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Drink If // Midas Touch, Kat Johnson

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Midnight Catharsis, Lianna Lazaros

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Smudge Painting, Melanie Norman

Gandy Dancer Archives

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From The Nook Of The Fig Tree, Anna Lynch

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Signs Of Persephone, Ella Pearcy

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Tetanus // Celestial Bitch // Feast, Mia Donaldson

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Don’T Collect $200 // Grindr Musings, Kristian Grant

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Grammar Of Paradise // Grammar Of Traps // Grammar Of Stasis, Nancy Keating

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Chickens In Texas: A Farce In One Act, Lawson Marchetti

Honors Theses

Herein lies a one-act farce written by Lawson David Marchetti, an English major in the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College at the University of Mississippi. His emphasis is in Creative Writing, and his minors are in Theatre Arts and in Music. This farce was written as his senior thesis, for the completion of requirements of the Honors College. The play was conceived in August of 2020, and completed in April of 2021. The play itself is set in modern times, sans pandemic, and is highly whimsical in style. It requires a cast of twelve comedic actors, and several complicated technical …

Life, Love, And Loss: Redefining The Trauma, Samantha Crystal Rae Barnette

Graduate Theses/Dissertations

This thesis begins with a critical introduction analyzing the use of defamiliarization and the Dostoevskian hero in literature as a catalyst for a change in perception for victims of trauma. I create a relationship between the theories of Viktor Shklovsky and Mikhail Bakhtin as applied to both my own and published works. Short stories from Carmen Maria Machado and Marly Swick and Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale help to situate my own writing within this theoretical approach. The basis of my hypothesis lies in the blurred effect that trauma can have on the individual, causing an automatic response to …

The Glob, Spring 2021, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

The Glob was a one-off student newspaper created for the course Words, Images and Ideas, ILLUS 3412-01, taught by Ernest A. Bryant III. Students contributed 1-2 pages each of writing and images on topics such as COVID-19, fashion and style, risograph printing, and more.

Love Paint And Other Private Vegetables, Victoria Hudson

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Despite her remarkably low score on the Morse Fall Scale, Dolores shattered her femur in August of 2018. Some studies suggest that grief began there: a fracture, a wail—but the mechanism by which we came to recognize it, to plant it in our beds, remained unexplained, and the role of the daughter was controversial. Who gardens? What is the optimal depth for this sort of burial? Rootbound women with a clinical presentation of imminent loss were eligible to participate; we had thought to control the study but found no suitable placebo. The vegetables were necessarily randomized, the paint stratified according …

The Infinite Crisis: How The American Comic Book Has Been Shaped By War, Winston Andrus

War, Diplomacy, and Society (MA) Theses

This thesis project argues that war has been the greatest catalyst for the American comic book medium to become a socio-political change agent within western society. Comic books have become one of the most pervasive influences to global popular culture, with superheroes dominating nearly every popular art form. Yet, the academic world has often ignored the comic book medium as a niche market instead of integrated into the broader discussions on cultural production and conflict studies. This paper intends to bridge the gap between what has been classified as comic book studies and the greater academic world to demonstrate the …

An Anthology On Human Suffering In America: Notes On Black Lives Matter, Katelyn Dubois

Senior Honors Projects

For far too long systemic racism has protected inequality and suffering in the United States, preaching that one’s worth and opportunities are determined by the color of their skin. Despite the foundational values of freedom and equality in the United States, the Black community continues to be killed and discriminated against in disturbingly disproportionate amounts to their peers, and is precisely 3.23 times more likely than Caucasians to be killed by police. “An Anthology on Human Suffering in America: Notes on Black Lives Matter'' was created with the intent to bring greater awareness to the racism and social injustices experienced …

Becoming Bare: A Memoir, Andrew James Romriell

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This thesis is the first part of what I envision to be a full-length memoir. I focus throughout on multiple themes, primarily what it meant to grow up gay in a culture, state, religion, and society where others told me I was wrong to be such. I explore these themes linearly through extended metaphors such as clothing, outward appearances, nakedness, and literal hiding. I begin with an introduction before moving into the main content where I explore my life between the ages of eight and eighteen as I struggled to understand the impact of religious, educational, and familial cultures on …

Myth And The Creative Imagination, J. Neil Garcia

Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance

This essay inquires into the broadly creative affordances offered by mythological material to artists in general, and to writers in particular. It uses as examples the first few volumes of the Panay Bukidnon’s epic series, whose insights into non-dualistic thinking and transcendence echo the paradoxical procedures of poetic creativity on one hand, and urge translations into present-day national narrativities on the other, in light of the country’s increasingly cloven and agonized realities. Finally, as a way of fortifying its central argument, it discusses recent mythopoeic works by Filipino writers, that demonstrate in a variety of ways the generativity—and the usefulness—of …

Night Boats And Other Poems, Allan Popa

Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance

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Adumbrant, Richard Cornelio

Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance

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Ang Macabagong Alpabetong Pilipinx, Kabel Mishka Ligot

Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance

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The Poetry Of Everyday Things: Poetics And The World, Fidelito C. Cortes

Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance

A re-working of a 2012 lecture for the Philippine PEN, this essay looks at how the quotidian and the political serve as generative occasions for five poems from the collection Everyday Things by Fidelito Cortes. Poetic devices and forms explored include a sonnet, a coda, alliteration, and a short and a long polemical lyric.

Grief Is Love With Nowhere To Go, Sara Sampson

Transformations: Research Papers

Outstanding Writing Award Winner. Trigger warnings: Rape, Suicide

Artificial Magic, Tawny Ventura

Senior Theses

This novella by Tawny Ventury emerged from a short story written for a creative writing course on speculative fiction.

The First Flowers Of Spring, Gretel Valdes

Senior Theses

This creative writing thesis contains a series of poems by Gretel Valdes.

I.

• Pillowtalk
• Autumnal Hues
• Mis Cejas
• Intimacy
• Without You, in San Francisco
• Sundown of Person

II.

• drinking honey with the bees
• The Lady of Crescent Lake
• A Collection of 2 am Thoughts
• Cold Feet
• Another Year of Thankfulness
• My Grandfather’s First Time in the ICU
• For Oregon Where I Have Yet to Fall in Love

III.

• The First Flower of Spring
• A Dandelion Before the Wind
• Weightless
• Aubade to the Other Woman
• To Denica
• Someday Soon

IV.

• Recovery
• Anxiety
• On the first girl I ever kissed
• Drinks I …

Who Is Neil Wells?, Colin Anderson

Senior Theses

This creative writing thesis takes the form of a mystery novel by Colin Anderson.

Encounters On Mount Willard: A Subway Seeker Meets A Mountain Man, Elissa Ely

Appalachia

A hiker overhears a man from the city and two boys with their grandfather on a popular trail above Crawford Notch.

In Space, Sarah Street

The Purple

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This Truth, Grace Manning

The Purple

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'I Want The Feels Of I Be On Top' Said Little Angela Black, R.T. Guerra

The Purple

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The Oncologist, Brendan Ryan

The Purple

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My Father's Self-Defenestration, Sam Lively

The Purple

No abstract provided.