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- Stan in Prague.
- Creator
- Waldron, Justin., Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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We all use our language as one of our main modes of communication. Stan Klipper, the progatonist of Stan in Prague, found himself in a position where language has failed him, yet with the lack of language, his other senses have also failed him. When Stan was sent to Prague on a vague business trip, he decided to hire a translator to help him close the language gap, which in his case was huge. With his translator, Ihar, and Ihar's girlfriend delha, Stan maneuvers his way through the cramped...
Show moreWe all use our language as one of our main modes of communication. Stan Klipper, the progatonist of Stan in Prague, found himself in a position where language has failed him, yet with the lack of language, his other senses have also failed him. When Stan was sent to Prague on a vague business trip, he decided to hire a translator to help him close the language gap, which in his case was huge. With his translator, Ihar, and Ihar's girlfriend delha, Stan maneuvers his way through the cramped streets of Prague, to open the lands of the Prague suburbs and into his own confusion.
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- 2012
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3359284
- Subject Headings
- Conduct of life, Translating and interpreting, Social aspects, Language and culture, Intercultural communication
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Reimaginging Shakespeare in the Young Adult Contemporary Novel.
- Creator
- Turchin, Jodi Lyn, Stockard, Emily, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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This research focuses on how Young Adult (YA) novelists adapt Shakespeare’s plays to address the concerns of a contemporary teenage audience. Through the qualitative method of content analysis, I examined adaptations of the three most commonly read texts in the high school curriculum: Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Hamlet. The research looked for various patterns in the adaptations and analyzed the choices made by the authors in aligning their texts to or deviating from the original plays. A...
Show moreThis research focuses on how Young Adult (YA) novelists adapt Shakespeare’s plays to address the concerns of a contemporary teenage audience. Through the qualitative method of content analysis, I examined adaptations of the three most commonly read texts in the high school curriculum: Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Hamlet. The research looked for various patterns in the adaptations and analyzed the choices made by the authors in aligning their texts to or deviating from the original plays. A final chapter addresses practical classroom application in using adaptations to teach the plays to high school students.
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- 2017
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004995, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004985
- Subject Headings
- Dissertations, Academic -- Florida Atlantic University, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Adaptations--Fiction., Young adult fiction., Content analysis.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The History of Kakawangwa.
- Creator
- McNair, Kristen., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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Trapped in the hurricane of a changing cultural landscape, the young women of Kakawangwa, Florida must choose to clutch tradition or side with the times. Pearl and Jasmine are two sisters who come of age after being raised by a single mother in a religious household. Whitney, born a hermaphrodite, must determine her gender and sexuality, despite being married to her husband, Joe. Celeste, a college dropout, returns home to Kakawangwa in disgrace. Blackie, who lives life without inhibition,...
Show moreTrapped in the hurricane of a changing cultural landscape, the young women of Kakawangwa, Florida must choose to clutch tradition or side with the times. Pearl and Jasmine are two sisters who come of age after being raised by a single mother in a religious household. Whitney, born a hermaphrodite, must determine her gender and sexuality, despite being married to her husband, Joe. Celeste, a college dropout, returns home to Kakawangwa in disgrace. Blackie, who lives life without inhibition, must cope with the consequences of the choices she makes. Filled with language that is pithy, abrupt, direct, and melodious, The History of Kakawangwa is a narrative that reveals these women as they reconcile the world to themselves.
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- 2012
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3355619
- Subject Headings
- Women in literature, Symbolism in literature, Social aspects
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Coffee, Tea or Ammo.
- Creator
- Cooper, William., Florida Atlantic University, Bucak, Ayse Papatya
- Abstract/Description
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Set during the Vietnam War, Coffee, Tea or Ammo chronicles the adventures of Bob Thomas, from his unsuccessful attempts to dodge the draft, through basic training and advanced individual training, to his service in Vietnam with an army artillery battery. On one level the narrative is impelled by Thomas's attempt to resolve the conflict between his agonistic and irenic impulses. However, the novel also relies on satire, precipitated by the bevy of unnerving characters Thomas encounters, such...
Show moreSet during the Vietnam War, Coffee, Tea or Ammo chronicles the adventures of Bob Thomas, from his unsuccessful attempts to dodge the draft, through basic training and advanced individual training, to his service in Vietnam with an army artillery battery. On one level the narrative is impelled by Thomas's attempt to resolve the conflict between his agonistic and irenic impulses. However, the novel also relies on satire, precipitated by the bevy of unnerving characters Thomas encounters, such as a predatory homosexual drill sergeant, an oversexed lieutenant who frags another officer, a captain who keeps his identity secret from his troops and communicates through written acronyms, a colonel who counts fallen trees as KIAs, and a beleaguered American advisor on the run from an ARVN soldier trying to kill him to save face. Although Thomas's war experience is different from what he anticipated, it has a lasting impact on his life.
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- 2006
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13319
- Subject Headings
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Literature and the conflict, Americans--Vietnam--Fiction, Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Fiction
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Temporary Death.
- Creator
- Vanik, Phyllis Jean, Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University
- Abstract/Description
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In this novel of first person present tense , a family of women responds to death in techniques of memento mori and carpe diem. Whether living for a cause or without one, their journeys cover three continents and five islands where geography is metaphor for the violence, wanderlust, power, love, and need to create that drives thems as they interrogate the controlled demolition of their world, answering it with a return to nomadic lifestyles. Celia is an escape artist, satirizing the world as...
Show moreIn this novel of first person present tense , a family of women responds to death in techniques of memento mori and carpe diem. Whether living for a cause or without one, their journeys cover three continents and five islands where geography is metaphor for the violence, wanderlust, power, love, and need to create that drives thems as they interrogate the controlled demolition of their world, answering it with a return to nomadic lifestyles. Celia is an escape artist, satirizing the world as she wanders through it, putter her own perspective stamp and slant on things, while Taylor wants to be president but leaves mainstream for the slipstream of trauma. Elaine is a cornucopia of inputs, energies, and charges fired up all at once, while Ruth paces her longevity in the flatness of the new world. At the hidden center, Noni attempts to reincarnate herself without dying.
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- 2008
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000973
- Subject Headings
- Symbolism in literature, Death in literature, Aesthetics--Moral and ethical aspects--Fiction, Death and dying--Fiction
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Signs and Wonders.
- Creator
- Bresciano, Cora, Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University
- Abstract/Description
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Bud and Scooter, two teenaged cousins, are making the trip of their young lives in the midst of the Great Depression. Their family friend in rural Florida, Jake Gilchrist, head of a poor family with three small children, has died while visiting his sick mother on Long Island. His wife cannot afford to have his body shipped back by train for burial, so Bud and Scooter volunteer for a goodwill mission and grand adventure: they take Bud's father's pickup truck, drive a thousand miles up US 1,...
Show moreBud and Scooter, two teenaged cousins, are making the trip of their young lives in the midst of the Great Depression. Their family friend in rural Florida, Jake Gilchrist, head of a poor family with three small children, has died while visiting his sick mother on Long Island. His wife cannot afford to have his body shipped back by train for burial, so Bud and Scooter volunteer for a goodwill mission and grand adventure: they take Bud's father's pickup truck, drive a thousand miles up US 1, pick up Jake's body, pack it in ice, and transport it back to Florida. Along the way they meet people (both common and extraordinary), they work out their differences (with words and with fists), they come face-to-face with beauty and goodness as well as with poverty and evil.. .and they get to see the Empire State Building.
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- 2007
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000901
- Subject Headings
- Symbolism in literature., Depressions--1929--Fiction., Literature and society--United States--20th century--Fiction
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Homonorm.
- Creator
- Rachesky, Scott Pierce, Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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“Homonorm” is a collection of short stories that explores the gay male experience and challenges gender expectations. Through an exploration of form and content, each story serves to illuminate different issues in the gay community and in society. Where one story explores the issue of youth obsession with magical realism, the other tells the story of a gay artist’s sexual awakening and struggle with HIV and AIDS through a series of still-life photographs. This eclectic collection serves to...
Show more“Homonorm” is a collection of short stories that explores the gay male experience and challenges gender expectations. Through an exploration of form and content, each story serves to illuminate different issues in the gay community and in society. Where one story explores the issue of youth obsession with magical realism, the other tells the story of a gay artist’s sexual awakening and struggle with HIV and AIDS through a series of still-life photographs. This eclectic collection serves to break the stereotype of gay fiction and undo the gender norms for men through fantastical situations and a-typical forms of fiction to underscore the idea that life and community are varied and so too should be the representations of these two groups.
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- 2017
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004841
- Subject Headings
- Gays' writings, American., Short stories, American., Gender identity--Fiction., Gay men--Fiction., Gays in popular culture., Homosexuality--Social aspects., Stereotypes (Social psychology)--United States.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- “Between my life that is over and my life to come”: Embodying Authorial Ambivalence in Fred D'Aguiar's Feeding the Ghosts (1997).
- Creator
- Gifford, Sheryl C., Machado, Elena, Graduate College
- Date Issued
- 2011-04-08
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3164529
- Subject Headings
- Authorship --Sex differences, Caribbean literature (English) --History and criticism, Caribbean Area --Fiction
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- DECODING DEXTER: AN ANALYSIS OF AMERICA’S FAVORITE SERIAL KILLER.
- Creator
- Burns-Davies, Erin, Caputi, Jane, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Abstract/Description
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In an intersectional feminist analysis of Dexter in both the novels by Jeff Lindsay as well as the Showtime television series, this dissertation will explore the challenging but compelling nature of the serial killer as a pop culture icon, and address themes of gender and sexuality as well as class, ethnicity and regions as they are portrayed in the series. Dexter Morgan, on the Showtime series and in the novels, both exposes popular culture’s problematic identification with the serial killer...
Show moreIn an intersectional feminist analysis of Dexter in both the novels by Jeff Lindsay as well as the Showtime television series, this dissertation will explore the challenging but compelling nature of the serial killer as a pop culture icon, and address themes of gender and sexuality as well as class, ethnicity and regions as they are portrayed in the series. Dexter Morgan, on the Showtime series and in the novels, both exposes popular culture’s problematic identification with the serial killer and solidifies it by being a socially palatable anti-hero.
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- 2019
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013288
- Subject Headings
- Dexter, Crime in popular culture, Antiheroes, Serial murderers--Drama, Serial murderers--Fiction
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- GENDER-BENDING GENRES: QUEERNESS, FEMALE MASCULINITY, AND WARRIORSHIP IN C.L. MOORE’S JIREL OF JOIRY.
- Creator
- Toland, Jacqueline, MacDonald, Ian P., Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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The aim of this thesis is to examine the trailblazing work of C.L. Moore’s Jirel of Joiry in light of themes of queerness, gender, and female masculinity, which has seldom been analyzed. In this thesis, I will juxtapose Moore’s work with other contemporaries like Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Éowyn to highlight Moore’s trailblazing gendered portrayal. This thesis utilizes Judith Butler’s Undoing Gender and Jack Halberstam’s Female Masculinity as lenses to codify...
Show moreThe aim of this thesis is to examine the trailblazing work of C.L. Moore’s Jirel of Joiry in light of themes of queerness, gender, and female masculinity, which has seldom been analyzed. In this thesis, I will juxtapose Moore’s work with other contemporaries like Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Éowyn to highlight Moore’s trailblazing gendered portrayal. This thesis utilizes Judith Butler’s Undoing Gender and Jack Halberstam’s Female Masculinity as lenses to codify the uniquely gendered portrayal that Moore has left for us to interpret. Furthermore, through examining Jacques Lacan’s interpretation of phallocentricity, this thesis will argue that the art of being a warrior (or warriorship) should be a non-binary conception.
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- 2020
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013575
- Subject Headings
- Moore, C L, Gender & genre in literature, Fiction--Criticism and interpretation
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Mornings in the Athens of America: stories.
- Creator
- Gersie, Katrina, Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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The eleven short stories in this collection can be described as autobiographical fiction, combining true instances from the author’s life with fictional characters and events. The stories explore the themes of grief and loss, coming of age, and the importance of preserving the natural world.
- Date Issued
- 2015
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004372, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004372
- Subject Headings
- Autobiographical fiction, Short stories, American, Identity (Psychology) in literature, Self in literature
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Tomorrow is yesterday: protoscience from the medieval manuscript to the golden age of science-fiction.
- Creator
- Leivers, Robert James., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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Protosciences, or new sciences trying to establish their legitimacy, are ubiquitous in literature. In the old stories we hear of alchemists who can only dream of the discoveries that modern chemists take for granted, and in the new stories we hear of travelers moving faster than light as our greatest physicists attempt to make that fantasy a reality. Limiting our viewpoint to the modern scientific reductionist view of the universe not only makes little sense if we consider Michael Polanyi's...
Show moreProtosciences, or new sciences trying to establish their legitimacy, are ubiquitous in literature. In the old stories we hear of alchemists who can only dream of the discoveries that modern chemists take for granted, and in the new stories we hear of travelers moving faster than light as our greatest physicists attempt to make that fantasy a reality. Limiting our viewpoint to the modern scientific reductionist view of the universe not only makes little sense if we consider Michael Polanyi's theories of emergence and 'personal knowledge', but it robs medieval scholars for the conceptual credit they are due for theories they could not satisfactorily explain by the future's standards, and stifles the sorts of fantastic possibilities that are opened by the great science-fiction authors. Medieval authors' expositions of protoscientific thought laid the ground work for our own modern disciplines, and by reexamining how this happened we can develop a new appreciation for the power of the imagination.
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- 2013
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3362480
- Subject Headings
- Science fiction, History and criticism, Literature and society, Science, Renaissance, Philosophy, Medieval, Influence, Science and civilization
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- “THE TROUBLE BEGAN LONG BEFORE”: THE POST-APOCALYPTIC PRESENT OF OCTAVIA BUTLER’S KINDRED.
- Creator
- Moskal, Christopher R., MacDonald, Ian, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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The aim of this thesis is to examine Octavia Butler’s novel Kindred as a work of post-apocalyptic literature that uses American slavery as its apocalyptic event. I will argue that Kindred critiques the use of linear time and the narratives of progress that are commonplace within the science fiction genre by focusing on an apocalypse from America’s historical past, instead of creating an apocalypse in an imagined future. To do this, I will examine how the novel challenges the reader’s...
Show moreThe aim of this thesis is to examine Octavia Butler’s novel Kindred as a work of post-apocalyptic literature that uses American slavery as its apocalyptic event. I will argue that Kindred critiques the use of linear time and the narratives of progress that are commonplace within the science fiction genre by focusing on an apocalypse from America’s historical past, instead of creating an apocalypse in an imagined future. To do this, I will examine how the novel challenges the reader’s understanding of time and history alongside another work of post-apocalyptic literature, Walter M. Miller Jr’s novel A Canticle for Leibowitz. I will also utilize apocalyptic theory to argue that Kindred should be considered a post-apocalyptic novel, and by comparing it to Butler’s other works of apocalyptic fiction. Ultimately, Kindred expands the possibilities of postapocalyptic fiction by demonstrating that we are already living in a post-apocalyptic reality.
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- 2021
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013763
- Subject Headings
- Butler, Octavia E. Kindred, Apocalyptic fiction, Butler, Octavia E.--Criticism and interpretation
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- "Strange Snow" and other stories.
- Creator
- DeJong, Laura Quinlan, Florida Atlantic University, Bucak, Ayse Papatya
- 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.
- Date Issued
- 2005
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13293
- Subject Headings
- Symbolism in literature, Fiction--Technique, Weather--Literary collections, Short stories--Collections
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Stormland.
- Creator
- Ferguson, Adam, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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The narrative within this thesis follows events that transpire within a working class neighborhood over the span of three decades. The time and place in which these events occur, South Florida 1979-1989, lends itself to exploring themes such as race, class, addiction, the fragmentation of community, and the effects of these issues on the families that live there. Stylistically, the story makes three significant shifts in order to foreground each decade's dissimilarity. These shifts...
Show moreThe narrative within this thesis follows events that transpire within a working class neighborhood over the span of three decades. The time and place in which these events occur, South Florida 1979-1989, lends itself to exploring themes such as race, class, addiction, the fragmentation of community, and the effects of these issues on the families that live there. Stylistically, the story makes three significant shifts in order to foreground each decade's dissimilarity. These shifts intentionally disrupt reader expectation while a coherent narrative thread unifies the work, rendering it fragmented yet complete.
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- 2011
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3353088
- Subject Headings
- Symbolism in literature
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Out of the ever after and other stories.
- Creator
- Amadori-Segree, Claudia., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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Out of the Ever After and Other Stories is a collection of language-driven stories set in different parts of the world and thematically linked, comprising realist narratives and magical realism. The trope that unifies this collection is that of the journey. The characters go on journeys, whether real or metaphorical. Many are lost at the beginning, but they find themselves in the end; others remain lost, but have a better understanding of their condition in the world. Although diverse in...
Show moreOut of the Ever After and Other Stories is a collection of language-driven stories set in different parts of the world and thematically linked, comprising realist narratives and magical realism. The trope that unifies this collection is that of the journey. The characters go on journeys, whether real or metaphorical. Many are lost at the beginning, but they find themselves in the end; others remain lost, but have a better understanding of their condition in the world. Although diverse in nationality, cultural background and gender, the characters in the eight stories share the need to find a lasting identity and a home-place to return to, whether physically or psychologically. The collection alternates magical and realist plots, male and female narrators, points of view, and diverse settings to create variety and a multicultural, hybrid and hyphenated experience. Some stories experiment with language; others have a more traditional mood, akin to fairytales.
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- 2008
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/77641
- Subject Headings
- Short stories, Collections, Short stories, Criticism and interpretation, Symbolism in literature, Fiction, Technique
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- THE CHINESE BANDIT NOVEL AND THE AMERICAN GANGSTER FILM: A THEORETICAL MODEL FOR CROSSCULTURAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY TEACHING.
- Creator
- BARTELL, SHIRLEY MILLER, Florida Atlantic University
- Abstract/Description
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The problem of this study was to provide a theoretical model for crosscultural and interdisciplinary teaching in the humanities to help lead students toward a greater understanding and appreciation of cultures different from their own and to help lessen potential conflicts based upon such differences. Intended for teachers of community college students, the theoretical model might be useful in teaching in four-year institutions. It was designed to allow students to examine together the...
Show moreThe problem of this study was to provide a theoretical model for crosscultural and interdisciplinary teaching in the humanities to help lead students toward a greater understanding and appreciation of cultures different from their own and to help lessen potential conflicts based upon such differences. Intended for teachers of community college students, the theoretical model might be useful in teaching in four-year institutions. It was designed to allow students to examine together the content from several disciplines in the humanities in terms of being representative of differing cultures. The pilot model for the theoretical model was a comparative study of the Chinese bandit novel and the American gangster film, chosen as representing two extremes in cultural polarity and found to share a number of parallels. It was assumed that if these two very unlike cultures produced art forms sharing this number of similarities, it should be possible to find similarities between the culture elements of cultures generally considered less different from one another than these two. The method of developing instructional procedures and techniques in utilizing the theoretical model was demonstrated by use of the content of other disciplines chosen to represent other cultures. It was concluded that the theoretical model can be applied in teaching in the humanities. It is hoped that more studies of this kind can help in resolving potential cultural conflicts.
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- 1976
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/11676
- Subject Headings
- Multicultural education, Chinese fiction--Song dynasty, 960-1279--History and criticism, Gangster films
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Theorizing the Goddess in Feminist Mythopoeic Fantasy.
- Creator
- Taylor, Taryne Jade, Martin, Thomas L., Florida Atlantic University
- Abstract/Description
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In my thesis, I examine the function and treatment of goddesses in six modern feminist mythopoeic fantasy novels by Y olen, Shinn, and Harris. In these novels, the goddesses and their worshippers serve as the agents of socio-political change within the secondary world, inducing changes that end with the ultimate transformation of oppressive social structures. Acknowledging these goddesses and incorporating them into the fabric of communal life, the protagonists, and ultimately entire...
Show moreIn my thesis, I examine the function and treatment of goddesses in six modern feminist mythopoeic fantasy novels by Y olen, Shinn, and Harris. In these novels, the goddesses and their worshippers serve as the agents of socio-political change within the secondary world, inducing changes that end with the ultimate transformation of oppressive social structures. Acknowledging these goddesses and incorporating them into the fabric of communal life, the protagonists, and ultimately entire societies, are able transcend issues of gender, race, ethnicity, class, and religion, in order to create a peaceful and prosperous society. These novels work through many of the issues troubling modern day feminist theorists and make important contributions to the discourse of feminist spirituality and feminist theory as a whole. Extrapolating both a theory and praxis from the texture of these fantasy narratives, I suggest that these stories offer a way to transcend dichotomous thinking and escape the current stagnation of spirituality based approaches to feminism.
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- 2008
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000968
- Subject Headings
- Myth in literature, Feminism in literature, Fantasy fiction, American--Criticism and interpretation, Spirituality in literature
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Literatura "gauchista": La denuncia social de Benito Lynch en "Los caranchos de La Florida" y "El ingles de los guesos".
- Creator
- Ghiragossian, Maria Alejandra., Florida Atlantic University, Horswell, Michael J.
- Abstract/Description
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At the beginning of the 20th century, literary criollism emerged as Latin American nations struggled to achieve national unity and to differentiate themselves from Europe. In Argentina, the "gaucho" was the most autochthonous symbol to be used by the criollists. This thesis examines how two novels, Los caranchos de La Florida and El ingles de los guesos by the Argentinean writer Benito Lynch, in opposition to the exotic version introduced by his contemporaries such as Ricardo Guiraldes,...
Show moreAt the beginning of the 20th century, literary criollism emerged as Latin American nations struggled to achieve national unity and to differentiate themselves from Europe. In Argentina, the "gaucho" was the most autochthonous symbol to be used by the criollists. This thesis examines how two novels, Los caranchos de La Florida and El ingles de los guesos by the Argentinean writer Benito Lynch, in opposition to the exotic version introduced by his contemporaries such as Ricardo Guiraldes, denounce the real situation of the gaucho. The gauchos became the subject of abuse by the landowners and were forgotten by the nation, which excluded them from the national project of unification. I introduce the term "gauchista" literature, analogous to the "indigenista" movement, to characterize Lynch's voice of protest and vindication of the gaucho and his right to education and dignity.
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- 2005
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13249
- Subject Headings
- Lynch, Benito,--1880-1951., Spanish American fiction--20th century., Group identity in literature., Gauchos.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Masks.
- Creator
- Leen, Carmel Codd., Florida Atlantic University, Bucak, Ayse Papatya
- Abstract/Description
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The story of an Irish grandfather, Brendan Doran, covers the period 1918 through 1966; the story of his granddaughter, Maisie Doyle covers the summer of her seventeenth year. Brendan's perceptions are given in the first person viewpoint; Maisie's in the third-person viewpoint. A faithful following is given of Brendan's vernacular in young manhood; then, as he grows in sophisticated use of language his first-person narration reflects this. Both stories trace the psychological development of...
Show moreThe story of an Irish grandfather, Brendan Doran, covers the period 1918 through 1966; the story of his granddaughter, Maisie Doyle covers the summer of her seventeenth year. Brendan's perceptions are given in the first person viewpoint; Maisie's in the third-person viewpoint. A faithful following is given of Brendan's vernacular in young manhood; then, as he grows in sophisticated use of language his first-person narration reflects this. Both stories trace the psychological development of the two, leading to questions regarding the similarities and the differences between the romantic dreams of a young man and a young woman. An omniscient narrator is the narrative voice for an overview of family history, with emphasis on the family dwelling and land, Bloomlands, and on the story of Maisie's mother and father, Essie and Eddie Doran.
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- 2006
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13330
- Subject Headings
- Symbolism in literature, Ireland--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction
- Format
- Document (PDF)
