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Echoes, Alexis Levitin, Ricardo Vasconcelos, Luis Miguel Nava Jan 2022

Echoes, Alexis Levitin, Ricardo Vasconcelos, Luis Miguel Nava

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 104


My Father's Daughter, Cate Marvin Jan 2022

My Father's Daughter, Cate Marvin

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 110-111


The Mortgaged House, Ashely Anna Mchugh Jan 2022

The Mortgaged House, Ashely Anna Mchugh

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 115


Self-Poissession As An Impulse Of Privilege, Phillip Sterling Jan 2022

Self-Poissession As An Impulse Of Privilege, Phillip Sterling

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 139


Boy In The Coalfields, Circa 1929, Cecilia Woloch Jan 2022

Boy In The Coalfields, Circa 1929, Cecilia Woloch

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 152


Paulie Renn And Sister With Wheelbarrow, Cecilia Woloch Jan 2022

Paulie Renn And Sister With Wheelbarrow, Cecilia Woloch

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 153


Reading With Joysticks: Video Games In The English Language Arts Classroom, Wesley Wingert Jan 2022

Reading With Joysticks: Video Games In The English Language Arts Classroom, Wesley Wingert

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

This paper examines the new literary format of video games and argues that video games can be studied as their own text in the English Language Arts classroom through the lenses of film theory, narratology, and ludology. In order to be precise, the paper offers explicit connections to each of the reading and writing standards supplied by the Common Core State Standards. The paper then suggests that video games as literature can offer opportunities and skills beyond what traditional literature can, including problem solving and communication skills. Next, the paper lays out a framework to be used in order to …


Good Patients, Susan Mesler-Evans Jan 2022

Good Patients, Susan Mesler-Evans

Honors Undergraduate Theses

This thesis is the first 21 chapters (approximately 150 pages) of a novel, Good Patients, accompanied by a complete synopsis. Good Patients is a social satire which seeks to touch on the flaws of the American healthcare system and social media culture, and how these two intersect for many people. To prepare for writing, I spent my first semester completing a guided reading list and preparing the synopsis, both of which were approved by my thesis chair. While writing, I consulted several medical articles to make my work as accurate as possible. The novel explores the way social media …


Counter-Mapping The Material World Of The Bone Clocks: A Critical Analysis Through Digital Cartography, Anne Howard Jan 2022

Counter-Mapping The Material World Of The Bone Clocks: A Critical Analysis Through Digital Cartography, Anne Howard

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

This project develops a reading strategy through mapping, using David Mitchell's 2014 novel The Bone Clocks as a primary text. Through the methods of critical cartography and counter-mapping, this research insists that by making maps that counter the dominant narrative, readers can disrupt the author’s perspective and craft new interpretations that highlight their own experiences. Critical cartography, the reflexive how and why maps are made and used, is all about the awareness of the power dynamics and colonial influences involved in traditional map-making. Choosing to map against dominant power structures is called counter-mapping. To apply these theories to literature, then, …


A Prosaic People? Literature, Propaganda, And National Identity In Second World War Britain, William L. Maines Jan 2022

A Prosaic People? Literature, Propaganda, And National Identity In Second World War Britain, William L. Maines

Honors Theses

During the early years of the Second World War, a typically unofficial and loose coalition of British newspapers, publishers, propagandists, and booksellers mobilized Britain’s imagined literary past and present as a part of the war effort. They defined the nation through its imagined literary proclivities— its penchant for literary production and consumption, and its “unique” attitude toward literary freedom— and in opposition to the literary tyranny of Nazi Germany. Marshaling the nation’s mythological literary heritage, they enlisted Shakespeare and Milton in the war effort, portraying them as temperate and civilian English heroes. While the rhetoric of “British bookishness” hardly went …


The Book I Never Got To Read: A Tale Of Book Censorship, Courtney Everett Jan 2022

The Book I Never Got To Read: A Tale Of Book Censorship, Courtney Everett

Emerging Writers

From the expression of authors to sharing perceptions of the world, the use of literature has been one of the most common ways of teaching students for generations. However, with opposing viewpoints and conflicting ideas, literary censorship has continued to become an issue among communities for longer than people realize, and it brings harm to humanity over time. This essay discusses the recent conflict of banning books in communities and its affect on students.


Don't Quote Me On Any Of This, Shawn Delgado Jan 2022

Don't Quote Me On Any Of This, Shawn Delgado

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 80-82


My Testimony, Jenny Molberg Jan 2022

My Testimony, Jenny Molberg

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 118


Birmingham Poetry Review 49 (Front Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff Jan 2022

Birmingham Poetry Review 49 (Front Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

No abstract provided.


Indiana, John Poch, Pietro Federico Jan 2022

Indiana, John Poch, Pietro Federico

Birmingham Poetry Review

p.129


Tender The River, Anastasia Sorochinsky Jan 2022

Tender The River, Anastasia Sorochinsky

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 161-166


Unearth, Kyle Taylor Jan 2022

Unearth, Kyle Taylor

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 179-184


Rendezvous With Ghost, Cate Marvin Jan 2022

Rendezvous With Ghost, Cate Marvin

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 112


Anorexia Mirabilis: Catherine Of Siena, Frank Paino Jan 2022

Anorexia Mirabilis: Catherine Of Siena, Frank Paino

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 123-124


Wild Root, J Salvador Peralta, Juana De Ibarbourou Jan 2022

Wild Root, J Salvador Peralta, Juana De Ibarbourou

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 125


Intro To Jewish American Literature, Amy W. Kratka Jan 2022

Intro To Jewish American Literature, Amy W. Kratka

Open Educational Resources

No abstract provided.


The Reflective Age: Nostalgia At The End Of History, Zachary Griffith Jan 2022

The Reflective Age: Nostalgia At The End Of History, Zachary Griffith

Theses and Dissertations--English

This project investigates the ways in which nostalgic American media of the last decade reflects the sociopolitical conditions of the end of history. It begins with the assertion that the end of history represents a confounded, contradictory moment in which large-scale political change is relatively scarce, and belief in a progressive future has largely been abandoned, while cultural change has also accelerated at a pace never before seen––spurred on, in particular, by the constant return of dead styles and dormant IP. In other words, it seems as if nothing is changing and everything is changing simultaneously. The recent boom in …


Who We Really Are? Disciplinary Struggles And The Role Of Literature In Language Departments, Luciano Martínez Jan 2022

Who We Really Are? Disciplinary Struggles And The Role Of Literature In Language Departments, Luciano Martínez

Spanish Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Literary Fiction And Sympathy: How Reading Makes You A Better Person, Emma Rose Wick Jan 2022

Literary Fiction And Sympathy: How Reading Makes You A Better Person, Emma Rose Wick

Honors Theses and Capstones

I argue in this thesis that literary fiction enhances our ability to sympathize with others as a result of observing—and thereby coming to feel for—the perspectives of the characters by engaging in mental perspective-taking. As a result, we become able to sympathize with an array of individuals whose experiences are unlike our own, and which we may never understand otherwise. I argue that the ability to sympathize with others is valuable for the sake of being a morally good person, and for having an overall good character. This has value in and of itself, particularly from an Aristotelian perspective. I …


Pedagogies Of The “Irresistible”: Imaginative Elsewheres Of Black Feminist Learning., Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Jan 2022

Pedagogies Of The “Irresistible”: Imaginative Elsewheres Of Black Feminist Learning., Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

Journal of Feminist Scholarship

In her foreword to the groundbreaking anthology, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Toni Cade Bambara (1983) famously argues that the great work of feminist writing is “to make revolution irresistible.” This statement is often read as a founding call of women-of-color feminism, and of feminist literary expression in particular. Yet Bambara’s notion of the “irresistible” extends beyond the page; throughout her works, she also uses the term as a key descriptor of her pedagogy, and her vision of the classroom. Bambara joins Audre Lorde and other Black feminist writer/teachers in insisting on a …


The Imperial Gothic: Contact Tracing Narratives Of Disease, Disorder, And Race In Global American Literature, Emma Brownstein Jan 2022

The Imperial Gothic: Contact Tracing Narratives Of Disease, Disorder, And Race In Global American Literature, Emma Brownstein

Honors Papers

This thesis examines the intersections among gothic literature, empire, and contagion, and traces the emergence and evolution of a yet unexplored subgenre: the Imperial Gothic. Where early American Gothic narratives express anxieties about national stability and the republican subject, the Imperial Gothic explores anxieties that emerge when imperialism brings white Americans into contact with foreign commodities, environments, and bodies, ranging from foreign nationals, immigrants, and enslaved peoples, to Martians. It demonstrates how viral threats to the body correspond to the nationalist conception of foreign threats against the imagined white body politic. What emerges from this body of global and interplanetary …


Throwing The Snake, Michael Chitwood Jan 2022

Throwing The Snake, Michael Chitwood

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 71-72


Interview With Nicole Sealey, Jeffrey Peterson Jan 2022

Interview With Nicole Sealey, Jeffrey Peterson

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 36-43


Reprise, Amy Wright Jan 2022

Reprise, Amy Wright

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 157-158


What Reading Thomas Merton Will Do, Laura Van Prooyen Jan 2022

What Reading Thomas Merton Will Do, Laura Van Prooyen

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 148