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Little One, Jocelyn Paredes

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Self Sacrificial // Where My Head Lays, Lidabel A. Avila

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Letting Go Of Past Shame And Guilt, Allyson Voerg

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Yosemite, Post-Knee Surgery, Alexandria Wyckoff

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Leslie Pietrzyk's Admit This To No One: A Review, Alison Dicesare

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An Interview With Leslie Pietrzyk, Maria Pawlak

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What The Dead Know By Act Three, Marianne Jay Erhardt

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Stony Brook Girl, Emma Rowan

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Aliens, Lizbet Cantu Montiel

Theses and Dissertations

Aliens is a collection of poems exploring the concept of alienations though heavy usage of figurative language and rich, dark language. Each poem will portray a variety of issues around the author and the world around the author of the work. Other important issues as underlying themes of the work explore diversity in different means through the concept of alienation, or not belonging, in a certain circumstance. Each poem also uses a variety of literary devices, especially the heavy usage of figurative language in order to portray the issues or themes at hand revolving around the concept of alienation.

As Above, So Below: Magical Poetics And Queer Alchemy & A Planetary Spell.., Robert Eric Shoemaker

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

"Words have power": no more obvious statement has perhaps ever been made in an essay. However, the nature of that power is quite complicated, with a long and contentious history. I think of poetry as magic. Poetry is magical in the sense that it has ineffable qualities to it that enable readers to experience new thoughts and feelings when experiencing poetry, but when I say magic I mean that I think of poetry as actual, practical magic. As I will argue, poetry has magical qualities to it regardless of who is weaving the words, while intentional use of a self-aware …

College Slasher Novel, Jeff Hill

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This project was completed in hopes of creating a new novel that combines the research and craft worlds of composition and creative writing while merging the social worlds of teaching and campus Greek life, as well as making relevant contemporary commentary on the genres of satire and horror. In preparation, beyond necessary course work completion and time to outline, write, workshop, and revise, I read numerous novels and articles and watched dozens of films and television episodes as well as conducted research regarding current campus demographic to compose the best novel I could write in my time within the program. …

Longing, Abel Bates

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

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In Our Shoes, Mahogany Brim '22

Honor Scholar Theses

In Our Shoes has lived inside of me for a long time. As someone who has always been fully immersed in my own culture, I was born into this duality of identity. I realized early on that I existed in two different worlds: the one shaped by my Bajan identity and the one shaped by my American one. I wasn’t fully a Black American. I had deep ties to this tiny island in the Atlantic, famous for flying fish and Rihanna. And I wasn’t one of those immigrant children that had never set foot on the island that they were …

Thanks, Mariam Lobjanidze

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

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Marrying Buddha, Mana Kunimatsu

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

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The Taste Of Death, Vy Nguyen

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

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Venus Burning, Elizabeth Swift

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

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The Bad Thing, Meredith White

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

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Chalk Outline, Marie Gurnon

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

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Entries From The Journal Of An Old Horse Thief, Harry Burgan

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

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Qcq Discussion Protocol, Michael Maslankowski

Open Educational Resources

This is a protocol designed to help students led and run discussions with a text that has been assigned to them. This protocol helps student prepare for in-class discussion by giving them a protocol to follow that allows everyone to fully participate in the discussion.

An Imaginary Man, Benjamin Bouvet-Boisclair

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Novella about an American expat nicknamed Tintin and his search for intimacy in all the wrong places. While teaching English in South West France, Tintin struggles to confront his mother tongue, the deaths of his grandfather and great-grandfather, and the end of his long-distance relationship with Ela. Brushes with violence, French history, and other lonely, wayward men, frame an exploration of masculinity, desire, and loss.

Indumentaria Contra La Mujer, Ines Gallo De Urioste

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

A translation of Anne Boyer's Garments Against Women.

Elegies For My Past And Future Selves, Tori Michelle Hicks

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

“Here I stand at the beginning
with more questions than
answers”
–George Ella Lyon, “Provenance” from A Many Storied House

This collection of poems and flash memoir tries to be memory in the flesh. Perhaps it’s the other way around – this book is composed of memories striving to be poems, pieces of music, flashes of memoir, and photographs, all for the purpose of exploring who I was, who I am, and who I could become. Whichever way one interprets it, Elegies for My Past and Future Selves is a hybrid collection that looks at the events of my past, …

Diario Nb, Sergio A. Godoy

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

As a literary text, Diario nb is a hybrid-memoir that gathers materials from my digital archive, including diary entries, poetry, academic essays and short stories I wrote for class, photos and videos, to tell the story of how I came to the realization that I was trans, what it was like to live with that realization for the first few months after it happened, and how I feel about it now, almost a year after it all happened. Itâ??s also a book about our need to explain ourselves for others, and the suffering that need can bring into our lives.

Losing The Audience: A Poetry Collection, Robin Latimer

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

ABSTRACT LOSING THE AUDIENCE: A POETRY COLLECTION By Robin Marcelle Latimer A collection of 35 poems in forms as varied as lengthy dialogical poems to swift lyrics and leisurely narratives, including several prose poems, illuminate a personal history of a poetic relationship with the audience of poetry. The Preface to the collection notes that the act of voicing from the past into the present and aiming at the future (audience) is elegiac in nature, with the poem a type of monument to the poet's process and voice, and for this reason the trope of audience is enjoined to the genre …

The Strain, Jonathan Maltz

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

My project, The Strain, began as a screenplay, but has now evolved into a novella/novel potentiality. The Strain, positioned in the genre or tradition of speculative fiction, concerns the tumultuous goings-on of Ben Gottman, an underground journalist who reports on the war front infecting the planet. He returns to the city of Terra, feeling darkly removed and dissociated from domestic life as result of having witnessed the violent totality of war. No sooner has he returned then he is summoned by his supervisor, Victor Proto, who, facing the pressures of a dissolving press, as the inhabitants of Terra are rapidly …

Remember When We Tore Each Other Limb From Limb?, Adam Ramsey

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

REMEMBER WHEN WE TORE EACH OTHER LIMB FROM LIMB? is a collection of short stories and surrealist prose poems. Most of these are not connected in terms of character or setting. However, there are two episodic stories that reoccur throughout the book, each of them grounded in real-life situations meant to offset the fantastical settings in which the majority of the other pieces are set. The first of these episodic stories is a series of vignettes about a character named Noah, a young man who is taking care of his elderly mother. The other is a series about a young …

Recortes, Ana Mayela De Velazquez Farfan

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Recortes es un libro organizado en fragmentos discontinuos con la intención de narrar sin un orden cronológico, para evocar el proceso de la memoria: los recuerdos surgen o son rememorados, en ninguno de los dos casos aparecen en el orden temporal en el que se vivieron. La búsqueda de la intimidad en Recortes consiste en capturar testigos involuntarios, se mantiene en la superficie, no construye una narración; no busca recuperar una esencia, reproduce los recuerdos como surgen en una asociación libre: de los viajes en tren de mamá a las camas infantiles que compartieron dos hermanas, de la nostalgia del …

Alice And Me, Myself, Little David, And The Right Side Of My Brain, David Cohen

Theses and Dissertations

This is an honest and open memoir of David Cohen’s life as it fits into the 13 years of therapy with Alice. The story is of David learning about his inner child and making a deal with him through non-dominant-hand writing. The result is for David to quit drinking and for the adult part of him to finally take control of his life. The narrative reviews key experiences of his past that influence the current issues.

The background research includes concepts from five key books that support Alice, the therapist’s, theories that have over 30 years of experience have developed …