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Et Cetera, Marshall University

Et Cetera

Founded in 1953, Et Cetera is an annual literary magazine that publishes the creative writing and artwork of Marshall University students and affiliates. Et Cetera is free to the Marshall University community.

Et Cetera welcomes submissions in literary and film criticism, poetry, short stories, drama, all types of creative non-fiction, photography, and art.

Fashioning The Flapper: Clothing As A Catalyst For Social Change In 1920s America, Julia Wolffe

Honors Program Theses

Fashion has been a catalyst for social change throughout human history. Fashion in 1920s America in particular reflects society's rapidly evolving attitudes towards gender and race. Beginning with how corsetry heavily restricted women for nearly four hundred years up until the twentieth century, this thesis explores how clothing has acted as a tool for societal progression following World War I and Women's Suffrage and during the Jazz Age and The Harlem Renaissance. Specifically, this thesis examines how the influence of jazz music and dance that originated from Black American communities led to the creation of the flapper evening dress. The …

Nelle 5 (Complete Issue), Nelle Staff

Nelle (literary magazine)

No abstract provided.

And The Ground Opens Its Mouth To Speak, Jessica Jacobs

Nelle (literary magazine)

pp. 1-2

Thick Like Me, Brenna Womer

Nelle (literary magazine)

pp. 4-15

All Hail Dido, King Of The Dildos, Emma Wunsch

Nelle (literary magazine)

pp. 19-38

Mistakes Of One Kind, Francesca Bell

Nelle (literary magazine)

pp. 42-43

Sarah Prays To The God Of Abraham, Emily Cinquemani

Nelle (literary magazine)

pp. 53-54

The Question I'Ve Wanted To Hide, Jessica Jacobs

Nelle (literary magazine)

pp. 60-61

Unrequited Love Poem, Hannah Dow

Nelle (literary magazine)

p. 86

A Love Letter From Very Far Away, Jacqueline Vogtman

Nelle (literary magazine)

pp. 87-102

A Hawker's Guide To The Musee De L'Orangerie: Or, Paris As You See It, Stephanie Carpenter

Nelle (literary magazine)

pp. 103-114

Nelle 6 (End Matter), Nelle Staff

Nelle (literary magazine)

pp. 115-124

An Elegy, Katie Chaple

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 67

At Night, My Mind Flies Like The Finch, Katie Chaple

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 68

Itemization, Ellen Hagan

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 93

The Ferguson Report: An Erasure Excerpt, Pages 16-19, Nicole Sealey

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 17-35

Theology In Negril, Christopher Bakken

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 61

Never Now, Amanda Gunn

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 92

The Magician Is Surprised To Find Nothing In His Hat, Christopher Howell

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 96

O Helicopter, Annie Kantar

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 100

Of The Innocents, Spencer Hupp

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 97-98

Echoes, Alexis Levitin, Ricardo Vasconcelos, Luis Miguel Nava

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 104

My Father's Daughter, Cate Marvin

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 110-111

The Mortgaged House, Ashely Anna Mchugh

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 115

Self-Poissession As An Impulse Of Privilege, Phillip Sterling

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 139

Boy In The Coalfields, Circa 1929, Cecilia Woloch

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 152

Paulie Renn And Sister With Wheelbarrow, Cecilia Woloch

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 153

Queering Job: Inverted Liberation In Boy Erased And Other Conversion Trauma Narratives, Harrison Beau Palen

Graduate Theses/Dissertations

This thesis explores conversion trauma narratives with the goal of transforming—inverting The Book of Job’s holy resolution to instead entail queer liberation apart from Evangelicalism. Analyzing Conley’s bestselling memoir, Boy Erased, I discuss Conley’s suffering and how his liberation is not found by means of repressing or converting his attraction to the same gender. I also analyze Emily Danforth’s novel, The Miseducation of Cameron Post to highlight how fictional accounts of queer liberation from conversion therapy help to increase awareness of the harms of conversion therapy. Throughout my thesis, I incorporate my own story of queer suffering, survival, and …

Little Sun: A Poetry Collection, Lillian Aff

Scripps Senior Theses

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