Emerson thesis -- Creative writing
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 403 Collections and/or Records:
Finding Bigfoot, 2022
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Identifier: cw_2022summer_schellin_courtney.pdf
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"When I first set out to write my first novel, I knew I wanted it to be about self-discovery. At the time, I was feeling lost myself and wanted to get back to my favorite passion – writing. As someone who has always been a fan of oddities, folklore, and storytelling, using Bigfoot as my outlet seemed like the perfect fit. Annie is a woman with a troubled past who is looking for something more. Annie's will is strong and so is her personality. All the better, considering she is surrounded by...
Dates:
2022
FingerPrint, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_mihalek_katelyn.pdf
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"FingerPrint is a collection of poems that weaves arcs of family and spirituality with bodily autonomy and acceptance. Expanding on the concrete and contrapuntal poetic forms, the poems physically create a set of hands by assuming the translated shape of the hands' cross sectional slices. The collection starts at the tips of the middle fingers, then moves down the fingers, knuckles, palms, and finally the wrists. These hands frame core questions: What do they reach towards? What do they hold...
Dates:
2024
First chair, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_mccabe_christina.pdf
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"Amy, once a musical prodigy but now a graduate student in French, is reliving past trauma with the recent arrest of the man she once thought of as her boyfriend. The man, forty-five-year old Gregory Mercer, who took sexual advantage of her ten years ago, when she was fourteen, has just been arrested for similar crimes. Amy has never told a soul about this affair, and she contemplates if she ever will. Gradually, her secrets begin to weigh on her and distract her from the many facets of her...
Dates:
2018
Fitted sheet, 2017
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Identifier: cw_2017spring_jones_erin.pdf
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The first half of a young adult novel centering around an up-and-coming YouTube star, deciding between family and fame. --Abstract.
Dates:
2017
Fleet, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_siegel_kristen.pdf
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"Fleet tells the story of the serving staff at Tidal Restaurant and Bar during an unprecedented summer season. Though it's been a year since the tragic accident that forced Cassie to flee California and restart her life on Cape Cod, she's still haunted by what happened that awful night in Lake Tahoe —it turns out exes and bodies have a way of resurfacing when you least expect them to. Tommy is a self-proclaimed drifter, addicted to the industry lifestyle no matter how terrible it is for his...
Dates:
2023
For All That Is Good and Holy, 2022
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Identifier: cw_2022spring_berkebile_breanna.pdf
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"For All That Is Good and Holy is a collection of short stories by Breanna Berkebile that examines taboo topics within the Christian community. From purity culture to deceptive leadership, each story seeks to elucidate how these issues negatively impact those who are young and impressionable while maintaining a level of care for the religion and those who practice it. The discussion surrounding these topics is growing and evolving, and the goal of this collection is to be a part of...
Dates:
2022
For Future Reference, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_kirschenbaum_max.pdf
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"This thesis is a collection of short fiction. Each story included features a male protagonist attempting to grapple with a major pivot point in his life, regardless of whether or not he is aware of it at the time. The men in these stories are all somewhat young, but they are each coming to terms with the loss of very different portions of their youths. Further, these stories attempt to investigate the ways in which humans often use "games" to both respond to what is happening in other...
Dates:
2019
Forgive us our trespasses, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_bossio_shaun.pdf
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"Chancellor is a small affluent town in Western Massachusetts, the kind of community most families aspire to live in. When a terrible tragedy occurs at the local Montessori school, the community faces a devastation unlike anything it has ever seen before, and those impacted are forced to confront their deepest fears. 'Forgive Us Our Trespasses' is a story about the decisions we are forced to make in the face of tragedy while we search for the will to carry on, and whether a community, so...
Dates:
2018
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
Four essays : with love and squalor, 2010
Item — Item 0113503010606: [Barcode: 0113503010606]
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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
Free talk : a year in South Korea, 2006
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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
From Everywhere to Here, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_darkwa-anto_ashley.pdf
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"To the public, Diana Hastings pretends she has the perfect husband. At home, her marriage is barely scraping by. While trying to salvage what's left of her relationship through couple's therapy, Diana must deal with more than just her failing marriage—fourteen-year-old Jessica Anderson's body is found, and her husband may somehow be connected to it all. When those around her seem to know more than they're letting on, Diana realizes she only has herself to rely on to find the truth. But...
Dates:
2024
Fugue States, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_casarico_sophie.pdf
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"Fugue States, a collection of five short stories, comprises a range of literary fiction written during the author's time in Emerson College's Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing program. This collection, through a combination of first and third-person perspectives, experiments with both narrative retrospection and immediacy, exploring the desires and fears of myriad women. From kudzu-choked Tallahassee to a surreally post-apocalyptic Boston, these stories–humorous, vivid, and...
Dates:
2024
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
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
Girl at End of World, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_metter_laura.pdf
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"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
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
Girl From the Moon, 2016
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Identifier: cw_2016spring_kang_elisse.pdf
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"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
Godsent, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_ganthier_ghanima.PDF
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"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
Godspeed, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020spring_jackson_tara.pdf
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"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