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"72", "Seascapes", and "Solo Violin": Three chamber works
Title
"72", "Seascapes", and "Solo Violin": Three chamber works.
Creator
Okubo, Masakuni., Florida Atlantic University, Glazer, Stuart
Abstract/Description
Three unaccompanied chamber pieces of Masakuni Okubo are discussed from several different aspects. They were composed for solo clarinet ( 72), two flutes (Seascapes), and solo violin. Each piece is analyzed in terms of its historical background, compositional techniques, and formal and stylistic characteristics.
Date Issued
2002
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12908
Subject Headings
Composition (Music), Okubo, Masakuni--Criticism and interpretation, Musical analysis
Format
Document (PDF)
"A Craving To Reform": Legitimizing Revolution in Mid-Tudor England
Title
"A Craving To Reform": Legitimizing Revolution in Mid-Tudor England.
Creator
Breeden, Douglas A., Lowe, Ben, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description
The mid-Tudor period for a long time has been portrayed as a period of trouble and turbulence that was of little historical significance. The rulers and intellectuals of the period were cast as fanatical, intolerant religious bigots whose actions at best delayed the progress of English government. Actually the opposite is true. After the death of Edward VI, a group of evangelicals fled the restoration of Roman jurisdiction by Mary I. These English Protestants are known as the Marian exiles...
Show moreThe mid-Tudor period for a long time has been portrayed as a period of trouble and turbulence that was of little historical significance. The rulers and intellectuals of the period were cast as fanatical, intolerant religious bigots whose actions at best delayed the progress of English government. Actually the opposite is true. After the death of Edward VI, a group of evangelicals fled the restoration of Roman jurisdiction by Mary I. These English Protestants are known as the Marian exiles and they fashioned some radical political ideas to support a traditional, albeit evangelical political culture. They did this by trying to find a Biblical justification to oppose the Catholic restoration of Mary and return England to the godly church and state of Edward VI. Looking to restore the reformed church, they inadvertently legitimized what had before been seen as sedition into the modern idea of revolution.
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Date Issued
2006
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000900
Format
Document (PDF)
"A spirit of benevolence"
Title
"A spirit of benevolence": Manchester and the origins of modern public health, 1790-1834.
Creator
Boxen, Jennifer L., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
Abstract/Description
This thesis argues that the British Public Health movement did not begin in 1842 with Edwin Chadwick's publication, Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain (1842), or in 1848, with the subsequent passage of the Public Health Act. The beginning of the public health movement was instead the product of local initiatives such as the Manchester Board of Health, administered not by central government, but by members of the local community supported by...
Show moreThis thesis argues that the British Public Health movement did not begin in 1842 with Edwin Chadwick's publication, Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain (1842), or in 1848, with the subsequent passage of the Public Health Act. The beginning of the public health movement was instead the product of local initiatives such as the Manchester Board of Health, administered not by central government, but by members of the local community supported by predominantly philanthropic funding. The Manchester movement predated Chadwick's efforts by at least half a century and bore a greater resemblance to the modern idea of an organized public health system than that advanced by Chadwick and his contemporaries. This is because the Manchester movement emphasized not only those sanitary ideas ascribed to Chadwick but also included a broader spectrum of public health measures, including but not limited to ; preventative medicine, occupational health, and the reduction of contagious diseases.
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Date Issued
2013
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3360766
Subject Headings
Public health, History, History, Social conditions
Format
Document (PDF)
“A Woman’s Place”: Myth, Body, and Nation in Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale
Title
“A Woman’s Place”: Myth, Body, and Nation in Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale.
Creator
García, Madeline Elizabeth, Sim, Gerald, Miller, Andrea, Florida Atlantic University, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
This thesis investigates the role of myth in Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Through an analysis of concepts such as the body and nation, I investigate the mythical underpinnings of gender, race, social reproduction, and capitalism in Gilead as well as the veritable history of oppression and imperialism in the United States that informs the Gileadean imaginary. I interrogate myth’s utility in creating nations and worlds, real or imagined, and the mechanisms of myth that make this possible. Using...
Show moreThis thesis investigates the role of myth in Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Through an analysis of concepts such as the body and nation, I investigate the mythical underpinnings of gender, race, social reproduction, and capitalism in Gilead as well as the veritable history of oppression and imperialism in the United States that informs the Gileadean imaginary. I interrogate myth’s utility in creating nations and worlds, real or imagined, and the mechanisms of myth that make this possible. Using the works of authors such as Roland Barthes, Kalindi Vora, Achille Mbembe, and others, I read The Handmaid’s Tale series as a text that reveals how truth can be distorted by myth but can be demythologized to belie intention, historically contextualize, and inspire resistance. Written in the midst and wake of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, this thesis is also a meditation on auto-ethnographic and textual resistance.
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Date Issued
2022
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014111
Subject Headings
Women's studies, Gender Studies
Format
Document (PDF)
"And yet God has not said a word!": Robert Browning and the romantic killer in literature
Title
"And yet God has not said a word!": Robert Browning and the romantic killer in literature.
Creator
Burns-Davies, Erin., Florida Atlantic University, Faraci, Mary
Abstract/Description
Robert Browning's dramatic monologues often characterize the darker aspect of romantic love through speakers who demonstrate their devotion to violence. Exploring the innovations in discourse, Browning gives his narrators voices that allow them to speak from an ancient literary tradition. For Browning's speakers, words make the silencing of the lover either the act of ultimate devotion or the result of disappointed expectations. The narrator speaks of the absence of God, as when Porphyria's...
Show moreRobert Browning's dramatic monologues often characterize the darker aspect of romantic love through speakers who demonstrate their devotion to violence. Exploring the innovations in discourse, Browning gives his narrators voices that allow them to speak from an ancient literary tradition. For Browning's speakers, words make the silencing of the lover either the act of ultimate devotion or the result of disappointed expectations. The narrator speaks of the absence of God, as when Porphyria's lover holds her body to him: "and yet God has not said a word!" With the poet's strong speech---in all his attractiveness, his destructive display of love and his dismissal of God---Browning has helped to create a discourse that has sculpted the literary force of the romantic killer. Three novelists in particular employ the literary force of Browning's experiments: Anne Rice's The Vampire Lestat, Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho and Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter novels. Intertextual comparisons among these narratives delineate how Robert Browning's innovation of the seductive antihero has persisted in literature.
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Date Issued
2004
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13140
Subject Headings
Browning, Robert,--1812-1889--Influence, Browning, Robert--1812-1889--Criticism and interpretation, Violence in literature, Narration (Rhetoric), Rice, Anne,--1941---Vampire Lestat, Ellis, Brett Easton--American Psycho, Harris, Thomas,--1940---Criticism and interpretation
Format
Document (PDF)
"anomaly" in Henry James's "The Portrait of a Lady"
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)
Format
Document (PDF)
"Antipodes": Ten orchestral compositions. (Original compositions)
Title
"Antipodes": Ten orchestral compositions. (Original compositions).
Creator
Ferguson, Reuben David., Florida Atlantic University, Glazer, Stuart
Abstract/Description
Antipodes consists of ten separate orchestral musical compositions, or movements, which explore the dichotomies of life. A variety of compositional styles were employed: memories of Rabbit Ridge, Crusader, Infinite Dreamer, and Centenarian are tonal; Incunabulum, Ridin', Love, and Eschatologic are twelve-tone; and Inception and Termination are aleatoric. Instrumentation varies considerably; e.g., Ridin' is orchestrated for a jazz/rock combo; Love for piano and small orchestra; Crusader and...
Show moreAntipodes consists of ten separate orchestral musical compositions, or movements, which explore the dichotomies of life. A variety of compositional styles were employed: memories of Rabbit Ridge, Crusader, Infinite Dreamer, and Centenarian are tonal; Incunabulum, Ridin', Love, and Eschatologic are twelve-tone; and Inception and Termination are aleatoric. Instrumentation varies considerably; e.g., Ridin' is orchestrated for a jazz/rock combo; Love for piano and small orchestra; Crusader and other are for full orchestra. A complete discussion of each piece dealing with compositional method, programmatic intentions, and technical considerations as well as complete computer-generated conductor's scores are included. In addition, a complete performance on cassette tape was also submitted, using the author's computer-based Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) studio and a battery of synthesizers.
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Date Issued
1995
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15156
Subject Headings
Instrumental music--Scores., Electronic music--Scores., Orchestral music--Scores.
Format
Document (PDF)
"Cash Money" and other stories
Title
"Cash Money" and other stories.
Creator
Miller, Sheryl., Florida Atlantic University, Schwartz, Jason
Abstract/Description
The short story cycle unifies autonomous stories to create a larger narrative. In a similar manner, a type of money group called Sous Sous, also known as a Hand, Box, Meeting, or Partner, unifies individuals in a communal endeavor that gives a larger purpose to the venture of saving. The stories in this collection comprise a short story cycle that is unified, in part, by its explication of Sous Sous, which is common in black communities in America and the Caribbean and believed to have...
Show moreThe short story cycle unifies autonomous stories to create a larger narrative. In a similar manner, a type of money group called Sous Sous, also known as a Hand, Box, Meeting, or Partner, unifies individuals in a communal endeavor that gives a larger purpose to the venture of saving. The stories in this collection comprise a short story cycle that is unified, in part, by its explication of Sous Sous, which is common in black communities in America and the Caribbean and believed to have origins in African culture. They share common characters and are also linked by a focus on money, materialism, or spirituality. Sequentially placed, most of the stories build on each other, creating a composite narrative.
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Date Issued
2004
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13131
Subject Headings
African Americans--Economic conditions--Fiction., African Americans--Money--Fiction.
Format
Document (PDF)
"Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce": An affirmation of human values
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
Format
Document (PDF)
“COMING AT THE WONDER ITSELF”: MISCLASSIFICATION, MISUNDERSTANDING AND THE INTEGRATED VISION OF RUSSELL HOBAN’S 1967 NOVEL THE MOUSE AND HIS CHILD
Title
“COMING AT THE WONDER ITSELF”: MISCLASSIFICATION, MISUNDERSTANDING AND THE INTEGRATED VISION OF RUSSELL HOBAN’S 1967 NOVEL THE MOUSE AND HIS CHILD.
Creator
Richards, Charles, Ulin, Julieann, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
In 1967, Russell Hoban’s first novel, The Mouse and His Child was published and reviewed as a children’s book, despite the fact that the author considered it not to be directed towards a child audience. Since that time, it has been generally analyzed and evaluated as a work of children’s literature (specifically) and not as literature in the general sense. Because the book deals with adult subjects and concepts it has not fared well with those who have measured its success solely on the basis...
Show moreIn 1967, Russell Hoban’s first novel, The Mouse and His Child was published and reviewed as a children’s book, despite the fact that the author considered it not to be directed towards a child audience. Since that time, it has been generally analyzed and evaluated as a work of children’s literature (specifically) and not as literature in the general sense. Because the book deals with adult subjects and concepts it has not fared well with those who have measured its success solely on the basis of its being classified as a children’s book. This thesis hopes to liberate the work from this classification by carefully analyzing the concepts which underpin its action, specifically its ontological speculations, its personification of the fall from grace and the felix culpa, the relationship of the protagonists to their complex antagonist Manny Rat, and, finally, in the symbol of “the last visible dog” which represents the infinite and what lies beyond the self (which, in fact, is actually the self). This thesis also examines how Hoban continued working with these themes and concepts in the novels he wrote after publishing The Mouse and His Child.
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Date Issued
2022
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014008
Subject Headings
Hoban, Russell--Criticism and interpretation, Literature
Format
Document (PDF)
"Con respeto": Factors related to the academic performance of Mexican-American fourth graders in selected Florida elementary schools
Title
"Con respeto": Factors related to the academic performance of Mexican-American fourth graders in selected Florida elementary schools.
Creator
Mosley, Mary Lindquist., Florida Atlantic University, Gray, Mary B., Morris, John D.
Abstract/Description
The purpose of this study was to identify how various student, school, and staff predictors related to the academic performance of Mexican American fourth graders in selected schools as evidenced by their scores on the Florida Writes Assessment as well as on norm referenced achievement tests in reading comprehension and math applications. Three null hypotheses were tested to show if there was a correlation between predictors and these criterion variables: writing skills, reading comprehension...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to identify how various student, school, and staff predictors related to the academic performance of Mexican American fourth graders in selected schools as evidenced by their scores on the Florida Writes Assessment as well as on norm referenced achievement tests in reading comprehension and math applications. Three null hypotheses were tested to show if there was a correlation between predictors and these criterion variables: writing skills, reading comprehension, and math applications. A sample of 64 students from two Florida districts and twelve elementary schools was obtained. Data were collected from archival sources within each school district as well as from surveys distributed to English Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) teachers. These were then analyzed to determine correlations with Florida Writes and with Stanford Achievement Test (SAT) as well as California Test of Basic Skills (CTBS) subtests in reading comprehension and math applications. The researcher was most interested in determining the relationship between a language arts pull-out program and achievement of ESOL students at a focal school which was in danger of being identified by the Florida Department of Education as "critically low" in academic performance because of low test scores. Correlations of predictor variables including the pull-out program were analyzed to determine statistical significance. Only the third hypothesis--that relating to math applications--was rejected at a probability level of.05. In this case, three predictors were considered significant: number of Limited English Proficient (LEP) students, number of Mexican American students, and the pull-out program. Because of small sample size and limited applications, no far reaching conclusions were drawn although further study was suggested because the Mexican American population in Florida is growing, and these students have historically not performed well in school. It was also recommended that the Florida Department of Education reconsider the timeline for ESOL student participation in norm referenced testing in writing and reading because most research shows that it takes at least five to seven years for most students to acquire comprehensible second language skills.
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Date Issued
1998
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12557
Subject Headings
Mexican American students--Florida, Academic achievement, Educational tests and measurements--United States, Education, Elementary--Florida
Format
Document (PDF)
"DEATH AND THE CHILD": A KEY TO THE CRANE CANON. (STEPHEN CRANE)
Title
"DEATH AND THE CHILD": A KEY TO THE CRANE CANON. (STEPHEN CRANE).
Creator
OTT, PAUL D., Florida Atlantic University, Collins, Robert A.
Abstract/Description
The close association between Crane's journalistic and fictional account of the Greco-Turkish war makes "Death and the Child" one of the most forthright works in the Crane canon. From both a philosophical and technical standpoint, this short fiction work reveals Crane's maturity and sophistication at the end of 1897. A tension-release-shift structure directs the major flow of action, while at the same time suggesting the process of psychological change which the protagonist undergoes. The...
Show moreThe close association between Crane's journalistic and fictional account of the Greco-Turkish war makes "Death and the Child" one of the most forthright works in the Crane canon. From both a philosophical and technical standpoint, this short fiction work reveals Crane's maturity and sophistication at the end of 1897. A tension-release-shift structure directs the major flow of action, while at the same time suggesting the process of psychological change which the protagonist undergoes. The interpretation of the final scenes of the work, a subject of some controversy, is aided by an examination of the corresponding and contrasting elements found in The Red Badge of Courage.
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Date Issued
1974
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13670
Subject Headings
Crane, Stephen,--1871-1900--Criticism and interpretation
Format
Document (PDF)
“EVERY HUMAN IS PSYCHEDELIC” AN ANALYSIS OF CONTEMPORARY PSYCHEDELIC DRUG USE AND SUBCULTURE
Title
“EVERY HUMAN IS PSYCHEDELIC” AN ANALYSIS OF CONTEMPORARY PSYCHEDELIC DRUG USE AND SUBCULTURE.
Creator
Taylor, H. J., Lewin, Philip, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Sociology, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
The 21st Century is seeing an unprecedented wave of psychedelic drug research after decades of stagnancy. Despite this revival, there has been little research or interest in the current revival of psychedelic subculture or the attitudes of psychedelic users today—from here referred to as “psychedelia.” This qualitative study of 19 self-described psychedelic users/psychedelia members probes their intimate experiences with psychedelic drugs, their involvement in the broader subculture, and...
Show moreThe 21st Century is seeing an unprecedented wave of psychedelic drug research after decades of stagnancy. Despite this revival, there has been little research or interest in the current revival of psychedelic subculture or the attitudes of psychedelic users today—from here referred to as “psychedelia.” This qualitative study of 19 self-described psychedelic users/psychedelia members probes their intimate experiences with psychedelic drugs, their involvement in the broader subculture, and their political and social beliefs. By analyzing the subculture through post-subcultural theory, this study examines the state of psychedelic subculture today, its participants, and members beliefs in relation to drugs, politics, and society. Findings show psychedelia exists as a loose subculture, yet has several parallels to the hippies demographically and politically. Second, psychedelia members share several values such as openness, compassion, and caring for others. Third, despite their pessimism towards America’s future, interviewees engage in everyday activism to help disenfranchised groups.
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Date Issued
2022
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014105
Subject Headings
Psychedelic drugs, Hallucinogenic drugs, Subculture
Format
Document (PDF)
"Falling on deaf ears": A historical treatment of fibromyalgia
Title
"Falling on deaf ears": A historical treatment of fibromyalgia.
Creator
Richardson, Barbara, Florida Atlantic University, Dunphy, Lynne M.
Abstract/Description
From 1850 to the present doctors have been examining the phenomenon now known as fibromyalgia, primarily in upper-middle class women. Some sources relate this to a lack of clearly defined roles for women since industrialization and urbanization changed family life. Medicine has not been able to effectively determine the etiology and treatment for this syndrome. Women's voices are "falling on deaf ears". Documented cases of fibromyalgia go back as far as biblical times. It is found in all...
Show moreFrom 1850 to the present doctors have been examining the phenomenon now known as fibromyalgia, primarily in upper-middle class women. Some sources relate this to a lack of clearly defined roles for women since industrialization and urbanization changed family life. Medicine has not been able to effectively determine the etiology and treatment for this syndrome. Women's voices are "falling on deaf ears". Documented cases of fibromyalgia go back as far as biblical times. It is found in all geographic areas and has been labeled with many different names. In spite of these facts, it was not until 1990 that a name and a diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia syndrome was established. In order to understand the impact illness has had on women this paper will explore the relationship of historical events, social and medical views toward women and fibromyalgia-like illnesses from 1850 to the present.
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Date Issued
2001
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12802
Subject Headings
Fibromyalgia, Women--Health and hygiene--Sociological aspects
Format
Document (PDF)
"Finding a snowflake": A journey into caring as experienced by nurse managers
Title
"Finding a snowflake": A journey into caring as experienced by nurse managers.
Creator
Bartolon, Marian Carmel., Florida Atlantic University, Brown, Carolyn L.
Abstract/Description
The purpose of this phenomenological research was to capture the experience of caring in the lived world of the nurse managers. Interviews with six nurse managers were utilized to generate data and then transcribed into text. The researcher's analysis of the data followed the phenomenological method as interpreted by Ray. Essential themes of growth, listening, frustration, intuition, support, and receiving of gifts were described by participants. Variant themes of touch, humor, flexibility,...
Show moreThe purpose of this phenomenological research was to capture the experience of caring in the lived world of the nurse managers. Interviews with six nurse managers were utilized to generate data and then transcribed into text. The researcher's analysis of the data followed the phenomenological method as interpreted by Ray. Essential themes of growth, listening, frustration, intuition, support, and receiving of gifts were described by participants. Variant themes of touch, humor, flexibility, counseling, limitations, and competence also emerged. Interpretive themes of nurses' way of being, reciprocal caring, and caring moment as transcendence unfolded. A metatheme of energy emerged from further analysis. Deeper reflection and intuition afforded the researcher the opportunity to grasp the unity of meaning as a metaphorical snowflake and poetic expression.
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Date Issued
1992
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14864
Subject Headings
Caring, Nurse administrators
Format
Document (PDF)
"Floating realities": Multi-dimensionality in T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Title
"Floating realities": Multi-dimensionality in T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock".
Creator
Lewman, Monica Laine., Florida Atlantic University, Paton, Priscilla
Abstract/Description
Concentrating on Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," with M. L. Rosenthal's term "floating realities" as my starting point, I discuss how time and its malleable nature relates to Prufrock's "linear reality" and his "non-linear" "floating realities." Prufrock's "linear reality" is the external world of appearances and his internal psychological landscape. I then reveal the "floating realities" that are generated by Eliot's otherworldly allusions. Finally, I discuss chaos theory,...
Show moreConcentrating on Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," with M. L. Rosenthal's term "floating realities" as my starting point, I discuss how time and its malleable nature relates to Prufrock's "linear reality" and his "non-linear" "floating realities." Prufrock's "linear reality" is the external world of appearances and his internal psychological landscape. I then reveal the "floating realities" that are generated by Eliot's otherworldly allusions. Finally, I discuss chaos theory, another way to explore the poem's multi-dimensional nature.
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Date Issued
1997
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15416
Subject Headings
Eliot, T S--(Thomas Stearns),--1888-1965--Criticism and interpretation, Eliot, T S--(Thomas Stearns),--1888-1965--Love song of J Alfred Prufrock, Philosophy in literature
Format
Document (PDF)
"Fore-conceit," autonomy, and Sidney's view of mimesis
Title
"Fore-conceit," autonomy, and Sidney's view of mimesis.
Creator
Lewis, Steven Michael., Florida Atlantic University, Collins, Robert A.
Abstract/Description
In Sidney's conception of mimesis, a pyramid of autonomy exists with God as the ultimate artificer, and the succeeding levels peopled with human artificers, then fictional artificers. The autonomous character of each descending artificer connects one to the power of the heavenly maker. Sidney's use of mimesis argues for cognizance of our innate capacities, for which we are grateful solely to God. In creating the characters of The Old Arcadia, Sidney first endows them with the capacity for ...
Show moreIn Sidney's conception of mimesis, a pyramid of autonomy exists with God as the ultimate artificer, and the succeeding levels peopled with human artificers, then fictional artificers. The autonomous character of each descending artificer connects one to the power of the heavenly maker. Sidney's use of mimesis argues for cognizance of our innate capacities, for which we are grateful solely to God. In creating the characters of The Old Arcadia, Sidney first endows them with the capacity for "fore-conceit," a necessary corollary to Free will, the essential aspect of man's condition as Sidney conceived it. By emphasizing the artificer/artifact relationship on successive levels, Sidney implies the focal importance of the creative process. Because Sidney's artifacts are constructed in the image of their maker, despite the limitations of an "infected will," they are also artificers themselves, at least insofar as they approach a true mimesis of the nature of man.
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Date Issued
1995
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15171
Subject Headings
Sidney, Philip,--1554-1586--Arcadia, Sidney, Philip,--1554-1586--Criticism and interpretation, Mimesis in literature, English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism
Format
Document (PDF)
"Forgotten moments": The paradox of excellence in nursing practice
Title
"Forgotten moments": The paradox of excellence in nursing practice.
Creator
Scelsi, Dixie Brennan., Florida Atlantic University, Parker, Marilyn
Abstract/Description
The purpose for this research was to study the meaning of the lived experience of excellence in nursing practice as described by registered nurses. The phenomenon of excellence in practice is a commonly cited goal of individual nurses, as well as of organized departments of nursing service and nursing education. Ray's phenomenological method was used to describe and identify themes and to construct the meaning of excellence in nursing practice experience as used in the language by nurses....
Show moreThe purpose for this research was to study the meaning of the lived experience of excellence in nursing practice as described by registered nurses. The phenomenon of excellence in practice is a commonly cited goal of individual nurses, as well as of organized departments of nursing service and nursing education. Ray's phenomenological method was used to describe and identify themes and to construct the meaning of excellence in nursing practice experience as used in the language by nurses. Registered nurses were interviewed by using an open-ended question technique. In addition, audiotape was employed, and the interviews were transcribed to text. The phenomenological analytic method of dwelling with and describing the data was used to identify emergent themes. The themes allowed for the emergence of a unity of meaning of the lived experience of excellence in nursing practice. Relationships with and visions for nursing were presented.
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Date Issued
1992
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14796
Subject Headings
Nursing, Success
Format
Document (PDF)
"GAWAIN"-PENTANGLE: A STUDY OF STRUCTURE AND SYMBOLISM IN "SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT."
Title
THE "GAWAIN"-PENTANGLE: A STUDY OF STRUCTURE AND SYMBOLISM IN "SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT.".
Creator
COONS, JOANNE MARIE., Florida Atlantic University, Greer, Allen W.
Abstract/Description
In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the hero sets out on a journey in which he is forced to make moral choices that ultimately alter his self-knowledge. Gawain's journey is the direct result of a challenge offered by the Green Knight under the guise of a Christmas game. Metaphorically, his actions are reflected by the pentangle, which although composed of oppositions, always leads back to itself. Gawain'3 divided consciousness is further symbolized by the Virgin-shield, which alludes to...
Show moreIn Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the hero sets out on a journey in which he is forced to make moral choices that ultimately alter his self-knowledge. Gawain's journey is the direct result of a challenge offered by the Green Knight under the guise of a Christmas game. Metaphorically, his actions are reflected by the pentangle, which although composed of oppositions, always leads back to itself. Gawain'3 divided consciousness is further symbolized by the Virgin-shield, which alludes to caritas, and the magic girdle, which alludes to cupiditas. Their opposition forms the basic conflict of the poem: between spirit and flesh. These symbols initiate two sequences of action wherein Gawain is tested, fails and is absolved. He returns to Camelot a new man, wiser for his folly, a true exemplar of Christianity as symbolized by the pentangle virtues.
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Date Issued
1979
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13959
Subject Headings
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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"Headlong Hall" to "Gryll Grange": A comparison of the first and last novels of Thomas Love Peacock
Title
"Headlong Hall" to "Gryll Grange": A comparison of the first and last novels of Thomas Love Peacock.
Creator
Cochran, Michael Edward., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
Abstract/Description
Thomas Love Peacock is best known for the five unique "novels of talk" that he wrote between 1815 and 1860. The first, Headlong Hall, contains humorous satire of topical issues in a dialogue format, with a weak love plot linking the episodic action. Most characters are based partially on real people and bear extreme and unyielding points of view. These two-dimensional ideologues debate the main theme, the perfectibility of man. In Gryll Grange, written some forty-five years later, the plot is...
Show moreThomas Love Peacock is best known for the five unique "novels of talk" that he wrote between 1815 and 1860. The first, Headlong Hall, contains humorous satire of topical issues in a dialogue format, with a weak love plot linking the episodic action. Most characters are based partially on real people and bear extreme and unyielding points of view. These two-dimensional ideologues debate the main theme, the perfectibility of man. In Gryll Grange, written some forty-five years later, the plot is a more believable love story with realistic characters. The tone mellows, Peacock's focus turns from social to personal, and the theme of living the best possible life results in comedy but not in sharp satire. Love and happy marriage constitute a symbol of Peacock's hope for the resolution of the real and the ideal.
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Date Issued
1988
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14475
Subject Headings
Peacock, Thomas Love,--1785-1866--Headlong Hall, Peacock, Thomas Love,--1785-1866--Gryll Grange
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