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Emerson thesis -- Creative writing

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 403 Collections and/or Records:

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
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"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

Well-Known Stranger: Essays and Stories, 2019

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Identifier: cw_2019spring_mccoy_caroline.pdf
Overview "This collection comprises nine pieces—six essays and three stories—that represent the best of my creative-writing career at Emerson College. The collection begins and ends with personal essays, the contents of which are echoed or further examined by the fictional works placed between. Central themes I explore include parent-child bonds, the tenuous relationship between mind and body, and notions of independence and partnership. The American South, my place of origin, is the setting for all...
Dates: 2019

What kind of girl, 2018

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Identifier: cw_2018spring_kautsire_caroline.pdf
Overview "Recounts the story of Caroline, a Malawian girl, who grows up facing the impossibility of fulfilling both African and Western roles for females. The constant questions put to her, 'What kind of girl behaves this way?' and 'What kind of girl are you?' become obstacles that fracture and reconstruct her identity, increasing her insecurity about gender, race, class, language and sexuality. Through childhood and adolescence, her struggle to both fit in and stand out as a strong and talented...
Dates: 2018

What Lies Beneath, 2023

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Identifier: cw_2023spring_callaway_genevieve.pdf
Overview "This thesis is a novel excerpt of a historical fiction-thriller hybrid that utilizes multiple subgenres, including detective fiction, horror, and elements of the Western. The purpose of this work is to successfully showcase a speculative narrative within the confines of historical fiction. As a genre, historical fiction can be considered an unforgiving genre to work within due to the limitations produced by setting and era. Additionally, this genre is often accompanied by the expectation...
Dates: 2023

What makes a monster, 2016

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Identifier: cw_2016fall_steel_cerise.pdf
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This thesis is a project to design the interiors and exteriors of four books that explore what a monster is in form, action, and emotion: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë; Bram Stoker's Dracula, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.

Dates: 2016

What People Want To Know & Other Essays, 2024

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Identifier: cw_2024spring_ayeza_cynthia.pdf
Overview "I came to the USA as an accompanying spouse to my doctorate-seeking husband. Almost twelve months to the day after our arrival, my husband deserted me in Boston. Confused, far from my home country, and in the middle of a pandemic, I knew that the decision I made from that pivotal point would either build or break me. This thesis is a collection of personal essays exploring my experience prior to coming to the USA, my experience as an accompanying spouse, as well as attempts to forge forward...
Dates: 2024

What the ashes knew, 2015

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Identifier: cw_2015spring_mascioli_julia.pdf
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"What the Ashes Knew is a collection of linked stories following a handful of characters united by a diary. These stories explore the ways people love each other and the ways they hurt one another (and themselves), with a particular focus on the repercussions of secrecy and the difficulty of knowing another person." --Abstract.

Dates: 2015

What you have lost : a memoir, 2014

 Item — Item 0113503185952: [Barcode: 0113503185952]
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My memoir is part of a larger, complex puzzle of who I am and how I became this person.--Abstract.

Dates: 2014

When Gods Wander, 2024

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Identifier: cw_2024spring_schoettle_cameron.pdf
Overview "A dystopian, climate-fiction novel set in a world where the dominant resource in society is an organ called a "core" that animals (gods) have evolved to deal with the nuclear fallout and the environmental saturation of radioisotopes and the biomagnification of toxic chemicals. Cores are needed for the preparation of a regenerative drug called "the blessing," which Nemera, a sovereign and ancient god, has shown people how to make. The narrative follows several characters. Soma, a...
Dates: 2024

When Pineapples were Sweeter, 2019

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Identifier: cw_2019spring_wu_fion.pdf
Overview "Yuan immigrated to the United States at sixteen, leaving his life and friends behind. Years later, Yuan is a lawyer, and while attending a party in Manhattan, he reunites with his childhood friend and first love, Chu-Chu, for the first time since he left Taiwan. Seventy-two hours later, Chu-Chu rams her car into the side of the highway in Taipei and passes away. The police report that Chu-Chu had been driving under the influence, but Yuan, propelled by the uneasiness of the conversation...
Dates: 2019

When the dust settled, 2015

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Identifier: cw_2015fall_dickey_zyanya.pdf
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"This collection of short stories explores many different characters, all of whom are struggling with their relationships with themselves, their family members and partners, and even the world around them. Each story studies the nuances of the different relationships people form and break throughout their lives. They are linked through their setting of El Paso, Texas, which is my hometown and a place I've always considered to be of underestimated beauty and appeal." -- Abstract.

Dates: 2015

Why god made little boys : a memoir, 2009

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Why God Made Little Boys explores the dynamics of the narrator's relationship with a silent father, physically abusive brother, an ever present mother, and a God he is waiting for. From sexual abuse to HIV diagnosis, the narrator finds strength in his ima

Dates: 2009

Wings like boomerangs, 2017

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Identifier: cw_2017spring_jimenez_simon.pdf
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"Wings Like Boomerangs is a literary speculative fiction novel, set in the far future, when interstellar flight is possible, at the cost of lost time." --Abstract.

Dates: 2017

Women alone : stories, 2017

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Identifier: cw_2017fall_tavani_regina.pdf
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"Six tales of young American women navigating instances of isolation or separation from their lovers, colleagues, siblings, and families, as well as from personal and professional desires, sexual identity, social expectations, and spirituality -- and, invariably, from themselves." --Abstract.

Dates: 2017

World don't speak for us, 2016

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Identifier: cw_2016fall_cameron_alexandra.pdf
Overview "Follows the West family as the media descends on their sleepy South Jersey town for the trial of the school shooter who killed their mother. The siblings -- Rosie, a lawyer engaged to a Senator's son, Gideon, who dropped out of college to become their younger brother's guardian, and Hunter, who was in the school during the shooting -- each cope with the stress of the trial in different ways, but they all agree that it's difficult sitting back and doing nothing as their family becomes a...
Dates: 2016

You Get To Be Alive, 2024

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Identifier: cw_2024spring_blogier_alexandra.pdf
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"A collection of short stories exploring the darker, stranger depths of who and how we love. These stories are about motherhood, ghosts, and ex-girlfriends. They delve into the complexities of romances, friendships and family, delusions and unrealized dreams." -- Abstract

Dates: 2024