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Title: STRUCTURALISM'S CRITIQUE OF THE ROMANTIC MYTH OF THE AUTHOR.
Creator: MONTALBANO, MARGARET., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: Structuralism's Critique of the Romantic Myth of the Author is aimed at the Romantic concept of the author as a special individual possessed of unique sensibilities and God-like powers of creation. The structuralist analysis of this myth is an attempt to decompose - to separate into its component parts - the Romantic image of the author. This act of decomposition enables structuralism to demonstrate the construction of this myth and to suggest its implausability from a perspective informed by...
Show moreStructuralism's Critique of the Romantic Myth of the Author is aimed at the Romantic concept of the author as a special individual possessed of unique sensibilities and God-like powers of creation. The structuralist analysis of this myth is an attempt to decompose - to separate into its component parts - the Romantic image of the author. This act of decomposition enables structuralism to demonstrate the construction of this myth and to suggest its implausability from a perspective informed by structuralist theory. In the course of this analysis, structuralism is able to suggest some of the functions of the myth within literature as well as within contemporary Western culture.
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Date Issued: 1983
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14176
Subject Headings: Structuralism (Literary analysis), Authorship, Romanticism
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Title: THE ETHICS OF DIALOGIC AUTHORSHIP: COLLABORATIVE WOMEN’S WRITING IN THE FRENCH, FRANCOPHONE, AND ITALIAN TRADITIONS.
Creator: Pezzullo, Viviana, Munson, Marcella Lee, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: This dissertation investigates the ethics of authorial collaboration in contemporary collaborative women’s writing and its effect on the power dynamics inherent in the writing process. Collaborative writing occupies a continuum, from ethnographic autobiography, in which the writer outranks the generally anonymous subject, to the celebrity “ghostwritten” autobiography, which overturns this hierarchy. This study focuses more narrowly on more covert forms of collaboration implying a differential...
Show moreThis dissertation investigates the ethics of authorial collaboration in contemporary collaborative women’s writing and its effect on the power dynamics inherent in the writing process. Collaborative writing occupies a continuum, from ethnographic autobiography, in which the writer outranks the generally anonymous subject, to the celebrity “ghostwritten” autobiography, which overturns this hierarchy. This study focuses more narrowly on more covert forms of collaboration implying a differential of symbolic capital that foregrounds asymmetrical writing relationships. Importantly, these asymmetrical relationships cannot be unproblematically reduced to the general (or generic) conception of “coauthorship,” turning instead towards a form of paratextual dialogue that acknowledges the presence of diverse and sometimes conflicting authorial voices that manifest themselves in various ways in different parts of the text. By focusing on a variety of covert collaborative forms, including so-told narratives from different epochs and traditions, the dissertation will expand our conception of collaborative writing and simultaneously develop a more dialogic notion of authorship, putting in conversation Bakhtinian concepts of dialogism, heteroglossia, and polyphony with feminist theory. The case studies present in the dissertation, ranging from feminist journals of the 1970s to slave narratives, provide the crucial function of offering a profound and carefully nuanced series of contexts in which to examine the deeper moral principles and obligations that tie collaborators to each other. Simultaneously, this analysis aims to start a discussion about privilege in the writing collaborative process as well as issues of minority representation in literature. The relationship between authorial voices that hold a differential of symbolic capital also invites to reflect on the complicated sociocultural dynamics between socalled “dominant” or “prestige” languages–what Pascale Casanova calls “dominating” languages–and “minority” languages (such as Italian dialects and Guadeloupean Creole). For this reason, starting from the Bakhtinian concept of heteroglossia this dissertation leads to a sociolinguistic analysis of the linguistic habits of collaborators, highlighting how language becomes one of the forms of power imbalance.
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Date Issued: 2021
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013845
Subject Headings: Sociolinguistics, Authorship—Collaboration, Ethics, Women's writing
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Title: “Between my life that is over and my life to come”: Embodying Authorial Ambivalence in Fred D'Aguiar's Feeding the Ghosts (1997).
Creator: Gifford, Sheryl C., Machado, Elena, Graduate College
Date Issued: 2011-04-08
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3164529
Subject Headings: Authorship --Sex differences, Caribbean literature (English) --History and criticism, Caribbean Area --Fiction
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Title: Toward a pragmatics of intent: cognitive approaches in creative and critical writing.
Creator: Wolfe, Lois., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
Abstract/Description: Locus of an author poses questions of intentionality, how intention is discovered, expressed, hidden, revealed and interpreted. The purpose of the study is to find and apply productive interdisciplinary concepts in intentionality detection, decoding and evaluation in fictional texts. The investigation integrates traditions in literature, linguistics, cognitive science and creative writing, posing a pragmatics of intent that complements and complicates precepts in reader reception-based...
Show moreLocus of an author poses questions of intentionality, how intention is discovered, expressed, hidden, revealed and interpreted. The purpose of the study is to find and apply productive interdisciplinary concepts in intentionality detection, decoding and evaluation in fictional texts. The investigation integrates traditions in literature, linguistics, cognitive science and creative writing, posing a pragmatics of intent that complements and complicates precepts in reader reception-based constructivism. Basic to a vision of pragmatic strategies: 1) situating effect and affect in an embodied mind; 2) acknowledging mutual and/or oppositional intentionalities which an embodied author and embodied reader bring to the process of fictional communication; 3) accepting language as communication that requires cognitive translation of consensually-agreed upon symbols into private representations in an embodied mind; 4) assuming that an author's fictionalizing consciousness is more discernible w hen it is navigating tensions of selection, proportion, intervention and perspective. Perceptual and close reading of J.M. Coetzee's Foe yields descriptive problematics. Analytical readings in a neglected byway of I.A. Richards' New Criticism provide pragmatic cues for detecting and evaluating intentionalities in prose. Three cross-disciplinary strategies emerge to enhance perceptual and close readings of fictional texts: 1) awareness of priming effects in form and content; 2) identification of markedness patterns; and 3) perception of tensible connections in prosaic language and artistic devices., The study concludes that: reading in tensible awareness of author intentionality adds productively to critical analysis and argument; acknowledging positioned voices in texts supports ethical criticism and multicultural aesthetics; reading to apprehend perceptual units (image structures sensed through story) supports and contextualizes close reading of propositional units(discourse/language) . The formal element of perspective emerges as the most intensive locus of the reader's sense of integrated consciousness and management of effect in fiction. Perspective can create the most ergative construction of authorial perspective, i.e., one in which transitive energy appears equalized and the subject and patient / writer and reader positions in syntax can pivot.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/165946
Subject Headings: Intentionality (Philosophy), Philosophy of mind, Attribution (Social psychology), Reportage literature (Authorship), Creative writing, Methodology
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Title: The Sorcerer’s Apprentices: Authorship and Sound Aesthetics in Walt Disney’s Fantasia.
Creator: Fernandez, Daniel, Guneratne, Anthony R., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies
Abstract/Description: This thesis makes three claims new to the critical literature onWalt Disney’s 1940 film Fantasia. Setting the scene by placing a spotlight on the long-serving Philadelphia Orchestra conductor Leopold Stokowski, it contextualizes his pervasive influence, as well as contributions by others that shaped Fantasia and defined the film’s stylistic elements. Inspired by recent critical debates on post-silent era filmmaking and theories of authorship, it makes a case for Fantasia being the culmination...
Show moreThis thesis makes three claims new to the critical literature onWalt Disney’s 1940 film Fantasia. Setting the scene by placing a spotlight on the long-serving Philadelphia Orchestra conductor Leopold Stokowski, it contextualizes his pervasive influence, as well as contributions by others that shaped Fantasia and defined the film’s stylistic elements. Inspired by recent critical debates on post-silent era filmmaking and theories of authorship, it makes a case for Fantasia being the culmination of a “sound film” and notes that its displays of individual artistic talent makes it a noteworthy example of distributed authorship. Fantasia remains a unique experiment in Disney’s filmmaking in that it acquired its eventual form only because of decisions taken during production since no absolute “blue-print” for the finished film existed at the time it went into production, when a large selection of musical numbers were assigned to teams of animators.
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Date Issued: 2017
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004854, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004854
Subject Headings: Stokowski, Leopold--1882-1977., Authorship., Animated film music., Musical films.
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Title: The animalcules of Adam: & other small tales.
Creator: von Kursell, Mikaela, Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Inspired by the baroque prose of Melissa Pritchard, The Animalcules of Adam: & Other Small Tales is a genre-bending short story collection that incorporates elements of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and translation. Spanning in subject and setting, from the primitive bear rituals of Finland to the coroner’s inquests of 19th century England, the purpose of this thesis project is to develop a uniquely immersive voice, while ostensibly investigating the origins of curious inventions, including the...
Show moreInspired by the baroque prose of Melissa Pritchard, The Animalcules of Adam: & Other Small Tales is a genre-bending short story collection that incorporates elements of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and translation. Spanning in subject and setting, from the primitive bear rituals of Finland to the coroner’s inquests of 19th century England, the purpose of this thesis project is to develop a uniquely immersive voice, while ostensibly investigating the origins of curious inventions, including the microscope, the kaleidoscope, and the first English dictionary. This collection borrows from, and deliberately manipulates, the texts of important historical figures, such as Walt Whitman, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek and Robert Cawdrey, in an effort to make a home in the voice of another. It is a playful and linguistically sensitive study of the nature of invention; a meta-fictional commentary on the anxiety (and ecstasy) of influence; and above all else, a celebration of the written word.
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Date Issued: 2014
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004170, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004170
Subject Headings: Pritchard, Melissa--Influence., Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.), Short stories, American., Authorship., Storytelling., Shared virtual environments.
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Title: The possibilities for school leadership discourse within the dominant discourse of public education: a critical autoethnography.
Creator: Webster, Mary., College of Education, Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology
Abstract/Description: This study investigates the dominant discourse of the failure of public education and the 'reform du jour' response ; and seeks ways school leaders could disrupt and transform to create possible alternate discourses for schools. This critical autoethnography included interviews, a focus group, document analysis and a research journal permitting participant research at the heart of a high school reading department. The data were synthesized in ways that made sense of power, practices, and...
Show moreThis study investigates the dominant discourse of the failure of public education and the 'reform du jour' response ; and seeks ways school leaders could disrupt and transform to create possible alternate discourses for schools. This critical autoethnography included interviews, a focus group, document analysis and a research journal permitting participant research at the heart of a high school reading department. The data were synthesized in ways that made sense of power, practices, and culture allowing the personal to become valid data. ... This narrative illustrated the complexity of the emotional context and illustrated how school leadership discourse could turn the dialogue away from an economic and back to a teaching and learning relationship. The narrative aimed to give rise to a counter narrative, but found that the site of the high school reading department was currently too confused, too complex and too contradictory to establish any meaningful conclusions for its future that are not underpinned by extensive reforms designed to end its isolation.
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Date Issued: 2012
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3359160
Subject Headings: Educational leadership, Autoethnography, Authorship, Critical pedagogy, Professional learning communities, Teaching, Philosophy
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Title: Beginning a novel.
Creator: Daniels, Hal Eric., Florida Atlantic University, Childrey, John, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Writing a novel is a formidable task. The average 300-page novel must contain a beginning, middle and end and is comparable to the structure of the movie screenplay. The latter comprises a first act in which characters and their situation are "set up;" a second act, which reveals the conflicts of the characters; and a third act, in which the situation and conflicts are resolved. The author, a community college writing teacher, recommends that his students create vivid characters and then...
Show moreWriting a novel is a formidable task. The average 300-page novel must contain a beginning, middle and end and is comparable to the structure of the movie screenplay. The latter comprises a first act in which characters and their situation are "set up;" a second act, which reveals the conflicts of the characters; and a third act, in which the situation and conflicts are resolved. The author, a community college writing teacher, recommends that his students create vivid characters and then write an outline. The outline will serve as a roadmap, guiding the students from the beginning of their novels (the set up) to the end. Several famous authors, including Stephen King and Elmore Leonard, insist they do not use outlines. Rather, they create their characters and project the novel to its logical conclusion, according to the parameters of character. However, screenwriting guru Syd Field disagrees. Field believes an outline, written on a paradigm diagram, will keep the storyline on course and result in a more satisfying ending. The author agrees with Field.
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Date Issued: 2002
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12906
Subject Headings: Fiction--Technique, Creative writing, Fiction--Authorship, Fiction--Outlines, syllabi, etc
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The Journey of Art Doll: World-Building in Contemporary Narrative.
Creator: Taber, Robin E., Bargsten, Joey, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies
Abstract/Description: Games, movies, television, and interactive media make use of World-Building. World-Building essentially creates an elaborate invented universe in order to give a story context. In other words it generates a back-story designed to enhance the cathartic experience and promote engagement by the reader, viewer or participant. Some examples of World-Building include Halo, World of WarCraft and Game of Thrones. Stories need context to be fully understood and experienced. One describes a situation,...
Show moreGames, movies, television, and interactive media make use of World-Building. World-Building essentially creates an elaborate invented universe in order to give a story context. In other words it generates a back-story designed to enhance the cathartic experience and promote engagement by the reader, viewer or participant. Some examples of World-Building include Halo, World of WarCraft and Game of Thrones. Stories need context to be fully understood and experienced. One describes a situation, the environment, sensations, smells, sounds and sensory perception to give the audience a fuller, richer experience. World-Building provides context through history, textures, laws, physics and motivations. The written portion of this thesis describes the process of generating a fantasy world. The visual portion uses a character-driven narrative to examine larger themes such as psychological transformation and pursuing one’s dream against the odds.
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Date Issued: 2017
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004909, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004909
Subject Headings: Interactive multimedia., Fantasy fiction--Authorship., Fantasy literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc., Imaginary places in literature., Languages, Artificial.
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Title: Ecoqueer: Moving Beyond Ecocomposition's Heteronormative Binaries.
Creator: Hoover, Megan L., Barrios, Barclay, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: An examination of ecocomposition reveals that despite being careful to embrace all humans, it is still operating from a heterononnative standpoint. This perspective has led to an exclusion of gay male writers from its place-based approach to the study of the production of writing. By including the work of gay nature writer James Schuyler, the boundaries of ecocomposition are expanded to include yet another way of moving beyond restrictive cultural dualisms. Schuyler's work shows that...
Show moreAn examination of ecocomposition reveals that despite being careful to embrace all humans, it is still operating from a heterononnative standpoint. This perspective has led to an exclusion of gay male writers from its place-based approach to the study of the production of writing. By including the work of gay nature writer James Schuyler, the boundaries of ecocomposition are expanded to include yet another way of moving beyond restrictive cultural dualisms. Schuyler's work shows that definitions of masculinity need to be expanded to include gay males, and also highlights how sexual identity and setting interact to produce various interpretations of the self in one's writing. An expansion of ecocomposition results in a truly liberatory theory and pedagogy, one that encourages interactions that promote of all kinds of writing by all kinds of writers.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000929
Subject Headings: Human ecology in literature, Literature, Modern--Criticism and interpretation, Environmental literature--Authorship--21st century, Homosexuality and literature--United States, English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--Social aspects--United States
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Title: The Trojan horse: Monique Wittig's war on gender.
Creator: Olson, Catherine L., Florida Atlantic University, Shaktini, Namascar
Abstract/Description: Language, and more specifically gender within language, is the central component in French feminist writer Monique Wittig's war on gender. In her works Les Guerilleres and Le Corps lesbien, Wittig uses a deconstructionist methodology to wage war on the binary gender construct that privileges the masculine and reduces the feminine to the position of inferior and "Other." In order to accomplish her project of subverting the existing phallogocentric ideology and displacing the gender system that...
Show moreLanguage, and more specifically gender within language, is the central component in French feminist writer Monique Wittig's war on gender. In her works Les Guerilleres and Le Corps lesbien, Wittig uses a deconstructionist methodology to wage war on the binary gender construct that privileges the masculine and reduces the feminine to the position of inferior and "Other." In order to accomplish her project of subverting the existing phallogocentric ideology and displacing the gender system that denies women any claim to the universal, Wittig experiments with pronouns, expands the notion of the theory of universalism, creates neologisms, revisions myths, epics, and fairy tales, and interweaves secondary narratives within her texts. With these literary strategies, Wittig succeeds in creating a Trojan horse capable of destroying old oppressive forms and generating new revolutionary discourse which expands the semantic space for females.
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Date Issued: 1996
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15245
Subject Headings: Wittig, Monique--Criticism and interpretation, French language--Gender, French language--Sex differences, French literature--20th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc, Women and literature--France--History--20th century, Feminism and literature--France--History--20th century, Fiction--Authorship--Sex differences
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