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- ILLNESS IN "JANE EYRE" AND "WUTHERING HEIGHTS".
- Creator
- DILGEN, REGINA M., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
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Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights are comparable in their symbolic use of physical illness. In both novels, illness symbolizes a basic opposition between a central female character and society. Conversely, excellent health symbolizes that a character is in harmony with society. In Jane Eyre, Jane's illnesses represent her inability to survive as a total outsider. Catherine's illnesses in Wuthering Heights are the opposite, for they represent her inability to be...
Show moreCharlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights are comparable in their symbolic use of physical illness. In both novels, illness symbolizes a basic opposition between a central female character and society. Conversely, excellent health symbolizes that a character is in harmony with society. In Jane Eyre, Jane's illnesses represent her inability to survive as a total outsider. Catherine's illnesses in Wuthering Heights are the opposite, for they represent her inability to be sustained by a conventional life. The illnesses of the central female characters facilitate their escape from unsatisfying situations. The position of Jane Eyre and Catherine Earnshaw as women in male-dominated worlds is central to their discontent and is the reason for their inability to change their lives through less drastic means.
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- 1985
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14245
- Subject Headings
- Brontë, Charlotte,--1816-1855--Jane Eyre--Criticism and interpretation, Brontë, Emily,--1818-1848--Wuthering Heights--Criticism and interpretation
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- THE INFLUENCE OF JOHN MILTON ON THE FICTION OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.
- Creator
- FERRARA, ANTHONY EDWARD., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
- Abstract/Description
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Nathaniel Hawthorne ~rew extensively on the poetry of John Milton for his fiction. Hawthorne praised Milton in his works and often referred to his poems. Many of Hawthorne's garden scenes have their symbolic roots in the Miltonic Eden, and his Blithedale Romance displays a great familiarity with Milton's! Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle (Comus). Hawthorne's late romance, The Marble Faun, employs the Miltonic theme of man's fall from grace and often parallels the structure of Paradise Lost.
- Date Issued
- 1975
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13754
- Subject Headings
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel,--1804-1864., Milton, John,--1608-1674--Influence--Hawthorne.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- FUTILE BENEVOLENCE IN THREE VONNEGUT NOVELS: "THE SIRENS OF TITAN," "CAT'S CRADLE," AND "GOD BLESS YOU, MR. ROSEWATER.".
- Creator
- SWARTZEL, STEVEN BRUCE., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
- Abstract/Description
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Many of Kurt Vonnegut's central characters are benevolent advocates of positive human change. Because of the absurdities of their world, these efforts are futile and doomed to failure. Rumfoord attempts "to do good for my native earth" in The Sirens of Titan, on a cosmic scale. Lionel Boyd Johnson, Bokonon, in eat's Cradle, creates a religion based on lies to lessen the awful truth. Eliot Rosewater in God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater attempts to love the "discarded" Americans of Rosewater,...
Show moreMany of Kurt Vonnegut's central characters are benevolent advocates of positive human change. Because of the absurdities of their world, these efforts are futile and doomed to failure. Rumfoord attempts "to do good for my native earth" in The Sirens of Titan, on a cosmic scale. Lionel Boyd Johnson, Bokonon, in eat's Cradle, creates a religion based on lies to lessen the awful truth. Eliot Rosewater in God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater attempts to love the "discarded" Americans of Rosewater, Indiana, on a one-to-one basis. The conflicts inherent in. Vonnegut's world cloud the motivation of these efforts but they are still sincere efforts within their pluralistic framework. The results are a mixture of positive and negative; the most positive exist on a small human scale; the most negative on a collective or institutional scale.
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- 1983
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14143
- Subject Headings
- Vonnegut, Kurt--Criticism and interpretation
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- HOW TO LIVE WELL IN THE FICTIONAL WORLD OF JOHN IRVING.
- Creator
- CRAIG, GRETCHEN L., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
- Abstract/Description
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The novels of John Irving reflect a consistent view of the world as a threatening, disordered place. How Irving's characters manage to live meaningfully in the face of such disorder is a major theme. Some characters react to their awareness of a frightening reality with passivity or detachment. These are sometimes anti-heroes in the Austrian tradition, and they often reflect an Aurelian stoicism. Other characters more nearly fulfill Irving's prescription for a meaningful life. Several of...
Show moreThe novels of John Irving reflect a consistent view of the world as a threatening, disordered place. How Irving's characters manage to live meaningfully in the face of such disorder is a major theme. Some characters react to their awareness of a frightening reality with passivity or detachment. These are sometimes anti-heroes in the Austrian tradition, and they often reflect an Aurelian stoicism. Other characters more nearly fulfill Irving's prescription for a meaningful life. Several of these more successful characters rely on imagination to balance the stress of reality, much as the persona in the poems of Wallace Stevens do. Furthermore, the more successful characters have in common a basic decency, an Aurelian stability, and a willingness to engage other people with energy and benevolence. With these guaiities, it is possible to live meaningfully in spite of a hazardous and disordered world.
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- 1983
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14148
- Subject Headings
- Irving, John,--1942---Criticism and interpretation
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- LILLIAN HELLMAN'S PORTRAYAL OF THE SOUTH.
- Creator
- COFER, AGNES J. ORTIZ., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
- Abstract/Description
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Lillian Hellman uses the Reconstructed South as an emblem of the social and personal evils which result from a society based on a system of unconscionable capitalism. In her plays The Little Foxes and Another Part of the Forest she traces the rise of industrialism in the emergence of the "New South." The erosion of the aristocratic ideal of the Old South is exemplified by the characters in The Autumn Garden and Toys in the Attic who lack the will to act and live obsessed with the past. In...
Show moreLillian Hellman uses the Reconstructed South as an emblem of the social and personal evils which result from a society based on a system of unconscionable capitalism. In her plays The Little Foxes and Another Part of the Forest she traces the rise of industrialism in the emergence of the "New South." The erosion of the aristocratic ideal of the Old South is exemplified by the characters in The Autumn Garden and Toys in the Attic who lack the will to act and live obsessed with the past. In order to fully appreciate her Southern plays it is necessary to recognize the fact that they are a composite of Southern myth and history and the author's own instinctive feelings about her native region. To classify these aspects and to correlate them with historical facts enhances the under standing of these works by placing them within a cultural framework.
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- 1977
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13891
- Subject Headings
- Hellman, Lillian,--1905-1984--Criticism and interpretation, Southern States in literature
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Ellen Glasgow: Feminism through characterization.
- Creator
- Catapano, Tanya R., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
- Abstract/Description
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Ellen Glasgow's feminism is revealed in her fiction, especially through her characterization of women. In four representative novels, Glasgow's female characters underscore the problems of women--from the womanly woman of the Victorian era to the new woman of the twentieth century. In Virginia, Virginia Pendleton is the product of an education that teaches her to be a dutiful wife and mother yet neglects her personal growth. In The Sheltered Life, Eva Birdsong is a victim of the myth of...
Show moreEllen Glasgow's feminism is revealed in her fiction, especially through her characterization of women. In four representative novels, Glasgow's female characters underscore the problems of women--from the womanly woman of the Victorian era to the new woman of the twentieth century. In Virginia, Virginia Pendleton is the product of an education that teaches her to be a dutiful wife and mother yet neglects her personal growth. In The Sheltered Life, Eva Birdsong is a victim of the myth of Southern Womanhood and its unrealistic expectations. Glasgow also attempts to show that character is fate, and women can turn to their inner resources to solve their problems. Thus Dorinda Oakley of Barren Ground enters the man's world of farming, and Ada Fincastle of Vein of Iron relies on her inherited fortitude to triumph over personal disappointments and the forces of social change. In these novels, Glasgow exposes the conservative educational, religious, and social influences that impinge on the development of women as total human beings. Ellen Glasgow's contribution to the feminist movement lies in her commitment to what she called women's "liberation of personality."
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- 1989
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14527
- Subject Headings
- Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson,--1873-1945--Criticism and interpretation, Feminism and literature, Women in literature
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Elements of the Arthurian Cycle in the works of Walter Van Tilburg Clark.
- Creator
- Hodgson, John W., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
- Abstract/Description
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Walter Van Tilburg Clark, prior to his success as a popular writer, wrote as his first M.A. thesis a redaction of the legend of Tristram, one of the tales commonly associated with the works composing the Arthurian Cycle. In his thesis, Clark demonstrated a thorough knowledge of the Arthurian legends, a knowledge which manifests itself in two of his novels, The Ox-Bow Incident and The Track of the Cat. Tracing these echoes through the two novels reveals that the archetypal relationship to the...
Show moreWalter Van Tilburg Clark, prior to his success as a popular writer, wrote as his first M.A. thesis a redaction of the legend of Tristram, one of the tales commonly associated with the works composing the Arthurian Cycle. In his thesis, Clark demonstrated a thorough knowledge of the Arthurian legends, a knowledge which manifests itself in two of his novels, The Ox-Bow Incident and The Track of the Cat. Tracing these echoes through the two novels reveals that the archetypal relationship to the Arthurian legends strengthens the thematic and character development in each novel and gives Clark's work a more universal appeal.
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- 1994
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15029
- Subject Headings
- Clark, Walter Van Tilburg,--1909-1971--Criticism and interpretation, Cycles (Literature)
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- D. H. LAWRENCE'S PORTRAYAL OF WOMEN.
- Creator
- HAMIDINIA, PARVINDOKHT., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
- Abstract/Description
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Controversy which has surrounded David Herbert Lawrence arises out of misunderstanding of what he was actually saying. Lawrence's depiction of sexual scenes and particularly his vocabulary in presenting these scenes have misled many critics into believing that he was a feminist. Early criticism (1911-1940's) indicates that Lawrence portrays the modern liberated woman favorably. From the beginning of the 1950's to the early 1970's, critics agreed that Lawrence respected and understood women....
Show moreControversy which has surrounded David Herbert Lawrence arises out of misunderstanding of what he was actually saying. Lawrence's depiction of sexual scenes and particularly his vocabulary in presenting these scenes have misled many critics into believing that he was a feminist. Early criticism (1911-1940's) indicates that Lawrence portrays the modern liberated woman favorably. From the beginning of the 1950's to the early 1970's, critics agreed that Lawrence respected and understood women. Recent criticism (latter part of 1970's to date) finds to some extent a tone of cynicism toward women. However, the idea that Lawrence understands and respects women still prevails. Analysis of Lawrence's novels suggests that his heroines are not consistently modern or liberated. These women may be introduced as liberated and intellectual, but in the end they submit to the power of man. Lawrence's motif is the conflict between male and female, which results in male dominance and female submission.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1984
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14193
- Subject Headings
- Lawrence, D H--(David Herbert),--1885-1930--Characters--Women, Women in literature
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The struggle for life in "Native Son".
- Creator
- Ho Lung, Jacqueline Theresa., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
- Abstract/Description
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The controversy in Native Son is over the book's "message"; however, few agree exactly what this message is. It is not, as misinterpreted by many critics, a struggle between the races. Refusing to accept passively society's definition of himself as a non-person, Bigger fights for the right to be and for a reason for being. Discarded as human garbage, Bigger rebels. His consequent actions become the justification for his existence. He kills Mary Dalton because he is "scared and mad," reacting...
Show moreThe controversy in Native Son is over the book's "message"; however, few agree exactly what this message is. It is not, as misinterpreted by many critics, a struggle between the races. Refusing to accept passively society's definition of himself as a non-person, Bigger fights for the right to be and for a reason for being. Discarded as human garbage, Bigger rebels. His consequent actions become the justification for his existence. He kills Mary Dalton because he is "scared and mad," reacting instinctively in the manner he is forced to live his life. Wright delves into Bigger's motives in order to explain the archetypal "bad nigger," not to gain sympathy from whites nor to be cruel to blacks, rather to build a foundation for communication between the races in order to expose the ongoing American tragedy.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1991
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14693
- Subject Headings
- Wright, Richard,--1908-1960--Native son
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The source of bird imagery in the poetry of Walt Whitman.
- Creator
- Springer, Nancy Patterson., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
- Abstract/Description
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Walt Whitman relied heavily upon an ornithological reference book for most of the bird imagery in Leaves of Grass. Despite claims that Whitman was closely in tune with nature, he obviously made use of The Birds of Long Island by J. P. Giraud, published in 1844, in numerous passages over a period of about 20 years. Courtland Y. White first noticed Whitman's dependence upon this text in 1944. This study goes beyond White's findings, surveys the importance of accuracy in Whitman's details about...
Show moreWalt Whitman relied heavily upon an ornithological reference book for most of the bird imagery in Leaves of Grass. Despite claims that Whitman was closely in tune with nature, he obviously made use of The Birds of Long Island by J. P. Giraud, published in 1844, in numerous passages over a period of about 20 years. Courtland Y. White first noticed Whitman's dependence upon this text in 1944. This study goes beyond White's findings, surveys the importance of accuracy in Whitman's details about birds, and examines the poet's relationship with the naturalist John Burroughs, whose influence is seen in at least one major poem.
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- 1990
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14600
- Subject Headings
- Whitman, Walt,--1819-1892--Sources, Birds in literature
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The tyranny of passive-aggression in Jane Austen's novels.
- Creator
- Lockhart, Claudia Jeanette., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
- Abstract/Description
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Passive-aggression is an insidious form of tyranny that uses hypochondria and other tactics to manipulate. Presumably with her mother in mind, Jane Austen frequently portrays the passive-aggressive character and ridicules hypochondria, as in the satirical Sanditon. Mr. Woodhouse and Mrs. Churchill are life-denying parental figures in Emma, who use illness and hypochondria to manipulate their children, much like Mansfield Park's Lady Bertram, who uses hypochondria and social withdrawal to...
Show morePassive-aggression is an insidious form of tyranny that uses hypochondria and other tactics to manipulate. Presumably with her mother in mind, Jane Austen frequently portrays the passive-aggressive character and ridicules hypochondria, as in the satirical Sanditon. Mr. Woodhouse and Mrs. Churchill are life-denying parental figures in Emma, who use illness and hypochondria to manipulate their children, much like Mansfield Park's Lady Bertram, who uses hypochondria and social withdrawal to control her family. In Persuasion Mary Musgrove, a young copy of Lady Bertram, uses hypochondria and hysteria to manipulate, and Mrs. Clay passively ingratiates herself with the Elliot family in an attempt to become the next Lady Elliot. Through her novels Jane Austen shows the effects of this damaging, despotic behavior.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1993
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14887
- Subject Headings
- Austen, Jane,--1775-1817--Criticism and interpretation
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The politics of representation in "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men".
- Creator
- Spence, Steven A., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
- Abstract/Description
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Originally intended as light magazine journalism, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a book of photographs by Walker Evans and prose by James Agee, evolved into a complex work that exists on the boundaries of many genres, disciplines, and movements. The book is a documentary account of a month's stay with a family of Alabama tenant farmers in 1936. But it is simultaneously a challenge to claims of documentary realism, and to the assertions of knowledge and power that accompany those claims. Using...
Show moreOriginally intended as light magazine journalism, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a book of photographs by Walker Evans and prose by James Agee, evolved into a complex work that exists on the boundaries of many genres, disciplines, and movements. The book is a documentary account of a month's stay with a family of Alabama tenant farmers in 1936. But it is simultaneously a challenge to claims of documentary realism, and to the assertions of knowledge and power that accompany those claims. Using modern theories of the documentary, as well as theories of postmodernism, this study traces the book's problematic relationship to "representation" as a textual and political strategy. I consider the interaction of words and images as one locus of ethical representation. The book's vision of just representation, I argue, can best be understood as an equal exchange involving author, reader, text, and the subjects of the representation.
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- 1992
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14832
- Subject Headings
- Agee, James,--1909-1955--Let us now praise famous men, Alabama--Rural conditions, Farm tenancy--Alabama
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- KIN RELATIONSHIPS IN THREE NOVELS BY EUDORA WELTY.
- Creator
- DRAG, SUSAN MCMURRAY., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
- Abstract/Description
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Eudora Welty portrays the family as the most redeeming force in Souttern culture. Her novels Delta Wedding and Losing Battles describe the family's functions of socialization and mutual aid. Both novels demonstrate how loyalty to family and pride in family heritage strengthen the individual. In The Optimist's Daughter, family love is able to transform bitterness into compassion and misunderstanding into knowledge. It is sufficient to sustain the individual through grief, loneliness, and...
Show moreEudora Welty portrays the family as the most redeeming force in Souttern culture. Her novels Delta Wedding and Losing Battles describe the family's functions of socialization and mutual aid. Both novels demonstrate how loyalty to family and pride in family heritage strengthen the individual. In The Optimist's Daughter, family love is able to transform bitterness into compassion and misunderstanding into knowledge. It is sufficient to sustain the individual through grief, loneliness, and regret. Eudora Welty presents the enduring and cohesive family as the most powerful influence on individual lives.
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- 1978
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13914
- Subject Headings
- Welty, Eudora,--1909---Criticism and interpretation, Family in literature
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- John Steinbeck's quest for brotherhood.
- Creator
- Johnson, Marilyn Fritz., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
- Abstract/Description
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As a child, John Steinbeck developed what would be a lifelong interest in the stories of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table. As an adult during the 1930s, he recreated the Arthurian brotherhood cycle--its formation, flowering, and dissolution--in three of his novels: Tortilla Flat, In Dubious Battle, and The Grapes of Wrath. Each brotherhood novel is characterized by the following Arthurian elements: a leader is chosen by the people and dies during the dissolution of the...
Show moreAs a child, John Steinbeck developed what would be a lifelong interest in the stories of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table. As an adult during the 1930s, he recreated the Arthurian brotherhood cycle--its formation, flowering, and dissolution--in three of his novels: Tortilla Flat, In Dubious Battle, and The Grapes of Wrath. Each brotherhood novel is characterized by the following Arthurian elements: a leader is chosen by the people and dies during the dissolution of the brotherhood; a cause is worked for; quests are undertaken; and a social code of behavior is followed. Steinbeck used the Arthurian brotherhood cycle to show how the problems of the 1930s in America could be solved, although he knew that ultimately the brotherhood solution would not work.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1989
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14555
- Subject Headings
- Steinbeck, John,--1902-1968--Criticism and interpretation
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Jane Austen's anti-heroes and heroes.
- Creator
- Medow, Selma., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
- Abstract/Description
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Despite her youth, Jane Austen knew enough about human nature to invest each of her characters with a different personality, yet underlying each was their common humanity. The anti-heroes and heroes of her fiction were all endowed with mixed strengths and weaknesses, just as she found people to be in the real world. None of her anti-heroes were devils, and none of her heroes were superheroes. The village atmosphere which was the locale of her works gave her the opportunity to enlarge on the...
Show moreDespite her youth, Jane Austen knew enough about human nature to invest each of her characters with a different personality, yet underlying each was their common humanity. The anti-heroes and heroes of her fiction were all endowed with mixed strengths and weaknesses, just as she found people to be in the real world. None of her anti-heroes were devils, and none of her heroes were superheroes. The village atmosphere which was the locale of her works gave her the opportunity to enlarge on the personalities of her characters: their foibles, secret hopes, downfalls, and eventually the happy endings for the worthy protagonists. Although her plots appear to be "boy meets girl" with problems before the "boy gets girl" conclusion, the satire, the complications, the intricacies, and the heartaches in between are what make Jane Austen's skill as a writer shine through her work even today.
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- 1988
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14468
- Subject Headings
- Austen, Jane,--1775-1817--Criticism and interpretation
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Jane Austen's fallible fathers.
- Creator
- Okun, Irwin L., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
- Abstract/Description
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Despite well documented evidence that Jane Austen's relations with her father were harmonious and affectionate, only one of the twenty-one fathers and surrogate fathers depicted in her six major novels approaches the ideal of the patriarchal family--a wise and humane father. The preponderance of fallible fathers is a unifying metaphor for a disintegrating family structure, the inevitable legacy of a failed patrimony. The phallocentric heritage has rendered the lineal society anachronistic by...
Show moreDespite well documented evidence that Jane Austen's relations with her father were harmonious and affectionate, only one of the twenty-one fathers and surrogate fathers depicted in her six major novels approaches the ideal of the patriarchal family--a wise and humane father. The preponderance of fallible fathers is a unifying metaphor for a disintegrating family structure, the inevitable legacy of a failed patrimony. The phallocentric heritage has rendered the lineal society anachronistic by fostering paternal irresponsibility due to unfettered privilege, by permitting the poorly prepared, succeeding generation of inheritors to govern, and by reducing the status of women to submission and dependency.
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- 1989
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14505
- Subject Headings
- Austen, Jane,--1775-1817--Criticism and interpretation, Fathers and daughters, Men in literature
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Jane Austen's portrayal of marriage.
- Creator
- Manzelmann, Julie Diane., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
- Abstract/Description
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Marriage is the desired goal and ultimate destiny of Austen's heroines. Austen presents a pivotal couple in each novel, consisting of deeply moral, intelligent individuals who are capable of genuine selfless affection. The man and woman experience growth and maturation before the relationship culminates in matrimony. The featured couple of Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth and Darcy, embody all the essential characteristics of an extraordinary pair. Initial dislikes mask attraction, while self...
Show moreMarriage is the desired goal and ultimate destiny of Austen's heroines. Austen presents a pivotal couple in each novel, consisting of deeply moral, intelligent individuals who are capable of genuine selfless affection. The man and woman experience growth and maturation before the relationship culminates in matrimony. The featured couple of Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth and Darcy, embody all the essential characteristics of an extraordinary pair. Initial dislikes mask attraction, while self-awareness heightens as one learns more of the other. This evolvement is unparalleled in Pride and Prejudice. Representations of couples in this novel range from the very low (Lydia and Wickham) to the mundane (Charlotte and Mr. Collins) to the quite acceptable (Jane and Bingley). Each pair falls short of Elizabeth and Darcy in profoundness of feeling. Within the confines of society and the ranks of humanity in Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth and Darcy are a "perfect match."
Show less - Date Issued
- 1988
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14481
- Subject Headings
- Austen, Jane,--1775-1817--Pride and prejudice
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A STUDY OF THE INITIATION THEME IN THE WORKS OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD.
- Creator
- MCFREDERICK, CAROL ANN., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
- Abstract/Description
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This thesis explores the initiation theme as it relates to F. Scott Fitzgerald's work. The Basil Duke Lee series which involves the learning experiences between the ages of eleven and seventeen serves as a point of comparison with other fiction by Fitzgerald. Basil Lee's response to initiation is compared and contrasted with masculine protagonists like Anson Hunter, Anthony Patch, Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway and Dick Diver and with feminine characters like Josephine Perry. A study is made to...
Show moreThis thesis explores the initiation theme as it relates to F. Scott Fitzgerald's work. The Basil Duke Lee series which involves the learning experiences between the ages of eleven and seventeen serves as a point of comparison with other fiction by Fitzgerald. Basil Lee's response to initiation is compared and contrasted with masculine protagonists like Anson Hunter, Anthony Patch, Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway and Dick Diver and with feminine characters like Josephine Perry. A study is made to rate the success of each initiation and to determine the elements which are required for a satisfactory initiation.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1974
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13687
- Subject Headings
- Fitzgerald, F Scott--(Francis Scott),--1896-1940, Initiations in literature
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Six Dickens eccentrics.
- Creator
- Butler, Margaret Venning., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
- Abstract/Description
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Charles Dickens liked to create eccentric pairs within his novels by contrasting one benevolent with one unscrupulous caricature. In his first novel, Pickwick Papers, good-hearted Samuel Pickwick is set off against deceitful Alfred Jingle. In Dombey and Son, produced mid-point in his writing career, compassionate Captain Ned Cuttle is distinguished from cunning Major Joseph Bagstock. In his last completed novel, Our Mutual Friend, humanitarian Nicodemus Boffin counterposes corrupt Silas Wegg....
Show moreCharles Dickens liked to create eccentric pairs within his novels by contrasting one benevolent with one unscrupulous caricature. In his first novel, Pickwick Papers, good-hearted Samuel Pickwick is set off against deceitful Alfred Jingle. In Dombey and Son, produced mid-point in his writing career, compassionate Captain Ned Cuttle is distinguished from cunning Major Joseph Bagstock. In his last completed novel, Our Mutual Friend, humanitarian Nicodemus Boffin counterposes corrupt Silas Wegg. These characters are humorously portrayed through their appearance and speech, as well as through the farcical situations in which Dickens places them. They also become metaphors for human qualities, such as greed, naivete, pride and compassion, thereby clarifying Dickens's serious themes.
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- 1993
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14894
- Subject Headings
- Dickens, Charles,--1812-1870--Criticism and interpretation, Dickens, Charles,--1812-1870--Characters--Eccentrics, Eccentrics in literature
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- THEODORE PRATT: THE FLORIDA TRILOGY ("THE BAREFOOT MAILMAN," "THE FLAME TREE," AND "THE BIG BUBBLE").
- Creator
- MONTAGUE, MARGARET ESTHER NEWMAN., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
- Abstract/Description
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In the Florida trilogy, Theodore Pratt depicts the changes in Southeast Florida that turned a Garden-of-Eden wilderness into the American Riviera. The history of the area from 1887 to 1926 is told in terms of historical figures who typify the people of the time or were most influential in "civilizing" the area. Pratt's meticulous research and historical accuracy resulted in three novels--The Barefoot Mailman, The Flame Tree, and The Big Bubble--which are flawed by stereotyped characters and...
Show moreIn the Florida trilogy, Theodore Pratt depicts the changes in Southeast Florida that turned a Garden-of-Eden wilderness into the American Riviera. The history of the area from 1887 to 1926 is told in terms of historical figures who typify the people of the time or were most influential in "civilizing" the area. Pratt's meticulous research and historical accuracy resulted in three novels--The Barefoot Mailman, The Flame Tree, and The Big Bubble--which are flawed by stereotyped characters and plots and by his awkward writing style; nevertheless, the novels are a contribution to literature because Pratt was the first to popularize the area's history. In addition, they present for the first time a unified exploration of the legend of Florida as the Garden of Eden which was destroyed by the corrupting influence of land speculators and developers.
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- 1978
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13920
- Subject Headings
- Pratt, Theodore,--1901---Criticism and interpretation
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- Document (PDF)
