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Corpus Collosum

Holihan, Sarah Elizabeth
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1123526339

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2005, Master of Arts, Miami University, English.
Within the human brain is a unique structure specifically functioning to transverse between the two separate halves of the brain, acting as a fleshy bridge, the corpus collosum connects left and right. My thesis represents two sides of literary genre: poetry and memoir. My poetry often expresses experiences of disconnection while relating strong emotional experience or a singular event. Within the poems the self battles between the desires of the body, and the adventures of the mind. Often, the speaker represents a third party, an in-between, both literally and conceptually. The memoir is wholly separate, part of a childhood story in flux. The poetry and the non-fiction both speak some ‘truth’ about the self; poet and storyteller. Their material proximity creates links otherwise not immediately recognized when genres are read separately. Together, they work to combine aspects of my own creative and philosophical interests: sensual musicality and personal history. By cradling both genres in the textual arms of a single document I intend to achieve a sort of literary collosum, a copulation of musicality and ethnography.
David Schloss (Advisor)
46 p.
poetry; nonfiction

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  • Holihan, S. E. (2005). Corpus Collosum [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1123526339

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Holihan, Sarah. Corpus Collosum. 2005. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1123526339.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Holihan, Sarah. "Corpus Collosum." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1123526339

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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