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Warming Up in Waves
Author Info
Schwartz, Alexandra T
ORCID® Identifier
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4535-8378
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1556914327871456
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2019, Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, Cleveland State University, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences.
Abstract
Warming Up in Waves is a collection of nonfiction essays the explores different forms through which one can tell their story. The collection begins and ends with lyrical essays that are delineated like poems and that trace the narrator’s thoughts in everyday moments as she works through issues of embodiment, desire, family, romance, perfectionism, trauma, illness, and more. The prose pieces in between fill in some of the narrator’s backstory: an unsentimental discovery of sexuality, attempts at engaging in anti-racist discussions, personal and familial experiences with mental illness, and the legacies of large-looming grandmothers. The collection finds its way back to its signature form established in the beginning for one final meditation on childhood and the potential for generational growth.
Committee
Caryl Pagel (Committee Chair)
Mary Biddinger (Committee Member)
Varley O'Connor (Committee Member)
Pages
171 p.
Subject Headings
Literature
Keywords
nonfiction
;
essays
;
poetry
;
lyric
;
women
;
psychology
;
mindfulness
;
health
;
family
;
trauma
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Schwartz, A. T. (2019).
Warming Up in Waves
[Master's thesis, Cleveland State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1556914327871456
APA Style (7th edition)
Schwartz, Alexandra.
Warming Up in Waves.
2019. Cleveland State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1556914327871456.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Schwartz, Alexandra. "Warming Up in Waves." Master's thesis, Cleveland State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1556914327871456
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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