"A bag, a beret and a book of poems" : a verse novel & an exploration of generic hybridity : and exegesis
A Bag, A Beret and a Book of Poems deploys the concept of the silhouette biography, with its reliance on contextual detail to build the sense of a real life, in conjunction with the form of the verse novel, to construct a life narrative for a homeless woman whose body was found in Kings Park in 2001...
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Curtin University
2012
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| author | Gibbons, Maureen |
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| description | A Bag, A Beret and a Book of Poems deploys the concept of the silhouette biography, with its reliance on contextual detail to build the sense of a real life, in conjunction with the form of the verse novel, to construct a life narrative for a homeless woman whose body was found in Kings Park in 2001. The exegesis outlines and analyses the reading that informed the generic decisions made in relation to the creative project. |
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| institution | Curtin University Malaysia |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-574852019-03-27T00:26:39Z "A bag, a beret and a book of poems" : a verse novel & an exploration of generic hybridity : and exegesis Gibbons, Maureen A Bag, A Beret and a Book of Poems deploys the concept of the silhouette biography, with its reliance on contextual detail to build the sense of a real life, in conjunction with the form of the verse novel, to construct a life narrative for a homeless woman whose body was found in Kings Park in 2001. The exegesis outlines and analyses the reading that informed the generic decisions made in relation to the creative project. 2012 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/57485 Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Gibbons, Maureen "A bag, a beret and a book of poems" : a verse novel & an exploration of generic hybridity : and exegesis |
| title | "A bag, a beret and a book of poems" : a verse novel & an exploration of generic hybridity : and exegesis |
| title_full | "A bag, a beret and a book of poems" : a verse novel & an exploration of generic hybridity : and exegesis |
| title_fullStr | "A bag, a beret and a book of poems" : a verse novel & an exploration of generic hybridity : and exegesis |
| title_full_unstemmed | "A bag, a beret and a book of poems" : a verse novel & an exploration of generic hybridity : and exegesis |
| title_short | "A bag, a beret and a book of poems" : a verse novel & an exploration of generic hybridity : and exegesis |
| title_sort | "a bag, a beret and a book of poems" : a verse novel & an exploration of generic hybridity : and exegesis |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/57485 |