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Living Document: An Exploration Of “Self” Through Lyric & Hybrid Forms, Shannon Sweeney
Living Document: An Exploration Of “Self” Through Lyric & Hybrid Forms, Shannon Sweeney
Honors Theses
In the famously confessional field of creative nonfiction, the question of preserving one’s privacy is perhaps best explored by means of lyrical or hybrid essays; an explorative piece found at the intersection of poetic form and prose, between objective fact and creative presentation, which “sets off on an uncharted course through interlocking webs of idea, circumstance, and language - a pursuit with no foreknown conclusion, [and] an arrival that might still leave the writer questioning,” according to Noam Dorr. This pursuit without strict purpose allows for writers to dissect and discover the intricacies of seemingly straightforward topics: truth, memory, even …