Current Search: DeJong, Laura Quinlan (x)
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"Strange Snow" and other stories.
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Creator
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DeJong, Laura Quinlan, Florida Atlantic University, Bucak, Ayse Papatya
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Abstract/Description
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Weather assists in shaping our reality. It is an unalterable condition of the world that we are born into. This short story collection aims to present the nuances of weather. It attempts to acknowledge wind, rain, snow and lightning as forces that shape the world of its characters, forces that even influence the structure of the story itself. In some cases, weather acts as metaphor; in others, the weather seeks to alter language itself. The beauty of a snowflake resides in image and language.
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Date Issued
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2005
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13293
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Subject Headings
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Symbolism in literature, Fiction--Technique, Weather--Literary collections, Short stories--Collections
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Format
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Document (PDF)
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Title
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Seeds of Brightness: Poetic Memory in James Joyce’s Ulysses.
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Creator
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DeJong, Laura Quinlan, Scroggins, Mark, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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Abstract/Description
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This dissertation examines the process of “poetic memory” in James Joyce’s Ulysses, a term chosen by Italian philologist Gian Biagio Conte to describe allusive processes in the poetry of classical texts, specifically the epic. Conte examines and classifies the epic codes and norms residing within and constituting the classical epic genre. These change with each successive epic according to the author’s culture. The allusive process enables an author’s dialogue with his or her predecessors,...
Show moreThis dissertation examines the process of “poetic memory” in James Joyce’s Ulysses, a term chosen by Italian philologist Gian Biagio Conte to describe allusive processes in the poetry of classical texts, specifically the epic. Conte examines and classifies the epic codes and norms residing within and constituting the classical epic genre. These change with each successive epic according to the author’s culture. The allusive process enables an author’s dialogue with his or her predecessors, which has implications for the establishment of textual authority. By applying Conte’s system of epic codes and norms toward a reading of Ulysses, it is possible to interrogate the novel and assess how it situates itself within the epic tradition. In Ulysses, Joyce responds to and revises the epic tradition through his appropriation and modification of works by classical, medieval and Renaissance authors. He writes from the advantage of doing so in the early twentieth century, at a point in history with a wide range of literary material available to it. Through Ulysses’ Homeric frame and intricate allusions, Joyce creates a somatic text, one that appropriates the textual somatic components of the Commedia and Gargantua and Pantagruel. In appropriating and revising elements of these somatic sites, as well as classical allusions, Joyce creates a foundational Irish epic, one that ultimately questions and even parodies statements of authority.
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Date Issued
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2016
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004687, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004687
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Format
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Document (PDF)
