Title
Sponsor
Portland State University. Department of English
Advisor
John Beer
Date of Award
Spring 6-16-2014
Document Type
Closed Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) in Creative Writing
Department
English
Physical Description
1 online resource (vi, 86 pages)
Subjects
Mammals -- Poetry, Alienation (Social psychology) -- Poetry, Faith -- Poetry
DOI
10.15760/etd.1783
Abstract
This collection of poems is representative of the creative writing and literary studies completed during my time in Portland State University's Master of Fine Arts Program. Poetry workshops, seminars in prosody, syntax, and translation, and forays into the magic of rhetoric and defamiliarization in the novel have all contributed to the thinking and feeling shown in this work. Some themes that the collection circles around are: the alienating and sometimes ecstatic relationship between the identities of civilized human and human-as-animal, the processes of falling in and out of faith in a greater power and with belonging to a human community, non-binary and unconventional performances of gender and sexuality, psychological inquiry about the nature of the self, the cleaving of mind and body, and meditations on 21st Century youth.
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/12033
Recommended Citation
Freshley, Megan Elizabeth, "Hey Mammal" (2014). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 1784.
https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1784
10.15760/etd.1783
Description
This thesis is only available to students, faculty and staff at PSU.