Creative writing -- Fiction
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 42 Collections and/or Records:
Salvation, 2023
Item — Call number MU Thesis Riv
Identifier: b7931683
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...
Dates:
2023
Sleep with me, 2012
Item — Call number MU Thesis Cin
Identifier: b5976082
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...
Dates:
2012
Superlative : Stories, 2021
Item — Call number MU Thesis Lon
Identifier: b7930358
Introduction [excerpt]
When I was nineteen, I told my then-boyfriend a bold-faced lie: I can ski....
Somewhere along the line, I'd adopted the idea that it is easier to mold yourself to fit the expectation of others than it is to fall short.
This inclination found its way into friendships, relationships, conversations at the bar, conversations in the classroom. It took up residence in a far corner of my brain, in the form of one of those old-school catalogs, where...
Dates:
2021
Terra incognita, 2018
Item — Call number MU Thesis Man
Identifier: b7929089
Statement of Aesthetics [excerpt]
One of the aims I have for this manuscript is to blur the line between "literary" and "genre" fiction — to take the themes and tropes commonly used in genre works and use them to comment on the human condition. In Terra Incognita — both the manuscript proper and the novel I hope to build off it — I hope to explore the negative effects nationalism, paranoia, and xenophobia have on society. While this manuscript only concerns itself with...
Dates:
2018
Terror, avant-garde, 2022
Item — Call number MU Thesis Bat
Identifier: b7930854
Introduction (excerpt)
My manuscript work is a draft of the first four chapters (or "scenes") of a novel called Terror, Avant-garde. In these scenes, Thérèse Genevieve Alarie, a 65-year old former Off-Off Broadway actor, leaves her apartment for the first time in three years to attend a playwrighting workshop at a small community theatre in Passaic. Her intention is to reunite with the playwright Darrell Hawke (who she believes wrote a life-changing play for and about...
Dates:
2022
The adventures of Gray Falcon : shadows of the indignant, 2014
Item — Call number MU Thesis Di Pal
Identifier: b7607858
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...
Dates:
2014
The beast, 2015
Item — Call number MU Thesis Bog
Identifier: b7544788
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...
Dates:
2015
The Deer Catcher, 2022
Item — Call number MU Thesis Cav
Identifier: b7931295
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...
Dates:
2022
The guarantee group, 2016
Item — Call number MU Thesis Bli
Identifier: b7667213
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...
Dates:
2016
The guided and other trips, 2021
Item — Call number MU Thesis Qua
Identifier: b7930731
Introduction [excerpt]
The Guided and Other Trips is the tenative title of the collection. I will continue to craft additional stories throughout the MFA, aiming for a completed manuscript for publication consideration. Each story is centered with a phyisical journey (Joyce to Long Island, Olivia to Saugerties, Benny to Philadelphia) that veers into the existential (Joyce in the midst of a mid-life crisis, Olivia facing the impending loss of her husband. Skye and Benny reckoning...
Dates:
2021