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- Title
- Signs and Wonders.
- Creator
- Bresciano, Cora, Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University
- Abstract/Description
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Bud and Scooter, two teenaged cousins, are making the trip of their young lives in the midst of the Great Depression. Their family friend in rural Florida, Jake Gilchrist, head of a poor family with three small children, has died while visiting his sick mother on Long Island. His wife cannot afford to have his body shipped back by train for burial, so Bud and Scooter volunteer for a goodwill mission and grand adventure: they take Bud's father's pickup truck, drive a thousand miles up US 1,...
Show moreBud and Scooter, two teenaged cousins, are making the trip of their young lives in the midst of the Great Depression. Their family friend in rural Florida, Jake Gilchrist, head of a poor family with three small children, has died while visiting his sick mother on Long Island. His wife cannot afford to have his body shipped back by train for burial, so Bud and Scooter volunteer for a goodwill mission and grand adventure: they take Bud's father's pickup truck, drive a thousand miles up US 1, pick up Jake's body, pack it in ice, and transport it back to Florida. Along the way they meet people (both common and extraordinary), they work out their differences (with words and with fists), they come face-to-face with beauty and goodness as well as with poverty and evil.. .and they get to see the Empire State Building.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2007
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000901
- Subject Headings
- Symbolism in literature., Depressions--1929--Fiction., Literature and society--United States--20th century--Fiction
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Naturalist tendencies in three novels by Edith Wharton.
- Creator
- Mullins, Marjorie L., Florida Atlantic University, McGuirk, Carol
- Abstract/Description
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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.
Show less - 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
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The evolution of hard-boiled detective fiction in "Black Mask".
- Creator
- O'Connor, Linda Marie., Florida Atlantic University, Anderson, David R.
- Abstract/Description
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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.
Show less - 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)
- Title
- Mobile Modernity: Transportation in the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.
- Creator
- Johnston, Carrie E., Furman, Andrew, Florida Atlantic University
- Abstract/Description
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A central paradox in modernism is its disdain for mass culture, despite mass culture 's undeniable presence in modernist literature. American authors writing during the early twentieth century tried to establish themselves as "highbrow" by leaving the U.S. and traveling to Europe. In doing so, they created a particular aesthetic characterized by depictions of the transportation that facilitated this travel. These depictions reveal modernism's dependence on mass culture, and more importantly,...
Show moreA central paradox in modernism is its disdain for mass culture, despite mass culture 's undeniable presence in modernist literature. American authors writing during the early twentieth century tried to establish themselves as "highbrow" by leaving the U.S. and traveling to Europe. In doing so, they created a particular aesthetic characterized by depictions of the transportation that facilitated this travel. These depictions reveal modernism's dependence on mass culture, and more importantly, create a space in which modernist authors can negotiate what was once a choice between high or low culture, exile or tourist, and ultimately, modernism or mass culture. Analyzing the car and train scenes in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night and Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises reveals the hybrid spaces made available to these authors through transportation.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2008
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000930
- Subject Headings
- Fitzgerald, F Scott--(Francis Scott),--1896-1940--Tender is the night--Criticism and interpretation, Hemingway, Ernest,--1899-1961--Sun also rises--Criticism and interpretation, Literature and society--United States, Symbolism in literature, Travel in literature, Postmodernism (Literature)
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- Document (PDF)
