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Water in Knots

Hall, Jacob Griffin, Hall
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1499102788266564

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2017, Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Bowling Green State University, Creative Writing.
Water in Knots, as a collection, aims to create an extended poetic landscape that examines self, surrounding, and relative perceptual experience. It examines the distinctions between the components traditionally identified as involved in the concept of self and the components involved in the opposite, the non-self. In this examination, the poems utilize speaker and character perspective to subvert the notion of definitively discernable boundaries between the self and the non-self, and subsequently create a landscape where distinction becomes fragmented. This works to produce an ontological inquiry into the relationship between experience in terms of setting and perception, and identity posited as dependent on this circumstantial experience. The methods through which the poems execute this examination are multifaceted. A primary device is the use poetic image as a means of communication that is dependent on the perceptual perspective of the speakers. This device allows at times for an Expressionistic treatment of image as a means of invoking emotional response in the reader on the basis of the image itself, rather than the underlying argumentative or narrative context. Also involved in this is use of language aesthetic and style to address the perceptual disposition of any given speaker. Using these and other poetic strategies, Water in Knots works to establish a poetic inquiry into self and non-self rooted in the specific circumstances of the various speakers utilized.
Larissa Szporluk (Advisor)
Sharona Muir (Committee Member)
59 p.
Fine Arts

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  • Hall, Hall, J. G. (2017). Water in Knots [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1499102788266564

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hall, Hall, Jacob. Water in Knots. 2017. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1499102788266564.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hall, Hall, Jacob. "Water in Knots." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1499102788266564

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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