Emerson thesis -- Writing, literature, and publishing
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2125 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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