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Postmodern Fantasy & Its Twin Traditions, Skyler J. Alexander Aug 2026

Postmodern Fantasy & Its Twin Traditions, Skyler J. Alexander

Honors Thesis

Fantasy literature is diverse and difficult to categorize; nevertheless, throughout the twentieth century two main subgenres emerged: sword-and-sorcery and high fantasy. This thesis examines the differences and similarities between these two traditions, how contemporary examples of the genre fit into or diverge away from the traditions that influenced them, and proves in the negative what and how much of contemporary fantasy fiction is original to itself, with no prominent antecedent. The analysis was performed by comparatively reading two contemporary fantasy novels, The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan and A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin, with …


An Anxious Artist's Guide To Magic, Mot Tuman May 2026

An Anxious Artist's Guide To Magic, Mot Tuman

Masters Theses

Illustration’s essence is using some type of media to tell a story. This could be anything from sculpture, watercolor, even just text alone. Beyond its medium, I have been thinking for a while of illustration and storytelling as a type of illusory magic. Magic, according to the Oxford language dictionary as being "The power of using supernatural or other unseen forces to apparently influence events or human behaviour." It gives us the power to reach inside the mind and heart of a person and change their emotional and mental state. It's the ability to create a world and have others …


Project Wildest Dreams, Faith Bernier May 2026

Project Wildest Dreams, Faith Bernier

Honors College Theses

“Project Wildest Dreams” is a hybrid psychological correlational study and short fiction collection based on anecdotes of vivid, frightening, or bizarre dreams. This collaboration of art and science explores the nature of dreaming, a phenomenon that has intrigued and perplexed both the humanities and the STEM fields for many years. The goal of this thesis was twofold: primarily, it was intended to utilize the outlandish, surreal, and unique feelings and images that dreams elicit in order to procure an anthology of surrealist and absurdist short stories across primarily the genres of horror, comedy, and fantasy. In addition to this, the …


After The Morning Light, Fiona Candland May 2026

After The Morning Light, Fiona Candland

English Honors Projects

One fall morning, Clarice, a woman in her mid-twenties, is getting ready for the day when she finds a black ground beetle crawling along her bedroom wall. The beetle consumes her, and throughout the day, Clarice undergoes a metamorphosis. Rendered in poetry and prose, After the Morning Light explores the cultivation of a self, questions the boundaries between humans and their environment, and portrays the fragile relationship between women and the act of being seen.


Another Inconsistency: A Collection, Christy Luong May 2026

Another Inconsistency: A Collection, Christy Luong

Student Theses

A collection of stories.


From Viðkenning To Valarindi: The Enigma Of Goldberry And The River-Woman, Derek Simon Apr 2026

From Viðkenning To Valarindi: The Enigma Of Goldberry And The River-Woman, Derek Simon

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

THIS IS A TWO-PART ARTICLE. IN ORDER TO READ OR DOWNLOAD THE OTHER PART, FOLLOW THE LINK AT THE END OF THIS ABSTRACT.

Building upon the previous examination of the eddic and skaldic contours of Goldberry’s River kenning names, this reading of Goldberry’s enigma focuses on the mythological referents of her kinship relations and their narrative consistency in the legendarium.  Tending to the intrinsic connection between “[t]he incarnate mind, the tongue, and the tale” (Tolkien, On Fairy Stories, 41), I contend that the poetics of kenning diction sustain if not demand a reading of the River-woman references mythologically through …


Editors, The Alembic Apr 2026

Editors, The Alembic

The Alembic

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Volume 104, Number 1 - Spring 2026, The Alembic Apr 2026

Volume 104, Number 1 - Spring 2026, The Alembic

The Alembic

Cover "The Stars are Screaming in the Field Outside my Apartment" by Hale Mueller


Table Of Contents, The Alembic Apr 2026

Table Of Contents, The Alembic

The Alembic

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Editor's Note, The Alembic Apr 2026

Editor's Note, The Alembic

The Alembic

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Alembic Cover 2026, Hale Mueller Apr 2026

Alembic Cover 2026, Hale Mueller

The Alembic

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It Used To Be I Would Write In Echoes, Haley Metzger Apr 2026

It Used To Be I Would Write In Echoes, Haley Metzger

The Alembic

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Wednesday Night Baptism, Haley Metzger Apr 2026

Wednesday Night Baptism, Haley Metzger

The Alembic

No abstract provided.


Dare To Dream, Amelia C. Westfall Apr 2026

Dare To Dream, Amelia C. Westfall

The Alembic

No abstract provided.


December Songbird, Hanna Boudreau Apr 2026

December Songbird, Hanna Boudreau

The Alembic

No abstract provided.


The Snake, Jacqueline Lombardo Apr 2026

The Snake, Jacqueline Lombardo

The Alembic

No abstract provided.


Stopped In, George Thompson Apr 2026

Stopped In, George Thompson

The Alembic

No abstract provided.


College, Jacqueline Lombardo Apr 2026

College, Jacqueline Lombardo

The Alembic

No abstract provided.


Crow Chorus, Hanna Boudreau Apr 2026

Crow Chorus, Hanna Boudreau

The Alembic

No abstract provided.


For Jay-, Sophia Caneira Apr 2026

For Jay-, Sophia Caneira

The Alembic

No abstract provided.


Watchers Of The Sun, Alyssa Caneira Apr 2026

Watchers Of The Sun, Alyssa Caneira

The Alembic

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The City (After Mary Oliver’S “The Loon”), Alyssa Caneira Apr 2026

The City (After Mary Oliver’S “The Loon”), Alyssa Caneira

The Alembic

No abstract provided.


The Truth, Owen R. Kruger Apr 2026

The Truth, Owen R. Kruger

The Alembic

No abstract provided.


Turbulence, Sophia Caneira Apr 2026

Turbulence, Sophia Caneira

The Alembic

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For The Sins Of The Father, Mary Kate Seiberlich Apr 2026

For The Sins Of The Father, Mary Kate Seiberlich

The Alembic

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”Song Of Our Summer”, Ella Bloom Apr 2026

”Song Of Our Summer”, Ella Bloom

The Alembic

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Am I Dreaming?, Owen Comiskey Apr 2026

Am I Dreaming?, Owen Comiskey

The Alembic

No abstract provided.


The Bees Are Disappearing, Matthew J. Spireng Apr 2026

The Bees Are Disappearing, Matthew J. Spireng

The Alembic

No abstract provided.


Lonley Soar, Elizabeth E. Keenan Apr 2026

Lonley Soar, Elizabeth E. Keenan

The Alembic

No abstract provided.


Reflecting, Elizabeth E. Keenan Apr 2026

Reflecting, Elizabeth E. Keenan

The Alembic

No abstract provided.