Date of Award

6-2020

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Ph.D.

Organizational Unit

College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences, English and Literary Arts

First Advisor

Bin Ramke

Keywords

Creative writing, Poetry

Abstract

This dissertation, Making Faces, is a book of prose poems investigating the work of portrait composition as it might be achieved through poetry. The prose poems in Making Faces explore how written expressions of people might be built poetically through—listing, paradox, rhythmic and figural repetition, presence and likeness, details, and brevity. The prose poems in Making Faces explore how written expressions of people might be built poetically through an examination of ideas and feelings.

Publication Statement

Copyright is held by the author. This work may only be accessed by members of the University of Denver community. The work is provided by permission of the author for individual research purposes only and may not be further copied or distributed. User is responsible for all copyright compliance.

Rights Holder

Emily Pettit

Provenance

Received from author

File Format

application/pdf

Language

en

File Size

100 pgs

Discipline

Creative writing

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