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- The role of animals in the Florida novels of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
- Creator
- Gutierrez, Jeanne C., Florida Atlantic University, Peyton, Ann
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Animals play a vital role in the Florida novels of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, including Cross Creek, The Yearling, South Moon Under and Golden Apples. Rawlings's appreciation for the animal world may be viewed as twofold. First, she emphasizes the importance of animals for practical reasons, stressing their contribution to the livelihood of her characters. Her attitude also encompasses a realistic view of the dual role animals play as both threat and protector. Secondly, Rawlings expresses a...
Show moreAnimals play a vital role in the Florida novels of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, including Cross Creek, The Yearling, South Moon Under and Golden Apples. Rawlings's appreciation for the animal world may be viewed as twofold. First, she emphasizes the importance of animals for practical reasons, stressing their contribution to the livelihood of her characters. Her attitude also encompasses a realistic view of the dual role animals play as both threat and protector. Secondly, Rawlings expresses a firm conviction that a close relationship with the animal world is essential to one's happiness. She reveals a marked preference for animals above humans and emphasizes their contribution to the emotional well-being of her characters. Finally, Rawlings employs literary techniques such as simile, metaphor and personification to disclose how fundamental an element animals are to her Florida novels as well as her personal life.
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- 1993
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14886
- Subject Headings
- Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan,--1896-1953--Criticism and interpretation., Animals in literature., Florida--Fiction.
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- THESIS, ANTITHESIS, SYNTHESIS: A THREE-PART DIALECTIC OF ELIZABETH BISHOP'S POETRY.
- Creator
- STIRNEMANN, SHIRLEY A., Florida Atlantic University, Peyton, Ann
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There is in Elizabeth Bishop's poetry a development which progresses from an objectified, basically Aristotelian, mode of presentation to a subjective mode controlled by post-Kantian ideas of self-awareness to a Husserlian phenomenological expression of integrated experience. By using a Hegelian three-part dialectic in which her three major books, North and South, Questions of Travel, and Geography III, are viewed respectively as thetic, antithetic, and synthetic levels of her aesthetic...
Show moreThere is in Elizabeth Bishop's poetry a development which progresses from an objectified, basically Aristotelian, mode of presentation to a subjective mode controlled by post-Kantian ideas of self-awareness to a Husserlian phenomenological expression of integrated experience. By using a Hegelian three-part dialectic in which her three major books, North and South, Questions of Travel, and Geography III, are viewed respectively as thetic, antithetic, and synthetic levels of her aesthetic development, Bishop's poetry may be seen to reflect the ontogenetic growth of the mind of western man and to be an adumbration of the same whole to part-to-whole to whole-of-parts schema which characterizes Western philosophical thought in general.
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- 1985
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14233
- Subject Headings
- Bishop, Elizabeth,--1911---Criticism and interpretation, Poets, American--20th century--History and criticism, Poetry, Modern--20th century
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- The fly fisherman: W. B. Yeats's perfect man.
- Creator
- Halloran, Richard James, III., Florida Atlantic University, Peyton, Ann, Faraci, Mary
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William Butler Yeats directed much of his poetry to the construction of the antithetical or perfect man which he defined as "being most unlike myself" (Allt 371). Yeats also wanted to see Ireland reach this condition. He presented heroes from Irish mythology his contemporaries, and imaginatively created figures who had the strength of character to accomplish a new and self identifiable culture. Yeats wanted Ireland and its citizens to become a modern day "Byzantium" of his classical reference...
Show moreWilliam Butler Yeats directed much of his poetry to the construction of the antithetical or perfect man which he defined as "being most unlike myself" (Allt 371). Yeats also wanted to see Ireland reach this condition. He presented heroes from Irish mythology his contemporaries, and imaginatively created figures who had the strength of character to accomplish a new and self identifiable culture. Yeats wanted Ireland and its citizens to become a modern day "Byzantium" of his classical reference. From his own fishing experience Yeats created the fly fisherman, an image who Yeats saw as "Climbing up to a place ... A man who does not exist ... A man who is but a dream"(Allt 348). In this figure Yeats incorporates his thoughts concerning the value of antithesis, religion, philosophy, nationalism and the concept of the mask. This thesis will propose that the fisherman and his activities are metaphorical applications of Yeats's search for antithesis whether it be for himself, mankind or his country.
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- 1999
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15617
- Subject Headings
- Yeats, W B--(William Butler),--1865-1939--Criticism and interpretation
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- Document (PDF)
