Browsing Interdisciplinary arts and sciences - Bothell by Subject "Literature"
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A Perfect Circle Rimmed With Gold
In Virginia Woolf’s essay on the Victorian phantom known as the Angel in the House (borrowed from Coventry Patmore’s poem celebrating domestic bliss) she wrote, “It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.” A Perfect ... -
A Woman’s Mutation
A Woman's Mutation is a collection of essays and fragments about becoming a mother in the United States as a French woman in the middle of a pandemic. It touches on the subjects of mental health, motherhood doubts, legacy, ... -
Autoorthography: an exploration of identity poetics with poetry
This paper explores a poetics of hiding through explorations of language, identity, and literary influences. My preliminary findings are presented as poetic prose, scientific descriptions and small memoirs. Though fragmented, ... -
Behind the Curtain
This a testimony of dictatorship. A collection of personal memories and photographs that reflect the experiences of many. It is a look at the lives happening behind the curtain. And this curtain shifts its meaning throughout ... -
Blade Against the Heart
An account of the adventures of Luke Muston, a protégé of Italian sword master Vincentio Saviolo, as he tries to find a place for himself in London in 1592. While it follows the pacing and rhythms of historical romance, ... -
The Boatman of Hades
University of Washington Abstract The Boatman of Hades Colin McArthur Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Rebecca Brown Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences—Bothell The Boatman of Hades follows the life of Odis Heathman: ... -
Bwai \ Remapping
This thesis is a collection of twenty visual poems and a poetics statement that comments on LandBack, biodiversity, and conservation. The visual poems draw maps of occupied Indigenous territories in tribal languages and ... -
California Calling
California Calling is a literary memoir that traces the narrator’s story of crossing over into California from Canada at sixteen and her desire to assimilate into both a place and herself. By asking what it means to be ... -
The Chirurgeon
"The Chirurgeon" is a collection of poems created via "chirurgy," a new compositional method developed for this volume. Chirurgy employs various procedural and creative writing techniques to produce entirely new poems from ... -
County
County is a book that examines relationships and forms myths through careful examination of and conversation with family photographs. The book relies heavily on the passing down of stories from one generation to the next. ... -
Dieter
Dieter is a fictional account how the sins of the father can continue to reverberate for thousands of years. Told from the point of view of Snow, Hazard's (formally known as Dieter) mid-twenties estranged daughter, the ... -
The Feminology of Spirit
The work of the Feminology, in both process and product, is work born out of sifting through, listening and selecting-out from Hegel’s language in the preface to his Phenomenology of Spirit. The Feminology, then, is poetry ... -
Fourteen
<italic>Fourteen<italic> takes on difficult topics such as chattel slavery, sexual violence, racism and discrimination. I use music, tangents and a prejudicial preference for the number fourteen as tools to aid my telling. ... -
Fractured Poetics and Creation
The imaginations is the human being's core intellectual generative power, but is neglected in Western life. Being more important it is also more dangerous than previously realized. Fractured Poetics and Creation is a ... -
Helene & Writing Abuse, Shame, and Death: A Poetics of Spirit within the Failing Body
Helene is a cross-genre text through the lens of a young female woman, Helene, that both ruminates on the grief caused by having a female body, specifically one that fails to meet the expectations of others, and pays homage ... -
Love & Courage: Historic Fiction
The main section of Love & Courage is a collection of seventeen short fiction stories inspired by gravestone inscriptions found in Scotland, England, and Wales during independent research study abroad travels in 2013; and ... -
Love Poems to the Poet's Body
This is an abstracted narrative of recuperation. These poems attempt to salvage a body marked by physical and cultural violence. Beginning with a series of "love poems" that address the body as an other, the poems move ... -
"~" A Mash-Up: A Poetics of Defiance in the Age of the Internet of Everything
A-Mashup. I borrow this word from the pop/rock music scene where the word `DJ' now refers to someone who has multiple turntables at her fingertips, along with her computer, so she can `mash' the music together. My fingers ... -
Mist Manifesto & The Burlesque Genre: Ephemorality in a World Full of Pinochet Plushies
Set in a post-apocalyptic marsh where a strange, bright mist consumes the town of Ahpisaw and stops time, Mogyype, a grieving widower, struggles to keep a hold on reality when he sees his dead wife in the blinding mist. ... -
Muses
Mental illness is a hurricane: It has no mercy; it takes no prisoners. When you’re in it, there’s nothing else to think of other than survival. The rain beats down on you; the winds are unceasing. But what of when it’s ...