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Re-constructing the past: women, time, and inanimate objects in Virginia Woolf's the years and Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca
Title
Re-constructing the past: women, time, and inanimate objects in Virginia Woolf's the years and Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca.
Creator
Derisi, Stephanie, Berlatsky, Eric L., Low, Jennifer A., Hagood, Taylor, Graduate College
Date Issued
2011-04-08
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3164523
Subject Headings
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Years, Du Maurier, Daphne, 1907-1989, Women in literature
Format
Document (PDF)
Limiting Interpretive Possibilities in Beckett and Calvina
Title
Limiting Interpretive Possibilities in Beckett and Calvina.
Creator
Ardoin, Paul, Berlatsky, Eric L., Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description
Advances in literary studies have expanded the multitude of interpretations possible of a single work, perhaps too far. Positive progress from here requires constructing a way to avoid the chaos of an interpretive free- for-all without reverting to the debunked, totali zing systems of old. Limiting Interpretive Possibilities finds in Italo Calvina's If on a winter's night a traveler and Samuel Beckett's Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable the model for a combinatorial literature that...
Show moreAdvances in literary studies have expanded the multitude of interpretations possible of a single work, perhaps too far. Positive progress from here requires constructing a way to avoid the chaos of an interpretive free- for-all without reverting to the debunked, totali zing systems of old. Limiting Interpretive Possibilities finds in Italo Calvina's If on a winter's night a traveler and Samuel Beckett's Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable the model for a combinatorial literature that respects the key, inalienable elements of author, reader, work, and universe. Any reading that fits into this framework is a "possible" interpretation of the work, while readings that deny one or more of these elements are " impossible." Ultimately, a literary work has room for all its possible interpretations, which co-exist in a combinatorial manner that accounts for even interpretations that have yet to emerge, ensuring that no new way of reading will fundamentally alter the original work.
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Date Issued
2008
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000888
Format
Document (PDF)
Birch roots and bricks: finding home in the pluralism of voice in migration novels of contemporary Europe
Title
Birch roots and bricks: finding home in the pluralism of voice in migration novels of contemporary Europe.
Creator
Trotter, Dorothea, Berlatsky, Eric L., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
Through a comparative literary study of Monica Ali’s Brick Lane and Olga Grjasnova’s Der Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt, this thesis concludes that although the migrant experience is heterogeneous and that integration is a difficult process that varies through the diversity of experiences, these experiences can be unified by the common way in which migrants learn to “belong” by connecting with voices of the past and present and by building and maintaining relationships that extend beyond...
Show moreThrough a comparative literary study of Monica Ali’s Brick Lane and Olga Grjasnova’s Der Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt, this thesis concludes that although the migrant experience is heterogeneous and that integration is a difficult process that varies through the diversity of experiences, these experiences can be unified by the common way in which migrants learn to “belong” by connecting with voices of the past and present and by building and maintaining relationships that extend beyond the limits of place. In defending this argument, the thesis draws upon themes of Bakhtinian heteroglossia, nationalism and transnationalism, space, globalism, and migration.
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Date Issued
2015
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004472, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004472
Subject Headings
Ali, Monica -- 1967- -- Brick lane -- Criticism and interpretation, Emigration and immigration in literature -- 21st century, Europe -- Emigration and immigration -- 21st century, Grjasnova, Olga -- Der Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt -- Criticism and interpretation
Format
Document (PDF)
Survival and Resistance: ‘Disidentification’ in British Migrant Literature
Title
Survival and Resistance: ‘Disidentification’ in British Migrant Literature.
Creator
Eftimov, Taylor Blasko, Berlatsky, Eric, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
This thesis examines different forms that ‘disidentification,’ as defined by Lisa Lowe and José Esteban Muñoz, takes in Bluebird: A Memoir by Vesna Maric and The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie. I further define ‘disidentification’ by narrowing down to two types that I coin ‘social disidentification’ and ‘political disidentification.’ I use ‘social disidentification’ as a model of survival and ‘political disidentification’ as a model of resistance. Throughout, I examine how the construct of...
Show moreThis thesis examines different forms that ‘disidentification,’ as defined by Lisa Lowe and José Esteban Muñoz, takes in Bluebird: A Memoir by Vesna Maric and The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie. I further define ‘disidentification’ by narrowing down to two types that I coin ‘social disidentification’ and ‘political disidentification.’ I use ‘social disidentification’ as a model of survival and ‘political disidentification’ as a model of resistance. Throughout, I examine how the construct of multiculturalism effects the formation of migrant identities and because of this I look at which type of ‘disidentification’ the migrant will align with. By examining migrant identities and how they come to identify with some form of a British identity across both texts, I conclude that the idea of “Britishness” needs to be revised to be inclusive of all identities that make up the space of Britain rather than just including privileged identities.
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Date Issued
2019
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013202
Subject Headings
Maric, Vesna, 1976-, Rushdie, Salman, 1947- Satanic verses, Identity, Multiculturalism, British
Format
Document (PDF)
The Representation and Evolution of Abusive Relationships: Harley Quinn and the Joker
Title
The Representation and Evolution of Abusive Relationships: Harley Quinn and the Joker.
Creator
Isaacs, Jenna, Berlatsky, Eric, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
This thesis The Representation and Evolution of Abusive Relationships: Harley Quinn and the Joker takes a psychoanalytic, gender, and media studies approach to comics such as Mad Love, The Batman Adventures, Suicide Squad and the film Suicide Squad and The Suicide Squad (2016) Drawing on the work of Lenore Walker, Scott McCloud and other various scholars, this thesis will explore the distinctions in how the comics and film confront, disguise, or conceal the abuse. An analysis of the...
Show moreThis thesis The Representation and Evolution of Abusive Relationships: Harley Quinn and the Joker takes a psychoanalytic, gender, and media studies approach to comics such as Mad Love, The Batman Adventures, Suicide Squad and the film Suicide Squad and The Suicide Squad (2016) Drawing on the work of Lenore Walker, Scott McCloud and other various scholars, this thesis will explore the distinctions in how the comics and film confront, disguise, or conceal the abuse. An analysis of the increasingly romanticized representation of abuse in the comics and film, where audience support for the couple and merchandizing were core concerns, reflect increasing audience participation in responding to and making demands upon narratives of toxic relationships and intimate partner violence.
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Date Issued
2022
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013938
Subject Headings
Media studies, Women's studies, Intimate partner violence
Format
Document (PDF)