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Madison Vanguard: A Novel, Berni Moestafa

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This capstone project takes the form of a popular fiction novel that introduces parts of the academic discussion on capitalism to a wider audience through storytelling. Using a fictional fiscal crisis in New York as its setting, the novel discusses the relationship between capitalism and democracy. It therefore aims to address the underrepresentation of the debate on capitalism in popular entertainment and raise awareness about some of the debate’s key issues.

Popular culture be that music, film, books, media, videogames or advertisement surround our lives and expose us to a plethora of messages that help shape our understanding of the …

What If?: Mathematics, Creative Writing, And Play, Emily Clader

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

Mathematics can inform creative writing by suggesting structures for it to follow, as well as by providing the imaginative impetus for common rules to be broken. In a workshop co-taught by the author, a class of sixth-grade students explored this interplay as they produced fractal-inspired poetry and geometry-inspired fiction. This article describes the form and results of the workshop in the context of a broader discussion of the influence of mathematics upon literature.

4 Walls And A Dying Flame, Ilja Scholten

Manuscripts

No abstract provided.

Creative Writer's Festival 2016 First Informational Meeting Poster, Providence College

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Smith Center Green Room

Creative Writer's Festival 2016 first informational meeting

Monday, January 25, 2016, 4pm

Husband Hunting In Africa, Marleen S. Barr

Publications and Research

This is a short story.

The Clockman Movement, Allison Martin

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

As a genre of Neo-Victorian fiction, Steampunk is largely identified by Victorian aesthetics and technology centering on clockwork and steam power. The novel The Clockman Movement seeks to emphasize the "punk" in "steampunk" by exploring the social concerns of colonialism, including sexism, racism, and classism, while embracing the more fantastic and entertaining aspects of steampunk. Before all other labels—Nordlunder, daughter, woman—Eve Traugott is a machinist. Or she would be, if one of the machinists in the capital would hire her as an apprentice. She thought it would be simple to find a machinist willing to take a chance on her …

Skunk River Review 2015-2016, Stacy Roth, Lisa Melchert, Tailor Brown, Cole Fielweber, Cassie Craig, Naomi Debaene, Nicholas Nelson

Skunk River Review

No abstract provided.

Volume 48 (2016), C. V. Davis

The Broad River Review

The 2016 edition of The Broad River Review was edited by C. V. Davis. The publication contains fiction, non-fiction, art, poetry, and photography. The cover, "Rusty Hinge," was photographed by Brian Michael Barbieto. The winner of the J. Calvin Koontz Poetry Award, given annually for a portfolio of poetry to a senior English major, is MaryKate Powell. The Broad River Review Editor's Prize in Poetry is chosen among all submissions from Gardner-Webb University students. The winner of the poetry award is Ilari Pass for the poem titled, "Kaleidoscope in Place of Conversation." The Rash Awards, named in honor of Ron …

Tea & Intuition, Wendy Reynolds

Intertext

No abstract provided.

At The Bottom, Julie Hensley

The Chautauqua Journal

Short story by Julie Hensley.

Wind, Water, Wall-Woman, Trinh T. Minh-Ha

The Chautauqua Journal

Excerpts from I-Blue, a book in progress

Attention Faculty, Department Of Theatre, Dance & Film

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Attention faculty memo regarding the third annual Creative Writer's Festival.

Inscape 2016, Morehead State University.

Inscape: Art & Literary Magazine Archive

The 2016 edition of the Inscape: Literary and Art Magazine.

Semper Fidelis: Always Faithful, Carol Petz

Intertext

No abstract provided.

Tropos Literary Magazine, 2015-2016, Lawrence University

Tropos

No abstract provided.

2016 Jim Wayne Miller Contest Winners, Creative Writing Committee

Mary Ellen and Jim Wayne Miller Celebration of Writing

No abstract provided.

Precipitate, Erin Redfern

Bryant Literary Review

He had it in the bag.

He could have drawn

the string.

Mbiti And Achebe On The Forward Movement Through The Past, Chima Anyadike

The Journal of Traditions & Beliefs

No abstract provided.

Backwater, Jacob M. Devoogd

The Hilltop Review

No abstract provided.

Dancing Fire, Helena Alfajora

Canterbury Scholars

My creative process is like the Hero’s Journey. Wrought with “the call to action,” I felt a call from these pieces to bring them into our material world—the ideas, the moods, the colors wanting to translate from my mind through my hand and now, into this room. Through all the musings of our daily lives, these pieces came to be through different mediums with different mentors and different mindsets. The one constant throughout was my content, my inspiration, my grounding—the Hawaiian goddess, Pele.

Her form takes place in art, dance, written words, life, nature, my family, those around me. In …

"A Bastard Jargon”: Language Politics And Identity In The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao, Rachel Norman

Faculty Publications

This essay explores Junot Díaz's only full-length novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, through the theoretical lens of sociolinguistics and examines the ways in which Díaz has attempted to overcome the publishing industry's complicity in maintaining the nation's ethnocentric expectations in regards to English as the only acceptable language of publication. By introducing the work of several sociolinguists into the discussion, examining the use of African American Vernacular and “nerdish” alongside the Spanish, and reviewing Díaz’s relationship with his editors, I provide a more nuanced reading of the ubiquitous code-switching throughout Oscar Wao and suggest that beyond …

Muscle Memory: Stories, Hannah N. Bradley 16

Honor Scholar Theses

No abstract provided.

Leading Through Reading In Contemporary Young Adult Fantasy By Philip Pullman And Terry Pratchett, Elisabeth Rose Gruner

English Faculty Publications

There’s a popular bumper sticker in some areas that reads: “God said it, I believe it, that settles it.” It is sometimes paired with another one: “Bibles that are falling apart usually belong to people that aren’t.” The two combine to suggest an approach to reading and religion that are at the core of my argument in this chapter: they suggest that religious reading is fundamentally anti-interpretive; that reading the Bible or other religious texts provides direct access to truth. In the young adult texts I discuss in this essay, however, the opposite is the case: while texts (of many …

Growing Up, Worlds Apart (August -- December 2014), Daniel A. Harris

Bryant Literary Review

"What I didn't understand," you replied

as we talked of our first contacts with blacks,

Letter From The Past Visual Editors, Andrew Bishofberger, Chelsea Palacio, Micaela Todd

Calliope

No abstract provided.

Letter From The Literary Editors, Emily Olson, Sarah Yung

Calliope

No abstract provided.

Symptoms Of The Virus, Emily Haase

UReCA: The NCHC Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity

SYMPTOMS OF THE VIRUS BY DR. HENRY ESQUIRE III MD CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER 1. Severe hunger, often voicing their distress. 2. Chronic moodiness, confusion, sullenness. 3. Irritability, otherwise emotionally unstable. Paranoia. 4. Homicidal tendencies – full takeover of the disease. Handle with caution.

“Making a list of symptoms of the zombification virus. Like, Stage 1, Stage 2, Stage 3 … except I don’t know what to say about how it’s spread, which is probably what’s most important. Through the air, d’you think?”

Five Degrees: A Short Story, Cassia E. Hinds

Honors Undergraduate Theses

An interwoven fiction piece representing four perspectives and its effects on self-awareness. The most effective way to blur the line of self in this structure is to braid the minds, voices, and stories, of each perspective. With a focal point where all the voices eventually drift to being the frame of the story, there will be a unique distance between the stories. This thesis explores the effects of different types of mental and physiological illnesses through fiction, highlighting the effect of perception on fact and the perspective of the mentally ill.

Intertext 2016 — Complete Issue

Intertext

The complete issue of Intertext 24 (2016).

Awakening, Wendy Reynolds

Intertext

No abstract provided.