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Advanced Studies In The Graphic Novel, Thomas Barkman

Senior Honors Projects

Advanced Studies in the Graphic Novel entails a practical intimacy with the form. My work serves to elucidate only some of the many differences between the graphic novel and traditional literature, to complicate the use of written language in the form as it relates to images, to address confrontations with publishing, and to share intimately the process and mechanisms by which my effort functions.

The paper will reveal the guts of the effort (itself a graphic novel) and in doing so will highlight issues as they uniquely relate to the form, and hopefully encourage others to attempt such work. The …

The Relationship Among Beginning And Advanced American Sign Language Students And Credentialed Interpreters Across Two Domains Of Visual Imagery: Vividness And Manipulation, Linda Stauffer

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Given the visual-gestural nature of ASL it is reasonable to assume that visualization abilities may be one predictor of aptitude for learning ASL. This study tested a hypothesis that visualization abilities are a foundational aptitude for learning a signed language and that measurements of these skills will increase as students progress from beginning ASL students to advanced language learners and, ultimately to credentialed interpreters. Participants in this study consisted of 90 beginning and 66 advanced ASL students in five interpreter education programs in four southern states along with 68 credentialed interpreters. Students and interpreters were administered the Vividness of Visual …

Hold, Hold, My Heart, Andrew Berthrong

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This thesis consists of a traditional introduction followed by a first-person, fictional story told in seven chapters. The story begins with the protagonist in his apartment preparing to write, a brief account of his stalling, and then his beginning to write. Those chapters taking place in the vicinity of the apartment are in the present tense and those relating past adventures are written in third person, one chapter for each adventure: Africa, sailing, and Navajo Mountain. After each adventure, the narration returns to the apartment.

This piece is the embodiment of both the vigorous internal work in search of understanding …

Vol. Xlvii, No. 2: A Forest Of Forms: The Poetry Of Susan Stewart, Lisa Williams

The Hollins Critic

No abstract provided.

The Difficulties Of Teaching Non-Western Literature In The United States, Ian Barnard

English Faculty Articles and Research

"My goal in this article is to build on Priya Kandaswamy’s discussion of students’ response to difference in Radical Teacher #80 by unfolding the pitfalls of teaching and responding to “non-Western” literature in the United States as embodied in my own experience teaching non-Western literature to a group of racially and ethnically diverse, mainly working-class students at a large urban comprehensive public university."

Going No Place?: Foreground Nostalgia And Psychological Spaces In Wharton's The House Of Mirth, Sean Scanlan

Publications and Research

This essay argues that the power of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth comes not from Lily Bart's function as a mere symptom of historical and economic pressures, but from the complex narrative and psychological process by which she negotiates a sequence of homes and their repeated collapse. Informing this process is nostalgia, a feeling that frames Lily Bart's step-by-step fall from riches to rags. Reading Lily via cognitive and family systems approaches suggests that Lily's rootlessness is predicated on a subtle transformation from her reliance upon simple “background” (aesthetic and monetary) nostalgia to a more complex and overwhelming “foreground” …

Genre, Database, And The Anatomy Of The Digital Archive, Elizabeth J. Vincelette

English Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to define shared characteristics of literary digital archives, specifically to explore how conceptual and structural qualities of such archives express generic qualities. In order to describe digital media such as database or digital archives, scholars resort to metaphors, and this study offers the metaphor of anatomy as a generic inscription with historical and methodological implications. The definition of the anatomy genre draws from Northrop Frye's in Anatomy of Criticism, in which Frye describes how anatomies are characterized by proliferating lists, the mixing of prose and non-prose forms, and self-reflexivity--under the guise of knowledge …

Vol. Xlvii, No. 1: Carrie Brown's Fiction: Always Compassionate, Always Surprising, Mariflo Stephens

The Hollins Critic

No abstract provided.

We Will Make Your Head Explode, Jaclyn Sullivan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

We Will Make Your Head Explode is a collection of short fiction stories that explore themes of friendship, family, love, lust, jealousy, loyalty, and disappointment. The characters in these stories are utterly human; they are pushed, pulled, and often fall victim to circumstance. A woman grapples between her love of roadside attractions and her boyfriend's grief. A son is forced to decide whether or not to honor his mother's final wishes. A college student is blind to her brother's evolution beyond their family. A woman discovers new possibilities while stalking graveyards to escape the memory of a man who left …

Words & Images 2010, University Of Southern Maine

Words and Images

Publishing Director: Jesse Leighton

Fiction Editors: Renee Decamilis, Brian Spigel, Mark Rowland

Art Director: Aubin Thomas

Poetry Editors: Tamarah Smith, Jonathan Wilson, Todd Perry

Parnassus 2010

Parnassus

The 2010 edition of the student literary journal, Parnassus, published by Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

Carlo Flunks The Seventh Grade, Greg Alan Brownderville

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 11

Boy In The Forest, Joanna Pearson

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 78-79

A Painting Of Us, Okla Elliott

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 21

The Porch, Claudia Emerson

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 23

The Body's Refrain, Anna Evans

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 26

In Situ, E Laura Golberg

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 29-32

Exoricsm, Jason Gray

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 34

Hackberry, Linda Parsons Marion

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 61

A Wish For My Children, Jill Mccorkle

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 64

Raccoon, Casey Ward

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 83

Joyful Night, Luke Johnson

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 47

Descending Into Philadelphia, William Logan

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 58

My Grandmother's Dogs, Linda Parsons Marion

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 62

Ghost, Jill Mccorkle

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 68

Daisy, Jill Mccorkle

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 63

"Is Kentucky A Southern State?", Leah Dale Pritchett

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

his paper explores the cultural identity of Kentucky. Many people have asked, “Is Kentucky as Southern State?” Being the borderland between the North and the South, the Commonwealth has been viewed as Southern, as part of the Midwest, and something completely unique. To define Kentucky as Southern, I have examined the literary works of different regional authors. Looking at the character traits those authors have relegated to their manufactured people, I have decided, from the evidence provided, whether that author considers his or her setting as part of the South. One can tell whether the author identifies with the South …

Heaven As Las Vegas, Gary Leising

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 53

Dies Irae, William Logan

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 54

Mnemosyne, Caki Wilkinson

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 85-86