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- AMORY BLAINE AND THE "PURGATORIO" ("THIS SIDE OF PARADISE", "DIVINE COMEDY", FITZGERALD, DANTE).
- Creator
- ARNONE, EUGENE M., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise, is a well organized and intricately detailed work which uses as its basic metaphor the middle poem of the Divine Comedy by Dante Al ighieri. Thematically, structurally, and symbolically, Fitzgerald's novel parallels Dante's poem, incorporating the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, the Mirrors of Narcissus motif, Dante's idea of Amore, and the symbolic figure of Beatrice. Critics have overlooked Dante as a source for Fitzgerald's work and...
Show moreFitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise, is a well organized and intricately detailed work which uses as its basic metaphor the middle poem of the Divine Comedy by Dante Al ighieri. Thematically, structurally, and symbolically, Fitzgerald's novel parallels Dante's poem, incorporating the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, the Mirrors of Narcissus motif, Dante's idea of Amore, and the symbolic figure of Beatrice. Critics have overlooked Dante as a source for Fitzgerald's work and therefore have not adequately explained the thematic concerns of this novel.
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- 1986
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14331
- Subject Headings
- Literature, Comparative, Literature, American
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- Document (PDF)
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- Aesthetic immersion and imaginative constructs in the novels of Henry James.
- Creator
- Alvarez, Alberto Gabriel, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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A recurrent condition plaguing many of James's characters can be diagnosed as an aesthetic dependency. These characters turn their back on "the real thing" and exist in a precarious world of beauty and misplaced ideals. The novels examined present various methods James's characters utilize to elude the actual world. In The Tragic Muse, the line that separates mimetic art and actuality is nonexistent. Through imitation and performance characters create and represent what ought to be. Aesthetic...
Show moreA recurrent condition plaguing many of James's characters can be diagnosed as an aesthetic dependency. These characters turn their back on "the real thing" and exist in a precarious world of beauty and misplaced ideals. The novels examined present various methods James's characters utilize to elude the actual world. In The Tragic Muse, the line that separates mimetic art and actuality is nonexistent. Through imitation and performance characters create and represent what ought to be. Aesthetic immersion and imaginative constructs are opposed methods of escape in The Spoils of Poynton. The Ambassadors depicts a world where characters conspire to disguise the truth. Lambert Strether's imagination is stimulated by this milieu and takes flight. Similarly, the characters in The Wings of the Dove go to extreme lengths to realize their aesthetic visions. Ultimately, each character in these novels must deal with the sacrifices that are made when one chooses to exist in a world consisting solely of beauty and imagination.
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- 1996
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15331
- Subject Headings
- Literature, Modern, Literature, American, Literature, English
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- "The Accidental Tourist": Novel and film.
- Creator
- Askew, Jennifer Y., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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The Accidental Tourist, a 1985 novel by Anne Tyler, is the story of Macon Leary, a man whose life and marriage have been shattered by the tragic death of his son. Despite these dismal circumstances, Tyler's book is quirky, offbeat and ultimately comic, due primarily to the unfailing tolerance and humor of the author herself. Lawrence Kasdan's 1988 film adaptation of Tyler's novel is thematically consistent with the book. Kasdan unerringly recognized the scenes naturally suited to...
Show moreThe Accidental Tourist, a 1985 novel by Anne Tyler, is the story of Macon Leary, a man whose life and marriage have been shattered by the tragic death of his son. Despite these dismal circumstances, Tyler's book is quirky, offbeat and ultimately comic, due primarily to the unfailing tolerance and humor of the author herself. Lawrence Kasdan's 1988 film adaptation of Tyler's novel is thematically consistent with the book. Kasdan unerringly recognized the scenes naturally suited to dramatization, and in places he successfully transfers Tyler's dialogue directly to the screen with effective comic results. Throughout most of the film, however, the tone is melancholy and the overall effect is much heavier than the novel. Superb acting by William Hurt and Geena Davis help to give Kasdan's film depth and power.
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- 1991
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14703
- Subject Headings
- Literature, American, Cinema
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- "JULIA" CHARACTERIZATION IN THE PLAYS OF LILLIAN HELLMAN.
- Creator
- BELL, KATHLEEN T., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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The Julia character, as depicted in the essay in Pentimento, provides a character model for Lillian Hellman's plays. Julia's strength of personal responsibility provides Hellman a measure by which her characters succeed or fail, a criterion upon which personal worth is judged. Julia's strength, compassion, and personal responsibility are depicted in varying degrees in the characters created in Watch on the Rhine, The Children's Hour, The Little Foxes, Another Part of the Forest, The Searching...
Show moreThe Julia character, as depicted in the essay in Pentimento, provides a character model for Lillian Hellman's plays. Julia's strength of personal responsibility provides Hellman a measure by which her characters succeed or fail, a criterion upon which personal worth is judged. Julia's strength, compassion, and personal responsibility are depicted in varying degrees in the characters created in Watch on the Rhine, The Children's Hour, The Little Foxes, Another Part of the Forest, The Searching Wind, and The Autumn Garden. As reflected in the plays, Julia is Hellman's model, her ideal; she is the vehicle for Hellman's strong personal and social statements.
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- 1980
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14044
- Subject Headings
- Literature, Modern, Theater, Literature, American
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Chaos in Kurt Vonnegut's "Sirens of Titan".
- Creator
- Barney, David Lawrence, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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The individual's search for absolute order and meaning within a chaotic universe is an important theme in the novels of Kurt Vonnegut. In Sirens of Titan, Malachi Constant unwillingly undertakes this futile quest and is consequently victimized, philosophically and psychologically, by various agents and symbols of chaos. After spiraling outward into the chaotic cosmos, his simplistic beliefs revealed to be illusion, Malachi spirals back to himself and to Earth, literally and figuratively, only...
Show moreThe individual's search for absolute order and meaning within a chaotic universe is an important theme in the novels of Kurt Vonnegut. In Sirens of Titan, Malachi Constant unwillingly undertakes this futile quest and is consequently victimized, philosophically and psychologically, by various agents and symbols of chaos. After spiraling outward into the chaotic cosmos, his simplistic beliefs revealed to be illusion, Malachi spirals back to himself and to Earth, literally and figuratively, only to confront the illusions within. In addition, the form of Sirens of Titan can be seen as a metaphor for meaninglessness, mirroring and echoing Malachi Constant's and the reader's absurd call for clarity within chaos.
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- 1991
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14727
- Subject Headings
- Literature, Modern, Literature, American
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Cerebral Cabaret: All Voices Present and Accounted For. A collection of short stories.
- Creator
- Angel, Tee, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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Cerebral Cabaret: All Voices Present and Accounted For is a collection of short stories that question identity and purpose in life. Each of the stories gravitates to a center of family, the need for love, and the search for a sense of belonging. Is success the sale of the perfect work of art, or is it taking a drive, rolling down the windows, and fighting to hold the breeze in outstretched hands? When love fails, can an unholy communion provide solace? Can a man feel at home in the house of a...
Show moreCerebral Cabaret: All Voices Present and Accounted For is a collection of short stories that question identity and purpose in life. Each of the stories gravitates to a center of family, the need for love, and the search for a sense of belonging. Is success the sale of the perfect work of art, or is it taking a drive, rolling down the windows, and fighting to hold the breeze in outstretched hands? When love fails, can an unholy communion provide solace? Can a man feel at home in the house of a stranger? Do voices from the past seal the fate of our future? Does death alter love? Can life be revised? These are a few of the questions mulled over in this collection. Each character's ostensible success is not at stake, only their continued willingness to navigate the world in which they exist.
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- 2006
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13337
- Subject Headings
- Literature, Modern, Literature, American
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- EXISTENTIALISM IN SHIRLEY JACKSON'S LAST NOVELS.
- Creator
- ARGENZIANO, GUY A., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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The existential philosophy of the post-war period is reflected in Shirley Jackson's last novels. The Sundial mirrors the anguish and intellectual alienation of a family trying to come to terms with the annihilation of their world. The Hunting of Hill House deals with the forlornness and emotional alienation that result from the discovery that man is completely alone because there is no God. We Have Always Lived in a Castle is concerned with the psychological alienation and despair that arise...
Show moreThe existential philosophy of the post-war period is reflected in Shirley Jackson's last novels. The Sundial mirrors the anguish and intellectual alienation of a family trying to come to terms with the annihilation of their world. The Hunting of Hill House deals with the forlornness and emotional alienation that result from the discovery that man is completely alone because there is no God. We Have Always Lived in a Castle is concerned with the psychological alienation and despair that arise from the realization that the potential for happiness is limited by man's self-destructive tendencies. Examined together, these novels present an existential viewpoint that corresponds to the turmoil of the post-war world.
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- 1983
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14178
- Subject Headings
- Literature, American
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Dwellings and beings, spaces and places: A topoanalysis of Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita".
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- Badawi, Sally M., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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This thesis conducts a toponalysis of phenomenological notions of "Being" and "dwelling" in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and concludes that the existence of the characters rests in their relationships to dwelling and the ramifications of their separation from home. As Humbert and Lolita experience alienation and uprooted-ness, they embark upon a two-year journey which orbits around reality, as their travels follow what David Seamon calls, Journey-Dwelling Spiral, however, without ever attaining...
Show moreThis thesis conducts a toponalysis of phenomenological notions of "Being" and "dwelling" in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and concludes that the existence of the characters rests in their relationships to dwelling and the ramifications of their separation from home. As Humbert and Lolita experience alienation and uprooted-ness, they embark upon a two-year journey which orbits around reality, as their travels follow what David Seamon calls, Journey-Dwelling Spiral, however, without ever attaining a state of dwelling. As they attempt to overcome their disorientation, Lolita distances herself from Humbert, and Humbert projects his nympholepsy onto another, Quilty. Because Lolita succeeds in her goal, Humbert's life splinters and his only chance at reunification is by writing his memoir, Lolita, Confessions of a White Male.
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- 2004
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13124
- Subject Headings
- Literature, American
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A CHANGING OF THE SEASONS: WALLACE STEVENS' POETIC INTERPRETATIONS OF THE CYCLIC CONTINUUM.
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- BELTZ, MARY RITA, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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A dominating principle in the poetry of Wallace Stevens is that of mutability - the belief that the universe does and should exist in a process of constant change, His use of the seasonal cycles integrates that process in both their physical appearance and as states of imaginative perception for the poet. Stevens draws a deeply thematic analogy between the relationship of imagination and reality and the flowering and unveiling of the physical world. nis poetics alternate from the first hint...
Show moreA dominating principle in the poetry of Wallace Stevens is that of mutability - the belief that the universe does and should exist in a process of constant change, His use of the seasonal cycles integrates that process in both their physical appearance and as states of imaginative perception for the poet. Stevens draws a deeply thematic analogy between the relationship of imagination and reality and the flowering and unveiling of the physical world. nis poetics alternate from the first hint of string with its hope of new fictions to the wintry bareness of perceiving things exactly as they are. In so doing, the poet's constantly altering perceptions affect each season, bringing new responses and transformations to the natural world. In realizing that the poet discovers his own analogies and resemblances in the desired changes of weather and seasons, the reader is rewarded with a deeper and at once more crystallizing knowledge of his work.
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- 1977
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13843
- Subject Headings
- Literature, American
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Dinah's voice: A contemporary analysis of Genesis 34 in "What Dinah Thought" and "The Red Tent".
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- Boxenbaum, Barbara Mehl, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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Contrary to the generally accepted interpretation of Genesis 34 that Dinah, daughter of Jacob and Leah, was raped, What Dinah Thought, by Deena Metzger, and The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant, clearly state that Dinah loved Shechem, the man who was alleged to have raped her, and had consensual sexual relations with him. These twentieth century American novels are written in the rabbinic tradition of interpreting biblical verse, known as midrash. Metzger recreates Dinah as a contemporary Jewish...
Show moreContrary to the generally accepted interpretation of Genesis 34 that Dinah, daughter of Jacob and Leah, was raped, What Dinah Thought, by Deena Metzger, and The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant, clearly state that Dinah loved Shechem, the man who was alleged to have raped her, and had consensual sexual relations with him. These twentieth century American novels are written in the rabbinic tradition of interpreting biblical verse, known as midrash. Metzger recreates Dinah as a contemporary Jewish woman, who travels to Israel to find and marry the reincarnated Shechem, a contemporary Arab. In contrast, Diamant imagines Dinah's life in biblical times, tracing her story prior to her birth to her death. This thesis distinguishes Metzger's and Diamant's novels from rabbinic midrash and analyzes whether their interpretation, that Dinah was not raped, is valid.
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- 1998
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15539
- Subject Headings
- Religion, Biblical Studies, Literature, American
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Feasting with Banquo: The ghost stories of Fritz Leiber.
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- Adair, Gerald M., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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In "Smoke Ghost" (1941), Fritz Leiber created the contemporary paradigm for the "urban horror story" that has been so successfully exploited by Stephen King, Richard Matheson, Dennis Etchison, Ramsey Campbell and many others. At the heart of Leiber's ghost stories, however, rest a firm "tradition" of supernatural fiction, stemming from primitive religion, on the one hand, and literary example on the other. While his urban settings (Chicago, San Francisco) may be seen as contemporary...
Show moreIn "Smoke Ghost" (1941), Fritz Leiber created the contemporary paradigm for the "urban horror story" that has been so successfully exploited by Stephen King, Richard Matheson, Dennis Etchison, Ramsey Campbell and many others. At the heart of Leiber's ghost stories, however, rest a firm "tradition" of supernatural fiction, stemming from primitive religion, on the one hand, and literary example on the other. While his urban settings (Chicago, San Francisco) may be seen as contemporary reinterpretations of Horace Walpole's Gothic castle, his specters are the lineal descendants of Shakespeare's, LeFanu's, and Henry James's. Leiber's later use of Jungian archetypes (Shadow and Anima) is superimposed on the traditional ghostly archetype. An analysis of his novel-length ghost story, Our Lady of Darkness , reveals the lurking malevolence of a LeFanu specter, while the ghosts of Shakespeare hover in the wings of stories in which he explores themes of sex, guilt, and death. In each of Leiber's ghost stories, the elements of the tradition combine with "haunts" from the author's personal psychic history to produce a powerful fantasy experience that persists despite threats to the genre by "science, common sense, and psychiatry."
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- 2000
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12666
- Subject Headings
- Literature, Modern, Literature, American
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- THE PORTRAYAL OF ADOLESCENCE IN THE NOVELS OF CARSON MCCULLERS.
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- BINDAS, SUSAN ANNE, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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Adolescents play an integral role in Carson McCullers' work, particularly The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The Member of the Wedding, and Clock Without Hands. In these novels the characterizations of Mick, Frankie, Jester, and Sherman are drawn with an intuitive awareness of principles of adolescent psychology. McCullers focuses on the expectations, uncertainties, and contradictions of the adolescent years. However, her novels are much more than stories of troubled teens. Largely because of...
Show moreAdolescents play an integral role in Carson McCullers' work, particularly The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The Member of the Wedding, and Clock Without Hands. In these novels the characterizations of Mick, Frankie, Jester, and Sherman are drawn with an intuitive awareness of principles of adolescent psychology. McCullers focuses on the expectations, uncertainties, and contradictions of the adolescent years. However, her novels are much more than stories of troubled teens. Largely because of their adolescent characteristics, Nick, Frankie, Jester, and Sherman serve as fitting symbolic vehicles for McCullers' exploration of such ageless themes as the search for self and the search for love.
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- 1977
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13862
- Subject Headings
- Literature, Modern, Literature, American
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Out of Indigo.
- Creator
- Bartlett, Lee Ellen, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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My poetry is an attempt to capture moments. Miniscule time fragments of feeling and emotion inspire me to write. I seek to capture tiny intervals in a person's life, the extraordinary important time spaces one wants to hold close, learn from and keep forever. My poetry captures emotional word photographs and helps me to revisit my experiences. "Out of Indigo" resulted from the dark to light experience of the past few years. This work reflects the influence, sacrifice and experience of...
Show moreMy poetry is an attempt to capture moments. Miniscule time fragments of feeling and emotion inspire me to write. I seek to capture tiny intervals in a person's life, the extraordinary important time spaces one wants to hold close, learn from and keep forever. My poetry captures emotional word photographs and helps me to revisit my experiences. "Out of Indigo" resulted from the dark to light experience of the past few years. This work reflects the influence, sacrifice and experience of attaining my education, and the positive result of my transition.
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- 2003
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12997
- Subject Headings
- Language, Modern, Literature, American
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Reading Henry: The author's role in Henry James's criticism and in "The Middle Years".
- Creator
- Alvarez, Camila, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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Henry James wrote several works fictionalizing ideas of authorship. No critics have yet looked at "The Middle Years" as an affirmation of the role of the author. Julie Rivkin and Joyce Carol Oates are critics I cite as valuable support to my interpretation of "The Middle Years," a short story that gives us insight into Henry James's critical theory. The story deals with the final days of the author---Dencombe and his creation of a work of art also entitled "The Middle Years." This doubling of...
Show moreHenry James wrote several works fictionalizing ideas of authorship. No critics have yet looked at "The Middle Years" as an affirmation of the role of the author. Julie Rivkin and Joyce Carol Oates are critics I cite as valuable support to my interpretation of "The Middle Years," a short story that gives us insight into Henry James's critical theory. The story deals with the final days of the author---Dencombe and his creation of a work of art also entitled "The Middle Years." This doubling of the title causes authority over the story to become diffused: the real author writes the actual story, while the fictional author owns both the fictional and actual story. Authority is further complicated by the processes of reading and revision. Through these processes, the author and the reader become both creators and spectators. This duality in combination with Dencombe's identification as the ideal author and Dr. Hugh's identification as the ideal reader grants insight into James's stance on the author's role in a work of fiction.
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- 2005
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13218
- Subject Headings
- Literature, American, Literature, English
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- TOWARD THE HUMAN EQUATION: THE ROMANTIC IDEALIST IN THE PLAYS OF ROBERT E. SHERWOOD.
- Creator
- AVANT, ROBERT JOSEPH, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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Four plays by Robert E. Sherwood--The Road to Rome, The Petrified Forest, Idiot's Delight, and There Shall Be No Night--have protagonists who may be identified by the term "romantic idealist." They are "romantic" in that they are typically dissatisfied v1ith the present, nostalgic for the glory of the past, chivalrous in matters of the heart, irrational in their behavior, and intuitive in their judgments. Like the Byronic hero, they are capable of intense feeling. They are "idealistic" in...
Show moreFour plays by Robert E. Sherwood--The Road to Rome, The Petrified Forest, Idiot's Delight, and There Shall Be No Night--have protagonists who may be identified by the term "romantic idealist." They are "romantic" in that they are typically dissatisfied v1ith the present, nostalgic for the glory of the past, chivalrous in matters of the heart, irrational in their behavior, and intuitive in their judgments. Like the Byronic hero, they are capable of intense feeling. They are "idealistic" in that they hold to noble beliefs of a transcendent nature--honor, truth, freedom. Within Sherwood's plays there is a movement toward ever purer manifestations of idealism, culminating in the idealistically pure (but dramatically simplistic) characterization of Dr. Valkonen in There Shall Be No Night.
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- 1971
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13441
- Subject Headings
- Literature, American
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- TWO WISE MEN IN QUARTET. ELIOT AND SANTAYANA: THE SEARCH FOR FAITH.
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- BARNES, JACKIE WARD, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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Santayana's thought underlies much of Eliot's poetry. Both Eliot and Santayana were skeptics, and Eliot's skepticism is documented in the quartets, a work that is a personal journal of his search for faith. That search was to be an unsuccessful one, for Eliot realized the impossibility of union with the Absolute. The symbolism of the rosegarden, the bedded axle-tree, the still point, and the clematis, when analyzed, demonstrates Eliot's concept of a clockwork universe, a universe that is...
Show moreSantayana's thought underlies much of Eliot's poetry. Both Eliot and Santayana were skeptics, and Eliot's skepticism is documented in the quartets, a work that is a personal journal of his search for faith. That search was to be an unsuccessful one, for Eliot realized the impossibility of union with the Absolute. The symbolism of the rosegarden, the bedded axle-tree, the still point, and the clematis, when analyzed, demonstrates Eliot's concept of a clockwork universe, a universe that is unknowing and uncaring. Eliot reaches that concept, basically, because of Santayana's influence.
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- 1983
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14152
- Subject Headings
- Literature, American, Literature, English
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A great mind is androgynous: A look at the late poetry of Sylvia Plath through Virginia Woolf's theory of the androgynous consciousness.
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- Blackburn, Shilo R., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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The female subject in the late poetry of Sylvia Plath experiences a physical and intellectual transformation, as Plath attempts to challenge and redefine the social construction of woman through Virginia Woolf's influence. Plath aspires to achieve a poetic voice that embodies characteristics of both genders simultaneously, an androgynous consciousness by Woolf's account, and one that can speak despite Western culture's imposed inferiority of women writers. Since traditionally masculine...
Show moreThe female subject in the late poetry of Sylvia Plath experiences a physical and intellectual transformation, as Plath attempts to challenge and redefine the social construction of woman through Virginia Woolf's influence. Plath aspires to achieve a poetic voice that embodies characteristics of both genders simultaneously, an androgynous consciousness by Woolf's account, and one that can speak despite Western culture's imposed inferiority of women writers. Since traditionally masculine language has defined women's social roles through their physical bodies, Plath's aim is to immerse her female subject in the experiences of her corporeal body as a means to transcend her physical existence and symbolically achieve a supreme consciousness unadulterated by gender designs. Through the transportation of the physical, female body, then, Plath believes that her poetic voice can emerge in the form of an androgynous spirit capable of accessing powers of both genders.
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- 2004
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13147
- Subject Headings
- Literature, Modern, Women's Studies, Literature, American
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- WILLIAM FAULKNER AND AVIATION: THE MAN AND THE MYTH.
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- BOSTWICK, WALTER INGERSOLL, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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In the years following World War I, William Faulkner implied to his family and acquaintances that he had been a pilot in the RAF. Some people even thought that he had flown combat missions in France and had been wounded. He maintained this fictitious persona throughout his life, and it was accepted by most scholars and biographers. Several of Faulkner's early works featured aviators as central characters, and he treated them as romanticized, tragic heroes as he did Confederate cavalry...
Show moreIn the years following World War I, William Faulkner implied to his family and acquaintances that he had been a pilot in the RAF. Some people even thought that he had flown combat missions in France and had been wounded. He maintained this fictitious persona throughout his life, and it was accepted by most scholars and biographers. Several of Faulkner's early works featured aviators as central characters, and he treated them as romanticized, tragic heroes as he did Confederate cavalry officers. Pylon, which was written after he had actually started flying, reflects an awareness of the psychology of flying not seen in his earlier works. Faulkner's "wounded pilot" persona was only one facet of his imaginative and creative personality, but knowledge of this persona is necessary to the understanding of the man and thus his art.
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- 1981
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14075
- Subject Headings
- Literature, American
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Vision and revision: The perceptual modes of Henry James.
- Creator
- Allen, Kevin Ray, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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For Henry James, artistic vision is essentially revision. It is a process of transformation: of literal experience to "felt life," of pictorial presentation to dramatic representation, of the past to the present. This process is a central element of James's fiction. The "meaning" of stories such as "The Real Thing" and "The Middle Years" and novels such as The Ambassadors depends on a growth of vision. Their protagonists must be able to overcome the limits of their imaginations. They must be...
Show moreFor Henry James, artistic vision is essentially revision. It is a process of transformation: of literal experience to "felt life," of pictorial presentation to dramatic representation, of the past to the present. This process is a central element of James's fiction. The "meaning" of stories such as "The Real Thing" and "The Middle Years" and novels such as The Ambassadors depends on a growth of vision. Their protagonists must be able to overcome the limits of their imaginations. They must be reflective, both intellectually and mimetically. In demanding a finer kind of artistic perception, James pointed the way for a younger generation of writers and critics. James's vision was broad enough to encompass classic critical ideals and artistic goals that would be achieved years after he struggled with them.
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- 1992
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14863
- Subject Headings
- Literature, American, Literature, English, Language, General
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The clause of congruency: A possible worlds reading of three novels of Ray Bradbury.
- Creator
- Adamo, Nicole Maria, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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Using Marie-Laure Ryan's definition of the law of minimal departure, I propose an important addendum, the clause of congruency. It is necessary to delve deeper into the connection a reader makes with a textual possible world and its relation to the actual world. The textual world, with all its various rules and mores, becomes just as accessible to the reader as the world he currently resides in, so long as it flows along in a logical manner. It is only when something appears that is...
Show moreUsing Marie-Laure Ryan's definition of the law of minimal departure, I propose an important addendum, the clause of congruency. It is necessary to delve deeper into the connection a reader makes with a textual possible world and its relation to the actual world. The textual world, with all its various rules and mores, becomes just as accessible to the reader as the world he currently resides in, so long as it flows along in a logical manner. It is only when something appears that is incongruent with the reader's understanding of the textual world, the reader is forced to dissemble his current textual world and build a new one. Ray Bradbury utilizes the clause of congruence to reveal meaning in three of his novels.
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- 2002
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12964
- Subject Headings
- Literature, Comparative, Literature, American
- Format
- Document (PDF)