Year of Award
2013
Document Type
Thesis - Campus Access Only
Degree Type
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Other Degree Name/Area of Focus
Creative Writing Program
Department or School/College
Department of English
Committee Chair
Judy Blunt
Commitee Members
Debra Earling, Jeff Hull
Keywords
Creative Nonfiction, Creative Writing, Essay, Literary, Literary Journalism, Literary Nonfiction, Memoir, Nonfiction, Personal Essay
Publisher
University of Montana
Abstract
What follows are a collection of personal essays that focus on close examinations of shifting meaning. Many essays are intensely focused on aesthetics, from the aesthetic elegance of idealized love, through art, to what personal meaning for which people live. Aestheticism seems an ideal that is to be strived for, but never attained. The included essays focus on the disparity between the banality of a lived life and perceived elegance.
Recommended Citation
Moore, Johnathan Randall, "Variant Definitions: Essays and Ruminations" (2013). Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers. 1165.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/1165
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