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All-Consuming Madness, Ainsley Doyle Jan 2023

All-Consuming Madness, Ainsley Doyle

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

My honors project is a short story, titled All-Consuming Madness, that follows the main character Annie as she struggles to cope with the aftermath of a car accident that changed her life. The story explores the impact grief can have on family relationships and how trauma can close people off from each other. It also explores Annie’s journey towards healing as she struggles to forgive herself for the accident. The accompanying essays detail the creative process I went through while creating this story and the influences that had an important impact on the story.


Writing New Normals: A Study Of American Pandemic Fiction In The Wake Of Covid-19, Riley E. Droppleman Jan 2023

Writing New Normals: A Study Of American Pandemic Fiction In The Wake Of Covid-19, Riley E. Droppleman

Gaines Fellow Senior Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to explore the aspects of pandemic fiction that extend beyond the illness itself. In this thesis, I show that while the disease that spreads is a large focus of pandemic fiction, the truths that spring from these novels reveal larger societal issues, such as class hierarchies, racial inequalities, and failings of the government to fight the pandemic. In fact, pandemics act as catalysts for the uncovering of these societal ills, and the authors of pandemic fictions bring these greater faults of society to the forefront of their novels. I analyze three novels from the …


New Members, James F. Mcgrath Jan 2023

New Members, James F. Mcgrath

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

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Incline And Rise, Rose Mclarney Jan 2023

Incline And Rise, Rose Mclarney

CutBank

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Cutbank 98 Jan 2023

Cutbank 98

CutBank

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To The Woman In The Fred Meyer Self-Checkout Line Who Thought I Was More Puerto Rican Than I Really Am, Rachel Attias Jan 2023

To The Woman In The Fred Meyer Self-Checkout Line Who Thought I Was More Puerto Rican Than I Really Am, Rachel Attias

CutBank

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Behemoth, Kathleen Walker Jan 2023

Behemoth, Kathleen Walker

CutBank

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Jingle Jangle, Michael Caleb Tasker Jan 2023

Jingle Jangle, Michael Caleb Tasker

CutBank

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Harvest: A Story Of Afropessimism, Briana Williams, Briana Williams Jan 2023

Harvest: A Story Of Afropessimism, Briana Williams, Briana Williams

Dartmouth College Master’s Theses

Afropessimism is the idea that Black people will never be able to truly overcome the centuries of racism and oppression they have faced. A bleak notion, the idea heavily contrasts with Afrofuturism, the ways in which Black people use technology to regain their autonomy and rise from the societal binds they’re placed in. This story focuses on how even in the supposedly more evolved and progressive political landscape of the modern world, Black people still cannot escape the shackles of racism, particularly in the United States. Taking the common themes of and ideologies of Afropessimism, Harvest follows the story of …


Picture Me Like This: A Short Story Collection, Anna Jones Jan 2023

Picture Me Like This: A Short Story Collection, Anna Jones

Scripps Senior Theses

Picture Me Like This is a short story collection that explores our racialized imaginations surrounding Blackness and whiteness, and the implications those have for our intimacies with each other.


Milk Tooth, 2023, Macy Bernard, Victoria Bohney, Mathea Brink, Mackenzie Britton, Shawn Cruze, Madelyn Dakken, Jada Dokken, Isaiah Dunham, Liz Fisher, Brooke Froehle, Oak Greyson, Gordon Hess, Joseph Kettelhodt, Hannah Lewis, Marissa Marxhausen, Hunter Meland, Autumn Miles, Natalie Nelson, Emma Niessink, Lauren Winkelman, Luke Yartz Jan 2023

Milk Tooth, 2023, Macy Bernard, Victoria Bohney, Mathea Brink, Mackenzie Britton, Shawn Cruze, Madelyn Dakken, Jada Dokken, Isaiah Dunham, Liz Fisher, Brooke Froehle, Oak Greyson, Gordon Hess, Joseph Kettelhodt, Hannah Lewis, Marissa Marxhausen, Hunter Meland, Autumn Miles, Natalie Nelson, Emma Niessink, Lauren Winkelman, Luke Yartz

Milk Tooth

"Writings by Bemidji State University Students". Sponsored by the Bemidji State University English Department.


Under Night's Darkness, Alexandra Fiege Ore Jan 2023

Under Night's Darkness, Alexandra Fiege Ore

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Under Night’s Darkness follows Landry, who has recently been paroled from prison and returns to his family home in rural Montana. He has recently become a born-again Christian and is in the midst of a frantic final attempt to redeem himself after a lifetime dedicated to bullying and cruelty. He’s not only haunted by the specters of domestic abuse and sexual assault, but also by the ghosts of the recently dead. Enraged at the failure of his tragicomic attempts at redemption, Landry commits the sadistic murder of his own brother. The ensuing cycle of revenge destroys Landry’s family and Landry …


The Wellington Affair: A Detective Story, Anakin Weston Jan 2023

The Wellington Affair: A Detective Story, Anakin Weston

Masters Theses

The week the heiress to the Wellington Family fortune returns to England, a series of strange events sweeps through the streets. The Wellington Diamond, unsurpassed by all of its kind, becomes the envy of more criminally-minded eyes and a plan is put into motion to steal it. Caught in the cross-fire, prospective writer Mark Verner is framed for the theft of the diamond but is saved from arrest by none other than the heiress herself. When the conspiracy to steal the jewel turns murderous, the only hope of the duo lies in the hands of the reluctant yet limitless detective …


The Amulet Of Nethelar, Sarah J. Brown Jan 2023

The Amulet Of Nethelar, Sarah J. Brown

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


Fascism In Sci-Fi: "Mobilizing Passions" In Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers, Alton C. Ayers Jan 2023

Fascism In Sci-Fi: "Mobilizing Passions" In Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers, Alton C. Ayers

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis responds to criticism of Robert A. Heinlein’s Starship Troopers (1959) as a “fascist” novel by further investigating the claim through a close reading of the novel that applies political theory scholarship on fascism. Chapters I and II introduce the novel along with its general reception and controversy. These chapters consider the accusations of “fascism” given to the novel while at the same time understanding that a clear, exact definition of “fascism” has long been grappled with by scholars since the rise of the regimes in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Chapters III and IV apply political theory to …


Novella, Sydney German Dec 2022

Novella, Sydney German

Departmental Honors & Graduate Capstone Projects

This paper was written for ENGL 470B:1 – Seminar: Creative Writing Fiction under the instruction of Dr. Ray Levy, and the project is titled Novella while the story is called Unforeseeable. It is an 11,000-word sensational, suspenseful psychological fiction about Ava Reed, a 22-year-old woman, who is on a search for independence and freedom from her small town. The story begins by immediately diving into the scene of a murder with Ava holding the weapon. From there, the story works backward to slowly reveal the motive and the true account of what took place that night. It focuses primarily …


Documents And The Malady Of Truth, Ronald E. Day Dec 2022

Documents And The Malady Of Truth, Ronald E. Day

Proceedings from the Document Academy

This article discusses documents, knowledge, and truth through a conceptual examination and through an examination of Flaubert's 19th century novel Madame Bovary. It argues that the main characters of Madame Bovary deceive themselves by believing that the contents of the fictional and medical texts they read convey truth. In contrast, the article argues that modern knowledge is constituted by documentary evidence operating in knowledge networks and processes where the result of such operations is what can be claimed to be true about the world through such processes. The representational malady that Madame and Doctor Bovary suffer in the novel was …


Payton's Final Master's Portfolio, Payton Boshears Dec 2022

Payton's Final Master's Portfolio, Payton Boshears

Master of Arts in English Plan II Graduate Projects

Here is my final Master's Portfolio. I did not have specialization for the English program, so for the portfolio I chose four different projects that represent the variety of courses I have taken during my time here at BGSU.


The Reality Of Therapeutic Fictional Power: Students' Use Of Fiction As A Coping Mechanism, Miranda Judson Dec 2022

The Reality Of Therapeutic Fictional Power: Students' Use Of Fiction As A Coping Mechanism, Miranda Judson

Fall Student Research Symposium 2022

This research explores the benefits of leisure and assigned reading as a coping mechanism. In this research I discovered that fiction is a powerful coping mechanism. While research has been done on Bibliotherapy, the guided use of literature for patients, clients, or students, and similar fields, no research has been done specifically on fiction or the self-guided use of fiction as a coping mechanism. I surveyed and interviewed university English students who responded that they find fiction to be soothing and that they find insight to problems they're facing when they read. I discovered that students find more insight and …


Fallen Kingdom, Sarah E. Black Dec 2022

Fallen Kingdom, Sarah E. Black

Honors College Theses

Fallen Kingdom is a novella situated in the genre of urban fantasy. Fast-paced with beautifully woven descriptions, this project aims to depict the experience of PTSD as readers follow Scarlett in her attempts to navigate lost memories, magic, and a new world. With danger lurking around every corner, her only hope is to realize her own strengths and motivations to save the person she loves most.


Western Wall, Jerusalem, Judi Yitti Koval Nov 2022

Western Wall, Jerusalem, Judi Yitti Koval

The John Carroll Review

No abstract provided.


The Old Man, Madeleine Polcyn Nov 2022

The Old Man, Madeleine Polcyn

The John Carroll Review

No abstract provided.


Migraine During A Late Night Drive, Julia Kashuba Nov 2022

Migraine During A Late Night Drive, Julia Kashuba

The John Carroll Review

No abstract provided.


The Kitchen Table, Emily Elvoid Nov 2022

The Kitchen Table, Emily Elvoid

The John Carroll Review

No abstract provided.


Unexpecting, Mara Bahmer Nov 2022

Unexpecting, Mara Bahmer

The John Carroll Review

No abstract provided.


Peeling, Jessica Disalvatore Nov 2022

Peeling, Jessica Disalvatore

The John Carroll Review

No abstract provided.


Two Or Three Days Ago, Marcie Blandford Nov 2022

Two Or Three Days Ago, Marcie Blandford

The John Carroll Review

No abstract provided.


Optimal View, Andy Penk Nov 2022

Optimal View, Andy Penk

The John Carroll Review

No abstract provided.


Brown Bear, Ashley Bernett Nov 2022

Brown Bear, Ashley Bernett

The John Carroll Review

No abstract provided.


Bodies In Transit: Women, War, And Violence In Select Fiction From Nepal, Lakhipriya Gogoi Oct 2022

Bodies In Transit: Women, War, And Violence In Select Fiction From Nepal, Lakhipriya Gogoi

Journal of International Women's Studies

The figures of women in conflict zones have been presented in South Asian literature chiefly as torn and battered bodies/souls, usually carrying an irremediable suffering and sense of loss that they bear as wives, mothers, and daughters while their male compatriots participate in the zone of war. The twentieth century surge in identity movements and political conflicts in South Asia, however, offers us new figures of women as “warriors” or direct participants in the zones of violence. The usurpation of such new bodies, on the one hand, defies the hegemonic feminization of women’s bodies as caregivers, and on the other …