There exist myriad intimacies from friendship to allyship but kinship—biological kinship—is still a dominating criterion by which all other intimacies are measured, even in statements that express an association stronger ...

African American women in Appalachia have lived, survived and long been overlooked by dominant narratives that support stereotypical depictions of the Appalachian region and its inhabitants. A little over twenty years ago, ...

The cinematography of Mexican director Carlos Reygadas is the main focus of this dissertation, which aims to validate the artistic quality of his four films: Japón, Batalla en el Cielo, Luz Silenciosa and Post Tenebras ...

Haiku poetry was investigated in the context of the narrative writing paradigm to evaluate its healing potential. Participants, 98 introductory psychology students at a large southwestern university, wrote for 20 minutes ...

While often taken as sentimental in nature, poetry about death provides poets and readers an artistic space for processing grief. The Latin American Neobaroque, a way of writing poetry know predominantly for its intellectual ...

In Chapter I, I explain the chief features and underlying philosophy of the two warring poetic movements, imagism and symbolism, that have influenced my work. I also suggest reasons why coexistence among these two traditionally ...

There are two motifs in Cummings' poetry on which critics have especially remarked: sexuality and individuality. They have seen Cummings as a carpe diem poet (Marks 68) and "a kind of metropolitan Thoreau" (Fraser 265). I ...

The following is a collection of original poetry, supplemented by a critical introduction tracing biographical, literary, and theoretical influences. The critical introduction takes the form of a series of loosely connected ...

As a creator of the Navajo people and as a representative of change, the mythical figure of Changing Woman adequately represents the nature of the contemporary poetry of Native American women. These poets, influenced by ...