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Title: Beyond the Roof.
Creator: Pelosi, Faye., Florida Atlantic University, Scroggins, Mark
Abstract/Description: Ultimately, these verses are reflections of paintings (not necessarily paintings made with brush and oil, but paintings created by Nature, memory, and so forth). Each poem is also a painting and each painting is also a poem in the sense that the poetry should work the way a painting does by presenting a vivid image and idea. In every case, one has stemmed from the other. I want to translate the visual arts into writing, which includes the visual art of imagination because images are my...
Show moreUltimately, these verses are reflections of paintings (not necessarily paintings made with brush and oil, but paintings created by Nature, memory, and so forth). Each poem is also a painting and each painting is also a poem in the sense that the poetry should work the way a painting does by presenting a vivid image and idea. In every case, one has stemmed from the other. I want to translate the visual arts into writing, which includes the visual art of imagination because images are my natural language. These verses are an attempt at intermixing the categories (language and image), transferring one category into the other and vise versa to make the language act as a painting would; a painting with occasional narration.
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Date Issued: 2005
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13304
Subject Headings: Language arts, Visual communication, American poetry--21st century, Creativity in literature
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Raise it Overhead.
Creator: Amato, Alison, Scroggins, Mark, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: This is a collection of poetry that deals with contradiction, generation, and degeneration. It also confronts ideals embedded in culture and society that have become points of emotional conflict for many. This collection often focuses on successfully communicating feelings and ideas through the brevity of language. However. at some points it is necessary to set aside the practice of brevity and lengthen the works in order go beyond restrictive bounda ries and enter a realm of continuation,...
Show moreThis is a collection of poetry that deals with contradiction, generation, and degeneration. It also confronts ideals embedded in culture and society that have become points of emotional conflict for many. This collection often focuses on successfully communicating feelings and ideas through the brevity of language. However. at some points it is necessary to set aside the practice of brevity and lengthen the works in order go beyond restrictive bounda ries and enter a realm of continuation, control, and repetition. Many of the poems begin without beginnings and end without resolutions both allowing the reader to draw from it personal points of reference as well as conclusions. An anatomical theme can be found throughout this collection, allowing these poems to become living things while lending a sense of mysticism. Collectively, these poems try to achieve a relationship of familiarity with the reader while still having come from a personal space.
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Date Issued: 2009
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000887
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The book and the labyrinth were one and the same: The figure of the labyrinth in Danielewski, Borges and Eco.
Creator: Palmer, Jedediah., Florida Atlantic University, Scroggins, Mark
Abstract/Description: This thesis examines the figure of the labyrinth in the contemporary novel House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, and in relation to works by Jorge Luis Borges and Umberto Eco. House of Leaves presents not only labyrinths with which its characters interact, but a seemingly material, textual labyrinth its readers are forced to navigate. This thesis argues that what are important about these features are that they serve to both extend the broader theoretical concerns of the book, and to ...
Show moreThis thesis examines the figure of the labyrinth in the contemporary novel House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, and in relation to works by Jorge Luis Borges and Umberto Eco. House of Leaves presents not only labyrinths with which its characters interact, but a seemingly material, textual labyrinth its readers are forced to navigate. This thesis argues that what are important about these features are that they serve to both extend the broader theoretical concerns of the book, and to (paradoxically) invest the reader more deeply in "the story" and to greater emotional effect.
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Date Issued: 2004
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13152
Subject Headings: Literature--Psychological aspects, Literature--Criticism and interpretation, Borges, Jorge Luis,--1899-1986--Criticism and interpretation, Eco, Umberto, Danielewski, Mark Z--House of leaves, Reader-response criticism, Postmodernism (Literature)--United States
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Generations of meaning: The matrix of authority in Don DeLillo's "White Noise".
Creator: Potter, Richard Michael., Florida Atlantic University, Scroggins, Mark
Abstract/Description: Since its appearance in 1985, Don DeLillo's novel White Noise has been regarded as the prototype of the postmodern novel---though not for style and form, but rather for content and theme. DeLillo's postmodern society is the site of dissipated "structures" of power and authority, the hyperreal realm of simulacrum. The narrator---J.A.K. (a.k.a. Jack) Gladney---cannot fathom this world of disseminated authority, where knowledge and power are continually generated behind what Michel Foucault...
Show moreSince its appearance in 1985, Don DeLillo's novel White Noise has been regarded as the prototype of the postmodern novel---though not for style and form, but rather for content and theme. DeLillo's postmodern society is the site of dissipated "structures" of power and authority, the hyperreal realm of simulacrum. The narrator---J.A.K. (a.k.a. Jack) Gladney---cannot fathom this world of disseminated authority, where knowledge and power are continually generated behind what Michel Foucault calls "the great abstraction of exchange". My thesis suggests that Jack's struggle to cope in this society is complicated by his own, exaggerated subjectivity. He is, in the words of Leonard Wilcox, a quintessential "modernist". His plight therefore becomes a proxy battle for these two epics, the modern and postmodern.
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Date Issued: 2003
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13005
Subject Headings: DeLillo, Don--White noise, Postmodernism (Literature), Authority in literature
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Like Salt for Bread.
Creator: Genis, Jeanne, Scroggins, Mark, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: Like Salt for Bread is a sixteen poem creative thesis that explores the razorwire balance of power and vulnerability. In some poems, the relationship seems clearly defined by an aggressor or catalyst that threatens emotional and sometimes physical violence. In the others, the balance shifts from the speaker to another, alternates between one speaker and another, or even alters within the speaker's consciousness. Regardless, each poem examines a moment that is not a measure of time but a force...
Show moreLike Salt for Bread is a sixteen poem creative thesis that explores the razorwire balance of power and vulnerability. In some poems, the relationship seems clearly defined by an aggressor or catalyst that threatens emotional and sometimes physical violence. In the others, the balance shifts from the speaker to another, alternates between one speaker and another, or even alters within the speaker's consciousness. Regardless, each poem examines a moment that is not a measure of time but a force that tends toward rotation- changes that occur around the axes of authority and control. The resulting torque exposes assumptions about long-standing myths, personal and popular.
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Date Issued: 2007
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000918
Subject Headings: Poems., Symbolism in literature., Power (Psychology), Control (Psychology)
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: residue.
Creator: Carlson, Susan L., Florida Atlantic University, Scroggins, Mark
Abstract/Description: This creative thesis contains 19 poems exploring and examining the association of residues, primarily through that of memory and memories, through a process of defining and (re)defining those associations of memory (the residues) that attach themselves to memory and the actions of and upon memory. This thematic thread is woven throughout with narrative prose and verse, traditional and free verse, and the melding of each in an effort to exemplify the relationships between memory and its...
Show moreThis creative thesis contains 19 poems exploring and examining the association of residues, primarily through that of memory and memories, through a process of defining and (re)defining those associations of memory (the residues) that attach themselves to memory and the actions of and upon memory. This thematic thread is woven throughout with narrative prose and verse, traditional and free verse, and the melding of each in an effort to exemplify the relationships between memory and its residual associations through structure, form, and language. Speakers are most often characters who represent the roles of memory and the associate value of the residues attached to it. The notion of residue is defined and redefined through the formation of memories, cultural associations, environmental and educational influences.
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Date Issued: 2006
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13339
Subject Headings: Poems, Symbolism in literature, Memory--Miscellanea
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Speak, Shade.
Creator: Gibson, Raymond, Scroggins, Mark, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: Speak, Shade is a book of lyric verse indebted to the poetics of W. S. Merwinespecially The Moving Target and The Lice- and late Paul Celan. It eschews punctuation, and uses paradox, ambiguous syntax, derangement of the senses, and surreal imagery among its tropes. Its themes include- but are not limited toblindness as a spiritual condition, the inefficacy of the imagination before time and death, the line between dream and reality, and the silence of God. Some motifs occurring in the text...
Show moreSpeak, Shade is a book of lyric verse indebted to the poetics of W. S. Merwinespecially The Moving Target and The Lice- and late Paul Celan. It eschews punctuation, and uses paradox, ambiguous syntax, derangement of the senses, and surreal imagery among its tropes. Its themes include- but are not limited toblindness as a spiritual condition, the inefficacy of the imagination before time and death, the line between dream and reality, and the silence of God. Some motifs occurring in the text are parts of the body, stars, books, light, mirrors, and shadows.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000919
Subject Headings: Symbolism in literature., Poetry--Collections., Versification., Merwin, W.S.--(William Stanley),--1927---Criticism and interpretation.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Seeds of Brightness: Poetic Memory in James Joyce’s Ulysses.
Creator: DeJong, Laura Quinlan, Scroggins, Mark, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This dissertation examines the process of “poetic memory” in James Joyce’s Ulysses, a term chosen by Italian philologist Gian Biagio Conte to describe allusive processes in the poetry of classical texts, specifically the epic. Conte examines and classifies the epic codes and norms residing within and constituting the classical epic genre. These change with each successive epic according to the author’s culture. The allusive process enables an author’s dialogue with his or her predecessors,...
Show moreThis dissertation examines the process of “poetic memory” in James Joyce’s Ulysses, a term chosen by Italian philologist Gian Biagio Conte to describe allusive processes in the poetry of classical texts, specifically the epic. Conte examines and classifies the epic codes and norms residing within and constituting the classical epic genre. These change with each successive epic according to the author’s culture. The allusive process enables an author’s dialogue with his or her predecessors, which has implications for the establishment of textual authority. By applying Conte’s system of epic codes and norms toward a reading of Ulysses, it is possible to interrogate the novel and assess how it situates itself within the epic tradition. In Ulysses, Joyce responds to and revises the epic tradition through his appropriation and modification of works by classical, medieval and Renaissance authors. He writes from the advantage of doing so in the early twentieth century, at a point in history with a wide range of literary material available to it. Through Ulysses’ Homeric frame and intricate allusions, Joyce creates a somatic text, one that appropriates the textual somatic components of the Commedia and Gargantua and Pantagruel. In appropriating and revising elements of these somatic sites, as well as classical allusions, Joyce creates a foundational Irish epic, one that ultimately questions and even parodies statements of authority.
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Date Issued: 2016
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004687, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004687
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Merging from the distance.
Creator: Rice, Ian, Scroggins, Mark, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Merging from the Distance offers a place to display the poems I have created during my tenure as a graduate student. The four sections found within represent different personal aesthetics. My thesis is also representational of a personal chronology, for it was my intention to demonstrate my efforts of contemporary poetry. Many of the poems seek to engage symbiosis by combining different languages, forms, and levels of diction.
Date Issued: 2014
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004323, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004323
Subject Headings: Rice, Ian--Personal narratives., American poetry--21st century.
Format: Document (PDF)

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