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Emerson thesis -- Creative writing

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 364 Collections and/or Records:

In Lieu of Gravity, 2016

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Identifier: cw_2016spring_ellis_johnette.pdf
Overview "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
Overview "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

In the hands of my fellow prisoners, 2015

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Identifier: cw_2015spring_medeiros_peter.pdf
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Historical novel featuring Miriam Hatch, a free black woman and huntress in 1852 Ohio and her efforts to secure a loan after her traps are vandalized. --Abstract.

Dates: 2015

Infinity, 2023

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Identifier: cw_2023spring_fitch_lauren.pdf
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"Infinity is a novel that explores what its like to think differently in the world. The novel follows Mari, a twenty-five year old with Autism as she navigates her first real relationship. The novel works with themes of domestic abuse, mental health, and living with Autism. It is meant to represent an underrepresented portion of the female population." -- Abstract

Dates: 2023

Insomnia and Other Stories, 2020

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Identifier: cw_2020spring_rosenthal_laura.pdf
Overview "Insomnia and Other Stories is a collection of short stories and flash fiction revolving around identity, loss, and the complexity of love. In each story, characters grapple with their identities in the context of the people they love, the places they call home, and the narratives of their past—personal and historical, individual and collective. Many of these stories portray Jewish life in the contemporary world, examining the ways in which the personal is political and the political...
Dates: 2020

Instruments of ritual, 2017

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Identifier: cw_2017spring_title_cathryn.pdf
Overview "The characters in these stories are in degrees of estrangement—from lovers, from family, from religion, but mostly from themselves. They cling to rituals—therapy, remnants from organized religion, categorization of the world through listmaking, even things as mundane as making jalapeño cream cheese at a coffee shop five days a week. Whether they realize it or not, they are searching for something—maybe love, maybe spirituality, maybe purpose—all while wondering if finding solace can even...
Dates: 2017

Intimacy issues, 2018

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Identifier: cw_2018spring_tallent_mark.pdf
Overview "This collection of short stories traces the subtle, often complicated, relationships between high school and college age youth in southeast Tennessee. Involving head-injuries, hemophiliacs, porn stars, psych majors, and ghosts, these stories portray an inequality of love between men and women, men and men, lovers and friends, the living and the dead. No one here knows quite what they're looking for, only that they must dive into these swift and treacherous waters, only that they must seek a...
Dates: 2018

Is this where you've been? : a collection, 2018

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Identifier: pw_2018summer_lazerwitz_catherine.pdf
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"In this collection ... is the story of someone in the process of growing up and trying to find the right place." --Abstract.

Dates: 2018

It's Better to Have Nothing, 2016

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Identifier: cw_2016spring_glass_kathryn.pdf
Overview "Charlotte, or Charlie, becomes a drifter and leader of a women's street-art movement called "You Go Girl" after her apartment burns down, her relationship with long-term lover Bellamy ends, and she checks out of McLean Psychiatric Hospital with PTSD. With her boyfriend and all of her belongings gone, Charlie adopts the cause as her life, moving from city to city every few months, living on insurance money, sleeping in shelters, on couches and floors, in beds that come with monetary or...
Dates: 2016

I've Been Cancelling Appointments with My Psychiatrist for Two Years Now, 2019

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Identifier: cw_2019spring_dever_sean.pdf
Overview "I've Been Cancelling Appointments with My Psychiatrist for Two Years Now deals with the selfreflective understanding of a disabled man coping with his diseases and his overall livelihood in a world that marginalizes the voice of the disabled. It's intended to challenge the ways in which society looks upon those with serious health complications. The poet intends to raise awareness of the ongoing struggle endured by those like him living with disabilities. This is further evoked by detailing...
Dates: 2019

Knotweed : chapters 1-5, 2017

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Identifier: cw_2017spring_registrato_laura.pdf
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"The first five chapters of a novel in progress about a young woman who escapes from jail and the family members who help her survive." --Abstract.

Dates: 2017

Lake fire road, 2007

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Lake Fire Road, a collection of seven interconnected crowns of 'crushed' sonnets, amounts to an extended meditation on the culture of male violence. A fragmented narrative that mixes colloquial and elevated language, Lake Fire Road weaves instances of vio

Dates: 2007

Last worst time, 2017

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Identifier: cw_2017spring_goodwin_lindsay.pdf
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"This deeply personal collection of essays follows the writer in the three years after her messy separation from her husband. The writer grapples with anger and grief, loneliness and despair, and chronic pain. At the same time, she undergoes a sort of awakening in her new, forced circumstances." --Abstract.

Dates: 2017

Leaves, 2016

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Identifier: cw_2016summer_schrimper_michael.pdf
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"A vibrant homage to Virginia Woolf's classic To the Lighthouse, The Leaves is a study of family life, marriage, privilege, and art. It also offers an unusual story behind the development of the psychiatric drugs that changed the way we think of happiness." --Abstract.

Dates: 2016

Letters from the outlands, 2011

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This novel follows Melody Benton through her attempts to find and reconnect with her childhood best friend, Andrew, as she works to find a balance between breaking away from her parents and ensuring her family's safety. Melody struggles against her parent

Dates: 2011

Life and death and pizza, 2015

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Identifier: cw_2015spring_papa_michaela.pdf
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"A collection of short stories focused on characters who find themselves slightly left of center." --Abstract.

Dates: 2015

Life in the system, 2007

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El Segundo got its name in 1912, when Standard Oil built its second refinery in California there. I grew up in El Segundo. Although surrounded by the sprawl of Los Angeles, it feels like a small town. Most residents are white, and the city advertises itse

Dates: 2007

Lightning body complex, 2018

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Identifier: cw_2018spring_cromwell_jordan.pdf
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"This is a collection of linked short stories about a man turned superhuman and his exploration into being super." --Abstract.

Dates: 2018

Like hermit crabs to sea, 2006

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Poems dealing with a variety of topics in a range of modes. Many concern the author's origins in the Caribbean and his migration to New England, and the uneasy relationship he has with both places. -- abstract.

Dates: 2006

Limited range of motion, 2005

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A nonfiction narrative centered on a family secret - a child abandoned at birth by his entire family, who grew up to be a decorated soldier and convicted murderer. -- abstract.

Dates: 2005