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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"literary nonfiction"”.
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Beneath the Surface
… the Surface is a collection of seven individual literary nonfiction essays. Five of the essays are personal essays, and three come from the author's contribution to UNO's Katrina Narrative Project. The collection represents the author's cumulative body of work upon completion of her MFA in …
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Lost in Menippea: the metabiography of Dambudzo Marechera
… research into Marechera, and it is the first ‘literary’ biography of the author written in the form of creative metabiography. Menippean satire, or menippea, is fundamental to the execution of the metabiography. I draw on Menippean heterogeneity to narrativise Marechera’s life and experiment …
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Zat Lun: A Family History
… threads that question the boundaries of literary nonfiction: Where does fiction end and nonfiction begin? What stories do we believe to be true? Why do we believe them? The book is in part a subversive response to a lifetime of being asked to act as an interpreter and representative of …
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The Personal and the Planetal: Essaying the Ecological
… humanities—specifically, environmental literary nonfiction—also provide key insights. With a heightened awareness of genre, the study asks whether an essay’s anthropocentrism might position it strategically in order to shift the bounds of the personal beyond the hyper-individual. …
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CREATIVE NONFICTION ILLUMINATED: CROSS-DISCIPLINARY SPOTLIGHTS
Creative nonfiction is abundant and popular. There are many names and definitions for this fluid, multimodal genre, which has played a role in its marginality in academia. This dissertation examines creative nonfiction in composition, creative writing, and journalism. I argue that distinct beliefs …
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Variant Definitions: Essays and Ruminations
What follows are a collection of personal essays that focus on close examinations of shifting meaning. Many essays are intensely focused on aesthetics, from the aesthetic elegance of idealized love, through art, to what personal meaning for which people live. Aestheticism seems an ideal that is to …
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Variant Definitions: Essays and Ruminations
What follows are a collection of personal essays that focus on close examinations of shifting meaning. Many essays are intensely focused on aesthetics, from the aesthetic elegance of idealized love, through art, to what personal meaning for which people live. Aestheticism seems an ideal that is to …
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What We Hide
<p>What We Hide is a collection of memoir essays that explores the themes of mystery and deception in personal relationships, specifically within familial and romantic ones. Though the essays in the collection explore the decades from early in the narrator's childhood through her move to Florida …