Event Title
Location
Diamond 243
Start Date
30-4-2015 1:00 PM
End Date
30-4-2015 2:25 PM
Project Type
Presentation
Description
These two creative writing pieces are the products of an exploration into some of the stylistic elements of successful prose; the stylistic strategies that these works in particular employ are ungrammaticality, lyricism, eloquence and voice. The lyric essay In the Grass combines eloquence and voice in a meditation on the depth of thought and poignancy that underlies the simple and often unheard voice of a child. Paper Birches is a similarly lyrical essay that applies ungrammaticality and lyricism to recognize the ubiquity of injustice and lament the reality of the fact that people fall apart.
Faculty Sponsor
Adrian Blevins
Sponsoring Department
Colby College. English Dept.
CLAS Field of Study
Humanities
Event Website
http://www.colby.edu/clas
ID
1095
'Paper Birches' and 'In the Grass'
Diamond 243
These two creative writing pieces are the products of an exploration into some of the stylistic elements of successful prose; the stylistic strategies that these works in particular employ are ungrammaticality, lyricism, eloquence and voice. The lyric essay In the Grass combines eloquence and voice in a meditation on the depth of thought and poignancy that underlies the simple and often unheard voice of a child. Paper Birches is a similarly lyrical essay that applies ungrammaticality and lyricism to recognize the ubiquity of injustice and lament the reality of the fact that people fall apart.
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/clas/2015/program/272