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Octagon House

Lohr, Jonathan
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1313632158

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2011, Master of Arts, Miami University, English.
Octagon House is a series of interconnecting poems that explore ideas of Octagon Houses and Fred Merkle within poetry. The use of repeated imagery, as well as the utilization of narrative functions such as plot, character and setting, unites the separate poems into making a unified discussion of architecture and nicknames. Authorship is called into question by creating multiple selves; throughout the poems, the narrative ‘I’ is separated from the third-person, ‘Jonny Lohr.’ The ‘I’ is further complicated through various quotations, and a section purported to be an annotated historical document. Poetic use of historical place is examined as the poems are rooted in various imagined versions of Watertown, Wisconsin.
Keith Tuma, PhD (Committee Chair)
cris cheek, PhD (Committee Member)
Catherine Wagner, Phd (Committee Member)
60 p.
History
authorship; phrenology; baseball; anatomy; Fred Merkle; Watertown, WI; octagon housing; NASA; emphysema; e

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  • Lohr, J. (2011). Octagon House [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1313632158

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Lohr, Jonathan. Octagon House. 2011. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1313632158.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Lohr, Jonathan. "Octagon House." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1313632158

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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