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- Initiation Motifs in Robert Cormier's Novels.
- Creator
- Witten, Ruth Wilson, Coyle, William, Florida Atlantic University
- Abstract/Description
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A central theme in the novels of Robert Cormier is the confrontation between the individual and society. Because the protagonists are teenagers, this encounter represents a form of initiation or rite of passage into the adult world. Numerous symbolic images relate the initiation experiences of Cormier's characters to the initiation rituals and practices of primitive tribes. Because the images reveal perversions of modern initiation ordeals and corruption of the mentors who guide them,...
Show moreA central theme in the novels of Robert Cormier is the confrontation between the individual and society. Because the protagonists are teenagers, this encounter represents a form of initiation or rite of passage into the adult world. Numerous symbolic images relate the initiation experiences of Cormier's characters to the initiation rituals and practices of primitive tribes. Because the images reveal perversions of modern initiation ordeals and corruption of the mentors who guide them, aberrant values are transmitted. The abundance of symbolic imagery elevates Cormier's work to a significant voice in contemporary mythology. Instead of mystical monsters, Cormier's novices must face the institutional evils found in religion, education, government, the military, international terrorism, and experimental medicine. Most of the youthful heroes fail to complete the passage satisfactorily; some are annihilated by it. Cormier warns that the implacable establishment can corrupt and destroy both individuals and itself.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1987
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000978
- Subject Headings
- Cormier, Robert--Criticism and interpretation, Young adult fiction
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Malamud and the Mythic Hero: A Study in Four Novels of Quest.
- Creator
- Carlin, Nancy, Coyle, William, Florida Atlantic University
- Date Issued
- 1970
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000904
- Subject Headings
- Malamud, Bernard--Characters--Heroes., Heroes in literature.
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Negative capability and isolation in James Weldon Johnson's "The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man".
- Creator
- Iannicelli, Regina., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
- Abstract/Description
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There is much disagreement and uncertainty among critics over the message in James Weldon Johnson's novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man. It has been misconstrued as a "passing novel" or as another novel with the "tragic mulatto" theme. In James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man the double consciousness of the protagonist reveals the central concerns Johnson had about racial identity and individual psychology. The protagonist's choices are between isolation and...
Show moreThere is much disagreement and uncertainty among critics over the message in James Weldon Johnson's novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man. It has been misconstrued as a "passing novel" or as another novel with the "tragic mulatto" theme. In James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man the double consciousness of the protagonist reveals the central concerns Johnson had about racial identity and individual psychology. The protagonist's choices are between isolation and integration, the central issue in Johnson's later published pamphlet Negro Americans What Now? He believed that successful integration could occur through the arts and education. By the protagonist's revealing that he is capable of experiencing negative capability in Europe, Johnson describes the atmosphere to be striven for in America through social change.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1992
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14852
- Subject Headings
- Johnson, James Weldon,--1871-1938--Criticism and interpretation, Johnson, James Weldon,--1871-1938--Autobiography of an ex-coloured man, African Americans in literature, Racism
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- RICHARD BRAUTIGAN AND THE PASTORAL ROMANCE.
- Creator
- GRADDY, JULIA COLOMITZ., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
- Abstract/Description
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Three of Richard Brautigan's novels extensively employ the American pastoral motif in a predominantly romance form. All contrast the urban American present with a simpler, idealized pastoral setting. Working within each book is the "return to nature" mystique or impulse, treated comically or ironically. In A Confederate General from Big Sur, the "return to nature" impulse is comically linked to an extended metaphor of the Civil War. The combination denigrates the pastoral time away, creating...
Show moreThree of Richard Brautigan's novels extensively employ the American pastoral motif in a predominantly romance form. All contrast the urban American present with a simpler, idealized pastoral setting. Working within each book is the "return to nature" mystique or impulse, treated comically or ironically. In A Confederate General from Big Sur, the "return to nature" impulse is comically linked to an extended metaphor of the Civil War. The combination denigrates the pastoral time away, creating a comic burlesque. In watermelon Sugar "returns to nature" in a fantasy, postindustrial Eden. Far from depicting the successful attainment of the yearned-for simplicity in a second Eden, Brautigan critically and ironically renders the perfect pastoral paradise. In Trout Fishing in America, the narrator searches for the pastoral ideal in urban America. A viable pastoral retreat is attained through the power of the imagination that reconciles contemporary industrialized America to its pastoral past.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1978
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13916
- Subject Headings
- Brautigan, Richard--Criticism and interpretation.
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- THE VANISHED FRONTIER IN THE WORKS OF LARRY MCMURTRY.
- Creator
- VAUGHAN, ELIZABETH ANN., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
- Abstract/Description
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The existence of a vast frontier prior to the twentieth century afforded great opportunities and produced an optimism among the American people. When the lands filled up, the frontier vanished and with it that optimism. In order to recapture the feeling of hope associated with the existence of a frontier, a whole mythology was built around the Old. West and its chief representative, the cowboy. Modern Texans, the subjects of Larry McMurtry's novels, are well acquainted with legends of the Old...
Show moreThe existence of a vast frontier prior to the twentieth century afforded great opportunities and produced an optimism among the American people. When the lands filled up, the frontier vanished and with it that optimism. In order to recapture the feeling of hope associated with the existence of a frontier, a whole mythology was built around the Old. West and its chief representative, the cowboy. Modern Texans, the subjects of Larry McMurtry's novels, are well acquainted with legends of the Old West. But the myth bears little resemblance to their own lives in a hectic, rapidly changing modern Texas. It is necessary for the McMurtry character to appreciate his heritage but sever himself from it in order to cope with the twentieth century. In a closed society limitations must be accepted and one must find contentment in his own era rather than trying to escape to another.
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- 1976
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13817
- Subject Headings
- McMurtry, Larry
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- THE INFLUENCE OF JOHN MILTON ON THE FICTION OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.
- Creator
- FERRARA, ANTHONY EDWARD., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
- Abstract/Description
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Nathaniel Hawthorne ~rew extensively on the poetry of John Milton for his fiction. Hawthorne praised Milton in his works and often referred to his poems. Many of Hawthorne's garden scenes have their symbolic roots in the Miltonic Eden, and his Blithedale Romance displays a great familiarity with Milton's! Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle (Comus). Hawthorne's late romance, The Marble Faun, employs the Miltonic theme of man's fall from grace and often parallels the structure of Paradise Lost.
- Date Issued
- 1975
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13754
- Subject Headings
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel,--1804-1864., Milton, John,--1608-1674--Influence--Hawthorne.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A STUDY OF THE INITIATION THEME IN THE WORKS OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD.
- Creator
- MCFREDERICK, CAROL ANN., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
- Abstract/Description
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This thesis explores the initiation theme as it relates to F. Scott Fitzgerald's work. The Basil Duke Lee series which involves the learning experiences between the ages of eleven and seventeen serves as a point of comparison with other fiction by Fitzgerald. Basil Lee's response to initiation is compared and contrasted with masculine protagonists like Anson Hunter, Anthony Patch, Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway and Dick Diver and with feminine characters like Josephine Perry. A study is made to...
Show moreThis thesis explores the initiation theme as it relates to F. Scott Fitzgerald's work. The Basil Duke Lee series which involves the learning experiences between the ages of eleven and seventeen serves as a point of comparison with other fiction by Fitzgerald. Basil Lee's response to initiation is compared and contrasted with masculine protagonists like Anson Hunter, Anthony Patch, Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway and Dick Diver and with feminine characters like Josephine Perry. A study is made to rate the success of each initiation and to determine the elements which are required for a satisfactory initiation.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1974
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13687
- Subject Headings
- Fitzgerald, F Scott--(Francis Scott),--1896-1940, Initiations in literature
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- EASTERN THEMES IN THE WORK OF HENRY MILLER.
- Creator
- SHEFFIELD, NORMAN LOUIS, JR., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
- Abstract/Description
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Henry Miller has been underrated, misunderstood, and attacked by critics since the publication of his first novel, Tropic of Cancer, in 1934. One possible reason for this hostility is his use of concepts from Hinduism, Taoism, and Zen Buddhism which are unfamiliar to many of his critics. Miller's use of Eastern ideas has been partial and perhaps intuitive rather than intentional, but recognition of this aspect of Miller's thought enhances a reader's appreciation and understanding of his...
Show moreHenry Miller has been underrated, misunderstood, and attacked by critics since the publication of his first novel, Tropic of Cancer, in 1934. One possible reason for this hostility is his use of concepts from Hinduism, Taoism, and Zen Buddhism which are unfamiliar to many of his critics. Miller's use of Eastern ideas has been partial and perhaps intuitive rather than intentional, but recognition of this aspect of Miller's thought enhances a reader's appreciation and understanding of his novels and suggests that Miller has prepared the way for younger writers like Norman Mailer, William S. Burroughs, and J. P. Donleavy.
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- 1973
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13550
- Subject Headings
- Miller, Henry,--1891-1980--Criticism and interpretation
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- "None of us are androgynous": Androgyny in William Faulkner's "The Wild Palms".
- Creator
- Dawsey, Teresa Russell., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
- Abstract/Description
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Androgyny in literature is not a new topic. In William Faulkner's The Wild Palms, however, the significance of androgyny as theme has been largely overlooked. Androgyny is defined as the harmonious balance derived from accepting those individual aspects defined culturally and socially as masculine and feminine beyond the physical and biological. In this novel, Harry Wilbourne, a doctor and scientist, denies his androgyny while Charlotte Rittenmeyer, his lover and a sculptor, finds comfort and...
Show moreAndrogyny in literature is not a new topic. In William Faulkner's The Wild Palms, however, the significance of androgyny as theme has been largely overlooked. Androgyny is defined as the harmonious balance derived from accepting those individual aspects defined culturally and socially as masculine and feminine beyond the physical and biological. In this novel, Harry Wilbourne, a doctor and scientist, denies his androgyny while Charlotte Rittenmeyer, his lover and a sculptor, finds comfort and harmony in both her masculine and feminine traits. Harry faces a gender identity crisis when Charlotte, pregnant, decides to abort their child. Only after Charlotte dies of a botched abortion does Harry accept his memories--his responsibility for his past life with Charlotte (a masculine characteristic)--as well as his grief--over Charlotte's death and the loss of the grand passion he shared with her (feminine emotions). Harry, reborn, becomes a man: harmonious in his androgyny.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1998
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15560
- Subject Headings
- Androgyny (Psychology) in literature., Faulkner, William,--1897-1962--Wild palms
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The mythic quest for selfhood in Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye," "Song of Solomon," and "Beloved".
- Creator
- Golden, Diane M., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
- Abstract/Description
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Toni Morrison's purpose in her novels is to encourage her readers to imitate her heroes' journey in their own lives. Through her protagonists' successes and failures on their monomythic quests (to use the term of Joseph Campbell), Morrison educates her readers. Campbell states that a successful hero must complete three phases: separation, initiation, and return. In The Bluest Eye, Pecola Breedlove's poor choices cause failure; she stays in the separation phase. Milkman Dead from Song of...
Show moreToni Morrison's purpose in her novels is to encourage her readers to imitate her heroes' journey in their own lives. Through her protagonists' successes and failures on their monomythic quests (to use the term of Joseph Campbell), Morrison educates her readers. Campbell states that a successful hero must complete three phases: separation, initiation, and return. In The Bluest Eye, Pecola Breedlove's poor choices cause failure; she stays in the separation phase. Milkman Dead from Song of Solomon reaches the initiation stage but fails to return with his boon. Denver of Beloved is the only successful heroine; she returns to the world with a treasure, providing Morrison's readers with a fully heroic model.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1994
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15053
- Subject Headings
- Morrison, Toni--Criticism and interpretation., African Americans in literature., Morrison, Toni.--Bluest eye., Morrison, Toni.--Song of Solomon., Morrison, Toni.--Beloved.
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Games and sports in John Irving's "A Prayer for Owen Meany".
- Creator
- Morse, Nanci Hubbard., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
- Abstract/Description
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Games and sports in life reveal the lifestyles, beliefs, and rituals of man. Games and sports in literature, then, become important tools for the author as he uses them as metaphor, as a game for himself, and as a game for the reader. In John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, three types of games and sports are used. First is the game Irving plays to entertain himself. He creates a whimsical, playful novel characterized by absurd characters and situations. The second category is the use of...
Show moreGames and sports in life reveal the lifestyles, beliefs, and rituals of man. Games and sports in literature, then, become important tools for the author as he uses them as metaphor, as a game for himself, and as a game for the reader. In John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, three types of games and sports are used. First is the game Irving plays to entertain himself. He creates a whimsical, playful novel characterized by absurd characters and situations. The second category is the use of sports and games as metaphor, using pretend games, organized games, and the Arts as a game. The third game is the game of the author playing a game with the reader by changing recognizable standards. The reader plays by figuring out the new rules. The protagonist, Owen Meany, is a whimsical Christ-figure who comes of age through playing games and sports, and serves God through his perfection of the slam dunk.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1994
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15043
- Subject Headings
- Irving, John,--1942---Prayer for Owen Meany., Irving, John,--1942---Criticism and interpretation., Games in literature.
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Elements of the Arthurian Cycle in the works of Walter Van Tilburg Clark.
- Creator
- Hodgson, John W., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
- Abstract/Description
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Walter Van Tilburg Clark, prior to his success as a popular writer, wrote as his first M.A. thesis a redaction of the legend of Tristram, one of the tales commonly associated with the works composing the Arthurian Cycle. In his thesis, Clark demonstrated a thorough knowledge of the Arthurian legends, a knowledge which manifests itself in two of his novels, The Ox-Bow Incident and The Track of the Cat. Tracing these echoes through the two novels reveals that the archetypal relationship to the...
Show moreWalter Van Tilburg Clark, prior to his success as a popular writer, wrote as his first M.A. thesis a redaction of the legend of Tristram, one of the tales commonly associated with the works composing the Arthurian Cycle. In his thesis, Clark demonstrated a thorough knowledge of the Arthurian legends, a knowledge which manifests itself in two of his novels, The Ox-Bow Incident and The Track of the Cat. Tracing these echoes through the two novels reveals that the archetypal relationship to the Arthurian legends strengthens the thematic and character development in each novel and gives Clark's work a more universal appeal.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1994
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15029
- Subject Headings
- Clark, Walter Van Tilburg,--1909-1971--Criticism and interpretation, Cycles (Literature)
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Kurt Vonnegut's passive protagonists.
- Creator
- Wotton, Christopher Robert., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
- Abstract/Description
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In an ever-changing society beset by technological growth, Kurt Vonnegut has found dissatisfaction with traditional masculine behavioral patterns that perpetuate masculine aggression. Vonnegut abandons gender-specific roles to propose alternative methods of behavior through his creation of passive protagonists. These passive protagonists have a nurturing element and an ability to share their essence with others. This feminine nurturing element is seen by Vonnegut as a critical element...
Show moreIn an ever-changing society beset by technological growth, Kurt Vonnegut has found dissatisfaction with traditional masculine behavioral patterns that perpetuate masculine aggression. Vonnegut abandons gender-specific roles to propose alternative methods of behavior through his creation of passive protagonists. These passive protagonists have a nurturing element and an ability to share their essence with others. This feminine nurturing element is seen by Vonnegut as a critical element essential for humanity's evolution and salvation. The passive protagonists examined are Eliot Rosewater in God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, Billy Pilgrim in Slaughterhouse-Five, and Rabo Karabekian in Bluebeard.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1993
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14911
- Subject Headings
- Vonnegut, Kurt--Criticism and interpretation, Men in literature
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Six Dickens eccentrics.
- Creator
- Butler, Margaret Venning., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
- Abstract/Description
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Charles Dickens liked to create eccentric pairs within his novels by contrasting one benevolent with one unscrupulous caricature. In his first novel, Pickwick Papers, good-hearted Samuel Pickwick is set off against deceitful Alfred Jingle. In Dombey and Son, produced mid-point in his writing career, compassionate Captain Ned Cuttle is distinguished from cunning Major Joseph Bagstock. In his last completed novel, Our Mutual Friend, humanitarian Nicodemus Boffin counterposes corrupt Silas Wegg....
Show moreCharles Dickens liked to create eccentric pairs within his novels by contrasting one benevolent with one unscrupulous caricature. In his first novel, Pickwick Papers, good-hearted Samuel Pickwick is set off against deceitful Alfred Jingle. In Dombey and Son, produced mid-point in his writing career, compassionate Captain Ned Cuttle is distinguished from cunning Major Joseph Bagstock. In his last completed novel, Our Mutual Friend, humanitarian Nicodemus Boffin counterposes corrupt Silas Wegg. These characters are humorously portrayed through their appearance and speech, as well as through the farcical situations in which Dickens places them. They also become metaphors for human qualities, such as greed, naivete, pride and compassion, thereby clarifying Dickens's serious themes.
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- 1993
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14894
- Subject Headings
- Dickens, Charles,--1812-1870--Criticism and interpretation, Dickens, Charles,--1812-1870--Characters--Eccentrics, Eccentrics in literature
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The tyranny of passive-aggression in Jane Austen's novels.
- Creator
- Lockhart, Claudia Jeanette., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
- Abstract/Description
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Passive-aggression is an insidious form of tyranny that uses hypochondria and other tactics to manipulate. Presumably with her mother in mind, Jane Austen frequently portrays the passive-aggressive character and ridicules hypochondria, as in the satirical Sanditon. Mr. Woodhouse and Mrs. Churchill are life-denying parental figures in Emma, who use illness and hypochondria to manipulate their children, much like Mansfield Park's Lady Bertram, who uses hypochondria and social withdrawal to...
Show morePassive-aggression is an insidious form of tyranny that uses hypochondria and other tactics to manipulate. Presumably with her mother in mind, Jane Austen frequently portrays the passive-aggressive character and ridicules hypochondria, as in the satirical Sanditon. Mr. Woodhouse and Mrs. Churchill are life-denying parental figures in Emma, who use illness and hypochondria to manipulate their children, much like Mansfield Park's Lady Bertram, who uses hypochondria and social withdrawal to control her family. In Persuasion Mary Musgrove, a young copy of Lady Bertram, uses hypochondria and hysteria to manipulate, and Mrs. Clay passively ingratiates herself with the Elliot family in an attempt to become the next Lady Elliot. Through her novels Jane Austen shows the effects of this damaging, despotic behavior.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1993
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14887
- Subject Headings
- Austen, Jane,--1775-1817--Criticism and interpretation
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Vietnam and the legacy of Conrad.
- Creator
- Gabel, Jill Stacy., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
- Abstract/Description
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A mixed-media study of Vietnam War literature begins in Africa with Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and travels into Vietnam with Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now and Michael Herr's Dispatches. Marlow, Willard, and Herr are first person narrators on voyages of self-discovery. Their journeys into Africa, Cambodia, and Vietnam lead the audience into an examination of themes pertinent to not only the works, but the twentieth century and, therefore, history. Through an examination of...
Show moreA mixed-media study of Vietnam War literature begins in Africa with Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and travels into Vietnam with Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now and Michael Herr's Dispatches. Marlow, Willard, and Herr are first person narrators on voyages of self-discovery. Their journeys into Africa, Cambodia, and Vietnam lead the audience into an examination of themes pertinent to not only the works, but the twentieth century and, therefore, history. Through an examination of imperialism, the conflict of Western and non-Western values, the interplay of fantasy and reality, and the nature of moral confession, Heart of Darkness, Apocalypse Now, and Dispatches aim to force their audiences to confront the responsibility of all mankind for the horrors of war.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1992
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14881
- Subject Headings
- Conrad, Joseph,--1857-1924--Criticism and interpretation., Conrad, Joseph,--1857-1924.--Heart of darkness., Coppola, Francis Ford,--1939---Apocalypse now., Herr, Michael.--Dispatches., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Literature and the conflict., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Motion pictures and the conflict.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The politics of representation in "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men".
- Creator
- Spence, Steven A., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
- Abstract/Description
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Originally intended as light magazine journalism, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a book of photographs by Walker Evans and prose by James Agee, evolved into a complex work that exists on the boundaries of many genres, disciplines, and movements. The book is a documentary account of a month's stay with a family of Alabama tenant farmers in 1936. But it is simultaneously a challenge to claims of documentary realism, and to the assertions of knowledge and power that accompany those claims. Using...
Show moreOriginally intended as light magazine journalism, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a book of photographs by Walker Evans and prose by James Agee, evolved into a complex work that exists on the boundaries of many genres, disciplines, and movements. The book is a documentary account of a month's stay with a family of Alabama tenant farmers in 1936. But it is simultaneously a challenge to claims of documentary realism, and to the assertions of knowledge and power that accompany those claims. Using modern theories of the documentary, as well as theories of postmodernism, this study traces the book's problematic relationship to "representation" as a textual and political strategy. I consider the interaction of words and images as one locus of ethical representation. The book's vision of just representation, I argue, can best be understood as an equal exchange involving author, reader, text, and the subjects of the representation.
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- 1992
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14832
- Subject Headings
- Agee, James,--1909-1955--Let us now praise famous men, Alabama--Rural conditions, Farm tenancy--Alabama
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Worth the price: Sarah as hero in John Updike's "S.".
- Creator
- Hilton, Bonita Clarice., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
- Abstract/Description
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Sarah Price Worth is a hero in mythical and psychological terms. Her growth can be traced through her name changes within the novel: Sarah Price Worth/Kundalini/Rare Sarah. She leaves the Judeo-Christian belief system and enters an Eastern system in an ashram where yoga is practiced. Sarah's progress can be seen in terms of the stages of the heroic quest and archetypal imagery--in particular, the snake. The novel's action suggests a parallel between chakra ascension and psychological growth...
Show moreSarah Price Worth is a hero in mythical and psychological terms. Her growth can be traced through her name changes within the novel: Sarah Price Worth/Kundalini/Rare Sarah. She leaves the Judeo-Christian belief system and enters an Eastern system in an ashram where yoga is practiced. Sarah's progress can be seen in terms of the stages of the heroic quest and archetypal imagery--in particular, the snake. The novel's action suggests a parallel between chakra ascension and psychological growth in Jungian terms. Updike's "yes, but" tendency is at work in this novel: Yes, Sarah Price Worth is a bitch. But she is, nonetheless, a hero. As Sarah Price Worth and Kundalini, she has allowed men to be her gods, but Rare Sarah finds her own way. Through her earnest seeking, she succeeds in her quest.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1991
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14766
- Subject Headings
- Updike, John--Criticism and interpretation, Updike, John--S
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The struggle for life in "Native Son".
- Creator
- Ho Lung, Jacqueline Theresa., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
- Abstract/Description
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The controversy in Native Son is over the book's "message"; however, few agree exactly what this message is. It is not, as misinterpreted by many critics, a struggle between the races. Refusing to accept passively society's definition of himself as a non-person, Bigger fights for the right to be and for a reason for being. Discarded as human garbage, Bigger rebels. His consequent actions become the justification for his existence. He kills Mary Dalton because he is "scared and mad," reacting...
Show moreThe controversy in Native Son is over the book's "message"; however, few agree exactly what this message is. It is not, as misinterpreted by many critics, a struggle between the races. Refusing to accept passively society's definition of himself as a non-person, Bigger fights for the right to be and for a reason for being. Discarded as human garbage, Bigger rebels. His consequent actions become the justification for his existence. He kills Mary Dalton because he is "scared and mad," reacting instinctively in the manner he is forced to live his life. Wright delves into Bigger's motives in order to explain the archetypal "bad nigger," not to gain sympathy from whites nor to be cruel to blacks, rather to build a foundation for communication between the races in order to expose the ongoing American tragedy.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1991
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14693
- Subject Headings
- Wright, Richard,--1908-1960--Native son
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Odell Shepard: The familiar essay.
- Creator
- Gibson, Sally McCall., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
- Abstract/Description
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The familiar essay provided Odell Shepard the opportunity to be himself. In The Harvest of a Quiet Eye, he wrote of an idyllic two-week hike in rural Connecticut. In The Joys of Forgetting, he wrote of the pleasure of remembering forgotten details. In Thy Rod and Thy Creel, he wrote of the pleasure of fly fishing and of its history. These essays reveal a sensitive man, a man who felt compelled to be a contributing member of society, but also a man who knew his own limitations and needs.
- Date Issued
- 1990
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14625
- Subject Headings
- Shepard, Odell,--1884-1967.
- Format
- Document (PDF)