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Mulk Raj Anand: Moving India Forward, Sandy Wheeler

All Student Theses and Dissertations

Mulk Raj Anand is an innovator in literature. He is one of the first Indian authors to write in English about the humanitarian dilemmas facing India during the mid-twentieth century. His compassionate objective is to produce an awareness of the cruelty and inhumane practices of untouchability and social class distinctions and to seek the enlightening prospects of progress and modernity. In his three novels Coolie, Two Leaves and a Bud, and Untouchable, Anand explores the lives of of the down-trodden. The first chapter of this project defines and discusses the Hindu caste system of India as well as its unfavorable …

The Dust Grows Hard, Eric Ramseier

English Theses & Dissertations

The Dust Grows Hard is a collection of short stories taking place in Kansas. The stories take place in mostly rural or isolated settings. Thematically, the stories are concerned with the character's inability to effectively communicate and what that does to their ability to function in the larger society. The stories also examine the ripple effect created from the inability to communicate on parenting and intimate relationships. The stories examine how self-mythologizing and neuroses affect not just one, but many,

Children Of The Sun, Anton Delateur

English Theses & Dissertations

Children of the Sun is a novel presented as main character Clay Felts's Master's thesis in anthropology. The story migrates from the Columbia Basin of Eastern Washington to the Peruvian Andes, following Clay's quest to translate Inca quipu knots. The novel engages with several themes, the most pervasive of which is the inscrutability of the human experience. From this foundation, the story goes on to explore the importance of family versus material accomplishment, the effects of discovery and loss, and the colonial enterprise.

Nine Stories, Minus One, Claudia Anne Mazur

English Theses & Dissertations

This work consists of eight short works of fiction that reflect lessons on point of view, characterization, and voice, while demonstrating a voice and style particular to this author. The author's interest in setting and the characterization of personalities that are misfits in their environments is also reflected.

Viscosity, Noah Renn

English Theses & Dissertations

Viscosity is a collection of poems that explores the effect of family, religion, violence, and Capitalism on the author's identity. Through varied engagements with these phenomena, the collection questions these institutions' influence on individuals, and finds solace in keen awareness of either resistance or compliance to them.

A Year And A Day, Peter Surran

English Theses & Dissertations

This thesis is a spiritual memoir relating the events, characters and situations the author encountered during his five years in a Roman Catholic religious order, particularly the novitiate year. Relying on his memories and journals from the period, the author has attempted to tell the story as faithfully as possible. Intermingled with the story are reflections on faith, church and God, particularly the ways in which God was working throughout that period of the author's life. The last names of others involved in the story have been withheld in order to protect their identity as much as possible.

Mapw Capstone Project, Carol A. Levine

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

Fiction and non-fiction work, short stories and one novel chapter.  Order of Content:

Reflective Essay
"No More Jesus"
"Puzzle Pieces"
"Little Shoes"
"Squeaky"
Nell
"Baby Blue"
"Stunning"
"Culinary Art"
"The Garden"
"A Snow White Van"
"My Hero"
"Small Deer"

Artists Connect, Barbara Ann Cramer

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

A collection of five pieces:

• Freedom: Essential for Writing
• Cervantes and Shakespeare: the Don and the Prince
• "The Play’s the Thing"
• Melville and Rockwell: Sea-Room and the Ordinary
• Housatonic (Beyond the Mountain Place)

Panes, Brittany Moss Leazer

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

A two act play.

Once Upon A Time In The Future: Excerpt Of A Science Fiction Novel, Michael Hutchison

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

Excerpt from a science fiction novel.

Be True To Yourself ... Be Confidently You, Amber Ford

Women's Empowerment Week

No abstract provided.

Court Green: Dossier: Frank O'Hara, Columbia College Chicago

Court Green

An annual poetry magazine with a different theme for each issue; printed from 2004 to 2015.

Finding Home And Other Essays, Melissa Clampitt

Theses & Honors Papers

The purpose of this thesis is to conduct an exploration of self through a series of essays. The seven personal essays that make up my thesis, collectively entitled “Finding Home and Other Essays,” have proven to be an examination of self primarily through my relationships with my parents, sister, and “step” family. These relationships focus on the uncertainty associated with unexpected changes, the moments forcing me to analyze the qualities that make up my identity. They also shed light on the mental, physical, and emotional aspects that find their way into and define “home”. With my first essay, I use …

The Alternate, Clint Green

Theses

The Alternate is a feature-length action screenplay that serves as the culmination of Clint Green’s academic journey through Lindenwood University’s MFA in Writing program. The story centers around Jacquelin "Jax" Pierce, a complex female assassin with a traumatic past and a fractured moral compass. When Jax is hired to eliminate Shiri Wan—a pregnant medical professional with unknown ties to a larger political conspiracy—she is forced to confront her own haunted past and reevaluate her future. Rather than execute her target, Jax chooses to protect Shiri, setting off a deadly chain of events that pits her against the covert organization that …

2011 Making Literature Conference, Jeanne Murray Walker, Paul Mariani

Making Literature Conference

Keynote Address: "A Crisis of Imagination," Jeanne Murray Walker

Keynote Address: "God & the Imagination," Paul Mariani

Pink Jacket 2011, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Pink Jacket was a single issue student publication published in 2011 in both print and online formats. It features MFA student musings, artwork, and creative writing.

The Mother Daughter Bond And History In Wide Sargasso Sea, Valarie L. Phelps

Student Literary Analyses

No abstract provided.

Vol. Xlviii, No. 1: "A Sudden Happiness": The Poetry Of Deborah Warren, Alfred Nicol

The Hollins Critic

No abstract provided.

Lviii, No. 1: The Happiness Machines Of César Aira, William Repass

The Hollins Critic

No abstract provided.

No Surrender! War And The Death Of Innocence In The Fictions Of John Mcgahern, Eamon Maher

Articles

No abstract provided.

6 Ways To Celebrate Student Writing, Susan C. Adamson

Articles

Susan Adamson, executive director of the Indiana Partnership for Young Writers, shares a few of her favorite strategies for celebrating student writing at the end of a unit of study.

The Monkey And The Wrench: Essays Into Contemporary Poetics, Mary Biddinger, John Gallaher

University of Akron Press Publications

The first volume in the "Akron Series in Contemporary Poetics," The Monkey & the Wrench, explores the debate over hybrid aesthetics, confronts the topic of contemporary rhyme, and ventures into the realm of persona and the mystical poem. This volume is ideal for both the classroom and the nightstand, for the poet's desk and the critic's bookshelf. Series editors Mary Biddinger and John Gallaher have assembled an eclectic collection that welcomes the reader into the conversation, while documenting the seismic activity of today's poetry world.

Le Spleen De Poughkeepsie, Joshua Harmon

University of Akron Press Publications

Winner of the 2010 Akron Poetry Prize, Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie is "a tender anti-epic, a grunge-tinged love song to America's benighted post-industrial heartland." Harmon's Poughkeepsie shimmers just beyond the borders of banal recognition. "If you're not part of the problem, / you're part of the lengthening / tragedy," Harmon writes in an introductory pastoral, seeking out "the stray / detours and workarounds of the secret / city inside the more obvious one...on the outskirts of the absurd / attention to the material life." Poughkeepsie is that city of the heart where no one can look at anyone else "alone," …

Southwinds - Spring 2011

Southwinds: The Literary and Arts Magazine of Missouri S&T

THE LITERARY MAGAZINE OF MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SPRING 2011 Southwinds is sponsored by the Department of English & Technical Communication

Skunk River Review 2010-11, Vol 23, Troy Bishop, Zachary Gardner, Sondra Householder, Roger Vasey, Zachary Morgan, Mikhail Ilyenko, Laura Lawler, Savannah Wood, Shawn Armstrong, Kennedy Laville, Kevin Cramp, Lara Vogel, Sharry Hayes, Leslie Mcmullin, Ross Mcinteer, Angel Corbin, Joseph Brinkman, Tony Guerra

Skunk River Review

Welcome to the 2010-2011 edition of The Skunk River Review!

As the new editor of this publication, I was excited to see the number of submissions and the overwhelming enthusiasm of the students. This year's publication includes work from Composition I, Composition II, Literature, and College Resources courses.

Whereas The Skunk River Review is academic work that begins in the classroom, it also reflects student's interests. The essays are not edited for MLA format or general errors because the publication is used as a teaching tool in many classrooms.

Ocean Beach At Twilight: 14, Dean Rader

English

No abstract provided.

Two Weeks Notice...Aloha, John L. Bove

Books

Written and published by John L. Bove, former Dean of Admissions for St. Francis College, Two Weeks Notice...Aloha documents his struggle to come to terms with his loss following the death of his wife. From its preface:

“This was originally a journal through which I sought to regain some equilibrium and understanding. The loss of Fran turned my world “topsy turvy.” I was so angry and grief stricken it threatened my health. Stress of any kind, left unchecked, attacks the immune system which inevitably leads to illness.

Writing gives you a focal point for your anger and grief. Introspective …

Place And Memory In The New Ireland : Review, Eamon Maher

Articles

This is the second volume in the Irish Studies in Europe series which publishes a selection of the papers given at the biannual EFACIS (European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies) conferences. EFACIS rightly prides itself on the multidisciplinary and international character of its approach and the book under review, emanating from the 2007 conference held in Gothenburg, Sweden, has contributions from scholars from the USA, France, Sweden, Great Britain, Italy, Spain and Ireland. The theme of place and memory in the New Ireland attracted a stimulating array of chapters from historians, literary critics and sociologists. The chapters …

Sequoya Review, University Of Tennessee At Chattanooga

Sequoya Review

No abstract provided.

The Cyborg Griffin: A Speculative Fiction Literary Journal, Hollins University

Cyborg Griffin: a Speculative Fiction Literary Journal

Notes:

copyrighted

Hollins Student Publication

Scope: short stories, artwork, poetry, essays, and comics

Paper copies shelved in University Archives.