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THESIS, ANTITHESIS, SYNTHESIS: A THREE-PART DIALECTIC OF ELIZABETH BISHOP'S POETRY
Title
THESIS, ANTITHESIS, SYNTHESIS: A THREE-PART DIALECTIC OF ELIZABETH BISHOP'S POETRY.
Creator
STIRNEMANN, SHIRLEY A., Florida Atlantic University, Peyton, Ann
Abstract/Description
There is in Elizabeth Bishop's poetry a development which progresses from an objectified, basically Aristotelian, mode of presentation to a subjective mode controlled by post-Kantian ideas of self-awareness to a Husserlian phenomenological expression of integrated experience. By using a Hegelian three-part dialectic in which her three major books, North and South, Questions of Travel, and Geography III, are viewed respectively as thetic, antithetic, and synthetic levels of her aesthetic...
Show moreThere is in Elizabeth Bishop's poetry a development which progresses from an objectified, basically Aristotelian, mode of presentation to a subjective mode controlled by post-Kantian ideas of self-awareness to a Husserlian phenomenological expression of integrated experience. By using a Hegelian three-part dialectic in which her three major books, North and South, Questions of Travel, and Geography III, are viewed respectively as thetic, antithetic, and synthetic levels of her aesthetic development, Bishop's poetry may be seen to reflect the ontogenetic growth of the mind of western man and to be an adumbration of the same whole to part-to-whole to whole-of-parts schema which characterizes Western philosophical thought in general.
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Date Issued
1985
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14233
Subject Headings
Bishop, Elizabeth,--1911---Criticism and interpretation, Poets, American--20th century--History and criticism, Poetry, Modern--20th century
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Interview with Adrienne Martin
Title
Interview with Adrienne Martin.
Creator
Martin, Adrienne, Iadevaia, Vincenza, Pezzullo, Viviana, Tiberini, Federico
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00002999p
Subject Headings
Italian Americans, Italian American families, Oral history--Italy, Oral history, Oral history--United States., Italian Americans--History--20th century., Italian Americans--Florida--History, Immigrants--Italy--History--20th century
Format
Set of related objects
Americans all! The role of advertising in re-imaging ethnicity in America: the case of the war advertising council, 1939-1945
Title
Americans all! The role of advertising in re-imaging ethnicity in America: the case of the war advertising council, 1939-1945.
Creator
May, Jacqueline S., Fejes, Fred A., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies
Abstract/Description
Throughout America’s history the call for laborers has been filled by influxes of immigrants. Coinciding with the arrival of the first non-Anglo Saxon immigrants were negative attitudes about them, as they were deemed inferior and classified as lowerranking “others” by the dominant culture that needed them. Thus, the cycle of need and resentment was born to be repeated throughout the Nation’s history. In the first half of the twentieth century a shift occurred in American public perception of...
Show moreThroughout America’s history the call for laborers has been filled by influxes of immigrants. Coinciding with the arrival of the first non-Anglo Saxon immigrants were negative attitudes about them, as they were deemed inferior and classified as lowerranking “others” by the dominant culture that needed them. Thus, the cycle of need and resentment was born to be repeated throughout the Nation’s history. In the first half of the twentieth century a shift occurred in American public perception of, and attitudes towards, immigrant groups including eastern European Jews, Italians and the Irish among others. This shift was marked primarily in terms of race: Some immigrants went from being considered black to white -- from illegitimate to legitimate by the dominant culture. One reason for the increased acceptance of these ethnic groups was a concerted campaign sponsored by the United States Government to promote an extended identity to groups that had previously been excluded from the mainstream. In particular, the goal was to create a sense of nationalism, or “Americanism,” among diasporic immigrant groups, thus encouraging their participation in the war effort. The result of such campaigns was a re-imaging of ethnic groups previously classified as non-white and a path to perceived whiteness, and thus inclusion, for them. These campaigns, formulated by the Office of War Information and executed largely by the War Advertising Council, led to a marked increase in acceptance for immigrant groups by the dominant culture. By examining social messages through visual cultural artifacts this study explores notions about race, ethnicity, whiteness and the role of communication theory and practices in constructing (imaging) an identity of otherness.” This study delineates the historical formation and subsequent partial de-construction (re-imaging) of negative depictions and some stereotypes of ethnic Americans. This research explores the sources of these attitudes and behaviors and how misconceptions, misrepresentations and centuries-old stereotypes of non-Anglo ethnic Americans have been fluid through changing social perceptions fueled, in part, by government interventions.
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Date Issued
2014
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004136, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004136
Subject Headings
Advertising Council -- History -- 20th century, Americanization -- History -- 20th century, Immigrants -- United States -- History -- 20th century, Immigrants -- United States -- History -- 20th century, Public opinion -- United States -- History -- 20th century, World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Propaganda
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All power to the people
Title
All power to the people: the Black Panther Party as the vanguard of the oppressed.
Creator
Berman, Matthew., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description
The Black Panther Party was the most famous group born out of the Black Power Movement. Because of the group's inherent link to the Black Power Movement, and the group's slogan of "Black Power," many people, both black and white, believed, and continue to believe, that the Black Panther Party was a group with racial motives. However, this conceptualization of the Party was, and is, incorrect. While the Black Panther Party began as an outgrowth of the black civil rights movement, the Panthers...
Show moreThe Black Panther Party was the most famous group born out of the Black Power Movement. Because of the group's inherent link to the Black Power Movement, and the group's slogan of "Black Power," many people, both black and white, believed, and continue to believe, that the Black Panther Party was a group with racial motives. However, this conceptualization of the Party was, and is, incorrect. While the Black Panther Party began as an outgrowth of the black civil rights movement, the Panthers quickly evolved into a revolutionary vanguard with a non-racial, class-oriented agenda.
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Date Issued
2008
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/77656, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT77656
Subject Headings
African Americans, Politics and government, Civil rights movements, History, Black nationalism, History
Format
Document (PDF)
The art of ecology: should we practice what we preach? a review of Don Elgin's the comedy of the fantastic
Title
The art of ecology: should we practice what we preach? a review of Don Elgin's the comedy of the fantastic.
Creator
Miller, Arin, Comparative Studies Program, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Date Issued
2008-10-24
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/FADT165242p
Subject Headings
Fantastic fiction, American -- History and criticism, Elgin, Don D., American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism, Ecology in literature
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Interview with Vincent Zarrilli
Title
Interview with Vincent Zarrilli.
Creator
Zarrilli, Vincent, Iadevaia, Vincenza, Pezzullo, Viviana, Tiberini, Federico
Date Issued
2017-02-03
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003472p
Subject Headings
Italian Americans, Italian American families, Oral history--Italy, Oral history, Oral history--United States., Italian Americans--History--20th century., Italian Americans--Florida--History, Immigrants--Italy--History--20th century
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Set of related objects
Interview with Dan Pichney
Title
Interview with Dan Pichney.
Creator
Pichney, Dan, Iadevaia, Vincenza, Pezzullo, Viviana, Tiberini, Federico
Date Issued
2017-02-17
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003474p
Subject Headings
Italian Americans, Italian American families, Oral history--Italy, Oral history, Oral history--United States., Italian Americans--History--20th century., Italian Americans--Florida--History, Immigrants--Italy--History--20th century
Format
Set of related objects
Interview with Ann Blumberg Capone
Title
Interview with Ann Blumberg Capone.
Creator
Capone, Ann Blumberg, Iadevaia, Vincenza, Pezzullo, Viviana, Tiberini, Federico
Date Issued
2017-03-24
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003476p
Subject Headings
Italian Americans, Italian American families, Oral history--Italy, Oral history, Oral history--United States., Italian Americans--History--20th century., Italian Americans--Florida--History, Immigrants--Italy--History--20th century
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Set of related objects
Interview with Edmondo Catania and Angie Catania
Title
Interview with Edmondo Catania and Angie Catania.
Creator
Catania, Edmondo, Catania, Angie, Diraviam, Domenica
Date Issued
2019-02-18
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003482p
Subject Headings
Italian Americans, Italian American families, Oral history--Italy, Oral history, Oral history--United States., Italian Americans--History--20th century., Italian Americans--Florida--History, Immigrants--Italy--History--20th century
Format
Set of related objects
Interview with Jean Simonelli Giarrusso
Title
Interview with Jean Simonelli Giarrusso.
Creator
Giarrusso, Jean Simonelli, Iadevaia, Vincenza, Pezzullo, Viviana, Tiberini, Federico
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00002997p
Subject Headings
Italian Americans, Italian American families, Oral history--Italy, Oral history, Oral history--United States., Italian Americans--History--20th century., Italian Americans--Florida--History, Immigrants--Italy--History--20th century
Format
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Interview with Nicoletta Sorice (D'Vanzo)
Title
Interview with Nicoletta Sorice (D'Vanzo).
Creator
Sorice, Nicoletta (D'Avanzo), Diraviam, Domenica, Pezzullo, Viviana, Tiberini, Federico
Date Issued
2019-04-29
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003483p
Subject Headings
Italian Americans, Italian American families, Oral history--Italy, Oral history, Oral history--United States., Italian Americans--History--20th century., Italian Americans--Florida--History, Immigrants--Italy--History--20th century
Format
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New York's little Syria, 18810-1935
Title
New York's little Syria, 18810-1935.
Creator
Shibley, Gregory J., Sanua, Marianne R., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
Abstract/Description
This thesis argues that, from 1880 to 1935, Syrian immigrants, who comprised an enclave on the Lower West Side of Manhattan in New York City, sought to control the pace and extent of their assimilation into mainstream American society, by distancing themselves from their ethnicity, or by using their ethnicity to their advantage, or by combining both approaches to varying degrees, as they determined individually, rather than monolithically.
Date Issued
2014
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004160, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004160
Subject Headings
Syrians--United States--Emigration and immigration--19th century., Syrians--United States--Emigration and immigration--20th century., Syrians--United States--History--19th century., Syrians--United States--History--20th century., Syrian Americans--Ethnicity--History--20th century., Arab Americans--New York--Social conditions--19th century., Arab Americans--New York--Social conditions--20th century.
Format
Document (PDF)
Interview with Hattie Mae Pompey – ca. 2004
Title
Interview with Hattie Mae Pompey – ca. 2004.
Creator
Pompey, Hattie Ruth (Interviewee), Stein, Nancy (Interviewer)
Date Issued
2004-02-19, 2004-02-19
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT72814
Subject Headings
Delray Beach (Fla.), African American, Carver High School, Oral histories --Florida, Oral history, Florida --Race relations, African Americans --Segregation --Florida --History --20th century
Format
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black struggle for political and Civil Rights in Broward County, 1943-1989
Title
The black struggle for political and Civil Rights in Broward County, 1943-1989.
Creator
Kelleher, Richard V., Florida Atlantic University, Mohl, Raymond A.
Abstract/Description
During the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, Broward County blacks established their place in the ranks of freedom fighters. The Supreme Court decision of 1944 in the case of Smith v. Allright opened the door for the black community to become involved in the political process. Jim Crow laws were eliminated throughout the south. Other covert barriers are now being overcome. At-large elections that prevent black representation are being overturned. Annexation of black neighborhoods has still...
Show moreDuring the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, Broward County blacks established their place in the ranks of freedom fighters. The Supreme Court decision of 1944 in the case of Smith v. Allright opened the door for the black community to become involved in the political process. Jim Crow laws were eliminated throughout the south. Other covert barriers are now being overcome. At-large elections that prevent black representation are being overturned. Annexation of black neighborhoods has still not been accomplished to any great extent. As a result, thousands of Broward's black residents have no voice in municipal government. Qualified black residents are not registering to vote in numbers that reflect their population. Despite fair housing legislation, discrimination in housing is rampant. Police departments have yet to meet agreed quotas of black officers under federal consent decrees. Overt racism is not an acceptable attitude today, but covert racism is alive and well.
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Date Issued
1990
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14610
Subject Headings
African Americans--Civil rights--Florida--Broward County--History--20th century, Political rights--Florida--Broward County--History--20th century, Civil rights--Florida--Broward County--History--20th century, Broward County (Fla)--Race relations
Format
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evolution of hard-boiled detective fiction in "Black Mask"
Title
The evolution of hard-boiled detective fiction in "Black Mask".
Creator
O'Connor, Linda Marie., Florida Atlantic University, Anderson, David R.
Abstract/Description
Pulp fiction played an integral part in the development of mystery fiction through its establishment of hard-boiled fiction as a genre. Although a number of pulp magazines were popular between the 1920s and the 1940s, one of the most influential and well-remembered of these magazines was the Black Mask, which was the magazine primarily responsible for establishing "hard-boiled" detective fiction as a genre through the development of the hard-boiled fiction formula, as well as cementing the...
Show morePulp fiction played an integral part in the development of mystery fiction through its establishment of hard-boiled fiction as a genre. Although a number of pulp magazines were popular between the 1920s and the 1940s, one of the most influential and well-remembered of these magazines was the Black Mask, which was the magazine primarily responsible for establishing "hard-boiled" detective fiction as a genre through the development of the hard-boiled fiction formula, as well as cementing the careers of some of the most well-known mystery writers, such as Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and Erie Stanley Gardner. Through a close reading of these authors and other authors who appeared in the Black Mask from the 1920s to the 1940s, changes in societal values, as well as in hard-boiled fiction as a genre, may be seen.
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Date Issued
1995
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15141
Subject Headings
Detective and mystery stories, American--History and criticism, Crime in literature, American fiction--20th century, Literature and society--United States, Black mask
Format
Document (PDF)
Chicks to a flock: Restoration of community in the Porgy story
Title
Chicks to a flock: Restoration of community in the Porgy story.
Creator
Greenwald, Darren., Florida Atlantic University, Paton, Priscilla
Abstract/Description
In contrast to the widely held notion that an original work is typically superior in quality to its derivatives, Porgy and Bess, the opera, and Porgy, the play, present clearer conflicts between community and individualism than Porgy, the novel. Through narrative description, occasional dialogue, and some brief verse, Porgy, the novel, portrays the struggle between animalism and community. Porgy, the play, offers essentially the same story, but the visible actors and audible dialogue, more...
Show moreIn contrast to the widely held notion that an original work is typically superior in quality to its derivatives, Porgy and Bess, the opera, and Porgy, the play, present clearer conflicts between community and individualism than Porgy, the novel. Through narrative description, occasional dialogue, and some brief verse, Porgy, the novel, portrays the struggle between animalism and community. Porgy, the play, offers essentially the same story, but the visible actors and audible dialogue, more vividly creates community. Because these actors exchange their thoughts and feelings verbally, in much the same way as neighbors do, the play creates a more tangible sense of community interchange. The story's operatic treatment, in Porgy and Bess, adds a choral feature to the play's spoken exchanges. As the chorus acts as a communal voice, the opera present the most potent communal message.
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Date Issued
1996
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15250
Subject Headings
Heyward, DuBose,--1885-1940.--Porgy., Gershwin, George,--1898-1937.--Porgy and Bess., Community in literature., American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Format
Document (PDF)
Naturalist tendencies in three novels by Edith Wharton
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.
Format
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grassroots gospel
Title
The grassroots gospel: how spirituals and freedom songs democratized the Civil Rights Movement.
Creator
Bimmler, Lauren., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description
The presence of music, especially in the form of freedom songs, is a notable constant in the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Participants sang spirituals and freedom songs everywhere in the South - at mass meetings, demonstrations, and in jails. An engaging and participatory activity, singing unified, empowered, and historicized activists, allowing everyone an opportunity to be included in the action. Without these songs, the African-American communities across the...
Show moreThe presence of music, especially in the form of freedom songs, is a notable constant in the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Participants sang spirituals and freedom songs everywhere in the South - at mass meetings, demonstrations, and in jails. An engaging and participatory activity, singing unified, empowered, and historicized activists, allowing everyone an opportunity to be included in the action. Without these songs, the African-American communities across the South may not have been able to band together to become such a force for change; while the activists were the facilitators for progress, the songs were the inspiration. Freedom songs democratized the Civil Rights Movement, enabling the participation of ordinary people at a grassroots level, therefore creating a strong mass movement.
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Date Issued
2008
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/77657, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT77657
Subject Headings
Civil rights movements, History, Protest songs, History and criticism, African Americans, Civil rights, History and criticism, Spirituals (Songs), History and criticism
Format
Document (PDF)
Gregory Corso's "Bomb": A response to nuclear anxiety
Title
Gregory Corso's "Bomb": A response to nuclear anxiety.
Creator
Serrano, Janet West., Florida Atlantic University, Paton, Priscilla
Abstract/Description
Gregory Corso is a core member of the Beat Generation which evolved in America during the 1950s to question the causes of a perceived decline in postwar spiritual values. The Beats criticized an America that permitted the atomic explosions over Japan, the McCarthy discourse, the Cold War, and the policies of mistrust and paranoia these events engendered. Corso addressed the issue of nuclear anxiety and its controlling effect on life in a 1958 poem titled "Bomb." This paper analyzes "Bomb,"...
Show moreGregory Corso is a core member of the Beat Generation which evolved in America during the 1950s to question the causes of a perceived decline in postwar spiritual values. The Beats criticized an America that permitted the atomic explosions over Japan, the McCarthy discourse, the Cold War, and the policies of mistrust and paranoia these events engendered. Corso addressed the issue of nuclear anxiety and its controlling effect on life in a 1958 poem titled "Bomb." This paper analyzes "Bomb," viewing it as a work informed by Corso's life and by his times. In "Bomb," one of the earliest examples of nuclear literature, Corso seeks to neutralize the power of nuclear anxiety by imagining a natural and spiritual survival of the atomic apocalypse. His message reflects the moral and prophetic role he prescribes for poetry in championing the forces of life over death.
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Date Issued
1996
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15264
Subject Headings
Corso, Gregory--Criticism and interpretation, Corso, Gregory--Bomb, American poetry--20th century--History and criticism, Nuclear warfare in literature, Apocalyptic literature--History and criticism, Atomic bomb in literature, Antinuclear movement--Poetry, Beat generation
Format
Document (PDF)
John Updike
Title
John Updike: the role of women in his short fiction.
Creator
Rosen, Cindy M., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
There remain two recurring criticisms of John Updike's fiction. The first comes from feminist critics who condemn his negative portrayal of women, accusing his fiction of denigrating women. The second comes from late twentieth century critics who accuse him of avoiding political and historical discussions in his fiction. However, it is my contention that Updike is willing to address both of these concerns, and I arrive at such an argument by carefully analyzing his collection of short stories...
Show moreThere remain two recurring criticisms of John Updike's fiction. The first comes from feminist critics who condemn his negative portrayal of women, accusing his fiction of denigrating women. The second comes from late twentieth century critics who accuse him of avoiding political and historical discussions in his fiction. However, it is my contention that Updike is willing to address both of these concerns, and I arrive at such an argument by carefully analyzing his collection of short stories compiled in Too Far To Go: The Maples Stories. Within these stories, Updike's female characters illustrate the shifting gender paradigms over the course of the fifties, sixties, and seventies amidst the middle-class, suburban American milieu. Updike's women act as agents of history providing testament to the shifting gender paradigms and historical, cultural, political, and social milestones of a maturing country and its growing pains.
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Date Issued
2010
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/1927298
Subject Headings
Criticism and interpretation, Women in literature, American fiction, History and criticism
Format
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