Browsing SEGue: Symposium for English Graduate Students by Title
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Breathe
(2017-04-29)The piece focuses on a relationship between a military family. It reminisces about the joys of life, while forshadowing the dangers and loss associated with military members and their families. -
Can't Shake Koinonia
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Crazy Cards by Jane
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De-capitalizing the “I”: Worlds both Inner and Shared in the Whitmanian Lyric
(2016-04-23)When critics and scholars attempt to define the lyric poem as entirely individual—a prison song overheard—or social—a “privileging of the political over the private spheres” (Dubrow 120)—one risks overlooking the nuanced ... -
Disability Theory in A Separate Peace
(2017-04-29)In the article “Refusing the Queer Potential,” Eric L. Tribunella argues that “the rhetoric of ethics, values, and patriotism” in John Knowles’s A Separate Peace “‘appropriates’ gender and sexuality in adolescent males and ... -
Fairy Godmother & The Tea Party
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“Grandma Jane"
(2016-04-23)This poem was originally a poem created for a dedication book given to my grandmother on her 90th birthday. After several revisions, and a few white lies, (poems are always better when you lie), I hope I’ve created a worthy ... -
“Hie Thee Hither”: Female Sexuality as the “Supernatural Solicitor” in Goold’s Macbeth (2010).
(2016-04-23)Who bears the responsibility for the tragedies of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth? To what extent are each of them culpable for the destruction they unleash on themselves, each other, and Scotland? Rupert Goold’s Macbeth (2010) ... -
I Met Pauly Shore at Fort Jackson
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Interesting Dialogue: Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Amy Blair, and Edith Wharton's “Vice of Reading”
(2017-04-29)This essay seeks to explore Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in relation to Edith Wharton's "The Vice of Reading" and Amy Blair's Reading Up, which contains detailed analysis of the societal conditions that so ... -
It's Not Real Because It's in an Organ They Cannot See.
(2017-04-29)This is a feminist poem that focuses on body issues, controlling behaviors and society's way of bending identities to fit stigmas. Told through the metaphors of Chinese foot binding and the body's way of processing sugars, ... -
Justifying Existence: Positioning Autism in a World of Capitalist Expectation
(2016-04-23)In Glen Finland’s memoir Next Stop, a mother confronts the decades-old American parenting ritual of helping a child to obtain their first job. Finland’s experience with her first two sons proved relatively typical; the ... -
Little Button
(2017-04-29)"Little Button" is a micro-fiction about suffering from anxiety and coping with the loss of a loved one in ways that may seem out of the ordinary. -
LUNCHEON
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Registration & Refreshments
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Rosamond: A study in the Importance of Greek Mythology
(2016-04-23)The paper that I wish to present is from my master’s thesis. It deals with Henry the II’s mistress Rosamond and how an author in the 16th century present her story. The author that I would talk about is Samuel Daniel and ... -
Sweet Apology
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"Ten Ways of Looking at an Addict"
(2016-04-23)This piece is broken into ten sections. Each section focuses on the titular addict, but takes a different approach to describing her. It juxtaposes the positives and the negatives of the person, a mother, from the eyes of ... -
The Fifth Floor; Cantrip For My Capture
(2016-04-23)She placed a leg in her mouth and dragged the frog’s meat apart from the bone with her teeth. The princess then licked the blood off her fingers, peered up at me and smiled. “The French could never keep their promises.” ... -
The Moss Will Grow Over Us
(2016-04-23)I would like to present an original poem for the SEGue Conference. The poem, called “The Moss Will Grow Over Us,” mainly focuses on the difficulties of loving and supporting a person with mental illness, specifically when ...
