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Emerson thesis -- Writing, literature, and publishing

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2105 Collections and/or Records:

Hisaab & Half-Truths, 2019

 Item
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
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2019 Spring

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
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 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
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Writing, Literature, and Publishing (MA/MFA) Program / 2004

Holler loud and make your way, 2005

 Item — Item 0113502742076: [Barcode: 0113502742076]
Overview

A collection of humorous essays centered on one person's sense of home. -- abstract.

Dates: 2005
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2005

Home, 2015

 Item — Item 0113503185960: [Barcode: 0113503185960]
Overview

A collection of short fiction that explores the relationships between family members, those close connections or estrangements that affect our feelings of the places and people that we consider home. --Abstract.

Dates: 2015
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2015

Home and away, 1997

 Item — Item 0113501706163: [Barcode: 0113501706163]
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
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Writing, Literature, and Publishing (MA/MFA) Program / 1997

Home grown, 2005

 Item — Item 0113502785562: [Barcode: 0113502785562]
Overview

Home Grown is a collection of 10 narrative essays centering on the author's experience growing up in a small college town. -- abstract.

Dates: 2005
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2005

Home of the Cuckoos, 2021

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Identifier: cw_2021spring_sanderford_rachel.pdf
Overview "Home of the Cuckoos' is a family saga novel exploring the themes of generational trauma, female autonomy, and agency. Sarah returns to her small hometown after the death of the family matriarch. What starts as the misguided attempt to save the family homestead turns into a search for answers. Buried deep underneath the hard exterior of the Doyle women is a pain that has never healed, and the belief they are all cursed. With nothing left to lose, Sarah is willing to dig deeper into the past...
Dates: 2021
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2021 Spring

Homecoming: A Memoir, 2021

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Identifier: cw_2021spring_pendergast_kellie.pdf
Overview "The purpose of 'Homecoming: A Memoir' is to explore the baffling, contradictory promises of wealth and education the suburbs of Long Island, New York offered my family. The chapters are arranged chronologically and are meant to mimic the back-and-forth travel from school to home. Some themes include grief, gender roles, and student-teacher relationships. I argue against some of the traditions I believe many Long Islanders refuse to question, like the Top Ten ranking in the first chapter and...
Dates: 2021
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2021 Spring

Homecomings and Other Ghost Stories, 2023

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Identifier: cw_2023spring_relick_amanda.pdf
Overview "Homecomings and Other Ghost Stories is a story collection that investigates the push and pull between grief and memory. Within these stories, the very act of remembering presents itself as a form of grief, where nostalgia becomes an act of mourning and the fallibility of memory is its own kind of loss. In grappling with these themes, characters are either running from their pasts or deeply indulgent in them. For the main character in the flash story, "The Outside Room," precious memories...
Dates: 2023
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2023 Spring

Homing, 2006

 Item — Item 0113502831523: [Barcode: 0113502831523]
Overview

Homing is a collection of poems with origins in graduate work at Emerson College. Poems vary in form, though tend toward short lyric and lyric narrative. -- abstract.

Dates: 2006
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2006

Homing instinct : a memoir in search of a self, 2001

 Item — Item 0113502545214: [Barcode: 0113502545214]
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
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Writing, Literature, and Publishing (MA/MFA) Program / 2001

Honest lies, 2000

 Item — Item 0113501984091: [Barcode: 0113501984091]
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: 2000
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Writing, Literature, and Publishing (MA/MFA) Program / 2000

Honeymoon Alone, 2019

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Identifier: pf_2019spring_diebold_nicole.pdf
Overview "Honeymoon Alone is a women's fiction manuscript told in the first person and present tense, through the lens of Lucy Gray. Lucy is a twenty-six-year-old school teacher who lives a comfortable and routine life. After a public humiliation – and some insight from a psychic – Lucy throws caution to the wind and decides to see what life could be like if she shook things up a little. She takes off for London on her sister's throwaway honeymoon and is inspired to take chances for the first time....
Dates: 2019
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Popular Fiction Writing and Publishing (MFA) Program / 2019 Spring

Hook's revenge, or a faithful chronicle of the pursuit of Peter Pan by Captain James Hook as recounted by Smee, bosun under Captain Hook, with additional material by the author regarding his personal knowledge of, and relationship with, Captain Hook - inc, 2005

 Item — Item 0113502747232: [Barcode: 0113502747232]
Overview

A re-imagining of the Peter Pan tale as told by Smee, bosun to Captain Hook. Including layout and design samples of the writing as a book. Only the first half of the story is submitted. -- abstract.

Dates: 2005
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Publishing and Writing (MA) Program / 2005

Houghton Mifflin Spelling and Vocabulary : overhead transparencies and masters, 1997

 Item — Item 0113501804570: [Barcode: 0113501804570]
Overview

'Houghton Mifflin Spelling and Vocabulary : Overhead Transparencies and Masters' is a set of transparencies, designed to supplement, 'Houghton Mifflin Spelling and Vocabulary' a pre-existing series of elementary school level spelling books...The complete

Dates: 1997
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Writing, Literature, and Publishing (MA/MFA) Program / 1997

Hour to hour, 1997

 Item — Item 0113501746425: [Barcode: 0113501746425]
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
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Writing, Literature, and Publishing (MA/MFA) Program / 1997

House of crumbs, 1998

 Item — Item 0113501825369: [Barcode: 0113501825369]
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
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Writing, Literature, and Publishing (MA/MFA) Program / 1998

House of swans, 2014

 Item — Item 0113503185770: [Barcode: 0113503185770]
Overview

Elena Pavlenka, a poor nine-year-old girl in a ghetto if St. Petersburg, Russia, gains acceptance in the Imperial Ballet School. In 1907, a time of unparalleled economic disparity between classes, Elena suffers harsh scrutiny and classicism from her peers

Dates: 2014
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2014

House on Swandon Hill, 2015

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Identifier: cw_2015spring_williamson_john.pdf
Overview

Parts one and two (of an intended four) of a novel which follows Walter Bellamy from childhood to his thirties as he tries to decipher the truth behind an old family tale which has subtly fractured relationships within his family for generations. --Abstract.

Dates: 2015
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2015 Spring

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