Emerson thesis -- Creative writing
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 364 Collections and/or Records:
Gulch, 2005
Item — Item 0113502741821: [Barcode: 0113502741821]
Overview
Gulch is a literary novel in the shape of a period Western, layered with humor, fantastical elements, and intertextual allusions. -- abstract.
Dates:
2005
Harmony and other towns, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_zeitlin_jeremy.pdf
Overview
"The four stories center in and around a small Maine lobster fishing community of the writer’s creation. They deal with a range of social, cultural, economic, and political issues inherent to working-class towns like the ones created for these stories. More, though, they are intended to expose areas of the human condition that transcend the regional and demographic characteristics in which the stories are seated. The people here and their stories—their fears, their hopes, their hardships—are...
Dates:
2018
Heretics, Genies, and Flames, 2016
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Identifier: cw_2016spring_kalanish_emily.pdf
Overview
"A heretic and a genie. Drowning and burning. Can a heretic convert her coworkers to heresy? Can a genie grant wishes and make life less boring? In these two stories, both characters know that sometimes we need the fantasy in order to tolerate the reality. They also know that metaphors are fun and real life is hard. But knowing the facts doesn't make their worlds any easier." -- Abstract
Dates:
2016
Hidden things : a memoir, 2006
Item — Item 0113502792865: [Barcode: 0113502792865]
Overview
This memoir, broken up into ten parts, delves into a young man's struggle to come to terms with the sexual abuse he endured as a child and the effects it has had on his boyhood and early adult life. -- abstract.
Dates:
2006
Hisaab & Half-Truths, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_palla_rukhsar.pdf
Overview
"The following collection of short stories explores a group of Pakistani Muslims moving through the world. The stories are linked, but can also be read as stand alone pieces. My intention for this work is to tell some of the stories of the South Asian diaspora, and to explore the complexities of first generation Americans, Muslims who practice Islam at varying degrees, and Pakistanis from different class backgrounds. When these characters engage with one another, both kinship and conflict...
Dates:
2019
Home of the Cuckoos, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_sanderford_rachel.pdf
Overview
"Home of the Cuckoos' is a family saga novel exploring the themes of generational trauma, female autonomy, and agency. Sarah returns to her small hometown after the death of the family matriarch. What starts as the misguided attempt to save the family homestead turns into a search for answers. Buried deep underneath the hard exterior of the Doyle women is a pain that has never healed, and the belief they are all cursed. With nothing left to lose, Sarah is willing to dig deeper into the past...
Dates:
2021
Homecoming: A Memoir, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_pendergast_kellie.pdf
Overview
"The purpose of 'Homecoming: A Memoir' is to explore the baffling, contradictory promises of wealth and education the suburbs of Long Island, New York offered my family. The chapters are arranged chronologically and are meant to mimic the back-and-forth travel from school to home. Some themes include grief, gender roles, and student-teacher relationships. I argue against some of the traditions I believe many Long Islanders refuse to question, like the Top Ten ranking in the first chapter and...
Dates:
2021
Homecomings and Other Ghost Stories, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_relick_amanda.pdf
Overview
"Homecomings and Other Ghost Stories is a story collection that investigates the push and pull between grief and memory. Within these stories, the very act of remembering presents itself
as a form of grief, where nostalgia becomes an act of mourning and the fallibility of memory is its own kind of loss. In grappling with these themes, characters are either running from their pasts or deeply indulgent in them. For the main character in the flash story, "The Outside Room," precious memories...
Dates:
2023
House on Swandon Hill, 2015
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Identifier: cw_2015spring_williamson_john.pdf
Overview
Parts one and two (of an intended four) of a novel which follows Walter Bellamy from childhood to his thirties as he tries to decipher the truth behind an old family tale which has subtly fractured relationships within his family for generations. --Abstract.
Dates:
2015
How the light gets in, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_herlihy_elizabeth.pdf
Overview
"The story of Kate Cahill, a thirty-eight-year-old woman who seems to have it all, but who is driven to the edge by the impending loss of her beloved father. To cope, Kate develops an addiction to online porn chatrooms. As Kate, her three sisters and her mother gather on the Cape in her father’s final weeks, she quickly loses control over the situation and struggles to keep her secret while surrounded by family. In the wake of her father’s death, Kate continues to unravel, and eventually,...
Dates:
2018
How the river found us, 2006
Item — Item 0113502795447: [Barcode: 0113502795447]
Overview
This collection of 41 poems touches on many personal and compelling themes related to family, parenting, relationships, and alcoholism. -- abstract.
Dates:
2006
How to Lose a Planet, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2022spring_lucas_neil.pdf
Overview
"The mission, I would say, of How to Lose a Planet is to create a future where Black people are centered. As a science-fiction fan, I was taken by Carl Sagan's critique of Star Wars: A New Hope: "They're all white. The skin of all the humans in Star Wars, oddly enough, is sort of [points to himself] like this." I wanted to create a story set in a future where the lives of Black people don't just matter, they thrive. And not just Black in the sense of having melanin, but Black in the sense...
Dates:
2021
How to write a suicide note, 2006
Item — Item 0113502792899: [Barcode: 0113502792899]
Overview
How to write a suicide note is a how-to manual written by Alex Galaxy that slowly digresses into his own suicide note. Alex is a screenwriter who attempts to live his life through his art but is thwarted at every turn. He is in love with a girl who does
Dates:
2006
Human trap, 2015
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Identifier: cw_2015fall_keogh_jennifer.pdf
Overview
Illustrates the world of a twenty-something college graduate trying to understand her familial relationships, friendships, and explorations of self. The poems seek to construct the trap of being human emotionally, physically, and spiritually. The speaker is attempting to discover ways out of the traps within her relationships with the world, herself, her family, her friends, and her lover. The limitations placed on human experience are a large part of the narratives told in this body of...
Dates:
2015
Humphrey Catskill, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_gillick_matthew.pdf
Overview
"The purpose of this novel was to focus on one character's three defining life events. For the first section, the protagonist is a memory of his estranged mother. For the second, a shell of a man examined from a distant, analytical perspective. For the third and largest section, he is a fully fleshed-out person displayed over the course of twenty vignettes told through third-person omniscience. The goal was to start with a plain-spoken narration, albeit in transcript form to give the most...
Dates:
2021
Hysteria, 2022
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Identifier: cw_2022spring_cordes_hope.pdf
Overview
"Hysteria is a young adult novel about a teenage girl named Emma who witnessed her granmother being kidnapped by something inexplicable when she is young. Now a decade later, strange things are once again occuring and Emma is determined to solve the mystery of her grandmother's disappearance once and for all. One evening she finds an injured boy in an alley and they are transported into Emma's favorite novel, Hysteria. She discovers the not so fictional world is much richer and more...
Dates:
2022
I have this dream in which you try to kill me, 2006
Item — Item 0113502802433: [Barcode: 0113502802433]
Overview
This manuscript focuses on the surreal, imaginative, and lasting qualities of dreams, and illuminates how dream perceptions bleed into and exist in the waking world. -- abstract.
Dates:
2006
I of the Beholder, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_digennaro_alexandra.pdf
Overview
"I of the Beholder will be a quarterly magazine anthology discussing the cultural norms, products, celebrities, and superstitions surrounding the world's beauty practices. Each volume will act as a case study for a new country, featuring a contrastable history on their standards of beauty, current trends and messaging, and how that image is evolving. The prototype magazine will highlight French beauty practices and cultural beliefs. I of the Beholder will be a resource for beauty experts,...
Dates:
2021
If you had told me : a memoir, 2006
Item — Item 0113502795637: [Barcode: 0113502795637]
Overview
If you had told me is a meditation on the bonds of family, friendship and love, The memoir chronicles Beth from her smell-town Midwestern roots to Oregon and the East Coast as the grows up and away from her family. -- abstract.
Dates:
2006
If You Want to Know Why I’m Afraid of You, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019fall_sneed_madeline kay.pdf
Overview
"This is a novel about family, faith, and love. Set in the fictional town of Steinbeck, Texas, this story is told through the perspective of a daughter and a father, Emmy and Steve, through the course of a year following their estrangement after Emmy comes out as a lesbian. The novel explores the challenges of reconciling identity and place, faith and expectation, sacrifice and compromise. Ultimately, the novel is focused on love—romantic, familial, and spiritual—and what we must sacrifice...
Dates:
2019