Emerson thesis -- Creative writing
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 364 Collections and/or Records:
The Thirteenth Zodiac, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_fasone_christina.pdf
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"The Thirteenth Zodiac is a bildungsroman fantasy novel. It follows Ella Brando, a junior in high school living in a small North Carolina town, who becomes the Pisces a member of the Zodiac Guardians after the previous Guardian dies mysteriously. The duty of the Guardians is to defeat the Physic Parasites who syphon off positive energy from people and create negative emotions, throwing people's lives off balance. When an old enemy of the Guardians' arises causing people in Ella's town to go...
Dates:
2023
The Throats of Birds, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023fall_jafar_fatima.pdf
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"The Throats of Birds traverses adolescence, adulthood, relationships, and various cities to unpack how a life can be lived across borders, beyond both technical and emotional lines of demarcation. The collection centers a hybrid cultural experience that spans throughout the book, where the speaker is traveling on a journey that unfolds in three sections. In the first, the speaker charts her own intimate cartography of childhood and a coming-of-age narrative. In the second, the speaker...
Dates:
2023
The Tour, 2022
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Identifier: cw_2022spring_basel_kaylee.pdf
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"The Tour is a collection of thirty poems in varying forms. Its primary concerns include themes of family, addiction, homelessness, abuse, American complacency, illness and the female experience. As a whole, it moves as an inverted arc- the collection begins on a descending progression before reaching its namesake piece; "The Tour" is positioned as the fifteenth poem and acts as the collection's center of gravity. While much of this manuscript honors the urban landscapes in and around...
Dates:
2022
The Uncursing, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_baaith-ducharme_nimalah.pdf
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"This collection, meant to be read as a spellbook, confronts generational curses: a term that acknowledges behaviors, traumas, and magic are passed down through family structures. Specifically, how one's place in the greater collective of the African diaspora, a site of constant migration and discussion, prompts questions about one's knowledge of personal history and its implications on the future. The author is formally concerned with the line, the expansion of the traditional lyric tercet...
Dates:
2023
The View From Monday, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_cortes_marissa.pdf
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"Sonnie has been able to see ghosts since she was revived on an operating table at twelve years old. Now at twenty, it's just an everyday part of her life – and why she's always late for her cashier shifts at the local drugstore. She helps ghosts pass on to another plane, all the while hoping to understand what happened to her late brother's ghost. Her coworker Murphy is understanding. He's been dead for the last seven years, courtesy of his ex-girlfriend binding Murphy's spirit to his...
Dates:
2023
The Ways We Learn To Lie, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019fall_bailey_corey.pdf
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"When Isaac Goff realizes the future expected of him by his family is not what he wants, he decides to apply to undergraduate school in Hawaii in order to leave the small, southern town of Redwater. He keeps the application secret, afraid to confront his strict parents and finally end the failing-relationship to his longterm boyfriend, Tom. Isaac works diligently to be accepted by the university until the police become involved in the sudden disappearnace [sic] of Tom. Sure that Tom is all...
Dates:
2019
The Yellow Light, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_leffner_kate.pdf
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"In this collection of short fiction, I explore morality, sexuality, and existence through the eyes of children. These stories seek to understand the flash bulb memories that often form a kind of personal mythos we unconsciously adhere to. While adult perceptions are on the periphery, these stories center on the child's view of the world, be it their own, or a distorted presentation passed down to them by the adults in their lives. There is a feeling of danger that surrounds these stories...
Dates:
2019
Thesis: Four Stories, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020spring_brasco_nicholas.pdf
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"My work, entitled Thesis: Four Stories, is a thesis project that contains four stories. Each story is about everyday people managing everyday problems within worlds that are strange and zany." -- Abstract
Dates:
2020
Thirteen ways of looking at a brown boy, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_jackson_daniel.pdf
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"Explores the perception of a particular brown body, in this case a brown boy’s body. The title poem was inspired by Wallace Stevens’ 'Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,' but after some great advice, I realized that it was also the title of this short collection, as it navigates the process of understanding that there are various ways one can become aware of one’s own body through the awareness of others, which is why the first four sections focus on 'looking' at others until the final...
Dates:
2018
This time next year, 2010
Item — Item 0113503038052: [Barcode: 0113503038052]
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This Time Next Year is an emotionally charged memoir about a girl who struggles to find herself after losing her mother--her center in life. This is a memoir that will take you on a journey through tragedy, loss, heartbreak, and victory. When her mother d
Dates:
2010
Threads of Manipulation, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018fall_gibbons_samantha.pdf
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"The poems in Threads of Manipulation revolve around relationships, and are divided into two sections. The first explores familial affection, illness & death. The second addresses the hardship of lost love, and the adjustment to the loneliness of living in a new city." -- Abstract
Dates:
2018
To be alive : a memoir of long-term cancer survivorship, 2006
Item — Item 0113502799225: [Barcode: 0113502799225]
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To be alive is the story of my cancer survivorship experience, which began with my diagnosis of Hodgkin's Lymphoma in 1977 to the present. -- abstract.
Dates:
2006
To live and die in EV, 2017
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Identifier: cw_2017spring_mancinas_oscar.pdf
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"Anglo, Latino, Afro, Indigenous, and immigrant all struggle and blend with one another for preservation and evolution in El Valle, a sprawling, fictional city in the heart of Arizona." --Abstract.
Dates:
2017
To the World I Am a Drop of Water, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_montana_christina.pdf
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"This collection of short stories focuses primarily on the theme of stasis. Each story features characters trapped by their traumas and anxieties as they search for ways to free themselves from those mental restraints. These stories replicate the way family, friendships, and relationships echo through locations; the way memories fill walls, trees, dust, paper... the way in which the spaces people occupy are constructed of the things we project. While none of the stories are linked, they...
Dates:
2019
Tongue-tied : essays of a self-conscious journey, 2015
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Identifier: cw_2015spring_wells_ashley.pdf
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"Tongue-Tied is a collection of seven linked essays that explore the writer's experiences with generalized anxiety disorder and major depression." --Abstract.
Dates:
2015
Trademark Sunshine, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_kobosko_katherine.pdf
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"Trademark Sunshine' is a collection of poems by Kate Kobosko that explores the link between place, history, and memory. The poems are set in wildly different locations from Costa Rica to New England (and numerous places in between). The poet explores geography, literal and metaphorical, and what it means to be a visitor in a place. These poems answer questions about what it means to be 'from' a certain place: both a tangible location that can be pointed to on a map, as well as the...
Dates:
2021
Traffic, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_ferguson_margaret.pdf
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"Poppy Flower, her name an unfortunate adornment stemming from the full bloom of her parent’s now faded affections, has held the title of Boston Black Cab’s best private car service driver for just over a year, and it’s one she would like to keep. When Mai, a teenager fleeing a human trafficking ring, climbs into the back of Poppy’s cab, Poppy tries to unload the girl and get back to work. Unfortunately, human connections are not shaken off as easily as Poppy wishes, and Mai won’t let help...
Dates:
2018
Trannifesto, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020fall_phillips_elliot.pdf
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"Trannifesto is an creative nonfiction essay collection which focuses on issues of gender, sexuality, mental illness, and belonging. These essays range to the extent which they discuss each of these issues: some focus more on gender identity, while others focus more on mental illness. However, tying them all together is the theme that, no matter how marginalized or alienated a person may feel, connection with those around them is always possible -- and, this connection is vital and necessary...
Dates:
2020
Transitions to Oz, 2006
Item — Item 0113502792881: [Barcode: 0113502792881]
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Transitions to Oz is a book of four stories and a novella, connected by their main character, Peterson Smith, and his attempts to understand / define his roles as husband, artist, son, city dweller. -- abstract.
Dates:
2006
Tribulation, 2017
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Identifier: cw_2017spring_burnette_sally.pdf
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"Tribulation is a pre-apocalyptic collection of poems that experiment with form and genre in examining the intertwinement of various issues, especially religion, gender, and sexuality. At times funny but always serious, it also deals with themes of class, pop culture, trauma, violence, and mental health." --Abstract.
Dates:
2017