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Emerson thesis -- Creative writing

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 398 Collections and/or Records:

To be alive : a memoir of long-term cancer survivorship, 2006

 Item — Item 0113502799225: [Barcode: 0113502799225]
Overview

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
Overview "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
Overview "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
Overview "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
Overview "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]
Overview

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

Turn the Siren On, 2021

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Identifier: cw_2021spring_munn_brady.pdf
Overview "Turn the Siren On is a collection of linked short stories that explores life in a small town and how living in such a place informs the relationships and connections one has with themselves as well as those around them. Each story examines some form of loss and how that changes and shapes the characters. Some of the stories attempt to show the ways in which loss can unravel a person and ripple through generations while others demonstrate how losing someone or something can open our eyes to...
Dates: 2021

Twenty Volume Deathtape, 2019

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Identifier: cw_2019fall_latimer_reid.pdf
Overview "Twenty Volume Deathtape is a collection of poetry and experimental prose concerning the alienation, paranoia, and loss inherent under contemporary techno-capitalism. In the face of the looming climate disaster and mass extinction events, this collection grasps at the possibility of new modes of symbolic association via contemporary philosophies, psyc hoanalytic theories, technologies, and the great wealth of information concerning both recent history and deep cosmic timescales. Perhaps this...
Dates: 2019

Under Every Mountain, A King, 2024

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Identifier: cw_2024spring_robertson_claire.pdf
Overview "Under Every Mountain, A King is a queer fantasy novel about language. It follows Cleena Clery, a young woman who flees from her home for unknown reasons. She stumbles into the land of the fae, strange people who's words carry power in the most literal sense. The novel follows Cleena as she's wrapped in the ongoing perils of the fae, learns slowly to work through her own trauma, and forms bonds with these new people around her. All while it explores the meaning of language, and the effect...
Dates: 2024

Under the Honey Locusts, 2021

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Identifier: cw_2021spring_pate_katharine.pdf
Overview "Kakie Pate's Under the Honey Locusts is a collection of poems that largely examines the human experience as it relates to the natural, spiritual and religious world. Topics such as mental and physical health (and the lack thereof) as well as elements of place come into play at times to help explore human to human, human to self, and human to nature relationships. The collection's title stems from Pate's life in Boston living on a hilly street lined with Honey Locust trees, a habitat from...
Dates: 2021

Unity : a novel, 2017

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Identifier: cw_2017spring_giove_thomas.pdf
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"Unity is excerpts of a speculative fiction novel that chronicles the dramatic lives of the people who develop the technology to allow people to unify the human brain with artificial intelligence." --Abstract.

Dates: 2017

Unmonstrous, 2017

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Identifier: cw_2017spring_taylor_john.pdf
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"The poems in Unmonstrous chronicle a path through trauma and beyond trauma, through pain and after pain. Issues of identity, faith, and loss are addressed and often in the company of nature: small mammals, maple leaves, hermit crabs." --Abstract.

Dates: 2017

Velorios, 2022

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Identifier: cw_2022summer_molina_velarde_juan.pdf
Overview "This manuscript, titled after the plural form of the Spanish word for wake, would be best read as a mounrful study on the death of childhood. The stories herein seek to inhabit the minds and emotional states of a Panamanian-American couple in the aftermath of the end of their relationship, complicated by the colliding of youthful passion, abandon, and naivety, with the harshness of consequence, guilt, trauma, and regret. It is not a moralistic tale. Rather, it explores the ways we grieve...
Dates: 2022

Waiting in Wally’s, 2017

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Identifier: cw_2017spring_sherodclyburn_shane.pdf
Overview

"This collection of poems chronicles a young man, lost and in love with love, moving from warm bed to warm bed, drinking along the way. He laments the passing of youth and yearns for a promising future, as yet unwritten." --Abstract.

Dates: 2017

We Lie With Monsters, 2022

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Identifier: cw_2022fall_amaris_alexa.pdf
Overview "This thesis comprises the prologue and first eight chapters of my novel in-progress, We Lie With Monsters. A work of fiction, the thesis blends elements of the paranormal with horror, and focuses on Wren, a young twenty-something who is at a crossroads in their life and comes home after a long period of time away. Once home, they must deal with the death of their estranged mother and all the emotional baggage that begets, as well as the fallout of running away from their past and leaving...
Dates: 2022

We wander, 2018

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Identifier: cw_2018spring_rhodes_shelby.pdf
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"A collection of linked short stories centered around two main characters, twins, and their adventures. The collection explores the question of what it means to be 'We' and the complications involved in that state of being. The twins, brother and sister, remain unnamed throughout these stories and are largely characterized by their relationship to each other against all others. The stories in this collection range from standard-length short fiction to micro fiction." --Abstract.

Dates: 2018

Weight of freedom, 2016

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Identifier: cw_2016fall_cabrera_elena.pdf
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Novel about three young women set in modern day New York City. The novel follows them throughout the first few years of their lives after their college graduation. It explores current issues such as xenophobia, terrorism, and the uncertainty of the future.--Abstract.

Dates: 2016