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The Eugenicist
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Valerie, Suffron J.
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Year and Degree
2009, MFA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of English.
Abstract
This manuscript of prose poetry and lyric essay explores the technical disparities that exist between poetry and prose and non-fiction, and the places where the genres converge. Borrowing from the almost 200 year old tradition of prose poetry that began in France with Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud, the prose poems herein exemplify and further the surrealist/fantastic expectations of the form and expand it into new literary terrain through the appropriation of unexpected forms, such as medical documents, graphs and diagnostic surveys. The manuscript ventures into new hybrid forms with the inclusion of a lyric essay that brings together academic research, lyrical prose and memoir. Thematically, it explores the relationships between structure and theme, tragedy and comedy, and feminism, illness and identity. Driven by personal experiences and philosophical considerations of modern genetic technology, eugenics, free will and fate, it is ultimately an exploration of self as defined by the many ambiguous and contradictory roles an individual is made to play in society.
Committee
Maggie Anderson, MA (Advisor)
Philip Brady, PhD (Committee Member)
Robert Miltner, PhD (Committee Member)
Pages
64 p.
Subject Headings
Fine Arts
Keywords
woman
;
cystic fibrosis
;
pie
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Valerie, S. J. (2009).
The Eugenicist
[Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1247867791
APA Style (7th edition)
Valerie, Suffron.
The Eugenicist.
2009. Kent State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1247867791.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Valerie, Suffron. "The Eugenicist." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1247867791
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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This open access ETD is published by Kent State University and OhioLINK.