Emerson thesis -- Creative writing
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 403 Collections and/or Records:
Care is an Incision, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_meneghin_livia.pdf
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"'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
Cat Black and the Curse Breakers, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_busch_andrew.pdf
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"Jordan is a high schooler and aspiring guitar player that grapples with losing his grandfather, Eddie Wilde, a famous guitarist from the '70s rock band Cat Black. Jordan and Eddie's shared passion for music and their inability to connect before Eddie's death makes this loss more painful. Eddie Wilde's presence looms over Jordan as he carves out his own path in Chicago's music scene. Enter Sly, a long-dead musician and one of the founding members of Cat Black. Sly battles his way back to the...
Dates:
2024
Catch a falling star, 2006
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Hollywood star, Aston McNeil, has destroyed his career. Now he's desperate to get it back. -- abstract.
Dates:
2006
Characters in the trees, 2016
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Identifier: cw_2016spring_bercovici_elizabeth.pdf
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The spiritual adventure of a young woman who goes to teach English for a year in China.--Abstract.
Dates:
2016
Checking Behavior, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_currell_anna.pdf
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"'Checking Behavior' is a nonfiction collection of essays written by MFA student Anna Currell. The work is a collection of humorous essays about the writer's experience in therapy and relationship she forms with her therapist. After a breakup, the writer has trouble sleeping and seeks therapy to find out that she has something much bigger to learn about herself." -- Abstract
Dates:
2021
Chosen Permanence, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_cubilette_genesis.pdf
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"Gathered here, in a collection of narratives, is a personal reflection on the post-traumatic lived experience of survivors of sexual violence. Chosen Permanence challenges the portrayal of sexual violence that centers rape, by offering an incisive look at what is achieved when survivors are provided a safe space to speak up. The decorative but necessary elements of this project include: first-person narration that is applied to every story as a way for survivors to stand as one in an...
Dates:
2023
City of axes, 2004
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Historical fiction based on the Lizzie Borden murders.
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2004
Club girls, 2016
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Identifier: cw_2016spring_dasilva_emily.pdf
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Full-length manuscript of personal memoir, which touches upon the universal themes of death, loss, aging, friendship, and human connectivity.--Abstract.
Dates:
2016
Collections, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_googins_alicia.pdf
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"This thesis collection comprises three sections: 1) the beginning chapters of my memoir-in-progress, The School, about my experience growing up in an unusual spiritual organization, 2) a collection of Vignettes and Essays on parenting, and 3) a group of profiles and humor pieces." -- Abstract
Dates:
2019
Coming of age in Dixie, 2013
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Coming of age in a historically religious place, such as Alabama, where churches of every denomination are around every corner, a young adult can often find themselves straying away from God. In particular, women raised in the south are often faced with u
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2013
Convergence: Stories from the Red Island, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019fall_chen_christine hiu-tung.pdf
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"When people ask me where I'm from, they get a few seconds of silence from me. What do you tell people if you were born in one place, grew up in another, and live elsewhere? How did you end up where you are now? Who are you? Where do you belong? Those were questions that translated into six stories in this collection. They are populated by dislocated characters who grapple with identity and race while navigating complex familial relationships. The stories are set in Madagascar, known to the...
Dates:
2019
Coventry Carol, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020fall_rubin_rebecca.pdf
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"The goal of this thesis is to provide a thorough interrogation of memory and place from a personal point of view. Within this collection of poems, the town of Coventry, Rhode Island and its impact on my life is investigated, along with familial relationships, death, catholic school, and antisemitism that I have experienced and meditated on. Each poem offers a snapshot of a memory and is as accurate as my mind will allow. The way that returning to a place evokes memory is something that...
Dates:
2020
Crane Wife, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_machugh_lily.pdf
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"In this speculative work of fiction, we follow a split narrative of a lonely girl named Jenny in a punk scene in the tristate area and a woman named Koda trying to escape a pocket dimension created by a man calling himself god. Through Jenny we see the beginnings of a cult and tendrils of the supernatural inching in. In Koda's narrative, we are left to deal with the aftermath, and watch as she tries to break free. Koda finds herself again as she journeys beyond the cult's compound, with the...
Dates:
2023
Creatures of Spirit and Clay, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_munoz_jonathen.pdf
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"This memoir details my childhood growing up in a chaotic family unit consisting of a mother with a personality disorder, a hardworking yet homophobic father, an older half-sister facing her own familial issues, and a younger brother born with a rare terminal illness that should have killed him before he was two years old. Equal parts a "coming of age" and "coming out" narrative, this text delves into the nuance of familial love during times of extreme hardship and explores the lengths to...
Dates:
2021
Cruelties of Omission: Stories, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_stachura_anna.pdf
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"CRUELTIES OF OMISSION is my attempt to grapple with questions of grief and time. In these five sometimes-speculative stories, characters inflict, wrestle with, and are products of pain. Adult siblings bring to life a simulacrum of their recently deceased father. A new technology offers fast, easy means to settle up with regret. A mother struggles to comprehend why her long-absent son won't come home to her. They're lost, they've lost, they're losing, they're losers—pushing back against a...
Dates:
2024
Curse of the Gifted: Sanctuary of Stone and Wood, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_howard_rachel.pdf
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"Curse of the Gifted: Sanctuary of Stone and Wood is a work of Fiction in the genre of fantasy. Saren has recently learned that she has a Gift, a specific type of power that makes her a target for persecution and execution. Her family is destroyed and she must now run from the one person she thought she could depend on. She is forced into a world she knows nothing about and only has a few people she trusts. Now she must decide if she is going to stand with the resistance that is forming or...
Dates:
2024
Daddy's Little Girl, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_leger_nico.pdf
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"Daddy's Little Girl is a collection of poems that moves through the speaker's grief—for their father, for the time before the speaker's own conception, and for the premature end of childhood. Grappling with identity as a pre-determined condition, these poems center cultural scripts and ideologies, assigned gender, socioeconomic status, and familial legacy, reaching beyond the fixed nature of the speaker's geographic locality and toward the immobility of girlhood in a fatherless, patriarchal...
Dates:
2024
Daughterhood, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_burke_maggie.pdf
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"This collection is an exploration of the transition from girlhood to womanhood. By following this journey of gender through a lens closely examining forces like geography, class, religion, and lineage, there is a common thread of "who" exactly helps us grow into becoming—boyfriends who love us wrong, friends who kiss us right, and, most importantly, the women from whom we came. Mom is the first person we can ever know that we spend our entire lives trying to understand. And maybe only after...
Dates:
2024
Deadweight Slump, 2022
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Identifier: cw_2022spring_fernandez_kāʻai.pdf
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"Deadweight Slump is a collection of short stories by Kā'ai Sutton Fernandez that explores the motif of isolation, specifically the ways that physical, emotional, and social isolation manifests through relationships particular to those in a guardianship. Part of the human experience is stepping up to help, assist, guide, or protect others, as well as being in need of guidance or protection. At the heart of each story in this collection is the relationship between those who need help and...
Dates:
2022
Dear everyone, I'm sorry : a memoir, 2011
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'Dear Everyone: I'm Sorry' is a memoir of the author's long and sometimes sordid undergraduate career. During his junior year at the University of Pennsylvania, Stockman discovered a mentor in the writer Paul Hendrickson - just as he (Stockman) was failin
Dates:
2011