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Re-constructing the past: women, time, and inanimate objects in Virginia Woolf's the years and Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca
Title
Re-constructing the past: women, time, and inanimate objects in Virginia Woolf's the years and Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca.
Creator
Derisi, Stephanie, Berlatsky, Eric L., Low, Jennifer A., Hagood, Taylor, Graduate College
Date Issued
2011-04-08
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3164523
Subject Headings
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Years, Du Maurier, Daphne, 1907-1989, Women in literature
Format
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Mothering and Male Masochism in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Aurora Floyd
Title
Mothering and Male Masochism in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Aurora Floyd.
Creator
Gravatt, Denise Hunter, Low, Jennifer A., Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description
Feminist literary critics often praise Mary Elizabeth Braddon's sensation novels for undermining Victorian gender ideologies, and yet by failing to scrutinize aspects of maternity and female sexuality, they overlook some of her work's most subversive potential. In Aurora Floyd, for instance, Braddon deploys the trope of the missing mother to deconstruct the Victorian maternal ideal of a pure, passive angel in the house. Her text proposes a notion of motherhood, which is more concerned with...
Show moreFeminist literary critics often praise Mary Elizabeth Braddon's sensation novels for undermining Victorian gender ideologies, and yet by failing to scrutinize aspects of maternity and female sexuality, they overlook some of her work's most subversive potential. In Aurora Floyd, for instance, Braddon deploys the trope of the missing mother to deconstruct the Victorian maternal ideal of a pure, passive angel in the house. Her text proposes a notion of motherhood, which is more concerned with internal goodness and vitality, rather than with the Victorian era's emphasis on external proprieties and socially constructed notions of femininity. Braddon's Aurora is a motherless girl who develops into a strong, sexually assertive and, thus, unfeminine woman by Victorian standards. In positioning Aurora as the narrative's heroine, Braddon promotes female dominance and male masochism as alternative gender relations to the traditional domestic economy of male mastery and female submission.
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Date Issued
2006
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000921
Subject Headings
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth,--1835-1915.--Aurora Floyd., Women and literature--England--History and criticism., Braddon, Mary Elizabeth,--1835-1915--Criticism and interpretation., Masuclinity in literature., Man-woman relationships in literature., Postmodernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
Format
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Tennessee Williams's Guilt Inspired 'Savior' Doubles
Title
Tennessee Williams's Guilt Inspired 'Savior' Doubles.
Creator
Colegrove, Isaac H., Low, Jennifer A., Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description
This thesis documents Thomas Lanier (Tennessee) Williams's treatment of brother/sister relationships in literary works written between 1939 and 1950. Though Williams began by exploiting his troubled relationship with his sister Rose in "The Long Goodbye" and "The Purification," two one-act plays, he revised his treatment of siblings in The Glass Menagerie and the short story "The Resemblance between a Violin Case and a Coffin." These works do not merely reveal the writer's transparent guilt...
Show moreThis thesis documents Thomas Lanier (Tennessee) Williams's treatment of brother/sister relationships in literary works written between 1939 and 1950. Though Williams began by exploiting his troubled relationship with his sister Rose in "The Long Goodbye" and "The Purification," two one-act plays, he revised his treatment of siblings in The Glass Menagerie and the short story "The Resemblance between a Violin Case and a Coffin." These works do not merely reveal the writer's transparent guilt and shame at having neglected his sister at moments when he could have helped her, nor do they serve simply to over-write his torrid depictions of similar relationships in the earlier plays. I contend that Williams's intense guilt inspired the creation of literary doubles in both The Glass Menagerie and "The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin," not only to undo in symbolic terms the ways he had previously characterized Rose and her relationship with him and, more importantly, to express his wish that he had done more to help Rose avert her tragic fate.
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Date Issued
2008
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000906
Subject Headings
Williams, Tennessee,--1911-1983--Criticism and interpretation., Brothers and sisters in literature., Doubles in literature., Split self in literature.
Format
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Time, space, and Shakespeare: Temporal and spatial disturbances at the point of cultural contact
Title
Time, space, and Shakespeare: Temporal and spatial disturbances at the point of cultural contact.
Creator
Murray, Jessica L., Florida Atlantic University, Low, Jennifer A.
Abstract/Description
Cultural geographic theory uses dramatic language (place ballets , time-space routines, temporal rhythms , etc.) to describe how humans sense and dwell in places. Because the theory contemplates human behavior enacted upon a stage, it is applicable to theater studies. This thesis asserts that Hamlet's, Othello's, and Antony's treacherous lifeworlds undermine their spatiotemporal senses and initiate quests similar to those described by Anne Buttimer as searches "for order, predictability, and...
Show moreCultural geographic theory uses dramatic language (place ballets , time-space routines, temporal rhythms , etc.) to describe how humans sense and dwell in places. Because the theory contemplates human behavior enacted upon a stage, it is applicable to theater studies. This thesis asserts that Hamlet's, Othello's, and Antony's treacherous lifeworlds undermine their spatiotemporal senses and initiate quests similar to those described by Anne Buttimer as searches "for order, predictability, and routine, as well as [...] for adventure and change" ("Grasping" 285). Hamlet's revenge plot is a pursuit of order and reclamation of his identity at Elsinore. Desdemona's murder is Othello's attempt to salvage his character, which he believed sullied by infidelity. Alexandria offers Antony a life opposite Rome's and sets him on a course of indecisiveness. These plays demonstrate that, at the point of cultural contact, routines are interrupted and identities destabilize. Tragically, the characters lose themselves in the turmoil.
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Date Issued
2004
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13141
Subject Headings
Human geography, Psychology, Comparative, Cognitive science, Time perception, Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Plays, Intersensory effects
Format
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Unearthing the witch: Diversion and device in Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and Middleton's "The Witch"
Title
Unearthing the witch: Diversion and device in Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and Middleton's "The Witch".
Creator
Hutcheson, Anna Capri., Florida Atlantic University, Low, Jennifer A.
Abstract/Description
Renaissance ideology positioned the witch as deviant and dangerous. Using common cultural perceptions, Shakespeare's and Middleton's dramas help both to define and to produce alternative notions of the witch. Analyzing the function of the witch as cultural icon reveals why the cultural community scapegoated certain women, particularly "wise women." These women were often older and unattached, uncanny in their powers of perception and unruly in their refusal to conform to societal norms. Such...
Show moreRenaissance ideology positioned the witch as deviant and dangerous. Using common cultural perceptions, Shakespeare's and Middleton's dramas help both to define and to produce alternative notions of the witch. Analyzing the function of the witch as cultural icon reveals why the cultural community scapegoated certain women, particularly "wise women." These women were often older and unattached, uncanny in their powers of perception and unruly in their refusal to conform to societal norms. Such women challenged the discourse of power employed by patriarchy. The Tempest requires the reader to read through Prospero's propaganda to examine his motive for vilifying Sycorax. In The Witch, the witch is associated with the "masterless woman" who, in defying masculine authority, inverts the status quo, transgressing established boundaries of acceptable behavior. The witches in both these plays mirror Renaissance mores and belief structures, exposing the hypocrisy behind their civilized facades.
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Date Issued
2002
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12909
Subject Headings
Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Tempest, Witches in literature, Middleton, Thomas,--d 1627--Witch
Format
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Ferdinand’s self-hood: lycanthropy and agency in the Duchess of Malfi
Title
Ferdinand’s self-hood: lycanthropy and agency in the Duchess of Malfi.
Creator
Boyle, Connor, Low, Jennifer A., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
John Webster’s play The Duchess of Malfi subverts early modern hierarchical structures of matter and life by characterizing the human body as fundamentally deceptive and inferior to the animal body. Through close readings of Bosola’s meditations and Ferdinand’s lycanthropy, I consider how Webster constructs animals as simplistic creatures that enjoy a desirable existence, where body and soul are continuous. Within Webster’s play, the dualist conflict between human body and human soul is a...
Show moreJohn Webster’s play The Duchess of Malfi subverts early modern hierarchical structures of matter and life by characterizing the human body as fundamentally deceptive and inferior to the animal body. Through close readings of Bosola’s meditations and Ferdinand’s lycanthropy, I consider how Webster constructs animals as simplistic creatures that enjoy a desirable existence, where body and soul are continuous. Within Webster’s play, the dualist conflict between human body and human soul is a primary subject of discourse. Various human characters see animal existence as preferential, as they view animals as automated creatures that do not suffer the self-consciousness that humans do. This model of animal existence further increases the thematic significance of Ferdinand’s lycanthropy, which I argue is an escape from the discontinuity between the human body and human soul.
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Date Issued
2013
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA0004008
Subject Headings
Demonic possession -- Psychological aspects, English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan -- Criticism and interpretation, Mind and body in literature, Webster, John -- 1580? 1625 -- Criticism and interpretation
Format
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