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What Are You Going to Do with the Rest of Your Life?

Ferguson, Kelly K.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1396604400

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2014, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, English (Arts and Sciences).
This dissertation is comprised of two sections: a critical essay entitled "Postmodern Persona Creative Nonfiction" and an essay collection, "What Are You Going to Do With the Rest of Your Life?" "Postmodern Persona in Creative Nonfiction" examines the use of multiple personas within nonfiction. For writers working within the era of Postmodernism, the self-identified fractured self often requires a multi-voiced persona to best explore complicated issues. The critical essay then examines these personas as they manifest in Truman Capote, Alison Bechdel, Janet Malcolm, and D.J. Waldie, as well as in the author's own work. "What Are You Going to Do With the Rest of Your Life?" contains essays that examine notions of identity and self as affected by sense of place, race, education, job status, and external appearances. The essays juxtapose personal experiences and external events in the goal of creating narrative.
Dinty Moore (Committee Chair)
187 p.
Families and Family Life; History; Literature; Modern Literature; Teaching
Alabama history; Alison Bechdel; Janet Malcolm; DJ Waldie; Truman Capote; chick drummers; humor; essay; persona; nonfiction; narrative; Southern; Lynyrd Skynyrd; Yankee; Generation X; Kurt Cobain; drunk

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  • Ferguson, K. K. (2014). What Are You Going to Do with the Rest of Your Life? [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1396604400

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Ferguson, Kelly. What Are You Going to Do with the Rest of Your Life? 2014. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1396604400.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Ferguson, Kelly. "What Are You Going to Do with the Rest of Your Life?" Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1396604400

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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© 2014, some rights reserved.Creative Commons License What Are You Going to Do with the Rest of Your Life? by Kelly K. Ferguson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
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