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Title: "Maldito amor" and "Sweet Diamond Dust": Rosario Ferre between languages.
Creator: Martin, Angela F., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
Abstract/Description: Since 1970, translation studies have broken the dichotomous mold of the "word for word" or "sense for sense" translation, shifting from a linguistics focus to a new approach that investigates the context and confluence of the social/political factors that form the cultural background of a language. In the light of this "cultural turn," this study comparatively investigates the apparent differences between the two versions of the novella "Maldito amor" and "Sweet Diamond Dust" by the...
Show moreSince 1970, translation studies have broken the dichotomous mold of the "word for word" or "sense for sense" translation, shifting from a linguistics focus to a new approach that investigates the context and confluence of the social/political factors that form the cultural background of a language. In the light of this "cultural turn," this study comparatively investigates the apparent differences between the two versions of the novella "Maldito amor" and "Sweet Diamond Dust" by the critically acclaimed Puerto Rican Rosario Ferre. To read Ferre's two versions taking into account translation theorist Lawrence Venuti's concepts of "foreignizing" or "domestication" of a text, evidences the need of new theoretical formulations to critically situate these rare cases of authors who "write between languages," and (re)create their work in another language.
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Date Issued: 2000
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15791
Subject Headings: Translating and interpreting, Ferre, Rosario--Sweet diamond dust, Ferre, Rosario--Translations
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Title: An Alternative Enlightenment: The Moral Philosophy of Jeanne Marie Le Prince de Beaumont (1711-1780).
Creator: Schaller, Margaret P., Hokenson, Jan W., Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: The ceuvre of Jeanne Marie Le Prince de Beaumont, the public intellectual whose pedagogical journals and epistolary novels were routinely shelved in private eighteenthcentury libraries alongside the works of the period's most famous philosophes, today remains virtually unknown. Beyond the scant available studies limited to her pedagogy and fairy tales, it is time to explore the theoretical aspects of those and other of her texts as significant alternatives to traditional Enlightenment...
Show moreThe ceuvre of Jeanne Marie Le Prince de Beaumont, the public intellectual whose pedagogical journals and epistolary novels were routinely shelved in private eighteenthcentury libraries alongside the works of the period's most famous philosophes, today remains virtually unknown. Beyond the scant available studies limited to her pedagogy and fairy tales, it is time to explore the theoretical aspects of those and other of her texts as significant alternatives to traditional Enlightenment discourse as epitomized in the contemporary philosophes. Through her personal roles of governess to British and French aristocracy, editor of a French-language periodical featuring such contributors as Voltaire and Graffigny, and author of internationally recognized pedagogical manuals, the most famous of which included her timeless version of "Beauty and the Beast," Beaumont challenged a nascent female audience to actively participate in the intellectual discourse of their society, and used her real-world experience to develop a pedagogical methodology founded on the ideals of thought, debate, and action ("penser, parler, agir"). A Cartesian insistence on the separation of mind and body informed much of her argument in favor of women's intellectual capacity, and carried through to her discussion of such socio-political topics as women's equality, agrarian reform, religious tolerance, and social stratification. Not just a gatekeeper of information or a synthesizer of male-produced theories on education and other issues of social concern, she was rather an innovative thinker advancing active, personal commitment to public issues at all levels regardless of gender or social status. Also, promoting theories rooted in the mentoring of women by women as a means of personal realization, Beaumont further advanced French Enlightenment universalism through debate, reason, and action.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000992
Subject Headings: Enlightenment--France, Leprince de Beaumont,--Madame--(Jeanne Marie),--1711-1780--Criticism and interpretation, Leprince de Beaumont,--Madame--(Jeanne Marie),--1711-1780--Influence, Philosophy, Modern--18th century, France--Intellectual life--18th century
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Title: Cervantean fictionality in Graham Greene.
Creator: Cartwright, Tina A., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
Abstract/Description: In The Power and the Glory, Travels with My Aunt, Our Man in Havana, and the short story "Under the Garden," texts in which Graham Greene often alludes directly to Cervantes's Don Quixote, this modern novelist uses Cervantean techniques of fictionality to explore the relation of the fictive and the real. Greene's pervasive theme of escaping a mundane existence and crossing into a new realm, a world created by the character's imagination, is elucidated by Wolfgang Iser's critical concept of...
Show moreIn The Power and the Glory, Travels with My Aunt, Our Man in Havana, and the short story "Under the Garden," texts in which Graham Greene often alludes directly to Cervantes's Don Quixote, this modern novelist uses Cervantean techniques of fictionality to explore the relation of the fictive and the real. Greene's pervasive theme of escaping a mundane existence and crossing into a new realm, a world created by the character's imagination, is elucidated by Wolfgang Iser's critical concept of boundary-crossing and related categories of transgressive fictionality. Particularly in these texts, Greene demonstrates his literary historical position as an inheritor of the Quixote and of Cervantes's awareness of the novel as, in Robert Alter's phrase, a "self-conscious genre."
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Date Issued: 1996
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15267
Subject Headings: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de,--1547-1616--Characters--Don Quixote, Don Quixote (Fictitious character), Greene, Graham,--1904---Criticism and interpretation
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Title: De la conception de l'Europe dans "La Condition Humaine" d'Andre Malraux.
Creator: Giner, Raymond., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
Abstract/Description: Although China provides the stage for most of the action of La Condition Humaine, the presence of Europe is felt throughout the text. In this ostensibly historical novel, Malraux dramatizes the tragic events that took place in Shanghai in March and April 1927: a failed coup attempt by marxist revolutionaries and the bloody scission between general Tchang-Kai-Shek's Kuomintang and the communist party. Europe is thus present in the very premises of the story, through marxism. The influence of...
Show moreAlthough China provides the stage for most of the action of La Condition Humaine, the presence of Europe is felt throughout the text. In this ostensibly historical novel, Malraux dramatizes the tragic events that took place in Shanghai in March and April 1927: a failed coup attempt by marxist revolutionaries and the bloody scission between general Tchang-Kai-Shek's Kuomintang and the communist party. Europe is thus present in the very premises of the story, through marxism. The influence of the Old Continent permeates all the characters in one way or another, even those from Asia, mainly China, who display this influence in their political, social, religious and artistic outlook or behavior. Malraux uses the characters of the story to deliver a subtle though scathing critique of Europe, in sharp contrast to the traditional, pre-World War One depiction of the continent as the center and provider of culture for the whole world. Europe was the center of the universe, the source of all solutions and explanations in all fields of endeavor, solidly established on the concepts developed since the Renaissance: rationalism, materialism, and individualism. These concepts, which also gave birth to capitalism, were all present in the European colonial system imposed on the new territories and are the object of Malraux's critique.
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Date Issued: 1999
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15729
Subject Headings: Malraux, André,--1901-1976--Criticism and interpretation., Malraux, André,--1901-1976.--Condition humaine., Europe--In literature.
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Title: De Freud a Cixous: Une autre perspective sur Dora l'hysterique. (French text).
Creator: Feldman, Marie., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
Abstract/Description: Cixous rejects the conclusions reached by Freud in the "Dora case" and rewrites the analysis without changing the sequence of events. In her play Portrait de Dora (published in Paris in 1976) Dora incarnates the injustices suffered by women within the family. The importance of the play is that it shifts responsibility from Dora to the entire society to which she belongs. Cixous's Dora becomes the symbol of woman who has overcome anguish and shattered the traditional "jougs et censures"...
Show moreCixous rejects the conclusions reached by Freud in the "Dora case" and rewrites the analysis without changing the sequence of events. In her play Portrait de Dora (published in Paris in 1976) Dora incarnates the injustices suffered by women within the family. The importance of the play is that it shifts responsibility from Dora to the entire society to which she belongs. Cixous's Dora becomes the symbol of woman who has overcome anguish and shattered the traditional "jougs et censures" opening the way to freedom.
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Date Issued: 1991
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14685
Subject Headings: Freud, Sigmund,--1856-1939.--Dora., Cixous, Hélène,--1937---Portrait de Dora.
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Title: THE BEASTLY HUMAN AND THE MECHANICAL BEAST: ARCHITECTONIC SYMBOLISM IN ZOLA (NAMES, EPITHETS, ANIMAL-MACHINE, SYMBOLOGY, PALIMPSEST, FRANCE).
Creator: PASSARIELLO, MICHAEL., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
Abstract/Description: Emile Zola 's Rougon-Macguart novels describe the essential corruption of the Second Empire. In the cycle of novels, this epoch of rapid industrialization, before it ended in the Franco-Prussian debacle of 1871, enriched th e entrepreneurial Rougon branch but brutalized the proletarian Macquart branch of Zola's socially symbolic family. The majority of critics, past and present, either neglect or regret one major aspect of Zola's fictional portrayal of the period: the cumulative animal and...
Show moreEmile Zola 's Rougon-Macguart novels describe the essential corruption of the Second Empire. In the cycle of novels, this epoch of rapid industrialization, before it ended in the Franco-Prussian debacle of 1871, enriched th e entrepreneurial Rougon branch but brutalized the proletarian Macquart branch of Zola's socially symbolic family. The majority of critics, past and present, either neglect or regret one major aspect of Zola's fictional portrayal of the period: the cumulative animal and machine imagery in the cycle's meticulously prepared settings, diction, epithets, and names. Such intricate veins of imagery constitute Zola''s architectonic symbolism. And the author's didactic sub-texts, especially in Le Ventre de paris, L'Assommoir, Nana, Germinal, and La Bete humaine, give the cycle its universality and its humanistic power.
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Date Issued: 1985
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14274
Subject Headings: Zola, Emile,--1840-1902--Criticism and interpretation
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Title: Benevolent despot: George Gissing's ambivalence toward his women characters in three novels.
Creator: Hertz, Anne., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
Abstract/Description: Critical estimates of George Gissing's position on "the woman question" range from "pro-feminist" to "misogynist." Three novels reveal an ambivalence that is best characterized as the attitude of a benevolent despot. In Thyrza he glorifies two female characters as respective embodiments of loveliness and wisdom. A third woman is a paragon of housewifeliness. In later novels Gissing vents the frustrations of his own unhappy marriage. The Odd Women presents two feminists advocating better...
Show moreCritical estimates of George Gissing's position on "the woman question" range from "pro-feminist" to "misogynist." Three novels reveal an ambivalence that is best characterized as the attitude of a benevolent despot. In Thyrza he glorifies two female characters as respective embodiments of loveliness and wisdom. A third woman is a paragon of housewifeliness. In later novels Gissing vents the frustrations of his own unhappy marriage. The Odd Women presents two feminists advocating better education for women who do not marry, and also discusses radical ideas about marriage. In The Whirlpool Gissing reveals a patriarchal stance in his story of two married women led astray in a metropolitan "whirlpool" because of too much liberty granted by their husbands. The happiest home in the novel is a rural one with a home-loving wife and mother at its center.
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Date Issued: 1992
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14803
Subject Headings: Gissing, George,--1857-1903--Thyrza, Gissing, George,--1857-1903--Odd women, Gissing, George,--1857-1903--Whirlpool, Gissing, George,--1857-1093--Criticism and interpretation
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Title: BIRTH, DEATH AND SALVATION OF BECKETTIAN MAN.
Creator: KALT, URSULA MARY., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
Abstract/Description: Samuel Beckett is generally considered to write in the pessimistic tradition. For his characters, life is a process of "dying on" in a chaotic universe. God, if he exists, is cruelly indifferent. Death has no purpose, and therefore life is pointless. Suffering is real, however, and made more painful by the knowledge that there is neither Savior nor Salvation. Nevertheless Beckett repeatedly examines the Christian concept of Salvation in his work. Indeed, it has become framework, linguistic...
Show moreSamuel Beckett is generally considered to write in the pessimistic tradition. For his characters, life is a process of "dying on" in a chaotic universe. God, if he exists, is cruelly indifferent. Death has no purpose, and therefore life is pointless. Suffering is real, however, and made more painful by the knowledge that there is neither Savior nor Salvation. Nevertheless Beckett repeatedly examines the Christian concept of Salvation in his work. Indeed, it has become framework, linguistic storehouse, source of metaphor, and spiritual yardstick in much of his canon. The doctrine of Salvation raises "the old questions" regarding man's destiny which so preoccupy Beckettian man; their contemplation has provided the matter for Beckett's writing, and that writing itself has perhaps saved him from despair.
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Date Issued: 1982
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14137
Subject Headings: Beckett, Samuel,--1906---Criticism and interpretation
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Title: Building Cosmopolitical Solidarity from the Antigone: A Return to the Chorus.
Creator: McCarthy, Rebecca L., Hokenson, Jan W., Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: “Building Cosmopolitical Solidarity from the Antigone.” takes an in-depth look at how the Antigone by Sophocles has been used by social movements and social/politically concerned playwrights, theorists and activists as either a tool for discursive and performative resistance, or as a way to reinforce status-quo state rule since at least the Enlightenment to present day. I argue that Sophocles’ characters Creon and Antigone are not ideal images for social movements who seek a cosmopolitical...
Show more“Building Cosmopolitical Solidarity from the Antigone.” takes an in-depth look at how the Antigone by Sophocles has been used by social movements and social/politically concerned playwrights, theorists and activists as either a tool for discursive and performative resistance, or as a way to reinforce status-quo state rule since at least the Enlightenment to present day. I argue that Sophocles’ characters Creon and Antigone are not ideal images for social movements who seek a cosmopolitical democracy. Rather it is to Sophocles’ Chorus and the Watchman that we must turn when proposing democratic cosmopolitanism. Thus, a new communication approach is proposed: a choral dialogue driven by pragmatic logic and employing an aesthetic, often comedic, improvisational experience. Further, this work strives to unite theories from social science, social movement theory, rhetoric, philosophy and theatre. Its aim is to offer practical tools for social movements who wish to gain international, cosmopolitical, stature and to encourage a progressive democratic space. Core study groups include the Project for a New American Century, Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping, ACT-UP, and the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army.
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Date Issued: 2007
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000986
Subject Headings: Sophocles--Antigone, Greek drama (Tragedy)--Criticism and interpretation, Cultural relativism--United States, Political science--Philosophy, Power (Social sciences), Drama--Chorus (Greek drama)
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Title: Exile in two novels by contemporary Jewish women writers: Sabina Berman and Chochana Boukhobza.
Creator: Eli, Myriam., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
Abstract/Description: Exile is a prominent subject in many recent texts by Jewish women writers in several languages. Comparative analysis of the role of exile in two such texts, the Mexican Sabina Berman's La bobe (1990) in Spanish and the Tunisian Chochana Boukhobza's Un ete a Jerusalem (1986) in French, suggests that two novelists from different cultural and linguistic realms share similar concerns with exile, memory, Jewish identity, and gender. Both explore in great anguish geographical exile, Jewishness as...
Show moreExile is a prominent subject in many recent texts by Jewish women writers in several languages. Comparative analysis of the role of exile in two such texts, the Mexican Sabina Berman's La bobe (1990) in Spanish and the Tunisian Chochana Boukhobza's Un ete a Jerusalem (1986) in French, suggests that two novelists from different cultural and linguistic realms share similar concerns with exile, memory, Jewish identity, and gender. Both explore in great anguish geographical exile, Jewishness as exile (literally from ancient Israel, socially in the new homeland or host country, emotionally within the individual, and politically with respect to Israel), and lastly femaleness as a condition of exile, within modern patriarchal societies and within traditional Judaism.
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Date Issued: 1995
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15219
Subject Headings: Exiles in literature--Jewish authors., Exiles' writings--History and criticism., Jews--France--Identity., Jews--Mexico--Identity., Berman, Sabina.--Bobe., Boukhobza, Chochana.--Été à Jérusalem.
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Title: Proust on theater: The fourth art in "A La Recherche du Temps Perdu".
Creator: Schaller, Margaret P., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
Abstract/Description: Critical studies of the arts in Marcel Proust's La Recherche situate the text's many references to art works and artistic genius in a triadic structure of "the three arts": painting, music, and literature. Yet the theater and theatrical references reinforce many of the themes and signifying networks running throughout the text. Theater functions as an art form equivalent to Elstir's painting or Vinteuil's music, and Proust dramatizes in La Berma his crucial distinction between person and...
Show moreCritical studies of the arts in Marcel Proust's La Recherche situate the text's many references to art works and artistic genius in a triadic structure of "the three arts": painting, music, and literature. Yet the theater and theatrical references reinforce many of the themes and signifying networks running throughout the text. Theater functions as an art form equivalent to Elstir's painting or Vinteuil's music, and Proust dramatizes in La Berma his crucial distinction between person and artist. In the social aspects of the actress's life, Proust constructs resonant parallels with the societal and familial conduct of his characters and their interactions, just as the brilliant theatrical performances of classical French dramatic roles onstage by La Berma essentialize the "mecanismes de la vie sociale" in the fictive world outside the theater. In short, theater functions crucially and continuously at all levels of the text, from basic components of story to meta-levels of discourse.
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Date Issued: 2003
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13015
Subject Headings: Proust, Marcel,--1871-1922--Criticism and interpretation, Proust, Marcel,--1871-1922--A la recherche du temps perdu, Theater in literature, Arts in literature
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Title: Proust's Stairways to Lost Time.
Creator: Bradford, Marla R., Hokenson, Jan W., Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: Although they have been neglected in the critical study of A Ia Recherche de temps perdu. staircases play a crucial role in the great architecture of Proust's text. Evoking the most recent theories of time and space, the Proustian staircase at once moves and docs not move; it is both fluid and tl·ozcn, as an object in material space and in the mental space of memory. From simpler architectural construct to overarching metaphor, the staircase transfonns into a space-time amalgam resonating...
Show moreAlthough they have been neglected in the critical study of A Ia Recherche de temps perdu. staircases play a crucial role in the great architecture of Proust's text. Evoking the most recent theories of time and space, the Proustian staircase at once moves and docs not move; it is both fluid and tl·ozcn, as an object in material space and in the mental space of memory. From simpler architectural construct to overarching metaphor, the staircase transfonns into a space-time amalgam resonating throughout the text. From grand marble staircases to fetid back stairs, Proust also uses stairways to dramatize ascending, socially ambitious characters and abject, declasscd failures . More than just a representation of social hierarchy or scientific progress, however, Proust's staircases model life and time, both their progression and their decay, and ultimately the coming-towriting of the narrator.
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Date Issued: 2007
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000898
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Title: The bottom of the heart: Emerson, Novalis, and Jung's individuation.
Creator: Kreitner, David J., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
Abstract/Description: Despite disparities of strategy and style, the fundamental concerns of Emerson's Representative Men and Novalis's Die Lehrlinge zu Sais (The Apprentices at Sais) are almost identical. Both works describe and promote ideals of personal development that are essentially the same, and can be understood in terms of C. G. Jung's concept of individuation. The model of expansion which is celebrated in these two works goes beyond what is usually meant by "self-culture" or "Bildung," in that its...
Show moreDespite disparities of strategy and style, the fundamental concerns of Emerson's Representative Men and Novalis's Die Lehrlinge zu Sais (The Apprentices at Sais) are almost identical. Both works describe and promote ideals of personal development that are essentially the same, and can be understood in terms of C. G. Jung's concept of individuation. The model of expansion which is celebrated in these two works goes beyond what is usually meant by "self-culture" or "Bildung," in that its principle is a dialectic of the conscious and the unconscious psyche, the aim of which is the restoration of equilibrium and a widened sense of personality. A comparison of the programs of Emerson and Novalis underscores the compatibility of their thinking, and enables us to appreciate German and American Romanticism in the context of the evolution of the concept of the unconscious.
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Date Issued: 1991
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14744
Subject Headings: Emerson, Ralph Waldo,--1803-1882.--Representative men., Novalis,--1772-1801.--Lehrlinge zu Sais., Jung, C. G.--(Carl Gustav),--1875-1961., Individuation (Philosophy)
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Title: L' idee de l'amour dans le couple chez Beauvoir.
Creator: Grosjean, Marie-Pierre., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
Abstract/Description: One of the constants in Beauvoir's work is her lifelong attention to the phenomenon of love and the idea of the couple. In her philosophy as well as in her fiction, she develops a binary concept of love. On the one hand is "authentic love," connoting respect and reciprocity; on the other is "inauthentic love," a function of conquest and annexation. Because of her adherence to the tenets of Existentialism, Beauvoir, the feminist, skillfully negotiates between the notions of love and freedom.
Date Issued: 2004
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13137
Subject Headings: Beauvoir, Simone de,--1908---Criticism and interpretation., Couples in literature., Love in literature.
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Title: Virginia Woolf and Christa Woolf: Transitions in Epistemology.
Creator: Henderson, Cary, Hokenson, Jan W., Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: In their essays and fiction, both Virginia Woolf and Christa Wolf address epistemological limitations inherent in patriarchy. In A Room of One's Own, Woolf investigates the gendered roles of author and character in Western literature and literary tradition. In Voraussetzungen einer Erzaehlung: Kassandra, Wolf analyzes the history and repercussions of Western patriarchal social structures in aesthetics and politics. Woolf's Between the Acts and Wolf's Nachdenken ueber Christa T. and Kassandra...
Show moreIn their essays and fiction, both Virginia Woolf and Christa Wolf address epistemological limitations inherent in patriarchy. In A Room of One's Own, Woolf investigates the gendered roles of author and character in Western literature and literary tradition. In Voraussetzungen einer Erzaehlung: Kassandra, Wolf analyzes the history and repercussions of Western patriarchal social structures in aesthetics and politics. Woolf's Between the Acts and Wolf's Nachdenken ueber Christa T. and Kassandra enact literary transitions past a prescriptive epistemology, which categorizes all experience according to gendered preconceptions of reality, to a unified view of aesthetic experience. Moreover, critical response to their writing reflects an historically grounded shift in interpretation. Woolf's contemporaries were interested in stylistic and technical innovations. Critics writing after 1970 have focused chiefly on the epistemological implications in the works of both authors.
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Date Issued: 1991
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000927
Subject Headings: Woolf, Virginia,--1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation, Wolf, Christa--Criticism and interpretation
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Title: La dualite et la bipartition dans "Le Chevalier au Lion" et "Le Bel Inconnu".
Creator: Henderson, Camille., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
Abstract/Description: Well anchored in the romance tradition, the binary nature of the medieval text seems to lend itself to a bipartite structure. Chretien de Troyes is a master of duality. The reader has no sooner established a premise than suddenly Chretien implies its opposite. Likewise, Renaut de Beaujeu gives to his text a perpetually changing dual perspective. In both texts the hero's quest is embodied in two female characters who appear to be each other's counterpart. Like all the other characters, they...
Show moreWell anchored in the romance tradition, the binary nature of the medieval text seems to lend itself to a bipartite structure. Chretien de Troyes is a master of duality. The reader has no sooner established a premise than suddenly Chretien implies its opposite. Likewise, Renaut de Beaujeu gives to his text a perpetually changing dual perspective. In both texts the hero's quest is embodied in two female characters who appear to be each other's counterpart. Like all the other characters, they participate in the overall pattern or play of opposites in the two romances. Like the structure of the text, they can be seen as their own mirrored reflections. In these two works, the duality that characterizes the medieval text leads not only to bipartition but to the reversibility of characters and narrative plot.
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Date Issued: 1995
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15193
Subject Headings: Chrétien,--de Troyes,--active 12th century--Criticism and interpretation, Chrétien,--de Troyes,--active 12th century--Chevalier au lyon, Renaud,--de Beaujeu,--active 12th/13th century--Criticism and interpretation, Renaud,--de Beaujeu,--active 12th/13th century--Bel inconnu, Arthurian romances
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Title: The gaze in the model-painter relationship: Fictions of art by Zola, the Goncourts, Poe, and James.
Creator: Drai, Sabrina Emilie., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
Abstract/Description: The art novel or roman sur les arts is a major trend of nineteenth-century novels: the Goncourts' Manette Salomon (1867) and Zola's L'oeuvre (1886) in French literature, Poe's "The Oval Portrait" (1850) and James's "The Madonna of the Future" (1875) in American literature, emphasize the figure of the artist painter and attendant aesthetic problem. The texts explore the painter's relationship to his art and to his model, unfolding along dual trajectories of plot and subplot, or creative...
Show moreThe art novel or roman sur les arts is a major trend of nineteenth-century novels: the Goncourts' Manette Salomon (1867) and Zola's L'oeuvre (1886) in French literature, Poe's "The Oval Portrait" (1850) and James's "The Madonna of the Future" (1875) in American literature, emphasize the figure of the artist painter and attendant aesthetic problem. The texts explore the painter's relationship to his art and to his model, unfolding along dual trajectories of plot and subplot, or creative struggles with the canvas and amorous entanglements with the model and especially her representation in painting. To disarticulate the triangular relationship between artist, model, and work of art is to show that the governing elements of this triad is the gaze. The painter's gaze at the model and her double, that is her representation on canvas, is the guiding line for his ability to create. Analysis of the relations between the female model and her aesthetic counterpart reveals how femininity and art are perceived in the art novel.
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Date Issued: 2002
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12904
Subject Headings: Art in literature, Fiction--19th century--History and criticism, Painters in literature, Artists' models in literature
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Title: Figurations of the literary hero.
Creator: Maybee, Teresa M., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
Abstract/Description: Going back to Gilgamesh and Achilles as foundations for surveying centuries of protagonists we now call heroic, while synthesizing and modifying critical forerunners, this study reviews the patterns and the constituent elements of the literary hero both synchronically and diachronically, in order to trace changing figurations of the heroic ideal in Western literature, from texts of antiquity to modernism, and with particular emphasis on Anglo-American and French traditions.
Date Issued: 2006
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13411
Subject Headings: Heroes in literature, French literature--History and criticism, American literature--History and criticism
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Title: LES TRIPEDES DE LA TRILOGIE: ETUDE DE L'HOMME AU BATON CHEZ BECKETT. (FRENCH TEXT).
Creator: PERRU, JEAN-PHILIPPE., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
Abstract/Description: Critics of Beckett's trilogy (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable) have long puzzled over the profusion of bilabials in the characters' names: Molloy, Moran, Malone, Macmann. They all share a common initial. "Les Tripedes de la Trilogie" attempts to offer yet another interpretation: with its three bases, the letter M suggests in the context of the trilogy a man and his stick, reminiscent to Beckett of the three-legged "animal" in the riddle of the Sphinx. The omnipresent stick, in both its...
Show moreCritics of Beckett's trilogy (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable) have long puzzled over the profusion of bilabials in the characters' names: Molloy, Moran, Malone, Macmann. They all share a common initial. "Les Tripedes de la Trilogie" attempts to offer yet another interpretation: with its three bases, the letter M suggests in the context of the trilogy a man and his stick, reminiscent to Beckett of the three-legged "animal" in the riddle of the Sphinx. The omnipresent stick, in both its physical and symbolic functions, is shown to be the crucial instrument keeping the unstable Beckettian creatures briefly upright in their "struggle for life." As an extension of the body, it allows them to fight and to survive. As a cylindrical rod, it acquires metaphysical associations with divine or supernatural power.
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Date Issued: 1986
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14293
Subject Headings: Beckett, Samuel,--1906---Criticism and interpretation
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Title: LA RELATION MERE-ENFANT CHEZ DURAS. (FRENCH TEXT).
Creator: DIAFERIA, MICHAELA., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
Abstract/Description: The relationship between the mother and the child in Duras is most fully developed in the novels La Vie Tranquille (1944), Un Barrage contre le Pacifique (1950), Les Petits Chevaux de Tarquinia (1953), Moderato cantabile (1958), and L' Amant (1984). The relationship is intense, initially joyful but ultimately alienated. It dramatizes the feminine needs of the mother and the filial needs of the child, always in conflict. It weakens, as the mother undergoes personal trials, and, as the child...
Show moreThe relationship between the mother and the child in Duras is most fully developed in the novels La Vie Tranquille (1944), Un Barrage contre le Pacifique (1950), Les Petits Chevaux de Tarquinia (1953), Moderato cantabile (1958), and L' Amant (1984). The relationship is intense, initially joyful but ultimately alienated. It dramatizes the feminine needs of the mother and the filial needs of the child, always in conflict. It weakens, as the mother undergoes personal trials, and, as the child grows older, love turns to hate and despair. This study of the novels reveals a consistent structure: the mother-child relationship in Duras is repeatedly depicted as an enslaving experience, comparable in its passionate development to a foredoomed love affair.
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Date Issued: 1986
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14292
Subject Headings: Duras, Marguerite--Criticism and interpretation, Mother and child
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