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Articles 1861 - 1890 of 1960

Full-Text Articles in Creative Writing

Silence, Sarah I. Goltsman Jan 2018

Silence, Sarah I. Goltsman

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

No abstract provided.


Enter The Void, Pryscila C. Salinas Jan 2018

Enter The Void, Pryscila C. Salinas

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

No abstract provided.


Fooled Me Once, Tyrianna D. Richards Jan 2018

Fooled Me Once, Tyrianna D. Richards

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

No abstract provided.


Curious Creature, Monique Cole Jan 2018

Curious Creature, Monique Cole

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

No abstract provided.


Anxiously Awaiting: A Novella, Alexander Bartlow Jan 2018

Anxiously Awaiting: A Novella, Alexander Bartlow

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

Throughout my childhood and secondary education growing up in rural Indiana, I found that, in a town of less than 2,000 people, mental illness and teenage suicide were all too common. Upon researching the sad state of mental healthcare in rural America, I felt obliged to bring light in my Honors thesis to the overlooked and under-treated thoughts that plague the minds of adolescents experiencing depression, anxiety, and suicidal contemplation. In this fiction novella, I follow the life of Lincoln Phillips, a 14-year-old boy who lives with anxiety in an unchanging, inescapable town that stigmatizes mental illness. He experiences the …


Loose Light, Logan Lane Jan 2018

Loose Light, Logan Lane

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

My honors project is a 9,600-word collection of two short stories. The first story, Loose Light, is a character-driven narrative about an astronomer who has spent his life chasing an outer space phenomenon he saw as a graduate student and what he does when he rediscovers the phenomenon. The second story, Lost Light, is another character-driven narrative about a young man who, after an automobile accident, begins losing his memories. Both stories examine the perspective of the lost, the obsessed, the isolated, and the angry. In the accompanying self-analysis, I explore how my time as a reporter for The University …


"Before The Rain Came" (Poems), Alizabeth Christian Jan 2018

"Before The Rain Came" (Poems), Alizabeth Christian

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

Poetry is often perceived as an unfamiliar form of expression. With misconceptions of poetry being as something driven by pure epiphany, poetry is lost amongst many individuals. This misconception is challenged throughout this collection and encourages readers to embrace vulnerability through the speaker’s passage to self acceptance. In my piece, “For the Big Horns,” vulnerability is encompassed when the speaker says that “The mountain told me that we are all animals without blueprints. That people are no longer people without fear, and that fear is a root.” These lines encapsulate the speaker’s persistence to show readers an experience of humanness, …


Les Mots Justes And Other Things Impossible To Find, Katherine Tasseff Jan 2018

Les Mots Justes And Other Things Impossible To Find, Katherine Tasseff

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

Communication can be hard enough when you’re speaking in your native tongue, but throw in a second language and something’s sure to get lost in translation. In this creative nonfiction piece, I trace my real-life journey from tongue-tied homebody to bilingual voyageuse over the stepping stones of four chapters, with each chapter linked by the themes of language and communication. In the first half of the project, a unique job offer brings love, friendship, and plenty of misunderstanding into my humdrum life, and inspires me to pick up a language that broadens my personal and academic horizons. In the …


Deep Down, Jessica Granger Jan 2018

Deep Down, Jessica Granger

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

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Catching On Dark In Public, Joshua Robert Long Jan 2018

Catching On Dark In Public, Joshua Robert Long

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Catching On Dark In Public contains sixty pages of poetry compiled by the author during his time in the MFA program at The University of Texas at El Paso.


Black Works, Eric R. Luthi Jan 2018

Black Works, Eric R. Luthi

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

The story of a used-up bull rider who befriends a young girl and teaches her about horses and riding and roping and rodeo. And, while doing so, he seeks to reclaim a part of his life that was lost.


La Tumba Del Buque Perdido, Mario Martinez Jan 2018

La Tumba Del Buque Perdido, Mario Martinez

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

La tumba del buque perdido es una novela que toma como punto de partida el viaje que hiciera Mark Twain a Nicaragua en 1866, cuando entonces funcionaba la antigua Ruta del Tránsito. En esta novela una serie de personajes van en busca de las huellas de ese viaje y de la utopía perdida de un país condenado a una verdad a medias. Asimismo, los personajes van en busca de la identidad perdida en un viaje que mezcla naturaleza, memoria e historia. Hechos reales mezclados con hechos ficticios. Una novela en constante construcción cuyos autores son los mismos protagonistas.


The Soldier's Journal, Randall Russell Surles Jan 2018

The Soldier's Journal, Randall Russell Surles

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

The Soldier's Journal is a military thriller. Camila Mason is one of the first women to qualify as a green beret in the U.S. Army. Here first mission is to deploy to Afghanistan where she faces the memory of her father, a green beret killed thirteen years earlier by an IED. Soon, she begins to understand the environment surrounding her, filled with sexism, ineptitude, and enemies, both foreign and domestic.


The Sitting Bull, Joseph Crisafulli Jan 2018

The Sitting Bull, Joseph Crisafulli

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

The following work is a screenplay telling a dramatic narrative of the life of Sitting Bull and some of the key figures in his life. The story draws on the history, but it naturally takes creative license in an attempt to paint a realistic portrait of the Hunkpapa Sioux leader.


Cut And Run, Hamish Rickett Jan 2018

Cut And Run, Hamish Rickett

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.


An Exploration Of The Psyche In "Era Of Black", Haley M. Karabasz Jan 2018

An Exploration Of The Psyche In "Era Of Black", Haley M. Karabasz

Theses and Dissertations

In this thesis, I propose three parallel projects. The first is an introductory exploration of the narrative conventions that have become, over time, established tropes in Fantasy Fiction as a brief discussion of my conscious strategy to reject the normative structures set in modern fantasy literature in my own fiction project “Era of Black.” Second is an excerpt from my novel-in-progress, in which I deploy specific stylistic and narrative gestures that mark my effort to move beyond the received “rules” of the Fantasy mode. The third and final project here is to frame an analysis of my protagonist’s complex psychological …


0843: Katharine Rodier Collection, 1974-2011, Marshall University Special Collections Jan 2018

0843: Katharine Rodier Collection, 1974-2011, Marshall University Special Collections

Guides to Manuscript Collections

Personal writing, class notes, photograph, professional works, correspondences, professional materials, and mementos of Katharine Rodier during her collegiate career and career in the English Department of Marshall University.


Counter Clockwise Culture Shock, Matthew Mercer Jan 2018

Counter Clockwise Culture Shock, Matthew Mercer

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Counter Clockwise Culture Shock is a memoir focused the narrator's return to his hometown, a place he barely escaped: drug addiction, incarceration, bad relationships, alienation, an Oedipal mother, and suicidal threats. It is reflection on both culture and self, after I gained an outside perspective from Japan. The narrator is forced to relive nihilism and monotony, and face the troubles of his younger years. It describes the difficult journey of today's youth, in an evermore technologically dynamic world - with few role models able to plot a course through. This is a meditation on past actions that ended in survival. …


After The Big Wind Stops I See Gentle Waves, Eunji (Jubee) Lee Jan 2018

After The Big Wind Stops I See Gentle Waves, Eunji (Jubee) Lee

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis covers my reflections on the inspirations and the motivations behind selected works including my candidacy exhibition; Resonance and my thesis exhibition; after the big wind stops I see gentle waves. It contains my life throughout my MFA studies and the development of my art practice. Through its story-within-a-story method of narration and my describing streams of my thoughts, I am attempting to explain the processes of my development and the discoveries I have made, the little things in my daily life, and the big turning points that inspired me. My work and this document have been strongly determined …


Grammar Jam: Adding A Creative Editing Tactic, David Gillespie Jan 2018

Grammar Jam: Adding A Creative Editing Tactic, David Gillespie

Arts & Sciences Faculty Publications

The author argues reading, hearing, and then composing musical lyrics involving grammatical concerns can help college writing students to edit more effectively for a song's grammar topic. Explaining that the songs need to offer specific advice, such as how to both spot and correct the grammatical problem, the writer offers lyrical examples and provides scholarly evidence for this approach. The essay explains what Grammar Jam is, why music can work, and how to use the tactic in the classroom.


Love Story, Logan N. Stewart Jan 2018

Love Story, Logan N. Stewart

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

No abstract provided.


Boxes, Danielle Pierce Jan 2018

Boxes, Danielle Pierce

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

No abstract provided.


I'M Fine, Re'nyqua Farrington Jan 2018

I'M Fine, Re'nyqua Farrington

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

No abstract provided.


Trial By Fire, Chase A. Gaiefsky Jan 2018

Trial By Fire, Chase A. Gaiefsky

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

No abstract provided.


Human Flaw, Sara M. Gorman Jan 2018

Human Flaw, Sara M. Gorman

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

No abstract provided.


Home, Michaela Greer Jan 2018

Home, Michaela Greer

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

No abstract provided.


But, You Need Not Notice Me, Sara M. Gorman Jan 2018

But, You Need Not Notice Me, Sara M. Gorman

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

No abstract provided.


Hazy Woods, Amanda Marie Barrera Jan 2018

Hazy Woods, Amanda Marie Barrera

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

No abstract provided.


River Stones, Amanda Marie Barrera Jan 2018

River Stones, Amanda Marie Barrera

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

No abstract provided.


There's Something In This Pho, Adam Deross Jan 2018

There's Something In This Pho, Adam Deross

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

No abstract provided.