The Biographer

dc.contributor.advisorTichy, Susan
dc.contributor.authorAllen, Jeffrey
dc.creatorAllen, Jeffrey
dc.date2016-04-26
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-09T18:50:33Z
dc.date.available2021-04-26T06:48:19Z
dc.descriptionThis thesis has been embargoed for 5 years. It will not be available until April 2021 at the earliest.
dc.description.abstractThis collection of poetry conceives of a biographer as an archiver or curator of the world around them. One who invests themselves in collecting, more often than not, humorous and tragic episodes, and characters. The biographer isn’t necessarily onsite, or hands-on, but often collecting through imaginative contexts, thus biographical sketching from afar. This collection accumulates the lives of real and not so real figures, obituaries, composers, mini-biographies, sinners, all in the name of the speaker’s obsession and hope to better cope and better understand the world around him. The speaker collects the lives and identities of others in order to craft his own identity, that of the biographer. “The biographer,” then, also shows itself as being a reflective and projective autobiography.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1920/10380
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectPoetry
dc.titleThe Biographer
dc.typeThesis
thesis.degree.disciplineCreative Writing
thesis.degree.grantorGeorge Mason University
thesis.degree.levelMaster's
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Fine Arts in Creative Writing

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