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Title: Animalia.
Creator: Parham, Benjamin Hill, Furman, Andrew, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: The novel Animalia is the representation of not just human relationships, but also, of human beings’ relationships to other animals. While the story revolves around a family, the narrative as a whole is meant to bring the reader into a microcosmic ecosystem. Essentially, I am examining an ecosystem. An ecosystem, not in the traditional sense, but an ecosystem nonetheless, because the narrative is a study of how varying species of heterotrophs interact with one another for both physical and...
Show moreThe novel Animalia is the representation of not just human relationships, but also, of human beings’ relationships to other animals. While the story revolves around a family, the narrative as a whole is meant to bring the reader into a microcosmic ecosystem. Essentially, I am examining an ecosystem. An ecosystem, not in the traditional sense, but an ecosystem nonetheless, because the narrative is a study of how varying species of heterotrophs interact with one another for both physical and emotional sustenance. Russell Water’s story is paramount, but the animals’ affect on one another is what lies below the peak and forms the mountain (an unintentional Hemingway reference). “It has often been observed that an object in a story does not derive its density of existence from the number and length of descriptions devoted to it, but from the complexity of its connections with the different characters” (Sartre 1210). Essentially, through complex and multiple connections between the human species and other species within Kingdom Animalia, I am attempting to develop an “ecosystem” that allows for narrative progression and the interconnection of relationships and thematic elements which range from the capitalistic class system to natural selection.
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Date Issued: 2014
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004147, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004147
Subject Headings: Computer science., Computer communication systems., User interfaces (Computer systems)., Application software., Computers and civilization., Computers., Law and legislation., Management information systems., Computer Science., Computers and Society.
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Title: Consider the Flowers of the Field.
Creator: Sutton, Trina M., Furman, Andrew, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Consider the Flowers of the Field is a novel-in-progress about four daughters who are raised in deep-hollow Appalachia. When their parents finish rehab and prison stints, they start their own church and force the girls to participate in the ministry. The story follows the girls into adulthood and examines the ways each is affected by history, environment, birth order, memory, secrets, and religion. One daughter renounces her parents and God and spends her life in academia and social work, one...
Show moreConsider the Flowers of the Field is a novel-in-progress about four daughters who are raised in deep-hollow Appalachia. When their parents finish rehab and prison stints, they start their own church and force the girls to participate in the ministry. The story follows the girls into adulthood and examines the ways each is affected by history, environment, birth order, memory, secrets, and religion. One daughter renounces her parents and God and spends her life in academia and social work, one takes up the preaching mantle, one is the promiscuous, drug-addled antithesis of what her parents stand for, and one daughter is born after her parents start their new life so she has no concept of how things used to be. Consider the Flowers of the Field asks, “How do we transcend, embrace, or reject the dogma of our youth?”
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Date Issued: 2018
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013028
Subject Headings: Novels, Creative writing, Dogma
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: HOTEL.
Creator: Kerns, Benjamin, Furman, Andrew, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: This thesis is a novel that takes formal cues from works such as Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities and Georges Perec’s Life: A User’s Manual. The work takes two separate forms in its chapters; the first being more traditional narrative chapters that follow a set of characters as they explore the surreal landscape of the titular Hotel, and the second are akin to flash fiction pieces that describe individual rooms in the Hotel. Together the narrative attempts to address issues of class and the...
Show moreThis thesis is a novel that takes formal cues from works such as Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities and Georges Perec’s Life: A User’s Manual. The work takes two separate forms in its chapters; the first being more traditional narrative chapters that follow a set of characters as they explore the surreal landscape of the titular Hotel, and the second are akin to flash fiction pieces that describe individual rooms in the Hotel. Together the narrative attempts to address issues of class and the way that capitalism subsumes people’s identities, as well as the potential of the natural world using leftist politics as a lens for this critique.
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Date Issued: 2020
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013449
Subject Headings: Creative writing, Novels, Narratives, Flash fiction
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Title: Moving Ever Forward: Reading the Significance of Motion and Space as a Representation of Trauma in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon and Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad.
Creator: Richmond, Samantha, Furman, Andrew, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This thesis argues that three models of trauma theory, which include traditional trauma theory, postcolonial trauma theory, and cultural trauma theory, must be joined to fully understand the trauma experienced by African Americans within the novels Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison and The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. By implementing these three theories, we can see how each novel’s main character is exploring and learning about African American trauma and better understand how an...
Show moreThis thesis argues that three models of trauma theory, which include traditional trauma theory, postcolonial trauma theory, and cultural trauma theory, must be joined to fully understand the trauma experienced by African Americans within the novels Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison and The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. By implementing these three theories, we can see how each novel’s main character is exploring and learning about African American trauma and better understand how an adjustment of space and time creates the possibility for the implementation of trauma theory. Each novel presents a journey, and it is through this movement through space that each character can serve as a witness to African American trauma. This is done in Morrison’s text by condensing the geographical space of the American north and south into one town, which serves to pluralize African American culture. In Whitehead’s text, American history is removed from its chronological place, which creates a duality that instills Freud’s theory of the uncanny within both the character and the reader.
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Date Issued: 2017
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004839, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004839
Subject Headings: Psychic trauma., Psychic trauma--African Americans., American literature--African American authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc., Underground Railroad--Fiction., African American families--Fiction., Morrison, Toni.--Song of Solomon--Criticism and interpretation., Whitehead, Colson--1969---Underground railroad--Criticism and interpretation.
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Title: The Marvelous Garden of Marcel Verdell.
Creator: Martin, Colton, Furman, Andrew, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: This thesis/novel, The Marvelous Garden of Marcel Verdell, follows the fictional story of one local government bureaucrat, Jude Wintertour, into the irregular and viridescent town of Garden, wherein he encounters the titular gardener, Marcel Verdell, and, along with a host of other residents, confronts the oppressive, convoluted past, envisions a hopeful future, and lives with the consequences of the blindsight-choices of the present.
Date Issued: 2020
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013583
Subject Headings: Fiction, Novels
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Provoking Southern Christianity: Baptists, Methodists, Schisms and Slavery.
Creator: Kelly, Denario, Furman, Andrew, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This thesis examines the schisms in the antebellum Baptist and Methodist Churches regarding slavery. It was these internal ruptures in both denominations that helped influence life in the slave community. The slave narratives of Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs reveal the impact the schisms had on master-slave relations and slave religious instruction. Moreover, the internal rupture in both denominations over the South‟s peculiar institution was...
Show moreThis thesis examines the schisms in the antebellum Baptist and Methodist Churches regarding slavery. It was these internal ruptures in both denominations that helped influence life in the slave community. The slave narratives of Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs reveal the impact the schisms had on master-slave relations and slave religious instruction. Moreover, the internal rupture in both denominations over the South‟s peculiar institution was instrumental in spawning a pro-slavery Christianity. This pro-slavery Christianity proved crucial in extending and strengthening white hegemony.
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Date Issued: 2018
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013079
Subject Headings: Slavery and the church--Baptists., Slavery and the church--Methodist Church., Slave narratives., Bibb, Henry, 1815-1854, Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884, Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895., Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897.
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Title: Locust, Emerge.
Creator: Wilson, Jason M., Furman, Andrew, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Locust, Emerge follows Hyatt Wrinkler, a twenty-nine year old do-nothing with growing anxieties about his world and his orientation in it. Though resistant to change, the landscape of his world is shifting around him, whether he's ready for that change or not. Over the course of a day, which the narrative follows him through the places he goes and people he comes into contact with, he must choose to either joining the world that has been spinning uninhibited during his self-imposed exile, or...
Show moreLocust, Emerge follows Hyatt Wrinkler, a twenty-nine year old do-nothing with growing anxieties about his world and his orientation in it. Though resistant to change, the landscape of his world is shifting around him, whether he's ready for that change or not. Over the course of a day, which the narrative follows him through the places he goes and people he comes into contact with, he must choose to either joining the world that has been spinning uninhibited during his self-imposed exile, or join it and endure the pain and frustrations that come with that admission.
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Date Issued: 2019
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013280
Subject Headings: Creative writing, Fiction
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Title: THE DREAMS OF GODS.
Creator: Wilson, Benjamin, Furman, Andrew, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: The Dreams of Gods is a surreal-realist novel that follows a grieving man in the wake of his wife’s death through a strange conspiracy that seems to bend reality around him, forcing him on a curious odyssey of self-discovery, eventually leading to understanding as he learns how to come to terms with himself and the world around him. It is an exploration of the many faces of god and the universe, as well as humanity's place within it all. Inventive and energetic, the hairbrained plot takes the...
Show moreThe Dreams of Gods is a surreal-realist novel that follows a grieving man in the wake of his wife’s death through a strange conspiracy that seems to bend reality around him, forcing him on a curious odyssey of self-discovery, eventually leading to understanding as he learns how to come to terms with himself and the world around him. It is an exploration of the many faces of god and the universe, as well as humanity's place within it all. Inventive and energetic, the hairbrained plot takes the reader deep into a world that becomes more bizarre with each page, while fantastical characters pop in and out of the story in shocking and comical ways and nothing is quite what it seems.
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Date Issued: 2021
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013711
Subject Headings: Novels, Fiction
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: THE PIPELINE: ESSAYS ON ADDICTION AND RECOVERY.
Creator: Rawson, Jonathan, Furman, Andrew, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: As the title suggests, this is a collection of essays about addiction and recovery, told from my personal perspective. In recovery, we have a saying: “Once a pickle, you can’t go back to a cucumber.” That is, just because one stops using drugs, does not mean their addictive personality is somehow vanquished. Even though I have not used drugs or alcohol in over eight years, I still very much identify as a person who is in recovery from addiction and alcoholism. This collection is about my life...
Show moreAs the title suggests, this is a collection of essays about addiction and recovery, told from my personal perspective. In recovery, we have a saying: “Once a pickle, you can’t go back to a cucumber.” That is, just because one stops using drugs, does not mean their addictive personality is somehow vanquished. Even though I have not used drugs or alcohol in over eight years, I still very much identify as a person who is in recovery from addiction and alcoholism. This collection is about my life as an addict and alcoholic, both before and after getting clean, and the transformation required to bridge these two very different existences.
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Date Issued: 2021
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013715
Subject Headings: Essay, Memoirs, Autobiography, Substance abuse
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Title: We’re Alright.
Creator: Moghadaspour, Kelsey Marie, Furman, Andrew, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: The main desire behind this project was to construct a story that could be enjoyed by anyone of any age (for the most part). The author has been writing for over ten years at this point, and has always had an affinity for Young Adult literature. It was YA literature that made the author interested in becoming a writer in the first place. YA has the ability to help those who are too young to be considered “real adults” feel like there is someone out there that understands them and who takes...
Show moreThe main desire behind this project was to construct a story that could be enjoyed by anyone of any age (for the most part). The author has been writing for over ten years at this point, and has always had an affinity for Young Adult literature. It was YA literature that made the author interested in becoming a writer in the first place. YA has the ability to help those who are too young to be considered “real adults” feel like there is someone out there that understands them and who takes them and their feelings into serious consideration. While, like any genre of literature out there, there are some more unsavory and less serious pieces of literature in this category, to always look down on it and say that it has no value or no place among other literature is ill mannered. The story here depicts what life is like as a teenager, which many know and have experienced, but it shows how young people deal with all sorts of feelings and scenarios, ranging from small fights that won’t matter the next day with friends you may not remember in ten years, to life changing and world shattering events that you won’t ever forget, no matter how hard you may try. The author of this piece wanted to portray a story where young people could feel heard and could relate, and where older generations could begin to understand that just because someone is young, doesn’t mean that what they feel isn’t real. The desire to reach the hearts of many is what lives in these pages and will continue to do so until that desire is met. This project came about after almost two years, and while it is far from complete, it will be worked on until it can sit on its own and feel worthy of peoples eyes and fears.
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Date Issued: 2021
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013867
Subject Headings: Young adult literature, Young adult fiction
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: All My Sins.
Creator: Ryan, Craig, Furman, Andrew, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: All My Sins is a collection of short fiction. The stories feature characters from Florida struggling with family, sexuality, masculinity, ethics, and themselves.
Date Issued: 2019
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013257
Subject Headings: Short fiction, Short stories, Creative writing, Florida
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Title: FABRIC, AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL LYRIC: REPRINTING ‘AGENCY’.
Creator: Martin, Damara Christine, Furman, Andrew, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: This dissertation is an anthropological lyric, a work that utilizes various modes of writing to examine and reveal the present-day predicament of the African-American woman. By engaging with transatlantic diaspora studies and Black feminist scholarship, particularly Zora Neale Hurston’s literary and linguistic contributions, herstory is bridged with the contemporary moment, allowing for an intricate and intimate dialogue between my ancestors and me. Providing a space for nontraditional voices...
Show moreThis dissertation is an anthropological lyric, a work that utilizes various modes of writing to examine and reveal the present-day predicament of the African-American woman. By engaging with transatlantic diaspora studies and Black feminist scholarship, particularly Zora Neale Hurston’s literary and linguistic contributions, herstory is bridged with the contemporary moment, allowing for an intricate and intimate dialogue between my ancestors and me. Providing a space for nontraditional voices exposes the divergent and intersecting conflicts that have and continue to arise for the descendants of slaves. American culture is founded on war capitalism and an Africanist presence (a liberal modernity). Black women experience alarmingly high rates of discrimination, repression, oppression, and exploitation; fittingly, this work explores how haunting and trauma impact our livelihood and identity formation and functioning. Racial, monopolistic, and militaristic violences are exposed through the (re)telling of our stories, because the aftermath of colonial conquest and settlement most directly impacts our personhood. These stories portray the dynamic ways we have suffered and thrived in the face of imperialistic rule. Finally, this project aims to recompense my ancestors and me by reprinting our agencies through new forms of language. This lyric becomes a form of feminist knowledge production that questions hegemonic epistemologies by applying various narrations. An intersubjective and reflexive account of truth grapples with linguistic hegemony and other forms of identity politics. Diasporic subjects “speak for themselves,” acting to revoke the systems and events, past and present, that strive to maintain their liminal group status.
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Date Issued: 2023
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014143
Subject Headings: Writing, Creative writing, Orality, African-American studies
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Title: SELF-TOUCH IN HENRY JAMES'S MAJOR PHASE.
Creator: Martin, James, Furman, Andrew, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: The three novels of Henry James’s “major phase” have alienated many readers in James’s own time and today. I draw on the philosophical school of phenomenology, in particular the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and a recent extension by the philosopher Richard Kearney, to suggest that a lack of self-touch by characters in these novels has contributed in a significant but previously unnoticed way to many readers’ sense that these novels feel frustratingly intangible. I make a comparison to the...
Show moreThe three novels of Henry James’s “major phase” have alienated many readers in James’s own time and today. I draw on the philosophical school of phenomenology, in particular the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and a recent extension by the philosopher Richard Kearney, to suggest that a lack of self-touch by characters in these novels has contributed in a significant but previously unnoticed way to many readers’ sense that these novels feel frustratingly intangible. I make a comparison to the instances of self-touch in other Edwardian novels to underline the difference. I suggest that James is putting forward a model of “middle-distance intimacy” in which intimates orbit each other at a fixed distance, neither coming closer nor moving further away. This kind of intimacy, for James, privileges the eye that sees from across the room over the hand that touches from up close. While this model of intimacy perplexed many readers in James’s time and later, it is a valuable exploration of a different yet—for some—no less satisfactory kind of emotional life.
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Date Issued: 2023
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014144
Subject Headings: James, Henry, 1843-1916, James, Henry, 1843-1916--Criticism and interpretation, Comparative studies
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Title: NAMELESS IN Z.
Creator: Salazar, J. Q., Furman, Andrew, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: The stories in Nameless in Z take place in the fictional city of Z, located on the northwestern coast of the US. The throughline of this collection tracks alternate versions of the same male narrator as he subconsciously pursues relationships in an attempt to supplant his own destructive addictions. The first half of this book dwells more in the relationship aspect, while the second half owns up to the consequences of the first half. Each story involves the titular city tormenting the...
Show moreThe stories in Nameless in Z take place in the fictional city of Z, located on the northwestern coast of the US. The throughline of this collection tracks alternate versions of the same male narrator as he subconsciously pursues relationships in an attempt to supplant his own destructive addictions. The first half of this book dwells more in the relationship aspect, while the second half owns up to the consequences of the first half. Each story involves the titular city tormenting the narrator in a way that physically and/or spiritually manifests his specific addiction. Speculative fiction elements hang around the fringes of each of these stories, typically through different forms of the supernatural. The purpose of this work is to give a voice to underrepresented aspects of addiction and to disentangle my own demons; the ones I’ve inherited as well as the ones I’ve created as a direct result.
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Date Issued: 2023
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014157
Subject Headings: Creative writing, Speculative fiction
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Title: The Philosophy of Violent Characters: A Look at Cormac McCarthy’s Judge and Chigurh.
Creator: Keith, Ryan, Furman, Andrew, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: This thesis paper is an in-depth look at two of Cormac McCarthy’s novels: Blood Meridian and No Country for Old Men, and more specifically, the villains of each story seen from a level of violence paired with philosophy. The dialogue and actions of Judge Holden and Anton Chigurh hold precedent over the novels, storylines, and other characters so much that I place a greater importance on the philosophies and actionable scenes without emphasis from outside ideals or quasi-religious sects. By...
Show moreThis thesis paper is an in-depth look at two of Cormac McCarthy’s novels: Blood Meridian and No Country for Old Men, and more specifically, the villains of each story seen from a level of violence paired with philosophy. The dialogue and actions of Judge Holden and Anton Chigurh hold precedent over the novels, storylines, and other characters so much that I place a greater importance on the philosophies and actionable scenes without emphasis from outside ideals or quasi-religious sects. By looking at dialogue and philosophy, previous comparisons to both works never hold the characteristics of each villain as the centerpiece for discussion. Without the reliance of outside precepts, the Judge and Chigurh function as essential placeholders in their novels. Aspects relating to violence become the result of actions proven by speech. Consequently, the Judge and Chigurh are greater than other villains that I explore in detail with this work. I can only hope this paper sheds light on the significance of both characters.
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Date Issued: 2023
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014330
Subject Headings: McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023. Blood meridian, McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023. No country for old men, McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023--Criticism and interpretation
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Title: Death Conjunct Living.
Creator: Bates, Samantha, Furman, Andrew, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: “Death Conjunct Living” is a collection of flash essays that explores the interconnectedness between life and death—births, miscarriages, childhoods, funerals— as well as the term “empty stomach.” How a stomach can be empty of child or empty of food; how it can indicate a birth, a miscarriage, or an eating disorder. “Death Conjunct Living” is an exploration of the flash medium and how micro nonfiction can tackle macro themes.
Date Issued: 2023
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014343
Subject Headings: Essays, Creative writing, Flash fiction
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Title: "Thick love" vs. "thin love": The maternal role in the African American attainment of individuation in Morrison's "Jazz" and "Beloved".
Creator: Waite, Simone Lora., Florida Atlantic University, Furman, Andrew
Abstract/Description: In Jazz and Beloved Morrison explores the difficulties of the acquisition of selfhood for African Americans. In the novels, Morrison examines these difficulties focussing especially on the maternal role. Offering no facile solutions, these narratives do share characteristics common to individuals attaining individuation. A person's relationship with the mother and ability to confront his history, no matter how painful, are integral elements to any presence of self-worth. Although far from...
Show moreIn Jazz and Beloved Morrison explores the difficulties of the acquisition of selfhood for African Americans. In the novels, Morrison examines these difficulties focussing especially on the maternal role. Offering no facile solutions, these narratives do share characteristics common to individuals attaining individuation. A person's relationship with the mother and ability to confront his history, no matter how painful, are integral elements to any presence of self-worth. Although far from didactic, one truth examined in the novels is the need for Africans in America to create their own definitions of their history. African American figures, maternal and otherwise have been traditionally defined by the oppressive society, using stereotypes inherited from slavery. Jazz and Beloved are reclamations of these definitions. Reclamations Morrison has asserted are necessary for the posterity of her people. How do African Americans attain selfhood when they do not even own themselves? The solutions to this problem are multifaceted. Morrison's novels urge the African American to confront the history and redefine myths that have often undermined the process.
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Date Issued: 1999
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15662
Subject Headings: Morrison, Toni--Criticism and interpretation, Morrison, Toni--Beloved, Morrison, Toni--Jazz, African American women in literature
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Title: Echoes of Wordsworth and Coleridge resound in "The Accidental Tourist".
Creator: Finger, Susan Clare., Florida Atlantic University, Furman, Andrew
Abstract/Description: Anne Tyler, who lived a "Romantic" childhood in mountain-terrained communes of North Carolina, borrowed ideas from Wordsworth and Coleridge for her 1985 novel The Accidental Tourist. Reflections of these Romantic poets are seen primarily in images but are also seen in Tyler's simple writing style. Macon Leary, the protagonist of the novel, is a wandering writer who loves the English language, but struggles to communicate his feelings verbally, a reflection of Romantic ideology. Other motifs...
Show moreAnne Tyler, who lived a "Romantic" childhood in mountain-terrained communes of North Carolina, borrowed ideas from Wordsworth and Coleridge for her 1985 novel The Accidental Tourist. Reflections of these Romantic poets are seen primarily in images but are also seen in Tyler's simple writing style. Macon Leary, the protagonist of the novel, is a wandering writer who loves the English language, but struggles to communicate his feelings verbally, a reflection of Romantic ideology. Other motifs include home as a place abandoned as well as a refuge for the mind and body; the destructive and renewing powers of the city; physical heights used for inspiration and reflection; and endurance after tragedy. Tyler, who is married to a psychiatrist, parodies the Romantics when she brings endurance into the self-help age of the 1980s. Macon Leary not only endures but, with assistance, triumphs.
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Date Issued: 1997
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15494
Subject Headings: Tyler, Anne.--Accidental tourist., Coleridge, Samual Taylor,--1772-1834--Criticism and interpretation., Wordsworth, William,--1770-1850--Criticism and interpretation.
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Title: Authority and molestation in Jeanette Winterson's "Sexing the Cherry".
Creator: Smith, Rhonda C., Florida Atlantic University, Furman, Andrew
Abstract/Description: Jeanette Winterson's novel Sexing the Cherry addresses literary genres in which women's voices have been silenced or marginalized, demonstrating John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill's claim that only when women have "lived in a different country from men and [have] never read any of their writings [will] they have a literature of their own" (207). This philosophy may be viewed in light of Edward Said's theory of colonization in which he argues that a people who colonize by violence...
Show moreJeanette Winterson's novel Sexing the Cherry addresses literary genres in which women's voices have been silenced or marginalized, demonstrating John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill's claim that only when women have "lived in a different country from men and [have] never read any of their writings [will] they have a literature of their own" (207). This philosophy may be viewed in light of Edward Said's theory of colonization in which he argues that a people who colonize by violence maintain authority, while those people who are colonized are subject to "the paternalistic arrogance of imperialism" (Culture xviii). Winterson's desire to reclaim the authority of women illustrates her need for permission to narrate and to be "taken out of the Prism of [her] own experience" (Winterson, Into 17). As a result, she rewrites history, myth, fairy tale, and pornography, reversing the traditional gender roles and inverting the gender hierarchy. Women, in Sexing the Cherry maintain the authority and the Power to molest the now weaker sex, man.
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Date Issued: 1999
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15715
Subject Headings: Winterson, Jeanette,--1959---Sexing the cherry, Women in literature, Violence in literature, Myth in literature
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Title: Mount Your Pets.
Creator: Goldberg, Arthur J., Furman, Andrew, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: This novel is the first-person account of Max Rosenbloom, who has difficulty forming personal relationships, difficulty telling the truth. He enters a Work-Study program to graduate from High School, landing a job as an apprentice in a taxidermy shop operated by Richard, who becomes a strong influence in his life. Themes explored include what is art and what is not art within the framework of the modernization of taxidermy techniques. Another theme is how Max deals with death of his father...
Show moreThis novel is the first-person account of Max Rosenbloom, who has difficulty forming personal relationships, difficulty telling the truth. He enters a Work-Study program to graduate from High School, landing a job as an apprentice in a taxidermy shop operated by Richard, who becomes a strong influence in his life. Themes explored include what is art and what is not art within the framework of the modernization of taxidermy techniques. Another theme is how Max deals with death of his father and death of the animals that Max mounts in the course of his taxidermy training. Finally, a major theme is explored concerning the conflict within Max, who has trouble telling the truth and makes a conscious decision to lie in order to further his career.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000920
Subject Headings: Symbolism in literature., Taxidermy--Fiction., Death and dying--Fiction.
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