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Emerson thesis -- Creative writing

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 364 Collections and/or Records:

Paper dolls, 2015

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Identifier: cw_2015spring_joy_catherine.pdf
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"Paper Dolls is a collection of nine personal essays exploring author Catie Joy's emotional and political growth, from early childhood to emerging adulthood. Several linked essays in the collection trace the author's coming of age as a domestic adoptee." --Abstract.

Dates: 2015

Paper turtles, 2012

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This collection of essays explores the nature of memory, creativity, and mental illness through the perspective of a bipolar woman in her twenties. Each essay focuses on a single theme relating to life after becoming well or to being an unstable adolescen

Dates: 2012

Para Las Latinas, 2023

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Identifier: cw_2023spring_alvarez_victoria.pdf
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"Para Las Latinas is a collection of short stories told in multiple perspectives on the themes of identity, womanhood, misogyny, and culture. My experimentation with point-of-view in this collection ranges from second, roving third, and omniscient to gain a deeper sense of characters, plot, and societal commentary. The collection challenges the reader to enter worlds they are uncomfortable or unfamiliar with through bilingualism, relationship dynamics, and setting." -- Abstract

Dates: 2023

Paseos, y Otros Cuentos [Paseos, and Other Stories], 2020

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Identifier: cw_2020spring_martinez_jose_manuel.pdf
Overview "Mexicans are not a monolith, our stories have always had similar starting points—almost always with the immigrant ancestor(s). What happens to them next can be anyone's guess, but often times their primary goal is survival, though the meaning of survival depends on the family. Writing this collection, I did not presume that it would speak for every Mexican family out there, and each of those stories I haven't excavated contains a unique heart and waits further exploration. In acknowledging...
Dates: 2020

Pemberley, 2016

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Identifier: cw_2016fall_grieve_jennifer.pdf
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"A novel excerpt about Pem Randall, a young lawyer who suddenly loses her mother, the only family she has. After her mother's death, Pem is forced to re-evaluate her close but complicated relationship with her mother." --Abstract.

Dates: 2016

People / Places / Things / Ideas, 2019

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Identifier: cw_2019spring_wildes_april.pdf
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"People/Places/Things/Ideas attempts to unpack experience, we as humans, internalize. The collection is separated into sections—highlighting each piece through the central theme and placing them into its respected noun-home. There are poems of womanhood, abuse, and mental health— each carrying a weight that the speaker has borne over time." -- Abstract

Dates: 2019

Perfect, 2007

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'Perfect' is a memoir about the blessing and burden of being singled out by a parent, particularly a parent whose days are numbered, in a family that fell apart years ago despite my dreams and efforts to hold it together. -- abstract.

Dates: 2007

Phere, 2022

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Identifier: cw_2022spring_aggarwal_sonia.pdf
Overview "This manuscript follows a 'Bride' and 'Groom' through a series of seven 'coupled contrapuntals' which structurally mimic the Hindu wedding ceremony of "saat phere" or seven circles around the sacred fire. The positionality of the bride and groom provides a lens through which we see the intersection of three separate generations, creating an axle for the collection to pivot on. This allows forvoices from multiple different familial roles as they speak of the generational wonder and trauma...
Dates: 2022

Philadelphia Forever, 2021

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Identifier: wr_2021fall_fleischer_evan.pdf
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"Set in an alternate present, 'Philadelphia Forever' sees four characters explore the implicit question as to how one 'makes' and 'unmakes' a place. An amoral real estate agent, a melancholy mobster, an insightful teenager, and a happy cook test the figurative waters of a city filled with serendipity with the help of a robotic basketball player and a sentient cloud. Some embrace the serendipity. Some attempt to erase it. All of them live in Philadelphia." -- Abstract

Dates: 2021

Phoenix Wok & other stories, 2015

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Identifier: cw_2015spring_veloso_jonina-lee.pdf
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"Phoenix Wok and Other Stories is a collection of short stories linked together by a restaurant called Phoenix Wok. Set in Manila, Philippines, this collection explores the lives of characters who have worked or eaten at this Filipino-Chinese restaurant. Each story examines the lives of typical Filipinos when their capacity towards change is tested." --Abstract

Dates: 2015

Pioneers in skinny jeans : a famous mayor, a group of misfits, and the controversial experiment to save America's hardest hit town--Braddock, PA, 2011

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In 2008, Braddock, Pennsylvania began receiving a wave of national media attention (The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, etc.). The attention largely centered around one man, Braddock's larger-than-life mayor, John Fetterman. At 6'8, 350 pound

Dates: 2011

Plague Days & River Roads, 2023

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Identifier: cw_2023spring_fisher_caitlin.pdf
Overview "Plague Days & River Roads follows the protagonist, college junior Liv Ford, as she returns to her hometown in order to understand how and why her friend Juniper died—and whether the mystery of who Juniper's mother was related to her death. As she dives deeper into her memories with Juniper, Liv begins to piece together the shards of her eccentric family through her relationships with her own mother and with Juniper's father and brother during August 2020. The novel is a musing on grief,...
Dates: 2023

Plucked: A Memoir of Hiding, 2020

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Identifier: cw_2020spring_bannon_katherine.pdf
Overview "My thesis encompasses the beginning of a memoir exploring my journey with trichotillomania, a psychiatric disorder that causes me to compulsively pull out my hair. Though 1 in 25 people pull out their hair, the disorder remains shrouded in mystery; there is no cure and little treatment. I began plucking when I was eight years old, an event that splintered open my family's carefully controlled, privileged life. For years, I believed I was the only one. I hid under makeup, headscarves, and...
Dates: 2020

Plume, 2022

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Identifier: cw_2022summer_smart_hannah.pdf
Overview "Plume is a postmodern, fragmented novel that takes place across the time period of 2014 to 2035 but is anchored in the months of August – November 2035. In this near-future United States, several smaller religious political parties have replaced the Democratic and Republican parties, and police power has been privatized, allowing corporations to dictate the extent of that power. The central plot of the novel surrounds a new and improved" version of the MKUltra program entitled MKUber,...
Dates: 2022

Practicing How to Be in the World, 2019

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Identifier: cw_2019spring_zuckerman_mjaime.pdf
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"Practicing How to Be in the World is a collection of lyric poems exploring self-definition and growth. From the influences of childhood upbringing, nature, art and writing, love, and life experience, the poems explore how an individual makes meaning of the world and defines the self. The poems are paper boats in the rising waters of the modern world." -- Abstract

Dates: 2019

Proof That We're Real, 2021

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Identifier: cw_2021spring_famularo_emily.pdf
Overview "The things that plague us, as people, are in constant flux and motion, whether it be relationships, memories, or lapses of judgement. In this collection are seven stories that intertwine aspects of what it means to be human and vulnerable. Each represents a small moment, a sliver of time that remains lodged, and nagging in the back of your brain. Pulling together the human experience and then allowing it to unfold is what makes these pieces fit together. Whether it's understanding one's...
Dates: 2021

PT and other stories, 2006

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Pt and other stories is a collection of short stories that explores our notions of love, loss, spirituality, and disability through the eyes of young adults and twenty-somethings. -- abstract.

Dates: 2006

Put Your Problems in a Box, 2019

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Identifier: cw_2019spring_harrington_christian.pdf
Overview "'Put Your Problems in a Box' is a collection of nonfiction humor essays about my difficult time navigating a simple life. With an emphasis on my tireless inner monologue, the essays show the perspective of a man at the mercy of an admittedly imperfect thought process. Despite covering a wide range of topics, including youth football, occupational ennui, and refrigerated dog limbs, the essays form a cohesive collection due to the self-aware and self-deprecating lens through which I examine...
Dates: 2019

Questions for Strangers, 2019

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Identifier: cw_2019spring_sklan_marin.pdf
Overview "Over the last three years, a number of people very dear to me have passed away. A dancer, a photographer, a Shakespearean double, a grandfather still shrouded in mystery. Each, in their own way, harbingers of untold stories. I realized, slowly, that a sense of peace could be found through small acts of translation. Memories became settings became characters both unfamiliar and comforting. I suppose, at its core, this collection is an exploration of loss. But I have come to view it more as a...
Dates: 2019

Reach You Tonight, 2023

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Identifier: cw_2023spring_janusis_jacqueline.pdf
Overview "My thesis is focused on themes of grief, loneliness, and the natural world. One of my goals for these poems was to take myself out of them, and to be an observer of my surroundings. There is also an emphasis on the connection of self to nature, and how that can sometimes be neglected. Considering these themes, another intention for this project was to employ as many forms possible. I utilize fragmentation as well as more traditional forms such as the sonnet. My title provides readers with a...
Dates: 2023