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Skunk River Review Fall 2003, Vol 15, Tammy Andrada, Zeng Choua Lee, Carl Kohler, Noumoua Lynaolu, Megan Northhouse, Holly Hansen, Robert A. Parsons, Viraliy Pidlisnyak, Joanna Smith, Logan Smith, Charlene Summers, Keri Thompson, Stacie Hartley, Matthew Kunert, Mihneta Lisinovic, Jenna Monthei, Adam Pirillo, Vivian Schwab, Tammy Wilson

Skunk River Review

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Inscape Fall 2003, Morehead State University

Inscape: Art & Literary Magazine Archive

The Fall 2003 edition of the Inscape: Literary and Art Magazine.

The Lantern Vol. 71, No. 1, Fall 2003, Katy Diana, Bart Brooks, Sarah Napolitan, Susannah Fisher, Sarah Kauffman, Dan Bruno, Trevor Strunk, Jan Cohen, Jen Brink, Jonathan Gagas, Shane Borer, Kate Chapman, Dennis Kearney, Crystal Mccarney, Ashley Mcintosh, Klaus Yoder, Kate Juliano, John Ramsey, Melanie Scriptunas, Alison Shaffer

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Lights of Venice
• Portrait
• Switzerland
• Drunken
• Revel Writing
• Nectarines
• Shifting Gears
• Stogie
• Reflect
• In the Key of Fuchsia Minor
• Jarring
• Sissy
• Mongols vs. Amish: X-Treme Culture Clash
• Holding On
• The Bethany
• Creekside
• The Real Thing
• On Being Alone and Other Pleasures
• Forced Entry
• The Case of Beauty: Aesthetics of Distance

Fiction Fix 02, Sarah Howard, April E. Fisher, Danielle Dieger, Robert Orndorff, Thelma Young, Gavin Lamert, Jeff Geloneck, Tim Gilmore, Melissa Gollegly, Shannon Mcleish, Robert Panaro

Fiction Fix

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The Night Gwen Stacy Died:' The End Of Innocence And The Birth Of The Bronze Age, Arnold T. Blumberg

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

The time was 1973, and superheroes had some growing up to do.

The signs were already there as the genre eased into its fifth decade as the dominant force in American comic books. 1968 had seen the introduction of Robert Crumb's Zap Comics [1], an underground comic more concerned with counterculture trends and bucking the establishment than chronicling the exploits of spandex-wearing conservatives. The medium was testing its boundaries, finding flexibility where once there had been rigidity, and soon superheroes began to look like a timelost collection of crusaders who spoke to a generation long since past.

The Promethean, Volume 12, Number 01, Fall 2003, English Department, Concordia University-Portland

The Promethean

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Nikki's Umbrella, Damon Xanthopoulos

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

He likes rhubarb and strawberry pie. Once thought 'Bewitched' was called 'Bitchwitched'.

Buskers, Charlie Anness

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

Charlie Anness is a Senior from Cincinnati, OH. Agricultural Justice major with a minor in Interpretive Dance.

The Mind Is Its Own Place, Meghan Freeman

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

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Wheels, Katherine Field

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

Kat(i)e Field /kaytee/ or /kay-t/ (depending on relation) n.,adj.,v. Flamingo by descent. Scientific name: Flutus flamingus. Post script see also: hyperbole, bladder control and things that squeak

Dreaming About Mudcats, Kelsie Gray

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

Kelsie is a junior music performance major (trumpet) from Yukon, Oklahoma (home of Garth Brooks). An animal welfare advocate and fag Hag extraordinaire, her favorite games are Scrabble and Spin the Bottle/Cell Phone. She is terrified of catfish.

Southern Star., Shanda Schrae Miller

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

“Southern Star” follows protagonist Sally Gayle through the cycle of maturation. Complex family relationships and secrets hinder Sally as she searches for her identity in this bidungsroman set in a small, rural area of Southern Appalachia. Taking a minimalist, cinematic approach, “Southern Star” experiments with form and technique in an attempt to convey pure story to the reader. The work particularly focuses on character development, authentic dialogue, and a sense of place.

Ruling Powers, Scot A. Hanson

Theses and Dissertations

While the fantasy genre is one of the most widely read modes of writing, literary criticism and academic discussion of the genre takes place at a much lower level. This imbalance has developed in part because of a misconception that fantasy genre writings cannot accomplish significant, literary purposes. This thesis first offers an argument for why the fantasy genre should receive more attention in scholarly circles, then presents an excerpt of a fantasy novel. The argument draws from the limited amount of existing criticism to highlight the strengths of the fantasy genre, building a case that, in most respects, works …

Breathe In, Breathe Out, Patti Eldridge Holt

English Theses & Dissertations

This collection of seven short stories explores the experience and expression of love. Love as myth is thematic to some of the stories, as is love as misery. The characters in the stories lose love or misuse it, or they confuse it with other human impulses. The stories dance around the cliche of love and examine it from the perspective of the individual, family, community, and church. Love is the conflict as well as the resolution, and the characters evolve as their understanding of love becomes more or less clear.

Saddam/Sex/Superfeminist; Or, Fixing Iraq, Marleen S. Barr

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

Professor Claire Kentowitz, a feminist science fiction expert who teaches at Metropolis' SUNY Gramercy Park, was spending Saturday morning on the phone with her department head. They were having a heated discussion about comma placement in the tenure guidelines document. She hung up, switched on the television, and saw plumes of white smoke etched against the blue Texas sky. Since Claire had recently flown over the area, fond memories were intermingled with shock. She recoiled when she heard that Columbia had exploded -- and she was justifiably guilt ridden.

Review Of Heredity, By Jenny Davidson, David C. Froemke

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

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The End Of Science Fiction: When Technological Extrapolation Hits A Wall Across The Future, James John Bell

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

Science fiction, as a genre of popular fiction, can trace its roots as far back as the 2nd century AD, where fantastical worlds were conjured up in order to comment on current beliefs. The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1996) outlines a very specific ancestry:

[Science Fiction] is a descendant of the type of prose fiction sometimes referred to as Lucianic Satire (after Lucian of Samosata, a Greek writer of the 2nd century AD). Lucianic Satire -- also commonly known as Menippean Satire after an earlier writer, Menippus, whose works are now lost -- is a kind of …

Imperialism & Globalization: Lessons From Frank Herbert's Dune, Kevin Williams

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

These are the words of The Preacher (a character in Frank Herbert's Children of Dune who is simultaneously the metaphorical reincarnation of the fallen prophet, Muad'Dib, and the self-exiled Emperor, Paul Atreides) as he addresses the masses enslaved by their devotion to his messianic Empire. These words, culled from the pages of science fiction, are more than mere exposition from Herbert's narrative, they point toward several important conditions facing the political world today. These conditions concern certain failures of democracy and effects of globalization spawned, in part, by an intensification of imperialist expansion in the name of democracy.

Contributors, Westview Staff

Westview

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If Eden Were A Public Garden, Suzanne Rindell

Westview

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The Uncle, Estelle Shanley

Westview

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The Good Catholic, James Jay Egan

Westview

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The Point Of A Glass Pen, Elisabeth Ward

Westview

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What Words Can Do, Kim Bridgford

Westview

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Interview With Carol Hamilton, Fred Alsberg

Westview

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Halloween Party, Carol Hamilton

Westview

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Leaving The Middle Years, Walt Mcdonald

Westview

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The Evening News, Mark Sanders

Westview

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A Thing Of Gray All Morning, Fredrick Zydek

Westview

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Torch, Farhan Shakeel

Westview

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