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Isaac, Afterward, Al Maginnes

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 92-93

Cylindrical Bales, Catherine Staples

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 148

Voices Of Usu: An Anthology Of Student Writing, 2015, Utah State University Department Of English

Voices of USU

This collection of student writing represents the voices of over 2,000 students who enroll each academic year in Utah State University’s second-year composition course, Intermediate Writing: Research Writing in a Persuasive Mode. Voices of USU celebrates excellence in writing by providing undergraduate students of diverse backgrounds and disciplines the opportunity to have their work published.

An Analysis Of The Aristocratic Material Culture Described In The Old English Epic Beowulf, Rachel Munson

Honors Capstones

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

Conjuring Magic And Witchcraft In William Shakespeare's Othello, Charlene Cruxent

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.

Zombie Cinema: Virtual Control For Angst Ridden Audiences, William D. Prystauk

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.

The Machine At The Mad Monster Party, Kevin L. Ferguson

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.

"Being A Mother Is An Attitude, Not A Biological Relation": Mother As Monster In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Donna Mitchell

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.

Ya Gotta Shoot 'Em In The Head: The Zombie Plague As The New Apocryphal Myth In Post 9/11 America, Ryan F. Neff

ETD Archive

America, as a culture and a society, has embraced the zombie as the new apocryphal myth in a Post 9/11 culture as a subconscious coping mechanism to deal with fear and terror and to train itself for an eventual breakdown of society in an apocalyptic event. The Post 9/11 America has latched on both consciously and subconsciously to the figure of the zombie because it easily represents and embodies a wide range of fears to a wide range of people's anxieties in a terrorist filled global world. This is examined by analyzing Robert Kirkman's comic series The Walking Dead, and …

James And Shakespeare: Unification Through Mapping, Christina Wagner

ETD Archive

The art of exploration became an important aspect of theater in early modern England. Exploration is typically done through the utilization of a map. The map scene in Lear provides a focal point to peer into the political ventures of King James I. As a proponent for peace, James both unified and divided his kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland through the use of cartography as a way to show the aspirations of a king. Lear, in dividing his kingdom between his three daughters, shows Shakespeare's careful strategic planning of the division of a kingdom and what that means in …

The Hill Fire And Other Stories, Michael Ervin Putnam

ETD Archive

The following stories contained here are the culmination of two year's work in the realm of the short story. In that time, I have further honed my writing voice and shaped these works in a way where they work in conjunction with each other as well as on their own. An over-arching theme I have in the work is a character (in these instances, specifically a man) who is unsatisfied with his current position in life but unwilling to put forth much effort to make a significant change. In some instances, that change is then forced upon the character by …

Legacy Of Shame: A Psychoanalytic History Of Trauma In The Bluest Eye, Martina Louise Hayes

ETD Archive

The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison’s troubling short novel which focuses on the lives of a traumatized and disempowered African-American family and the community in which they live. The book openly discusses a variety of social taboos carried out by various members of a Black community in Lorain, Ohio. The most disturbing being the rape of a young Black girl, resulting in pregnancy by her father. Through the omniscient narration of a teenage girl, readers are thrown into the lives and thoughts of the adults and children within this community as they attempt to deal with these extraordinary situations as …

Contextualizing Chester Himes's Trajectory Of Violence Within The Harlem Detective Cycle, Bailey A. Capelle

ETD Archive

Long Civil Rights Movement scholars have begun to reconstruct a more accurate representation of the literary left, filling in the gap in scholarship that previously existed between the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement. With the aid of the backdrop set up by the "Long Movement" scholars, this study aims to add to the understanding of those authors who lives and works have yet to be fully explored because of the ramifications of the McCarthy era. This discussion focuses on Chester Himes, for his work is as influential as both Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison's, yet Himes has only …

Sexualizing The Body Politic: Narrative The Female Body And The Gender Divide In Secret History, Eileen A. Horansky

ETD Archive

Recent studies of eighteenth-century women writers have focused on the role of women as developers and proponents of the secret history. The secret history, recently defined by scholars such as Rebecca Bullard, Melinda Alliker Rabb, Ros Ballaster, Marta Kvande, and Rachel Carnell, among others, occupies space within several genres, including political satire and historiography. The genre's secretive nature and reliance on gossip and anecdotal evidence creates a new space for women writers that allows them to enter political discourse and offer a distinctly gendered social commentary. As public became private and private became secret, secret historians sought to expose the …

The Liquid Nature Of Self In Maxine Kingston's Autobiographical Story The Woman Warrior, Evelyn Jablonski

ETD Archive

This work examines the notion of self in the autobiographical narrative of Maxine Hong Kingston. Self-writing is constructing a discursive body, and Kingston presents the reader with a unique articulation of her identity. Conventional autobiographical narratives tend to define a self as an opposition to the other. In such texts the literary discourse is intended to secure the integrity of the self. This image of the self can be called conventional. While the conventional narrative self claims to demonstrate developmental stages of an individual that acquires his or her maturity by the end of the quest, the constantly changing self …

Post-Colonial Female Identity: An Examination Of The Twentieth Century Narrative Between Nation And Identity In A Question Of Power, See Then Now, And Americanah, Jeannine Ortega

Master of Liberal Studies Theses

This project endeavors to explore the variations of the post-colonial condition in the context of the twentieth and twenty-first century by following a literary analysis of Bessie Head’s A Question of Power, Jamaica Kincaid’s See Now Then, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah. This thesis hopes to draw together a series of snapshots that provide examples of the progress of the post-colonial condition. Each chapter models the ways in which colonial ideology and culture continue to intersect in new modes of societal expectations especially in terms of race, class, and gender. The combination of post-colonial analysis and literary narratives model how …

Coelum Britannicum: Inigo Jones And Symbolic Geometry, Rumiko Handa

Architecture Program: Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity

Inigo Jones’s interpretation that Stonehenge was a Roman temple of Coelum, the god of the heavens, was published in 1655, 3 years after his death, in The most notable Antiquity of Great Britain, vulgarly called Stone-Heng, on Salisbury Plain, Restored.¹ King James I demanded an interpretation in 1620. The task most reasonably fell in the realm of Surveyor of the King’s Works, which Jones had been for the preceding 5 years. According to John Webb, Jones’s assistant since 1628 and executor of Jones’s will, it was Webb who wrote the book based on Jones’s “few indigested” notes, on …

Pound And Disability, Václav Paris

Publications and Research

Pound and disability: the two keywords of my title are not happy bedfellows. Why then insist on their conjunction? My answer is that neither Pound studies, on its own, nor a Pound-free disability studies can offer a history of American twentieth-century poetry that is both sensitive to changes in a literary tradition and changes in attitudes towards disability.

From One New Teacher To Another: How To Be A Hero Without Losing Yourself, Jade Weinheimer

The Utah English Journal

Whether new to the ranks or a seasoned veteran, it's hard to forget those first few years of your teaching career-mine have been burned into my memory like a brand on cattle. The policy information overloads, the crippling case of Imposter's Syndrome, the sleepless nights, the tower of essays to grade, the classroom management fiascos, the lesson plan flops, and meetings, meetings, meetings. These things can be the stuff of nightmares.

Motivation In Guided Reading: Effects On Upper Grade Readers, Margie Jordan, Stephanie Galt

The Utah English Journal

After coaching teachers on ways to improve guided reading practice for the last two years and watching both teachers and students as they struggle and succeed in increasing reading awareness, we began to notice a pattern. It wasn't a pretty one.

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.

Book Review: The Start Of Me And You, Adrianne Larsen

The Utah English Journal

Paige believes that if she could just check each item off of her to-do list, then things could be normal again; she could be normal again. Included on the list are dating, traveling, finding new friends, and swimming. While the to-do items may look simple, they prove to be more elusive than Paige thought. Making changes and moving forward are the lessons Emery Lord grapples with in her novel, The Start of Me and You. As Paige, the protagonist, attempts to clear her "begin again" check list, as she calls it, she realizes that some things in life are a …

Mortal Reason And Divine Infinity: Justifying The Ways Of God To Men In Book Vi Of Paradise Lost, Sarah Plavcan

Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal

In his epic poem, Paradise Lost, Milton’s goal was to “justify the ways of God to men” (PLI.25-26). For his seventeenth-century Protestant audience, this meant reconciling both the paradox of human free will and divine foreknowledge and the paradox of human suffering and God’s goodness. Although God’s speech in Book III makes an explicit argument declaring God’s justice, this paper will show that Book VI, the War in Heaven, completes this argument by attempting to move the poem’s readers beyond the limits of human reason into a divine understanding of the universe. Through temporal compression and confusion, created by the …

Divining Very: Reconciling Christian And Transcendentalist Philosophies In The Poetry Of Jones Very, Kirsten Ridlen

Undergraduate Review

This piece, “Divining Very: Reconciling Christian and Transcendentalist Philosophies in the Poetry of Jones Very,” combines literary analysis, scholarly research, and seminar discourse to argue that, contrary to popular critical opinion, Transcendentalist and Christian philosophies are not mutually exclusive. In his article, "Nature as Concept and Technique in the Poetry of Jones Very," Anthony Herbold identifies a seemingly blatant contradiction in the poetry of Jones Very--at once deeply reverent and undeniably Christian, the next a devotion to the secular nature, without any apparent conversation between the two modes. Herbold argues that this is evidence of a multiplicity of Verys--that there …

Featured Poet: Allison Joseph, Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

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Somewhere In The North Bronx, Late Seventies, Allison Joseph

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 4-5

Entwined Buddha, Sally Ball

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 36-37

Purge, Michelle Chan Brown

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 47

Vestment, Bill Brown

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 43-44

Sleeping It Off, Bernadette Geyer

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 65