Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of theses written by students enrolled in the Monmouth University graduate English program. The holdings are primarily bound print documents that were submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the Master of Arts or Master of Fine Arts degrees.Students become eligible to pursue the Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) degree if they have obtained a Master of Arts...

Thesis Critical Paper [excerpt] My novel manuscript, Yellow Wildflowers, is the story of a near-future dystopian world where women are imprisoned for crimes they may commit in the future. In a society controlled by a patriarchal government that invents lemon bug robots to diagnose socio-deviancy in women, an imprisoned female journalist smuggles her writing out of jail as a form of resistance. The story is told by a historian who compiles a manuscript of the narrator's journals and other...