Emerson thesis -- Creative writing
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Subject Source: Local sources
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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 Spectacle of Bubble Gum and Cuchi-Cuchi: A Memoir in Essays, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_costigan_kim.pdf
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"The essays that make up the body of this memoir have been written over the past several years. They are an attempt to make sense of a time when women and children were not protected and were subjected to the supremacy of a patriarchal society that centered and privileged white males. This was not a long-ago time. In my small hometown of Winthrop, Massachusetts in the 1970s, secrets and shame experienced by a family were a family's business. The institutions that were meant to protect and...
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2024
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
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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
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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
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2015
The Testaments of Rosaceae, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_zhao_wei.pdf
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"In the summer of 2012, a sculpture major student, Bai Zhao, brought his half- sibling sister, Qi Suisui, to work as a part-time summer teacher at an art school. They accidentally uncovered a missing persons case that had remained unsolved for decades. The dusty past, secrets, and the truth about the death of Bai Zhao's biological father are slowly revealed. Just when everyone believed the killer had been caught and there would be no more victims, another student went missing. Then the...
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2024
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
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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2023
The Way Things Are Different Now, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_mertz_zoe.pdf
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"My thesis is a short story collection of coming of age pieces that feature protagonists ranging from pre-teen to late twenties / young adulthood. The stories are organized by age of the protagonist so that the reader moves through the questions and problems of growing up as they read through the collection. The concept also centers around a calendar, with one story taking place in each month of the year, although only eight of twelve months feature in the present version." -- Abstract
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2024
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...
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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
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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
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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