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Scholar's name: Stephen Blakemore
Department: Department of English
Status: Current
Email: sblakemo@fau.edu
Format: Institutional Scholar

Title: Nobles and animals: Hierarchic organization and restoration in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The House of the Seven Gables".
Creator: Cecere, Gregory Douglas., Florida Atlantic University, Blakemore, Steven
Abstract/Description: Since its publication, critics and readers have been unsatisfied with the conclusion of The House of the Seven Gables and have viewed it as either inconsistent or a failure. After an analysis of the language, actions, and patterns of imagery in this work, along with The Scarlet Letter and The Blithedale Romance, it had become clear that there is in fact consistency to the conclusion of this text. These patterns suggest Hawthorne's conception of an ultimate hierarchical organization that...
Show moreSince its publication, critics and readers have been unsatisfied with the conclusion of The House of the Seven Gables and have viewed it as either inconsistent or a failure. After an analysis of the language, actions, and patterns of imagery in this work, along with The Scarlet Letter and The Blithedale Romance, it had become clear that there is in fact consistency to the conclusion of this text. These patterns suggest Hawthorne's conception of an ultimate hierarchical organization that favors characters who exhibit specific attributes. This organizational pattern can be disrupted through methods of recreating hierarchical order. Such attempts create a false hierarchy, doomed to failure, and corrupt those characters, keeping them from ultimately realizing their true place in the hierarchy. It is only at the end of The House of the Seven Gables that the false hierarchists are punished or redeemed and the naturally hierarchic are ultimately rewarded.
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Date Issued: 2001
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12779
Subject Headings: Hawthorne, Nathaniel,--1804-1864--House of the seven gables, Hawthorne, Nathaniel,--1804-1864--Characters
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Photoconductivity in Silicon Doped with Indium.
Creator: Sarver, Charles E., Blakemore, John S., Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: An experimental investigation is described into the properties of substitutional indium acceptors in single crystal silicon, concentrating on the production of free holes at low temperatures in p-type samples by the photo-ionization of neutral indium centers, and the subsequent hole capture by ionized indium centers. Electrical transport measurements at thermal equilibrium over the temperature range 77° - 300°K were consistent with description of the indium ground state as six-fold degenerate...
Show moreAn experimental investigation is described into the properties of substitutional indium acceptors in single crystal silicon, concentrating on the production of free holes at low temperatures in p-type samples by the photo-ionization of neutral indium centers, and the subsequent hole capture by ionized indium centers. Electrical transport measurements at thermal equilibrium over the temperature range 77° - 300°K were consistent with description of the indium ground state as six-fold degenerate, with an ionization energy of 0.155 eV at all temperatures. Analysis of the transport measurements permitted a calculation of how the density of capture centers varied with temperature, so that data on "carrier lifetime" from photoconductivity measurements could be expressed as the corresponding capture cross-section. Bridge-shaped samples were prepared of crystals with an indium content of either some 8 x 10^15 or 5 x 10^17 cm^-3, with thicknesses either comparable with or much thinner than the optical penetration depth for extrinsic radiation. The spectral dependence of photoconductive responsivity was measured over the range 0.155 eV to 0.9 eV, and was found to increase above threshold in a manner consistent neither with earlier transmission measurements nor with theoretical models. Carrier lifetime was measured from the strength of low frequency photoconductive response, over the range 70° to 180° K; it was consistent with a hole capture cross-section of some 2 x 10^-13 cm^2 over the 70° - 120° K range, and a steady decrease towar 2 x 10^-15 cm^2 on warming to 180° K. The possible interpretations of apparent structure in the temperature dependence are discussed. In a separate inves~igation reported in an Appendix, the response time of germanium cryogenic thermometers has been measured over the 2° - 50°K range. The response time is 0.03 seconds for a sensor immersed in liquid helium.
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Date Issued: 1967
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000824
Subject Headings: Silicon crystals, Indium, Photoconductivity, Semiconductor doping
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Purification and Characterization of Tellurium.
Creator: Edwards, Richard Victor Jr., Blakemore, John S., Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: For further investigations into the many unknown properties of tellurium, single crystals of high purity and perfection are needed. This thesis contains a report of the purification of tellurium by means of normal freezing, vacuum distillation, and zone refining. The purified material has been grown into single crystals by the Czochralski method. Crystals were also grown following each of the purification processes. All of the purification processes were carried out in a forming gas...
Show moreFor further investigations into the many unknown properties of tellurium, single crystals of high purity and perfection are needed. This thesis contains a report of the purification of tellurium by means of normal freezing, vacuum distillation, and zone refining. The purified material has been grown into single crystals by the Czochralski method. Crystals were also grown following each of the purification processes. All of the purification processes were carried out in a forming gas atmosphere (85% nitrogen, 15% hydrogen). Samples cleaved at 77K and whole crystals were subjected to measurements of conductivity, Hall coefficient, and minority carrier lifetime as a function of temperature over the range 77 to 300K. The conductivity and Hall coefficient measurements serve to classify the crystals as to chemical purity, while the minority carrier lifetime measurements give an indication of the perfection of the crystalline structure. A complete description of the processes used and the apparatus that was constructed is included along with a discussion of the results.
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Date Issued: 1968
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000750
Subject Headings: Tellurium, Tellurium--Purification
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: TRANSPORT AND PHOTOELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF GALLIUM-ARSENIDE CONTAINING DEEP ACCEPTORS.
Creator: BROWN, WINFIELD JAMES, JR., Florida Atlantic University, Blakemore, John S.
Abstract/Description: Analysis of Hall effect and optical measurements shows that nickel, cobalt, and manganese form deep compact acceptors in Gallium Arsenide, with activation energies of 0.20 eV, 0.16 eV, and 0.09 eV respectively. In all three systems the carrier transport is due to free holes in the valence band. The hole mobility appears to be limited by non-polar scattering at high temperatures and by ionized impurity scattering at lower temperatures. At low temperatures impurity band conduction was apparent...
Show moreAnalysis of Hall effect and optical measurements shows that nickel, cobalt, and manganese form deep compact acceptors in Gallium Arsenide, with activation energies of 0.20 eV, 0.16 eV, and 0.09 eV respectively. In all three systems the carrier transport is due to free holes in the valence band. The hole mobility appears to be limited by non-polar scattering at high temperatures and by ionized impurity scattering at lower temperatures. At low temperatures impurity band conduction was apparent in crystals with heavy doping. The photo-absorption crosssection for manganese (which we find is lower than previously reported) and cobalt can be viewed as the sum of a Lucovsky-like delta-function potential model for photo-ionization, and smaller but recognizable contributions due to transitions of holes into the valence "split-off" band. We have observed the spectral dependence of photoconductivity in these three doped GaAs systems from the extrinsic threshold through the intrinsic peak.
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Date Issued: 1971
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13430
Subject Headings: Gallium, Photoelectricity
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Title: Framing bad art: A semiotic view of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance.
Creator: Givonetti, Scott B., Florida Atlantic University, Blakemore, Steven
Abstract/Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance has been criticized contemporaneously and subsequently by such figures as F. O. Matthiessen, Mark Van Doren, and Rudolph Von Abele for its lack of romanticism or realism, depending upon the critic. This thesis uses a semiotic approach to explore Hawthorne's deconstruction of his first-person narrator, Miles Coverdale, and the resulting confusion among critics regarding authorial control in what some call his "anti-romance." Coverdale, as a detached...
Show moreNathaniel Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance has been criticized contemporaneously and subsequently by such figures as F. O. Matthiessen, Mark Van Doren, and Rudolph Von Abele for its lack of romanticism or realism, depending upon the critic. This thesis uses a semiotic approach to explore Hawthorne's deconstruction of his first-person narrator, Miles Coverdale, and the resulting confusion among critics regarding authorial control in what some call his "anti-romance." Coverdale, as a detached artist, is responsible for reality's misinterpretation and misrepresentation, somewhat lampooning Transcendentalism. The triadic relationship of object, sign, and interpretant modeled by Charles Sanders Peirce is discussed using Liszka, Sebeok, Eco, and others and is complimented by the Umwelt Theory of Jakob von Uexkull to explain Coverdale's faulty symbolism. Hawthorne's "The Custom House" is also used to indicate his concerns for artistic limitation and the loss of an individual in a static community as he later fictionalizes in Blithedale.
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Date Issued: 2006
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13323
Subject Headings: Hawthorne, Nathaniel,--1804-1864.--Blithedale romance., Symbolism in literature., Hawthorne, Nathaniel,--1804-1864--Criticism and interpretation., Semiotics and literature.
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Title: Hawthorne's play on gender and sexuality in "The Blithedale Romance".
Creator: Rubin, Brooke J., Florida Atlantic University, Blakemore, Steven
Abstract/Description: Feminist critics have primarily concentrated on the character of Zenobia, Nathaniel Hawthorne's premier feminist in The Blithedale Romance, to unravel Hawthorne's stance on the emergent sexual politics of the time. This thesis not only examines the importance of Zenobia but also analyzes the significance of Hawthorne's allusions to gender and sexuality constructs in terms of his other characters: Coverdale, Hollingsworth, Priscilla, Westervelt, and Moodie. In addition, I argue that Hawthorne...
Show moreFeminist critics have primarily concentrated on the character of Zenobia, Nathaniel Hawthorne's premier feminist in The Blithedale Romance, to unravel Hawthorne's stance on the emergent sexual politics of the time. This thesis not only examines the importance of Zenobia but also analyzes the significance of Hawthorne's allusions to gender and sexuality constructs in terms of his other characters: Coverdale, Hollingsworth, Priscilla, Westervelt, and Moodie. In addition, I argue that Hawthorne's purpose is to experiment with societal constructs of gender and sexuality among his central characters, a literary experiment that inadvertently subverts his ostensible traditional, patriarchal perspective. In essence, my reading aims to reorientate the conventional presuppositions and gender conventions that have dominated Hawthorne criticism for the past 150 years.
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Date Issued: 2006
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13353
Subject Headings: Hawthorne, Nathaniel,--1804-1864--Blithedale romance, Hawthorne, Nathaniel,--1804-1864--Political and social views, American fiction--19th century--Criticism and interpretation, Women in literature, Sex role in literature
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Title: Mind the Gap: Overcoming Dualities in Motor City, USA.
Creator: Houser, Tai Lynden, Blakemore, Steven, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: Contemporary thinking, bound as it is to a dualistic paradigm, inherently privileges one side of the duality over the other. Feminists - most notably in this dissertation, Val Plumwood - argue that we must overcome these privileged dualities and reconstruct a way of knowing that recognizes difference while not granting privilege to one side or the other. Dualities result from the modernist and postmodernist desire to name and control. One of the reasons that we cannot transcend this desire is...
Show moreContemporary thinking, bound as it is to a dualistic paradigm, inherently privileges one side of the duality over the other. Feminists - most notably in this dissertation, Val Plumwood - argue that we must overcome these privileged dualities and reconstruct a way of knowing that recognizes difference while not granting privilege to one side or the other. Dualities result from the modernist and postmodernist desire to name and control. One of the reasons that we cannot transcend this desire is because we have lost our connection to our environment. Examining novels and films set in Detroit, Michigan, as well as coming to terms with that city's history, will allow us to find places where clairvoyant messengers can commune with the environment and offer us an insight into ways of overcoming the radical "othering" ofduality. This project begins by examining the literary history of urban fiction in the United States and pointing to the tradition of duality and some of its surface problems. Then, the project begins to construct a history of Detroit that exposes the complex layers of duality that have informed the city's growth and ultimately led to the 1967 riots. Next, the argument suggests the importance of fiction and film in understanding modern dualities. The first fictive example, Maureen, from Joyce Carol Oates's novel them is an example of a potential clairvoyant. However, bound as she is to a postmodern existence, Maureen experiences her "other'' but fails to provide a didactic example of non-dualistic thinking. Ultimately, postmodernism and postmodern/post riot Detroit only mystify and compound the problems associated with modern dualities. Likewise, Jeffrey Eugenides transgendered hero/ine Calliope (Middlesex) experiences her natural "other" and allows us to call into question the traditional binaries we use to create our understandings of gender. Both characters retell their experience and re-present their bodies in an attempt to bridge dualities and overcome their "otherness." Finally, the dissertation finds a representation of contemporary Detroit, Eminem's 8 Mile, and argues that violence and shame are at the root of dualities and ultimately distract us from overcoming both fictional and real examples of the oppressive "othering" which results from a culture steeped in dualistic thinking.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000984
Subject Headings: Detroit (Mich)--In literature, Detroit (Mich)--History--21st century--Criticism and interpretation, Symbolism in literature, Postmodernism--Psychological aspects, Philosophy of nature
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Title: Homoerotic encounters in the fictions of Edgar Allan Poe.
Creator: Connolly, Judy Ann., Florida Atlantic University, Blakemore, Steven
Abstract/Description: Using "The Fall of the House of Usher" as the principal, framework tale, this study illuminates Edgar Allan Poe's fictions from a perspective that focuses on homoerotic encounters. Since few prior studies have been directed at Poe's homosexual content, this thesis gives special attention to the benchmark criticism by D. H. Lawrence, which has long influenced readers' interpretations of sexual relationships in Poe's stories. This inquiry includes gender studies, especially the work of Leland S...
Show moreUsing "The Fall of the House of Usher" as the principal, framework tale, this study illuminates Edgar Allan Poe's fictions from a perspective that focuses on homoerotic encounters. Since few prior studies have been directed at Poe's homosexual content, this thesis gives special attention to the benchmark criticism by D. H. Lawrence, which has long influenced readers' interpretations of sexual relationships in Poe's stories. This inquiry includes gender studies, especially the work of Leland S. Person, as well as queer theorist commentary on Poe and his contemporaries. It also deliberates on the definition of the queer aesthete provided by Alexander Doty and discusses how Poe's characters actually pre-date some assumptions about early appearances of the homosexual male in literature. Additionally, this thesis considers how writers who have been influenced by Poe tend to write texts that routinely provide fertile ground for the queer theorist.
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Date Issued: 2003
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13069
Subject Headings: Poe, Edgar Allan,--1809-1849--Criticism and interpretation, Homosexuality in literature, Homosexuality--Philosophy
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Title: Silence and sympathy: Race in the early short fiction of William Faulkner.
Creator: Gifford, Sheryl C., Florida Atlantic University, Blakemore, Steven
Abstract/Description: Much critical debate has surrounded William Faulkner's treatment of race relations in the South; indeed, it is difficult to believe that a white Southern male could transcend the psychosocial realities that led to racial divisions in the post-Civil War South. However, Faulkner, as the "well-endowed" Aristotelian poet, was able to involve himself in the emotions he sought to imitate, and thus was able to transcend racial issues in the compact fictive space he established. Intent upon mastering...
Show moreMuch critical debate has surrounded William Faulkner's treatment of race relations in the South; indeed, it is difficult to believe that a white Southern male could transcend the psychosocial realities that led to racial divisions in the post-Civil War South. However, Faulkner, as the "well-endowed" Aristotelian poet, was able to involve himself in the emotions he sought to imitate, and thus was able to transcend racial issues in the compact fictive space he established. Intent upon mastering the intricacies of the short story, Faulkner, the self-admitted "failed poet," utilizes this genre to construct a subtle yet powerful critique of hypocritical racial divisions common in the postbellum South. The silences and subversive sympathies that abound in such short stories as "Dry September" and "That Evening Sun" are caught up within the confines of this fictive space, provoking the reader to resolve the discrepancies that purposefully exist.
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Date Issued: 1999
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15708
Subject Headings: Faulkner, William,--1897-1962--Political and social views., Race relations in literature., African Americans in literature., Southern States--In literature.
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Title: TRANSPORT MEASUREMENTS ON SEMICONDUCTING TCNQ SALTS.
Creator: LANE, JOHN EUGENE, Florida Atlantic University, Blakemore, John S., Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Physics
Abstract/Description: This work consists mainly of two parts. First was the development of the necessary experimental techniques for measuring single crystal conductivity of anisotropic charge transfer salts. Difficulties included high impedance problems and limited size of available crystals. Cs2(TCNQ)3 was used as a test material with which to develop these techniques. An extensive investigation was undertaken to study the possibility of intrinsic and extrinsic behavior in this material. The second phase of this...
Show moreThis work consists mainly of two parts. First was the development of the necessary experimental techniques for measuring single crystal conductivity of anisotropic charge transfer salts. Difficulties included high impedance problems and limited size of available crystals. Cs2(TCNQ)3 was used as a test material with which to develop these techniques. An extensive investigation was undertaken to study the possibility of intrinsic and extrinsic behavior in this material. The second phase of this work was the study of TCNQ charge transfer salts in which the donors were structurally related pyridinium ion radicals. Four types of donors were synthesized using a methyl or benzyl substituent along with a cyano group in the 3 or 4 position of the ring. A total of eight compounds were studied including salts of the 1:1 and 1:2 stochiometry. Compaction conductivity was measured for all eight materials along with single crystal conductivity of three of the salts.
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Date Issued: 1977
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13835
Subject Headings: Charge transfer, One-dimensional conductors, Organic semiconductors, Salts--Electric properties
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Title: The Hemingway hero and the monomyth: An examination of the hero quest myth in the Nick Adams stories.
Creator: Bajger, John James, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: The code hero is the foundation of Hemingway interpretation and central to an understanding of his ideology. The values, ideals and actions of many of Hemingway's greatest heroes fit within this framework, and the Hemingway hero is as firm a part of American literary myth as Melville's Great White Whale. Twain's Huckleberry Finn, or Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha county. I will use Joseph Campbell's work, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, a study in which he details his conception of the monomyth--...
Show moreThe code hero is the foundation of Hemingway interpretation and central to an understanding of his ideology. The values, ideals and actions of many of Hemingway's greatest heroes fit within this framework, and the Hemingway hero is as firm a part of American literary myth as Melville's Great White Whale. Twain's Huckleberry Finn, or Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha county. I will use Joseph Campbell's work, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, a study in which he details his conception of the monomyth---the basic underlying structure for all heroic myths---to show how the idea of the mythic hero links the Nick Adams stories together and also serves to reveal the character of Nick himself. Most importantly, however, it is my contention that Campbell's stages of the monomyth---the departure, the road of trials, and the return---can be utilized to describe and analyze the major themes found in the Nick Adam's stories.
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Date Issued: 2003
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13052
Subject Headings: Literature, Modern, Literature, American
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African Americans in literature. (1)	+ -
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Detroit (Mich)--History--21st century--Criticism and interpretation (1)	+ -
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel,--1804-1864--House of the seven gables (1)	+ -
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Photoelectricity (1)	+ -
Poe, Edgar Allan,--1809-1849--Criticism and interpretation (1)	+ -
Postmodernism--Psychological aspects (1)	+ -
Race relations in literature. (1)	+ -
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