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Articles 91 - 120 of 122
Full-Text Articles in Fiction
The Problem, Jason Hescock
Even The Small Green Lamp, Steven Kiley
At Knife Point , Kevin Kane
Flat Black Tires , Allie Gruner
Metallic Dress , Chapel Taylor
Holoday Surprise , Justin Roberts
Chicken Curry, Nicholas Mui Ker Lik
American Anomaly, Nicole Smith
Disappearing , Kevin Kane
Cold Trial, Jason Morton
Dreaming, Shanna Roggow
Fire And Rye, Kevin Kane
I Y Yo, Salvador Sánchez
Side By Side, Robert Macinnis
Grandmother, Anne Hawkinson
The Laureate, Nicole Burchette
The Laureate, Nicole Burchette
Honors Theses
The Laureate’s mission is to provide undergraduate students at Western Michigan University a place in which to publish their works of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and other creative works. The Laureate strives to be a professional and engaging journal that appeals to all. The opportunity to serve as Editor-in-Chief for the thirteenth edition of the The Laureate has been an honor and a privilege. Along the way I have worked with a variety of team members to select and build the collection. Working close with my fellow editors, this edition of The Laureate came together as the result of much hard …
Almost Touching, Almost Free, Dustin M. Hoffman
Almost Touching, Almost Free, Dustin M. Hoffman
Dissertations
This collection of stories delves into themes of the working class. These stories of working-class characters range from realism to fabulism to experimental, because the story of working-class people is complex and always shifting. Some of the stories travel backward in time to shepherds and traveling crusaders, while others take on much more contemporary voices, speaking from the point of view of sex workers, carpenters, office workers, ice cream van drivers, and salesmen. If these stories have one thing in common, it is that the characters are searching for identity, for a concrete sense of self that seems to have …
Kayleigh's Australian Adventure: A Story For Children, Diane A. Wetmore
Kayleigh's Australian Adventure: A Story For Children, Diane A. Wetmore
Honors Theses
This is a children's book for upper elementary students (3rd/4th grade) as an introduction to Australian culture
Circumnavigation, Vincent Reusch
Circumnavigation, Vincent Reusch
Dissertations
This creative work, a novel, set in the late 1980s, tells the story of twenty-seven-year-old Davison Johnson (Davi), as she sails around the world in a solo race. For Davi, sailing is more than a challenge, however; it is an escape. On her previous year-long sail, she sailed away from the guilt of her non-action as her Cambodian student, Chanthavy, was abducted from a market in Siem Reap, where Davi was working as an English teacher. Now, she is sailing away from the uncomfortable reality of her older brother's slow death to AIDS. Her brother, Peter, does not disappear as …
You Will Come Safe From The Sea, Peter J. Geye
You Will Come Safe From The Sea, Peter J. Geye
Dissertations
Set against the Minnesota North Shore of Lake Superior, "You Will Come Safe From the Sea" examines the lives of Olaf and Noah Torr, a father and son whose long estrangement began after Olaf survived a shipwreck on Lake Superior. Thirty years after the wreck, Olaf is dying of cancer and has asked his son home to help him die. Over the course of two weeks in November, the protagonists learn each other's lives and summon the courage to forgive. Multiple stories-within-the-story evolve, including the harrowing account of the wreck of the SSRagnarek (Olaf s ore boat), and Noah's own …
Phantom, Stephanie Yates
A Giant Outside The Window, Laura Citino
Superfan, Erin Beal
Wake, Jacob Frye
Four Roads: A Novel, Kelly Daniels
Four Roads: A Novel, Kelly Daniels
Dissertations
An American tourist is attacked by peasants, who suspect her of stealing infants to sell on a shadowy organ donation market. Several other attacks follow, prompting a travel advisory, which in turn causes tourists to flee the country, fracturing the already weak economy, and creating more chaos still. Meanwhile, death squads patrol the mountains to "disappear" anyone suspected of harboring sympathy for the rebels, and the usual assortment of criminals use any means available to make a buck. This is Guatemala, hardly a vacationer's paradise; yet several Americans have elected to remain in country amidst such turmoil.
Four Roads, a …
Thou Shall Not, Elizabeth Webb
Floating Holidays: A Novel, Christopher Joseph Torockio
Floating Holidays: A Novel, Christopher Joseph Torockio
Dissertations
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"How Should One Love?": Alternative Love Plots And Their Ethical Implications In The Victorian Novel, Jennifer J. Carpentier
"How Should One Love?": Alternative Love Plots And Their Ethical Implications In The Victorian Novel, Jennifer J. Carpentier
Dissertations
In reading Victorian fiction through an ethical lens, I am attentive to questions of what constitutes the good, loving, w ell-lived life. It is my contention that Victorian writers turned to fiction - specifically, the rapidly emerging novel form - to explore the ethical implications of being in love, and the problem s occasioned by erotic love. The writers I examine modify the basic Aristotelian search for a specification of the good life for human beings: they used novels as testing grounds for the ethical question, "How should one love?"
My study of 19th-century British fiction reveals a strain of …
Utah Jazz, A Novel, Darren Defrain
Utah Jazz, A Novel, Darren Defrain
Dissertations
This novel concerns a young Mormon who has fallen away from his religion and his family and juxtaposes his struggles with his faith, belief and heritage with those of a drifter deliberately distancing himself from a much darker past. The novel is also acutely interested in place and landscape as powerful originations of any contemporary sense of paradise and perdition we may hang onto.
The episodic setting of the novel, in conjunction with the narrator’s story, concurrently traces the National Basketball Association’s Utah Jazz’s 1996 play-off appearance. The novel uses this setting to examine the ways in which the basketball …
Skin: A Work Of Fiction, Kellie Wells
Skin: A Work Of Fiction, Kellie Wells
Dissertations
In Skin, a polyphonous novel, a community of characters similarly metaphysically vexed and similarly grappling with issues of selfhood and identity intersect and catalyze in one another moments of recognition. These brief self-reckonings suggest to the characters that though the quest to discern their place in the universe is a plagued one, it is not without value as it at least results in faint glimmers of enlightenment. Ultimately, how ever, these flickerings of understanding inch the characters no closer to the big certainties they seek, and they therefore must determine that the process itself, or, more to the point, …