Emerson thesis -- Creative writing
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 403 Collections and/or Records:
Home of the Cuckoos, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_sanderford_rachel.pdf
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"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
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"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
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"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
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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 Hell Did I Get Here?, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_lewis_sarah.pdf
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"This collection of essays acts as a quilt of seemingly unrelated but interwoven tales that help to explain what makes the writer the person they are today. Through a retelling of relatable and quirky experiences, each essay encompasses some of the fears, trials, and desires associated with "adult" life. Whether it's dealing with growing up in a small Midwestern town, learning to cope with social anxiety and its triggers, conquering the fear of independence, or tackling more serious topics,...
Dates:
2024
How the light gets in, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_herlihy_elizabeth.pdf
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"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]
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This collection of 41 poems touches on many personal and compelling themes related to family, parenting, relationships, and alcoholism. -- abstract.
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2006
How to Lose a Planet, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2022spring_lucas_neil.pdf
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"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]
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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
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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
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"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
Hyphenated, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_boateng_samantha.pdf
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"A hyphen is a bridge; it links together different elements, allowing its bearer to straddle those spaces simultaneously. In identity, the hyphen connects, creating a complex bond where, previously, one would not exist. Hyphenated explores this concept of duality while navigating physical and psychological spaces. In Hyphenated's pieces, the speakers are mothers, daughters, immigrants, children, and more, attempting to define who they are and where they belong. This body of work questions...
Dates:
2024
Hysteria, 2022
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Identifier: cw_2022spring_cordes_hope.pdf
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"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]
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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
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"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
I Was Going to Lie: A Novel in Stories, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_chupak_ashling.pdf
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"I Was Going to Lie is a novel-in-stories told from a range of perspectives following Catherine, a woman born in 1990 Brooklyn, New York, struggling with the disappearance of her father and seeking answers to the slew of partial-truths reported to her about him. But her pious mother, Joyce—sworn to secrecy by her locally-famous ex-in-laws— needs no excuse to estrange her daughter from the man who has betrayed her by revealing his truth: a decade-long affair with another man. When Catherine's...
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2024
If you had told me : a memoir, 2006
Item — Item 0113502795637: [Barcode: 0113502795637]
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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
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"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
In Lieu of Gravity, 2016
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Identifier: cw_2016spring_ellis_johnette.pdf
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"This sequence of poems works to embody the experience of finding, making and even abandoning ground—the poems move from the seemingly individual to that of the collective. With a range of prose poems and haiku threaded among a majority of free verse poems, the collection aspires to synthesize the abstract with the physical. Who are we outside of the constructs of this world—race, gender, time—how do we acknowledge a reality, while rejecting it altogether? Full of influences from the...
Dates:
2016
In the Blood of Angels, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_rogers_tatum.pdf
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"This high fantasy novel is set in a world where the angels have come down and enacted the Reckoning, killing off most of the human population. In this post-Reckoning world part-human part-stone creatures called the oraesti have popped up, and a church known as the Marble Basilica has taken it upon themselves to hunt these "monsters" to extinction in the name of the angels. Our story starts about 1,000 years after the Reckoning, when Elias, a man who's been trained since childhood to hunt...
Dates:
2023