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049 _aMAIN
100 1 _aParsons, Dustin,
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245 1 0 _aExploded view :
_bessays on fatherhood, with diagrams /
_cDustin Parsons.
260 _aAthens :
_bThe University of Georgia Press,
_c(c)2018.
300 _a1 online resource (204 pages) :
_billustrations, maps.
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aCrux: the Georgia series in literary nonfiction
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520 0 _a"Exploded View: A Memoir with Diagrams is exactly that. Using public domain images altered to hold the text, these "graphic" essays play with the conventions of telling a life story, and with how illustration and text work together in print. Like a graphic novel, the story is in not only the text, but also in how that text interacts with the images that accompany it. Diagrams were an important part of Parsons's childhood. His father was an oilfield mechanic, and in his spare time he is also a woodworker, an automotive mechanic, a welder, and an artist. His shop has countless manuals with "exploded view" parts directories that the author would flip through constantly. Whether it was a transmission he was putting back together, a diesel engine on location, or the woodworking instructions for a baby cradle, he had a visual guide to help him along. The individual essays in this memoir attempt to do the same thing. This memoir distinguishes itself from others in its "graphic" element--the appropriated diagrams, instructions, and "exploded view" inventory images--that Parsons has used. They help guide the reader's understanding of the piece, giving them a visual anchor for the story and add a technical aspect to the lyric essays that they hold. This mixture of the machine-like and the lyrical, I hope, helps the reader understand the author's world more fully--a world where art comes in the form of a welding torch, where creativity involves finding new ways to use old machines, where it isn't so easy to delineate between right-brain and left-brain thinking"--
_cProvided by publisher.
505 0 0 _aThe 412 into Tulsa --
_tPumpjack --
_tHarvest --
_tTransmission --
_tDispatches from the fifty-first state --
_tSolar array --
_tSilhouettes --
_tThe Fujita scale --
_tPrairie panhandle --
_tThe festive revolver --
_tOrientation --
_tThe flood plain --
_tBook of ghosts --
_tMousetrap --
_tFruit fly extermination --
_tLoose ends --
_tSpoor --
_tMulberries --
_tFrom stories I've been told: Grandfather --
_tThe owl in twenty-six folds --
_tJackfruit --
_tThe traffic in Kottayam --
_tTake an island, give an island back --
_tMissing person --
_tFrom stories I've been told: Student --
_tFrom the moon illusion notebooks --
_tDrop off --
_tThe graduates of Fly-Fishing School, Sarasota, Florida, class of July 13, 2013 --
_tExploded view --
_tNesting box for the Eastern bluebird: a guide --
_tFrom the homeowner's guide to deer prevention --
_tWind turbine --
_tX-ray machine --
_tCome celebrate the radial arm saw --
_tSolomon Grundy says good night --
_tThe arrow of time --
_tGeode --
_tFrom the suitor's almanac --
_tThe gun and the bird --
_tFrom a rooftop --
_tSandhill cranes --
_tHow to make a cardinal in five easy steps --
_tDuck call.
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600 1 0 _aParsons, Dustin.
650 0 _aFatherhood.
650 0 _aFathers and sons.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
856 4 0 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password.
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_bCynthia Snell
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_dCynthia Snell