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The Power Of Ridicule: An Analysis Of Satire, Megan Leboeuf

Senior Honors Projects

Satire is an art form that has existed throughout recorded history. Examples of satirical work exist from long before the genre had even been defined, and this powerful tool for social critique is alive and well today, perhaps even more prevalent than ever. The use of absurdity and often humor to demonstrate the problems with a particular human behavior, vice, or social issue makes satire engaging and persuasive in a way that a direct statement of the facts is not. These qualities make satire the perfect tool for advocating social and political change in times of unrest. In recent years, …

Perpetuality In Print: Musing Nature In Sylvia Plath’S The Bell Jar, Kacey Silvia

Senior Honors Projects

I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another …

Secrets And Hiding Places: The Worth Of Women In Nicholas Nickleby, Elizabeth Redmond

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

In early Victorian England, married women were denied the legal right to own property, and social convention remanded them to ostracism if they chose to remain single. Likewise, jobs that were available to women failed to pay a living wage, so women were placed under tremendous economic and social pressure to marry. In Charles Dickens' novel, Nicholas Nickleby, he depicts how marriage becomes manipulated within the working and middle classes as a means to acquire wealth. Dickens also compares the repression of women to the abuse suffered by school children in the Yorkshire schools, which had a reputation for neglecting …

Never November, Michael Ettel

Whittier Scholars Program

This is a two-part project. Part one is a 181-page novel titled Never November. The novel explores many universal questions about what it means to be human and to be alive. Part two is an afterword, notes on writing the story, a creative database of characters and important terminology, and a bibliography.

Parnassus 2007

Parnassus

The 2007 edition of the student literary journal, Parnassus, published by Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

Scavengers, Chad Davidson

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 12

Sweet Savage Tool: Poem As Beach Novel, Mark Defoe

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 15

Revision, Kate Schmitt

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 35

Blind Sight, M L. Brown

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 5

After Casablanca, After The Matinee At The Film Festival, Mark Defoe

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 13-14

Unicorn And Virgin, Cloister Tapestries, Kim Garcia

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 19

Dog, Sandra Kohler

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 20

In Winter, Philip Miller

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 27

Sledge, James Owens

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 28

Before Marriage Dream And Waking (No. 1), Christine Poreba

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 31

At Our Cabin, The August I Turned Ten, Saara Myrene Raappana

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 32

Water, Lou Suarez

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 38

On Board The Dr. Deaty, Rawdon Tomlinson

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 41

Birmingham Poetry Review 34 (End Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 59-66

Amber Disks, Diana Wakoski

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 45-48

Homeland, Sandra Kohler

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 21

Birmingham Poetry Review 34 (Complete Issue), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

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Winter Solstice - 2006, Bob Penny

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 29

The Ordinary Sublime, Lizzie Paulus

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 56-58

Words & Images 2007, University Of Southern Maine

Words and Images

Words & Images is an annual arts and literature publication distributed by the University of Southern Maine.

Publishing Director: Melissa St.Germain

Assistant Director: Ryan Gato

Advising Director: Brian Farrell

Klara's Little Hands, Joanne Lowery

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 25

January, Bill Christophersen

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 9

Brothers, Rawdon Tomlinson

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 39

Frankenstein: Man Or Monster?, Leigh P. Mackintosh

Undergraduate Theses and Capstone Projects

Since its first publication in 1818, Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein has left a lasting impression upon the world speaking to a multitude of audiences including artists, scientists, philosophers, and society as a whole. Considering the impact of Frankenstein through its evolution as a cultural myth in various plays and films, this thesis will provide a way to gauge the relevance of Shelley’s story as an adaptation. Only by knowing what has been done in the past and how the materials have been used by other playwrights and screenwriters can one understand how to handle them as an original work. The …

Black Madonna, Kim Garcia

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 17-18