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- Sylvia Plath: The cauldron of mourning.
- Creator
- Richards-Winkler, Michelle., Florida Atlantic University, Faraci, Mary
- Abstract/Description
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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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- 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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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The Circle of Many Voices in Chaucer's The Parliament of Fowls.
- Creator
- Fleisher, Nancy Kay Gates, Faraci, Mary, Florida Atlantic University
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Geoffrey Chaucer's poem. The Parliament of Fowls, has been acknowledged as an intricate dream vision of balanced contrasts of ideas, double entendre words, classical models, and rules of courtly love. Examining the heretofore unexamined voices invented by Chaucer's narrator, l found that the ancient grammatical term of "middle voice," employed in recent linguistic criticism and theory, served to place the narrator inside his world of reading, dreaming, and writing. As critic and poet. Chaucer...
Show moreGeoffrey Chaucer's poem. The Parliament of Fowls, has been acknowledged as an intricate dream vision of balanced contrasts of ideas, double entendre words, classical models, and rules of courtly love. Examining the heretofore unexamined voices invented by Chaucer's narrator, l found that the ancient grammatical term of "middle voice," employed in recent linguistic criticism and theory, served to place the narrator inside his world of reading, dreaming, and writing. As critic and poet. Chaucer offers the reader new ways to think about ancient literary themes of reading. writing, listening, and telling stories about love. The reader remains free to enjoy the narrator's voices in Parliament from the opening line, "The lyf so short, the craft so long to Ierne," through the roundel and closing.
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- 2008
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000917
- Subject Headings
- Chaucer, Geoffrey,---1400--Criticism and interpretation., Chaucer, Geoffrey,---1400.--Parliament of fowls--Criticism and interpretation., Chaucer, Geoffrey,---1400--Political and social views., Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
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- Document (PDF)
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- Time, place, and agency in "Richard II".
- Creator
- Goddard, Jennifer Sunshine., Florida Atlantic University, Faraci, Mary
- Abstract/Description
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In Richard II, Shakespeare left lessons for us on the effects of speech acts by leaders on the public stage. The "I" in Richard's speeches is always new: "Thus play I in one person many people" (5.5.31). Recent theories of pardons and promises made in the public sphere call attention to the layers of voices, heretofore hidden, in the first-person utterances of Richard as he attempts to interrupt the rush of history toward vengeance. Employing speech-act theory, we discover today that...
Show moreIn Richard II, Shakespeare left lessons for us on the effects of speech acts by leaders on the public stage. The "I" in Richard's speeches is always new: "Thus play I in one person many people" (5.5.31). Recent theories of pardons and promises made in the public sphere call attention to the layers of voices, heretofore hidden, in the first-person utterances of Richard as he attempts to interrupt the rush of history toward vengeance. Employing speech-act theory, we discover today that Shakespeare lets each utterance create a new voice and history for England. Shakespeare gives Richard time to begin to speak and study the world that each "I" utterance produces. The play, known for its rich language, reveals even more voices behind the public face of a king about to die: a confessor, a subject, a prisoner, a Christian, a husband, and a soldier. In every syllable spoken as first-person speaker, Richard moves the audience in images of mirrors and music through a drama of attempts to study a life.
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- 2004
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13159
- Subject Headings
- Richard,--II,--King of England,--1367-1400., Great Britain--History--Richard II, 1377-1399., Speech acts (Linguistics), Semantics., Discourse analysis., Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Language.
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- Document (PDF)
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- Threads of D. H. Lawrence's philosophy of vitalism in the tapestry of "Sons and Lovers".
- Creator
- Livanios, Helen., Florida Atlantic University, Faraci, Mary
- Abstract/Description
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A complex and compelling variation of the archetypal Oedipal complex, embodied in unorthodox, vigorous, and symbolic linguistic expression, Lawrence's work envelops the reader in a Promethean, didactic, life-affirming embrace of vitalism. The work involves a peculiar fusion and mirroring of souls, an intense and prolonged struggle with the self on the part of the character of Paul Morel, and an emergence the self or rebirth of the psyche. Within this tapestry, Lawrence has woven intricate...
Show moreA complex and compelling variation of the archetypal Oedipal complex, embodied in unorthodox, vigorous, and symbolic linguistic expression, Lawrence's work envelops the reader in a Promethean, didactic, life-affirming embrace of vitalism. The work involves a peculiar fusion and mirroring of souls, an intense and prolonged struggle with the self on the part of the character of Paul Morel, and an emergence the self or rebirth of the psyche. Within this tapestry, Lawrence has woven intricate threads of his philosophy of vitalism and blood-consciousness, utilizing universal, primordial archetypes which resound mnemonically in the psyche of the reader, urging humanity to embrace the mystical, universal, creative force of life, to repel the externalities of convention and repression, and to yearn and struggle to be alive.
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- 1993
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14908
- Subject Headings
- Lawrence, D H--(David Herbert),--1885-1930--Sons and lovers, Lawrence, D H--(David Herbert),--1885-1930--Criticism and interpretation
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Dante's influence on Shelley's Prometheus Unbound.
- Creator
- Tunis, Alisa, Faraci, Mary, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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Although the critic C. S. Lewis observes there is an allusive relationship between the final cantos of Dante‟s Purgatory and the third act of Shelley‟s Prometheus Unbound, no detailed analysis of Dante‟s language in Purgatory XXX and XXXI as a specific influence on Shelley‟s construction of imaginary realms in Acts II and III of the lyrical drama Prometheus Unbound exists. In this study, I will show how Shelley borrows from Dante‟s language in Purgatory XXX and XXXI, especially Dante‟s...
Show moreAlthough the critic C. S. Lewis observes there is an allusive relationship between the final cantos of Dante‟s Purgatory and the third act of Shelley‟s Prometheus Unbound, no detailed analysis of Dante‟s language in Purgatory XXX and XXXI as a specific influence on Shelley‟s construction of imaginary realms in Acts II and III of the lyrical drama Prometheus Unbound exists. In this study, I will show how Shelley borrows from Dante‟s language in Purgatory XXX and XXXI, especially Dante‟s preoccupation with the cold as a form of punishment, to create the feeling of oppression and then liberation, in Acts II and III, respectively, of Prometheus Unbound to aid Shelley in his construction of imaginary realms. Shelley also uses Dantean allusions from Paradise, specifically Dante‟s descriptions of light and music, to help him create a feeling of joy and liberation as he creates a paradise on earth in Act IV of Prometheus Unbound.
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- 2012
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004260
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- Document (PDF)
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- The fly fisherman: W. B. Yeats's perfect man.
- Creator
- Halloran, Richard James, III., Florida Atlantic University, Peyton, Ann, Faraci, Mary
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William Butler Yeats directed much of his poetry to the construction of the antithetical or perfect man which he defined as "being most unlike myself" (Allt 371). Yeats also wanted to see Ireland reach this condition. He presented heroes from Irish mythology his contemporaries, and imaginatively created figures who had the strength of character to accomplish a new and self identifiable culture. Yeats wanted Ireland and its citizens to become a modern day "Byzantium" of his classical reference...
Show moreWilliam Butler Yeats directed much of his poetry to the construction of the antithetical or perfect man which he defined as "being most unlike myself" (Allt 371). Yeats also wanted to see Ireland reach this condition. He presented heroes from Irish mythology his contemporaries, and imaginatively created figures who had the strength of character to accomplish a new and self identifiable culture. Yeats wanted Ireland and its citizens to become a modern day "Byzantium" of his classical reference. From his own fishing experience Yeats created the fly fisherman, an image who Yeats saw as "Climbing up to a place ... A man who does not exist ... A man who is but a dream"(Allt 348). In this figure Yeats incorporates his thoughts concerning the value of antithesis, religion, philosophy, nationalism and the concept of the mask. This thesis will propose that the fisherman and his activities are metaphorical applications of Yeats's search for antithesis whether it be for himself, mankind or his country.
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- 1999
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15617
- Subject Headings
- Yeats, W B--(William Butler),--1865-1939--Criticism and interpretation
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Autobiography of an Exile: Analyzing the Reproduction of Subjugation Found in Sean O’Casey’s Dublin Trilogy.
- Creator
- Benkly, Jason, Faraci, Mary, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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Sean O’Casey’s Dublin Trilogy travels through the Irish revolutionary period and explores how this environment created a revolutionary Dublin where armed militants struggled to overthrow the authority and privileges of their British oppressors. Seeking to remove the colonial authority that had oppressed the Dublin population for so long, these revolutionaries fought, killed, and died in their quest for an independent Ireland. In this struggle, groups of armed men can be seen employing tactics...
Show moreSean O’Casey’s Dublin Trilogy travels through the Irish revolutionary period and explores how this environment created a revolutionary Dublin where armed militants struggled to overthrow the authority and privileges of their British oppressors. Seeking to remove the colonial authority that had oppressed the Dublin population for so long, these revolutionaries fought, killed, and died in their quest for an independent Ireland. In this struggle, groups of armed men can be seen employing tactics that would only lead to the continued oppression of other sections of the Irish population. By connecting the Dublin Trilogy to his autobiographies, in which he highlights the importance of family as a supportive unit for the Dublin poor, I propose that O’Casey, in the Dublin Trilogy, warns that these ideological reproductions would eventually lead to the continued subjugation of Irish women and other members of the Irish population outside of the masculinist, militant identity supporting the Irish independence struggle.
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- 2017
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004816, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004816
- Subject Headings
- Irish Citizen Army., O'Casey, Sean--1880-1964--Criticism and interpretation., Intimidation--Ireland--History--20th century., Revolutions--Ireland--History--20th century., Ireland--History--Civil War, 1922-1923., Ireland--History--Autonomy and independence movements., O'Casey, Sean--1880-1964.--Shadow of a gunman--Criticism and interpretation., O'Casey, Sean--1880-1964.--Juno and the paycock--Criticism and interpretation., O'Casey, Sean--1880-1964.--The.--Plough and the stars--Criticism and interpretation.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Tolkien and Bakhtin: Chronotope, Existence, and Reality.
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- Ostaltsev, Oleksiy, Faraci, Mary, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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Space (topos) as one of the main categories in modem literary criticism helps to discover and study unique aspects of the narrative such as functioning of archetypes, reflection of historical reality in the text, and different types of artistic consciousness (mythological and "realistic"). This work is a first study of time and space in Tolkien's trilogy The Lord of the Rings with the help of the chronotope concept proposed by Mikhail Bakhtin. A critic and author of an original literary...
Show moreSpace (topos) as one of the main categories in modem literary criticism helps to discover and study unique aspects of the narrative such as functioning of archetypes, reflection of historical reality in the text, and different types of artistic consciousness (mythological and "realistic"). This work is a first study of time and space in Tolkien's trilogy The Lord of the Rings with the help of the chronotope concept proposed by Mikhail Bakhtin. A critic and author of an original literary concept and one of the most prominent representatives of the school of Russian formalism, Mikhail Bakhtin was also a contemporary of J. R. R. Tolkien who can be ranked among the most significant experimenters in the field of modem literature. Using Bakhtin's classification of spatio-temporal relations in the novel, I was able to identify a type of chronotope in Tolkien's major narrative as one close to mythological and epical chronotopes. In terms of this postulate, I explored methods Tolkien used to create unique time and space of fantasy to make this experimental literary genre widely popular since the middle of the twentieth century onward.
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- 2020
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013460
- Subject Headings
- Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973--Criticism and interpretation, Bakhtin, M M (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895-1975--Criticism and interpretation, Literary criticism
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- Document (PDF)
