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Whose Truth?, Seth J. Hale Jan 2015

Whose Truth?, Seth J. Hale

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

Is objective reality verifiable or is all fact merely subjective experience? If the history of humanity has shown anything, it has shown that we are a species intent on explaining our environment and place within it. Most every philosophical pursuit is aimed at some version of this end. Mathematics and the physical sciences attempt to explain the universe by finding consistent order in the workings of nature. The social sciences attempt to explain the human race by finding consistent order in the behaviors of humans and human organizations. Literary and media studies attempt to explain the meanings that humans attach …


Beneath Still Waters: An Exploration Of Transmedia Narratives And Twitter Fiction, Anjali Gupta Jan 2015

Beneath Still Waters: An Exploration Of Transmedia Narratives And Twitter Fiction, Anjali Gupta

Scripps Senior Theses

Beneath Still Waters is an original transmedia mystery narrative that explores the possibilities of an interconnected media landscape as a unique platform for creative use and audience engagement. Transmedia storytelling refers to the building of a fictional world comprised of multiple parts across different platforms, where each component makes a valuable contribution to the whole. This project uses the tools and strategies of social media to tell a complex and interactive multi-platform story.


Sketching The Stories Of The Ausbund, Carita B. Keim Ms. Jan 2015

Sketching The Stories Of The Ausbund, Carita B. Keim Ms.

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

This project investigates the ballads compiled into the Ausbund, which literally means “a true selection or sampling. This hymnbook is the oldest one continuously in use in the world. Although the hymnbook was compiled by Amish and Mennonite ancestors, only the Amish use it today. Through creative non-fiction, this series of essays sketches ways in which the hymnbook continues to influence the Amish and Mennonite community. It attempts to prove that the Ausbund is a unique piece of art that has literary, cultural, and spiritual value. It had value in the sixteenth century, when most of the hymns were penned, …


The Only Dreamer, Katelyn H. Long Jan 2015

The Only Dreamer, Katelyn H. Long

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

For my Senior Honors Project, I submitted an excerpt from a novel length story about a family line with the inheritable ability to take objects out of people’s dreams. In this young adult fantasy, Melody is a nineteen year old girl who struggles with the fact that her twin sister has inherited the ability while she has not. The excerpt introduces Melody’s family and shows the tension that exists between them while hinting to the reader that there is something more sinister that drives Melody away from her home.

The novel explores morality and its gray areas, the difficulty that …


Screaming From The Inside, Kelly M. Kunze Jan 2015

Screaming From The Inside, Kelly M. Kunze

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

This collection of fiction and nonfiction stories examines the effect of my introversion on the creative work I produce as well as the role my observational nature plays in my writing. My original intention was to write stories about introverted characters and their perspective on the world, but the stories ended up focusing on the theme of family. I was dedicated to the stories being written from an honest, organic place and the result is a manuscript that discusses family from the earnest perspective of an introvert.


Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Coming Out In An Alcoholic Family, Lisa M. Tillmann Ph.D. Jan 2015

Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Coming Out In An Alcoholic Family, Lisa M. Tillmann Ph.D.

Faculty Publications

This piece invites readers inside emotional and relational dynamics of coming

out as gay in an alcoholic family system. Taking an interpretive approach to

research, focused on how participants make sense of and make meaning

from their lived experience, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” offers a longitudinal and

narrative ethnographic account of family secrecy and disclosure.


Male Development In Young Adult Novels: Mapping The Intersections Between Masculinity, Fatal Illness, Male Queerness, And Brotherhood, Ruth Nelson Jan 2015

Male Development In Young Adult Novels: Mapping The Intersections Between Masculinity, Fatal Illness, Male Queerness, And Brotherhood, Ruth Nelson

Departmental Honors Projects

Since 2000, Young Adult (YA) literature has grown exponentially. The subgenres of cancer novels (teen “sick-lit”) and LGBTQ fiction, in particular, have experienced a recent surge in popularity. The novels in these subgenres that feature young men as the affected characters (diagnosed with cancer and/or identifying as gay or queer) are particularly interesting because of the threats that these experiences pose to heteronormative masculinity. Because this fiction is directed at an impressionable audience in the process of forming their identities, the novels’ representations of gender could have a strong influence over readers’ gender identity development. Researchers have begun exploring the …


Reimaging Desire: Queer Time, Liminal Space, And Narrative Anxiety, Aidan Mitchell Jan 2015

Reimaging Desire: Queer Time, Liminal Space, And Narrative Anxiety, Aidan Mitchell

HIM 1990-2015

Media shapes and supports certain ideas about how we view ourselves and others. The narratives that we consume train us to desire a particular formula of what critic Lauren Berlant calls "the good life": growing up, becoming a man or a woman, getting married, having children, and retiring. People who fail to fit into these narratives are often punished and excluded from society. However, queer theorist Jack Halberstam asks us to reconsider failure as a means of resistance. The texts that I examine fail to conform to narrative expectations or to fit formulae that are easily consumable or defined. They …


It Looks Something Like This, Courtney M. Bird Jan 2015

It Looks Something Like This, Courtney M. Bird

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Unexpected Zeus, Adam Lambert Jan 2015

Unexpected Zeus, Adam Lambert

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Blue Eyes, Casey Schmidt Jan 2015

Blue Eyes, Casey Schmidt

The Messenger

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Survival, Bailey Little Jan 2015

Survival, Bailey Little

The Messenger

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The Last Year, Brittany Clemens Jan 2015

The Last Year, Brittany Clemens

The Messenger

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My Fourteenth October, Casey Schmidt Jan 2015

My Fourteenth October, Casey Schmidt

The Messenger

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Euphoria, Renan Ferreira De Almeida Jan 2015

Euphoria, Renan Ferreira De Almeida

The Messenger

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This Isn't A Title, Tracy Akers Jan 2015

This Isn't A Title, Tracy Akers

The Messenger

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Upon Seeing Myself In Giovanni's Room, Caroline Merritt Jan 2015

Upon Seeing Myself In Giovanni's Room, Caroline Merritt

The Messenger

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Pyro, Brittany Capps Jan 2015

Pyro, Brittany Capps

The Messenger

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I Am (Yours) To Command, Kevin Hargrave Jan 2015

I Am (Yours) To Command, Kevin Hargrave

The Messenger

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Phantom, Tracy Akers Jan 2015

Phantom, Tracy Akers

The Messenger

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I See You, Grace Dawson Jan 2015

I See You, Grace Dawson

The Messenger

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Dear Augustana, Alice Roberson Jan 2015

Dear Augustana, Alice Roberson

Audre Lorde Prize

No abstract provided.


I Know How It Ends, Richard Jennis Jan 2015

I Know How It Ends, Richard Jennis

The Messenger

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The Dragon And The Librarian, Katie Skipper Jan 2015

The Dragon And The Librarian, Katie Skipper

The Messenger

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A Few Steps Back, Joseph Zelek Jan 2015

A Few Steps Back, Joseph Zelek

The Messenger

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Run Like Water, Burn Like Sun, Ashley Wilda Jan 2015

Run Like Water, Burn Like Sun, Ashley Wilda

The Messenger

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Fairest Of Them All, Tracy Akers Jan 2015

Fairest Of Them All, Tracy Akers

The Messenger

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Black Hole, Brittany Clemens Jan 2015

Black Hole, Brittany Clemens

The Messenger

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Benny, Casey Schmidt Jan 2015

Benny, Casey Schmidt

The Messenger

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Life Cycle, Micah Farmer Jan 2015

Life Cycle, Micah Farmer

The Messenger

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