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Title: (Modern) Detroit-as-experience: Understanding Joyce Carol Oates's "them".
Creator: Houser, Tai Lynden, Florida Atlantic University, Faraci, Mary
Abstract/Description: Joyce Carol Oates's novel them and Wallace Stevens's poetry can be examined in light of Oates's critical essay "Against Nature." These fictions illustrate Oates's idea of Nature not existing as a noun, Nature, but as an experience which we attempt to understand through language. Indirectly, Oates calls on other authors and theorists to argue for a redefinition of Nature. She comes to conclude that what we call "Nature" in reality exists as Nature-as-experience. Once we fully understand Nature...
Show moreJoyce Carol Oates's novel them and Wallace Stevens's poetry can be examined in light of Oates's critical essay "Against Nature." These fictions illustrate Oates's idea of Nature not existing as a noun, Nature, but as an experience which we attempt to understand through language. Indirectly, Oates calls on other authors and theorists to argue for a redefinition of Nature. She comes to conclude that what we call "Nature" in reality exists as Nature-as-experience. Once we fully understand Nature-as-experience, we can utilize those principles to understand a relatively new occurrence in history and literature: the manmade city. In them, the city, in much the same way as Nature, becomes City-as-experience and in fact lives in the experience of the character Maureen.
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Date Issued: 2003
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13011
Subject Headings: Oates, Joyce Carol,--1938---Them, Detroit (Mich)--In literature
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Title: "And yet God has not said a word!": Robert Browning and the romantic killer in literature.
Creator: Burns-Davies, Erin., Florida Atlantic University, Faraci, Mary
Abstract/Description: Robert Browning's dramatic monologues often characterize the darker aspect of romantic love through speakers who demonstrate their devotion to violence. Exploring the innovations in discourse, Browning gives his narrators voices that allow them to speak from an ancient literary tradition. For Browning's speakers, words make the silencing of the lover either the act of ultimate devotion or the result of disappointed expectations. The narrator speaks of the absence of God, as when Porphyria's...
Show moreRobert Browning's dramatic monologues often characterize the darker aspect of romantic love through speakers who demonstrate their devotion to violence. Exploring the innovations in discourse, Browning gives his narrators voices that allow them to speak from an ancient literary tradition. For Browning's speakers, words make the silencing of the lover either the act of ultimate devotion or the result of disappointed expectations. The narrator speaks of the absence of God, as when Porphyria's lover holds her body to him: "and yet God has not said a word!" With the poet's strong speech---in all his attractiveness, his destructive display of love and his dismissal of God---Browning has helped to create a discourse that has sculpted the literary force of the romantic killer. Three novelists in particular employ the literary force of Browning's experiments: Anne Rice's The Vampire Lestat, Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho and Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter novels. Intertextual comparisons among these narratives delineate how Robert Browning's innovation of the seductive antihero has persisted in literature.
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Date Issued: 2004
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13140
Subject Headings: Browning, Robert,--1812-1889--Influence, Browning, Robert--1812-1889--Criticism and interpretation, Violence in literature, Narration (Rhetoric), Rice, Anne,--1941---Vampire Lestat, Ellis, Brett Easton--American Psycho, Harris, Thomas,--1940---Criticism and interpretation
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Title: Beowulf as an archetypal hero: "Beowulf", Seamus Heaney's translation and Joseph Campbell.
Creator: Ingalls, Ingrid Elisabeth Derfler., Florida Atlantic University, Faraci, Mary
Abstract/Description: The title character of Beowulf functions as an archetypal hero who can be analyzed through the work of mythologist, Joseph Campbell. Beowulf's adventures follow the separation-initiation-return pattern described by Campbell. Furthermore, Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf adds to mythological understanding of the poem which is clarified by reading it in light of Campbell's theory. Just as sixty years ago, Tolkien's work gave the reader a new way of understanding Beowulf, Heaney's...
Show moreThe title character of Beowulf functions as an archetypal hero who can be analyzed through the work of mythologist, Joseph Campbell. Beowulf's adventures follow the separation-initiation-return pattern described by Campbell. Furthermore, Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf adds to mythological understanding of the poem which is clarified by reading it in light of Campbell's theory. Just as sixty years ago, Tolkien's work gave the reader a new way of understanding Beowulf, Heaney's interpretation allows the reader to notice fresh aspects of the poem. Additionally, Heaney's reading, with its emphasis on the "mythic potency" of the work, is especially receptive to interpretation in the light of the mythic undercurrents that Campbell examines so extensively. The introduction, too, stresses the universality and timelessness of these old tales. Moreover, comparing these folkloric elements to similar ones found in fairy tales might broaden the reader's understanding of the poem.
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Date Issued: 2002
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12935
Subject Headings: Heaney, Seamus,--1939-2013, Campbell, Joseph,--1904-, Beowulf, Epic poetry, English (Old)--History and criticism
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Title: Dickens's "Hard Times" and the Kenyan reader.
Creator: Makotsi, Joseph M. M., Florida Atlantic University, Faraci, Mary
Abstract/Description: The illustrations in this thesis provide an insight into the findings that the text is a joint product of an interpretive community. The underlying knowledge of a Kenyan reader is loaded with constraints that are a product of British colonialism, a specific history, background, and experience. The application of this underlying knowledge during the interpretation of Charles Dickens's Hard Times requires several adjustments to this text. The art of Dickens's structuring of Hard Times would be...
Show moreThe illustrations in this thesis provide an insight into the findings that the text is a joint product of an interpretive community. The underlying knowledge of a Kenyan reader is loaded with constraints that are a product of British colonialism, a specific history, background, and experience. The application of this underlying knowledge during the interpretation of Charles Dickens's Hard Times requires several adjustments to this text. The art of Dickens's structuring of Hard Times would be lost on the reader who is not familiar with the differences between the uses and effects of various styles of English writing. This thesis seeks to show that the conscientious critic could reveal to the non-native speaker the differences in styles of writing in the speeches of Dickens's characters.
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Date Issued: 1988
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14493
Subject Headings: Dickens, Charles,--1812-1870--Hard times
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Title: Narrating the chronotope of the saint: Ordinary time in the novel.
Creator: Mason, Eric Daniel., Florida Atlantic University, Faraci, Mary
Abstract/Description: All narratives in which the human image is presented establish an interconnectedness of time and space, what Mikhail Bakhtin calls the chronotope. When Victor Hugo wrote Les Miserables, he drew upon a historical chronotope originating in the narratives that accompanied the spread of Christianity, and which found its purest distillate in the genre of hagiography---the narrating of the lives of saints. When the mode of sacred time established in the conventionally brief hagiologic narrative,...
Show moreAll narratives in which the human image is presented establish an interconnectedness of time and space, what Mikhail Bakhtin calls the chronotope. When Victor Hugo wrote Les Miserables, he drew upon a historical chronotope originating in the narratives that accompanied the spread of Christianity, and which found its purest distillate in the genre of hagiography---the narrating of the lives of saints. When the mode of sacred time established in the conventionally brief hagiologic narrative, which depended on a linear progression having unity with God as its end, is integrated into the extended form of the novel, it finds itself at odds with the ubiquitous adventure time---the random disjunctions of time and space without which there is no plot. The delineated spaces of roads and gardens in Les Miserables serve to concretize the mediation between these two modes of time, resulting in the ordinary time of the novel.
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Date Issued: 2001
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12796
Subject Headings: Hagiography, Time in literature, Narration (Rhetoric), Hugo, Victor,--1802-1885--Misérables
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Title: Europe in Mark Twain's travel writing.
Creator: Tokkonen, Tellervo Orvokki., Florida Atlantic University, Faraci, Mary
Abstract/Description: Mark Twain was popular in Europe from the start. His bitter satire and his humor appealed to European readers. "We are all offspring of Europe," Twain once said, and he was fascinated by the Old World throughout his career. First in The Innocents Abroad the writer traveled in European countries as an innocent tourist to experience European history and culture. He came to see, though, that the Catholic Church had excessive power there, that there were beggars and filth everywhere, and that the...
Show moreMark Twain was popular in Europe from the start. His bitter satire and his humor appealed to European readers. "We are all offspring of Europe," Twain once said, and he was fascinated by the Old World throughout his career. First in The Innocents Abroad the writer traveled in European countries as an innocent tourist to experience European history and culture. He came to see, though, that the Catholic Church had excessive power there, that there were beggars and filth everywhere, and that the old masters' paintings were neglected. A Tramp Abroad continued satirizing the living conditions in Europe. The tone in the latter book is mostly pessimistic, and the author's increasing bitterness toward the Old World is well revealed in it.
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Date Issued: 1990
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14634
Subject Headings: Twain, Mark,--1835-1910--Criticism and interpretation, Europe--In literature
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Title: PROPAGANDA AND THE FIXED CHOICE POINT OF VIEW.
Creator: FARNSWORTH, ROBIN JOY., Florida Atlantic University, Faraci, Mary
Abstract/Description: Various approaches have been taken toward the study of language. Prescriptive and descriptive approaches have been the most common, both assuming a set of natural language rules. The Fixed Choice point of view, evolving out of the descriptive approach, questions the nature of language rules and discovers, through the study of the word, classic, that this new point of view is also the point of view of the propagandist.
Date Issued: 1981
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14093
Subject Headings: Linguistic change.
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Title: Otto Jespersen at the "Wake": A genetic study of linguistic sources for "Finnegans Wake".
Creator: Rosiers, Erika., Florida Atlantic University, Faraci, Mary
Abstract/Description: During the composition process of Finnegans Wake, James Joyce made extensive use of notebooks in which he collected material from miscellaneous sources, crossing out entries and inserting them into his drafts, creating an encyclopedic work of a highly complex nature. Genetic criticism, approaching the literary work as a process rather than a product, examines these sources, notebooks, and drafts to gain insight into the development and meaning of the work. Joyce read and took notes from Otto...
Show moreDuring the composition process of Finnegans Wake, James Joyce made extensive use of notebooks in which he collected material from miscellaneous sources, crossing out entries and inserting them into his drafts, creating an encyclopedic work of a highly complex nature. Genetic criticism, approaching the literary work as a process rather than a product, examines these sources, notebooks, and drafts to gain insight into the development and meaning of the work. Joyce read and took notes from Otto Jespersen's Language, Its Nature, Development and Origin in 1923, Growth and Structure of the English Language in 1924, and An International Language in 1938. Notes from each of these sources influenced the development of his characters and their language and the construction of the language of his book. Used and unused notes alike provide information about Joyce's interests and intentions.
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Date Issued: 1999
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15685
Subject Headings: Jespersen, Otto,--1860-1943--Criticism and interpretation, Joyce, James,--1882-1991--Finnegans wake
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Title: A READER-RESPONSE APPROACH TO THE "INTERPRETIVE HISTORY" OF THE FOP.
Creator: MELILLO, SANDRA M., Florida Atlantic University, Faraci, Mary
Abstract/Description: The interpretive history of the "fop" can be illuminated through the application of Saussure's explanation of the systems of evolution, creation, and permanance in language. Thus, the critical "texts" created by eighteenth-century critics are subject to the same transformations, formations, and pressures that prescribe, under certain conditions, the survival of meanings in language. Like the history of surviving units of sounds and meanings in the language, the value attached to the "fop" can...
Show moreThe interpretive history of the "fop" can be illuminated through the application of Saussure's explanation of the systems of evolution, creation, and permanance in language. Thus, the critical "texts" created by eighteenth-century critics are subject to the same transformations, formations, and pressures that prescribe, under certain conditions, the survival of meanings in language. Like the history of surviving units of sounds and meanings in the language, the value attached to the "fop" can be viewed as a survivor from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the twentieth, guarded by the writings of "interpretive authorities" of eighteenth-century studies.
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Date Issued: 1986
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14305
Subject Headings: Dandies, Etherege, George,--1636-1691 or 1692--Criticism and interpretation
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Title: A STUDY OF PATRIARCHAL REPRESENTATION IN THOMAS HARDY'S ''TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES'' AND ''JUDE THE OBSCURE''.
Creator: GINSBERG, FELICE LINET., Florida Atlantic University, Faraci, Mary
Abstract/Description: Thomas Hardy includes in his Wessex novels images of women oppressed by the patriarchal system. Even though he exposes the abuses in the system, he suggests that the women fall short of the qualities of intelligence and language which the narrative voice respects. Lovely Tess is naive, simple, and impulsive; Sue appears narcissistic, revolutionary, and bizarre; Arabella, also narcissistic, is amoral and coarse as well; thus, in Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure there is a sense...
Show moreThomas Hardy includes in his Wessex novels images of women oppressed by the patriarchal system. Even though he exposes the abuses in the system, he suggests that the women fall short of the qualities of intelligence and language which the narrative voice respects. Lovely Tess is naive, simple, and impulsive; Sue appears narcissistic, revolutionary, and bizarre; Arabella, also narcissistic, is amoral and coarse as well; thus, in Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure there is a sense created by the patriarchal narrative voice that the women are not capable of the tasks required for vreat ing intellectual human communities.
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Date Issued: 1987
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14358
Subject Headings: Hardy, Thomas,--1840-1928.--Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Hardy, Thomas,--1840-1928.--Jude the obscure
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Title: Writing in Borges's "Garden": The lively performances of John Barth and Maxine Hong Kingston.
Creator: Scala, Virginia M. D., Florida Atlantic University, Faraci, Mary
Abstract/Description: This thesis is a comparative study of John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, based on the imagery and theme of Borges's "forking paths." Both authors are indebted to Borges's work for providing the experimental narrative devices that made it possible for them to challenge their "ghosts." In Barth's case, he loses himself in the Funhouse, haunted by the "same old stories" (102); Kingston finds her voice in the Chinese stories and shocking images of the...
Show moreThis thesis is a comparative study of John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, based on the imagery and theme of Borges's "forking paths." Both authors are indebted to Borges's work for providing the experimental narrative devices that made it possible for them to challenge their "ghosts." In Barth's case, he loses himself in the Funhouse, haunted by the "same old stories" (102); Kingston finds her voice in the Chinese stories and shocking images of the past. The thesis will work toward a presentation of the dramatic performances and brilliant images in Barth's Lost in the Funhouse and in Kingston's The Woman Warrior. Readers become players who surrender their conventional notions about narrative in Borges's "Garden of the Forking Paths." Fortunately, the writing of Barth and Kingston continues to keep storytelling a lively art where time and memory are the main characters.
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Date Issued: 1996
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15329
Subject Headings: Barth, John--Lost in the funhouse, Kingston, Maxine Hong--Woman warrior, Borges, Jorge Luis,--1899-1986--Criticism and interpretation
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Title: An analysis of Ezra Pound's "The Seafarer".
Creator: Yunk, Robert Michael., Florida Atlantic University, Faraci, Mary
Abstract/Description: Since its appearance, Pound's translation of the Old English poem, The Seafarer, has occupied a significant place in literary history and criticism. Among established descriptions in Anglo-Saxon studies, the original has been called "an indestructible tribute to the mariners of England." Pound's work adds to this tribute in a new way, making important statements concerning the history of language and literature of the sea. At the same time, Pound's translation explores the concept of literary...
Show moreSince its appearance, Pound's translation of the Old English poem, The Seafarer, has occupied a significant place in literary history and criticism. Among established descriptions in Anglo-Saxon studies, the original has been called "an indestructible tribute to the mariners of England." Pound's work adds to this tribute in a new way, making important statements concerning the history of language and literature of the sea. At the same time, Pound's translation explores the concept of literary "indestructibility," raising implications about how "texts" acquire meaning. By studying the different ways Pound attempted to bring Anglo-Saxon language to the present in The Seafarer, this thesis aspires to reckon with not only the categorical conflicts of Pound's early translation, but also the importance that it represents to Pound's means of redefining English poetry. This thesis conducts an analysis of Ezra Pound's 1911 translation of the Anglo-Saxon Seafarer poem emphasizing Pound's inventive use of unfamiliar language serving to challenge the accepted academic role of the translator.
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Date Issued: 2001
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12813
Subject Headings: Pound, Ezra,--1885-1972--Seafarer, Pound, Ezra,--1885-1972--Criticism and interpretation
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Title: The language of seduction in Ben Jonson's "Volpone".
Creator: Freeman, David Theodore., Florida Atlantic University, Faraci, Mary
Abstract/Description: Ben Jonson's Volpone has attracted audiences since its first performance in 1606. This powerful work continues to present interesting problems for critics and teachers. Recent discourse-based critical approaches to literary works, based on the work of Heidegger, Kristeva, and Cixous, promise to reveal imaginative uses of the English language by Jonson in Volpone. The seductive figures of speech work in creating the dramatic interest of the characters and spiralling audience investment. What...
Show moreBen Jonson's Volpone has attracted audiences since its first performance in 1606. This powerful work continues to present interesting problems for critics and teachers. Recent discourse-based critical approaches to literary works, based on the work of Heidegger, Kristeva, and Cixous, promise to reveal imaginative uses of the English language by Jonson in Volpone. The seductive figures of speech work in creating the dramatic interest of the characters and spiralling audience investment. What the audience members think they feel about the characters depends on Jonson's genius behind it all. Jonson used English for innovative seductive effects: for example, "Shall I make you a poultice?" (3.2.96) examined rhetorically and grammatically reveals seductive intent. By analyzing in detail the seductive aspects of the language of the play as if heard for the first time, a discourse-based analysis returns the beginnings of seductive dramatic effects to their creator, Jonson, who in Volpone creates multiple meanings of seduction.
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Date Issued: 1997
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15377
Subject Headings: Jonson, Ben,--1573?-1637--Criticism and interpretation., Jonson, Ben,--1573?-1637.--Volpone., Seduction in literature.
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Title: Frankenstein, Science Fiction, and the Poetry of Science.
Creator: Davis, Peter, Faraci, Mary, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: While Frankenstein has recently received criticism weighted heavily in politics, gender, and feminist studies, what gets overlooked in these discussions is that Mary Shelley's novel remains a story about science--not about empirical science, necessarily, but about abstract science. As science fiction, Frankenstein incorporates fictional science to posit truths about the human experience. Shelley's metaphor for the novel, ''my hideous progeny," reminds readers to respect the uncertain elements...
Show moreWhile Frankenstein has recently received criticism weighted heavily in politics, gender, and feminist studies, what gets overlooked in these discussions is that Mary Shelley's novel remains a story about science--not about empirical science, necessarily, but about abstract science. As science fiction, Frankenstein incorporates fictional science to posit truths about the human experience. Shelley's metaphor for the novel, ''my hideous progeny," reminds readers to respect the uncertain elements in invention in the arts and sciences. The problem for Frankenstein that I address has to do with an uncertainty of the terms, "science'' and "science fiction ,'' which results in further uncertainty when discussing the novel's genre and meaning. This essay defines "science," "science fiction," and other important tenns relevant to a critical discussion of the novel. This essay further argues that readers should not overlook the poetry of science in Frankenstein.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000908
Subject Headings: Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft,--1797-1851.--Frankenstein--Criticism and interpretation., Frankenstein (Fictitious character)--Criticism and interpretation., Science fiction, English--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
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Title: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's linguistic mirror of nature: An ecological criticism.
Creator: Dana, Elizabeth., Florida Atlantic University, Faraci, Mary
Abstract/Description: For the most part, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's work has been considered primarily as Southern Regionalist. Her use of language, however, in detailed descriptions of nature evidence an ecological consciousness. Examining her use of certain words used in descriptions of natural places, we see that Rawlings views nature as a place of learning and that man fits in not as a dominant figure, but as a part of the ecological community, and is subject to the vicissitudes of nature. The analysis of her...
Show moreFor the most part, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's work has been considered primarily as Southern Regionalist. Her use of language, however, in detailed descriptions of nature evidence an ecological consciousness. Examining her use of certain words used in descriptions of natural places, we see that Rawlings views nature as a place of learning and that man fits in not as a dominant figure, but as a part of the ecological community, and is subject to the vicissitudes of nature. The analysis of her language is the indication that Rawlings was as concerned with nature as she was with the Regionalism of Cross Creek. Her use of certain words portrays an unpredictable world. Rawlings portrays her characters in the basic condition of mankind, not as dominant figures, but as survivors in the unpredictable settings of Nature.
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Date Issued: 1992
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14785
Subject Headings: Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan,--1896-1953--Criticism and interpretation
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Title: HISTORY OF THE INFINITIVE IN ENGLISH.
Creator: HARPER, VIRGINIA E., Florida Atlantic University, Faraci, Mary
Abstract/Description: This thesis is a comparison of Old English infinitives with present day English infinitive forms. The comparisons in this thesis provide insight into historical differences and developments involving the infinitive. One of the most obvious differences between Old English and present day English is the variety of Old English word orders; the evidence shows different patterns of interrogative and declarative subject-verb inversions, as well as adverb, adjective and object placement when the...
Show moreThis thesis is a comparison of Old English infinitives with present day English infinitive forms. The comparisons in this thesis provide insight into historical differences and developments involving the infinitive. One of the most obvious differences between Old English and present day English is the variety of Old English word orders; the evidence shows different patterns of interrogative and declarative subject-verb inversions, as well as adverb, adjective and object placement when the infinitive without to was used. With the exception of the interrogatives, the tendency in present day English is to have the modal or verb follow the subject and precede the infinitive. In comparing the uses of Old English verbs that cannot take the to + infinitive with those of present day English that must, it is evident that the to + infinitive structure is now much more common in sentences. One can assume that the present day preference for the to + infinitive after main verbs, with the exception of modal auxiliaries, has grown out of the Old English use of the inflected infinitive with to.
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Date Issued: 1974
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13685
Subject Headings: English language--Infinitive, English language--Grammar, Historical
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Title: Elves, the righteous ringmakers: Taking Tolkien seriously.
Creator: Rosa, Adrian Wayne., Florida Atlantic University, Faraci, Mary
Abstract/Description: Tolkien's trilogy deserves a more serious consideration than many are willing to give. Through Tolkien's fantasy it is possible to discover how we come to know what we know about the metaphysical world so that we can experience the proper cosmic pattern that gives us, as Mircea Eliade writes in Cosmos And History, "the nostalgia for eternity" because its patterns "can never be uprooted: it can only be debased" (122). If we are to understand Tolkien, we must discuss Tolkien's ideas such as...
Show moreTolkien's trilogy deserves a more serious consideration than many are willing to give. Through Tolkien's fantasy it is possible to discover how we come to know what we know about the metaphysical world so that we can experience the proper cosmic pattern that gives us, as Mircea Eliade writes in Cosmos And History, "the nostalgia for eternity" because its patterns "can never be uprooted: it can only be debased" (122). If we are to understand Tolkien, we must discuss Tolkien's ideas such as power, the nature of good and evil, and free will and individual responsibility. The virtue of the elves becomes the focal point for those ideas since the elves are the structural force that gives the work its power and meaning. To further explain the virtue of the elves, Tolkien plunges into basic human emotions and a symbolic structure that can surmount cultural boundaries. He thus creates a world through the ancient device of exemplifying morals in unfamiliar personalities in order to bring home truths in which modern man can believe.
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Date Issued: 1990
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14606
Subject Headings: Tolkien, J R R--(John Ronald Reuel),--1892-1973--Lord of the rings
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Title: Grendles Modor: Representation in a linguistic landscape.
Creator: Ciufo, Patience Corinne., Florida Atlantic University, Faraci, Mary
Abstract/Description: Beowulf has inspired readers and listeners since the eighth century, first as a performance then as a written poem. It is an epic tale of Anglo-Saxon warriors, life, and history. Recently, studies of Beowulf have introduced questions of twentieth-century gender stereotypes that provide a new understanding of the epic's characters and themes. However, these studies have delivered too simple a reading of complex characters like Grendel's mother and have led scholarship away from the poem. To...
Show moreBeowulf has inspired readers and listeners since the eighth century, first as a performance then as a written poem. It is an epic tale of Anglo-Saxon warriors, life, and history. Recently, studies of Beowulf have introduced questions of twentieth-century gender stereotypes that provide a new understanding of the epic's characters and themes. However, these studies have delivered too simple a reading of complex characters like Grendel's mother and have led scholarship away from the poem. To bring critics back to the poem, this study attempts to make the poem a landscape. When the total landscape, the language, style, alliteration, and violence (physical and emotional), is studied, the poem is opened up to more than just simple readings. In a landscape reading, Grendel's mother becomes a force strong enough to disrupt the structure of the language and to battle the barriers between female and male, warrior and monster, and pagan and nonpagan. A landscape that is as violent as the characters is discovered, one in which all life is celebrated.
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Date Issued: 1998
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15542
Subject Headings: Beowulf--Characters, English poetry--Old English, ca 450-1100--History and criticism, Stereotype (Psychology) in literature, Sex role in literature
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Title: A JUNGIAN JOURNEY TO INDIVIDUATION IN "THE TEMPEST" (SHAKESPEARE).
Creator: ZUCKER, SCOTT., Florida Atlantic University, Faraci, Mary
Abstract/Description: The characterizations in The Tempest resemble the archetypes of the collective unconscious and appear to gather their momentum from Shakespeare's understanding of the individuation process. In depicting the unfolding dynamics of psychic change, the playwright anticipates Jung's theory of individuation by showing the compensatory influence these numinous figures have on the characters' conscious orientations as they move from separation to subsequent union. The characters' agitated and...
Show moreThe characterizations in The Tempest resemble the archetypes of the collective unconscious and appear to gather their momentum from Shakespeare's understanding of the individuation process. In depicting the unfolding dynamics of psychic change, the playwright anticipates Jung's theory of individuation by showing the compensatory influence these numinous figures have on the characters' conscious orientations as they move from separation to subsequent union. The characters' agitated and irrational responses to the archetypal manifestations are a reflection of the psychic division characteristic of the individuating mind. Harmony and reason are achieved as the characters heal their division by integrating the conscious contents of their projections. This enlarging of the personality and broadening of collective relationships transform The Tempest into a variation on the quest for individuation offering a psychic stage for the Jungian notions of process and renewal.
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Date Issued: 1985
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14254
Subject Headings: Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Tempest, Jung, C G--(Carl Gustav),--1875-1961--Psychology, Individuation (Philosophy)
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Title: Sylvia Plath: The cauldron of mourning.
Creator: Richards-Winkler, Michelle., Florida Atlantic University, Faraci, Mary
Abstract/Description: Sylvia Plath's poetry pulses with imagery and sound; it excites, disturbs, and unnerves. When Plath writes "I," one rarely questions the authenticity of the speaker. One feels privy to certain aspects of the poet's life experience. Her father's death, her subsequent psychotherapy, and the dissolution of her marriage contribute directly to the often surreal affect of the poetry. Plath's unique voice emerges from the bubbling cauldron of repetitive grief issues, existential tendencies, and...
Show moreSylvia Plath's poetry pulses with imagery and sound; it excites, disturbs, and unnerves. When Plath writes "I," one rarely questions the authenticity of the speaker. One feels privy to certain aspects of the poet's life experience. Her father's death, her subsequent psychotherapy, and the dissolution of her marriage contribute directly to the often surreal affect of the poetry. Plath's unique voice emerges from the bubbling cauldron of repetitive grief issues, existential tendencies, and patriarchy to create a new order of post-modern poetry. The thesis attempts to lead readers to a better appreciation of that poetry by demonstrating that Plath did not desire death, but rather desired growth, in an understanding of her own mysterious existence. It is evident through textual analysis that she was writing to achieve liberation from a crippling grief, autonomy as a woman artist, and absolution from years of guilt, at the time of her suicide.
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Date Issued: 2003
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13010
Subject Headings: Plath, Sylvia--Criticism and interpretation, Plath, Sylvia--Death and burial, Grief in literature
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Bakhtin, M M (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895-1975--Criticism and interpretation (1)	+ -
Barth, John--Lost in the funhouse (1)	+ -
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