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Sampaguita, Alexandria Delcourt Mfa Jan 2014

Sampaguita, Alexandria Delcourt Mfa

All Student Scholarship

This thesis contains the first 115 pages of a novel that takes place in the Philippines between 1908 and 1944. The main character , Sampaguita, is a young girl who is growing up in a house with her wealthy father, a prominent lawyer in their town, his wife, their children, as well as her mother who is a concubine and dances waltzes with American soldiers in the local cantina for 10 cents per song, and the rest of her siblings.


The Yellow House, Chris Dielschnieder Jan 2014

The Yellow House, Chris Dielschnieder

Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.


Fulcrum, And Other Stories, Thomas Heyman Jan 2014

Fulcrum, And Other Stories, Thomas Heyman

Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.


Fictional Emotions: Genuineness Of Emotions In Fictions, Lorien Giles Jan 2014

Fictional Emotions: Genuineness Of Emotions In Fictions, Lorien Giles

CMC Senior Theses

The common position in philosophy calls into question the ability of our emotions that derive from fictions to be genuine. In this paper I analyze this view, its motivating examples, and some unconsidered positions. In doing this I hope to offer a good defense of why our emotions that derive from fictions are in fact genuine and why the Paradox of Fiction is too broad.


The Grimm Fairy Tales Rewritten With Feminist Perspectives, Kylie Hammell Jan 2014

The Grimm Fairy Tales Rewritten With Feminist Perspectives, Kylie Hammell

Honors College Theses

Three Grimm Fairy Tales - The Little Mermaid, The Seven Ravens, and Little Red Riding Hood, - rewritten with eco-feminist, radical feminist, and liberal feminist perspectives.


Land Of Flowers, Michael Morrison Jan 2014

Land Of Flowers, Michael Morrison

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Land of Flowers is a collection of short fiction presenting a Florida that stands in counterpoint to the image the state holds in the national consciousness-an image of a backward region rife with rednecks, retirees, racists, and religious kooks. In contrast, these stories feature the natives, the tourists, the immigrants, and also the transplants who are drawn to this "paradise" with hopes of finding warmth, escape, and a new life that so often fails to materialize. Many of the inhabitants of these stories are mired in a state of introspection. In the title piece, an early Spanish explorer contemplates his …


The Visual Novel: Fictional Space And Print After 1900, Michael James Griffin Ii Jan 2014

The Visual Novel: Fictional Space And Print After 1900, Michael James Griffin Ii

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

My dissertation, The Visual Novel: Fictional Space and Print After 1900, examines how and why the novel has assimilated visual mediums—film, art, and the digital—into the genre as a means of adapting to the proliferation of mass media and technology. This project connects a history of the novel (genre) with a history of the book (the genre’s physical form), thereby theorizing and narrating a history of the visual novel. I demonstrate that through fictional space, a critical term used by narratologists and textual studies scholars, visual writing emerges as a hybridized mode of creative composition where we can see most …


From The Pulpit To Perdition, Henry Clay Morrison Jan 2014

From The Pulpit To Perdition, Henry Clay Morrison

Heritage Material

No abstract provided.


Body Language: Pain In Victorian Literature, Laura Jane Faulk Jan 2014

Body Language: Pain In Victorian Literature, Laura Jane Faulk

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

“Body Language: Pain in Victorian Literature” argues that Victorian authors use the readable sign system of the body and pain to emphasize their characters’ physical features to the reader. As characters physically manifest emotions or experience violence, their appearances change, and these differences depend on physical descriptions. Marks on the body give it texture and depth, creating a layering that encourages the reader to envision and remember it. Character interactions, particularly when they read others’ somatic signs and experience or cause brutality, further flesh out characters, emphasizing their physical presences in the reader’s mind. The somatic sign system depends upon …


Little Rituals, Bruce Johnson Dec 2013

Little Rituals, Bruce Johnson

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The following stories represent what I have accomplished in my three-and-a-half years in the Master of Fine Arts-Fiction program at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. They are all realist stories, most of them with a minimalist leaning. Together for the first time, they are more than a mere sum of the writing I've done in my time in the MFA program. They are the stories that, when I read them now, still occasionally delight me. Most of the stories that I wrote as an MFA candidate do not pass this test, and thus are not included here. If there is …


Aesthetic Beauty In The 18th Century Chinese Novel Guwanyan (Preposterous Words), Qing Ye Oct 2013

Aesthetic Beauty In The 18th Century Chinese Novel Guwanyan (Preposterous Words), Qing Ye

2013 New England Association for Asian Studies Conference

This paper explores the tension between the radical sexual description and orthodox rhetoric in 18th century Chinese vernacular narrative. My research focuses on a xiaoshuo fiction, Guwangyan (Preposterous Words), authored by Cao Qujing and composed in 1730. This novel pictures the domestic lives of four families in Nanjing from the end of the 17th century to the early 18th century, including many explicit sexual descriptions. I argue that the author projects the ethic concern through the structure and characterization, while presents the anxiety towards desire in graphic sexual descriptions in the novel. The contrast and complementarity of the structural frame …


Rape And Genji’S Relationships With Women, Joseph Mark Donaldson, Dr. George Perkins Oct 2013

Rape And Genji’S Relationships With Women, Joseph Mark Donaldson, Dr. George Perkins

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Genji is a character is the ancient Japanese novel, The Tale of Genji. The setting of the novel is the Heian court of ancient Japan. Genji is the son of the emperor’s favorite wife. Although Genji is most favored among the emperor’s sons, and possesses remarkable qualities, his mother was of relatively low rank and Genji is at a young age deprived of his opportunity to become emperor. This happens early in the novel but the story continues the tale of Genji’s life and even includes the lives of some of his descendents.


Suddenly Yellow, Haley Hach Oct 2013

Suddenly Yellow, Haley Hach

CutBank

No abstract provided.


Jet Skiing, Matthew Socia Oct 2013

Jet Skiing, Matthew Socia

CutBank

No abstract provided.


The Molloy Student Literary Magazine Volume 10, Damian Hey Ph.D., Stefanie Melling, Joseph Ostapiuk, Kaitlin Duignan, Amanda Ammirati, Sarah Bipath, Kenneth Bornholdt, John Bruno, Shenequa Bucknor, Kristin Cardino, Ashley Geyer, Ugoma Konkwo, Ryan Roberts, Marilena Rocco, Roger Smith, Lauren Spotkov, Alexa Sussman, Caitlin Breen, Katie Killman, Lauren Trogele, Kristy Petrizzo Oct 2013

The Molloy Student Literary Magazine Volume 10, Damian Hey Ph.D., Stefanie Melling, Joseph Ostapiuk, Kaitlin Duignan, Amanda Ammirati, Sarah Bipath, Kenneth Bornholdt, John Bruno, Shenequa Bucknor, Kristin Cardino, Ashley Geyer, Ugoma Konkwo, Ryan Roberts, Marilena Rocco, Roger Smith, Lauren Spotkov, Alexa Sussman, Caitlin Breen, Katie Killman, Lauren Trogele, Kristy Petrizzo

The Molloy Student Literary Magazine

The Molloy Student Literary Magazine, sponsored by Molloy College’s Office of Student Affairs, is devoted to publishing the best previously unpublished works of prose, poetry, drama, literary review, criticism, and other literary genres, that the Molloy student community has to offer. The journal welcomes submissions, for possible publication, from currently enrolled Molloy students at all levels. All submitted work will undergo a review process initiated by the Managing Editor prior to a decision being made regarding publication of said work. Given sufficient content, The Molloy Student Literary Magazine is published twice annually in Spring and Fall. Interested contributors from the …


44 True Things About Being Gone, Emma Copley Eisenberg Oct 2013

44 True Things About Being Gone, Emma Copley Eisenberg

CutBank

No abstract provided.


Religious Society Of Friends, Leigh Gallagher Oct 2013

Religious Society Of Friends, Leigh Gallagher

CutBank

No abstract provided.


Hypothermia, Tim Fitts Oct 2013

Hypothermia, Tim Fitts

CutBank

No abstract provided.


The Daughter Resurrected, Faith Gardner Oct 2013

The Daughter Resurrected, Faith Gardner

CutBank

No abstract provided.


Mountain Men, James O. Lincoln Oct 2013

Mountain Men, James O. Lincoln

Student Publications

This is a piece of fiction about love, drugs, death, and giants in no particular order. Todd and Heather, a young couple a year or two out of college, are camping in the woods and smoking a good deal of weed when the mountain they've pitched their tent on stands up and begins laying waste to the countryside. While the stoners are trapped on the body of the colossus and forced to work through some relationship issues and possible head trauma, an elderly widower and his dog on the forest floor have their home remodeled by a giant's foot.


Slaughterhouse-Five And The Bombing Of Dresden: Reconciling Fiction With Non-Fiction, Philip Webb, Dr. Trent Hickman Sep 2013

Slaughterhouse-Five And The Bombing Of Dresden: Reconciling Fiction With Non-Fiction, Philip Webb, Dr. Trent Hickman

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Some historical events, singular in their atrocity and horror, are not easily forgotten. Every nation, culture, and religion, claims one event and remembers it with solemnity. For Japan, it was Hiroshima and Nagasaki. For Jews, the Holocaust. Now in Indonesia, it is a devastating tsunami. For America it could be Pearl Harbor or September 11. Germans are no exception. They remember the night of February 13, 1945—the bombing and annihilation of their beloved Dresden. And when the talk turns to Dresden, it turns to Slaughterhouse-Five.


Shadows In Time: A Study Of Temporal Metaphysics Through Hard Science Fiction And Its Restrictions On The Past And Future, Lindsey E. Mitchell Aug 2013

Shadows In Time: A Study Of Temporal Metaphysics Through Hard Science Fiction And Its Restrictions On The Past And Future, Lindsey E. Mitchell

Oglethorpe Journal of Undergraduate Research

Through a series of essays, this body of work explores the varying theories concerning the nature of time and how each theory affects the possibility and outcome of time travel. Following these essays, a collection of short stories focuses on what the author considers the most probable theories concerning time and expands on how they might affect a time traveler's decisions and fate.


Greyhound, 1984, Lisa K. Sandlin Aug 2013

Greyhound, 1984, Lisa K. Sandlin

Writer’s Workshop Faculty Publications

In "Greyhound, 1984," fiction writer Lisa Sandlin grabs and holds onto the reader with terse, rhythmic language, unique imagery, and a story that's both unsentimental and poignant.


Da Vinci's Ristorante Tustin, California, Mark Axelrod Jul 2013

Da Vinci's Ristorante Tustin, California, Mark Axelrod

English Faculty Creative Works

Did you know Leonardo da Vinci was a secret restaurateur?


Translations From Allada And Experience D'Edward Lee, Versailles By Gérard Gavarry, Gérard Gavarry, Katina Rogers Jul 2013

Translations From Allada And Experience D'Edward Lee, Versailles By Gérard Gavarry, Gérard Gavarry, Katina Rogers

Publications and Research

At the heart of Gérard Gavarry’s writing are the questions of what power language holds, and what remains beyond the reach of expression. The two translations included here, excerpts from Allada (P.O.L, 1993) and Expérience d’Edward Lee, Versailles (P.O.L, 2009), share little with each other in terms of setting or structure, but explore similar questions of the role and limits of language in relation to defamiliarization, power, and fear. The inventive reflection on the nature of language, identity, and power that, woven into the fabric of the novel, makes Gavarry’s work some of the most compelling fiction coming out of …


Alabaster Sky: Writing For The Web, Graham Ward, Dr. Eric Samuelsen Jun 2013

Alabaster Sky: Writing For The Web, Graham Ward, Dr. Eric Samuelsen

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Writing the web series Alabaster Sky was a process of daily adaptation. From viewing every web series and documentary-style movie we could get our hands on, to inventing a method of structuring serial fiction that’s non-linear, this project tested us daily. The success of the production itself is yet to be determined, but the writing process can be considered successful in its attempt to test the limits of new media. The most significant area of work in the writing process was marrying the series’ documentary style with a non-linear structure.


Setting As Character, Tracy A. Townsend Jun 2013

Setting As Character, Tracy A. Townsend

The Short Story

This lesson uses Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Young Goodman Brown” to explore tone and characterization in short fiction. It requires students to demonstrate an understanding of the role character plays in fiction and to use specific textual evidence to support a claim. The lesson can be completed in a single class period of fifty to seventy minutes and is suitable for grades 9-12.


Dialogue In Fiction, Tracy A. Townsend Jun 2013

Dialogue In Fiction, Tracy A. Townsend

The Short Story

This close-reading and discussion-oriented lesson, which takes between sixty and seventy minutes, uses Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” as a model of how dialogue advances plot and develops character in fiction. It is useful in literature classrooms for its emphasis on drawing inferences from text and in creative writing contexts for teaching effective dialogue writing. This lesson is suitable for grades 9-12.


Glasgow And Other Stories, Hannah Choi May 2013

Glasgow And Other Stories, Hannah Choi

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Some New Place, Nicole Mayeux May 2013

Some New Place, Nicole Mayeux

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.