Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p><em>Animal 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 to think and act rationally while combating (and sometimes enjoying) mental illness, specifically bipolar disorder. It is also an exploration of my childhood through various pets I had throughout my life.</p> <p>The methods that I used when crafting this collection include hands-on experience as an employee at a major pet retail chain, experimenting with essay form, and by utilizing subtext. The critical text <em>Crafting the Personal Essay</em>, by Dinty W. Moore, was especially valuable in the exploration of form and structure. For subtext, my thesis advisor read the collection and offered questions and insight so that I could fully realize the potential of the emotional aspect of working with and caring for animals.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Master's
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- English and Theatre
- Grantor dc:publisher
- Eastern Kentucky University
- Year
- 2014
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Hamm, Mary Rachael
Subjects
dc:subject × 2Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- Copyright 2014 Mary Rachael Hamm
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://encompass.eku.edu/etd/266
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:encompass.eku.edu:etd-1264