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English Language and Literature

2021

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Full-Text Articles in Creative Writing

Hannah & Nana: A Personal Memoir On Appalachian Intergenerational Trauma, Womanhood, & Family, Hannah Dunn Dec 2021

Hannah & Nana: A Personal Memoir On Appalachian Intergenerational Trauma, Womanhood, & Family, Hannah Dunn

Honors Projects

I was deeply affected by the death of my beloved nana in 2018. After her death, my family asked me to be the storyteller for us. Thus, for my Honors Project at Bowling Green State University (BGSU), I decided to write a personal memoir on my family. This memoir explores how we fit into notions of womanhood and family in Appalachia, as well as studying the effects of intergenerational trauma on us. Qualitative research, in the form of the autoethnography, serves as the methodology for this project. In writing a creative memoir, I have transformed my personal to the academic.


Reshaping The Canon: How “Insta-Poets” Are Creating A New Literary Space For Readers Using Social Media, Hannah Salsbery Dec 2021

Reshaping The Canon: How “Insta-Poets” Are Creating A New Literary Space For Readers Using Social Media, Hannah Salsbery

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

Reading and analyzing poetry can be an equally beautiful and frustrating experience. Interacting with a poem allows a reader to access untapped emotions through the words on the page; yet, when not given the tools to understand canonical poetry, young readers are often left at a loss. The rise of “Insta-poetry” gives younger generations of readers access to poems that are both relatable in experience and language. Using Rupi Kaur as a vehicle towards unmasking the importance of the rise of poetry on Instagram, this thesis highlights the importance of reshaping the literary canon to become a more inclusive, diverse, …


Agatha Christie: A Look Into Criminal Procedure And Gender, Carmella Monico Dec 2021

Agatha Christie: A Look Into Criminal Procedure And Gender, Carmella Monico

Theses/Capstones/Creative Projects

With 2020 being the 100th year since Agatha Christie’s first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, was published, it seems fitting to celebrate such an accomplished author with a deeper look into the inner workings of her novels. While she wrote mystery novels that involved many detectives, the two most popular are Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. This paper will examine these two detectives in regard to the criminal procedure each uses to solve their respective cases. Would her detectives’ work hold up in court then or even today? Additionally, the difference in gender between Poirot and Marple …


Through Critique And Beyond: Speculative Fiction As A Tool Of Critical Pedagogy, Syd Thorne Dec 2021

Through Critique And Beyond: Speculative Fiction As A Tool Of Critical Pedagogy, Syd Thorne

Master's Projects and Capstones

This field projects centers around the issue of hopelessness among teachers and students and examines the genre of speculative fiction as a potential tool for cultivating critical hope in the classroom and as an asset to critical pedagogy. Utopian pedagogy and critical pedagogy make up the theoretical framework of this research and project development. The research explores the use of speculative fiction in three areas: activism and identity, student engagement, and utopian performance. The review of the literature demonstrates that the use of speculative fiction in the classroom has the potential to engage students in conversations about social justice and …


The Supporting Role: Cultivating A Writing Life To Prevent And Combat Writer's Block, Molly Elizabeth Hanberry Dec 2021

The Supporting Role: Cultivating A Writing Life To Prevent And Combat Writer's Block, Molly Elizabeth Hanberry

Masters Theses

Every writer will suffer from writer’s block from time to time, and there are two general schools of thought in dealing with this affliction: wait it out or struggle through. The purpose of this thesis is to illuminate the nature of writer’s block from a fundamental level, beginning with the neuroscience of creativity. From there, it will explore the three root causes of writer’s block: lack of inspiration, burnout, and fear. And finally, with an understanding of its causes, it will be possible to examine ways to combat writer’s block through methods based in neuroscience, personal experience, and professional advice …


Shadowcrest Manor, Michaela Bishop Nov 2021

Shadowcrest Manor, Michaela Bishop

The Tuxedo Archives

A soft cold breeze flowed throughout the whole house, it carried the scent of the Sea Island cotton and seawater, taking away the smell of dust and stillness. Shadowrest Manor was to become our new home here in Charleston. The manor had been vacant for a while since its last owner had passed away and leaving no will or surviving heir, the plantation was shut down. The outside was a little bit weather damaged however, Father is having the whole house repainted a colonial white, the front columns will be a nice off white to balance the main color. The …


Looking Backward While Pushing Forward, Rebecca Elizabeth Van Horn Nov 2021

Looking Backward While Pushing Forward, Rebecca Elizabeth Van Horn

The Tuxedo Archives

“We’re so old, Becky. Becky, we are so old.” This palindromic couplet came from the ex-boyfriend I hadn’t seen in over ten years. We had been in a brief and mildly dysfunctional relationship ten years before that, back when I was twenty and he was thirty. We had remained friends after our breakup and, after a few years absence, regained contact through the contemporary perpetual This is Your Life-esque reunion of social media.


Behave, Gina Vucci Nov 2021

Behave, Gina Vucci

The Tuxedo Archives

Serve the guests. Don’t cry. Take your brother for a walk. Your father was such an incredible man. Your father loved you. You were his favorite. I’ll just let everyone else cry while I learn to live with this feeling in the pit of my stomach. Leave her alone. It’s fine if she wants to wear her red velvet dress from last Christmas. She can wear what she wants to the funeral. Touch his hand; it’s the last time you’ll ever see him. I don’t know you, but I can’t stop sobbing in your arms.


On The Way Of Being A Penguin, Sophie Lee Nov 2021

On The Way Of Being A Penguin, Sophie Lee

The Tuxedo Archives

It’s been about three weeks since I came here, to Dominican as an exchange student. My life here is monotonous but interesting, demanding but refreshing, and solitary but too precious. Right now, I am still adjusting to my life. I want to keep this time in my life everlasting by writing it in my laptop. I believe what I am writing will bring me here, and now, whenever I read this. Then, let me start.


Eclipse, Cameron Almeida Nov 2021

Eclipse, Cameron Almeida

The Tuxedo Archives

You might find me at the end of my days perched on the shoreline at sunset. Some rocky overlook where the wind can blow away smoke from fire. The last embers of my life burn like a fickle memory in a nearby hole I dug, small licks of heat dancing in air brined with salt of the earth. Knowledge that these coals will fade makes me wish to have gone out brilliantly, a blaze of glory instead of here, timing the spread of painkillers in my blood with the increasingly aggressive tide. Because that’s what this is, a small beacon …


Wisdom And Superstition, Maribel Anchordoqui Nov 2021

Wisdom And Superstition, Maribel Anchordoqui

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Don’t laugh too much or something sad will happen.

If you see a bean on the floor, pick it up or you’ll be sterile.

When pulling weeds, always talk kindly to the poison oak and let them know you will remove them so that other plants can grow. Guarantee you will never get poison oak.


Never Have I Ever Felt So Alive As This, Aria Watson Nov 2021

Never Have I Ever Felt So Alive As This, Aria Watson

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No abstract provided.


Go Down To The Water, Aria Watson Nov 2021

Go Down To The Water, Aria Watson

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No abstract provided.


A Watering Can, Aria Watson Nov 2021

A Watering Can, Aria Watson

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Exquisite Corpse, Tuxedo Literature And Arts Journal Nov 2021

Exquisite Corpse, Tuxedo Literature And Arts Journal

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How Can I Write When Everything Is Wrong?, Maurisha Nicole Briggs Nov 2021

How Can I Write When Everything Is Wrong?, Maurisha Nicole Briggs

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No abstract provided.


Life, Eamonn Mccarthy Nov 2021

Life, Eamonn Mccarthy

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No abstract provided.


Roses From Bolivia, Jeffrey Wincek Nov 2021

Roses From Bolivia, Jeffrey Wincek

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No abstract provided.


To The Lighthouse, Bri Wilson Nov 2021

To The Lighthouse, Bri Wilson

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No abstract provided.


Mija, Iris Brito-Stevens Nov 2021

Mija, Iris Brito-Stevens

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No abstract provided.


Coffee, Yvonne Bamba Nov 2021

Coffee, Yvonne Bamba

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No abstract provided.


Add, Jeffrey Wincek Nov 2021

Add, Jeffrey Wincek

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No abstract provided.


Melatonin And Other Things My Dog Ate: A True Story, Claire Schwartz Nov 2021

Melatonin And Other Things My Dog Ate: A True Story, Claire Schwartz

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No abstract provided.


Requiem, Anne Cheilek Nov 2021

Requiem, Anne Cheilek

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No abstract provided.


All That Glitters Is Not Gentrification, Anne Cheilek Nov 2021

All That Glitters Is Not Gentrification, Anne Cheilek

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No abstract provided.


Goodnight Loon, Claire Schwartz Nov 2021

Goodnight Loon, Claire Schwartz

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No abstract provided.


Rocket Girl, Michael Van Horn Nov 2021

Rocket Girl, Michael Van Horn

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Let Me Leave You Astray, Michael Van Horn Nov 2021

Let Me Leave You Astray, Michael Van Horn

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Burnt, Lawrence Yu Nov 2021

Burnt, Lawrence Yu

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Untitled, Alexander Thompson Nov 2021

Untitled, Alexander Thompson

The Tuxedo Archives

No abstract provided.