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Title: The religion of William Butler Yeats.
Creator: Turso, Betty Doris., Florida Atlantic University, Peyton, Ann
Abstract/Description: William Butler Yeats created his own mythology which is a religion unto itself. He took the myths of ancient heroic Ireland and combined these with the dominant Christian beliefs in Ireland during his lifetime and created a new religion that would serve to unite Ireland that was divided along religious lines. My thesis will show that Yeats, out of a fardel of tales, created not only his own mythology but a religion as well. With the help of the theories of Joseph Campbell, I will prove that...
Show moreWilliam Butler Yeats created his own mythology which is a religion unto itself. He took the myths of ancient heroic Ireland and combined these with the dominant Christian beliefs in Ireland during his lifetime and created a new religion that would serve to unite Ireland that was divided along religious lines. My thesis will show that Yeats, out of a fardel of tales, created not only his own mythology but a religion as well. With the help of the theories of Joseph Campbell, I will prove that Yeats's writing provided a virtual medium through which he disseminated his belief system. Therefore, this exploration is essential to give a deeper understanding to the total scope of Yeats's work.
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Date Issued: 1996
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15273
Subject Headings: Yeats, W B--(William Butler),--1865-1939--Criticism and interpretation, Religious poetry--History and criticism, Religion in literature, Symbolism in literature
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Grendles Modor: Representation in a linguistic landscape.
Creator: Ciufo, Patience Corinne., Florida Atlantic University, Faraci, Mary
Abstract/Description: Beowulf has inspired readers and listeners since the eighth century, first as a performance then as a written poem. It is an epic tale of Anglo-Saxon warriors, life, and history. Recently, studies of Beowulf have introduced questions of twentieth-century gender stereotypes that provide a new understanding of the epic's characters and themes. However, these studies have delivered too simple a reading of complex characters like Grendel's mother and have led scholarship away from the poem. To...
Show moreBeowulf has inspired readers and listeners since the eighth century, first as a performance then as a written poem. It is an epic tale of Anglo-Saxon warriors, life, and history. Recently, studies of Beowulf have introduced questions of twentieth-century gender stereotypes that provide a new understanding of the epic's characters and themes. However, these studies have delivered too simple a reading of complex characters like Grendel's mother and have led scholarship away from the poem. To bring critics back to the poem, this study attempts to make the poem a landscape. When the total landscape, the language, style, alliteration, and violence (physical and emotional), is studied, the poem is opened up to more than just simple readings. In a landscape reading, Grendel's mother becomes a force strong enough to disrupt the structure of the language and to battle the barriers between female and male, warrior and monster, and pagan and nonpagan. A landscape that is as violent as the characters is discovered, one in which all life is celebrated.
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Date Issued: 1998
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15542
Subject Headings: Beowulf--Characters, English poetry--Old English, ca 450-1100--History and criticism, Stereotype (Psychology) in literature, Sex role in literature
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Jorie Graham and Alice Fulton: Mavericks of excess.
Creator: Elko, Heather A., Florida Atlantic University, Mitchell, Susan
Abstract/Description: Jorie Graham and Alice Fulton's poetries are distinguished by their styles of maximalist excess. They depict the superabundance of the world, including fragmentary contemporary culture, scientific phenomena, and the mind in its process of apprehending. Both poets use idiosyncratic non-verbal devices to account for variables and unworded concepts. Graham's style is verbally and linearly expansive, resisting closure in its long circumlocutions. She weaves contraries and complements into a...
Show moreJorie Graham and Alice Fulton's poetries are distinguished by their styles of maximalist excess. They depict the superabundance of the world, including fragmentary contemporary culture, scientific phenomena, and the mind in its process of apprehending. Both poets use idiosyncratic non-verbal devices to account for variables and unworded concepts. Graham's style is verbally and linearly expansive, resisting closure in its long circumlocutions. She weaves contraries and complements into a seamless whole that incorporates loose threads, "failures," and multiple subjectivities. Fulton's style is compressive, embedding heterogeneous subjects and exposing paradox linguistically and by means of satire. She employs wide ranges of diction and alludes to and parodies other written and spoken genres.
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Date Issued: 1997
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15376
Subject Headings: Graham, Jorie,--1951---Criticism and interpretation., Fulton, Alice--Criticism and interpretation., Language and languages--Style., Poetry--Themes, motives.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The crisis of freedom. A sermon, preached at the Free Church, in Lynn, on Sunday, June 11, 1854 by Samuel Johnson.
Creator: Johnson, Samuel 1822-1882, Crosby, Nichols, and Company
Abstract/Description: Includes verse. Free Church of Lynn (Lynn, Mass.) "Published by request of the society." "Boston: printed by Stacy and Richardson, No. 11 Milk Street"--Verso title page. FAU copy pages trimmed to 22 cm.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb17f12
Subject Headings: United States -- Fugitive slave law (1850) -- Sermons, Antislavery movements -- Massachusetts -- Sermons, Slavery -- United States, Bible -- Isaiah, V, 7 -- Sermons, Poetry, Sermons, American -- 19th century
Format: E-book

Title: Our obligations to defend the government of our country : a discourse on the war by Rev. Elias Nason, delivered at Exeter, N.H., April 21, 1861.
Creator: Nason, Elias 1811-1887
Abstract/Description: Includes verse. Caption title. FAU copy edges trimmed to 21 cm.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb19f2
Subject Headings: American Civil War (1861-1865), United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sermons, Sermons, American -- 19th century, Bible -- Luke, XII, 48 -- Sermons, Poems, Poetry
Format: E-book

Title: Nederlands toestand ontdekt en voorgedragen aan alle welmenende Nederlanders.
Abstract/Description: In verse. The (fictitious) printer taken from the colophon.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwflb4f13
Subject Headings: Austrian Succession, War of, 1740-1748 -- Campaigns -- Belgium -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800, Netherlands -- History -- 1714-1795 -- Sources -- Early works to 1800, Netherlands -- Politics and government -- 1714-1795 -- Early works to 1800, William -- V -- Prince of Orange -- 1748-1806 -- Poetry
Format: E-book

Title: Het groot toneel van verwarringen, in Amsterdam en elders vertoond, in de zomer des jaars 1787.
Creator: Huyser, C. J. de
Abstract/Description: Poetry. Uniform title: Monument voor Amsterdam in drie zangen. Part 2 of: Monument voor Amsterdam in drie zangen. Engraved series title-page and plates signed by Waardt del, de Huyzer, and Lehman.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwflb11f12
Subject Headings: Dutch literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism -- Early works to 1800, Dutch poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism -- Early works to 1800, Netherlands -- History -- 1714-1795 -- Sources -- Early works to 1800
Format: E-book

Title: Discovrs de M. Gvillavme, et de Iacqves Bon homme Paysant, svr la defaicte de 35 poulles & le cocq faicte en vn souper par 3 soldats.
Creator: Guillaume Maître 1555-1624?, Bonhomme, Jacques Paysan de Beauvoisis
Abstract/Description: A political satire.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwflb15f8
Subject Headings: France -- History -- Louis XIII, 1610-1643 -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800, France -- Politics and government -- 1610-1643 -- Early works to 1800, Political satire, French -- Early works to 1800
Format: E-book

Title: Janus Frankenius, aan Janus Liberius, zyne groetenisse :.
Creator: Francq van Berkhey, Johannes le 1729-1812
Abstract/Description: en Verzet teghen den schutterlycken schermslag ghegheven na de vrome borghers die den lossen digtmaker zeydt haar zelven ontschuttert te hebben. Janus Frankenius is Joannes Le Francq van Berkhey. Part of: J. Le Francq van Berkhey, Verzameling van Leydsche keur en hekeldichten, 1788.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwflb11f6
Subject Headings: Dutch literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism -- Early works to 1800, Dutch poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism -- Early works to 1800, Netherlands -- History -- 1714-1795 -- Sources -- Early works to 1800
Format: E-book

Title: The free Christian state and the present struggle : an address delivered before the Association of the alumni of Bowdoin college.
Creator: Prentiss, George Lewis 1816-1903, Bidwell, W. H. (Walter Hilliard) 1798-1881
Abstract/Description: "August 8, 1861." "John A. Gray, Printer, Stereotyper, and Binder"--Front cover. Includes verse. Includes bibliographical references. FAU copy has original printed wrappers; side stitched with cord.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb19f18
Subject Headings: Christianity -- United States, Constitutional history -- United States, Liberty, Poems, Poetry, Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- 19th century, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865, United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865, War -- Moral and ethical aspects
Format: E-book

Title: The Union : an address by the Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson, delivered before the Literary Societies of Amherst College, July 10th, 1861.
Creator: Dickinson, Daniel S. (Daniel Stevens) 1800-1866, James G. Gregory
Abstract/Description: Cover title. Includes verse. In printed wrappers, with advertisements including on back cover a list of 10 "War publications" in which The Union is listed as number 2.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb19f28
Subject Headings: Secession -- United States, Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- 19th century, Poems, Poetry, Politics and government, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865, United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865
Format: E-book

Title: Emily Dickinson: the language of a spiritually periipheral perspective.
Creator: Gallagher, Linda Pergolizzi., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Emily Dickinson was a poet who existed at the center of her nineteenth-century United States culture and yet wrote from a periphery located at the edge of her being. Integral to understanding her poetry is a contextual awareness of her spiritual struggle. The experience of cultural marginalization and the way it informs art through a peripheral perspective has been the focus of examination in much of modern and post-modern literary studies where attention is given as much to an author's...
Show moreEmily Dickinson was a poet who existed at the center of her nineteenth-century United States culture and yet wrote from a periphery located at the edge of her being. Integral to understanding her poetry is a contextual awareness of her spiritual struggle. The experience of cultural marginalization and the way it informs art through a peripheral perspective has been the focus of examination in much of modern and post-modern literary studies where attention is given as much to an author's cultural station as to his or her artistic creation. A close study of Emily Dickinson's poetry reveals a spiritually marginalized perspective which closely resembles the structural framework of cultural marginalization. While there are areas of Dickinson's poetic perspective where these two experiences merge, my examination of Dickinson concentrates on her personal spiritual liminality in her relationship with God as expressed in the context of her poetry and letters.
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Date Issued: 2007
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/47851
Subject Headings: Criticism and interpretation, Spirituality, Spiritual life in literature, Belief and doubt in literature
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Relief for East Tennessee : meeting at Cooper institute, Thursday evening, March 10, 1864.
Creator: Taylor, N. G. (Nathaniel Green) 1819-1887, William C. Bryant & Co.
Abstract/Description: Includes verse. Prefaced by a speech by Gen. Walbridge. Also published as no. 73 of the pamphlets of the Loyal Publication Society. FAU Libraries' copy has original printed wrappers; side stitched with cord.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb21f31
Subject Headings: American Civil War (1861-1865), Tennessee, East -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865, Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States, Poetry, Poems, Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- 19th century, Tennessee -- Economic conditions
Format: E-book

Title: The test oath and jury trial-- The law and the gospel!.
Creator: Cox, Samuel Sullivan 1824-1889
Abstract/Description: Law and the gospel! Speech of Honorable S.S. Cox. Notes: Cover title. Includes verse.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb23f49
Subject Headings: Congressional addresses -- 1879, Jury -- United States -- History, Law -- United States -- History -- Sources, Law and gospel, Oaths, Poems, Poetry, Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- 19th century, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
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Title: A gift from mistress to slave with an Empire's tag: Language of the law in the post-colonial matrices of Derek Walcott's "Omeros".
Creator: Kramer, Jennifer J., Florida Atlantic University, Sheehan, Thomas
Abstract/Description: The text focuses on the language of the law in Omeros , which is defined as "the representation and expression of social order, principles, morality, conscience, and conduct of a community or nation." The language of the law is inherent in the dynamics of the Caribbean's hybrid, cultural community and is revealed through Walcott's characters. Walcott attempts to resolve how the colonial cultural system has maintained cultural and socio-economic authority in a politically independent West...
Show moreThe text focuses on the language of the law in Omeros , which is defined as "the representation and expression of social order, principles, morality, conscience, and conduct of a community or nation." The language of the law is inherent in the dynamics of the Caribbean's hybrid, cultural community and is revealed through Walcott's characters. Walcott attempts to resolve how the colonial cultural system has maintained cultural and socio-economic authority in a politically independent West Indies. Walcott's characters view the language of the law and each other according to their cultural matrices. Helen is Walcott's key. Helen is the West Indian people, her yellow dress the language of the law, and the Empire's tag is the colonial cultural system. How Helen, in her yellow dress, is perceived by each character gives insight into that character's cultural system. The sum of these cultural matrices is Helen and defines "Caribbeanness."
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Date Issued: 2004
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13145
Subject Headings: Walcott, Derek.--Omeros., West Indian poetry, English.--Criticism and interpretation., Postcolonialism--Commonwealth countries., West Indies--Languages., Politics and literature--Caribbean Area--History--20th century.
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Title: The influence of Eliot's modernism in two early novels and autobiographies of Doris Lessing.
Creator: Burns, M. Catherine., Florida Atlantic University, Buckton, Oliver
Abstract/Description: There is deep personal and artistic empathy for T. S. Eliot's modernist poetry in Doris Lessing's early novels and two later autobiographies. As Eliot did, Lessing uses the modernist doctrine of difficulty to portray the education and development of the writer-artist as a long, problematic process, involving prodigious, rigorous, energetic reading efforts, and self-conscious reflexive writing. Lessing also frequently quotes other authors, and she thoroughly uses subverted allusive schemes and...
Show moreThere is deep personal and artistic empathy for T. S. Eliot's modernist poetry in Doris Lessing's early novels and two later autobiographies. As Eliot did, Lessing uses the modernist doctrine of difficulty to portray the education and development of the writer-artist as a long, problematic process, involving prodigious, rigorous, energetic reading efforts, and self-conscious reflexive writing. Lessing also frequently quotes other authors, and she thoroughly uses subverted allusive schemes and extrusive structural complications to render realism in her narratives more vividly. Her mature aesthetic sets at a distance a sense of personal displacement, exile, and uncertain cultural identity and echoes Eliot's dictum that the Poet needed to be impersonal and to seek the significant emotion. Her search for moral intelligibility by narrative framing that combines both fiction and autobiography in autobiographical space or 'pact' may also arguably be modernist.
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Date Issued: 2005
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13294
Subject Headings: Eliot, TS--(Thomas Stearns),--1888-1965--Criticism and interpretation, Eliot, TS--(Thomas Stearns),--1888-1965--Influence, Lessing, Doris,--1919-2013--Criticism and interpretation, Modernism (Literature), Poetry--20th century--History and criticism
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Title: Let us go then, you and I: Teaching "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock".
Creator: Pence, Ava Whelan., Florida Atlantic University, Childrey, John
Abstract/Description: The teaching of the Modernist movement can be frustrating for both teachers and students. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," which is commonly found in high school textbooks, can be daunting for teachers who do not know how to approach it. The purpose of this document is to supply teachers with the knowledge they need to effectively teach this important poem. The Modernist movement as a whole is examined, as is the life of T. S. Eliot. The poem is elucidated on a stanza-by-stanza basis;...
Show moreThe teaching of the Modernist movement can be frustrating for both teachers and students. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," which is commonly found in high school textbooks, can be daunting for teachers who do not know how to approach it. The purpose of this document is to supply teachers with the knowledge they need to effectively teach this important poem. The Modernist movement as a whole is examined, as is the life of T. S. Eliot. The poem is elucidated on a stanza-by-stanza basis; this examination is followed by individual essays on theme, allusion, and metaphor. Last, the teacher will find questions to pose to students and ways in which these issues can be tackled by the student critic.
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Date Issued: 2001
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12843
Subject Headings: Eliot, T S--(Thomas Stearns),--1888-1965--Love song of J Alfred Prufrock, Poetry, Modern--Study and teaching, Eliot, T S--(Thomas Stearns),--1888-1965--Criticism and interpretation
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Title: Antwoord op eenen brief van den wel ed. gebooren heere E. Huisinga, door eenen Overysselschen burger, betreffende de handelwyzen van Zyne Hoogheid en deszelfs gerecommandeerde en met de magistratuure begunstigde persoonen, met aanwyzing van derzelver handelwyzen omtrent de burgeren en inwoonderen dier provincie gehouden. : Alles met klaarblykelyke voorbeelden en onloochenbaare bewyzen bevestigd.
Creator: Recht, J. de, Huisinga, E
Abstract/Description: Antwoord op eenen brief van den wel ed. gebooren heere E. Huisinga, door eenen Overysselschen burger, betreffende de handelwyzen van Zyne Hoogheid en deszelfs gerecommandeerde en met de magistratuure begunstigde persoonen, met aanwyzing van derzelver handelwyzen omtrent de burgeren en inwoonderen dier provincie gehouden. : Alles met klaarblykelyke voorbeelden en onloochenbaare bewyzen bevestigd.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwflb4f8
Subject Headings: Netherlands -- History -- 1714-1795 -- Sources -- Early works to 1800, Netherlands -- Politics and government -- 1714-1795 -- Early works to 1800, William -- V -- Prince of Orange -- 1748-1806 -- Poetry
Format: E-book

Title: The genius and posture of America : an oration delivered before the citizens of Boston, July 4, 1857.
Creator: Alger, William Rounseville
Abstract/Description: Includes verse. Including the votes of both branches of the City Council refusing a vote of thanks to the orator. FAU owns two copies. First copy has original grey printed wrappers, side stitched with cord.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb18f12
Subject Headings: Fourth of July addresses -- 1857, Fourth of July celebrations -- Massachusetts -- Boston, Fourth of July orations -- 19th century, Poems, Poetry, Slavery -- United States, Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- 19th century, United States -- Politics and government -- 1853-1857
Format: E-book

Title: Sinfonâia en rojo: el prisma de Elisabeth Mulder.
Creator: Del Olmo Lâopez, Itxaso., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
Abstract/Description: This thesis aims to rescue the name of Elisabeth Mulder, a Spanish female poet who started to publish her first poetry books around the rise of the Generation of 1927 in Spain. The importance of this work hinges on the recognition of Mulder as a female poet whose work has been marginalized from the literary canon, like that of many other women of her era. This thesis focuses on Mulde''s third poetry collection, Sinfonâia en rojo, which was published in 1929 and stands out for its symbolic...
Show moreThis thesis aims to rescue the name of Elisabeth Mulder, a Spanish female poet who started to publish her first poetry books around the rise of the Generation of 1927 in Spain. The importance of this work hinges on the recognition of Mulder as a female poet whose work has been marginalized from the literary canon, like that of many other women of her era. This thesis focuses on Mulde''s third poetry collection, Sinfonâia en rojo, which was published in 1929 and stands out for its symbolic richness and its romantic and modernist features. Part of this research deals with the symbolism of the color red and the meanings that red acquires within the context of the poems. The main leitmotivs of Sinfonâia en rojo are the images of fire and blood, which are used to make reference to both the emotional and the physical world of the poetic voice. The research also focuses on the connections between Mulder's work and that of her contemporaries, and it suggests that she was in contact with the literary world of her era.
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Date Issued: 2013
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3362329
Subject Headings: Influence, Criticism and interpretation, Spanish poetry, Women authors, Criticism and interpretation, Spanish poetry, Criticism and interpretation, Women and literature, Generacâion 27 (Group of poets)
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