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A troubled past: reconfiguring postwar suburban American identity in revolutionary road, 1961 and mad men, 2007-2012
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A troubled past: reconfiguring postwar suburban American identity in revolutionary road, 1961 and mad men, 2007-2012.
Creator
Kiley, Erin M, Ulin, Julieann V., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
This thesis takes a cultural studies approach to representations of post-war U.S. suburbia in Richard Yates’ 1961 novel Revolutionary Road, as well as in the contemporary AMC television series Mad Men. These texts explore the postwar time period, which holds a persistently prominent and idealized space in the collective cultural imagination of America, despite the fact that it was a period troubled by isolationism, containment culture, rampant consumerism, and extreme pressure to conform to...
Show moreThis thesis takes a cultural studies approach to representations of post-war U.S. suburbia in Richard Yates’ 1961 novel Revolutionary Road, as well as in the contemporary AMC television series Mad Men. These texts explore the postwar time period, which holds a persistently prominent and idealized space in the collective cultural imagination of America, despite the fact that it was a period troubled by isolationism, containment culture, rampant consumerism, and extreme pressure to conform to social roles. This project disrupts the romantic narrative of postwar America by focusing on the latent anxiety within the suburban landscape—by interrogating the performative nature of the planned communities of the 1950s and 1960s and exposing the tensions that were borne out of the rise of domesticity and consumerism. This project explores the descent into a society obsessed with consumerism and conformity, and seeks to interrogate the culture’s false nostalgia for the time period.
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Date Issued
2013
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA0004031
Subject Headings
Families -- United States -- History -- 20th century, Mad Men (Television program) -- Criticism and interpretation, Nostalgia, Suburban life -- 20th century -- Criticism and interpretation, Suburban life -- 20th century -- Social aspects, Television programs -- Social aspects
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Myth, Modernism and Mentorship: Examining François Fénelon’s Influence on James Joyce’s Ulysses
Title
Myth, Modernism and Mentorship: Examining François Fénelon’s Influence on James Joyce’s Ulysses.
Creator
Curran, Robert, Ulin, Julieann V., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
The purpose of this thesis will be to examine closely James Joyce’s Ulysses with respect to François Fénelon’s The Adventures of Telemachus. Joyce considered The Adventures of Telemachus to be a source of inspiration for Ulysses, but little scholarship considers this. Joyce’s fixation on the role of teachers and mentor figures in Stephen’s growth and development, serving alternately as cautionary figures, models or adversaries, owes much to Fénelon’s framework for the growth of Telemachus....
Show moreThe purpose of this thesis will be to examine closely James Joyce’s Ulysses with respect to François Fénelon’s The Adventures of Telemachus. Joyce considered The Adventures of Telemachus to be a source of inspiration for Ulysses, but little scholarship considers this. Joyce’s fixation on the role of teachers and mentor figures in Stephen’s growth and development, serving alternately as cautionary figures, models or adversaries, owes much to Fénelon’s framework for the growth of Telemachus. Close reading of both Joyce’s and Fénelon’s work will illuminate the significance of education and mentorship in Joyce’s construction of Stephen Dedalus. Leopold Bloom and Stephen’s relationship in Joyce’s Ulysses closely mirrors that of Mentor and Telemachus as seen in Fénelon’s The Adventures of Telemachus. Through these numerous parallels, we will see that mentorship serves as a better model for Bloom and Stephen’s relationship in Ulysses than the more critically prevalent father-son model.
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Date Issued
2016
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004583, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004583
Subject Headings
Fénelon, Franc̜ois de Salignac de La Mothe-,--1651-1715--Influence., Fénelon, Franc̜ois de Salignac de La Mothe-,--1651-1715.--The adventures of Telemachus--Criticism and interpretation., Joyce, James,--1882-1941.--Ulysses--Criticism and interpretation., Mentoring of authors., Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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