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- The rhetoric of unity in a pluralistic early America.
- Creator
- Wilson, Joel., Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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The push of the past half century to redefine the American canon through the incorporation of writers representative of America's heterogeneousness has given voice to a range of marginalized writers. This movement, predicated on the belief that American society was never as unified as its early leaders would have us believe, has overstated what it sought to challenge : the unitedness of early Americans. Casting the leaders of the Early Republic as in complete accord, such critical readings...
Show moreThe push of the past half century to redefine the American canon through the incorporation of writers representative of America's heterogeneousness has given voice to a range of marginalized writers. This movement, predicated on the belief that American society was never as unified as its early leaders would have us believe, has overstated what it sought to challenge : the unitedness of early Americans. Casting the leaders of the Early Republic as in complete accord, such critical readings negate the significant differences that existed and the pains necessary to present something akin to national unity and identity. It is my aim to show that this unity came about through a constructed rhetoric meant to unify the citizens in colonial America and the Early Republic. In this thesis, I will examine three modes of this rhetoric : American Exceptionalism, the American Enlightenment, and the movements supporting a mono-dialectal view of American English.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2012
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3359161
- Subject Headings
- National characteristics, American, History, Civilization, History, Influence, History, Politics and government, Politics and government
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Program Review English, 2014-2015.
- Creator
- Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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Florida Atlantic University Departmental Dashboard Indicators. Department program reviews for Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University.
- Date Issued
- 2014-2015
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007597
- Subject Headings
- Florida Atlantic University -- History
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Program Review English, 2015-2016.
- Creator
- Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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Florida Atlantic University Departmental Dashboard Indicators. Department program reviews for Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University.
- Date Issued
- 2015-2016
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007598
- Subject Headings
- Florida Atlantic University -- History
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Program Review English, 2012-2013.
- Creator
- Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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Florida Atlantic University Departmental Dashboard Indicators. Department program reviews for Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University.
- Date Issued
- 2012-2013
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007595
- Subject Headings
- Florida Atlantic University -- History
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Program Review English, 2013-2014.
- Creator
- Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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Florida Atlantic University Departmental Dashboard Indicators. Department program reviews for Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University.
- Date Issued
- 2013-2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007596
- Subject Headings
- Florida Atlantic University -- History
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Program Review English, 2009-2010.
- Creator
- Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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Florida Atlantic University Departmental Dashboard Indicators. Department program reviews for Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University.
- Date Issued
- 2009-2010
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007593
- Subject Headings
- Florida Atlantic University -- History
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Program Review English, 2010-2011.
- Creator
- Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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Florida Atlantic University Departmental Dashboard Indicators. Department program reviews for Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University.
- Date Issued
- 2010-2011
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007594
- Subject Headings
- Florida Atlantic University -- History
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Program Review English, 2016-2017.
- Creator
- Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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Florida Atlantic University Departmental Dashboard Indicators. Department program reviews for Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University.
- Date Issued
- 2016-2017
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007599
- Subject Headings
- Florida Atlantic University -- History
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Stan in Prague.
- Creator
- Waldron, Justin., Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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We all use our language as one of our main modes of communication. Stan Klipper, the progatonist of Stan in Prague, found himself in a position where language has failed him, yet with the lack of language, his other senses have also failed him. When Stan was sent to Prague on a vague business trip, he decided to hire a translator to help him close the language gap, which in his case was huge. With his translator, Ihar, and Ihar's girlfriend delha, Stan maneuvers his way through the cramped...
Show moreWe all use our language as one of our main modes of communication. Stan Klipper, the progatonist of Stan in Prague, found himself in a position where language has failed him, yet with the lack of language, his other senses have also failed him. When Stan was sent to Prague on a vague business trip, he decided to hire a translator to help him close the language gap, which in his case was huge. With his translator, Ihar, and Ihar's girlfriend delha, Stan maneuvers his way through the cramped streets of Prague, to open the lands of the Prague suburbs and into his own confusion.
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- 2012
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3359284
- Subject Headings
- Conduct of life, Translating and interpreting, Social aspects, Language and culture, Intercultural communication
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Among cats, between cemeteries, and inside morgues.
- Creator
- Thompson, Lana., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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thesis is written with the intent to connect work I have created since writing The Wandering Womb: a cultural history of outrageous beliefs about women. It began as a collage of stories, poetry, images and memories. I intended to funnel this accumulation of mental maps, unusual vistas and events, poetic moments of inertia, into an alembic that would yield a unique residue, but it boiled over and only words remain. The starting point of these experiences took me to back rooms of museums,...
Show morethesis is written with the intent to connect work I have created since writing The Wandering Womb: a cultural history of outrageous beliefs about women. It began as a collage of stories, poetry, images and memories. I intended to funnel this accumulation of mental maps, unusual vistas and events, poetic moments of inertia, into an alembic that would yield a unique residue, but it boiled over and only words remain. The starting point of these experiences took me to back rooms of museums, morgues, surgical suites and special collections libraries throughout the world to explore the stuff of curiosity. Martin Buber (1878-1965) allegedly, but not verifiably, is quoted as writing, "All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware." Cats in cemeteries, sixteenth century anatomy books, babies in bottles, two headed calves, and chapels constructed from bones are but a few of the marvelous destinations I have discovered.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2010
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3338859
- Subject Headings
- Symbolism in literature
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Asunder.
- Creator
- Harthcock, Rebecca., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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Asunder is a poetic work in various forms. As a manuscript, it includes an erasure of chapter five in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, two poetic images, and a handful of more traditional forms (including a sonnet) that focus on themes of loss and faith.
- Date Issued
- 2013
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3360785
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Augustinian virtue in the Dickensian world: the role of Christian friendship in the conversion of souls and the move toward the Heavenly City.
- Creator
- Kriegel, Jill A., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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The novels of Charles Dickens resonate with ancient and Christian moral messages: From plots and characters representative of Victorian ideals and concerns emerge themes that reflect centuries of moral, and, as I argue, specifically Augustinian, teaching. While the Christian overtones of Charles Dickens's novels are seldom denied, their Augustinian nature, their purpose, and Dickens's hopes for their effect are rarely given their proper due. In opposition to the postmodern idea of an...
Show moreThe novels of Charles Dickens resonate with ancient and Christian moral messages: From plots and characters representative of Victorian ideals and concerns emerge themes that reflect centuries of moral, and, as I argue, specifically Augustinian, teaching. While the Christian overtones of Charles Dickens's novels are seldom denied, their Augustinian nature, their purpose, and Dickens's hopes for their effect are rarely given their proper due. In opposition to the postmodern idea of an increasing nihilism and despair in Dickens's message, I examine instead his steadfast fascination with and joy in the power of charitable friendships-friendships that embody goodness and the possibility for conversion, friendships that are especially noteworthy amid the societal darkness ushered in by the crises of faith that accompanied nineteenth-century industrialization, commercialization, and de-moralization. Preparing to highlight the undeniable moral value in both the rejected and realized friendships and conversions of Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit, Bleak House, and Great Expectations, first I focus on true friendship as a necessary part of a soul's ascent developed in Plato's Symposium and Phaedrus, as well as in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, illustrating how these classical texts anticipate the Augustinian notion of a soul's transformation from the earthly city to the city of God. With this literary continuum thus established, I contend that the Heavenly City as it is reflected in the Dickensian world relies on its virtuous citizens, those true friends who consistently manifest Christian charity, humility, and forgiveness.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2010
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2683142
- Subject Headings
- Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Christianity in literature, Criticism and interpretation, Religion in literature, Criticism and interpretation, Friendship in literature, Criticism and interpretation, Soul, Christianity
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Author-ity, privilege and violation: the role of subaltern and the intellectual in the novels of Julia Alvarez.
- Creator
- Alonso, Raquel., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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Can the subaltern really speak? Invoking Gayatri Spivak's post-colonial theory on the subaltern, this study aims to highlight the necessary, yet problematic relationship between intellectuals and the marginalized groups they seek to represent. This study argues that in the last chapter of Julia Alvarez's How the Garcâia Girls Lost Their Accents, the image of the wailing cat becomes a haunting image regarding Alvarez's own subject-position as a writer, a role that often places her in the...
Show moreCan the subaltern really speak? Invoking Gayatri Spivak's post-colonial theory on the subaltern, this study aims to highlight the necessary, yet problematic relationship between intellectuals and the marginalized groups they seek to represent. This study argues that in the last chapter of Julia Alvarez's How the Garcâia Girls Lost Their Accents, the image of the wailing cat becomes a haunting image regarding Alvarez's own subject-position as a writer, a role that often places her in the center of harsh criticism. Consequently, this project traces the subaltern figures through three of Alvarez's texts -¡YO!, In the Time of the Butterflies, and Saving the World - in order to reveal the paradox that defines their relationship with the privileged body that seeks to be their representative. The subaltern cannot speak beyond the margins without the help of the elite; however, the same position of privilege and power that enables the intellectual to write can quickly become the factor that discredits their right to speak. Consequently, this study also attempts to reclaim the voice of Julia Alvarez, who is herself silenced and thus, rendered subaltern in the literary market by critics who feel that her privileged position complicates her ability to represent the collective.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2010
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2867330
- Subject Headings
- Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Marginality, Social
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Can I call you brother?.
- Creator
- Norberg, Elizabeth Andrea., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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The following manuscript is a novel intended to explore the confusing nature of butch lesbian gender identity and the unique bonds of friendship butch women often share with one another. Lesbian culture, today, sometimes puts pressure on the term butch and pushes butch women to choose between transgender, femme and androgynous. The lead character in this novel, Sarah, struggles to come to terms with her own sexual identity amidst all this pressure to conform. She watches her friends and...
Show moreThe following manuscript is a novel intended to explore the confusing nature of butch lesbian gender identity and the unique bonds of friendship butch women often share with one another. Lesbian culture, today, sometimes puts pressure on the term butch and pushes butch women to choose between transgender, femme and androgynous. The lead character in this novel, Sarah, struggles to come to terms with her own sexual identity amidst all this pressure to conform. She watches her friends and searches for a model of what butch is and is not but she continues to feel emotionally and physically cut off from the people she cares about. Ultimately, Sarah realizes she can move fluidly between many genders. When she stops trying to be a stereotype, she is finally able to connect with the people she cares about.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2009
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/186332
- Subject Headings
- Symbolism in literature, Lesbians, Attitudes, Homosexuality, Philosophy, Stereotype (Psychology)
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Blended: a memoir.
- Creator
- Greenberg, Abbe., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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Blended: A Memoir is the author's recollection of her endeavors to overcome the difficulties that often accompany becoming a stepmother and build a "seamless" family.
- Date Issued
- 2013
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3360789
- Subject Headings
- Stepfamilies, Parent and child, Parent-child relationships, Remarriage, Children of divorced parents
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Bingo and other stories.
- Creator
- Peacock, Richard., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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"Bingo" and Other Stories is a collection of short stories whose individual primary characters are forced to make profound changes in the wake of a discovery that comes about as a result of a tragedy or strained personal relationship or a combination of both. This collection is multigenerational in its collective scope and it reflects influences that come from the African-American and Southern literary traditions. In addition, it uses realism to create the settings for and sensibilities of...
Show more"Bingo" and Other Stories is a collection of short stories whose individual primary characters are forced to make profound changes in the wake of a discovery that comes about as a result of a tragedy or strained personal relationship or a combination of both. This collection is multigenerational in its collective scope and it reflects influences that come from the African-American and Southern literary traditions. In addition, it uses realism to create the settings for and sensibilities of the characters who populate the stories. Stories in the collection are also connected in how they conjure up various geographical locations in Florida, especially regions of Florida that identify with the traditional American South.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2009
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/186770
- Subject Headings
- Symbolism in literature, Short stories, American, Conduct of life, Southern States, In literature, African Americans in literature
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Bleeding roots: the absence and evidence of the lynched black female body.
- Creator
- Williams, Tinea., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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Scholars of the literary depictions of lynching have given the majority of their attention to the emasculation of the black male, but the representation of the black female lynch victim has been overlooked. My thesis examines the deaths of black women that had the same effect as lynching practices used against men. This specific literary form of lynching will concentrate on two plays: Mary P. Burrill's They That Sit in Darkness (1919) and Marita Bonner's Exit: An Illusion (1929) and two...
Show moreScholars of the literary depictions of lynching have given the majority of their attention to the emasculation of the black male, but the representation of the black female lynch victim has been overlooked. My thesis examines the deaths of black women that had the same effect as lynching practices used against men. This specific literary form of lynching will concentrate on two plays: Mary P. Burrill's They That Sit in Darkness (1919) and Marita Bonner's Exit: An Illusion (1929) and two novels by Toni Morrison, Beloved and Sula. Considering the contours of these black female deaths we can expand the traditional definition of lynching to include the black female lynch victim. The aspects that make her death a lynching are encased in more subtleties than a traditional definition of lynching allows for, and less visible.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2009
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/199329
- Subject Headings
- African Americans, Crimes against, Lynching in literature, African Americans in literature, Race relations, History and criticism
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Charles Finney's The Circus of Dr. Lao: an epistemological fantasy.
- Creator
- Creed, Daniel B., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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Charles Finney's The Circus of Dr. Lao, published in 1936, has been widely read in the last eighty years and has influenced significant authors in the field of fantasy, yet it has been examined in just three critical studies in that time. This study examines Finney's novel as an epistemological fantasy, a heretofore undefined term that precipitates an epistemological crisis of knowing and certainty. The novel opens a way for fantasy literature to establish itself in a Modernist landscape by...
Show moreCharles Finney's The Circus of Dr. Lao, published in 1936, has been widely read in the last eighty years and has influenced significant authors in the field of fantasy, yet it has been examined in just three critical studies in that time. This study examines Finney's novel as an epistemological fantasy, a heretofore undefined term that precipitates an epistemological crisis of knowing and certainty. The novel opens a way for fantasy literature to establish itself in a Modernist landscape by foregrounding the marvelous and extraordinary knowledge that lies just outside the realm of human experience. Finney presents Dr. Lao's circus as a surrogate model of success, and while many of the characters in the novel are unable to accept the truth offered them by the beings of fantasy, the author uses their experiences to satirize the complacencies he witnessed upon returning to America from the Far East in the 1930s.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2010
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2683122
- Subject Headings
- Criticism and interpretation, Symbolism in literature, Knowledge, Theory of, in literature, Fantasy fiction, American, Criticism and interpretation, Postmodernism (Literature)
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A Child's Prayer.
- Creator
- Bergkamp, Jill., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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A Child's Prayer is a Creative Work of 28 poems. This collection examines the relationship between religion and the familial, the habitual and the sublime. Through the reconfiguring of stories, often from a child's point of view, this collection seeks to question the past through the process of retelling it. Themes that are prevalent include memory, alienation, nourishment, and the sacramental. A Child's Prayer gently questions patriarchal religion and its multi-generational effects.
- Date Issued
- 2011
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3166836
- Subject Headings
- Symbolism in literature, Poetry (Collections), Conduct of life, Family, Religious aspects
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Constituting community: expanding perceptions of community in Rawlings's Cross Creek and Thoreau's Walden.
- Creator
- Curran, Julianne., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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Both Thoreau and Rawlings call attention to humanity's need to expand its perceptions and interpretations of what it means to be a part of a community in Walden and Cross Creek, respectively. Building on the established idea of what it means to be incorporated into a human community, each author also implores his or her readers to extend the perceived boundaries of what comprises a "community" to include the natural world. Ultimately, both texts point to the need for the establishment of what...
Show moreBoth Thoreau and Rawlings call attention to humanity's need to expand its perceptions and interpretations of what it means to be a part of a community in Walden and Cross Creek, respectively. Building on the established idea of what it means to be incorporated into a human community, each author also implores his or her readers to extend the perceived boundaries of what comprises a "community" to include the natural world. Ultimately, both texts point to the need for the establishment of what Aldo Leopold calls a land ethic, which requires the re-drawing of communal boundaries to include the land with man as a citizen rather than a conqueror of Nature. Thoreau and Rawlings demonstrate how an individual can start to expand his or her conception of community to move closer to Leopold's ideal by recounting the different experiences they have with human society and nature while living at Walden Pond and in Cross Creek, Florida. However, each author uses different approaches. Thoreau concentrates primarily on reflecting upon improving his individual self in order to eventually improve his Concord community. Rawlings, on the other hand, makes a greater effort to reflect upon her interactions with the people of Cross Creek in addition to her interactions with Nature in order to strengthen her bonds with these things. Such a difference causes Rawlings to be read as presenting a re-vision of Thoreau's ideas about the relationship between humankind, one's community, and Nature. While the kinds of experiences Thoreau and Rawlings encounter might be different, in the end it is their emphasis on the importance of an individual's relationship to the community-one that includes both humans and Nature-that resonates with readers.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2010
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2683121
- Subject Headings
- Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Symbolism in literature, National characteristics, American, in literature, Nature, Effect of human beings on
- Format
- Document (PDF)