Emerson thesis -- Writing, literature, and publishing
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2099 Collections and/or Records:
Heart on the Ice, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023fall_climer_tessa.pdf
Overview
"Heart on the Ice is Book One in the Ballston Blackhearts tetralogy. This series follows a minor league hockey team based in Washington D.C. and each book will follow a different narrator on the team. There is a streamline focus on mental health throughout each plot—it is an intergyral piece in each story. Heart on the Ice follows Quinn Marley, who was recently traded to the Ballston Blackhearts after playing college hockey in Durham, North Carolina. Fresh out of college and new to the city,...
Dates:
2023
Heat wave, 1998
Item — Item 0113501917141: [Barcode: 0113501917141]
Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...
Dates:
1998
Heirlooms, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_gomez_crystal.pdf
Overview
"Heirlooms summons fragmented ancestral memory to illustrate the speaker's gendered relationships to land and place. In the first half of the collection, the speaker traverses a lineage of matriarchs and the delicate relationships between Puerto Rican women who survive displacement and diaspora. Through ritual and a multilingual incantation, the speaker honors the complexities of generational difference and struggle within an American setting. In the second half, the collection reflects upon...
Dates:
2024
Heisenberg and son, 1995
Item — Item 0113501176748: [Barcode: 0113501176748]
Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...
Dates:
1995
Hellion, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_riter_jack.pdf
Overview
"Elizabeth Ring is a young woman in Ohio. She is a daughter, a sister, and will in all likelihood one day be a wife. She is also a firebrand, an iconoclast, a perfectionist, an artist, and a woman on the verge of addiction. The first few years of her adulthood form the basis of this thesis, in the form of a novel, intended as part of a longer work." -- Abstract
Dates:
2024
Here, 2015
Item — Item 0113503185879: [Barcode: 0113503185879]
Overview
The poems of Here move through experiences of pain inflicted on and by oneself -- physical brutality, sexual transgression and shame, domestic violence -- and ultimately ask what can be gained from our attention to such wounding. In pieces couched alterna
Dates:
2015
Here among strangers, 2012
Item — Item 0113503118094: [Barcode: 0113503118094]
Overview
Through three generations of characters and an array of narrative techniques, these six stories explore the impact of cultural expectations on our personal choices and desires. -- abstract.
Dates:
2012
Here are the branches, 2001
Item — Item 0113502546071: [Barcode: 0113502546071]
Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...
Dates:
2001
Here Be Monsters, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_mcqueen_daven.pdf
Overview
"HERE BE MONSTERS is a story about loss, both personal and collective. It asks what must be done to maintain hope in the face of immeasurable grief, exploring such themes as family trauma, class inequality, and the material repercussions of a warming planet that's been ignored for too long. But at its core, this is a novel about two people on a quest for answers—to their pain, their futures, and the mysteries of the world around them—that forces them to confront what they mean to each...
Dates:
2024
Heretics, Genies, and Flames, 2016
Item — Record carton 33: [Barcode: RF110987520]
Identifier: cw_2016spring_kalanish_emily.pdf
Overview
"A heretic and a genie. Drowning and burning. Can a heretic convert her coworkers to heresy? Can a genie grant wishes and make life less boring? In these two stories, both characters know that sometimes we need the fantasy in order to tolerate the reality. They also know that metaphors are fun and real life is hard. But knowing the facts doesn't make their worlds any easier." -- Abstract
Dates:
2016
Hero, 1991
Item — Item 0113501120159: [Barcode: 0113501120159]
Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...
Dates:
1991
Hexerei, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022spring_patterson_jamie.pdf
Overview
"Felix, the main character, is a warlock coming to terms with both the deaths of his ex-husband, Oliver Dade, and his friend and romantic interest, Jude Morgan. They were killed by infamous Black Faerie Queen Audelia after Oliver insults her. Jude, ever the hero, jumped in front of the blow that would have killed Felix. It is at this moment that a piece of Jude's soul is lodged in Felix's. Felix begins dreaming Jude's memories as vividly as if he were there. Felix is torn between keeping the...
Dates:
2022
Hidden branches : a search for a family's past, 2008
Item — Item 0113502966386: [Barcode: 0113502966386]
Overview
In Hidden Branches, the author confronts the mysteries of his family history, particularly the story of his grandfather, last heard from during the Holocaust, in 1942. As the identity and ultimate fate of the grandfather, Robert Klinger, becomes more clea
Dates:
2008
Hide and seek, 1984
Item — Item 0113501005277: [Barcode: 0113501005277]
Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...
Dates:
1984
Higher ground, 1997
Item — Item 0113501706197: [Barcode: 0113501706197]
Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...
Dates:
1997
Highwaytown, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_petchenik_rebecca.pdf
Overview
"The lives of the queer community blend the mythic with the postmodern against the backdrop of a small, southern Appalachian town ravaged by the exploitation of the wealthy Vandermoor family. The leaders of local queer biker gangs and radical queer separatists face off against longtime enemies, a local chapter of the KKK in a politically-charged campaign of violence and retribution, and through it all, Bailey Hardin, a twenty-seven year old bartender, dreams of running away and finding a...
Dates:
2024
Himeji boy and Tokyo girl, 2009
Item — Item 0113502979272: [Barcode: 0113502979272]
Overview
A stylized story of the foreigner experience in Japan. An account of one man trying to escape what he is and what he has become by moving halfway around the world, but discovering that you run away from what you are. -- abstract.
Dates:
2009
Hisaab & Half-Truths, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_palla_rukhsar.pdf
Overview
"The following collection of short stories explores a group of Pakistani Muslims moving through the world. The stories are linked, but can also be read as stand alone pieces. My intention for this work is to tell some of the stories of the South Asian diaspora, and to explore the complexities of first generation Americans, Muslims who practice Islam at varying degrees, and Pakistanis from different class backgrounds. When these characters engage with one another, both kinship and conflict...
Dates:
2019
Hit by ambulance, 2005
Item — Item 0113502759740: [Barcode: 0113502759740]
Overview
This collection of short stories deals with betrayal, surprise, and false saviors. -- abstract.
Dates:
2005
Holding pattern, 2004
Item — Item 0113502701023: [Barcode: 0113502701023]
Overview
A four-part experiment in memoir writing. The first part, Two-Family Life, is typical of the first-person prose essays of which memoir usually consist. The second part, Local Boy Cuts Hair, is a three-part journalism piece from the perspective of a fictit
Dates:
2004