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- DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES, SO WE TELL THEM INSTEAD: THE COMPLEXITIES AND ETHICS OF POSTHUMOUS PUBLICATION.
- Creator
- Hersey, Justin, Miller, Timothy, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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This project examines some of the ethical consequences of posthumous publication of authors' unfinished works, private correspondence, and other materials, with the central example being the extensive catalogue of J.R.R. Tolkien published in the decades after this death by his son Christopher Tolkien. It builds a moral and philosophical framework for understanding the "posthumous harm" that can impact the deceased, for example when the desires they expressed in life are frustrated, or their...
Show moreThis project examines some of the ethical consequences of posthumous publication of authors' unfinished works, private correspondence, and other materials, with the central example being the extensive catalogue of J.R.R. Tolkien published in the decades after this death by his son Christopher Tolkien. It builds a moral and philosophical framework for understanding the "posthumous harm" that can impact the deceased, for example when the desires they expressed in life are frustrated, or their reputations suffer damage when draft or private materials become public, especially for a wide audience. In the case of J.R.R. Tolkien, his Beowulf translation shows how an author's intentions for a work may actually be to not publish, as doing so contradicts their beliefs and values. Both literary executors and the consumer public that creates a market for such "new works" should more carefully evaluate the posthumous harm that posthumous publication can bring.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2024
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014405
- Subject Headings
- Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973, Posthumous publications, Beowulf--Translations
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Animalization.
- Creator
- Borowsky, Alex, Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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Animalization is a creative nonfiction manuscript comprised of essays which are able to stand on their own, yet gain complexity as they inform one another. Each essay epitomizes the narrator’s attempt to reconcile with emotional instability, self-destructive behaviors, dangerous relationships, the ethics of who has to suffer, and a masochistic brain disorder. This manuscript follows its narrator’s young life as she attempts to understand herself through lived experience, as well as the lives...
Show moreAnimalization is a creative nonfiction manuscript comprised of essays which are able to stand on their own, yet gain complexity as they inform one another. Each essay epitomizes the narrator’s attempt to reconcile with emotional instability, self-destructive behaviors, dangerous relationships, the ethics of who has to suffer, and a masochistic brain disorder. This manuscript follows its narrator’s young life as she attempts to understand herself through lived experience, as well as the lives of some extroadinary family members. The narrator’s lifelong fascination with animals supports her desire to understand pain as an applied ethical consideration and an enactment.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2024
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014391
- Subject Headings
- Creative writing, Creative nonfiction
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- THE FEED.
- Creator
- Tierney, Duncan, Bucak, Ayşe Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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Feed is a novel set in a fictional post-revolutionary Nebraska, at a time when the developments and progress of the revolution begins to come into question. The former revolutionaries must dive into an internet-like database, referred to as the Feed, in order to unearth memories critical to their survival.
- Date Issued
- 2024
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014422
- Subject Headings
- Creative writing, Novels, Fiction
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Some Years Ago, My Mother was Possessed.
- Creator
- Rosado, Jacqueline, McKay, Becka, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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Some Years Ago, My Mother was Possessed is a poetry chapbook exploring a familial lineage of abuse through fictional exit interviews taken after points of emotional and physical trauma or abuse. Through surreal landscapes and speculative futures, the poems explore the remnants of abuse, and the fear of being possessed by her family’s history of motherhood.
- Date Issued
- 2024
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014420
- Subject Headings
- Chapbooks, Creative writing, Poetry
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The Secrets My Mother Shared in the Womb: Stories.
- Creator
- Bermúdez, Jocelyn, Bucak, Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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A collection of stories exploring the intersection of queerness, latinidad, spirituality, and the generational impact of storytelling. This collection aims to examine the relationships between religion, tradition, politics, and the concept of culture as it crosses borders through a fictional mythos. Many of these stories reflect the hopes, desires, and anxieties of young Latinx individuals across the Americas while expanding and evolving the definition of Latin American literature.
- Date Issued
- 2024
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014379
- Subject Headings
- Creative writing, Short stories, Fiction
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- CONSIDERING THE AFFECTIVE POTENTIALS OF THE EMOTIONAL APPEAL IN PERSUASIVE DISCOURSE THROUGH MULTIMODALITY IN THE FIRST-YEAR COMPOSITION CLASSROOM.
- Creator
- Bain, Kimberly A., Barrios, Barclay, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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In identifying ways to create inclusive spaces in the classroom, instructors should not be limited by singular modes of discourse to engage students. Particularly when teaching first-year students who seek to invent the university and claim their intellectual space within it, these considerations must be deeply integrated into the course curriculum and not seen as an extended project to be optional or added at the end of a semester. Rather, instructors must find ways to integrate multimodal...
Show moreIn identifying ways to create inclusive spaces in the classroom, instructors should not be limited by singular modes of discourse to engage students. Particularly when teaching first-year students who seek to invent the university and claim their intellectual space within it, these considerations must be deeply integrated into the course curriculum and not seen as an extended project to be optional or added at the end of a semester. Rather, instructors must find ways to integrate multimodal discourses in the first-year composition course as a foundation of learning. One way to do this is to engage students in multimodal practices of rhetorical appeals. This dissertation examines the theories and practices of emotional appeal, namely pathos, to construct meaning-making opportunities that transcend gatekeeping endeavors of singular modes of persuasion. Through the transmission of affect, students can be given the opportunity to affectively respond through various modes of discourse in applying emotional appeal to practices of persuasion.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2024
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014381
- Subject Headings
- Education, Composition (Language arts)--Study and teaching (Higher), Curriculum change
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Testing Momentum Enhancement Of Ribbon Fin Based Propulsion Using A Robotic Model With An Adjustable Body.
- Creator
- English, Ian L., Curet, Oscar M., Florida Atlantic University, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering
- Abstract/Description
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A robotic ribbon fin with twelve independent fin rays, elastic fin membrane, and a body of adjustable height was developed for this thesis specifically to test the 1990 theory put forth by Lighthill and Blake that a multiplicative propulsive enhancement exists for Gymnotiform and Balisiform swimmers based on the ratio of body and fin heights. Until now, the theory has not been experimentally tested. Proof of such a momentum enhancement could have a profound effect on unmanned underwater...
Show moreA robotic ribbon fin with twelve independent fin rays, elastic fin membrane, and a body of adjustable height was developed for this thesis specifically to test the 1990 theory put forth by Lighthill and Blake that a multiplicative propulsive enhancement exists for Gymnotiform and Balisiform swimmers based on the ratio of body and fin heights. Until now, the theory has not been experimentally tested. Proof of such a momentum enhancement could have a profound effect on unmanned underwater vehicle design and shed light on the evolutionary advantage to body-fin ratios found in nature, shown as optimal for momentum enhancement in Lighthill and Blake’s theory. Thrust tests for various body heights were conducted in a recirculating flow tank at different flow speeds and fin flapping frequencies. When comparing different body heights at different frequencies to a ’no-body’ thrust test case at each frequency no momentum enhancement factor was found. Data in this thesis indicate there is no momentum enhancement factor due to the presence of a body on top of an undulating fin.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2016
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004682, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004682
- Subject Headings
- Animal locomotion, Animal mechanics, Biomechanics, Computers, Special purpose, Oceanographic submersibles, Robotics
- Format
- Document (PDF)
