"A bag, a beret and a book of poems" : a verse novel & an exploration of generic hybridity : and exegesis

Gibbons, Maureen

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Open access

Authors

Gibbons, Maureen

Date

2012

Supervisor

Dr Julienne van Loon

Dr Ann McGuire

Type

Thesis

Award

DCA

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Faculty

Humanities

School

Media, Communication and Creative Arts

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/57485

Collection

Curtin Theses

Abstract

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.