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Emerson thesis -- Creative writing

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 364 Collections and/or Records:

Forgiving the Boogeyman and other stories, short story collection, 2016

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Identifier: cw_2016summer_muhammad_janel.pdf
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"The collection of short stories explores the themes of addiction, fear and greed. The complex characters struggle to find their place in life. The protagonists range from a struggling musician trying to kick a drug habit to a woman trying to forgive her father. Throughout the collection there are many twist and turns. The suspense unfolds slowly giving hints of the protagonist's future. Regrets and life lessons are at the heart of these stories." -- Abstract

Dates: 2016
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2016 Summer

Four essays : with love and squalor, 2010

 Item — Item 0113503010606: [Barcode: 0113503010606]
Overview

Four Essays - with Love and Squalor is a collection of essays about the life, works, and mysterious persona of the author J.D. Salinger. In 1951, Salinger published The Catcher in the Rye, one of the most well-known, well-loved and controversial novels by

Dates: 2010
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2010

Free talk : a year in South Korea, 2006

 Item — Item 0113502853394: [Barcode: 0113502853394]
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A travel memoir of the author's experience teaching English in South Korea in the mid-1990s, a time when the country was struggling to adjust to dramatic economic and social change. -- abstract.

Dates: 2006
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2006

Galloping cats, 2009

 Item — Item 0113502965214: [Barcode: 0113502965214]
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Galloping Cats is a memoir that takes place during the summer of 2004, when the main character, Kara Mae, enrolls in a summer program to study Shakespeare and Contemporary British Literature in Bath, England. -- abstract.

Dates: 2009
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2009

Ghosts!, 2023

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Identifier: cw_2023spring_owens_robin.pdf
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"A young adult novel about a teenage girl named Sabrina who left a famous ghost hunting TV show for college after an on-set accident caused her to be able to see ghosts. After a new friend goes missing, Sabrina sees her ghost and is the only one who knows she's dead. While she tries to get justice for her friend's death, she has to adjust to college life, having a social life, and her feelings for her roommate's crush." -- Abstract

Dates: 2023
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2023 Spring

Girl at End of World, 2021

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Identifier: cw_2021spring_metter_laura.pdf
Overview "Girl at End of World' is a novel about a young girl who must deal with both the dramas of her teen life and the supernatural events that start to occur around her. She starts the book as anxious, judgmental, and unsure of how to handle the problems handed to her, leading her to chase after the paranormal rather than deal with the normal. By the end, she learns how to process and confront her problems, understanding the depth of people and issues alike, and by doing so, she is able to make...
Dates: 2021
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2021 Spring

Girl at the witching hour, 2017

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Identifier: cw_2017spring_siew_angela.pdf
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"Girl At The Witching Hour is a collection of poems about relationships." --Abstract.

Dates: 2017
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2017 Spring

Girl From the Moon, 2016

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Identifier: cw_2016spring_kang_elisse.pdf
Overview "What our minds label as "foreign," we tend to regard as exotic, threatening, or irrelevant. Our instinct is to neatly compartmentalize and hold at arm's length that which we have separated from ourselves. But what happens when the division between the foreign and familiar becomes ambiguous? Painful are the times in life when we discover the defection of the familiar to the foreign. A relationship with someone we love, an aspect of our own identity: it is disorienting, jarring, and unnerving...
Dates: 2016
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2016 Spring

Godsent, 2023

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Identifier: cw_2023spring_ganthier_ghanima.PDF
Overview "On the island of Toussiant, the Creole people labor for the Church of the Ever-Lasting Light. The Church, centered in the stronghold of Konstantanapolis, rules as a segregated theocracy. Ezekiel, a Creole man from the Ayiti village, finds civilian life after conscription in the Church's overseas armies, slowly eroding his will to live. The Church's discrimination of queer people—those proclaimed Sodomites and Masisi—is a closet he finds suffocating. Even GOD's angels notice how far the...
Dates: 2023
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2023 Spring

Godspeed, 2020

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Identifier: cw_2020spring_jackson_tara.pdf
Overview "My thesis marks the beginning of a memoir about the mental, physical, and spiritual growth that stemmed from my experience as a competitive distance runner in high school and college. Running was both poison and antidote to my natural anxiety, teaching me to cope with my fears even as it brought a host of mental and physical issues: anxiety attacks, iron deficiency, mysterious collapses, and, in the end, an unexpected hip surgery that stripped me of my ability to run. Why did I keep...
Dates: 2020
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2020 Spring

Gold That Frames the Mirror, 2019

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Identifier: cw_2019spring_melendez_brandon.pdf
Overview "Orbiting a daisy-chain of fascinations that range from heritage & family to grief, music, & mental illness, 'Gold That Frames the Mirror' wants to know what "home" means, even when the answers can seem too blood-bright to bear staring at. Yet these poems are meant to extend beyond uncomplicated sadness: even amid deep loss, there is the possibility of wonder & joy. These poems are haunted by history but never in service of it. These poems want to know what comes after elegy,...
Dates: 2019
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2019 Spring

Golden Delicious, 2022

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Identifier: cw_2022fall_scherny_emily.pdf
Overview "Along with a deep investigation of the human condition, this is a story that dissects, tests, and questions the foundations, fundamentals, and the fruition of a few lived-in experiences, and of the various full-circle warm-belly miraculous feeling of life happening. Ultimately, it all gets compared to one object—a Golden Delicious apple, whose symbolism, history, and lore (Biblical or otherwise) makes for a metaphor that both incites and soothes humanity's inclines and descents. The action...
Dates: 2022
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2022 Fall

Gone Fishing, 2022

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Identifier: cw_2022spring_shahon_benjamin.pdf
Overview "Gone Fishing is a novel in progress that covers the formation and dissolution of a family, framed through a renegade fishing trip taken by father and son. The novel primarily covers two major periods in the characters' lives in parallel: the beginnings of parents Denise and Jared's romance in college and young adulthood, and Jared and Billy's fishing trip following the couple's years-long separation. The novel tackles themes of what makes adulthood, young love, and the stresses and...
Dates: 2022
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2022 Spring

Good girl, 2007

 Item — Item 0113502853378: [Barcode: 0113502853378]
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Good Girl is the author's story of a secret that threatens to consume her: a relationship with her married, much older English teacher that begins when he rapes her at seventeen. That moment changes the course of her growing up. The narrative reveals how

Dates: 2007
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2007

Good lovin', 2016

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Identifier: cw_2016spring_jackson_joshua.pdf
Overview "Good Lovin' is a feature-length screenplay that tells the story of Joanne "JoJo" Gooding, an uptight college professor and Brooklynite, who has her world turned upside down by Duane "Sonny" Daring, a suave and carefree jazz musician from Harlem trying to restart his life after an unsuccessful music career. When Joanne needs inspiration for her book, they cross paths at a singles' mixer. Their relationship is far from perfect, but Joanne learns that sometimes love can be a good thing."...
Dates: 2016
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2016 Spring

Goodbye Love, 2020

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Identifier: pf_2020fall_green_briuana.pdf
Overview "Kendall Allen is a seventeen-year-old high school senior who will do anything to leave Memphis, Tennessee. Seven years ago, Kendall's father, Kenny Allen Sr., a beloved NBA star, was gunned down in downtown Memphis and died in her arms. Kendall longs to graduate and attend Tennessee State University to study music, but her grandmother, Stella, who controls her father's estate, will only fund Kendall's education if she agrees to attend Princeton University. Following an armed robbery of the...
Dates: 2020
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2020 Fall

Gray house : chapters 1-6, 2015

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Identifier: cw_2015fall_braga_david.pdf
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First six chapters of a novel that follows siblings who grew up under very different circumstances with their kind-hearted mother and domineering father. Now, estranged from each other and from their parents, they have been called home for one last weekend, so that they can put their dementia-ridden mother into a nursing home. --Abstract.

Dates: 2015
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2015 Fall

Grey Matter, 2022

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Identifier: cw_2022spring_sances_melissa.pdf
Overview "Trauma is like an exclamation point internalized as a question mark. After being sexually abused as a child, I'd always wondered what was around the corner; I'd always braced against how it might hurt me. As a young adult, I'd often put myself at risk to muffle that eternal question What happened to me? and convince myself that I didn't know, didn't care. Still, I wondered who I could have been, who I would have become, without it. When I examined the abuse as a sober adult in trauma...
Dates: 2022
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2022 Spring

Growing out, 2011

 Item — Item 0113503069933: [Barcode: 0113503069933]
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Growing Out is a coming of age memoir about what seems like timid adolescence only to discover a much darker secret. Beginning in the author's childhood in New Jersey the story leads the reader through the personal struggles with body image and trying to

Dates: 2011
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2011

Growing up well : a story of family illness, 2006

 Item — Item 0113502831770: [Barcode: 0113502831770]
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This Master's Thesis is a memoir that chronicles my journey from being a sick child to an adult who happens to be sick...The purpose of this memoir is not to dwell on that fact but rather to examine how chronic illness influences all the relationships and

Dates: 2006
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2006

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