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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"personal essays"”.
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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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Still Point: Personal Essays Inspired by Andy Goldsworthy's Ephemeral Art
… Andy Goldsworthy's ephemeral art in the form of personal essays that combine memoir, story-telling, and reflection on themes, inherent in his sculpture, that inspire exploration of universals of human nature. These essays concern themselves with Goldsworthy's collaboration with nature and time in …
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The Messiness Within: Personal Essays on Peeling Back the Facade
<p>This collection of three interconnected personal essays draws from the genres of memoir and biography to answer the following question: What are the physical, mental, and emotional repercussions of covering up hardship and sickness with a facade of normalcy and perfection? Overlaid by themes of …
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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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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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Value of the Ordinary
Short stories, poetry and personal essays
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Once Removed
A collection of four personal essays and one short story.
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Once Removed
A collection of four personal essays and one short story.
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We All Make Mistakes
… of creative writing contains short stories and personal essays.
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We All Make Mistakes
… of creative writing contains short stories and personal essays.
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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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Inside Passages
A collection of personal essays exploring the author's childhood years in Southeast Alaska with a single mother and two siblings.
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Inside Passages
A collection of personal essays exploring the author's childhood years in Southeast Alaska with a single mother and two siblings.
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A house on the border
<p>This collection of personal essays explores the author's experiences working at a migrant shelter on the U.S./Mexico border.</p>
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Collections: Essays & Prose Poems
Personal essays and memoir essays about home, family, inheritance, the West, the spaces we choose to inhabit, and the ones that come to us.
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Collections: Essays & Prose Poems
Personal essays and memoir essays about home, family, inheritance, the West, the spaces we choose to inhabit, and the ones that come to us.
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Shades of Fine
The following is a collection of personal essays that re-create and reflect on select events that occurred in my life between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four.
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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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