Emerson thesis -- Creative writing
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Found in 403 Collections and/or Records:
Take as needed and other stories, 2016
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Identifier: cw_2016spring_sears_hannah.pdf
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"A collection of linked short stories that centers on the lives of a cast of characters in small-town Texas."--Abstract.
Dates:
2016
Tales from the Cryptids, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_klima_katherine.pdf
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"This short story collection focuses on five cryptids spanning several decades. Cryptids are creatures that people have claimed to exist, but there is no scientific proof to back this up. The cryptids that are fictionally explored through my work are the Jersey Devil, Mothman, the Loveland Frogman, the Loch Ness Monster, and Bigfoot. Each cryptid aligns with a certain theme presented in each story." -- Abstract
Dates:
2024
Tales from the Junk Drawer, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_twombly_brandon.pdf
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"From the height of absurdity to the starkest reality, these stories probe the stranger sides of the human experience. The first three stories are a satirical connected triptych, examining white privilege, cultural appropriation, and the search for higher meaning. The last three stories are a miscellany linked spiritually and thematically in which family and friendship are put to the test in the face of obsession, stagnation, change, and loss. We travel through the stories of a Megachurch...
Dates:
2021
Tales of awe and disappointment : travels on Alabama's Cahaba River, 2006
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This series of travel essays explores the Cahaba river in Alabama. Written by a native returning to her parent's farm, the stories cover: the ecology of Southeastern aquatic systems, the geology of the Black Belt, the civil rights movement in Alabama, th
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2006
Talking to strangers, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_sims_anna.pdf
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"Connect to the world around you and realize the enormous potential in talking to strangers Everyday, random encounters really can change lives, when you make them happen the right way and leverage the connection at the other end. Talk to Strangers explains how to stand out and tap the potential of others by taking notice of who is standing alongside you on the bank line, the latte pickup point, or the ticket counter at the airport. David Topus' life-changing message is that we should...
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2018
Tara, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019fall_somani_prerna dilip.pdf
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"Badrang is creative reinterpretation of the legend of Panchkanya, as mentioned in a Sanskrit shloka of obscure origins. This is how it goes: ahalyā draupadī kunti tārā mandodarī tathā । pañcakanyāḥ smarennityaṃ mahāpātakanāśinīḥ ॥ (Ahalya, Draupadi, Kunti, Tara and Mandodari One should forever remember the Panchakanya who are the destroyers of great sins)
Three of these women, Ahalya, Tara, and Mandodari are mentioned in the Ramayana, while Kunti and Draupadi are heroines in the epic of...
Dates:
2019
Tell Me About Yourself and Other Stories, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_mahfouz_halle.pdf
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"Tell Me About Yourself and Other Stories is a short story collection examining the construction of identity through relationships and choices. Spanning genre and form, these stories explore how pieces of the self are borrowed from experience and how people react to the weights of memory and outside perception. The collection is a blend of traditional short stories and flash fiction, of realism and hyperrealism, digging into both the discomfort and solace of human connection." -- Abstract
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2024
Ten Essays, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_viehman_morgan.pdf
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"'Ten Essays' is a collection of narrative and memoir essays that explores what happens after a family fractures. Beginning with her mother's obsession with restoring old houses and the aftermath of her father's abrupt departure, the narrator examines both herself and her family through the lens of repeating patterns, unexpected symbols, and inherited dysfunction. In an honest portrait of her family, the narrator traces pivotal moments in her rural childhood, discovering truths hidden in the...
Dates:
2019
That Uninspired Sort of Way, 2016
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Identifier: cw_2016spring_freeman_jade.pdf
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"This collection of short stories and flash are the best I've written during my graduate education at Emerson College. These stories follow a style distinctly my own, examining the human condition of individuals in their 20s. The men and women represented in these stories are adrift, not successful or happy, and are living inconsolable lives: a man starts digging to China to find his estranged wife, a young woman tries to find solace by accosting her favorite musician, a filmmaker attributes...
Dates:
2016
The Art of Chinese Paper Folding, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_chao_michael.pdf
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"This thesis investigates relationships between identity, mental health, and familial dynamics through the lens of growing up a mixed race Chinese-American. Both lyric and prosaic forms are used to explore how the act of remembering folds image and emotion together, becoming what we carry as memory, shaping our sense of self. The title is borrowed from a mid-20th century book on Chinese paper folding, which provided a framework for the construction of the collection. The act of folding paper...
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2021
The Body is Black, 2022
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Identifier: cw_2022spring_crocker_kristin.pdf
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""The Body is Black" is a memoir that follows the life of Kristin Crocker, a young, biracial woman who struggles with her personal identity in the face of familial turmoil. Kristin always felt she was different from other people, but it wasn't until her parents' divorce, her aunt's estrangement with her, and the 2016 presidential election, all of which happened concurrently, that she started to understand who she was. In a world founded on binaries and labels which limit people's personal...
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2022
The Bone Maker, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023fall_cliff_tanya.pdf
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"When eleven-year-old Max, a brilliant boy with serious physical handicaps, and his best friend, Tucker, drag a bone out of the Lindenwood Forest, they unearth a twenty- year-old crime and set off a chain of events that threaten their lives. In their often- swashbuckling misadventures, they are joined by Max's cousin, Isabella, a Black teen from Detroit who's hiding secrets of her own, and Max's uncle, Jordan, charismatic ringleader for the family circus. Complicating matters, the body of an...
Dates:
2023
The book of strange migrations, 2021
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Identifier: wr_2021fall_haneyjardine_richard.pdf
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"Throughout the five mirror sequences of "the book of strange migrations"—each about different types of exile—I explore and explode traditional forms, particularly sonnets. The first sequence—thirteen poems—examines emerging gay sexuality (darkened by childhood abuse) and sexual maturation (against the backdrop of the AIDS pandemic's worst years). The second—eleven sonnets—traces a relationship that persists despite disappointments, deceits, and separations. The third sequence—fifteen...
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2021
The boots, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_noto_joseph.pdf
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"This collection of poems focuses on letter poems to a variety of people in my life. In between these letter poems there are a different blend of poems that offer a glimpse into the life of the writer. This work offers a well-balanced mix of emotional urgency and interior monologue. Often, my work involves details of what it is like living with mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety, and this work is no different. The poems that are not letter poems often offer an inside view of the...
Dates:
2023
The Braid, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_baron_gabriela.pdf
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"This thesis explores threads of identity, weaving together influences that shape the sense of self, including ancestry, childhood, culture, and religion. These themes spread across three sections; "on a loom" is a meditation on interfaith upbringing and the reconciliation of two belief systems, "heirloom" relates to paternal ties, and "bloom" speaks to maternal heritage. The collection highlights two matriarchs and how they lived out their individual cultures (Jewish and Colombian) and...
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2023
The cockroach collector, 2014
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Story of a man named Martin who collects cockroaches in a box in his basement, and who struggles to forge connections and make sense of his impulses and curiosities.--Abstract.
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2014
The Colorful Life of Kitty Swan, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_rockefeller_laura.pdf
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"This is a historical novel about one woman's trajectory as an artist during the Age of Revolutions. As a young woman coming of age in Boston in 1800, Kitty Swan is aware that she is living in a new century in a newly created country. She wants to find a place for herself as an artist in this world. Her path toward achieving this goal is blocked by the plans of her strong-willed mother, Hepzibah Swan, who is adamant that all of her children must marry well to secure the family's finances,...
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2021
The Day Lilies, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_fitzpatrick_mikaela.pdf
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"The Day Lilies is a collection that weaves intimate poems about family, romantic relationships, nature, and mysticism to illustrate what it means to venture away from a world of familiarity to embrace the unknown. Moving from the countryside of Pennsylvania to the cityscape of Boston thrusted me out of my comfort zone and opened me up to experiences I would've never been able to imagine before. Daylilies have taught me that it's possible to thrive wherever you are planted. This collection...
Dates:
2023
The edge of the ocean, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_teczar_sarah.pdf
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"The first 101 pages of a literary fiction novel, a coming-of-age story which is meant to explore feminist issues via the protagonist, Carla, and her behavior, experiences, and misadventures in a foreign country. In the midst of isolation and an encroaching depression, Carla pursues relationships with a few different men and discovers the difference between love and possession, and what it means to be a woman in a world full of double standards. Any tenuous friendships she has formed with...
Dates:
2018
The First of Them, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023fall_snow_jennifer.pdf
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"The First of Them is a horror-themed science-fantasy fiction novel centered around a trans woman and her estranged twin brother. After strange happenings bring them back together, Collette and her brother Ethan must find out what connections lie between a psychologically deteriorating hospital patient and a missing USGS researcher as they deal with their own personal traumas, sibling rivalry, uncommon seismic events, and apparent paranormal unknowns. In the end, ties that bond them together...
Dates:
2023