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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Personal Essay"”.
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The Personal Essay As a Self Portrait
… portray myself through the medium of the personal essay. In order to address this challenge, I first had to clarify and define exactly what a personal essay is, which required quite a bit of reading, and then use my writing skills to convey who I am through that medium. I then had to …
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Fears and Reflections: Discovering Yourself Through the Personal Essay
… includes two parts: a critical analysis of personal essay considering a second-person view of how to fearlessly write personal essays and a collection of my own personal essays. The critical element includes examples of works that I consider support my theory of reflective journal writing as …
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You Can Go Home, But Only to Visit: Nostalgia and the Personal Essay
… the place of nostalgia in the writing of personal essays. It includes a theoretical introduction, in which the problem of nostalgia, or longing for an idealized place and time, is viewed as a result of the need to find personal identity within a community and a geographic location in a …
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Black Snakes and Lone Pines: Personal Essays and Reflections on the Genre
The personal essay is often a misunderstood genre because its form and subject matter are hard to pin down into a single definition. This thesis looks at the nature of form, subject and purpose of the personal essay. The critical introduction explores my reasons for writing personal essays; …
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Here, In This Place: An Essay Collection
The personal essay is difficult to define in part because of the diversity of structures and subjects that can fall under this category within creative nonfiction. Defining the form in terms of the fragment, specifically the fragment as it was envisioned by Romantic philosophers, acknowledges the …
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Personal Essays and Short Stories: With an Introduction Exploring the Difference Between the Two Genres
The personal essay, while obviously not formless, subordinates formal considerations to the idiosyncratic voice, or persona, of the writer. As a result, personal essayists use a variety of techniques found in other genres, especially those of the short story. This thesis project explores the …
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The Simple Life and Other Essays
… this project has been how to write an effective personal essay. The requirement that a "creative" thesis include a critical introduction also presents theoretical problems, but since the creative work must first stand on its own merit, the real problem lies in discovering how one's creative …
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Personal Writing in the Composition Classroom: Passport to Success in an Academic Landscape
… called into question, especially the use of personal writing as a legitimate form of academic writing. The purpose of this thesis is to show that the composition classroom plays an integral role in the academic maturation of the college student and argues that the personal essay is a vital …
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The Serpent of Friendship
… although exploratory, attempt to write in the personal essay genre. I chose themes of friendship and hacky sack because these have been recurring issues in my journal writing for several years. The critical introduction attempts to justify the following pieces within the essay genre, accounting …
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Hide
… consists of a poetry manuscript and a personal essay that critically contextualizes the work. The collection of poetry “Hide” is an attempt to descend into the murmuring countries of the dead. As the word itself suggests, we see the hide of animals, the skin removed, tanned, toughened, …
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Making Peace with Contradictions: Reflections of Territory and Identity in Israel/Palestine
<p>Both historical and personal essay, this culminating project is a creative non-fiction work exploring the modern historical roots of the Israel/Palestine conflict. Part I surveys the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Palestine, centering on two key figures: Israeli Prime Minister, …
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Learning to Create: A Collection of Personal Essays
… examines the author's justification for choosing personal essay as a genre and French feminism as the guiding theory in writing the essays. Six personal essays center on the author's attempts to have a child and the discoveries and failures along the way. Throughout literary history, women's …
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Behind the Meatball: A Reflection on Italian Cuisine, Lost and Found
… ways the memoir becomes a point of entry for a personal essay that explores the culture of authenticity in American cuisine. As a memoir, I offer a personal history of an original Italian cuisine from my very Italian family— how it was transplanted from the European “boot” to American soil, how …
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Animal People
… People</em> is a collection of nonfiction essays chronicling my experience working in the pet retail industry. The essays begin with my first day as a pet care associate at PetSmart and the essays include observations of rescue groups, interactions with kooky animal lovers, and my struggle …
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Personal Jesus and Other True Stories
<p><em>My Personal Jesus and Other True Stories</em> is a collection of essays about my Catholic upbringing, family relationships, struggles with depression, and my spiritual journey as a search for emotional healing. These stories, written in loosely braided formats, take place in such settings as …
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Holler If You Need Me
… Singleton is a collection of non-fiction flash essays that collectively piece together Singleton’s childhood in the Appalachia region. Singleton uses underlying themes such as poverty, a broken family, and natural disaster to create certain dynamics between the main characters that resonate …
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The Looking and the Seeming
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The Looking and the Seeming
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Playing from memory: Essays on music in life
In five personal essays, this creative-writing project delves into several of the author’s musical experiences, reflecting on the ways in which music informs and illuminates our lives and helps us to forge our identities. As a whole, the essays explore questions such as, What can our attraction to …
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