{"id":641,"date":"2020-02-03T22:28:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T22:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AveryT\/?page_id=641"},"modified":"2020-02-13T08:24:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T08:24:22","slug":"narrative-visual-perspective-in-english","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AveryT\/narrative-visual-perspective-in-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Narrative Visual Perspective in English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We wrote a lyric essay for the English narrative project. A lyric essay is a short piece recreating an experience (real or imaginary but still plausible) of someone, not oneself. In our case, we personally interviewed one person distinctly different from ourselves and <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">crafting a lyrical essay, pairing it with a visual image that deepened the portrayal of our subject\u2019s experiences, conflicts, emotions, and perspectives. The inspiration behind this project comes from author Claudia Rankine&#8217;s lyrical essay collection,\u00a0<em>Citizen: An American Lyric<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AveryT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/AveryT-Lyrical-Essay-Google-Docs.pdf\">here<\/a> to read my lyrical essay, &#8220;Swathes.&#8221; To read the transcript of the interview I conducted to write this essay, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AveryT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/AveryT-Transcript-for-Lyric-Listener-Google-Docs.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As an English Honors student, I read an additional lyrical essay book and emulated the author&#8217;s style in my own writing. The book I chose was <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Heidi Czerwiec&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Fluid States<\/em>. One of the essays, &#8220;Consider the Lobster Mushroom,&#8221; stood out to me because of the exploration of the connection between a fungus, <i>Hypomyces lactifluorum<\/i>, and literature. Both can be pervasive, silent intruders that alter the outcome of everything. Hence, I tried to emulate &#8220;Consider the Lobster Mushroom&#8221; in my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AveryT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/AveryT-Lyrical-Essayist-Study-REVISED-Google-Docs.pdf\">study<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We wrote a lyric essay for the English narrative project. A lyric essay is a short piece recreating an experience (real or imaginary but still plausible) of someone, not oneself. In our case, we personally interviewed one person distinctly different from ourselves and crafting a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-641","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AveryT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AveryT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AveryT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AveryT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AveryT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AveryT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AveryT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/641\/revisions\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~AveryT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}