Waiting for the sun, 2018

Item — Call Number: MU Thesis Whi

Identifier: b7929093

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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.

From the Collection:

Students become eligible to pursue the Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) degree if they have obtained a Master of Arts (M.A.) in English from Monmouth University and demonstrate a proficiency for creative writing through a thesis or equivalent work.

From the Collection:

After completing their 30-credit M.A. in English with a Creative Writing concentration, Monmouth’s M.F.A. students take an additional 18 credits of intensive creative writing study that includes the completion of a book-length Creative Thesis.

From the Collection:

During the fall 2022 semester (in instances where the requisite waivers were received from consenting student authors), the Monmouth University Library, together with the University's Graduate School and Wayne D. McMurray School of Humanities and Social Sciences, began providing open access to select full-text digital versions of current theses and dissertations through links to the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global website in the Library's Online Public Access Catalog. Links to these open access digital publications can also be found in the "External Documents" section under any conforming titles that are listed among the holdings itemized in the collection inventory for this finding aid.

Dates

Creation: 2018

Creator

White, Connor M. (Connor Michael) (1994- ) (Author, Person)
Febos, Melissa (1980- ) (Thesis advisor, Person)
Graedon, Alena (Thesis advisor, Person)

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use. Access is by appointment only.

Access to the collection is confined to the Monmouth University Library and is subject to patron policies approved by the Monmouth University Library.

Collection holdings may not be borrowed through interlibrary loan.

Research appointments are scheduled by the Monmouth University Library Archives Collections Manager (723-923-4526). A minimum of three days advance notice is required to arrange a research appointment for access to the collection.

Patrons must complete a Researcher Registration Form and provide appropriate identification to gain access to the collection holdings. Copies of these documents will be kept on file at the Monmouth University Library.

Extent

1 Items (print book) : 117 pages ; 8.5 x 11.0 inches (28 cm).

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Introduction [excerpt]

Waiting for the Sun is the beginning eighty-eight pages of a novel that follows protagonists Greg Meller and Rose Wiseman as they attend Sarasota College in Sarasota, Florida. Greg, who plays baseball on full scholarship at Sarasota, is hoplessly far from his New Jersey home and popular high school persona. Throughout the novel's course, he must learn to cope with this newfound alienation and the reckoning of his own identity that ensues. Later on, these conflicts give way to the catastrophe of his father's death. Rose, an enigmatic senior, struggles with her own traumas from back home in Nashville and attempts to control the effect they have had on her psyche. Her avoidant mechanisms prompt Rose to evade any kind of emotional intimacy and instead settle for a contrived image of herself. Greg and Rose struggle with the complexities of 21^st century relationships and collegiate social expectations, while also introspectively questioning their own ideals. Although this is a work of fiction, I hope to detail not only the hardships of these two distinct individuals, but also let them, and all the characters, serve as vehicles to represent how chaotic life can become and what crises ensue when a young person is forced into an unfamiliar landscape and performs the inevitably failed efforts to control their affect both internally and externally.