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Title: Flannery O'Connor's concern for truth: Aristotelian and phenomenological implications.
Creator: Piper, Wendy A., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: Flannery O'Connor's Catholicism assumes a transcendent reality to be manifest in the physical world. In her view, as in the essentialist phenomenology of Edmund Husserl, we must penetrate the surface of reality in order to find the principles and generalities that underlie it. The incarnational nature of O'Connor's fiction reflects this vision. Her grotesque imagery and her use of elements of Aristotelian dramatic form manifest this sense of Mystery in her fiction. Character is revealed...
Show moreFlannery O'Connor's Catholicism assumes a transcendent reality to be manifest in the physical world. In her view, as in the essentialist phenomenology of Edmund Husserl, we must penetrate the surface of reality in order to find the principles and generalities that underlie it. The incarnational nature of O'Connor's fiction reflects this vision. Her grotesque imagery and her use of elements of Aristotelian dramatic form manifest this sense of Mystery in her fiction. Character is revealed through imagery and action. Finally, O'Connor's "reasonable use of the unreasonable" is based directly on Aristotelian "Surprise," which carries enough awe to jar the reader into an experience of the Mystery central to her vision.
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Date Issued: 1991
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14694
Subject Headings: O'Connor, Flannery--Criticism and interpretation
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A PATTERN OF DISTANCING IN THREE STORIES BY HENRY JAMES.
Creator: GLADDING, MARTHA W., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: Henry James's structuring of time and space in three short stories is intrinsically related to his overall treatment of the development of the characters' consciousnesses. Caroline Spencer ("Four Meetings"), Paul Overt ("The Lesson of the Master"), and John Marcher ("The Beast in the Jungle") are continually faced, in che present context of their experience, with knm·1ledge and reality which they are unable to recognize. Only after extended absences from other characters do they perceive...
Show moreHenry James's structuring of time and space in three short stories is intrinsically related to his overall treatment of the development of the characters' consciousnesses. Caroline Spencer ("Four Meetings"), Paul Overt ("The Lesson of the Master"), and John Marcher ("The Beast in the Jungle") are continually faced, in che present context of their experience, with knm·1ledge and reality which they are unable to recognize. Only after extended absences from other characters do they perceive truths about themselves and others in scenes of personal loss and failure. Distancing in time and space is ultimately necessary, in the structures of these three stories and the consciousnesses of their characters, for emotional and intellectual awareness. This pattern is noticeable in James's early period and becomes progressively more refined from the middle to the late fiction.
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Date Issued: 1978
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13932
Subject Headings: James, Henry,--1843-1916--Criticism and interpretation., Space and time in literature.
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Title: POLARITIES OF AGE IN THE FICTION OF HENRY JAMES.
Creator: HENDRICKS, VICKI DUE., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: Henry James's concern with "age," both as concept and in regard to character, involves variable temporal factors such as simple chronological age as opposed to, for instance, psychological age. The particular manifestations of age can be categorized ucder the headings of ambiguity, transformation and paradox. These techniques arise throughout James's fiction as a result of underlying polarity. Polarity, which is characterized by interpenetrated possibilities, can be linked to William James's...
Show moreHenry James's concern with "age," both as concept and in regard to character, involves variable temporal factors such as simple chronological age as opposed to, for instance, psychological age. The particular manifestations of age can be categorized ucder the headings of ambiguity, transformation and paradox. These techniques arise throughout James's fiction as a result of underlying polarity. Polarity, which is characterized by interpenetrated possibilities, can be linked to William James's pragmatism, thereby elucidating Henry's tendency toward pragmatistic thought. Works chosen to represent ambiguities of age are The Awkward Age, "The Middle Years," and "The Jolly Corner"; transformation, "The Last of the Valerii," "The Aspern Papers," The Golden Bowl , and The Ambassadors; paradox, "Daisy Miller, "The Pupil," The Ambassadors, and The Golden Bowl.
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Date Issued: 1979
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14002
Subject Headings: James, Henry,--1843-1916--Criticism and interpretation
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: RANDALL JARRELL: THE ILLUMINATION OF LONELINESS.
Creator: JOHNSON, MARTHA F., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: This study examines the theme of loneliness in Randall Jarrell's poetry. There seem to be two major sources of loneliness: the loneliness which comes from exterior sources and that which comes from interior sources. The sense of loneliness imposed on men from the outside includes abandonment and dehumanization. These are treated in his early poetry. The sense of loneliness, which originates within the individual, can be aroused by a sense of guilt, by the necessity for separation from people...
Show moreThis study examines the theme of loneliness in Randall Jarrell's poetry. There seem to be two major sources of loneliness: the loneliness which comes from exterior sources and that which comes from interior sources. The sense of loneliness imposed on men from the outside includes abandonment and dehumanization. These are treated in his early poetry. The sense of loneliness, which originates within the individual, can be aroused by a sense of guilt, by the necessity for separation from people and places we love, and by a sense of psychological fragmentation. These inner causes increasingly become the subject of Jarrell's later poetry.
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Date Issued: 1973
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13580
Subject Headings: Jarrell, Randall,--1914-1965--Criticism and interpretation
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Punctilio in Henry James's "The Awkward Age".
Creator: Wolff, Catherine M., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: In The Awkward Age James dramatizes social evolution by contrasting two opposing punctilios. Mr. Longdon is heir to the classic codes of behavior, codes that emphasize protection of the woman, that stress privacy, as well as the correspondence between inner feelings and outer actions. Mrs. Brook and her set react against what this punctilio has become in modern society: mere form. They renounce the old punctilio as fraudulent and replace it with a code that emphasizes freedom, one that...
Show moreIn The Awkward Age James dramatizes social evolution by contrasting two opposing punctilios. Mr. Longdon is heir to the classic codes of behavior, codes that emphasize protection of the woman, that stress privacy, as well as the correspondence between inner feelings and outer actions. Mrs. Brook and her set react against what this punctilio has become in modern society: mere form. They renounce the old punctilio as fraudulent and replace it with a code that emphasizes freedom, one that violates the most cherished canons of Mr. Longdon's punctilio. Yet their freedom is tainted by their knowledge of the old ways. They cannot abandon the past and are caught between old and new in the process of change, unable to act or to speak their minds. Ignorant of the past, Nanda discovers the need to evolve her own punctilio.
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Date Issued: 1989
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14549
Subject Headings: James, Henry,--1843-1916--Awkward age
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: ROOMS OF THE LOOKING-GLASS: MIRROR STRUCTURES AND IMAGERY IN BORGES AND HAWTHORNE.
Creator: HAGER, STANTON ROBERT., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: The "mirror" provides significant structure and imagery in the work of Borges and Hawthorne, as illustrated by Borges' "Averroes' Search" and "The Zahir" and by Hawthorne's "Monsieur du Miroir"' and The Scarlet Letter. Neither author regards the mirrors within or of his art as faithful reflectors of things in the Realistic tradition, nor as faithful reflectors of inner truth in the Romantic tradition; rather, each views his art as he does the objects mirrored by it--as darkened, tarnished,...
Show moreThe "mirror" provides significant structure and imagery in the work of Borges and Hawthorne, as illustrated by Borges' "Averroes' Search" and "The Zahir" and by Hawthorne's "Monsieur du Miroir"' and The Scarlet Letter. Neither author regards the mirrors within or of his art as faithful reflectors of things in the Realistic tradition, nor as faithful reflectors of inner truth in the Romantic tradition; rather, each views his art as he does the objects mirrored by it--as darkened, tarnished, made ambiguous hy human perspective. And yet, because the mirror offers hints of truth and promises of understanding, it continually provokes our contemplation.
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Date Issued: 1981
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14076
Subject Headings: Borges, Jorge Luis,--1899-, Hawthorne, Nathaniel,--1804-1864
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Title: RECIPROCAL RITUAL: THE FUNCTION OF WOMEN IN THE IMAGINATION OF W. B. YEATS. (IRELAND).
Creator: KLINE, GLORIA CORNELIA., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: W. B. Yeats conceived a progression of Masks which he placed upon women he knew and presented as images in his poetry. Between the mystical Rose and Dancer images of his early and late work occur three Masks of flesh and- blood women--the Muse-goddess, the Duchess of Urbino, and the Audacious Old Woman. In relation to each of these, Yeats assumes a Mask of his own--the Poet-lover, the Courtier, several Old Men--and establishes a ritual relationship by which he dramatizes the opposing tensions...
Show moreW. B. Yeats conceived a progression of Masks which he placed upon women he knew and presented as images in his poetry. Between the mystical Rose and Dancer images of his early and late work occur three Masks of flesh and- blood women--the Muse-goddess, the Duchess of Urbino, and the Audacious Old Woman. In relation to each of these, Yeats assumes a Mask of his own--the Poet-lover, the Courtier, several Old Men--and establishes a ritual relationship by which he dramatizes the opposing tensions he believed to exist between men and women . These tensions lie in oppositions of will, intellect, and creative genius. Yeats's ideal--ultimately unrealized--was to achieve complement, co-creation, and, finally, perfect union in the male-female relationship.
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Date Issued: 1973
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13553
Subject Headings: Yeats, W B--(William Butler),--1865-1939--Criticism and interpretation, Women in literature
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Title: Re-visioning the Fall: Mythic implications of Archibald MacLeish's "Songs for Eve".
Creator: Felt, Richard Thomas., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: The history of Western thought is permeated by a dualistic habit of mind which prevents a deeper connection with that primordial world mediated by myth and archetypes. Nietzsche described this dualism as the imposition of rationalistic Apollonian values on the far older tradition of intuitive Dionysian modes of being. Extending this concept further, James Hillman describes this same phenomenon as a lack of soul which he calls psyche. Without a reconnection to psyche, Western civilization is...
Show moreThe history of Western thought is permeated by a dualistic habit of mind which prevents a deeper connection with that primordial world mediated by myth and archetypes. Nietzsche described this dualism as the imposition of rationalistic Apollonian values on the far older tradition of intuitive Dionysian modes of being. Extending this concept further, James Hillman describes this same phenomenon as a lack of soul which he calls psyche. Without a reconnection to psyche, Western civilization is schizoid and incomplete. Using these insights as a basis for critical exploration, this thesis examines Archibald MacLeish's 1954 poem cycle Songs for Eve and its inversion of the traditional Western archetypes of the Fall and woman's role in it. By rejecting the traditional Western allegorical interpretation and reinstating the older Dionysian understanding of the Fall, MacLeish awakens the reader to a new and deeper understanding of this pervasive mythic motif.
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Date Issued: 2002
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12891
Subject Headings: MacLeish, Archibald,--1892---Songs for Eve., Myth in literature., Archetype (Psychology) in literature.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Robert Penn Warren's short fiction: His theory, his stories, and his critics.
Creator: Higgins, Barbara B., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: Robert Penn Warren is an accomplished poet, novelist, teacher, and critic. Critics of his work consider the short story to be the weakest genre in his canon; however, an examination of each of the fourteen stories in The Circus in the Attic and Other Stories with a combination reader-response, historical, and analytical reading proves that some of the stories are very good. A comparison of these stories with "Technical Problems and Principles in the Composition of Fiction--A Summary," the...
Show moreRobert Penn Warren is an accomplished poet, novelist, teacher, and critic. Critics of his work consider the short story to be the weakest genre in his canon; however, an examination of each of the fourteen stories in The Circus in the Attic and Other Stories with a combination reader-response, historical, and analytical reading proves that some of the stories are very good. A comparison of these stories with "Technical Problems and Principles in the Composition of Fiction--A Summary," the appendix of Understanding Fiction, an outstanding textbook co-authored by Warren, emphasizes their quality. The stories should not be grouped under the label "Stories of Robert Penn Warren," but rather they should be read, enjoyed, and judged as individual works of art.
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Date Issued: 1990
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14628
Subject Headings: Warren, Robert Penn,--1905---Criticism and interpretation
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Title: STRUCTURALISM'S CRITIQUE OF THE ROMANTIC MYTH OF THE AUTHOR.
Creator: MONTALBANO, MARGARET., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: Structuralism's Critique of the Romantic Myth of the Author is aimed at the Romantic concept of the author as a special individual possessed of unique sensibilities and God-like powers of creation. The structuralist analysis of this myth is an attempt to decompose - to separate into its component parts - the Romantic image of the author. This act of decomposition enables structuralism to demonstrate the construction of this myth and to suggest its implausability from a perspective informed by...
Show moreStructuralism's Critique of the Romantic Myth of the Author is aimed at the Romantic concept of the author as a special individual possessed of unique sensibilities and God-like powers of creation. The structuralist analysis of this myth is an attempt to decompose - to separate into its component parts - the Romantic image of the author. This act of decomposition enables structuralism to demonstrate the construction of this myth and to suggest its implausability from a perspective informed by structuralist theory. In the course of this analysis, structuralism is able to suggest some of the functions of the myth within literature as well as within contemporary Western culture.
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Date Issued: 1983
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14176
Subject Headings: Structuralism (Literary analysis), Authorship, Romanticism
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: SYLVIA PLATH'S POETRY AS ARTIFACT: TWO-DIMENSIONALITY AND EFFECTS.
Creator: QUEENAN, DEBORAH CLARK., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: This study explores the two-dimensionality and artistlC distancing present within Sylvia Plath's poetry contained in Crossing the Water, Winter Trees, and Ariel. Plath's poetry inevitably presents the conflict inherent in the art versus life dichotomy; her poetry tends toward the reflexive, as its metaphors mirror poetry as the poetry mirrors life. Two-dimensional images recur, calling to mind the power of the artistic, as mirrors, photographs, paintings, silhouettes, outlines, and the black...
Show moreThis study explores the two-dimensionality and artistlC distancing present within Sylvia Plath's poetry contained in Crossing the Water, Winter Trees, and Ariel. Plath's poetry inevitably presents the conflict inherent in the art versus life dichotomy; her poetry tends toward the reflexive, as its metaphors mirror poetry as the poetry mirrors life. Two-dimensional images recur, calling to mind the power of the artistic, as mirrors, photographs, paintings, silhouettes, outlines, and the black letter on the white page fairly inundate her works. In Plath's poetry, the reader finds a disclosure of poetry, a definition of poetry, and a reaffirmation of the supremacy of the imagination. Plath speaks to an elite audience; hers is a cry to and for the intellectual in a world of violence and chaos; here is the desperately needed source of pleasure for those who delight in the original metaphor, who long for the hunt for the similar within those things ostensibly dissimilar.
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Date Issued: 1980
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14029
Subject Headings: Plath, Sylvia--Criticism and interpretation
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: TENNESSEE WILLIAMS' CIRCLE OF LIGHT.
Creator: LENAHAN, TERI S., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: Light imagery in Tennessee Williams' plays can be seen in terms of a metaphorical circle of light. The characters in Outcry and In the Bar of a Toyko Hotel are living outside of the realm of light, in a darkness that leads to death. In A Streetcar Named Desire Blanche is symbolically slipping over the edge of light into outer darkness that becomes, for her, insanity. Paradoxically she is hiding from and searching for light simultaneously. The characters in The Night of the Iguana, The...
Show moreLight imagery in Tennessee Williams' plays can be seen in terms of a metaphorical circle of light. The characters in Outcry and In the Bar of a Toyko Hotel are living outside of the realm of light, in a darkness that leads to death. In A Streetcar Named Desire Blanche is symbolically slipping over the edge of light into outer darkness that becomes, for her, insanity. Paradoxically she is hiding from and searching for light simultaneously. The characters in The Night of the Iguana, The Milktrain Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, and Vieux Carre move closer to their circle of light, finding hope and acceptance from a compassionate friend. Defined as the "protection of our existence," the circle of light can be found throughout the plays of Tennessee Williams.
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Date Issued: 1982
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14115
Subject Headings: Williams, Tennessee,--1911---Criticism and interpretation
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Title: What will suffice? The process of creating a supreme fiction: Color, sound, and motion imagery in the poetry of Wallace Stevens.
Creator: Springman, Carolyn Poole., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: The poetry of Wallace Stevens demonstrates a process of creativity through motion, color, and sound imagery. This process is one of creating or discovering a supreme fiction or a temporal ideal or order that will suffice for now but will continue in motion and change. A momentary blending of the imagination and reality creates this ideal poetry. Chaos, disorder, death, and decay are metaphors for the activity of decreation, which must precede creation in many poems. Nature constantly changes,...
Show moreThe poetry of Wallace Stevens demonstrates a process of creativity through motion, color, and sound imagery. This process is one of creating or discovering a supreme fiction or a temporal ideal or order that will suffice for now but will continue in motion and change. A momentary blending of the imagination and reality creates this ideal poetry. Chaos, disorder, death, and decay are metaphors for the activity of decreation, which must precede creation in many poems. Nature constantly changes, but it does so with a pattern. The patterned motion in the poetry is a circular motion toward a center of form, balance, and perfection. Color imagery demonstrates a process much like the one that Newton demonstrated in the colors that make up light. Sound imagery evokes "inherited Memory" which we use to recreate a new fiction.
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Date Issued: 1991
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14769
Subject Headings: Stevens, Wallace,--1879-1955--Criticism and interpretation
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The children of Flannery O'Connor: Child of quest and child of grace.
Creator: Wolff, Gay H., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: O'Connor reveals glimpses of innocence in her child characters before they are brought to a point of being confronted by the discrepancies of this world, when they must distinguish and choose between the good and evil forces of nature. The child who accepts spiritual values is the child of grace and the child of quest is the one who chooses worldly temptations, instead. The dilemma of O'Connor's adult sinners is illuminated by recognizing their origins in these two child types. This parallel...
Show moreO'Connor reveals glimpses of innocence in her child characters before they are brought to a point of being confronted by the discrepancies of this world, when they must distinguish and choose between the good and evil forces of nature. The child who accepts spiritual values is the child of grace and the child of quest is the one who chooses worldly temptations, instead. The dilemma of O'Connor's adult sinners is illuminated by recognizing their origins in these two child types. This parallel is exemplified by a comparison of child and adult characters in The Violent Bear It Away and "The River." By taking a closer look at the first temptations of evil and the offerings of grace in O'Connor's children, we can recognize the mistakes of her adult sinners more clearly.
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Date Issued: 1991
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14696
Subject Headings: O'Connor, Flannery--Criticism and interpretation, Children in literature
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: YEATS'S "AT THE HAWK'S WELL": PYTHAGOREAN IMPLICATIONS.
Creator: JOHNSON, MARA LOUISE., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: W. B. Yeats drew upon many philosophies for symbols that he used in his poetry and plays. Pythagoreanism, as one of these philosophies, formed the basis for much of his numerical and musical symbolism. Four major Pythagorean concepts--number, antithesis, geometry, and music--became essential patterns in Yeats's work, particularly in his Noh plays. At the Hawk's Well exemplifies all of these concepts, and dramatizes their philosophical and symbolic implications. The Pythagorean symbols possess...
Show moreW. B. Yeats drew upon many philosophies for symbols that he used in his poetry and plays. Pythagoreanism, as one of these philosophies, formed the basis for much of his numerical and musical symbolism. Four major Pythagorean concepts--number, antithesis, geometry, and music--became essential patterns in Yeats's work, particularly in his Noh plays. At the Hawk's Well exemplifies all of these concepts, and dramatizes their philosophical and symbolic implications. The Pythagorean symbols possess a tangible power as religious symbols, and Yeats called upon them to infuse his work with order, dimension, and a multiplicity of meanings, as he used them to represent his eternal search for Unity of Being.
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Date Issued: 1976
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13807
Subject Headings: Yeats, W B--(William Butler),--1865-1939--Criticism and interpretation, Pythagoras and Pythagorean school
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Title: The hand as creator in Wallace Stevens: Perception, sensation, and the phenomenal self.
Creator: Johnson, Jamie, Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: Wallace Stevens's poems alluding to hands yield one of his most profound topics of interest: reality (the external, natural world) versus the imagination (the internal mind). The human hand offers a unique perspective of the complex, often problematic worlds in which the artist exists. In terms of the external world, the hands are the most common means of sense experience. For many artists, the hands act as a medium through which expression of art is delivered. During inspiration, an artist...
Show moreWallace Stevens's poems alluding to hands yield one of his most profound topics of interest: reality (the external, natural world) versus the imagination (the internal mind). The human hand offers a unique perspective of the complex, often problematic worlds in which the artist exists. In terms of the external world, the hands are the most common means of sense experience. For many artists, the hands act as a medium through which expression of art is delivered. During inspiration, an artist therefore takes an experience of the world, filters it through the imagination, and then creates art by combining mind and sense experience. It is the complications involved in this process of creation that the forthcoming analysis explores. The philosophical insight of Merleau-Ponty, Emmanuel Husserl, and William James offers ways of interpreting the intricate creative process apparent in Stevens's poems. By visualizing the necessary altered state of perception through Stevens's language, one can then better understand the acquisition of the ideal state, or "phenomenal body."
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Date Issued: 2002
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12916
Subject Headings: Stevens, Wallace,--1879-1955--Criticism and interpretation, Perception (Philosophy) in literature, Self (Philosophy) in literature
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Wallace Stevens: Tale teller of the soul.
Creator: Frusciante, Denise Marie., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: In his work Re-Visioning Psychology, Jungian depth psychologist James Hillman defines the soul as "a perspective rather than a substance, a viewpoint toward things rather than a thing itself"(xvi). This definition helps to show the existence of a nontraditional, but not anti-Christian, soul in the works of Wallace Stevens. From the swirling chaos of "The Pleasures of Merely Circulating" to the underworld liminal irreality displayed in "Yellow Afternoon," we find psyche flourishing in the...
Show moreIn his work Re-Visioning Psychology, Jungian depth psychologist James Hillman defines the soul as "a perspective rather than a substance, a viewpoint toward things rather than a thing itself"(xvi). This definition helps to show the existence of a nontraditional, but not anti-Christian, soul in the works of Wallace Stevens. From the swirling chaos of "The Pleasures of Merely Circulating" to the underworld liminal irreality displayed in "Yellow Afternoon," we find psyche flourishing in the poetry of Stevens. She dwells in an underworld existence surrounded by archetypal Gods, such as Hermes, Hades, Dionysus, Priapus, and Zeus. While Stevens does not use the word "soul" in any of the poems to be discussed, Hillman's theories on psyche show us that we are not to literalize our souls. We must allow psyche to transport us into a metaphoric, interior realm where Stevens's worms, his poet figure, and his readers can transform into Gods.
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Date Issued: 2000
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12715
Subject Headings: Stevens, Wallace,--1879-1955--Criticism and interpretation., Soul in literature.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: WOMEN IN SYNGE'S PLAYS (IRELAND).
Creator: TATUM, ELIZABETH RUTH., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: The plays of J.M. Synge reflect his theory of the central life force, particularly as it is embodied by the women in the plays. It is essentially the elan vital of Henri Bergson. On the Aran Islands Synge observed the intuitive strength of women which he portrayed later in the plays. Implicit are the elements of a folk spirit common in the work of both Synge and Bergson. A reading of the plays with the emphasis on Playboy of the Western World and Deirdre of the Sorrows reveals a creative...
Show moreThe plays of J.M. Synge reflect his theory of the central life force, particularly as it is embodied by the women in the plays. It is essentially the elan vital of Henri Bergson. On the Aran Islands Synge observed the intuitive strength of women which he portrayed later in the plays. Implicit are the elements of a folk spirit common in the work of both Synge and Bergson. A reading of the plays with the emphasis on Playboy of the Western World and Deirdre of the Sorrows reveals a creative vitality which is both Bergsonian and mythic, and which pivots on the choices made by the women toward a spiritual unity with nature.
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Date Issued: 1975
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13715
Subject Headings: Synge, J M--(John Millington),--1871-1909--Characters--Women, Women in literature
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Title: THE WORLD UNBALANCED: THE THEME OF DISORDER IN THE SHORT STORIES OF FLANNERY O'CONNOR.
Creator: WERSHOVEN, CAROL JEAN., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: Flannery O'Connor's short stories often involve a moment of recognition/reversal in which an offering of grace is accompanied by a toppling of the protagonist's sense of social order. The protagonist, who considers himself in some way superior, may be "leveled" into a chaotic equality with all sinners, or he may find the tables turned on him: one who was "first" may become "last." Or both these things may happen to the same protagonist. Such protagonists may be Strong Women, who need to...
Show moreFlannery O'Connor's short stories often involve a moment of recognition/reversal in which an offering of grace is accompanied by a toppling of the protagonist's sense of social order. The protagonist, who considers himself in some way superior, may be "leveled" into a chaotic equality with all sinners, or he may find the tables turned on him: one who was "first" may become "last." Or both these things may happen to the same protagonist. Such protagonists may be Strong Women, who need to believe in an ordered world to maintain their security and status, or Intellectuals, who isolate themselves from the real world, or Displaced Persons, who experience disorder through displacement, or Dwellers in the Past or the Future, who attempt to escape disorder through a retreat into different time periods. Various devices in the stories, such as the double, irony, and symbols, heighten the sense of disorder.
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Date Issued: 1974
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13619
Subject Headings: O'Connor, Flannery--Criticism and interpretation
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Title: WALLACE STEVENS: "AN ORDINARY EVENING IN NEW HAVEN.".
Creator: MORAN, JUDITH V., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: Two themes are evident in the late poem by Wallace Stevens, "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven." The first theme reiterates Stevens' aesthetic that the subject matter for poetry is derived from ever-changing external reality. The second theme is that in poetry there is an existential unity between language, reality and Being, an idea which is similar to the hermeneutics of Martin Heidegger. Despite an apparent lack of logical coherence, these themes unify the poem's thirty-one sections and...
Show moreTwo themes are evident in the late poem by Wallace Stevens, "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven." The first theme reiterates Stevens' aesthetic that the subject matter for poetry is derived from ever-changing external reality. The second theme is that in poetry there is an existential unity between language, reality and Being, an idea which is similar to the hermeneutics of Martin Heidegger. Despite an apparent lack of logical coherence, these themes unify the poem's thirty-one sections and demonstrate the new form of modern poetry which interprets the purpose and function of language itself.
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Date Issued: 1977
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13873
Subject Headings: Stevens, Wallace,--1879-1955--Criticism and interpretation.
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Stevens, Wallace,--1879-1955--Criticism and interpretation (10)	+ -
James, Henry,--1843-1916--Criticism and interpretation (6)	+ -
O'Connor, Flannery--Criticism and interpretation (5)	+ -
Stevens, Wallace,--1879-1955--Criticism and interpretation. (3)	+ -
Children in literature (2)	+ -

Jarrell, Randall,--1914-1965--Criticism and interpretation (2)	+ -
Pinter, Harold,--1930---Criticism and interpretation (2)	+ -
Plath, Sylvia--Criticism and interpretation (2)	+ -
Women in literature (2)	+ -
Yeats, W B--(William Butler),--1865-1939--Criticism and interpretation (2)	+ -
Albee, Edward,--1928---Characters (1)	+ -
Ambiguity in literature (1)	+ -
American poetry--African American authors (1)	+ -
Anderson, Sherwood,--1876-1941--Criticism and interpretation (1)	+ -
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