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Emerson thesis -- Creative writing

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 403 Collections and/or Records:

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

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

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

Good girl, 2007

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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

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

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

Goodnight, Chandrama, 2024

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Identifier: cw_2024spring_maharaj_kiran.pdf
Overview "Goodnight, Chandrama is a collection of poetry that aims to weave the tale of a Trinidadian-American poet who constantly finds himself in a nebulous space between two cultures. At first, it explores what life is like through the eyes of teenagedom and young adulthood; a sense of "is this all that I am?" The poems work through thoughts of suicide, of loneliness, one of Caribbean mythology, and of innocence, long lost. They aim to capture and question the lives that surround the poet as well,...
Dates: 2024

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

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

Growing out, 2011

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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

Growing up well : a story of family illness, 2006

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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

Gulch, 2005

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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

Heirlooms, 2024

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Identifier: cw_2024spring_gomez_crystal.pdf
Overview "Heirlooms summons fragmented ancestral memory to illustrate the speaker's gendered relationships to land and place. In the first half of the collection, the speaker traverses a lineage of matriarchs and the delicate relationships between Puerto Rican women who survive displacement and diaspora. Through ritual and a multilingual incantation, the speaker honors the complexities of generational difference and struggle within an American setting. In the second half, the collection reflects upon...
Dates: 2024

Hellion, 2024

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Identifier: cw_2024spring_riter_jack.pdf
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"Elizabeth Ring is a young woman in Ohio. She is a daughter, a sister, and will in all likelihood one day be a wife. She is also a firebrand, an iconoclast, a perfectionist, an artist, and a woman on the verge of addiction. The first few years of her adulthood form the basis of this thesis, in the form of a novel, intended as part of a longer work." -- Abstract

Dates: 2024

Here Be Monsters, 2024

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Identifier: cw_2024spring_mcqueen_daven.pdf
Overview "HERE BE MONSTERS is a story about loss, both personal and collective. It asks what must be done to maintain hope in the face of immeasurable grief, exploring such themes as family trauma, class inequality, and the material repercussions of a warming planet that's been ignored for too long. But at its core, this is a novel about two people on a quest for answers—to their pain, their futures, and the mysteries of the world around them—that forces them to confront what they mean to each...
Dates: 2024

Heretics, Genies, and Flames, 2016

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Identifier: cw_2016spring_kalanish_emily.pdf
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"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

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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

Highwaytown, 2024

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Identifier: cw_2024spring_petchenik_rebecca.pdf
Overview "The lives of the queer community blend the mythic with the postmodern against the backdrop of a small, southern Appalachian town ravaged by the exploitation of the wealthy Vandermoor family. The leaders of local queer biker gangs and radical queer separatists face off against longtime enemies, a local chapter of the KKK in a politically-charged campaign of violence and retribution, and through it all, Bailey Hardin, a twenty-seven year old bartender, dreams of running away and finding a...
Dates: 2024

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