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The Spaces Between, Robert Evory Jun 2016

The Spaces Between, Robert Evory

The Hilltop Review

No abstract provided.


Can A Student Write A Novel In A Month?, Julia Tanner Apr 2016

Can A Student Write A Novel In A Month?, Julia Tanner

Honors Theses

Drew knew that if he had the power to pick the soundtrack of his heaven he would choose the drop of the beat as his Cessna’s tires touching down on a landing. Faye did not put much stock in heaven, but she liked the idea of spending eternity bathed in colors, ones she could fathom now and new ones her mortal eyes couldn’t see. For Louis all he wanted was the feeling of a warm hand in his leading him to the afterlife. Drew, Faye, nor Louis planned on dying any time soon but for varying reasons they knew death …


Alcoholism, Domestic Violence, & Mental Illness: As A Graphic Novel, Abigail Jackson Apr 2016

Alcoholism, Domestic Violence, & Mental Illness: As A Graphic Novel, Abigail Jackson

Honors Theses

My inspiration for my project, “A Day on the Back Forty”, came from my personal experiences with domestic violence and alcoholism and my interest in not only sharing and hopefully lifting the taboo of having these experiences cast a negative light on my life, but to expose these issues and hopefully bring awareness to those who are not close to domesticviolence or alcoholism and to also offer a connection to those who have experienced these issues. My thought process for this project was to be able to create a thought-provoking familiarity that could be experienced on both an intimate and …


Editor-In-Chief Of The Laureate, Michael Bodinger Apr 2016

Editor-In-Chief Of The Laureate, Michael Bodinger

Honors Theses

No abstract available.


April 10, 2016: English Department Alum Premiers 40th Feature Film, Department Of English Apr 2016

April 10, 2016: English Department Alum Premiers 40th Feature Film, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

Chuck Bentley's latest film features a host of WMU alum as well as several current faculty members. The premiere is free to the public and will appear on PMN and YouTube shortly thereafter for those unable to attend the screening.


April 2, 2016: Grace Tiffany Book Launch Party On Shakespeare's 400th Deathday!, Department Of English Apr 2016

April 2, 2016: Grace Tiffany Book Launch Party On Shakespeare's 400th Deathday!, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

Join Shakespeare and fiction aficionados on Shakespeare's 400th Deathday at Kazoo Books, 2413 Parkview Avenue. Saturday, April 23rd, at 1 p.m., at Kazoo Books, Shakespeare scholar and author Grace Tiffany will read from her new novel about the Gunpowder Plot, Gunpowder Percy, and local Shakespearean actors Chuck Bentley and Kitty Kashniewicz will perform explosive Shakespearean dialogues.


Paris Burn, Iliana Rocha Apr 2016

Paris Burn, Iliana Rocha

Dissertations

First and foremost, Paris Burn- interrogates language as a rebel heteroglot in its relation to power and to identity, focusing on liminality and marginality. The speakers in these poems constantly (re)enact, generate, disassemble, and revise their lyric selves, either reaffirming or challenging dominant discourses and ideologies. Drag queens figure prominently throughout the manuscript because they are the physical embodiment of constructs that challenge an essential identity—race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender. The title, an abbreviated form of Paris is Burning, an influential 1980s documentary profiling drag culture in New York City, invokes a physical body that figures in metaphorical relation to …


The Night We Set The Dead Kid On Fire, Ephraim Scott Sommers Apr 2016

The Night We Set The Dead Kid On Fire, Ephraim Scott Sommers

Dissertations

The Night We Set the Dead Kid on Fire, a collection of poetry, is a book chocked-full of characters (both women and men) that don’t receive much attention in Contemporary American Poetry,—the dishwashers, the addicts, the truckers, the card players, the convicts, the boxers, the grave-diggers, the mechanics, the farmers, the blue-collar “others”—and many of these characters are either the victims or the perpetrators of violence. This book's speakers (both women and men) lie and cheat and drink and fist-fight in parking lots, campgrounds, and dive bars. They get cheap in casinos, broken apartments, hospitals, and hotel rooms. In this …


On Myrtle: A Novel, Laurie Ann Cedilnik Apr 2016

On Myrtle: A Novel, Laurie Ann Cedilnik

Dissertations

For nearly a century, readers have known the story of Myrtle Wilson, infamous literary mistress of F. Scott Fitzgerald's THE GREAT GATSBY. Fitzgerald's Tom Buchanan is married to a woman who is the picture of wealth and elegance, and yet he is drawn to this woman about whom readers know very little, and about whom we hear only in a retrospective vantage of the partial observer Nick Carraway. Mrs. Wilson puts on airs and takes blows, an her death is as graphic as any of literature's fallen women. And like Myrtle, Fitzgerald casts his fictionalized Flushing as symbolic of a …


Interaction Between Human Experience, Landscape , And Coffee Production In The Blue Mountain Region Of Jamaica, Shohei Yoshida Apr 2016

Interaction Between Human Experience, Landscape , And Coffee Production In The Blue Mountain Region Of Jamaica, Shohei Yoshida

Masters Theses

In today's coffee industry, individual farmers’ identities are hardly visible from the products we buy. Each coffee farmer has different lifestyles and methods of coffee farming. Such information about farmers can make each cups of coffee potentially unique in consumers’ experience. However, there are barriers which make consumers blind from the identities of the farmers making their coffee. I will explain about the barriers, and introduce the way to make consumers associate individual farmers' identities with each cup of coffee they drink. This thesis mainly consists of two parts: a theoretical part and a poetry part. There is a small …


Acknowledgements/Image Credits, Molly Lynde-Recchia Mar 2016

Acknowledgements/Image Credits, Molly Lynde-Recchia

Transference

No abstract provided.


Notes On Contributors Mar 2016

Notes On Contributors

Transference

No abstract provided.


Orchards 52, Orchards 54, Orchards 57: The Doe, And Orchards 59 By Rainer Maria Rilke, Susanne Petermann Mar 2016

Orchards 52, Orchards 54, Orchards 57: The Doe, And Orchards 59 By Rainer Maria Rilke, Susanne Petermann

Transference

Translated from the French by Susanne Petermann.


The Universe In Perspective, Commentator, And The Birth Of A Masterpiece By Yu Kwang-Chung, Hsinmei Lin Mar 2016

The Universe In Perspective, Commentator, And The Birth Of A Masterpiece By Yu Kwang-Chung, Hsinmei Lin

Transference

Translated from the Chinese by Hsinmei Lin.


A Man Out Of Time: Aias 646-692 By Sophocles, Emily Anhalt Mar 2016

A Man Out Of Time: Aias 646-692 By Sophocles, Emily Anhalt

Transference

Translated from the Greek by Emily Anhalt.


Enduring Scars By Ahmad Al-Safi Al-Najafi, B. N. Faraj Mar 2016

Enduring Scars By Ahmad Al-Safi Al-Najafi, B. N. Faraj

Transference

Translated from the Arabic by B.N. Faraj.


A Community In The Open, An Autumnal Fossil, On Skeletons, And Orpheus At The Butcher Shop By Shiro Murano, Goro Takano Mar 2016

A Community In The Open, An Autumnal Fossil, On Skeletons, And Orpheus At The Butcher Shop By Shiro Murano, Goro Takano

Transference

Translated from the Japanese by Goro Takano.


My Bones, Journey, And Winds Of Betrayal: On Artaud's Van Gogh By Yoko Mihashi Mar 2016

My Bones, Journey, And Winds Of Betrayal: On Artaud's Van Gogh By Yoko Mihashi

Transference

Translated from the Japanese by Steve Light.


The Visa By Hisham Al Gakh, Houssem Ben Lazreg Mar 2016

The Visa By Hisham Al Gakh, Houssem Ben Lazreg

Transference

Translated from the Arabic by Houssem Ben Lazreg.


Flared Skirt And The Healds By Arai Takako, Carol Hayes Dr, Rina Kikuchi Mar 2016

Flared Skirt And The Healds By Arai Takako, Carol Hayes Dr, Rina Kikuchi

Transference

Translated from the Japanese by Carol Hayes and Rina Kikuchi.


The Stranger By Charles Baudelaire, Kent Dixon Mar 2016

The Stranger By Charles Baudelaire, Kent Dixon

Transference

Translated from the French by Kent Dixon.


The Dream Vision From The Song Of Songs By Jerome, Jane Beal Phd Mar 2016

The Dream Vision From The Song Of Songs By Jerome, Jane Beal Phd

Transference

Translated from the Latin by Jane Beal.


A Poet's Eye: Poems By Princess Shikishi, Rose Bundy Mar 2016

A Poet's Eye: Poems By Princess Shikishi, Rose Bundy

Transference

Translated from the Japanese by Rose Bundy.


Catullus 101, 48, 81, Samuel N. Rosenberg Mar 2016

Catullus 101, 48, 81, Samuel N. Rosenberg

Transference

Translated from the Latin by Samuel N. Rosenberg.


Life's Fount By Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, William A. Ruleman Iii Mar 2016

Life's Fount By Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, William A. Ruleman Iii

Transference

Translated from the German by William Ruleman.


Whether You See Me Or Not By Tan Xiaojing, Jun Tang Mar 2016

Whether You See Me Or Not By Tan Xiaojing, Jun Tang

Transference

Translated from the Chinese by Jun Tang.


Something Fills The Soul, On The Threshold Of Wishing, Time Utters It, And I Color My Name By Yousef El Qedra, Yasmin Snounu, Edward A. Morin Mar 2016

Something Fills The Soul, On The Threshold Of Wishing, Time Utters It, And I Color My Name By Yousef El Qedra, Yasmin Snounu, Edward A. Morin

Transference

Translated from the Arabic by Edward Morin, Yasminn Snounu, and Yasser Tabbaa.


I Am A Child Of The Sun By Fukushi Kōjirō, Joshua L. Solomon Mar 2016

I Am A Child Of The Sun By Fukushi Kōjirō, Joshua L. Solomon

Transference

Translated from the Japanese by Joshua Solomon.


First Poem For Her And Poem For My Shadow By Marie-Célie Agnant, Corine Tachtiris Mar 2016

First Poem For Her And Poem For My Shadow By Marie-Célie Agnant, Corine Tachtiris

Transference

Translated from the French by Corine Tachtiris.


Ennui By Abe Kōbō, Darcy L. Gauthier Mar 2016

Ennui By Abe Kōbō, Darcy L. Gauthier

Transference

Translated from the Japanese by Darcy L. Gauthier.