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Title: The "anomaly" in Henry James's "The Portrait of a Lady".
Creator: Liotta, Leonard Thomas., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: The word "anomaly" in The Portrait of a Lady forms a nexus of meanings derived from its denotative and connotative meanings. This complex of meaning bring in focus phenomenological aspects of character, action, and style translating into larger thematic concepts to create a level of understanding deepening the experience of the novel. Isabel Archer is examined for her anomalous portrayal of a modern character whose complexity emerges as a dynamic of the anomalous and the vulgar that are...
Show moreThe word "anomaly" in The Portrait of a Lady forms a nexus of meanings derived from its denotative and connotative meanings. This complex of meaning bring in focus phenomenological aspects of character, action, and style translating into larger thematic concepts to create a level of understanding deepening the experience of the novel. Isabel Archer is examined for her anomalous portrayal of a modern character whose complexity emerges as a dynamic of the anomalous and the vulgar that are distinguishable but ultimately inseparable. Using a phenomenological approach, the word "anomaly," as recurring descriptive term, can be studied in its juxtaposition to other words, such as vulgarity, providing additional insight into characterization and action in Portrait of a Lady.
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Date Issued: 2000
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15777
Subject Headings: James, Henry,--1843-1916--Portrait of a lady, James, Henry,--1843-1916--Criticism and interpretation, James, Henry,--1843-1916--Characters--Isabel Archer, Archer, Isabel (Fictitious character)
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Title: "Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce": An affirmation of human values.
Creator: St. Clair, Beatrice Savarese., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: Robert Penn Warren's Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce dramatizes essential human values in individuals, in their relationships to nature, and in the structural elements of the poem, affirming their necessity for living a fulfilled life. By representing Chief Joseph as exemplar of mankind, Warren creates a symbolic example for all to recognize and copy. The presentation of nature parallels the fortunes and misfortunes of human beings. As man's relationship with nature deteriorates, universal...
Show moreRobert Penn Warren's Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce dramatizes essential human values in individuals, in their relationships to nature, and in the structural elements of the poem, affirming their necessity for living a fulfilled life. By representing Chief Joseph as exemplar of mankind, Warren creates a symbolic example for all to recognize and copy. The presentation of nature parallels the fortunes and misfortunes of human beings. As man's relationship with nature deteriorates, universal principles of truth, justice, and personal integrity decline. The structure of the poem mirrors life, creating tension. By encouraging reader participation and introspection, an idea of order emerges, and this order can be maintained in the individual who possesses essential human values.
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Date Issued: 1990
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14675
Subject Headings: Warren, Robert Penn,--1905-1989--Criticism and interpretation, Joseph,--Nez Percé Chief,--1840-1904,--in fiction, drama, poetry, etc
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Title: "Tempting providence": The absurd humor of Eudora Welty's "Losing Battles".
Creator: Policy, Carole Davis., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: The function of humor in Eudora Welty's work is to allow the reader access to her experiential world through language in order to reveal the multivalent life process, the insulating network of ritualistic endurance, and the dignified grace of ill-fated defiance. Exaggerated stereotypes and mythical allusions provide a way of entry into the fictional world of Losing Battles. Using vernacular dialogue and absurd actions as virtually her sole method of character development, Welty represents the...
Show moreThe function of humor in Eudora Welty's work is to allow the reader access to her experiential world through language in order to reveal the multivalent life process, the insulating network of ritualistic endurance, and the dignified grace of ill-fated defiance. Exaggerated stereotypes and mythical allusions provide a way of entry into the fictional world of Losing Battles. Using vernacular dialogue and absurd actions as virtually her sole method of character development, Welty represents the elemental vitality of her characters whose will to persevere is reflected in their endless autobiographical storytelling. By recreating the family with talk, Welty's characters are able to shrug off the impinging reality that threatens their Sisyphian effort to survive. Her use of a self-conscious Southern idiom invites a phenomenological reading revealing the ultimately life-affirming pattern that informs the novel and gives shape to her fundamental comic spirit.
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Date Issued: 1991
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14730
Subject Headings: Welty, Eudora,--1909---Losing battles
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Title: "The angel at the centre of this rind" and Stevens behind subject and object.
Creator: Martin, Thomas L., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: Wallace Stevens's poem "Someone Puts a Pineapple Together" contains his most complete figure on the workings of the self's noetic cosmos, the figure being a system of three planets, which accounts for the development of reason from its first stages all the way to its highest in art. This figure provides unusual insight into the most prominent theoretical issues in his poetry: the relationship between reality, reason, and art; and the relationship between subjectivity, intentionality, and...
Show moreWallace Stevens's poem "Someone Puts a Pineapple Together" contains his most complete figure on the workings of the self's noetic cosmos, the figure being a system of three planets, which accounts for the development of reason from its first stages all the way to its highest in art. This figure provides unusual insight into the most prominent theoretical issues in his poetry: the relationship between reality, reason, and art; and the relationship between subjectivity, intentionality, and externality.
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Date Issued: 1989
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14500
Subject Headings: Stevens, Wallace,--1879-1955--Criticism and interpretation
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Title: ADRIENNE RICH'S ANDROGYNE: SURVIVOR IN A POLARIZED WASTELAND.
Creator: KAPLAN, MARLYNE (MARZI)., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: Adrienne Rich's androgyne is a fusion of archetypal primal myths and modern psychical concepts of androgyny focusing on the dual components--male and female--present in each psyche, departing from the polarized role myths heretofore influencing and dominating literature. Early mythic and literary examples of androgyny trace the development of androgynous primal beings in Genesis and the Upanishads, androgynous women in the mythology of virgin births, Sappho's bisexual poetry, Plato's...
Show moreAdrienne Rich's androgyne is a fusion of archetypal primal myths and modern psychical concepts of androgyny focusing on the dual components--male and female--present in each psyche, departing from the polarized role myths heretofore influencing and dominating literature. Early mythic and literary examples of androgyny trace the development of androgynous primal beings in Genesis and the Upanishads, androgynous women in the mythology of virgin births, Sappho's bisexual poetry, Plato's Symposium and Er myths, and the hermaphrodite in Greek and Roman mythology. More recently the approach to androgyny has been Jungian, fusing dual elements in the psyche, manifesting itself in the works of Coleridge, Woolf, Whitman, Eliot and modern feminists. Rich considers the androgyne in its social context, exploring patriarchy, role consciousness and language power. Possessing a bardic vision enabling her to see beyond the traditional stereotyped roles of a polarized wasteland, Rich focuses on the androgyne as a survivor.
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Date Issued: 1975
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13720
Subject Headings: Rich, Adrienne Cecile--Criticism and interpretation, Androgyny (Psychology)
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Title: Alice Walker: Redefining the hero.
Creator: Campbell, Nicole., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D., Peyton, Ann
Abstract/Description: In Meridian, The Temple of My Familiar, and Possessing the Secret of Joy, Alice Walker places women in the traditionally male role of hero. As an artist, her goal is to provide stories with role models who will help women transcend the gender stereotyping inherent in patriarchal cultures and enable them to envision themselves as capable of completing the stages of the hero's journey. The novels are compared to the three stages of the hero's journey as it is defined by Joseph Campbell to...
Show moreIn Meridian, The Temple of My Familiar, and Possessing the Secret of Joy, Alice Walker places women in the traditionally male role of hero. As an artist, her goal is to provide stories with role models who will help women transcend the gender stereotyping inherent in patriarchal cultures and enable them to envision themselves as capable of completing the stages of the hero's journey. The novels are compared to the three stages of the hero's journey as it is defined by Joseph Campbell to demonstrate how the women successfully master the hero pattern. The simple act of replacing the mythical male hero with a female initiates the shift in consciousness or the "key archetypal" event that Campbell insists is necessary for a change in world ideology. By redefining the role of the hero, Walker changes society's perceptions about women and becomes the arbiter of myth that will encourage women's potential.
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Date Issued: 1998
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15557
Subject Headings: Walker, Alice,--1944---Criticism and interpretation, Women heroes
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Title: Apollo, Dionysus, and three sets of brothers: Nietzsche's "The Birth of Tragedy" as applied to O'Neill, Pinter, and Shepard.
Creator: Suhajcik, Sarah Sandefur., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: The mythological elements of the Apollonian and Dionysian in ancient tragedy as defined in Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy may be applied to the modern family, specifically Jamie and Edmund in O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night, Lenny and Teddy in Pinter's The Homecoming, and Lee and Austin in Shepard's True West. The conflict between the modern brothers is representative of the struggle between and eventual "mimetic reciprocity" of Dionysus and Apollo; each brother of each set is...
Show moreThe mythological elements of the Apollonian and Dionysian in ancient tragedy as defined in Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy may be applied to the modern family, specifically Jamie and Edmund in O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night, Lenny and Teddy in Pinter's The Homecoming, and Lee and Austin in Shepard's True West. The conflict between the modern brothers is representative of the struggle between and eventual "mimetic reciprocity" of Dionysus and Apollo; each brother of each set is perceived initially to be the polar opposite of his sibling, but as the action evolves his antithetical position dissolves and each becomes a mirror reflection of his brother. But these companion forces have the potential for destruction, and violence erupts when the Apollonian brothers struggle to maintain their individual identities against the stronger force of their Dionysian counterparts.
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Date Issued: 1991
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14747
Subject Headings: O'Neill, Eugene,--1888-1953--Long day's journey into night, Pinter, Harold,--1930---Homecoming, Shepard, Sam,--1943---True West, Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm,--1844-1900--Geburt der Tragödie
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Title: APOLLONIAN-DIONYSIAN CONFLICT IN THREE TENNESSEE WILLIAMS PLAYS.
Creator: FOTOPOULOS, NIKI PRAVLIS., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: This thesis explores the conflicts between and within the main characters in three Tennessee Williams plays: A Streetcar Named Desire, Summer and Smoke, and Orpheus Descending. It demonstrates that the conflicts between the characters, the inevitable outcome of the individual's persistent adherence to established ideals and denial of his instinctive impulses, are analogous to the antithetical Apollonian-Dionysian forces as explored by Friedrich Nietzsche and Euripides. Of these opposed forces...
Show moreThis thesis explores the conflicts between and within the main characters in three Tennessee Williams plays: A Streetcar Named Desire, Summer and Smoke, and Orpheus Descending. It demonstrates that the conflicts between the characters, the inevitable outcome of the individual's persistent adherence to established ideals and denial of his instinctive impulses, are analogous to the antithetical Apollonian-Dionysian forces as explored by Friedrich Nietzsche and Euripides. Of these opposed forces, one represents the learned traits the other the unlearned primitive impulses. When further related to man's divided psyche they reveal that man's emotional stability depends upon the harmonious coexistence of both his conscious and unconscious impulses. However, as the study reveals, it is impossible for man to suppress and deny his natural impulses which, like nature itself, are too powerful and imperative to man's basic existence and spiritual salvation. To Williams Dionysus becomes the symbol of modern man who, haunted by ineffectual traditional values and threatened by technological encroachment, refuses to become extinct and defiantly fights to create a fresh and meaningful life.
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Date Issued: 1974
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13681
Subject Headings: Williams, Tennessee,--1911---Criticism and interpretation.
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Title: THE ART OF NOT LISTENING AND THE PLAYS OF EDWARD ALBEE.
Creator: MEYER, KATHLEEN BAILEY., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: Not listening is essential in the evasion of reality. The plays of Edward Albee demonstrate various types of not listening and the debilitating effects of such behavior. The American Dream presents superficial listening and its inherent neglect of the meaning of words. A Delicate Balance explores the abortive listening which expels reality from one's communication. The Zoo Story exposes pseudo-listening, that complacent pretense of attention, and the subsequent ignorance of real communication...
Show moreNot listening is essential in the evasion of reality. The plays of Edward Albee demonstrate various types of not listening and the debilitating effects of such behavior. The American Dream presents superficial listening and its inherent neglect of the meaning of words. A Delicate Balance explores the abortive listening which expels reality from one's communication. The Zoo Story exposes pseudo-listening, that complacent pretense of attention, and the subsequent ignorance of real communication. And Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? condemns negative listening and the inability or refusal to use input positively. In contrast to, and in conflict with, the non-listeners are those who do listen effectively and hence recognize both the nature of problems and their solutions. These listeners endeavor to break through the aural barriers of the others, forcing them to listen to, recognize, and deal with the reality they sought to evade.
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Date Issued: 1981
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14056
Subject Headings: Albee, Edward,--1928---Characters
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Title: Carl Sandburg's "Rootabaga Stories": American fairy tales.
Creator: Thistle, Mary S., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: Carl Sandburg's volumes of poetry, his comprehensive biography of Abraham Lincoln, and his collection of American folk songs established him as an author with a fascination and respect for American culture. The Rootabaga Stories are an unusual expression of his talent but have, for the most part, escaped critical notice. Growing up in the Midwest and traveling by himself for several years provided a background that enabled him to imbue the stories with an American spirit. The stories...
Show moreCarl Sandburg's volumes of poetry, his comprehensive biography of Abraham Lincoln, and his collection of American folk songs established him as an author with a fascination and respect for American culture. The Rootabaga Stories are an unusual expression of his talent but have, for the most part, escaped critical notice. Growing up in the Midwest and traveling by himself for several years provided a background that enabled him to imbue the stories with an American spirit. The stories collected by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the literary tales of Hans Christian Andersen, and some American legends and folk tales combined to form the heritage Sandburg responded to in his creation of forty-nine stories. In fabricating the geography and culture of Rootabaga Country, Sandburg infused the stories with subtleties of language and attitude that are recognizably and exuberantly American.
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Date Issued: 1991
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14731
Subject Headings: Sandburg, Carl,--1878-1967--Rootabaga stories
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Title: The children of Flannery O'Connor: Child of quest and child of grace.
Creator: Wolff, Gay H., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: O'Connor reveals glimpses of innocence in her child characters before they are brought to a point of being confronted by the discrepancies of this world, when they must distinguish and choose between the good and evil forces of nature. The child who accepts spiritual values is the child of grace and the child of quest is the one who chooses worldly temptations, instead. The dilemma of O'Connor's adult sinners is illuminated by recognizing their origins in these two child types. This parallel...
Show moreO'Connor reveals glimpses of innocence in her child characters before they are brought to a point of being confronted by the discrepancies of this world, when they must distinguish and choose between the good and evil forces of nature. The child who accepts spiritual values is the child of grace and the child of quest is the one who chooses worldly temptations, instead. The dilemma of O'Connor's adult sinners is illuminated by recognizing their origins in these two child types. This parallel is exemplified by a comparison of child and adult characters in The Violent Bear It Away and "The River." By taking a closer look at the first temptations of evil and the offerings of grace in O'Connor's children, we can recognize the mistakes of her adult sinners more clearly.
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Date Issued: 1991
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14696
Subject Headings: O'Connor, Flannery--Criticism and interpretation, Children in literature
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Title: COLIN WILSON AND THE SEXUAL MYSTIQUE.
Creator: LEWIN, DOROTHY MAY., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: Sexuality, for Colin Wilson, is a means for man to reexperience his godliness. Wilson's personal development went from a naive study of science, to nihilistic literature, and emerged as mystical wonder at the world itself. His view of sexuality paralleled his intellectual growth, as the alienated adolescent sought transcendent meaning in the disturbing pangs of puberty. The Bhagavad Gita was a major influence on Wilson, introducing sexuality in the East as a religious and scientific symbol of...
Show moreSexuality, for Colin Wilson, is a means for man to reexperience his godliness. Wilson's personal development went from a naive study of science, to nihilistic literature, and emerged as mystical wonder at the world itself. His view of sexuality paralleled his intellectual growth, as the alienated adolescent sought transcendent meaning in the disturbing pangs of puberty. The Bhagavad Gita was a major influence on Wilson, introducing sexuality in the East as a religious and scientific symbol of masculine and feminine universal principles striving to reunite. He was then able to resolve the inconsistencies between science, mysticism, and sexuality. Quantum theory of wave; particle duality, and the silent rhythms of the DNA code, are both reflected in the sexual act committed with transcendent consciousness. The one is simultaneously the many, in a cosmic dance in which it meets itself.
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Date Issued: 1983
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14181
Subject Headings: Wilson, Colin,--1931---Criticism and interpretation, Sex in literature
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Title: Concept of Deity in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens.
Creator: Lawson, Jeanette Dee, Pearce, Howard D., Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: Wallace Stevens sought to remove the false image of God in order to find truth and reality. His various attempts to dispel the myth of religion can be traced through his poetry and correspondence. His poetry can be divided into five phases, each illustrating Stevens's changing attitude toward God. In phase I Stevens employed simple substitution, replacing the image of the supreme with common objects. In phase II he looked for ''the god within man" while increasing his efforts to remove the...
Show moreWallace Stevens sought to remove the false image of God in order to find truth and reality. His various attempts to dispel the myth of religion can be traced through his poetry and correspondence. His poetry can be divided into five phases, each illustrating Stevens's changing attitude toward God. In phase I Stevens employed simple substitution, replacing the image of the supreme with common objects. In phase II he looked for ''the god within man" while increasing his efforts to remove the illusion of God. Phase III was one of transition, where Stevens rejected former theories and sought a new direction to follow. In phase IV he concentrated on exposing the myths and defining reality. At the end of this phase, he reviewed his progress and found himself no nearer to his goal. Stevens lacked focus in phase V due to this disappointment; he died before settling on a new theory.
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Date Issued: 1992
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000932
Subject Headings: Stevens, Wallace,--1879-1955--Criticism and interpretation
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Title: Conversations with the dead: The ontological substructure of Wallace Stevens' "Esthetique du Mal".
Creator: Danylyshen, Darren Joseph., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: In "Esthetique du Mal," one of his later poems, Wallace Stevens considers existence from a variety of critical and philosophical perspectives, among them various moral, aesthetic, political, theological, and philosophic "epistemes" that condition how humanity perceives and experiences the world. These epistemological "modes" dictate how we live and perceive the world about us, providing preconceptions that shroud understanding and obfuscate ontological explanation. What Stevens accomplishes...
Show moreIn "Esthetique du Mal," one of his later poems, Wallace Stevens considers existence from a variety of critical and philosophical perspectives, among them various moral, aesthetic, political, theological, and philosophic "epistemes" that condition how humanity perceives and experiences the world. These epistemological "modes" dictate how we live and perceive the world about us, providing preconceptions that shroud understanding and obfuscate ontological explanation. What Stevens accomplishes in "Esthetique du Mal" is to create a dialogue with various historical and philosophical "schools," systematically confronting and rejecting their perspectives, and creating a movement toward Martin Heidegger's "aletheia" to uncover the ontological substructure that exists beneath the individual's experience in the world. This movement of "uncovering" and exposing the nature of what it means "to be in the world" is a journey to an ontological substructure that allows Stevens to arrive at a dynamic, ontological proof: that existence is full of "reverberating" possibilities, not solitary and "univocal" statements.
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Date Issued: 1999
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15702
Subject Headings: Stevens, Wallace,--1879-1955--Esthʹetique du mal, Stevens, Wallace,--1879-1955--Criticism and interpretation, Ontology in literature
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Title: David Mamet's games in "Glengarry Glen Ross", "Homicide", and "House of Games".
Creator: Woods, Mary., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: David Mamet's use of play and games in his dramas illustrates the nature of play: its power to attract and hold players in its spell. Play and games fascinate and master the characters. Shelley Levene in Glengarry Glen Ross, Bob Gold in Homicide, and Margaret Ford in House of Games are convinced that they know the rules of the game and thus believe they are in control. They assume roles that they believe make them major players in the game they think they are playing. But rather than being in...
Show moreDavid Mamet's use of play and games in his dramas illustrates the nature of play: its power to attract and hold players in its spell. Play and games fascinate and master the characters. Shelley Levene in Glengarry Glen Ross, Bob Gold in Homicide, and Margaret Ford in House of Games are convinced that they know the rules of the game and thus believe they are in control. They assume roles that they believe make them major players in the game they think they are playing. But rather than being in control of the game and its rules, each of these characters is an unwitting player in a larger game where they are the pawns. In addition, these characters contribute to their own victimization by breaking the rules of their own games. The audience participates in these characters' games and adventures very much as the characters themselves do and are thus mesmerized, mastered, and ultimately set up by the game that Mamet plays with them.
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Date Issued: 1993
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14906
Subject Headings: Mamet, David--Criticism and interpretation
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Title: The drama of Appollonian-Dionysian opposition: Euripides's "The Bacchae" and Schrader's "Kiss of the Spider Woman".
Creator: Trifan, Alex., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: The Apollonian-Dionysian duality is a mythical opposition that suggests a complex and fundamental pattern of looking at the world. In this opposition Nietzsche identified two antagonistic tendencies whose tense coexistence is a prerequisite of the tragic genre; in his formulation tragic conflict must essentially involve a tension between rationality and irrationality, at the level of plot, character, genre. I adopt this symbolic mythical pattern to explore the theme of dramatic conflict in an...
Show moreThe Apollonian-Dionysian duality is a mythical opposition that suggests a complex and fundamental pattern of looking at the world. In this opposition Nietzsche identified two antagonistic tendencies whose tense coexistence is a prerequisite of the tragic genre; in his formulation tragic conflict must essentially involve a tension between rationality and irrationality, at the level of plot, character, genre. I adopt this symbolic mythical pattern to explore the theme of dramatic conflict in an ancient play, Euripides's The Bacchae, and in a modern text, Schrader's screenplay Kiss of the Spider Woman. At the heart of both these dramatic works there lies a profound and balanced conflict between illusion and reality, emotion and reason, pragmatism and idealism, nature and culture, a conflict structured according to the Apollonian-Dionysian matrix. This thesis explores the connections between the two texts and reveals that their common predicament consists of an unsettled dramatic opposition of Apollonian and Dionysian imaginative realms.
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Date Issued: 1996
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15296
Subject Headings: Conflict (Psychology) in literature, Tragic, The, in literature, Apollo (Greek deity) in literature, Dionysus (Greek deity) in literature, Euripides--Bacchae, Schrader, Leonard--Kiss of the spider woman
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Title: ECHOES OF HENRY THOREAU IN E. B. WHITE'S "CHARLOTTE'S WEB".
Creator: SWANSON, JUNE CHARLIER., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: Echoes of Henry David Thoreau's Walden can be found throughout E. B. White's Charlotte's Web. White admired Thoreau and this admiration is reflected both in White's subject matter and his writing style. Many of the themes of Walden reappear in Charlotte's Web--celebration of the gift of life, morning and awakening, simplicity, solitude, love of nature, individuality, and freedom. White echoes Thoreau's writing style, a style that is clear and precise, yet rich in original metaphor, paradox,...
Show moreEchoes of Henry David Thoreau's Walden can be found throughout E. B. White's Charlotte's Web. White admired Thoreau and this admiration is reflected both in White's subject matter and his writing style. Many of the themes of Walden reappear in Charlotte's Web--celebration of the gift of life, morning and awakening, simplicity, solitude, love of nature, individuality, and freedom. White echoes Thoreau's writing style, a style that is clear and precise, yet rich in original metaphor, paradox, incongruity, and subtle humor. In addition, Charlotte's Web follows Walden in structure. Both books begin in spring or early summer and follow the cycle of seasons through to the reawakening of the next spring.
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Date Issued: 1986
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14336
Subject Headings: White, E B--(Elwyn Brooks),--1899---Criticism and interpretation, Thoreau, Henry David,--1817-1862--Influence--White
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Title: EDWARD BOND AND TOM STOPPARD: THE ARTIST IN SOCIETY.
Creator: CONNOLLY, JOANNE MARIE., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: This study explores the resolute persistence of two opposing movements in contemporary British theater, as represented by Edward Bond and Torn Stoppard, playwrights who clash most directly concerning the ancient question: What is the role of the artist in society? While all their dramas tend to remain consistent with their particular theories, the dramas which most directly address themselves to this question of the artist's role are Bond's Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death and The Fool:...
Show moreThis study explores the resolute persistence of two opposing movements in contemporary British theater, as represented by Edward Bond and Torn Stoppard, playwrights who clash most directly concerning the ancient question: What is the role of the artist in society? While all their dramas tend to remain consistent with their particular theories, the dramas which most directly address themselves to this question of the artist's role are Bond's Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death and The Fool: Scenes of Bread and Love and Stoppard's Albert's Bridge and Travesties. While this study will illustrate that Bond remains committed to advocating political. change and that Stoppard resists being forced to justify himself in politically didactic terms at all, the purpose of the study is to examine how these contrasting views affect the theatrical aesthetics of Bond and Stoppard, demonstrating that these aesthetics ultimately maintain this theatrical polarity. As a further demonstration of their adherence to their own philosophical and aesthetic principles, other major plays will be included to illustrate this continuity.
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Date Issued: 1979
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13996
Subject Headings: Bond, Edward--Criticism and interpretation, Stoppard, Tom--Criticism and interpretation
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Title: Encounters between mind and world in the poetry of William Wordsworth and Wallace Stevens.
Creator: Sakal, Nancy., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: The interaction between mind (consciousness) and world (sensory phenomena) is explored in depth by poets William Wordsworth and Wallace Stevens, with particular attention given to the role of imagination. In The Prelude, Wordsworth describes events from his own early life, encounters between mind and world, leading to the development of a poetic sensibility. Stevens, writing in a playful, improvisational style very different from Wordsworth's, examines a variety of encounters between...
Show moreThe interaction between mind (consciousness) and world (sensory phenomena) is explored in depth by poets William Wordsworth and Wallace Stevens, with particular attention given to the role of imagination. In The Prelude, Wordsworth describes events from his own early life, encounters between mind and world, leading to the development of a poetic sensibility. Stevens, writing in a playful, improvisational style very different from Wordsworth's, examines a variety of encounters between characters such as Crispin in "The Comedian as the Letter C" and external reality. For both poets, the boundaries between mind and world are indeterminate, and the question of supremacy in their dynamic relationship is unresolved. Yet the sense of a "something" that grounds this interplay, what Stevens identifies as "Being," leads the ever-active imagination to do its work, at home in the world.
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Date Issued: 1991
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14740
Subject Headings: Wordsworth, William,--1770-1850--Criticism and interpretation, Stevens, Wallace,--1879-1955--Criticism and interpretation
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Title: Existentialism in Harold Pinter's Drama.
Creator: Wolf, Barbara, Pearce, Howard D., Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: More than has been previously recognized, Harold Pinter's Weltanschauung is comprehensively existential. Classical absolutes, Medieval spirituality and Renaissance harmony are untenable in his drama. Rational logic and Naturalistic fate are antithetic to his philosophy. Pinter's dramatic aesthetic. has been directed by his existential ethic. In his drama , Pinter recreates the negative conditions of modern life by posing problems based upon existential ontology, axiology, epistemology,...
Show moreMore than has been previously recognized, Harold Pinter's Weltanschauung is comprehensively existential. Classical absolutes, Medieval spirituality and Renaissance harmony are untenable in his drama. Rational logic and Naturalistic fate are antithetic to his philosophy. Pinter's dramatic aesthetic. has been directed by his existential ethic. In his drama , Pinter recreates the negative conditions of modern life by posing problems based upon existential ontology, axiology, epistemology, communication, and destiny; however, he resolves these dilemmas with positive existential solutions by which man may rediscover his existence in an insecure modern world.
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Date Issued: 1970
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000999
Subject Headings: Pinter, Harold,--1930---Criticism and interpretation, Existentialism in literature
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Stevens, Wallace,--1879-1955--Criticism and interpretation (10)	+ -
James, Henry,--1843-1916--Criticism and interpretation (6)	+ -
O'Connor, Flannery--Criticism and interpretation (5)	+ -
Stevens, Wallace,--1879-1955--Criticism and interpretation. (3)	+ -
Children in literature (2)	+ -

Jarrell, Randall,--1914-1965--Criticism and interpretation (2)	+ -
Pinter, Harold,--1930---Criticism and interpretation (2)	+ -
Plath, Sylvia--Criticism and interpretation (2)	+ -
Women in literature (2)	+ -
Yeats, W B--(William Butler),--1865-1939--Criticism and interpretation (2)	+ -
Albee, Edward,--1928---Characters (1)	+ -
Ambiguity in literature (1)	+ -
American poetry--African American authors (1)	+ -
Anderson, Sherwood,--1876-1941--Criticism and interpretation (1)	+ -
Androgyny (Psychology) (1)	+ -
Apollo (Greek deity) in literature (1)	+ -
Archer, Isabel (Fictitious character) (1)	+ -
Archetype (Psychology) in literature. (1)	+ -
Aristotle--Aesthetics (1)	+ -
Atwood, Margaret Eleanor,--1939---Criticism and interpretation (1)	+ -
Austen, Jane,--1775-1817--Criticism and interpretation (1)	+ -
Authorship (1)	+ -
Baudelaire, Charles,--1821-1867--Criticism and interpretation (1)	+ -
Beckett, Samuel,--1906-1989.--Endgame. (1)	+ -
Bly, Robert--Criticism and interpretation (1)	+ -
Bond, Edward--Criticism and interpretation (1)	+ -
Borges, Jorge Luis,--1899- (1)	+ -
Brooks, Gwendolyn,--1917---Criticism and interpretation (1)	+ -
Burke, Edmund,--1729-1797. (1)	+ -
Conflict (Psychology) in literature (1)	+ -

Florida Atlantic University (63)	+ -
COHEN, NANCY SITARIK. (1)	+ -
CONFORTI, DIANE LYNNE. (1)	+ -
CONNOLLY, JOANNE MARIE. (1)	+ -
CONNOLLY, PATTY BARNHILL. (1)	+ -

Campbell, Nicole. (1)	+ -
Danylyshen, Darren Joseph. (1)	+ -
Department of English (1)	+ -
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters (1)	+ -
ENDRUSCHAT, MARY ELIZABETH. (1)	+ -
FOTOPOULOS, NIKI PRAVLIS. (1)	+ -
Felt, Richard Thomas. (1)	+ -
Fiedler, Robin M. (1)	+ -
Frusciante, Denise Marie. (1)	+ -
GLADDING, MARTHA W. (1)	+ -
HAGER, STANTON ROBERT. (1)	+ -
HENDRICKS, VICKI DUE. (1)	+ -
Higgins, Barbara B. (1)	+ -
Hiller, Deborah Lynn. (1)	+ -
JOHNSON, JO LYNN. (1)	+ -
JOHNSON, MARA LOUISE. (1)	+ -
JOHNSON, MARTHA F. (1)	+ -
Johnson, Jamie (1)	+ -
KAPLAN, MARLYNE (MARZI). (1)	+ -
KILPATRICK, DIANA D. (1)	+ -
KLINE, GLORIA CORNELIA. (1)	+ -
LAMB, MARTHA MOSS. (1)	+ -
LENAHAN, TERI S. (1)	+ -
LEWIN, DOROTHY MAY. (1)	+ -

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