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Everything You Don’T See, Lauren Dowling May 2020

Everything You Don’T See, Lauren Dowling

Intertext

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Front Cover May 2020

Front Cover

Intertext

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Scar, Tanushri Majumdar May 2020

Scar, Tanushri Majumdar

Intertext

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Meet The Editors May 2020

Meet The Editors

Intertext

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Intertext 2020 — Complete Issue May 2020

Intertext 2020 — Complete Issue

Intertext

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Haiti And The Early American Imagination, Michael Drexler May 2020

Haiti And The Early American Imagination, Michael Drexler

Faculty Contributions to Books

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Meet The Artists May 2020

Meet The Artists

Intertext

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Camouflage, Fred Pond May 2020

Camouflage, Fred Pond

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

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Always On The Clock, Patrick Font May 2020

Always On The Clock, Patrick Font

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Always on the Clock is a partial collection of stories centering around the working lives of men and women in Houston, Texas, that explores failed notions of the American Dream. Houston, my hometown, is not perfect by any means, but, given its cultural diversity, I do find it to be the perfect backdrop for the struggles my characters face as they yearn for better versions of themselves, however unattainable their desires may be. This is all to say that Always on the Clock is a satire of American obsessions and culture—work and upward mobility, public education, sex and relationships, parenting, …


A Blended Displacement; Stories From The Periphery, Katherine Belliel May 2020

A Blended Displacement; Stories From The Periphery, Katherine Belliel

All NMU Master's Theses

A Blended Displacement; Stories from the Periphery, explores various forms and definitions of displacement through relationships, travel, and the sense of home. The thesis explores such subject matter as a creative work of mixed creative non-fiction and fiction. By engaging with controversial terms like expatriate, immigrant, refugee, and third-culture-kid, the work interrogates the political with the personal. The non-fiction part of the thesis centers on the narrative of a woman from Michigan living abroad, contrasting with the historical fiction portrayal of a Slovenian immigrant in Michigan. Both with ties to Michigan, both displaced, both illustrating the different labels, and …


Table Of Contents (V. 28, 2020) May 2020

Table Of Contents (V. 28, 2020)

Intertext

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Section Intro: Facade, Aaqilah Wright, Brandon Belton, Andrew Wallman May 2020

Section Intro: Facade, Aaqilah Wright, Brandon Belton, Andrew Wallman

Intertext

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Autism Pain, Johanna Chojnicki May 2020

Autism Pain, Johanna Chojnicki

Intertext

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Pride, Annie Shi May 2020

Pride, Annie Shi

Intertext

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Being A Minority At Syracuse University, Pamela Flores May 2020

Being A Minority At Syracuse University, Pamela Flores

Intertext

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Section Intro: (Un)Common Ground, Jung Won Nam, Berri Wilmore May 2020

Section Intro: (Un)Common Ground, Jung Won Nam, Berri Wilmore

Intertext

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A Path Unfolding, Sarah Lucille Parris May 2020

A Path Unfolding, Sarah Lucille Parris

Graduate Theses/Dissertations

A selection from A Path Unfolding, an original young adult fantasy novel about a girl named Al, who strives to fulfil a prophecy in order to restore the natural order in the magical land of Anthe. Preceded by a critical introduction detailing the genre and craft influences on the work. The novel explores themes of truth and deception, and asks the questions of what, exactly, it means to be a ‘chosen one’.


Initiate, Becca Anderson May 2020

Initiate, Becca Anderson

Boise State University Theses and Dissertations

After the sudden death of her father, sixteen-year-old Cal Townsend is sent to live with her estranged maternal grandmother on one of Wisconsin’s Apostle Islands. She soon learns that she is descended from a long line of practicing witches.


Remote Voices: Outside, Misty Yarnall May 2020

Remote Voices: Outside, Misty Yarnall

Gandy Dancer Archives

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The Biggest Drill, Carly Sorenson May 2020

The Biggest Drill, Carly Sorenson

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Long For Death., Ashley William Bittner May 2020

Long For Death., Ashley William Bittner

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Long for Death is an urban fantasy novel centered on dysfunctionality, alienation, and the struggle for recognition. Focused as it is on non-traditional and underrepresented characters, the novel contests the social structures that divide society and leave some individuals entirely elided from media. By employing the fraught ethics of no-win situations and the necessary confrontation with the inevitable, the narrative opposes cynical resignation to the powers-that-be, emphasizing that even a doomed battle is preferable to passive acceptance, whether it be to supernatural menace or social construct.


The Criterion Collection, Mackenna Finley May 2020

The Criterion Collection, Mackenna Finley

Honors Projects

The Criterion Collection is an examination of truth in fiction and poetry. The goal of this project is not to create truth that is absolute, but instead to allow for the experience of its subjectivity. The interplay between fiction and poetry, reader and author illuminates the subtle warping of truth through human experience.


Blend It Like Beckett: Samuel Beckett And Experimental Contemporary Creative Writing, Sam Nicole Campbell May 2020

Blend It Like Beckett: Samuel Beckett And Experimental Contemporary Creative Writing, Sam Nicole Campbell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Samuel Beckett penned novels, short stories, poetry, stage plays, radio plays, and scripts—and he did each in a way that blended genre, challenged the norms of creative writing, and surprised audiences around the globe. His experimental approach to creative writing included the use of absurdism, genre-hybridization, and ergodicism, which led to Beckett fundamentally changing the approach to creative writing. His aesthetics have trickled down through the years and can be seen in contemporary works, including Aimee Bender’s short story collection The Girl in the Flammable Skirt and Mark Z. Danielewski’s novel House of Leaves[1]. By examining these works …


Splitting, Dany Keagan May 2020

Splitting, Dany Keagan

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Featuring: The Calamity, Alex Simmons May 2020

Featuring: The Calamity, Alex Simmons

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Under The Aegis, Dongwon Oh May 2020

Under The Aegis, Dongwon Oh

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Skin: Stories, Poems, And Essays, Amanda G. Hadlock May 2020

Skin: Stories, Poems, And Essays, Amanda G. Hadlock

Graduate Theses/Dissertations

This thesis begins with a critical introduction which analyzes the use of objective correlative and varying points of view in creative writing in order to generate dialogue on cultural issues. I relate theories from Edward T. Hall, T.S. Eliot, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Lubomír Doležel to my own writing. Additionally, I situate my own multi-genre writing with work of contemporaries such as Maggie Nelson and Claudia Rankine. My hypothesis is that writers can use an objective correlative (Eliot) from the top of the cultural iceberg (Hall) as an entry point to representing deeper, more fraught cultural issues. Additionally, by experimenting with …


Chasing Destiny: A Novella, Kassandra Kim May 2020

Chasing Destiny: A Novella, Kassandra Kim

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Chasing Destiny tells the story of Lyric Angel de la Cruz. She is the only daughter of five-time world heavyweight champion and three-time tag team champion Manuel de la Cruz and the oldest granddaughter of Julio de la Cruz, a legend in the wrestling world. For as long as Lyric can remember, her life has been surrounded by wrestling, and she wants to be involved with the business. But unlike her family that came before her. Lyric wants to create her own way in the business, however, when she tells Manuel her career path, he is furious that she would …


The Fourth Wall, Serenity Dougherty Apr 2020

The Fourth Wall, Serenity Dougherty

Theses

“The Fourth Wall” is the beginning of a fiction novel set in the comedy scene in Lincoln, NE during the #MeToo movement. The story follows a young female comedian in the scene, Kara, from the perspectives of several significant people in her life. Though the novel never inhabits Kara’s perspective directly, it seeks to give readers an intimate look at the difficulty she faces as she tries to navigate the male-dominated world of stand-up comedy during a time when the community is being forced to confront its troubling history of sweeping reports of sexual violence under the rug.


Tiny Furious Circles, Ann M. Herrington Apr 2020

Tiny Furious Circles, Ann M. Herrington

Theses

I have had time to live and time to reflect on that living. What I have found is that certain things present themselves, over and over, wearing different skins. And though they look different, there is a certain whiff of familiarity that activates the soul’s hindbrain and pulls you close. That’s how it has been for me. Because of this — my failure to learn the first time; my need to see a thing from all its sides; my constant picking at the half-healed — certain themes repeat. And because they have come to me at different times in many …