew I was different.
Crossed, Meredith Doench
Crossed, Meredith Doench
English Faculty Publications
Book 1 in the Luce Hansen thriller series.
Description from the publisher:
Agent Luce Hansen returns home to Willow’s Ridge to catch a serial killer who has been murdering young women. It’s the case she’s been waiting for, the case that compels her to return to the small town she turned her back on nineteen years ago, the case she plans to ride from the Ohio BCI all the way to the FBI.
The case worth risking her shaky relationship with her lover, Rowan. But the horrors of the case recall the unsolved murder of Luce’s first girlfriend, and Luce …
Thanksgiving Brunch Mitzvah Or, The End Of The World For Women, Marleen S. Barr
Thanksgiving Brunch Mitzvah Or, The End Of The World For Women, Marleen S. Barr
Publications and Research
This is a short story.
The Esther Forbes Papers, Esther Forbes
The Esther Forbes Papers, Esther Forbes
Archives & Special Collections Finding Aids
The Esther Forbes Papers contain original manuscripts written by Forbes during her childhood and college years. They also contain manuscripts for The Running of the Tide, Rainbow on the Road, and Paradise. With the papers are housed bibliographic material about Esther Forbes collected by Jack Bales and published as: Esther Forbes: A Bio-Bibliography of the Author of Johnny Tremain, by The Scarecrow Press, Inc., Lanham, Md., 1998, Scarecrow Author Bibliographic Series, No. 98.
The Dystopian Dickens: Expectant Of Hard Times, Micaela L. Hamid
The Dystopian Dickens: Expectant Of Hard Times, Micaela L. Hamid
Senior Honors Theses
As part of this thesis, the novel Expectant will parody different elements of two of Charles Dickens’ novels with their dystopian, futuristic setting. Expectant replicates the themes of disappointment and emotional deprivation from Great Expectations (1860-61), and dehumanization and the struggle between fancy and reason from Hard Times (1854). The parody will draw parallels from the plotlines, characters, and symbols of these novels to further cement the similarities of the themes employed with themes popularized more recently by novels of the dystopian genre.
The mission of the project is to sell the novel, Expectant, to publishers on the basis …
On Navigating Life As A Deceased Lutheran Pastor’S Daughter, Kathy Roberts
On Navigating Life As A Deceased Lutheran Pastor’S Daughter, Kathy Roberts
Creative Writing Minor Portfolios
This portfolio is a collection of my favorite original pieces of creative nonfiction and poetry which I wrote during my undergraduate studies at Cedarville University. “My Uncle: Handyman Who Never Left” was published in the June 2014 edition of Spittoon, and “Hiking the Grand Tetons. Milking a Cow by Hand.” has been accepted for publication in Creative Nonfiction. This collection expresses pain from my dad’s death and circumstances that followed it, instances of healing, and aspects of life both before and since. I present to you On Navigating Life as a Deceased Lutheran Pastor’s Daughter.
Through A Glass Darkly: Defining Love In A Nation Of Tolerance, Jonathan T. Hogue
Through A Glass Darkly: Defining Love In A Nation Of Tolerance, Jonathan T. Hogue
Senior Honors Theses
This paper features an original one-act drama Through a Glass Darkly and analyzes its constructs and themes. The play, written in the contemporary style, depicts the tension between homosexuals and Christians in American culture through emphasizing the contrasting interpretations of love between both communities. It tells the story of Ben, a young gay man struggling to find fulfillment, whose new-found friendship with a Christian named Adam causes him to reevaluate his understanding of love. The play explores the variations of love in an attempt to not only answer what love truly means, but rather what form of love carries the …
What Carries On: Drafting, Revising, And Attention To Craft In Young Adult Fiction, Briana Mcdonald
What Carries On: Drafting, Revising, And Attention To Craft In Young Adult Fiction, Briana Mcdonald
Honors Program Theses and Projects
No abstract provided.
Around An Image, Alexander Macphail-Fausey
Around An Image, Alexander Macphail-Fausey
Creative Writing Minor Portfolios
This is a collection of poetry and creative nonfiction from the four years I attended Cedarville. Each of the pieces originated from a specific image and allowed that image to shape the rest of the work. I use the concrete images to engage complicated ideas or situations I have experienced. I use the writing in this collection to better understand the things I have experienced. The nonfiction shorts “Scar Tissue,” “Sunday 26 January 2014,” and “Malibu Beach: Camp Lot 29” have all been published in the Marco Polo Arts Magazine.
The Woods Ate Them, Amanda J. Burgess
The Woods Ate Them, Amanda J. Burgess
Senior Honors Projects
For this project I set out to write a hybrid novella-memoir, while reading novels by authors generating work of a similar aim. I also took an offset printing course to learn how to print completed work, because I was interested in being able to myself make a book. Throughout, the intention of this work was an exploration of the density of the imagination and the self - all the lives we create, even if we never live them.
During my time at the University of Rhode Island, I have made repeated visits to cetain arguments and ideas, questions that intrigue …
There Is An Unformed World In The Sky Of My Heart, Nathanael T. Spanos
There Is An Unformed World In The Sky Of My Heart, Nathanael T. Spanos
Creative Writing Minor Portfolios
“There is an Unformed World in the Sky of My Heart” contains works of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. All the pieces were written after my conversion to Christ in December 2012 and before my graduation from Cedarville University in May 2015. Though my spiritually-themed poems are the pulse of this portfolio, the title refers to the fantasy world of Sembercron, which I am discovering and creating through my writing. The title also refers to heaven growing in my heart, or Christ’s image supplanting my own, or God sanctifying me for his purposes. This portfolio observes, explores, and delights in this …
Blood At The Root, April Schofield
Blood At The Root, April Schofield
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
This is a coming of age story about two very different boys – Jason, a Northerner who ends up stuck in a small Southern town and Billy, a Southern boy with an abusive father. The boys become friends and grow up learning the dark secrets that are allowed to fester in a tiny southern town ruled by the Good Ol’ Boy System of justice. The story chronicles how their shared experiences change them in ways they never imagined and ultimately destroys their friendship and their lives. Through a history of violence and prejudice, Billy and Jason learn who they really …
Redwoods, John Joseph Hill
Redwoods, John Joseph Hill
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
To the outside world, Northern California might be trees, granola, hippies, rivers, snowboarders, environmentalists, farming, beaches, diverse wildlife, and wealth. Through a series of loosely interlocking fiction stories, this thesis explores the Northern California below the surface where people work as garbage collectors by day and attend community college by night, where teenage girls scam people in the park for free alcohol, where lovers spend their date night as part of a nude human-chain to protect an old growth redwood from being cut down, and where animal rights activists smoke cigarettes and seek love. Informed by personal experience and a …
No Absolutes: A Fantasy Collection, Tiffany M. Hughes
No Absolutes: A Fantasy Collection, Tiffany M. Hughes
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
Genre fiction, particularly fantasy and science fiction writing, has a mixed reception in academia across the world. The notion that make-believe characters and worlds could not be intellectually fulfilling is an old stereotype that reduces some of the most profound fiction of our era down to children’s tales. This fantasy collection serves as an example of how genre fiction can contain impactful stories that challenge our understanding of traditional values. As the title suggests, life, from relationships to self-identity, offers no absolutes for the future. Humanity faces uncertainty of the past, present, and future every day. These stories reflect the …
Fingerpaint: A Drama In Two Acts, Audrey A. Moore
Fingerpaint: A Drama In Two Acts, Audrey A. Moore
Senior Honors Theses
This thesis is a creative original work taking the form on a two-act drama entitled Fingerpaint. It follows the story of a twenty-two year old artist named Sandy and her older brother, John, who want to paint a city mural as a memorial for their uncle. The primary theme revolves around the idea of finding beauty in tension. This theme is developed as Sandy, an idealist, is forced to deal with difficult situations that will ultimately change the way she approaches life and art.
New Tricks (2015), John Nelson, Stacey Berry, Laura Otteson, Laina Darger, Jared Lampe, Chelsea Meyer, Dillon Dwyer, Ashley Geditz, Sarah Sproul
New Tricks (2015), John Nelson, Stacey Berry, Laura Otteson, Laina Darger, Jared Lampe, Chelsea Meyer, Dillon Dwyer, Ashley Geditz, Sarah Sproul
New Tricks
"As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul." Hermes Trismegistus
I am but a humbly painted vessel of the Almighty Artist, here to share in this uniquely significant piece of the great mural. They say that art imitates life and that through the creation of art we become one with the divine painter of the universe. That is why the calling of the artist is the most noble of pursuits, for the artist is the truest reflection of the source of things. Yet art is not finite and cannot be nailed down. Like the …
Scenes From The Gaijin Life, Ian Rogers
Scenes From The Gaijin Life, Ian Rogers
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Scenes from the Gaijin Life contains eight interconnected stories about foreigners (gaijin in Japanese) living and working as English teachers in urban Japan. It recounts their daily lives and initial struggles, their jobs and their nights out, their formal conversations and their personal ones. The first five stories use a detached, neutral narration that forces readers to interpret sensory details on their own, while the latter three use an omniscient narration that helps readers understand the characters’ interactions with Japan. Though the eight scenes are all different, they’re connected by estrangement, longing, uncertainty, and the characters’ ever-present dissatisfaction with …
In Praise Of Mary O'Donnell, Eamon Maher
A Body Outside The Kremlin, James L. May
A Body Outside The Kremlin, James L. May
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
A BODY OUTSIDE THE KREMLIN is a historical mystery novel set in the Northern Camps of Special Significance, a Soviet Russian penal institution based in the Solovetsky Archipelago during the 1920s. The protagonist, working first with the camp authorities, then in spite of their disapproval, solves the murder of a fellow prisoner. In the process he improves his position within the camp, while also becoming hardened to the brutal necessities of camp life. Prior to the establishment of the penal camp, the Solovetsky Archipelago was the site of an important Russian Orthodox monastery, and the mystery proves to involve valuables, …
Market Value, Christine Morando
Market Value, Christine Morando
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
MARKET VALUE is a collection of stories about people in Southwest Florida struggling to make sense of their lives when faced with shifting economic realities.
The characters in the collection reevaluate their relationships and uncover secrets, forced to navigate a new American landscape of stalled opportunities and uncertain futures. In “Call the Storage King,” Walt assumes that his girlfriend has total faith in their relationship, but accidentally discovers evidence to the contrary. In “Luxury Living,” a resident of a mostly-empty riverfront condo gives a guided tour to a prospective buyer, revealing the building’s short but sordid history along the way. …