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A Life in Letters: Personal Essays
dc.contributor.advisor | Atkins, G. Douglas | |
dc.contributor.author | Fangman, Ellen Mary | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-02-01T19:30:01Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-02-01T19:30:01Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2008-12-16 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2008 | |
dc.identifier.other | http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:10091 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/7069 | |
dc.description.abstract | By formatting my dissertation as a series of letters to famous writers, artists, and musicians, I have attempted to establish an intimate, detailed connection between my life story and the words of the artists I am addressing. At the same time, I aimed to stray from their stories and see where my own musings about their lives would take me, to what parts of the past and not-so-distant past their words could transport me. While the dissertaion I have written is essayistic in nature, a case could be made that it is a kind of memoir, because of its somewhat autobiographical arc, its episodic reflections that hinge on traditional literary forms. As for forms, I turned to the letter as my medium for conveying past experience, because I wished to enter into a conversation with sages and fools of old. Dialogue, then, became a key component of these personal essays. My goal was to make the art of letter writing new again, to draw on the rich tradition of correspondence ranging from Pauline letters to Seneca's letter to his wife, and the host of letters borne of the lives of great artists like Jane Austen, Ezra Pound, John Keats, and many others. | |
dc.format.extent | 196 pages | |
dc.language.iso | EN | |
dc.publisher | University of Kansas | |
dc.rights | This item is protected by copyright and unless otherwise specified the copyright of this thesis/dissertation is held by the author. | |
dc.subject | English literature | |
dc.subject | Fine arts | |
dc.title | A Life in Letters: Personal Essays | |
dc.type | Dissertation | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Johnson, Michael L. | |
dc.thesis.degreeDiscipline | English | |
dc.thesis.degreeLevel | Ph.D. | |
kusw.oastatus | na | |
kusw.embargo.terms | Permanent Embargo. This work is unavailable. | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item does not meet KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
dc.rights.accessrights | embargoedAccess |
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