Emerson thesis -- Writing, literature, and publishing
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2125 Collections and/or Records:
The Scattering Winds, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024fall_carlson_robert.pdf
Overview
"The Scattering Winds is a high fantasy novel, and though it stands alone, it is also the first in a planned trilogy called The Iean Cycle. There are Avrathians (bird-like people), Lacertians (snake-like people), Groukis, Humans, and yes, Gnomes. A human city is sacked and that sets in motion a series of events. We follow three primary characters in third person omniscient point-of-view: Xobb, a human warrior; Haro, an Avrathian shifter, and Cinder, a human woman with powers she doesn't know...
Dates:
2024
The Sea of Souls, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021spring_collins_monique.pdf
Overview
"The Sea of Souls is a speculative fiction novel that spans generations of a Gullah-Geechee family. The novel takes place across two timelines, one in the past and the other in the future, and features beings from Gullah folktales and African mythology. Told from the point of view of a grandmother and granddaughter, the novel carries themes of love and female empowerment. At the novel's opening, the grandmother is a teenage girl who lives on an island near Charleston, SC. She is sent on a...
Dates:
2021
The search for place : travel writing and the submission process, 2005
Item — Item 0113502746143: [Barcode: 0113502746143]
Overview
For this thesis project, I have written, revised, and pitched to magazines three travel-related articles and essays. -- abstract.
Dates:
2005
The second Friday in May, 2001
Item — Item 0113501526231: [Barcode: 0113501526231]
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
The Secret Eater and Other Stories, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_marlin_sofia.pdf
Overview
"The following collection of stories explores humankind at its most vulnerable. These stories range in length, from short story to flash and even micro fiction. Characters experience loss and isolation, learn to cope with grief, and come to terms with their own complex identities. Gender and sexuality are major themes present in these works of fiction, demonstrating both the dangers and pleasures that arise when people considered "other" enter society." -- Abstract
Dates:
2021
The self-disclosing dark, 1996
Item — Item 0113501607676: [Barcode: 0113501607676]
Overview
A collection of poems in three sections. Images of marriage, family and childhood are conjured in poems in the first section. Several in the second section focus on the body, and our obsession with it. These poems try to find the place we keep in our mind
Dates:
1996
The Senator and the Sagittarians, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_gorjance_sophia.pdf
Overview
"The Senator and the Sagittarians follows Diana Hake, nee Graybeal, as she faces struggles both personal and public in her run for one of the seven Prime Senate seats for all of settled space. Set one thousand years in the future, the narrative is split between Di's present, where she deals with the ramifications of humanity's war with the alien Sagittarians, the fallout of her daughter's death, and the complexities of her campaign; and her past, which provides essential context for both the...
Dates:
2023
The separation of Terry Buehler, 2015
Item — Item 0113503189343: [Barcode: 0113503189343]
Overview
Terry Buehler, adrift in life since the sudden death of his mother, wakes one morning to find he has been separated from reality. That is meant literally and the mechanics are explained herein, but the reader is free to draw their own conclusions regardin
Dates:
2015
The seven deadly sins, 2000
Item — Item 0113501974407: [Barcode: 0113501974407]
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
The shame of being eleven, 2006
Item — Item 0113502852966: [Barcode: 0113502852966]
Overview
The Shame of Being Eleven focuses on the otherness of everyday living and the human response to pain and suffering. This work meditates on the following questions: What are the limits of our relationships to other people? How do we handle pain and forgive
Dates:
2006
The Sharer: A Fantasy, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020fall_dixon_jonathan.pdf
Overview
"My thesis consists of the first six chapters a novel, titled The Sharer. The novel is a multi-character narrative spanning two centuries and incorporating historical and fantastic elements. The novel's main protagonist is Elizabeth Packet, a woman who since childhood has possessed a supernatural power of empathy. Elizabeth's story is told through two parallel narratives: one set in California, 1928, describing the final events of her life; the other set in the 1850s, relating her...
Dates:
2020
The Shirley Temple killer, 1989
Item — Item 0113501000070: [Barcode: 0113501000070]
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:
1989
The Shooting on Atwood Street, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_nightingale_barrett.pdf
Overview
"This story seeks to explore queer identity in small towns using an ensemble cast of most queer characters. The points of view explored include a young gay man, older gay men (some closeted), a bisexual woman, a child who does not realize they're transgender yet and a bigoted local woman. To stimulate these varied life experiences, the novel plays extensively with form. Different points of view switch between different verb tenses, types of narrator, and genre. The piece climaxes in the...
Dates:
2023
The Silent Decades, 2021
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Identifier: wr_2021fall_roberts_meghan.pdf
Overview
"At an all-girls' Catholic high school near Boston in 1950, Gwen decides to distribute tampons -- specifically forbidden by the Church -- to her peers, a choice that fractures her relationship with her rule-following twin sister Margot. Twenty years later, Gwen and Margot haven't spoken since high school. Feeling trapped in her marriage, Gwen returns to her hometown with her teenage daughter Vivian, as she recalls the events that led to the twins' estrangement and tries to save Margot from...
Dates:
2021
The slaughterhouse, 2000
Item — Item 0113502502850: [Barcode: 0113502502850]
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
The soft targets project, 1993
Item — Item 0113502358840: [Barcode: 0113502358840]
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:
1993
The sound of snapping wire, 1994
Item — Item 0113502359780: [Barcode: 0113502359780]
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:
1994
The space between, 2002
Item — Item 0113502641591: [Barcode: 0113502641591]
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:
2002
The Spectacle of Bubble Gum and Cuchi-Cuchi: A Memoir in Essays, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_costigan_kim.pdf
Overview
"The essays that make up the body of this memoir have been written over the past several years. They are an attempt to make sense of a time when women and children were not protected and were subjected to the supremacy of a patriarchal society that centered and privileged white males. This was not a long-ago time. In my small hometown of Winthrop, Massachusetts in the 1970s, secrets and shame experienced by a family were a family's business. The institutions that were meant to protect and...
Dates:
2024
The spies of New York, 2012
Item — Item 0113503068729: [Barcode: 0113503068729]
Overview
This novel takes place in the middle-to-later years of the American Revolution, when New York City was occupied by the British Army. Based on a true story, the novel recounts the adventures of Robert Townsend, store owner and journalist, who spies on the
Dates:
2012