Emerson thesis -- Creative writing
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 398 Collections and/or Records:
The Great Saving, 2022
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Identifier: cw_2022fall_amico_madilyn.pdf
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"The Great Saving is a heart-wrenching true story from the perspective of a young girl who realizes her parents are addicted to drugs. Madilyn and her siblings endure abuse, neglect, and trauma beyond measure. They're forced to grow up and raise each other, keep their parents' addiction a secret, and suffer silently and alone in rural North Carolina. Madilyn and her siblings can't help but anticipate the deaths of their parents or their own. But when her baby brother is born addicted to...
Dates:
2022
The Hands of Virtue, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_yeh_katherine.pdf
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"The Hands of Virtue is the first novel in a three-part series that follows three point of view characters in the wake of two world-ending catastrophes. Each character struggles to carve out their own sense of livelihood: Edie to keep her family together and alive, Haig to excel in a new job, and Mikhail to move on after trauma. The setting of a matriarchal society challenges conceptions of gender roles and adds pressure to the difficulties each character faces. The novel explores themes of...
Dates:
2021
The harmless things, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_haggard_kit.pdf
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"The stories in this collection seek to represent what is already surreal—loss, womanhood, queerness—by distorting the familiar. These characters come uncoupled from their lives in various ways, which force them to examine absences, relationships, acts of violence, and familial connections. Fabulist elements call attention to this process of evaluation, collapsing the distance between what is internal and what is external." --Abstract.
Dates:
2018
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...
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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 Malice, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_hauth_tyler.pdf
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"The Malice is a completed novel that explores the fictional town of Harrow, Arkansas, where two young boys go missing every summer, and nobody—not the Sheriff, not the teachers, not even the missing kids' parents—seem to give a lick. It's only the boys in Harrow who know something is amiss, and when they grow up, they somehow forget, too. Fortunately for the boy who goes missing at the beginning of this book (Michael), his friends Doug, Floyd, Toni, and Jay haven't finished growing up yet,...
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2024
The Miraculous, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_fdail_monia.pdf
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"The story takes place in nineteen eighties and nineteen nineties Morocco. The protagonist, Ayur, is a miraculous child who survives a severe elephantiasis. He and his family encounter many hurdles and obstacles throughout his childhood and journey to recovery. She, a mysterious creature, that follows Ayur everywhere ever since his birth, is despised, feared, admired, and blamed by Ayur's mother who obsesses over her baby especially when he falls ill. Rabab, the mother, who recounts the...
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2024
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 Nature of It All, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_hammond_ryanna.pdf
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"This master thesis aims to portray the nature of human life in light of our modern capitalistic world. Ego has been running amok on Earth—via Human Consciousness—for a few thousand years, which has led to disconnection and destruction on all levels: human to human, human to fellow animal, human to Mother Earth. However, there is hope for harmony, for this planet and all of its creatures to return to a state of Heaven again. Across three sections, entitled (1) a long-drawn sidewalk, (2)...
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2024
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...
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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...
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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