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The “Incorrect” Truth of Catharsis
A short history of the term "catharsis" and its relevance to the discussion of artistic truth vs. scientific fact.
Beyond Genesis
In this showcase, "Beyond Genesis," students from "Interartistic Genres: Beyond Adaption" were asked to present pieces from their autobiographical oeuvre drawing from Biblical prompts.
Mary’s Voice
Colin Tóibín’s novella, The Testament of Mary, is a retelling of the Gospels through Mother Mary’s voice, one that is noticeably silent in the bible itself. I hope to place The Testament of Mary next to its source text, The ...
God and Grandma
My little church in a tiny town in New England where the winters get so cold you can’t feel the hair on your head, and the summers get so hot you wish you didn’t have any, has a slanted roof.
Sleepover
We stood side by side in the bathroom mirror with the door closed and pointed out where on our faces we had the same freckles so as to convince strangers at the grocery store that we were twins. We took ...
The Flood
This time, the flood deposits me at the foot of the Cailleach’s rock in Coulagh Bay. And I didn’t even see it coming.
Game Show Barbies
I tried to unstick my body from itself, playing a game that no part of me could touch any other part.
Transformative Spaces
The beauty of raving comes from the duality of individualism and community, the mysterious overlap of the two.
Expectations Reimagined
In one of the many plots woven into the web of Middlemarch, George Eliot reimagines Charles Dickens’s fantastic story of Pip and his “great expectations” through the much more realistic story of Fred Vincy.
