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Emerson thesis -- Creative writing

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Found in 364 Collections and/or Records:

All in a Dave's work, 2018

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Identifier: cw_2018spring_babendir_bradley.pdf
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"This novel follows David Feinbuam, a doctor focusing on male fertility, as he seeks to save his failing business. Despite the protests of his two employees--both women--he gets involved with Mens' Rights Activists to boost the visibility of his clinic. After this fails spectacularly, he'll be left to pick up the pieces of his personal and professional life." --Abstract.

Dates: 2018

All That Passes, 2021

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Identifier: cw_2021spring_johnson_spencer.pdf
Overview "All That Passes is a collection of seven stories linked by the theme of death. More precisely, the stories explore the experiences and narratives that surround death, based on the understanding that the event of passing is one that everybody encounters at least once in their life. The genres vary from literary realism to speculative and weird fiction. All That Passes is an ongoing project with the purpose of drawing death as close as one can manage in life. The collection includes stories...
Dates: 2021

All the Time in the World, 2020

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Identifier: cw_2020spring_burch_ciera.pdf
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"After moving to her mother's hometown to help care for her estranged grandmother, Jericka Walker is struck by secrets about her mother's own abandonment and must learn to reconcile her memories of her mom and their relationship with revelations about her family's past, all while coming to terms with own sexuality and a new, burgeoning crush." -- Abstract

Dates: 2020

"All Things Pretty and Wild", 2021

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Identifier: cw_2021spring_zicari_clare.pdf
Overview "This project seeks to explore the multivalent nature of experience and memory, following a young woman (Elizabeth) home after the death of her strange and distant friend (Ursa). Through a tangled web of lived and learned experience, flash-backs, dreamscapes, and mis- remembrances, Elizabeth must seek out the gods responsible for the gradual disintegration of her family and friendships, and reassign order to the place and meaning of her childhood––trying not to lose who she believes herself...
Dates: 2021

All we are, 2015

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Identifier: cw_2015spring_masters_laura.pdf
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"All We Are is a collection of short stories that explores the emotional response of individuals to their own trials." --Abstract.

Dates: 2015

Alone at the Top of the World, 2019

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Identifier: cw_2019spring_king_matt.pdf
Overview "This collection comprises ten nonfiction pieces—lyric and personal essays, reported dispatches and cultural commentary—that were produced during my creative writing career at Emerson. These works explore themes of progress and ambition, the interplay between occupation and identity, and the alienating effects of global capitalism. Skyscrapers are a main subject of several essays, and a recurring motif throughout the collection. Key settings include the suburbs and plains of the American...
Dates: 2019

Along the Asymptote, 2020

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Identifier: cw_2020spring_govender_cindy.pdf
Overview "This non-fiction collection is about people who live along the asymptote—ordinary or obscured people and their experiences, challenges and triumphs in the periphery; people, places and things we don't always see, hear or remember. Each of their stories reveals the vitality of the human spirit. In the ordinary, there is extraordinary. The poems and essays traverse time and continents. Across generations and geographies, the sound of living in the shadows is the same; the sound of separation,...
Dates: 2020

Alta : that you may grow old, 2006

 Item — Item 0113502800544: [Barcode: 0113502800544]
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My life split in two at the age of twenty-three when my mother was diagnosed with a rare auto-immune disease. The doctors said she had but a few months to live. To be with her I left my first post-college world behind in Los Angeles, California and moved

Dates: 2006

American Junkie, 2023

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Identifier: cw_2023fall_sears_christian.pdf
Overview "American Junkie is a novel about recovery from addiction. Too often, stories about addicts and alcoholics—from The Great Gatsby to The Wire—fail to show what real recovery looks like. Frequently, they focus entirely on the tragic chaos of untreated addiction. If they depict recovery, it is simplistic and brief. But in this novel, Jack Sutherland goes through it all. He burglarizes a pharmacy, lingers in an abusive relationship, and unwittingly pushes and overdose into his friend’s veins....
Dates: 2023

American Standard Time, 2022

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Identifier: cw_2022spring_burke_peter.pdf
Overview "American Standard Time is a novel that follows three individuals as they begin to fall apart in time. Joe Cleaveland, a disillusioned heir to a pet food fortune, confronts his friend, Keremcan Köroğlu, a misanthrope MIT neuroscientist, about his worsening symptoms, before setting off in search of comfort in the form of his preternaturally determined girlfriend, Ingrid Bell. Over the course of the day, on his own search for answers, Köroğlu alights on a mysterious force at work beneath his...
Dates: 2022

An excerpt from 'The Parting Glass', 2012

 Item — Item 0113503069966: [Barcode: 0113503069966]
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My thesis is the first sixteen chapters of my novel, 'The Parting Glass.' Narrated by Stephen, his teacher, Mr. Campbell, and his girlfriend, Ada Saffarstein, the novel is about Stephen Carroll, a bright but wild lad from The Bronx, that is sent to Fairwi

Dates: 2012

An Unmothered Daughter, 2020

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Identifier: cw_2020spring_prinzo_ashley_michelle.pdf
Overview "'An Unmothered Daughter' is a short memoir about my mother, who I've been estranged from since I was 16. In the opening, I show how she suffered from drug and alcohol addiction since I was a kid, where she takes to her favorite bar. I try to define the characteristics of being a mom and a mother in chapter 2 by comparing the different woman my older brothers know. Sections 4,7 and 8 focus more on my life without her, while chapters 5,6 and 10 unpack my maternal family's dynamics. I...
Dates: 2020

Animal Bones and other stories, 2019

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Identifier: cw_2019spring_valcour_megan.pdf
Overview "'Animal Bones and other stories,' a collection of short fiction, explores the reverberations of loss and the strength it takes to rebuild in the aftermath. In "Lake Monster," a precocious eight-year-old girl and a grieving father find themselves linked in strange rotation around a prison and a polluted town lake. In "What Is Left," a newly retired man discovers a familiar kinship with the remains from the three small towns that now sit under the county's reservoir. And in the title story,...
Dates: 2019

Anywhere But Here, 2021

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Identifier: cw_2021spring_anwari_diva.pdf
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"These stories paint a vivid picture of love and grief in their innumerable forms. They encompass that raw and all-consuming feeling of wanting and needing to get away. This collection comments on generational trauma and the immigrant experience. In unconventional short shorts and traditional short story form, they explore what it means to survive, to be a family, and what it takes to follow your arrow wherever it may lead." -- Abstract

Dates: 2021

Around This Impossible Black, 2019

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Identifier: cw_2019fall_alsamsam_dana.pdf
Overview "The poetry manuscript "Around This Impossible Black" unravels what it means to be a queer, Syrian-American woman in America. Through the incorporation of Arabic language, Syrian heritage, and Islamic tradition, the poet navigates her identity as a borderland, ruminating on the loss of the inherited mother tongue and land while not being fully comfortable in America. This conflict is punctuated not only by the war in Syria and widespread Islamophobic terrorism, but also by the breakage of...
Dates: 2019

Ars Prophetica, 2021

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Identifier: cw_2021spring_watson_edward.pdf
Overview "A poetic hybrid of verse and prose, 'Ars Prophetica' expresses through form and content the varying registers through which the queer self is constructed and mythologized in the wake of trauma both spiritual and emotional. Taking the reader through a mystic's wrestle with the familial, religious, and academic institutions that simultaneously provide him with both spiritual insight and hierarchical pushback, 'Ars Prophetica' follows an intuitive logic that resists the narratives typically...
Dates: 2021

As for me and my house, 2005

 Item — Item 0113502742316: [Barcode: 0113502742316]
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A memoir about a Korean woman whose spiritual inheritance is traced back two generations. -- abstract.

Dates: 2005

At Night, Look Up: Essays, 2021

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Identifier: cw_2021spring_vassot_chloe.pdf
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"This thesis is a collection of essays exploring the different facets of the author's relationship to bodies and embodiment, illness or the lack of it, and how we grieve what we lose. The essays cover ground from Pennsylvania to Virginia to Rome as they contemplate how religion, medical diagnostic norms, homophobia, and the instructions of misogyny shape how the author learns to understand herself." -- Abstract

Dates: 2021

Beekiller and other poems, 2006

 Item — Item 0113502803944: [Barcode: 0113502803944]
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This is a collection of primarily lyric poems that examine relationships, often between the self and an unseen idea or un- force of some kind. -- abstract.

Dates: 2006

Before they were stones, 2012

 Item — Item 0113503118110: [Barcode: 0113503118110]
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...about three characters on a journey motivated by love, loyalty, and determination. The novel will follow them as they discover the interaction of faith, myth, and relationships. -- abstract.

Dates: 2012