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A Tale From Esterad: An Examination Of The Political Power Of Fantasy, Koy Skinner May 2023

A Tale From Esterad: An Examination Of The Political Power Of Fantasy, Koy Skinner

Honors Theses

The following is a short craft essay on the political nature of the fantasy genre followed by an original short story. The craft paper situates the reader in the discourse of fantasy being political or apolitical before shifting into a discussion of how Tolkien, Le Guin, and Sapkowski explore political ideas through their works. After, there is a brief section where the thought process going into the short story is explored before launching into the creative piece. The piece is five chapters long and explores a refugee crisis caused by a civil war in the fantasy world of Esterad.


The Red Deeps: A Retelling Of George Eliot's The Mill On The Floss., Emily Denton May 2023

The Red Deeps: A Retelling Of George Eliot's The Mill On The Floss., Emily Denton

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The culminating project toward my Ph.D. in Humanities under the Public Arts and Letters track is a combination of creative and scholarly work composed of two parts: a retelling of George Eliot’s novel The Mill on the Floss and a critical introduction outlining the creative concerns to the project. The novel, The Red Deeps, reimagines The Mill on the Floss in the recent past—during the late 1980s in the Copper Basin, the former copper mines in Eastern Tennessee. The critical preface draws broader categories of adaptation, ecocriticism, and climate fiction and incorporates theorists from new southern and Appalachian studies …


The Siren Of San Francisco, Emily Gage May 2023

The Siren Of San Francisco, Emily Gage

Whittier Scholars Program

The Siren of San Francisco is a story I have been interested in telling for the longest time focusing on the coming of age of the main character, Mia, and how she deals with change through gaining the power of shapeshifting. A lot of the graphic novel explores the relationships between Mia, her mom, and her close friends and how her relationships with them change during this transitional period.

The driving force behind this story was my enduring interest in relationships, identity, feminism, and how people can shape the people around them, including themselves. I approached this particular story from …


The Tv Box, Eliana Alzate May 2023

The Tv Box, Eliana Alzate

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

No abstract provided.


The Consumption Problem, Caelan (Ellie) Davis May 2023

The Consumption Problem, Caelan (Ellie) Davis

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

No abstract provided.


The Death Of A Musician, Zoe Harris May 2023

The Death Of A Musician, Zoe Harris

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

No abstract provided.


In The Downpour, Eli Nations May 2023

In The Downpour, Eli Nations

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

No abstract provided.


The Dark South, Paul Zachos May 2023

The Dark South, Paul Zachos

Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

This thesis contains a portion of my novel, The Dark South, as well as a craft essay titled “The Use of Plain Style in Modern Fiction Writing.” The craft essay examines how a plain style of writing can be used to great effect in fiction. I explore how simple writing can improve action, description, and exposition, and provide examples of writers who take advantage of these techniques. The Dark South, a Southern horror novel, tells the story of one man’s journey through a twisted version of the American South. Luke, a young man fresh out of college, finds himself stuck …


Something Holy, Madison Silva May 2023

Something Holy, Madison Silva

Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

This thesis contains two parts: a craft paper on interiority and seven chapters of a young adult social realism novel. The craft paper explores different strategies for “showing and telling” as a means of conveying interiority in faith-based characters, and it analyzes these strategies in two YA novels, Let’s Call it Doomsday by Katie Henry and Autoboyography by Christina Lauren, both of which center around queer, Mormon characters. The novel chapters in the thesis are from Something Holy, which follows Beck Taylor, an eighteen-year-old, mostly closeted bisexual boy who only has a few months until he leaves on a two-year …


The Pinocchio Boy: A Collection Of Queer Creative Written Work, Lucas Olvera May 2023

The Pinocchio Boy: A Collection Of Queer Creative Written Work, Lucas Olvera

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

The Pinocchio Boy is a series of short stories/memoirs and poems about my experiences as a Transgender and Gay man. Structured in five parts, I explore my childhood, young adulthood, and adulthood. My collection offers me an insight into what made me who I am today. There are drastic tonal shifts between the poem segments and the memoirs, I intended to act as the narrator of my story in which the poems and dialogue act as the characters in motion and the memoirs as my direct narration. A tongue-in-cheek fairy tale tone, but coming from a sincere place. My intent …


Anticolonial Feminism, Sylvia Moreno-Garcia, And The Female Gothic: A Textual Analysis Of Mexican Gothic, Hana Vega May 2023

Anticolonial Feminism, Sylvia Moreno-Garcia, And The Female Gothic: A Textual Analysis Of Mexican Gothic, Hana Vega

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

Latinx authors writing in English are challenging the western literary canon and the way stories are told through a western-centric lens. I argue that Mexican Canadian author Sylvia Moreno Garcia and her novel Mexican Gothic redefines the genre by telling the story of a British family living in 1950’s Mexico from an anti-colonial feminist lens. After a review of the literature on the gothic genre and how authors of color use it to respond to western-centric ideas in their own gothic novels, I am approaching the text using postcolonial and decolonial feminist theories to conduct a textual, genre, and ideological …


Coalescing Pedagogies: Creative Writing And The Esl Composition Classroom, Kariana Anderson May 2023

Coalescing Pedagogies: Creative Writing And The Esl Composition Classroom, Kariana Anderson

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

I have proposed an intersectional pedagogy between second language acquisition (SLA), creative writing principles, and translingual composition classroom pedagogy. The purpose of this paper was to demonstrate a need for a comprehensive, creative writing-based composition class by integrating existing research ideas, introducing new activities and assignments, and demonstrating how these pedagogies that were once considered distinct can be bridged together to develop more competent and engaged learners and users of English. In the first section of this thesis, I presented an in-depth review of each theoretical framework: translingual composition pedagogy, creative writing philosophies and educational applications, and Teaching English as …


The Prism, Darrah Melita Ellis May 2023

The Prism, Darrah Melita Ellis

Graduate Thesis Collection

"The Prism" is a magical-girl-themed fantasy light novel series about four best friends who finally graduated junior high school. Miya, Teresa, Liana, and Destiny are anxious to start their new high school lives (for better or worse) in their rough, monotone, and corrupt urban town of Quaint Village. Their plans are interrupted, however, by the opening of a brand new private school. Then, for the first time ever, all four girls end up in the same program. They're ready to make great memories together and spend much more time with each other.

Unbeknownst to them, their new school is nothing …


Kiss To The Fist, Greta Flanagan May 2023

Kiss To The Fist, Greta Flanagan

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.


The Astonishing, Tess Woitaszek May 2023

The Astonishing, Tess Woitaszek

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.


Nesting, Kiely Caulfield May 2023

Nesting, Kiely Caulfield

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.


Stephanie Vanderslice’S The Lost Son: A Review, Julia Grunes May 2023

Stephanie Vanderslice’S The Lost Son: A Review, Julia Grunes

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.


An Interview With Stephanie Vanderslice, Elizabeth Roos May 2023

An Interview With Stephanie Vanderslice, Elizabeth Roos

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.


Artists - Intertext 2023, Intertext Artists Apr 2023

Artists - Intertext 2023, Intertext Artists

Intertext

No abstract provided.


Table Of Contents - Intertext 2023, Intertext Contents Apr 2023

Table Of Contents - Intertext 2023, Intertext Contents

Intertext

No abstract provided.


The Weight Of The World: An Examination Of Stigma And Social Pressure Through The Lens Of Superheroes, Kiersten Burtz Apr 2023

The Weight Of The World: An Examination Of Stigma And Social Pressure Through The Lens Of Superheroes, Kiersten Burtz

Honors Projects

Ever since the early 20th century, the world, and America in particular, has been infatuated with superheroes,super-powered beings who are capable of more than mankind could ever fathom. These stories tend to have similar themes and conventions. The hero (often a man) is born with or develops extraordinary abilities. As he grows and learns more about these abilities, he feels a duty to help those weaker than he is and subsequently becomes a hero—rescuing civilians from accidents, natural disasters, and other super-powered beings who choose to use their power for evil. To keep those he loves safe from these evildoers, …


Promethia 2022-2023 Apr 2023

Promethia 2022-2023

Promethia

No abstract provided.


Lady Winters, Madeline Ice Apr 2023

Lady Winters, Madeline Ice

Departmental Honors & Graduate Capstone Projects

Lady Winters is a young adult fantasy novella based in a world of royalty and assassins. The line between good and evil should be clear but recent events have blurred them. In the shadows, lurks a darkness that seeks to change the course of history.

In a futuristic kingdom, Lady Celestia Winters inherits debt and a kill list following the death of her parents. She takes over her mother’s position as an Academy Assassin and uses her training to work towards paying off the family debt. In charge of her assignments is the infamous Headmistress and Celestia’s newest target is …


Attics, Mark Brazaitis Apr 2023

Attics, Mark Brazaitis

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.


Youth In Asia, E.H. Jacobs Apr 2023

Youth In Asia, E.H. Jacobs

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.


Exuvia, Andie Tursi Apr 2023

Exuvia, Andie Tursi

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.


We Must Not Disturb The Peace, Nicole Cifani Lehmann-Haupt Apr 2023

We Must Not Disturb The Peace, Nicole Cifani Lehmann-Haupt

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.


Heart Of A Monster, Gabriella King Apr 2023

Heart Of A Monster, Gabriella King

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.


Return To The Country Of The Crime, Dan Grossman Apr 2023

Return To The Country Of The Crime, Dan Grossman

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.


Rethinking Length And Form In Fiction: Workshopping Short Stories, Novels, Novellas, Flash, And Hybrid, Kevin Clouther Apr 2023

Rethinking Length And Form In Fiction: Workshopping Short Stories, Novels, Novellas, Flash, And Hybrid, Kevin Clouther

Journal of Creative Writing Studies

This essay challenges dominant workshop practices and details efforts to diversify workshops with particular attention to what is workshopped and how workshops can become inclusive of not only short stories but also various lengths and forms of fiction: novels, novellas, flash, and hybrid. This essay addresses face-to-face as well as online workshops.