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Wheels, Katherine Field

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

Kat(i)e Field /kaytee/ or /kay-t/ (depending on relation) n.,adj.,v. Flamingo by descent. Scientific name: Flutus flamingus. Post script see also: hyperbole, bladder control and things that squeak

Nikki's Umbrella, Damon Xanthopoulos

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

He likes rhubarb and strawberry pie. Once thought 'Bewitched' was called 'Bitchwitched'.

Affair With An English Woman: Mary, Tim Rausch

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

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Why I Write, Maggie Neal Doherty

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

I come from the water. The things you only need in life are: 1) an old and sometimes unreliable car because it always places you in the best of situations 2) a sturdy pair of boots, we should always be walking somewhere 3) a pair of Levi 501s because they were made for cowboys

Entropy, Joel Street

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

Joel Street is a freshman from Carmel, Indiana. He channels his neuroses into poetry, unnecessary gesticulation, and self-punishing hopscotch marathons.

Untitled, Tim Rausch

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

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Her Vacation Story, Joel Street

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

Joel Street is a freshman from Carmel, Indiana. He channels his neuroses into poetry, unnecessary gesticulation, and self-punishing hopscotch marathons.

My Heart, Laura Clark

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

Laura Clark is a senior English Writing major from Greencastle, Indiana. She plans to pursue a career in publishing.

Buskers, Charlie Anness

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

Charlie Anness is a Senior from Cincinnati, OH. Agricultural Justice major with a minor in Interpretive Dance.

Southern Star., Shanda Schrae Miller

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

“Southern Star” follows protagonist Sally Gayle through the cycle of maturation. Complex family relationships and secrets hinder Sally as she searches for her identity in this bidungsroman set in a small, rural area of Southern Appalachia. Taking a minimalist, cinematic approach, “Southern Star” experiments with form and technique in an attempt to convey pure story to the reader. The work particularly focuses on character development, authentic dialogue, and a sense of place.

The Lighter Side Of Rectal Surgery, Ed Friel

Butler University Books

Sixteen chapters of light, laugh out loud reading; a book that looks at "The Lighter Side" of the insults that life deals all of us. If you have ever faced surgery of any kind, had too much to drink in public, or had a miserable flying experience, you will identify with the situations Ed describes.

Ruling Powers, Scot A. Hanson

Theses and Dissertations

While the fantasy genre is one of the most widely read modes of writing, literary criticism and academic discussion of the genre takes place at a much lower level. This imbalance has developed in part because of a misconception that fantasy genre writings cannot accomplish significant, literary purposes. This thesis first offers an argument for why the fantasy genre should receive more attention in scholarly circles, then presents an excerpt of a fantasy novel. The argument draws from the limited amount of existing criticism to highlight the strengths of the fantasy genre, building a case that, in most respects, works …

Gum-Dipped: Reconstructing An Akron Neighborhood, Joyce Dyer

University of Akron Press Publications

Gum-Dipped: A Daughter Remembers Rubber Town tells the story of growing up in the rubber community of Firestone Park in Akron, Ohio—the former Rubber Capital of the World. The book begins with the rededication of the bronze Harvey Firestone statue on August 3, 2000, at the Centennial celebration for the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company. The statue—perched high on a hill at the entrance to Firestone Park, the residential community Harvey built for his workers in 1915—was sacred to the author, Joyce Coyne Dyer, and her father, Tom Coyne, during the fifties, a time when the Coynes worshipped the company …

Anniversaries Of Autumn And Beyond Where I Have Ever Traveled, Alan Soldofsky

Faculty Publications, English and Comparative Literature

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Saddam/Sex/Superfeminist; Or, Fixing Iraq, Marleen S. Barr

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

Professor Claire Kentowitz, a feminist science fiction expert who teaches at Metropolis' SUNY Gramercy Park, was spending Saturday morning on the phone with her department head. They were having a heated discussion about comma placement in the tenure guidelines document. She hung up, switched on the television, and saw plumes of white smoke etched against the blue Texas sky. Since Claire had recently flown over the area, fond memories were intermingled with shock. She recoiled when she heard that Columbia had exploded -- and she was justifiably guilt ridden.

Review Of Heredity, By Jenny Davidson, David C. Froemke

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

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The End Of Science Fiction: When Technological Extrapolation Hits A Wall Across The Future, James John Bell

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

Science fiction, as a genre of popular fiction, can trace its roots as far back as the 2nd century AD, where fantastical worlds were conjured up in order to comment on current beliefs. The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1996) outlines a very specific ancestry:

[Science Fiction] is a descendant of the type of prose fiction sometimes referred to as Lucianic Satire (after Lucian of Samosata, a Greek writer of the 2nd century AD). Lucianic Satire -- also commonly known as Menippean Satire after an earlier writer, Menippus, whose works are now lost -- is a kind of …

Imperialism & Globalization: Lessons From Frank Herbert's Dune, Kevin Williams

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

These are the words of The Preacher (a character in Frank Herbert's Children of Dune who is simultaneously the metaphorical reincarnation of the fallen prophet, Muad'Dib, and the self-exiled Emperor, Paul Atreides) as he addresses the masses enslaved by their devotion to his messianic Empire. These words, culled from the pages of science fiction, are more than mere exposition from Herbert's narrative, they point toward several important conditions facing the political world today. These conditions concern certain failures of democracy and effects of globalization spawned, in part, by an intensification of imperialist expansion in the name of democracy.

Melville, Alan Soldofsky

Faculty Publications, English and Comparative Literature

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Breathe In, Breathe Out, Patti Eldridge Holt

English Theses & Dissertations

This collection of seven short stories explores the experience and expression of love. Love as myth is thematic to some of the stories, as is love as misery. The characters in the stories lose love or misuse it, or they confuse it with other human impulses. The stories dance around the cliche of love and examine it from the perspective of the individual, family, community, and church. Love is the conflict as well as the resolution, and the characters evolve as their understanding of love becomes more or less clear.

What's Yours? What's Mine?, Robert D. Woodcock

English Theses & Dissertations

This collection of poems explores identity by examining family, love, isolation, and humor. Each of its four sections gives insight into how its particular theme influences who we become as individuals. It begins with family and the struggles related to family values versus personal beliefs. I include poems that speak to my cultural upbringing and direct conflicts between my beliefs and my family'. The second celebrates the coexistence of individuality and togetherness in a relationship. These poems celebrate love while simultaneously attending to the speaker's position as half of the relationship. Section three uses isolated speakers to evoke emotional responses …

Contributors, Westview Staff

Westview

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If Eden Were A Public Garden, Suzanne Rindell

Westview

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The Uncle, Estelle Shanley

Westview

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The Good Catholic, James Jay Egan

Westview

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The Point Of A Glass Pen, Elisabeth Ward

Westview

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What Words Can Do, Kim Bridgford

Westview

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Interview With Carol Hamilton, Fred Alsberg

Westview

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Halloween Party, Carol Hamilton

Westview

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Leaving The Middle Years, Walt Mcdonald

Westview

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