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Southwestern Oklahoma State University

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2018

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Stitch-By-Stitch, Katacha Diaz Dec 2018

Stitch-By-Stitch, Katacha Diaz

Westview

Many years ago while on vacation in Santa Fe, New Mexico, I decided to take an early morning stroll in the city’s art district.


314 East 25th Street, On January 1st, Matthew Brennan Dec 2018

314 East 25th Street, On January 1st, Matthew Brennan

Westview

It’s moving day—the sun glimmers as dimly as Venus in the morning sky.


Tuesday Night, Amber Thompson Dec 2018

Tuesday Night, Amber Thompson

Westview

The coppery softness of cinnamon sticks to my fingers.


Qwerty, James E. Fowler Dec 2018

Qwerty, James E. Fowler

Westview

What you’ve seen but can’t place, always overlooking


Looking As They Should, Philip Wexler Dec 2018

Looking As They Should, Philip Wexler

Westview

On the ferry to the Stockholm Archipelago, Gunilla


Frisk, James E. Fowler Dec 2018

Frisk, James E. Fowler

Westview

the air vent is a cat


Lady: Bug, James E. Fowler Dec 2018

Lady: Bug, James E. Fowler

Westview

Tired of buzzing humdrum, she gaped.


Tennyson, By Allergies Immured, John Bradshaw Dec 2018

Tennyson, By Allergies Immured, John Bradshaw

Westview

Window bound I sit and ponder Letting my sheltered eyes go wander.


Contributors, Westview Staff Dec 2018

Contributors, Westview Staff

Westview

No abstract provided.


Heterochromia, John Tavares Dec 2018

Heterochromia, John Tavares

Westview

This short fiction, with a dystopic vision, is set in a future Toronto, devastated by social unrest and a nuclear disaster, while the action of the story explores a retired librarian’s conflict with a repressive censorship authority.


For Joe Conley, Ike Godsey On The Waltons 1928-2013, David Vancil Dec 2018

For Joe Conley, Ike Godsey On The Waltons 1928-2013, David Vancil

Westview

In your favorite episode, you are past your prime


In The Pacific: A Wwii Photograph, David Vancil Dec 2018

In The Pacific: A Wwii Photograph, David Vancil

Westview

In the black and white snapshot, my father and my uncle, sweaty from volleyball, stand side-by-side


My Father's Wars, Sheila A. Murphy Dec 2018

My Father's Wars, Sheila A. Murphy

Westview

Longer now than sixty years ago, dying in a veterans’ hospital, committed by my mother


Petticoat In The Navy: My Mother's War, Sheila A. Murphy Dec 2018

Petticoat In The Navy: My Mother's War, Sheila A. Murphy

Westview

In 1918 Julia Lehan, age nineteen, lives in Roxbury


Well Of Despair, Sarah Brown Weitzman Dec 2018

Well Of Despair, Sarah Brown Weitzman

Westview

As a follow up to that classic


I Remember Rodney, David Vancil Dec 2018

I Remember Rodney, David Vancil

Westview

You admitted you’d abused your body


Half-Way, A. S. More, Edward Wells Dec 2018

Half-Way, A. S. More, Edward Wells

Westview

This distance is real.


Plowing, Kevin Oakes Dec 2018

Plowing, Kevin Oakes

Westview

As a kid growing up on a farm You are expected to learn how to plow


Nowhere Is Nowhere, Catherine Mccraw Dec 2018

Nowhere Is Nowhere, Catherine Mccraw

Westview

People often speak of rural Western Oklahoma as the middle of nowhere.


The Patience Of Trees, Jill Jones Dec 2018

The Patience Of Trees, Jill Jones

Westview

We compare ourselves to trees, Draw analogies and metaphors for human experience


The Valley, Sheila Cohlmia Dec 2018

The Valley, Sheila Cohlmia

Westview

I wander through a deep narrow valley


September's Grapes, Sheila A. Murphy Dec 2018

September's Grapes, Sheila A. Murphy

Westview

There’s grief from harvest early, or too late: bitter, hard, or over-ripened fruit.


The Skaters, Matthew Brennan Dec 2018

The Skaters, Matthew Brennan

Westview

As in a winter scene of the Flemish Masters, Skaters glide like swans across the surface Of Lake of the Isles


Big, James E. Fowler Dec 2018

Big, James E. Fowler

Westview

The setting sun casts a Giacometti shadow before me.


The Ymca, Cal Castle Dec 2018

The Ymca, Cal Castle

Westview

Feet trampling, Treading upon The hardwood terrain.


Neil Gaiman's American Gods: A Postmodern Epic For America, Susan Gorman Oct 2018

Neil Gaiman's American Gods: A Postmodern Epic For America, Susan Gorman

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

American Gods presents a postmodern view on America and its people and engages with the epic genre both in terms of form and content. This engagement with epic does not present a coherent view of the nation, as other epics do, but instead highlights multidimensionality and irony, demonstrating potential new ways in which the epic can remain important to literary work. Evaluates Gaiman’s use of formal elements of epic such as the use of the national past and national tradition as well as content components such as the presentation of the epic storyteller and the epic hero as it evaluates …


Turning Back The Tides: The Anglo-Saxon Vice Of Ofermod In Tolkien's Fall Of Arthur, Colin J. Cutler Oct 2018

Turning Back The Tides: The Anglo-Saxon Vice Of Ofermod In Tolkien's Fall Of Arthur, Colin J. Cutler

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Tolkien’s Fall of Arthur has at its heart the theme of ofermod, a theme which appears throughout Tolkien’s criticism and creative work. In his essay “The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son,” he argues that the Anglo-Saxon word ofermod in the poem The Battle of Maldon condemns the warband’s leader for an over-reaching pride which places his men in desperate straits. This paper conducts a study of the word and its derivatives in various Anglo-Saxon texts, taking the Microfiche Concordance to Old English as its starting point, and traces Tolkien’s creative use of the theme in both his tales of Middle-earth …


Paradise Retold: Lewis's Reimagining Of Milton, Eden, And Eve, Benita Huffman Muth Oct 2018

Paradise Retold: Lewis's Reimagining Of Milton, Eden, And Eve, Benita Huffman Muth

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

C.S. Lewis’ interaction with John Milton’s Paradise Lost, in particular his commentary on and retelling of Milton’s version of the myth of humanity's Fall, allow us to track Lewis’s evolving stance on gender through his changing presentation of Eve-figures. His intertextual interactions with Paradise Lost and Eve change dramatically from A Preface to Paradise Lost and Perelandra to the later The Magician’s Nephew. Lewis’s fragmentation of Eve into multiple characters in The Magician’s Nephew exhibits specifically gendered changes from his early depictions of Eve, reflecting the more nuanced consideration of gender evidenced in Lewis’ later years.


A Cloud Of Witnesses: External Mediation In Frodo’S Journey To Rivendell And Beyond, Carl P. Olson Oct 2018

A Cloud Of Witnesses: External Mediation In Frodo’S Journey To Rivendell And Beyond, Carl P. Olson

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Applies Rene Girard’s mimetic theory to a study of Frodo’s motivations and role models in the early phases of The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien’s incorporation of extensive background material deepens our understanding of his main characters, most of all his central hero, Frodo. Commonly described as “role-models,” external mediators work to pacify relations in a community, and act to endow individuals with meaning, purpose, and direction they otherwise would not have. By the imitation of role-models, Frodo, Sam, Pippin, and Merry become real to Tolkien’s readers by comparison and contrast to Bilbo Baggins, Gildor and his high elves, …


Christian Mythmakers: C.S. Lewis. Madeleine L’Engle, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S Lewis, Et Al. By Rolland Hein. Forward By Clyde S. Kilby, Sharon L. Bolding Phd Oct 2018

Christian Mythmakers: C.S. Lewis. Madeleine L’Engle, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S Lewis, Et Al. By Rolland Hein. Forward By Clyde S. Kilby, Sharon L. Bolding Phd

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

No abstract provided.