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Emerson thesis -- Creative writing

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 364 Collections and/or Records:

Beside the Wine Dark Sea, 2021

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Identifier: cw_2021spring_burke_anna.pdf
Overview "'Beside the Wine Dark Sea' is a novel-length retelling of Homer's 'The Odyssey' from the perspective of three female characters: Penelope, her handmaid Melantho, and the goddess Athena. The story explores familial, class, and gender relations in mythic Mycenean Greece, though some liberties are taken with historical facts. As Athena narrates, the two mortal protagonists struggle against the relentless onslaught of Penelope's suitors, all the while grappling with the calamitous effects of...
Dates: 2021

Between Deaths, 2021

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Identifier: cw_2021spring_turner_charles.pdf
Overview "The purpose of this thesis is to showcase eight individual stories of fiction that are connected by distinct literary themes. These themes include parenthood and its subtle and sometimes not-so-subtle fallabilities [sic]; emotional disorientation; and the complexities of individualism. In lieu of traditional happy endings, I am examining how characters with unfortunate circumstances can learn to accept themselves for who they are, rather than who they are not. The goal behind this is...
Dates: 2021

Beyond the Horizon, 2020

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Identifier: cw_2020spring_peterson_erin.pdf
Overview "This memoir is the story of a 6,000-mile road trip, a journey undertaken to understand my father's suicide and grapple with the guilt of not having seen it coming. I embark on a quest to reconnect with my siblings, who are scattered throughout the country, and to find and gather what is left with our father gone. Driving over mountains and prairies and deserts, I find hope and companionship in a small furry creature at my side: a dog who came unexpectedly into my life just before I left."...
Dates: 2020

Big Time Tief, 2021

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Identifier: cw_2021spring_felix_winelle.pdf
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"This thesis is a collection of fictional stories linking together the brokenheartedness of locational displacement. The stories closely follow characters toggling back and forth between a past they once knew and a present they will never belong to. These stories explore central themes of the American Dream concerning Caribbean migration, isolation, and assimilation, all present in the landscape that is the American society." -- Abstract

Dates: 2021

Black Sea by the handful, 2017

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Identifier: cw_2017fall_dannenberg_kenan.pdf
Overview "From villages on the Turkish-Syrian border, to the bustling neighborhoods of Istanbul, Black Sea by the Handful spans the varied locales of Turkey through five stories following such people as an exhausted florist training a neighborhood stray to blow up the president, a smuggler trafficking a girl who claims to be pregnant via parthenogenesis, a swimmer hoping to escape the gravity of Soma mine, a father who loses his three daughters in the wake of the Gezi Park protests, and the daughter...
Dates: 2017

Blade mouth, 2017

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Identifier: cw_2017spring_roach_breauna.pdf
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"Blade Mouth works to negotiate how the complexities of conflict can manifest into the kind of pressure that breaks and, maybe, the kind of pressure that purifies." --Abstract.

Dates: 2017

Blue Basin, 2017

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Identifier: cw_2017fall_gadegbeku_zoe.pdf
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"A novel about the impossible project of the African diaspora, and about how Black women and femmes persist in making and re-making this diaspora, regardless of the cycles of dispossession and violence stretching from the dawn colonialism into our present. The narrative unfolds on Blue Basin Island, a location that blends aspects of folklore, cosmology and physical space from Ghana's Volta Region, Haiti, and Louisiana, specifically New Orleans." --Abstract.

Dates: 2017

Blue house and other stories, 2016

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Identifier: cw_2016fall_fiore_alayne.pdf
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"This collection of short stories uses gothic elements to explore human nature from a woman's perspective. At times melancholy, at times mysterious, the writer negotiates timeless subjects: strained family dynamics, old age, heartache, love, and loss." --Abstract.

Dates: 2016

Blue like Neptune and other stories, 2016

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Identifier: cw_2016fall_woods_caroline.pdf
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"A playful exploration of potential where personal experiences have been articulated and processed, in stories that stretch from the mundane to the magical." --Abstract.

Dates: 2016

Bob Dylan approximately, 2017

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Identifier: cw_2017spring_haney_paul.pdf
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"Bob Dylan Approximately traces a project I undertook in 2016 to listen to every Bob Dylan album in chronological order. Parts music criticism, immersion journalism, personal essay, memoir, and biography, this thesis leverages my experiences to better understand and appreciate Dylan's life and music; as a result, I come to better understand my own roots as a Dylan fanatic." --Abstract.

Dates: 2017

Body to self, 2012

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Body to Self recounts the author's struggle to come to terms with the facets and repercussions of loss--namely, the death of her mother during childhood and the feelings of rootlessness and discontent that follow. Section I is anchored in conflicted attac

Dates: 2012

Bodysuits, 2015

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Identifier: cw_2015spring_mastrangelo_elizabeth.pdf
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"Bodysuits, a linked short story collection in progress, explores how influences such as food, dance, cultural mores, and relationships can shape body image, and how body image can inform sexuality, self-love, and self-loathing. All of the stories feature characters connected by blood or happenstance." --Abstract.

Dates: 2015

Boomerang, 2014

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Scope and Content Note From the Series: The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...
Dates: 2014

Break My Fall, 2019

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Identifier: cw_2019spring_berg_adam.pdf
Overview "After a traumatic head injury, Dylan Hendler Waxman, once a champion wrestler, has started a peculiar hobby: he waits outside train stations and photographs commuters; at the end of each month, he stalks someone home for the weekend. Dylan has left his Division I wrestling program and moved to Boston, to live with a family friend, Allie Houston and attend college with her. Stalking is a way for him to fill the void inside of him, to keep his mind off the realities of his new, trivial life....
Dates: 2019

Broken Little Beauties, 2020

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Identifier: cw_2020fall_feller_brian.pdf
Overview "'Broken Little Beauties' is a collection of stories, each exploring the struggles of their flawed characters and worlds. These stories vary both in size and genre, ranging from literary to fantasy to strange fiction (and spreading across flash fiction, short story, and novelette). Follow the disturbing cyclical nature of life in 'Two Shawls,' and the struggles of an abused boy who's dream blurs with reality in 'The Woods, the Spider,' and join Markus's hunting trials on the dangerous island...
Dates: 2020

Buttercup, 2023

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Identifier: cw_2023spring_novack_sarah.pdf
Overview "This thesis is the first third of my novel, titled Buttercup. It is a young adult high fantasy novel immersed in Jewish mythology. The story follows sixteen-year-old Opal living in a high fantasy world, called Medina. The people of Medina have supernatural powers, and there are four varieties—serafers (powers based on fire), seviaths (powers based on water), solems (powers based on earth), and spirahs (powers based on air). Non-supernatural people are called commons, but they have an...
Dates: 2023

Buttercup, 2020

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Identifier: cw_2020spring_starkey_samantha.pdf
Overview "A twelve-year-old Polish immigrant arrives in Brooklyn in 1953, facing a set of hardships that are disctinctly quieter than those her family faced in Nazi-occupied Warsaw. From childhood to marriage to old age, Mary attempts to rectify the trauma of her wartime childhood, particularly the events surrounding the Warsaw Rising, with her experience as an American woman—including sexual violence, as well as innumerable smaller acts of aggression—in the latter half of the twentieth and the early...
Dates: 2020

By My Own Hand: A Master's Poetry Manuscript, 2022

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Identifier: cw_2022fall_wagner_jennifer.pdf
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"This thesis project is a 40-page poetry manuscript written largely in free verse. The poems focus on relationships in all forms—family, friends, lovers—, gender issues, evangelical faith reckoning, and the natural world. Throughout the collection the speaker grapples with finding and exercising their voice." -- Abstract

Dates: 2022

Bystander, 2016

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Identifier: cw_2016fall_dugan_andrew.pdf
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"The poems in Bystander hold the private spaces in our lives up to the light. This examination yields a reconsideration of what we assume mundane, but also shows us the things we thought were solid are perhaps fluid--perhaps a mirage. Relationships between people and objects are explored, as well as the relationship among the mind, the body and consciousness that can elude us all." --Abstract.

Dates: 2016

Care is an Incision, 2021

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Identifier: cw_2021spring_meneghin_livia.pdf
Overview "'Care is an Incision' explores self-care and self-preservation in the event of a severing—what does it mean when a painful act, like letting someone go or undergoing surgery, are necessary for wellness and safety? In 2019, I was diagnosed with cancer and was left behind by someone I cared for very dearly. This manuscript experiments with form to push the boundaries of memory; I rely on the ghazal's repetition to mirror the obsessiveness of anxiety and the depression of sitting in what is...
Dates: 2021