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Finding Mostly Air: Poems, Sidra Elvey
Finding Mostly Air: Poems, Sidra Elvey
Honors Projects
This project is a self-produced poetry chapbook. It explores themes of connection, art, dreams, and self-reflection.
Emily Dickinson, The Tyrant, And The Daemon: A Critique Of Societal Oppression, And The Significance Of Artistic Truth, Debra Kue
Masters Theses
This thesis argues that art, for Dickinson, was an alternative system of salvation which her society could not provide her. Unwilling to surrender herself to the mold of her society, the institutional practice of Christianity and gender expectations, Dickinson chose to take ownership of her life through art, which allowed her to develop a personal language to combat the oppressive forces of the world around her. As a conscious “revolutionist of the word” Dickinson embarked on a path of self-discovery that enabled her to conduct a life in self-imposed exile as a means to emancipate herself from the constraints of …
Religion, Science, And Truth In The Human Experience: Poetry As Living Synthesis In Walt Whitman’S Leaves Of Grass, Karen E. Luidens
Religion, Science, And Truth In The Human Experience: Poetry As Living Synthesis In Walt Whitman’S Leaves Of Grass, Karen E. Luidens
Masters Theses
Walt Whitman’s great masterpiece Leaves of Grass stands out in the canon of nineteenth-century American poetry for both its innovations in form and its bold ventures into controversial subjects. One such subject is the role of science as opposed to religion in shaping the modern worldview. Whitman’s poetry alternately and at times simultaneously expresses both materialistic and metaphysical cosmologies, criticizing and casting away ancient traditions as often as he calls on them for inspiration.
In this paper I explore the influence of contemporary science on Whitman’s worldview, analyze how its theories shape the cosmology presented by his poetry, and discuss …
Salvation And Community In The Works Of Charles Williams, Donald Clayton Vander Kolk Jr.
Salvation And Community In The Works Of Charles Williams, Donald Clayton Vander Kolk Jr.
Masters Theses
The twentieth century American evangelical Church co-opted many of its values from the surrounding American culture, among them, the tremendous importance it placed on individualism and self-sufficiency. The work of British Christian writer Charles Williams, though, provides a corrective, emphasizing the role of community in the salvation of one’s soul. This thesis provides a reading of three of Charles Williams’ last works—The Region of the Summer Stars, Descent into Hell, and All Hallows’ Eve—and examines the function of community in his work. In the Arthurian poem Region of the Summer Stars, Williams imagines a small community, the …
The Edible Body, A Poetry Chapbook: Food And Sex As Pleasure, Disorder, And Commodity, Lena J. Drake, Kathleen Blumreich
The Edible Body, A Poetry Chapbook: Food And Sex As Pleasure, Disorder, And Commodity, Lena J. Drake, Kathleen Blumreich
Student Summer Scholars Manuscripts
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Third Coast Poetry Newsletter, Grand Valley State College. Thomas Jefferson College
Third Coast Poetry Newsletter, Grand Valley State College. Thomas Jefferson College
Third Coast Poetry Newsletter
Newsletter of the Poetry Resource Center of the Thomas Jefferson College serving the Third Coast area.
Third Coast Poetry Newsletter, Grand Valley State College. Thomas Jefferson College
Third Coast Poetry Newsletter, Grand Valley State College. Thomas Jefferson College
Third Coast Poetry Newsletter
Newsletter of the Poetry Resource Center of the Thomas Jefferson College serving the Third Coast area.
Third Coast Poetry Newsletter, Vol. 2, Issue 6, Grand Valley State College. Thomas Jefferson College
Third Coast Poetry Newsletter, Vol. 2, Issue 6, Grand Valley State College. Thomas Jefferson College
Third Coast Poetry Newsletter
Newsletter of the Poetry Resource Center of the Thomas Jefferson College serving the Third Coast area.
Third Coast Poetry Newsletter, Vol. 2, Issue 5, Grand Valley State College. Thomas Jefferson College
Third Coast Poetry Newsletter, Vol. 2, Issue 5, Grand Valley State College. Thomas Jefferson College
Third Coast Poetry Newsletter
Newsletter of the Poetry Resource Center of the Thomas Jefferson College serving the Third Coast area.
Third Coast Poetry Newsletter, Vol. 2, Issue 4, Grand Valley State College. Thomas Jefferson College
Third Coast Poetry Newsletter, Vol. 2, Issue 4, Grand Valley State College. Thomas Jefferson College
Third Coast Poetry Newsletter
Newsletter of the Poetry Resource Center of the Thomas Jefferson College serving the Third Coast area.
Third Coast Poetry Newsletter, Vol. 2, Issue 3, Grand Valley State College. Thomas Jefferson College
Third Coast Poetry Newsletter, Vol. 2, Issue 3, Grand Valley State College. Thomas Jefferson College
Third Coast Poetry Newsletter
Newsletter of the Poetry Resource Center of the Thomas Jefferson College serving the Third Coast area.
Third Coast Poetry Newsletter, Vol. 2, Issue 2, Grand Valley State College. Thomas Jefferson College
Third Coast Poetry Newsletter, Vol. 2, Issue 2, Grand Valley State College. Thomas Jefferson College
Third Coast Poetry Newsletter
Newsletter of the Poetry Resource Center of the Thomas Jefferson College serving the Third Coast area.
Third Coast Poetry Center News, Vol. 2, Issue 1, Grand Valley State College. Thomas Jefferson College
Third Coast Poetry Center News, Vol. 2, Issue 1, Grand Valley State College. Thomas Jefferson College
Third Coast Poetry Newsletter
Newsletter of the Poetry Resource Center of the Thomas Jefferson College serving the Third Coast area.