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- Interrogating social conceptualizations of childbirth and gender: an ecofeminist analysis.
- Creator
- Nall, Jeff., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
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This dissertation draws on feminist theory and ecofeminist philosophy to examine the connections between understandings of women and nature and the construction of pervasive conceptualizations and practices of childbirth. It also examines the relationship between conceptualizations of men and masculinity, culture and nature, and childbirth. In order to conduct such an examination, this study explores the dominant Western discourse around gender and childbirth. Specifically, the work aims to...
Show moreThis dissertation draws on feminist theory and ecofeminist philosophy to examine the connections between understandings of women and nature and the construction of pervasive conceptualizations and practices of childbirth. It also examines the relationship between conceptualizations of men and masculinity, culture and nature, and childbirth. In order to conduct such an examination, this study explores the dominant Western discourse around gender and childbirth. Specifically, the work aims to identify prominent characteristics and themes related to childbirth in both popular culture, such as Hollywood films (Knocked Up, The Backup Plan), documentaries (The Business of Being Born), birth guides, magazines, news articles, websites, and scholarly, medical and alternative healthcare discourse. This work seeks to consider how various conceptualizations of childbirth are used to legitimate, or, alternately, to undermine, patriarchal gender norms such as emphasized femininity and patriarchal (hegemonic) masculinity and, more generally, what ecofeminist philosopher Val Plumwood calls "master consciousness" (Val Plumwood 1993), a way of understanding the world that is reliant on an unjustifiably dualistic thinking and that is responsible for fostering social practices of domination. In particular, this work seeks to determine to what extent is our conceptualization of childbirth, and subsequent practice, based on potentially erroneous presumptions about the hierarchical division between the realms of culture and nature and masculinity and femininity? Perhaps most importantly, this dissertation sets out to consider the implications of alternative conceptualizations of childbirth emerging in the context of the natural birth movement. Specifically, I aim to determine whether or not these alternatives interpretations of childbirth counteract patriarchal gender categories and the culture/nature dualism.
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- 2011
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3333055
- Subject Headings
- Childbirth, Cross-cultural studies, Childbirth, Social aspects, Feminist theory, Human body, Social aspects
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- LA REPRESENTACIÓN DEL TRAUMA PERMANENTE EN COLOMBIA SECUNDARIO AL CONFLICTO ARMADO EN LOS EJÉRCITOS DE EVELIO ROSERO.
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- Morrison, Claudia, Poulson, Nancy, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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The Colombian armed conflict has affected Colombia’s civil population of all walks of life and has been a long-term problem. Within these, the most affected are people from the rural areas, minorities such as women, adolescents, children, and the indigenous communities. This work analyses the literary representation of trauma and the internal displacement in Colombia in Los ejércitos (2007) by Evelio Rosero. The introduction provides historical context and definitions of trauma. The analysis...
Show moreThe Colombian armed conflict has affected Colombia’s civil population of all walks of life and has been a long-term problem. Within these, the most affected are people from the rural areas, minorities such as women, adolescents, children, and the indigenous communities. This work analyses the literary representation of trauma and the internal displacement in Colombia in Los ejércitos (2007) by Evelio Rosero. The introduction provides historical context and definitions of trauma. The analysis of the impact of trauma on the collective and the minorities follows. For theoretical and historical references, this thesis draws concepts mostly from psychoanalysis, Irene Visser’s modified Grid Theory of social thought, and official Colombian documents. The thesis examines how the structure of Los ejércitos and some of its characters provide the representation of trauma in relation to the armed conflict in Colombia and the internal displacement that ensued.
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- 2020
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013597
- Subject Headings
- Rosero Diago, Evelio, 1958-, Comparative literature, Latin American studies
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Studied girlhoods: consciousness, context, and negotiation of identity in the memoirs of Dorothy Allison, Mary Karr, and Barbara Robinette Moss.
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- Dilgen, Regina., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
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Dorothy Allison's Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, Mary Karr's The Liars' Club, and Barbara Robinette Moss's Change Me into Zeus's Daughter are memoirs published in the 1990s of girlhoods in the late 1950s and early 1960s. This dissertation uses and expands upon the approaches of the multi-disciplinary Girls' Studies in analyzing how these memoirists theorize their own girlhoods. Each memoirist represents her experience in a culture that attempts to marginalize, silence, and define her....
Show moreDorothy Allison's Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, Mary Karr's The Liars' Club, and Barbara Robinette Moss's Change Me into Zeus's Daughter are memoirs published in the 1990s of girlhoods in the late 1950s and early 1960s. This dissertation uses and expands upon the approaches of the multi-disciplinary Girls' Studies in analyzing how these memoirists theorize their own girlhoods. Each memoirist represents her experience in a culture that attempts to marginalize, silence, and define her. An application of the foundational work on girlhood in developmental psychology provides for an analysis of each memoirist's depiction of girlhood as a time of authentic insight and developing agency. Referencing feminist literary criticism allows for an interpretation of how the girls at the center of these works develop agency through growing awareness of the circumstances of their marginalization. And a semiotic literary interpretation adds to the analysis of these works as creative autobiogra phical writing in affording a close reading of how the memoirists portray younger selves learning to read the signs and texts of a culture and becoming aware of their status as girls in working-class families. Each memoirist uses a dual vocal presentation as both the adult memoirist and a younger self give shape to the narrative. Each memoirist represents a distinct southern space intersecting with specifics of the era to form a cultural moment. Social Construction Theory makes available a basis for considering how the memoirists narrate their increasing understanding of race and gender within these specific contexts as well as their resistive voicing of these insights., Through a Cultural Studies focus this dissertation examines how each memoirist represents a younger self's negotiations with cultural products of the era that work to construct girlhood. Adding to this unpacking of how the memoirists study their own girlhoods, the tools of Postco for an analysis of how the memoirists theorize their own girlhoods in ways that parallel these approaches. This dissertation adds to the evolving field of Girls' Studies in using contemporary theoretical frameworks to interpret how girlhood is constructed, represented, and negotiated with in these memoirs.
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- 2011
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3332175
- Subject Headings
- Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Self in literature, Popular culture, Working class women
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- RE-IMAGINANDO UTOPÍAS: LA DESILUSIÓN PORTEÑA DE BORGES.
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- Baccinelli, Mitchel, Poulson, Nancy Kason, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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Borges’s literary production, particularly between 1923 and 1955, drastically changes in its depiction of Buenos Aires. The city that Borges considered his home was the center of various political and cultural changes in Argentina during those years, and the more that Argentina changed, the deeper Borges’s disillusionment became. Examining these changes in the depiction of themes such as city, community, and history, we can better understand the process of disillusionment by which Borges...
Show moreBorges’s literary production, particularly between 1923 and 1955, drastically changes in its depiction of Buenos Aires. The city that Borges considered his home was the center of various political and cultural changes in Argentina during those years, and the more that Argentina changed, the deeper Borges’s disillusionment became. Examining these changes in the depiction of themes such as city, community, and history, we can better understand the process of disillusionment by which Borges begins with a utopic view of Buenos Aires that becomes dystopic before it is abandoned in order to imagine a new utopia.
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- 2021
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013749
- Subject Headings
- Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986, Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986--Criticism and interpretation
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- Document (PDF)
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- Migrant collectives as new twenty-first century transnational movements: the case of the Jamaican Diaspora.
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- Johnson, Nadja., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
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In the past two decades the tendency to view migrant communities as victimized, without agency, or oppressed has been challenged by the new rhetoric of "Diaspora". The recent formation of Diaspora movements globally suggests that these groups of migrants are not just financial remitters but are organized, visible collectives that influence the geo-political status quo in many ways. ... Utilizing qualitative methodology in conjunction with the analytical lenses of social movement theory and...
Show moreIn the past two decades the tendency to view migrant communities as victimized, without agency, or oppressed has been challenged by the new rhetoric of "Diaspora". The recent formation of Diaspora movements globally suggests that these groups of migrants are not just financial remitters but are organized, visible collectives that influence the geo-political status quo in many ways. ... Utilizing qualitative methodology in conjunction with the analytical lenses of social movement theory and the rhetoric of movements, the study addresses the gaps in the literature on Diasporas by exploring the factors that contributed to the formation of the Jamaican Diaspora during the years 1962 to 2011. ... Moving even beyond our conceptualization of movements, this study also connects Diasporas to the notion of publics. Migrant communities, like the Jamaican Diaspora, negotiate global and local terrains, operate as self-organized publics and form new public spaces in which a common identity goal and imagination connects and motivates strangers.
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- 2012
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3358595
- Subject Headings
- Emigration and immigration, Social aspects, Globalization, Political aspects, Transnationalism, Emigration and immigration, Political aspects, Emigration and immigration, Social aspects
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Teaching to transform: toward an action-oriented feminist pedagogy in women’s studies.
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- Siddiqui, Shereen, Brown, Susan Love, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
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This qualitative study was conducted to develop a better understanding of the place of praxis in higher education women’s studies programs in the U.S. Built upon theories of feminist pedagogy, feminist praxis, activism, experiential education, and academic service-learning, the research explores how praxis is reflected and taught in women’s studies programs, how these programs impact students’ understanding of feminist theory and practice, and what factors affect the implementation of action...
Show moreThis qualitative study was conducted to develop a better understanding of the place of praxis in higher education women’s studies programs in the U.S. Built upon theories of feminist pedagogy, feminist praxis, activism, experiential education, and academic service-learning, the research explores how praxis is reflected and taught in women’s studies programs, how these programs impact students’ understanding of feminist theory and practice, and what factors affect the implementation of action-oriented pedagogy. Examples of several action-oriented projects that have successfully been implemented in women’s studies courses are offered, and a case study demonstrates the impact of these projects. The methods used include document review of women’s studies mission statements and syllabi, and interviews with women’s studies faculty and alumnae. The interview data were coded and analyzed using a grounded theory approach.
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- 2015
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004410, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004410
- Subject Headings
- Communication in social action -- Study and teaching, Critical pedagogy, Feminism -- Study and teaching (Higher), Feminism and higher education, Mentoring in education, Social action -- Study and teaching, Women's studies
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- Document (PDF)
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- Speech inflection in American musical theatre compositions.
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- Zuim, Ana Flavia., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
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This dissertation examines the role of speech inflection in the composition of melodies of American musical theatre and investigates how composers approached speech inflection in their work throughout this genre's history. Through analysis of songs and interviews with composers, this dissertation investigates the relevance of speech inflection in the various styles of composition existing on Broadway. The main focus of musical theatre compositions, especially post Rodgers and Hammerstein's...
Show moreThis dissertation examines the role of speech inflection in the composition of melodies of American musical theatre and investigates how composers approached speech inflection in their work throughout this genre's history. Through analysis of songs and interviews with composers, this dissertation investigates the relevance of speech inflection in the various styles of composition existing on Broadway. The main focus of musical theatre compositions, especially post Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical Oklahoma, is to move the plot along through songs. Therefore, the delivery of the text must be of ultimate consideration in the writing of modern musicals. A well-written speech-melody facilitates the process of a speech-melody-interpretation, which will result in the delivery of lyrics with an understandable, natural sounding quality. This investigation happens through a chronologic evaluation of the relevance of speech inflection during each of the distinct phases on Broadway, as well as an examination of the approach to writing with a speech-melody focus of each individual composer throughout history. This study explores the importance of speech inflection in American musical theatre songwriting focusing on a speech-melody approach to composition.
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- 2012
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3352883
- Subject Headings
- Music and semiotics, Music and language, Musicals, Writing and publishing, Musical theater, History and criticism
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Sinfonâia en rojo: el prisma de Elisabeth Mulder.
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- Del Olmo Lâopez, Itxaso., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
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This thesis aims to rescue the name of Elisabeth Mulder, a Spanish female poet who started to publish her first poetry books around the rise of the Generation of 1927 in Spain. The importance of this work hinges on the recognition of Mulder as a female poet whose work has been marginalized from the literary canon, like that of many other women of her era. This thesis focuses on Mulde''s third poetry collection, Sinfonâia en rojo, which was published in 1929 and stands out for its symbolic...
Show moreThis thesis aims to rescue the name of Elisabeth Mulder, a Spanish female poet who started to publish her first poetry books around the rise of the Generation of 1927 in Spain. The importance of this work hinges on the recognition of Mulder as a female poet whose work has been marginalized from the literary canon, like that of many other women of her era. This thesis focuses on Mulde''s third poetry collection, Sinfonâia en rojo, which was published in 1929 and stands out for its symbolic richness and its romantic and modernist features. Part of this research deals with the symbolism of the color red and the meanings that red acquires within the context of the poems. The main leitmotivs of Sinfonâia en rojo are the images of fire and blood, which are used to make reference to both the emotional and the physical world of the poetic voice. The research also focuses on the connections between Mulder's work and that of her contemporaries, and it suggests that she was in contact with the literary world of her era.
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- 2013
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3362329
- Subject Headings
- Influence, Criticism and interpretation, Spanish poetry, Women authors, Criticism and interpretation, Spanish poetry, Criticism and interpretation, Women and literature, Generacâion 27 (Group of poets)
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- Document (PDF)
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- Smoothing out the rough edges: postcolonial spaces and postcolonial subjectivities in Le petit prince de Belleville and The celestial jukebox.
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- Anderson, Karyn H., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
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Both Calixthe Beyala's Le petit prince de Belleville, published in France in 1992, and Cynthia Shearer's The Celestial Jukebox, published in the United States in 2005, explore similar questions regarding the place of immigrants in increasingly multicultural societies. Gilles Deleuze and Fâelix Guattari's concept of - smoothness and - striation illuminates the settings of these two texts, helping demonstrate that the Parisian neighborhood of Belleville presents a striated space dominated by...
Show moreBoth Calixthe Beyala's Le petit prince de Belleville, published in France in 1992, and Cynthia Shearer's The Celestial Jukebox, published in the United States in 2005, explore similar questions regarding the place of immigrants in increasingly multicultural societies. Gilles Deleuze and Fâelix Guattari's concept of - smoothness and - striation illuminates the settings of these two texts, helping demonstrate that the Parisian neighborhood of Belleville presents a striated space dominated by State constraints, from which the residents yearn to break free, and the fictional town of Madagascar, Mississippi consists of relatively smooth space that allows for local improvisation and engenders insecurity. The stories of Loukoum and Boubacar illustrate how these two characters negotiate their respective spaces, with Loukoum creating a position thoroughly between striated majority French culture and the smoothness of his diasporic sphere and Boubacar functioning as a rhizomatic nomad, embarking on an autonomous journey of discovery.
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- 2009
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/186325
- Subject Headings
- Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Multiculturalism, Philosophy, Emigration and immigration, Political and social aspects, Place (Philosophy) in literature, Women authors, Black, Criticism and interpretation
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- EXISTENTIALIST FEMINISM IN SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR.
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- ADNOT, GINETTE J., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
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De Beauvoir's Existentialist works , primarily Pour une morale de l'ambiguite and Existentialisme et la sagesse des nations, and her feminist work Le Deuxieme sexe, affirm that women are fully as capable of attaining Existentialist authenticity and liberty as men. The novels, however, portray women who often fail the Existentialist ideal, and always fail the feminist ideal. Indeed the major novels, including L'Invitee, Le Sang des autres, Les Mandarins, suggest an almost inverse relationship...
Show moreDe Beauvoir's Existentialist works , primarily Pour une morale de l'ambiguite and Existentialisme et la sagesse des nations, and her feminist work Le Deuxieme sexe, affirm that women are fully as capable of attaining Existentialist authenticity and liberty as men. The novels, however, portray women who often fail the Existentialist ideal, and always fail the feminist ideal. Indeed the major novels, including L'Invitee, Le Sang des autres, Les Mandarins, suggest an almost inverse relationship between feminist convictions and personal success. Having chosen not to depict female characters as social activists or revolutionaries but as women in love, de Beauvoir presents unhappy lovers unable to achieve independence from the dominant male. In accord with Existentialist precepts of realism, De Beauvoir's fiction illustrates not her feminist ideal hut her view of women's contemporary condition.
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- 1982
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14113
- Subject Headings
- Literature, Romance
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- Document (PDF)
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- BLACK ENGLISH FEATURES IN THE ENGLISH OF U.S. HISPANIC PRESCHOOL CHILDREN.
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- BELLI, GREGORY CHARLES, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
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This study attempts to discover and quantify the extent to which selected Black English features are present in the English of a group of United States Hispanic Children in south Florida. The five features are /r,l/ simplification, consonant cluster simplification, past tense verb marker reduction, copula deletion, and inverted embedded questions. The best indicators of Black English influence in the young Hispanic children's English are found to be regular past tense verb endings, third...
Show moreThis study attempts to discover and quantify the extent to which selected Black English features are present in the English of a group of United States Hispanic Children in south Florida. The five features are /r,l/ simplification, consonant cluster simplification, past tense verb marker reduction, copula deletion, and inverted embedded questions. The best indicators of Black English influence in the young Hispanic children's English are found to be regular past tense verb endings, third person singular present tense forms of be, words containing a preconsonantal l, present tense plural forms of be, and an words containing voiced consonant clusters, respectively. A hierarchy of factors contributing to the overall Black English influence is constructed. Relevant literature is reviewed.
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- 1979
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13966
- Subject Headings
- Language, Linguistics
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- Document (PDF)
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- THE NOVEL IN THE THEATER: FABRE'S STAGING OF BALZAC'S "LA RABOUILLEUSE.".
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- AVERY, FRANCES ANN, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
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In 1903 Emile Fabre, consummate theater technician, presented his adaption of Balzac's La Rabouilleuse at the Odeon Theater in Paris. The novel appealed to Fabre's naturalist interest in the worlds of family and finance, and Fabre based the action on the intense conflict among three characters for the inheritance of a dim-witted old man. Fabre amplified Balzac's theme of of the debilitating effects of money on families, and on society at large. This vying for inheritance becomes not only a...
Show moreIn 1903 Emile Fabre, consummate theater technician, presented his adaption of Balzac's La Rabouilleuse at the Odeon Theater in Paris. The novel appealed to Fabre's naturalist interest in the worlds of family and finance, and Fabre based the action on the intense conflict among three characters for the inheritance of a dim-witted old man. Fabre amplified Balzac's theme of of the debilitating effects of money on families, and on society at large. This vying for inheritance becomes not only a game played for high stakes, but also a life-and-death struggle among beasts of prey. many of the alterations that Fabre made in adapting the novel into a play were necessitated by the change of literary genre, as in eliminating characters or creating composite figures. Many of the additions were made for purely theatrical reasons, enabling Fabre to present his money theme while, at the same time, holding his audience's interest until the final curtain. Other changes stemmed from Fabre's almost exclusive attention to finance, and his desire to stress its moral and political implications.
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- 1979
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13972
- Subject Headings
- Literature, Romance
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- RAMON DEL VALLE-INCLAN'S "LUCES DE BOHEMIA": AN ANNOTATED EDITION WITH INTRODUCTION AND AMPLIFICATIONS. (SPANISH TEXT).
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- BAHAMONDE, JOSE RICARDO, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
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This edition was prepared as an independent or classroom study tool, in Spanish, for students of contemporary Spanish drama. The introduction includes a brief chapter on Valle-Inclan's biography. the following chapters focus their attention on the evolution of the author's style from his early period up to the esperpentos. the opinions of critics are mentioned throughout to familiarize the reader with authoritative references as well as with his work. Once the esperpento period is reached,...
Show moreThis edition was prepared as an independent or classroom study tool, in Spanish, for students of contemporary Spanish drama. The introduction includes a brief chapter on Valle-Inclan's biography. the following chapters focus their attention on the evolution of the author's style from his early period up to the esperpentos. the opinions of critics are mentioned throughout to familiarize the reader with authoritative references as well as with his work. Once the esperpento period is reached, one chapter is devoted to the treatment of the represented in Luces de bohemia. Finally the play is annotated in English and the difficult vocabulary is glossed. Amplifications at the end of each scene give additional, valuable information. More than fifty sources were consulted and/or quoted. By using this edition the reader deals with only one volume representative of what many references had to say about Valle-Inclan, his times, his works, the esperpento, and Luces the bohemia.
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- 1974
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13677
- Subject Headings
- Literature, Romance
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- Document (PDF)
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- Satire of the cuckold in the work of Francisco de Quevedo.
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- Averhoff, Ida Ibis, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
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The "cuckold" is the prototype of the consenting husband in Quevedo's time. He represents the hypocrisy, the vanity, and, most of all, the moral decadence of Spanish society in the 17th Century. Quevedo expresses his great disillusion with the amoral behavior of his people and, through his satire, attempts to give a lesson on morality. Quevedo was able to transfer onto his work Spanish ideas and realities, giving them a serious character as that of an ascetic or a politician, with the...
Show moreThe "cuckold" is the prototype of the consenting husband in Quevedo's time. He represents the hypocrisy, the vanity, and, most of all, the moral decadence of Spanish society in the 17th Century. Quevedo expresses his great disillusion with the amoral behavior of his people and, through his satire, attempts to give a lesson on morality. Quevedo was able to transfer onto his work Spanish ideas and realities, giving them a serious character as that of an ascetic or a politician, with the pessimistic and sarcastic tone typical of his satire. Two important and influencing factors on his work and his way of looking at life were the family and cultural environment he was exposed to and the effect of his physical defects, which he succeeded in compensating due to his energetic personality. Quevedo used conceptism as his literary style, applying his genius to the creation of metaphors, taking the Spanish language to its maximum expression as no one else had done before him.
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- 1992
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14805
- Subject Headings
- Literature, Romance
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- SURREALISTIC TRENDS IN NIKOLAUS LENAU'S POETRY (AUSTRIA).
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- Alker, Marietta Alice, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
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The nineteenth century Austrian poet Nikolaus Lenau used strange associations of words and ideas which are reminiscent of the bizarre combinations of realism and fantasy the surrealists used at the beginning of the twentieth century. Categories of surrealistic devices are set up, and surrealistic paintings and the poetry of Lenau are discussed using these guidelines.
- Date Issued
- 1974
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13641
- Subject Headings
- Literature, Germanic
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- VERSIFICACION EN LA OBRA POETICA DE JOSE DE ESPRONCEDA: UN EJEMPLO DE LAVARIEDAD ROMANTICA.
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- BERMUDEZ, ALBERTO C., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
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Esta tesis analiza la obra poetica de Jose de Espronceda desde el punto de vista de su metrica. Espronceda es catalogado el tipico poeta romantico espanol. Lo que se pretende aqui es reiterar, a traves de la metrica, la filiacion del poeta al movimiento. El estudio esta compuesto de los siguientes capitulos: I) El romanticismo espanol y su metrica; II) El autor y su obra; III) Las poesias de Espronceda; IV) Borracores y copias atribuidos a Espronceca; V) Un poema largo; VI) Otro poema largo....
Show moreEsta tesis analiza la obra poetica de Jose de Espronceda desde el punto de vista de su metrica. Espronceda es catalogado el tipico poeta romantico espanol. Lo que se pretende aqui es reiterar, a traves de la metrica, la filiacion del poeta al movimiento. El estudio esta compuesto de los siguientes capitulos: I) El romanticismo espanol y su metrica; II) El autor y su obra; III) Las poesias de Espronceda; IV) Borracores y copias atribuidos a Espronceca; V) Un poema largo; VI) Otro poema largo. Siguiendo el resumen del movimiento romantico en Espana en el primer capitulo, el segundo trae la biografia del poeta. Los capitulos tres, cuatro, cinco y seis estan dedicados a la obra poetica de Espronceda. Termina este estudio la conclusion de que la metrica del poeta comprueba la conexion de este a los preceptos y caracteristicas del movimiento al que pertenece.
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- 1974
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13621
- Subject Headings
- Literature, Romance
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- La aventura del heroe: Una aproximacion critica a "Lituma en los Andes" de Mario Vargas Llosa.
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- Barrero, Gabriela Ovando, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
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Lituma en los Andes tackles the universal substance of myths, its atavistic stock of culture, prejudice and superstitions, which applied to the complex Peru uncovers taboos and reveals a political statement, whose non-fictional counterpart can be found in La utopia arcaica: Jose Maria Arguedas y las ficciones del indigenismo, by the same author. This thesis uses a mythological and archetypal approach to prove that the narration--whose underlying element are Andean myths--is structured as the...
Show moreLituma en los Andes tackles the universal substance of myths, its atavistic stock of culture, prejudice and superstitions, which applied to the complex Peru uncovers taboos and reveals a political statement, whose non-fictional counterpart can be found in La utopia arcaica: Jose Maria Arguedas y las ficciones del indigenismo, by the same author. This thesis uses a mythological and archetypal approach to prove that the narration--whose underlying element are Andean myths--is structured as the mythological adventure of a hero who must comply with the archetypal rites of passage: separation, initiation, and return. Lituma's trials lead him to a social and spiritual maturity and to discover the mysterious ancestral Peru, disdained by the more westernized Peruvians of the coast. The Andeans' fear of foreigners is represented by the myth of the pishtaco or throat-cutter, counterpart of the classical Minotaur. The encounter of the two scissioned worlds is only possible through love and friendship, in the framework of a pluralistic society, which is suggested by the novel's resolution.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1999
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15667
- Subject Headings
- Literature, Latin American
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- An analysis of negative and interrogative structures in the English of junior high school ESL students in a bilingual community.
- Creator
- Briggs, Susan Ellen, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
- Abstract/Description
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This thesis investigates the acqusition of certain negative and interrogative structures by adolescent Spanish-speaking ESL students in a bilingual community. These ESL learners demonstrated two unexpected negating strategies using not plus the verb and never plus the verb. They likewise used does/did as an overgeneralized question marker. Age of first exposure to English did not appear to be a significant factor in the acquisition of the English auxiliary, and the students' acquisition of...
Show moreThis thesis investigates the acqusition of certain negative and interrogative structures by adolescent Spanish-speaking ESL students in a bilingual community. These ESL learners demonstrated two unexpected negating strategies using not plus the verb and never plus the verb. They likewise used does/did as an overgeneralized question marker. Age of first exposure to English did not appear to be a significant factor in the acquisition of the English auxiliary, and the students' acquisition of negative and interrogative structures appeared to be delayed in this bilingual environment, despite ESL instruction.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1988
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14438
- Subject Headings
- Education, Bilingual and Multicultural, Language, Linguistics
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- La identidad racial y cultural en la obra de Alicia Yanez Cossio.
- Creator
- Baez, Marcela A., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
- Abstract/Description
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Alicia Yanez Cossio, an established novelist and short story writer from Ecuador, reflects on the most serious social problems in her country. She is especially concerned with the Ecuadorian people's identity. In her works she describes how the Church and State, which promote and maintain a patriarchal social structure, have perpetuated the devaluation of women that began with the conquest. This study analyzes how women confront and define their gender as well as their race in two novels:...
Show moreAlicia Yanez Cossio, an established novelist and short story writer from Ecuador, reflects on the most serious social problems in her country. She is especially concerned with the Ecuadorian people's identity. In her works she describes how the Church and State, which promote and maintain a patriarchal social structure, have perpetuated the devaluation of women that began with the conquest. This study analyzes how women confront and define their gender as well as their race in two novels: Bruna, soroche y los tios (1972) and La cofradia del mullo del vestido de la Virgen Pipona (2002). As she traces Ecuadorian history, Yanez Cossio draws paralellisms between the loss of identity and gender, and focuses on the repercussions this has had in the lives of Ecuadorian women. Through the characters she offers possible solutions. This thesis analyzes the writer's perspective of the identity problem in this South American country and the fight of its people, most specifically women, to recover their identity by recognizing their indigenous roots and their gender, in a social environment that denies either are significant or relevant.
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- 2005
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13200
- Subject Headings
- Literature, Latin American, Anthropology, Cultural, Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- La decheance matriarcale chez Zola: "L'assommoir" et "Germinal".
- Creator
- Alaoui, Sanaa Ismaili, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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Critical studies of Zola's Rougon-Macquart novels, while explicating in detail the characterological functions of the women characters, including Gervaise in L'Assommoir and la Maheude in Germinal, have neglected the thematic functions of matriarchy in those texts as in the cycle as a whole. The decline of the matriarch is a prominent component of Zola's naturalistic scheme for the Rougon-Macquart , manifests not only in the increasing corruption of the progeny across the cycle, but primarily...
Show moreCritical studies of Zola's Rougon-Macquart novels, while explicating in detail the characterological functions of the women characters, including Gervaise in L'Assommoir and la Maheude in Germinal, have neglected the thematic functions of matriarchy in those texts as in the cycle as a whole. The decline of the matriarch is a prominent component of Zola's naturalistic scheme for the Rougon-Macquart , manifests not only in the increasing corruption of the progeny across the cycle, but primarily in the monographic depictions of the matriarchs themselves. Working-class mothers in particular embody the conflictual tensions of gender inequities and socio-economic deprivations that lead them to produce child-workers to support the family, typically becoming ever more negligent, on the model of Gervaise. Specifically in Germinal, Zola's largely negative conception of the fictive matriarch begins to change. This shift is sustained in subsequent texts of the cycle: the matriarch still suffers almost total loss (of husband, children, position), but she attains a new insight into the socio-economic system that so devours her offspring, and a new lucidity about her position within it.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2002
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12970
- Subject Headings
- Literature, Romance
- Format
- Document (PDF)