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Haunts
Author Info
Toland, Amy
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1377211713
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2013, Master of Arts, Miami University, English.
Abstract
This thesis explores identity as permeable, unstable, and opaque. Within the poems in the collection, interior and exterior spaces mix and morph. The work engages with a number of different subjects, including family, environment, politics, and sexuality, and explores various emotional states, many of them uncomfortable: anti-familial feelings, rage, and isolation. These topics facilitate an exploration of the ways poetry connects the personal with the outer/other. Haunts seeks to investigate selfhood's interaction with environmental, political, social, and intellectual contexts and how these connections raise questions about poetic responsibility and morality. While all the poems are free verse, the collection includes a variety of styles. This further reflects an interest in the instability of identity and exploring different approaches of connecting to an audience as well as creating a framework for beyond-text exploration.
Committee
Keith Tuma (Committee Chair)
Cathy Wagner (Committee Member)
cris cheek (Committee Member)
Pages
54 p.
Subject Headings
Literature
Keywords
identity
;
poetry
;
personhood
;
environment
;
sexuality
;
family
;
conflict
;
spatiality
;
politics
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Toland, A. (2013).
Haunts
[Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1377211713
APA Style (7th edition)
Toland, Amy.
Haunts.
2013. Miami University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1377211713.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Toland, Amy. "Haunts." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1377211713
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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miami1377211713
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This open access ETD is published by Miami University and OhioLINK.