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Title: The "outing" of Miss Jean Brodie or to Miss Christina Kay with love.
Creator: Geoghegan, Elizabeth Erin., Florida Atlantic University, McGuirk, Carol
Abstract/Description: Romantic friendships, or raves as they were commonly called, were a common element of the culture of girl's schools in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. However, the impact of sexologists' theories served to pathologize and stigmatize these relationships. Muriel Spark was a product of the girl's school education in the post-Freudian era. While many scholars have studied The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie for its spiritual or moral content, few have discussed the sexuality and lesbian...
Show moreRomantic friendships, or raves as they were commonly called, were a common element of the culture of girl's schools in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. However, the impact of sexologists' theories served to pathologize and stigmatize these relationships. Muriel Spark was a product of the girl's school education in the post-Freudian era. While many scholars have studied The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie for its spiritual or moral content, few have discussed the sexuality and lesbian content in the novel. This thesis discusses the sexual dynamics of the two main characters, Jean Brodie and Sandy Stranger, while taking into account the social, psychological, and biographical influences on Spark's novel. Romantic friendship is a compelling force in the narrative which drives each character in their vacillation between loyalty and betrayal.
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Date Issued: 2001
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12792
Subject Headings: Spark, Muriel.--Prime of Miss Jean Brodie., Lesbianism in literature., Sex (Psychology) in literature.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A 'delicious riot of things': Aspects of discontinuity in "Tristram Shandy".
Creator: Gerard, William B., Florida Atlantic University, McGuirk, Carol
Abstract/Description: Tristram Shandy is a famously formless text in which the "life and opinions" of the title character appear to spill forth from the narrator without a governing theme or structure. Chronology and plot are interrupted and re-ordered. Characters are defined as mere fragments of personality, "strokes of a pen"; objects are represented as broken, snarled, and discombobulated. The subtexts and digressive tales included within the novel are incomplete as well as disruptive of the larger whole....
Show moreTristram Shandy is a famously formless text in which the "life and opinions" of the title character appear to spill forth from the narrator without a governing theme or structure. Chronology and plot are interrupted and re-ordered. Characters are defined as mere fragments of personality, "strokes of a pen"; objects are represented as broken, snarled, and discombobulated. The subtexts and digressive tales included within the novel are incomplete as well as disruptive of the larger whole. Sterne withholds the "complete" picture a conventional novel provides, and fragmentation becomes the prevailing motif of his book: the author's motley meaning lies hidden in an abundance of disrupted and broken forms. I propose an examination of the multitude of discontinuous forms in Tristram Shandy, seen in narrative structures, characters, objects, and themes. My discussion concludes with discussion of time and mortality--Sterne's final implicit acknowledgment of the links between the novel's theme and form, and the narrator's vain flight from Death.
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Date Issued: 1997
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15497
Subject Headings: Stern, Laurence, 1713-1768.--Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman., Stern, Laurence, 1713-1768--Criticism and interpretation.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Echoes of the western front: Images of trench warfare in the post-war fiction of West, Faulkner, and Caldwell.
Creator: McFather, Moira Kathleen., Florida Atlantic University, McGuirk, Carol
Abstract/Description: The war novels and propaganda of World War I infused Americans with a consciousness of trench warfare through images of degradation, discontinuity, and the irrelevance of human effort. Three modernist novels, The Day of the Locust (1933) by Nathanael West, As I Lay Dying (1930) by William Faulkner, and God's Little Acre (1934) by Erskine Caldwell, are infused with this same imagery. Though neither West, Faulkner, nor Caldwell participated in the war, their works symbolically echo the images...
Show moreThe war novels and propaganda of World War I infused Americans with a consciousness of trench warfare through images of degradation, discontinuity, and the irrelevance of human effort. Three modernist novels, The Day of the Locust (1933) by Nathanael West, As I Lay Dying (1930) by William Faulkner, and God's Little Acre (1934) by Erskine Caldwell, are infused with this same imagery. Though neither West, Faulkner, nor Caldwell participated in the war, their works symbolically echo the images of trench warfare, a development uniquely central to World War I. Although these novels do not mention war, the world of "The Great War" is their world. There has been much written on the symbolism in these three novels. No critic, however, associates the symbols with trench warfare. This thesis therefore relies on the historical and psychological research of World War I, which is then applied to the works of West, Faulkner, and Caldwell.
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Date Issued: 1992
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14854
Subject Headings: West, Nathanael,--1903-1940--Criticism and interpretation, Faulkner, William,--1897-1962--Criticism and interpretation, Caldwell, Erskine,--1903---Criticism and interpretation, World War, 1914-1918--Literature and the war
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Title: Disturbers of the peace: Representations of women in the stories of Kate Chopin.
Creator: Caldwell, Eleanor Mitchell., Florida Atlantic University, McGuirk, Carol
Abstract/Description: Beyond the Victorian and Southern myths of women existed other levels of female autonomy and strength. In the stories of Kate Chopin, women characters perform social roles as wives, mothers, and hostesses; in addition, they live out other layers of existence in which they have greater control and freedom. Some, like Edna Pontellier in The Awakening, find an "inward life which questions." Others, like the protagonists of "The Kiss," "The Respectable Woman," "Lady of Bayou St. John," "At the ...
Show moreBeyond the Victorian and Southern myths of women existed other levels of female autonomy and strength. In the stories of Kate Chopin, women characters perform social roles as wives, mothers, and hostesses; in addition, they live out other layers of existence in which they have greater control and freedom. Some, like Edna Pontellier in The Awakening, find an "inward life which questions." Others, like the protagonists of "The Kiss," "The Respectable Woman," "Lady of Bayou St. John," "At the 'Cadian Ball," "The Storm," and "Athenaise," find an outer life characterized by intrigue and manipulation. Chopin's women characters enact a stratified female consciousness that begins with manipulation and ends with a failed attempt at independent survival.
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Date Issued: 1988
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14423
Subject Headings: Chopin, Kate,--1851-1904--Characters--Women, Women in literature
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Title: Monsters of their own making: Shelley's Frankenstein and Spark's Jean Brodie.
Creator: Lombardo, Diane Marie., Florida Atlantic University, McGuirk, Carol
Abstract/Description: Two British women writers, Mary Shelley and Muriel Spark, express a curiously similar vision in their novels, creating characters whose solipsistic view of the world finally makes them monsters. Solipsism is the assertion that the self is the only reality that can be known and verified; a doppelganger is a mirror-self or double of the protagonist. The narrative structure and viewpoints in both Frankenstein and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie rely on these two concepts. Victor Frankenstein...
Show moreTwo British women writers, Mary Shelley and Muriel Spark, express a curiously similar vision in their novels, creating characters whose solipsistic view of the world finally makes them monsters. Solipsism is the assertion that the self is the only reality that can be known and verified; a doppelganger is a mirror-self or double of the protagonist. The narrative structure and viewpoints in both Frankenstein and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie rely on these two concepts. Victor Frankenstein journeys through solipsism by first creating his monster from necrotic material--dead "selves." Jean Brodie's solipsistic response to her world is to re-"create" and manipulate her student Sandy Stranger as an extension of herself. Both Frankenstein and Jean Brodie experience a paradox of identity, forming but then conflicting with other characters who become their doppelgangers. In both novels, doppelgangers become "harbingers of death" rather than instruments of insight. Both Shelley and Spark demonstrate that a self-centered perspective leads to destructive isolation and alienation from others.
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Date Issued: 1995
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15188
Subject Headings: Spark, Muriel--Criticism and interpretation, Spark, Muriel--Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft,--1797-1851--Criticism and interpretation, Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft,--1797-1851--Frankenstein
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Title: Memory plays: The theater of Samuel Beckett.
Creator: Vellis, Katherine H., Florida Atlantic University, McGuirk, Carol
Abstract/Description: Samuel Beckett's plays reverberate with a recurring memory motif. Recollections offer hope, rejuvenation, or in some cases simply the strength to carry on through what Beckett calls the "mess of life." The memories of Beckett's characters help them to transcend or to at least deal with the past. Close study of the plays points out this glimmer of hope in reminiscent memories, sensory memories, and creative memories. Even the bleakest recollections offer the possibility of future memories. In...
Show moreSamuel Beckett's plays reverberate with a recurring memory motif. Recollections offer hope, rejuvenation, or in some cases simply the strength to carry on through what Beckett calls the "mess of life." The memories of Beckett's characters help them to transcend or to at least deal with the past. Close study of the plays points out this glimmer of hope in reminiscent memories, sensory memories, and creative memories. Even the bleakest recollections offer the possibility of future memories. In the ten plays examined, the use of memory varies. An exploration of the plays in terms of Proustian memory, autobiographical documentation, and psychological research offers insight into the often hopeful memories of Beckett's characters.
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Date Issued: 1992
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14797
Subject Headings: Beckett, Samuel,--1906---Criticism and interpretation, Beckett, Samuel,--1906---Dramatic works
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Title: Naturalist tendencies in three novels by Edith Wharton.
Creator: Mullins, Marjorie L., Florida Atlantic University, McGuirk, Carol
Abstract/Description: Although Edith Wharton once said she considered herself a writer of novels of manners, she exhibits naturalist tendencies in her writing. She shows the potential of both heredity and environment to ensnare and suppress the individual in his or her quest for self-determination. In The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence, Wharton reflects upon the changes that caused society to enforce its rules all the more strongly in an attempt to maintain its stability. In Ethan Frome she develops one...
Show moreAlthough Edith Wharton once said she considered herself a writer of novels of manners, she exhibits naturalist tendencies in her writing. She shows the potential of both heredity and environment to ensnare and suppress the individual in his or her quest for self-determination. In The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence, Wharton reflects upon the changes that caused society to enforce its rules all the more strongly in an attempt to maintain its stability. In Ethan Frome she develops one of the generally accepted themes of naturalism: the waste of human potential because of the forces of society. In these novels Wharton moves beyond the usual realism found in much of her fiction and places her characters in naturalist roles.
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Date Issued: 1996
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15270
Subject Headings: Wharton, Edith,--1862-1937--Criticism and interpretation., Naturalism in literature., Literature and society--United States., American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
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Title: Seeking Closure: Japanese Manga and Re-Imagining Word War II.
Creator: Bommarito, Concetta Marie, McGuirk, Carol, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: I discuss Keiji Nakazawa's Barefoot Gen and Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira manga (Japanese comics) series in light of theoretical approaches to comics and graphic novels that were developed by Will Eisner and Scott McCloud. Chapter one summarizes the fusing of traditional Japanese scroll art and Western comics that would create manga and describe the cultural conditions after World War II that drove this fusion. The chapter also describes the principle of closure that this form relies so heavily on....
Show moreI discuss Keiji Nakazawa's Barefoot Gen and Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira manga (Japanese comics) series in light of theoretical approaches to comics and graphic novels that were developed by Will Eisner and Scott McCloud. Chapter one summarizes the fusing of traditional Japanese scroll art and Western comics that would create manga and describe the cultural conditions after World War II that drove this fusion. The chapter also describes the principle of closure that this form relies so heavily on. Chapter two discusses how manga have directly dealt with the repercussions of World War II; it is focused primarily on Barefoot Gen. Chapter three examines how censorship and taboos have hindered discussions ofthe war in Japan, how this censorship contributed to the terrorist attacks of Aum Shinrikyo, and how manga such as Akira have used subtle codes and references to introduce to Japan further discuss the true legacy of World War II.
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Date Issued: 2007
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000895
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Title: The attributes of a hero: The essential elements of place and irony in Austen and Trollope.
Creator: Collins, Judith., Florida Atlantic University, McGuirk, Carol
Abstract/Description: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park and Anthony Trollope's The Warden and Barchester Towers all follow the experiences of a timid heroine or hero. The setting and the dramatic irony of each novel play important roles in the characterization of these gentle "heroes." Elements of irony and of setting thus are inseparable from the portraits of both Austen's Fanny Price and Trollope's Mr. Harding. An exploration of each element--of the timid hero, of the element of place, and of dramatic irony--proves...
Show moreJane Austen's Mansfield Park and Anthony Trollope's The Warden and Barchester Towers all follow the experiences of a timid heroine or hero. The setting and the dramatic irony of each novel play important roles in the characterization of these gentle "heroes." Elements of irony and of setting thus are inseparable from the portraits of both Austen's Fanny Price and Trollope's Mr. Harding. An exploration of each element--of the timid hero, of the element of place, and of dramatic irony--proves that the three elements are equally important in determining the novels' distinctive portraitures.
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Date Issued: 1989
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14554
Subject Headings: Austen, Jane,--1775-1817--Criticism and interpretation, Trollope, Anthony,--1815-1882--Criticism and interpretation
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Title: A fox in faux-Joyce: The functions of autobiography in James Joyce's "Ulysses".
Creator: King, John., Florida Atlantic University, McGuirk, Carol
Abstract/Description: In the "Scylla and Charybdis" chapter of Ulysses, the novel appears to make a problem out of its autobiographical suppositions. Stephen Dedalus argues that the works of Shakespeare have a biographical basis, and previously in Ulysses Stephen has imagined himself as a Shakespearean character. Stephen is also the protagonist of Joyce's earlier work, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. In the "Scylla and Charybdis" episode, the association between Joyce and Stephen seems confirmed when the...
Show moreIn the "Scylla and Charybdis" chapter of Ulysses, the novel appears to make a problem out of its autobiographical suppositions. Stephen Dedalus argues that the works of Shakespeare have a biographical basis, and previously in Ulysses Stephen has imagined himself as a Shakespearean character. Stephen is also the protagonist of Joyce's earlier work, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. In the "Scylla and Charybdis" episode, the association between Joyce and Stephen seems confirmed when the narrator's voice, sometimes conflated with Stephen's, reports thoughts particularly appropriate for James Joyce. This chapter, however, lures one into an autobiographical reading of Stephen that does not remain tenable throughout the novel. Apparent autobiography in Ulysses becomes a problem (rather than an easy option for interpretation) when one finds autobiographical references significantly changed in the "Circe" chapter--changed so that the essential ambiguity of Joyce's autobiographical references becomes clear.
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Date Issued: 1996
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15338
Subject Headings: Joyce, James,--1882-1941--Ulysses, Joyce, James,--1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation, Autobiography in literature, Self in literature
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Title: The ethics of courtship in three novels by Anthony Trollope.
Creator: Rigolo, Flora Solana., Florida Atlantic University, McGuirk, Carol
Abstract/Description: Anthony Trollope's novels provide insight into the courtship rituals of the Victorian Era. Three novels in particular, Miss Mackenzie, The American Senator, and The Way We Live Now, are analyzed in this thesis. Primary emphasis is placed on the social and moral repercussions that result when women violate the subtle codes of courtship. Honesty versus lying, the difficulties of the older woman, the creation of individual identity within a restrictive society, the definition of a "lady," and...
Show moreAnthony Trollope's novels provide insight into the courtship rituals of the Victorian Era. Three novels in particular, Miss Mackenzie, The American Senator, and The Way We Live Now, are analyzed in this thesis. Primary emphasis is placed on the social and moral repercussions that result when women violate the subtle codes of courtship. Honesty versus lying, the difficulties of the older woman, the creation of individual identity within a restrictive society, the definition of a "lady," and the laws pertaining to marriage rights are my major focal points. Trollope rewards and punishes his female characters based on his version of Victorian moral dogma.
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Date Issued: 1998
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15589
Subject Headings: Trollope, Anthony,--1815-1882--Criticism and interpretation, Courtship
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Title: The unguarded gate: Infiltrations of patriarchy in Sheri S. Tepper's "The Gate to Women's Country".
Creator: Zitner-Crawford, Thorun., Florida Atlantic University, McGuirk, Carol
Abstract/Description: Throughout The Gate to Women's Country, Sheri S. Tepper covers the patriarchal structures of her imagined society with a veneer of feminism. The novel contains many hallmarks of a feminist utopia, such as a concern for the environment and a distrust of men and technology; yet all are undercut by the traditional structures that she retains of class, military machismo, sexuality, and motherhood. An attempt to read The Gate to Women's Country as "a fortifying tonic" (Simmons 22) leads one...
Show moreThroughout The Gate to Women's Country, Sheri S. Tepper covers the patriarchal structures of her imagined society with a veneer of feminism. The novel contains many hallmarks of a feminist utopia, such as a concern for the environment and a distrust of men and technology; yet all are undercut by the traditional structures that she retains of class, military machismo, sexuality, and motherhood. An attempt to read The Gate to Women's Country as "a fortifying tonic" (Simmons 22) leads one instead into the "politics of despair" ("Reconsiderations" 44), as one realizes that Tepper is exaggerating, not resolving, the problematic relations that continue to exist between genders. Too perceptive to be overly optimistic about "surmounting humanity's most dangerous flaws" (Miller 15), Tepper's dystopian novel ultimately acknowledges that the genetic solutions of "Women's Country" are nearly futile. She leaves the struggling utopian and dystopian forces of the novel unresolved and men and women in perpetual conflict.
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Date Issued: 1999
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15720
Subject Headings: Tepper, Sheri S--Gate to women's country, Tepper, Sheri S--Criticism and interpretation, Patriarchy
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Title: George Eliot, Toni Morrison and the question of difference.
Creator: Klass, Traci Michele., Florida Atlantic University, McGuirk, Carol
Abstract/Description: Toni Morrison suggests that there is "an enormous difference in the writing of black and white women." Despite her blanket assertion, however, Morrison's second novel Sula (1973) employs structures, themes, characters, and plot developments similar to George Eliot's in The Mill on the Floss (1860). Though significant differences mark the societies and cultures from which Eliot and Morrison write, numerous similarities between Maggie Tulliver and Sula Peace suggest that the "differences"...
Show moreToni Morrison suggests that there is "an enormous difference in the writing of black and white women." Despite her blanket assertion, however, Morrison's second novel Sula (1973) employs structures, themes, characters, and plot developments similar to George Eliot's in The Mill on the Floss (1860). Though significant differences mark the societies and cultures from which Eliot and Morrison write, numerous similarities between Maggie Tulliver and Sula Peace suggest that the "differences" between black and white female writers do not preclude some shared and corresponding traits.
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Date Issued: 2000
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12686
Subject Headings: Eliot, George,--1819-1880--Mill on the Floss, Morrison, Toni--Sula, Feminist criticism
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Title: Swift's Gulliver: A question of freedom of slavery.
Creator: Goldstein, Lori Sue., Florida Atlantic University, McGuirk, Carol
Abstract/Description: Although Jonathan Swift wrote Gulliver's Travels in 1726, Swift's outrage at personal, social, economic, and political slavery can still be felt today, and his work continues to be significant. Criticizing institutions and human nature's tendency to trust those who wield political authority, Swift condemns our reluctance to safeguard our freedom. Swift exposes submissiveness and its consequence: a loss of liberty. Whether Swift uses allusions to Irish history, direct personal statement, or...
Show moreAlthough Jonathan Swift wrote Gulliver's Travels in 1726, Swift's outrage at personal, social, economic, and political slavery can still be felt today, and his work continues to be significant. Criticizing institutions and human nature's tendency to trust those who wield political authority, Swift condemns our reluctance to safeguard our freedom. Swift exposes submissiveness and its consequence: a loss of liberty. Whether Swift uses allusions to Irish history, direct personal statement, or Gulliver as persona to reveal the self-destructive consequences of passivity, he "deliberately taunts those who might be so wise and yet remain so stupid" (Bloom 34).
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Date Issued: 1991
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14713
Subject Headings: Swift, Jonathan,--1667-1745.--Gulliver's travels.
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Title: The Role of Animals in the Poetry of Anna Barbauld, Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Creator: Bauer, Valerie, McGuirk, Carol, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: Late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century poets concentrated some of their creative energies into poetry in which animals are used to comment on human experience. Such poets as Anna Barbauld, Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge employ images of animals for social and political commentary as well as individual and private psychological exploration. All four poets comment on why and how animals are significant in a human context, exploring the larger political and...
Show moreLate-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century poets concentrated some of their creative energies into poetry in which animals are used to comment on human experience. Such poets as Anna Barbauld, Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge employ images of animals for social and political commentary as well as individual and private psychological exploration. All four poets comment on why and how animals are significant in a human context, exploring the larger political and social concerns symbolized by animal misfortune, and simultaneously drawing (sometimes unintentionally) attention to animal welfare.
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Date Issued: 2007
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000893
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Title: CHARACTERIZATIONS OF TRAUMA IN LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY SCIENCE FICTION.
Creator: Owsiany, Dylan, McGuirk, Carol, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: The prevalence and impact of trauma has been mischaracterized and misinterpreted throughout time, and this has undoubtedly affected the health and treatment of countless people throughout history. Considering this, some authors impacted by firsthand or cultural traumas before and/or during World War II and the Cold War era, went on to write works of science fiction that handled heavy and taboo characterizations of traumatic stress. Looking back at these short stories and novels with a modern...
Show moreThe prevalence and impact of trauma has been mischaracterized and misinterpreted throughout time, and this has undoubtedly affected the health and treatment of countless people throughout history. Considering this, some authors impacted by firsthand or cultural traumas before and/or during World War II and the Cold War era, went on to write works of science fiction that handled heavy and taboo characterizations of traumatic stress. Looking back at these short stories and novels with a modern clinical perspective of the impacts of trauma, one can see how these characterizations turned out to be strikingly accurate, or, at the very least, closer to truth than perspectives and hypotheses of their era. Two short stories, “Thunder and Roses” by Theodore Sturgeon and “Scanners Live in Vain” by Cordwainer Smith, and two novels, The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick and Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, will be examined.
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Date Issued: 2019
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013402
Subject Headings: Science fiction--20th century, Trauma, Vonnegut, Kurt Slaughterhouse-five, Dick, Philip K Man in the high castle, Sturgeon, Theodore Thunder and roses, Smith, Cordwainer, 1913-1966--Criticism and interpretation
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Title: Creating a Religious Divide: Journeys Through Hell in British and American Science Fiction.
Creator: Sachdev, Advitiya, McGuirk, Carol, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Science fiction, like any other genre, is sub-divided into categories. Yet scholars in the field have long debated the existence of multiple, regional sf genres. The most critiqued of these classifications is between sf produced in Britain, and America. Though Britain remains the birthplace of sf, American author have undoubtedly left a mark on the genre. Scholars mark this difference in the writing styles and themes of authors in these regions. To examine this difference, I analyze two...
Show moreScience fiction, like any other genre, is sub-divided into categories. Yet scholars in the field have long debated the existence of multiple, regional sf genres. The most critiqued of these classifications is between sf produced in Britain, and America. Though Britain remains the birthplace of sf, American author have undoubtedly left a mark on the genre. Scholars mark this difference in the writing styles and themes of authors in these regions. To examine this difference, I analyze two authors that have worked on a common theme: religion and in particular, the concept of hell. Evaluating the arguments put forth by critics such as Peter Kuczka, Cy Chavin, Franz Rottensteiner, and others; I examine works by Scottish author Iain m. Banks, and American author Cordwainer Smith to determine the validity of this classification.
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Date Issued: 2016
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004785, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004785
Subject Headings: Science fiction--Religious aspects., Religion and literature--English-speaking countries., Science fiction, English--History and criticism., Science fiction, American--History and criticism., Fantasy fiction, English--History and criticism., Fantasy fiction, American--History and criticism.
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Title: AN ANALYSIS OF THE FOUCAULDIAN ELEMENTS OF POWER-KNOWLEDGE IN STANISLAW LEM’S SOLARIS AND ARTHUR C. CLARKE’S RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA.
Creator: Junco, Marie, McGuirk, Carol, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: The aim of this thesis is to explore the elements of power-knowledge in two SF novels written amid the Space Race during the Cold War era. While the dominant interest of both Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris and Arthur C. Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama generally revolves around the implications of human interactions with an alien presence, my focus is primarily on the power structures that propel those interactions: questioning the intentions of scientific pursuits and analyzing the effects of...
Show moreThe aim of this thesis is to explore the elements of power-knowledge in two SF novels written amid the Space Race during the Cold War era. While the dominant interest of both Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris and Arthur C. Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama generally revolves around the implications of human interactions with an alien presence, my focus is primarily on the power structures that propel those interactions: questioning the intentions of scientific pursuits and analyzing the effects of Foucauldian power relations on the human individual. I do this by applying Foucault’s theories of the duality of the subject and his work on biopolitics. What is gleaned is not only a study of the interests of power, but an emphasis on the intersectional restrictions of power and cognition.
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Date Issued: 2020
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013478
Subject Headings: Lem, Stanisław Solaris, Lem, Stanisław--Criticism and interpretation, Clarke, Arthur C (Arthur Charles), 1917-2008 Rendezvous with rama, Clarke, Arthur C (Arthur Charles), 1917-2008--Criticism and interpretation, Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984, Science and philosophy
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Title: The Terror of Utopia: Examining Doubles as the Source for Cognition in Margaret Atwood’s Fiction.
Creator: Toulas, Rosemary, McGuirk, Carol, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Much has been written about the effectiveness of speculative fiction, especially utopian works. In this thesis I will examine the source of fear in Margaret Artwood’s works The Handmaid’s Tale and Oryx and Crake using Sigmund Freud’s “The Uncanny” to illustrate the terror of doubles as they appear in the novels. The terror in The Handmaid’s Tale comes from the descriptions of distorted physical environments, while the horror in Oryx and Crake emanates from the familiar yet twisted animals and...
Show moreMuch has been written about the effectiveness of speculative fiction, especially utopian works. In this thesis I will examine the source of fear in Margaret Artwood’s works The Handmaid’s Tale and Oryx and Crake using Sigmund Freud’s “The Uncanny” to illustrate the terror of doubles as they appear in the novels. The terror in The Handmaid’s Tale comes from the descriptions of distorted physical environments, while the horror in Oryx and Crake emanates from the familiar yet twisted animals and characters found inside the corporate compounds. Through the recognition of these doubles as uncanny, Atwood’s work moves readers to cognition and social action.
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Date Issued: 2016
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004781, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004781
Subject Headings: Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis), in literature., Doubles in literature.
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Trollope, Anthony,--1815-1882--Criticism and interpretation (2)	+ -
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism. (1)	+ -
Austen, Jane,--1775-1817--Criticism and interpretation (1)	+ -
Autobiography in literature (1)	+ -
Beckett, Samuel,--1906---Criticism and interpretation (1)	+ -

Beckett, Samuel,--1906---Dramatic works (1)	+ -
Caldwell, Erskine,--1903---Criticism and interpretation (1)	+ -
Chopin, Kate,--1851-1904--Characters--Women (1)	+ -
Clarke, Arthur C (Arthur Charles), 1917-2008 Rendezvous with rama (1)	+ -
Clarke, Arthur C (Arthur Charles), 1917-2008--Criticism and interpretation (1)	+ -
Courtship (1)	+ -
Dick, Philip K Man in the high castle (1)	+ -
Doubles in literature. (1)	+ -
Eliot, George,--1819-1880--Mill on the Floss (1)	+ -
Fantasy fiction, American--History and criticism. (1)	+ -
Fantasy fiction, English--History and criticism. (1)	+ -
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