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Letter, Richard Lovell To Sophia Starling Bennett, London, On The Death Of John Sprockett, Robert Cooperman

Westview

No abstract provided.

From "The Death Of A Badman," A New Dime Novel By Percy Gilmore, Robert Cooperman

Westview

No abstract provided.

A Search For Peace, Kami Horton

Dissertations and Theses

This is a creative thesis on a personal experiences working for the European peace movement. It reflects the parallel efforts of working for personal and shared peace in order to contribute to both,

After several years as a reporter, I became disenchanted with my life choices and became an intern with the Catholic peace organization Pax Christi International in Belgium. It was a transition that proved both challenging and rewarding.

While I was discovering the physical peace work through Pax Christi I was also embarking on an inner journey to find personal peace with my decisions and myself.

This is …

"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 …

Four Square, James Raymond Echtle

Dissertations and Theses

The novel opens with three people in a stolen 300ZX going dangerously fast. There's Kevin Parish, our first person protagonist, through who's eyes we come to learn of the events leading up to the three's desperate situation. There's Hector Malice, the trailer-trash life-long friend and Kevin's rival for the love of Kevin's life, Ginger Lane. Then, there's Ginger, the former Ms. Lewis County turned drug abusing waitress and worse. Revealed are the secrets of the car business and other marginally legal short cons.

The settings range from the fictional rural Washington communities of Pelton and Clark's Bluff to the city …

Seventeen Days In The Cat Bird Seat, Meggin Crom

Dissertations and Theses

Humor and laughter are essential to the happiness of humankind. Too often we are bogged down in the mire of despair and misery, unable to see the humor in our own folly.

This thesis follows several groups of wacky characters on a cross country adventure. The story begins with the death and subsequent reincarnation of the hermetic genius, Archibald Constable. The recently departed recluse bequeaths his estate to Loretta Pontelli, a loudmouth Italian woman, who feels morally obligated to find Archibald's next of kin. Once she discovers a birth announcement she contacts her ex-husband, J.P. Kittenger, a private detective who …

Wonder Window Series: My Guardian Angel, My Fairy Godmother, My Magical Mermaid, Samara Anjelae

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the College of Humanities at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in English by Samara Anjelae on May 7, 2001

Footprints, Nsu University School

Hieroglyphics: the NSU University School Literary Magazine

No abstract provided.

The Promethean, Volume 09, Number 02, Spring 2001, English Department, Concordia University-Portland

The Promethean

No abstract provided.

Santa: A Novel, Brian Caroline

Honors Capstones

Capstone submitted as a graduation requirement for the BSU Honors Program.

Eyes Of The Mirror, Margaret Jane Emerson

Dissertations and Theses

Eyes of the Mirror is a memoir of transition. Chronologically, it begins with a kind of death in 1996 when the author was forty-eight. Exhausted and disillusioned, she ended her first life as a successful but financially struggling potter, writer, and T'ai Chi instructor. Over the course of twenty-four years, the strain of following a bliss that lay outside of the economy had worn her out. As a first step in the creation of a new life, she earned a certificate in teaching English and accepted a job in South Korea. After two harsh and challenging years there, she returned …

Inscape Spring 2001, Morehead State University

Inscape: Art & Literary Magazine Archive

The Spring 2001 edition of the Inscape: Literary and Art Magazine.

Hair Trigger 23, Columbia College Chicago

Hair Trigger

An anthology, edited by students, featuring the fiction, prose and creative non-fiction work of students, alumni, and staff. Editors: Shams Abu-Tayeh, Marcia Brenner, Darlink Haddix, Jennifer Anderson Healy, James Hein, Jeff Jacobson, Leticia Medina, Phyllis Porche. Cover photograph: Sarah Faust. 305 pages.

Et Cetera, Marshall University

Et Cetera

Founded in 1953, Et Cetera is an annual literary magazine that publishes the creative writing and artwork of Marshall University students and affiliates. Et Cetera is free to the Marshall University community.

Et Cetera welcomes submissions in literary and film criticism, poetry, short stories, drama, all types of creative non-fiction, photography, and art.

The Lantern Vol. 68, No. 2, Spring 2001, Kirsten Mascioli, Benjamin Schuler, Alyson Jones, Sarah Napolitan, Corey Taylor, Padcha Tuntha-Obas, John Ramsey, Lori Kruk, Syreeta Dixon, Melanie Scriptunas, Thomas Lipschultz, Jeffrey Church, Daniel Gallagher, Mike Keeper, Monica Stahl, Ani Broderick, Christine Spera, Jason Fischer, Genevieve Romeo, Rosabelle Diaz, Raquel B. Pidal, Kelly Campbell

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Eden
• Ginsberg Mourning
• On the Cusp of Winter
• (Woman: as Needing to be Silver and Sharp)
• Descended
• Book Unbinding
• Scrawlings on the Stall
• My Frankenstein
• Jazzy Avantguardia
• Paper Crane
• A Child's Valentine
• Ten Years' Gone
• Out the Window
• Tar's Melting
• Passing Time
• Ave Maria
• Heart of the Matter
• Damn Kids
• The Candle Incident
• Nostalgia
• Cuban Couch
• Dinner Date

2001 Spring Quiz And Quill Magazine, Otterbein English Department

Quiz and Quill

No abstract provided.

Black Box 2001, Brian Moody, Janaka Bolduc, Daniel Whitehead, Josh Shafer, Ashley Wincer, Major Laura Davis, Homero Horacio Ruiz Perez, Andrew Rerecich, Charlie Mclauchlan, Constance Holland, Allene M. Parker, Joseph Shely

Black Box

The Black Box is a service organization administered by the students of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, Arizona. Our funding is provided by the Student Government Association.

The Black Box is staffed by volunteer students from various academic disciplines.

Heartbeat And Other Stories, Amy Carmickle

Dissertations and Theses

Would human life be tolerable without love, faith, hope, mystery and wonder? This question seems to thread its way through each of the three stories included in this thesis. As the individual characters in these works, find themselves in crisis, or facing life's darker moments, they are moved to examine their beliefs, confront inner conflict, and with greater difficulty, to trust and depend on the existence and power of that which cannot be seen or held, to aid them in their emotional, physical and spiritual survival.

The first story of this collection, "Seeds", explores the reactions of several women in …

The Narratology Of Jennifer Johnston's Novels, Robert N. Hutton

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Irish novelist Jennifer Johnston has published twelve novels to date, from The Captains and the Kings in 1972 to The Gingerbread Woman in 2000. Eileen Battersby's recent Irish Times article “Making Sense of Life” called her “the quiet woman of Irish fiction, “ referring to her understated, sophisticated writing style. All of her novels are short (Joseph Connelly and others have called them “novellas”), and she has become known for her ability to describe a complex situation in a direct, compact way.

This discussion is intended to investigate the narratology of several Johnston novels: to explore narrative voice, narrative chronology, …

Zephyrus, Western Kentucky University

Student Creative Writing

No abstract provided.

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 09 - 2001-2002, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

No abstract provided.

Great Expectations, Elisabeth Rose Gruner

English Faculty Publications

Great Expectations was the penultimate novel completed by the most popular novelist of Victorian England, Charles Dickens. Born in Kent, England, in 1812 to a family of modest means but great pretensions, Dickens’s early life was marked by both humiliation and ambition. Dickens never forgot the period of financial crisis during his childhood, when following his father’s bankruptcy, he was taken out of school and forced to work in a shoe-polish warehouse. While the episode was relatively brief, it marked Dickens’s later life in many ways: in the development of his own ambitions, in his sympathy for the poor and …

The Messenger, 2001

The Messenger

No abstract provided.

Title Page

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.

The Last Block Party, Bud Johnson

Bryant Literary Review

The sun is setting over the deserted soccer field near the burial mound.

In The New Guinea Highlands, John Grey

Bryant Literary Review

I can't get over the belief

that the simplest people always know more;

Superior, Ryan Guth

Bryant Literary Review

These pine-dark

shores are seventy

thousand years old

Lesson One, Janet Proulx

Bryant Literary Review

All winter long

Sister Mary Julian would enter the classroom,

Post-Freudian Dreaming, Richard N. Bentley

Bryant Literary Review

I had a dream Tuesday night in which I was either attending a lecture

We Are Not Friends, Fred G. Leebron

English Faculty Publications

There is something about the way the phone rings that lets you know it's Them - a kind of glitter in the chime, a certain je ne sais quoi to the cadence, which seems to skip a beat as if it can't believe that They are calling. You pick up, heart throbbing, getting ready to move your mouth, a sly frisson of sweat striking your palms.

"They asked me to call," Their assistant says. "They want you at the house next Thursday. And then you'll all go somewhere. A plane will be involved. You'll want to bring a passport. Until …