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Emerson thesis -- Writing, literature, and publishing

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2041 Collections and/or Records:

Along the Asymptote, 2020

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Identifier: cw_2020spring_govender_cindy.pdf
Overview "This non-fiction collection is about people who live along the asymptote—ordinary or obscured people and their experiences, challenges and triumphs in the periphery; people, places and things we don't always see, hear or remember. Each of their stories reveals the vitality of the human spirit. In the ordinary, there is extraordinary. The poems and essays traverse time and continents. Across generations and geographies, the sound of living in the shadows is the same; the sound of separation,...
Dates: 2020

Altered egos, 2004

 Item — Item 0113502727143: [Barcode: 0113502727143]
Overview

Altered Egos is a screenplay that takes a satirical look at the superhero world from a new perspective.

Dates: 2004

Altoona, 2014

 Item — Item 0113503153117: [Barcode: 0113503153117]
Overview

Follows two middle-aged women living in a run-down railroad town in Pennsylvania. The one bright spot for the town and the two friends is an annual cooking competition at the town's mayonnaise festival. Mo, the protagonist, is a harsh intelligent woman fr

Dates: 2014

Always, ditto, 2010

 Item — Item 0113503010473: [Barcode: 0113503010473]
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With a particular focus on feminine identity and place, Always, Ditto examines interactions between people and landscape, and the influences of what is both within and out of our control. This collection of both formal and free verse poems travels to the

Dates: 2010

Amanirenas, 2019

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Identifier: pf_2019fall_christopher_nicole.pdf
Overview "From 40 B.C. to 10 B.C. Amanirenas ruled the vast, rich kingdom of Kush. During her thirty-year reign, Amanirenas became identified as the warrior queen, known across the lands for her might and skill on the battlefield. With great strength, precision, and grace, she led Kushite armies to numerous victories against the notorious Roman army. For all her power and skill in war, little is known about Amanirenas the woman. She is a queen without a history—only faint whisper serving as her...
Dates: 2019

Amazon publishing : the face of an unknown future, 2012

 Item — Item 0113503118102: [Barcode: 0113503118102]
Overview

Amazon is a contentious topic in the publishing industry today. It embodies two potential threats: first, Amazon's Kindle e-reader and low e-book prices stormed into the industry, sending publishers into a frenzy to continue making their paper books work

Dates: 2012

Amelia's locket, 1998

 Item — Item 0113501917158: [Barcode: 0113501917158]
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

American abilities, 1995

 Item — Item 0113501179858: [Barcode: 0113501179858]
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

American dreamscape, 1996

 Item — Item 0113501607700: [Barcode: 0113501607700]
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A novel-in-progress about a middle-aged man's attempt to stabilize his sense of identity through a visit and hoped for reconciliation with his long estranged mother.

Dates: 1996

American Junkie, 2023

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Identifier: cw_2023fall_sears_christian.pdf
Overview "American Junkie is a novel about recovery from addiction. Too often, stories about addicts and alcoholics—from The Great Gatsby to The Wire—fail to show what real recovery looks like. Frequently, they focus entirely on the tragic chaos of untreated addiction. If they depict recovery, it is simplistic and brief. But in this novel, Jack Sutherland goes through it all. He burglarizes a pharmacy, lingers in an abusive relationship, and unwittingly pushes and overdose into his friend’s veins....
Dates: 2023

American standard and other fiction, 1991

 Item — Item 0113502155550: [Barcode: 0113502155550]
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

American Standard Time, 2022

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Identifier: cw_2022spring_burke_peter.pdf
Overview "American Standard Time is a novel that follows three individuals as they begin to fall apart in time. Joe Cleaveland, a disillusioned heir to a pet food fortune, confronts his friend, Keremcan Köroğlu, a misanthrope MIT neuroscientist, about his worsening symptoms, before setting off in search of comfort in the form of his preternaturally determined girlfriend, Ingrid Bell. Over the course of the day, on his own search for answers, Köroğlu alights on a mysterious force at work beneath his...
Dates: 2022

American tramplings and other stories, 2014

 Item — Item 0113503185762: [Barcode: 0113503185762]
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A collection of short stories that primarily examine the American relationship with fear: fear of death, war, love, desire, success, failure, and the unknown. The settings are both historical and modern, realistics and surreal, familiar and foreign; each

Dates: 2014

Among the most beloved : explorations in the land of the dead, 2010

 Item — Item 0113503010499: [Barcode: 0113503010499]
Overview

This essay collection explores the meaning of death and burial in Western culture in order to ask the ultimate question: What does it mean to live? From Paris to Egypt to Cambridge, Massachusetts, the collection offers a whirlwind cemetery tour and invest

Dates: 2010

Amy, Too, 1995

 Item — Item 0113502476352: [Barcode: 0113502476352]
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

An adopted life, 2004

 Item — Item 0113502698773: [Barcode: 0113502698773]
Overview

A travel memoir about my four months living and working in Korea on a program for adult Korean adoptees -- abstract.

Dates: 2004

An all-star Beatles Christmas and other stories, 1999

 Item — Item 0113501922117: [Barcode: 0113501922117]
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: 1999

An artist's temple, 2013

 Item — Item 0113503104904: [Barcode: 0113503104904]
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This nonfiction thesis manuscript captures the decade-long journey of a young performing artist thwarted by the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder. -- abstract.

Dates: 2013

An excerpt from 'The Parting Glass', 2012

 Item — Item 0113503069966: [Barcode: 0113503069966]
Overview

My thesis is the first sixteen chapters of my novel, 'The Parting Glass.' Narrated by Stephen, his teacher, Mr. Campbell, and his girlfriend, Ada Saffarstein, the novel is about Stephen Carroll, a bright but wild lad from The Bronx, that is sent to Fairwi

Dates: 2012

An outside curiosity, 2009

 Item — Item 0113502989693: [Barcode: 0113502989693]
Overview

An Outside Curiosity is a novel charting the demise of a small community on Eilean Fior, a fictional island west of Scotland. It focuses particularly on George and Maureen McCloud, owners of the island's only guesthouse, and their three children: Barry, F

Dates: 2009