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Body Composition

Evans, Kelley E.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1210710106

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2008, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, English (Arts and Sciences).
Kelley Evans’s dissertation consists of a collection of personal essays, which foreground the experience of the body. In four sections – Sensation, Chaos/Control, Movement, Inward/Outward--she considers her body and the bodies of loved ones in states both elevated and debased, in social space and in the mind. In her critical introduction, “Canon(icle) for the Personal Essay,” Evans proposes a reflexive and constantly reinvented personal essay canon as a corrective for the hegemony of memoir in the field of creative nonfiction. Examining texts by Eliza Haywood, Margaret Fuller, Jamaica Kincaid, and Etel Adnan, Evans seeks to add diverse voices to the canon and to add innovative techniques to discussions of craft.
Joan C. Connor (Committee Chair)
David Lazar (Committee Member)
Dinty W. Moore (Committee Member)
Jose Delgado-Costa (Committee Member)
Janis Butler Holm (Committee Member)
232 p.
Literature
personal essay; creative nonfiction; body; illness; pregnancy; essay canon

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  • Evans, K. E. (2008). Body Composition [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1210710106

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Evans, Kelley. Body Composition. 2008. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1210710106.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Evans, Kelley. "Body Composition." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1210710106

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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