Emerson thesis -- Creative writing
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Subject Source: Local sources
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The Hauntlands, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_bloem_noah.pdf
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"The Hauntlands is a slyly comedic fantasy adventure that follows four distinct characters as they move through a wild, magic, and often absurd world. Though coated in a paint of the odd, silly, and fantastical, the narrative's ultimate focus centers on the relationships characters develop even in adverse circumstances. Each character must deal with their own personal struggles, whether that be searching for one's lost memories or dealing with a newfound power, while simultaneously facing...
Dates:
2021
The House on Holten Street, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_denault_jacques.pdf
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"Jan Moreau is living with her parents when her mother begins to act strangely. Jan decides to get to the bottom of her mother's affliction, when she discovers that they aren't as alone in the house as they had thought. She quickly uncovers that her parents, and the house, have secrets. Hoping to help her mother before it's too late, Jan is forced to grapple with her parents' endless arguing, and the house's haunting influence. In her attempts to uncover the truths behind the secrets, Jan is...
Dates:
2021
The King Of Man: Bound in Mud and Straw Chapters 1–8, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020fall_goldsher_noah.pdf
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"'Bound in Mud and Straw' is the first book of 'The King of Man,' a trilogy comprising the historical fiction memoir of Nilus Komnenos, a Greek eunuch from Constantinople who travels to the Island of Man and becomes embroiled in the affairs of the Norse–Gaels of Britain and Ireland during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries CE. A noble by birth, but captured and enslaved as a child, Nilus chronicles his life story—one of hardships endured, secrets kept, and bonds both honored and...
Dates:
2020
The Ladies' Musical Brigade and Performing Troupe, 2016
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Identifier: cw_2016fall_post_sydney.pdf
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"After discovering that the all-female performing troupe founded by her mother is out of money, Sophie Hamilton decides to spearhead one last effort to keep the show alive. They travel to a ramshackle theater in New York City and attempt to build their show from the ground up. Sophie finds herself torn between the troupe that has been her family and her entire world for twenty years and the pull of the outside world, particularly in the form of Samuel Ackermann, the son of one of the...
Dates:
2016
The miseducation of sexuality : a memoir of the development of sexuality over time, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_summer_lauralee.pdf
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"This thesis is the first quarter of a book-length memoir about the author’s sexual identity and preferences as they developed and were shaped throughout her life by her experiences and events of circumstance. The author describes the influence of her mother and her own life growing up in poverty on her sexuality, and how her high school years were also formative to her ideas of sexuality." --Abstract.
Dates:
2018
The Nile Has Always Been Ours, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020spring_mubarak_nehal.pdf
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"I often think about the implications of the word "home." As a child of immigrants, migration and displacement have shaped how I define the concept of home my whole life. As I was writing these stories, I realized that in the past I avoided writing settings because I don't feel a connection to any one place. The characters in these stories occupy places, because place is undoubtedly still important, but they also navigate relationships and loss. They try to understand why they go through the...
Dates:
2020
The Passage of Friendship: Stories, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020spring_surges_kathryn.pdf
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"This collection of short stories shines a light on the impermanence of friendship while also asserting its transformative potential. Two girls become close and get separated by fearful parents, only to meet up again in later stories with a whole new set of challenges. A young man in college wants his social life to return to the way it used to be in a time before severe insecurity. People want to impress, to hide the truth, to dismiss reality at great costs to themselves. At the heart of...
Dates:
2020
The Queen's gambit : a memoir, 2004
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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:
2004
The Race of Daphne, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_beckmann_sarah.pdf
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"This collection of poetry, structured as a crew race, reflects a metaphor: life is a race, a battle. The speaker views life through the lenses of girlhood, womanhood, and motherhood, and through the experiences of being a rower and writer. Heroes, poets, and athletes crowned with laurel wreaths in ancient Greco-Roman times were usually male—these poems subvert that narrative in contemporary times by revealing unsung heroism in the ordinary, domestic, and female. These pieces describe the...
Dates:
2023
The sandhouse, 2005
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During an outbreak of violence aimed towards the upper-class during the 1905 Russian Revolution, fifteen year old Sophia Baiev and her family are forced to flee St. Petersburg for New York. -- abstract.
Dates:
2005
The Secret Eater and Other Stories, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_marlin_sofia.pdf
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"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 Senator and the Sagittarians, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_gorjance_sophia.pdf
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"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
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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 Sharer: A Fantasy, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020fall_dixon_jonathan.pdf
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"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 Shooting on Atwood Street, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_nightingale_barrett.pdf
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"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
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"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 spies of New York, 2012
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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
The tale I tell myself to move on, 2010
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This book is a collective memoir about three people graduating from college. It follows them from their graduations, to Jersey Shore, through post-Katrina New Orleans, and to the crowded streets of Tokyo. It stems from the questions, What do I do next?" a
Dates:
2010
The tea master's daughter, 2015
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The story of the life of Lu Mina, a daughter born during the middle part of China's Ming Dynasty into a family renowned for producing generations of honorable tea masters. In the bustling mountain village of Bright Moon, Mina grows wild and restless until
Dates:
2015
The Things That Follow, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_roberts_jayne.pdf
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"This novel navigates a young woman's journey to escape her traumas by literally becoming a new person. Renee Dawson creates personality after personality to hide behind until there's nowhere left to go. The story is split between the viewpoints of Renee who has lost her younger sister in a tragic accident, and Amari who is the first personality that Renee creates. These two women struggle with loss, relationships, and a disrupted sense of self. Renee, who defined herself in relation to her...
Dates:
2019