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Title: Evelyn Waugh and the Jews.
Creator: Bittner, David Jonathan, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: The anti-Semitism of Evelyn Waugh went beyond mere literary characterization. A study of Waugh's attitudes toward Nazism, Zionism, and World War II provides evidence that the Jewish characterizations in Waugh's work were underlined by stable and settled negative convictions regarding the Jewish people. Waugh's anti-Semitism had surprisingly little to do with Christian religious teaching but may almost entirely be attributed to upper-class British snobbism and his view that Jews were agents of...
Show moreThe anti-Semitism of Evelyn Waugh went beyond mere literary characterization. A study of Waugh's attitudes toward Nazism, Zionism, and World War II provides evidence that the Jewish characterizations in Waugh's work were underlined by stable and settled negative convictions regarding the Jewish people. Waugh's anti-Semitism had surprisingly little to do with Christian religious teaching but may almost entirely be attributed to upper-class British snobbism and his view that Jews were agents of capitalism, democracy, and secularism. Before the Holocaust Waugh gave his anti-Semitism free and unrestrained rein in his novels. After the Holocaust Waugh tried to blunt anti-Semitism in his novels, but the anti-Semitic outlook was so ingrained in him that he was not entirely successful. There are ample signs of old prejudices at play in his post-war writings. Waugh also denied many of his Jewish characters an authentic Jewish voice.
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Date Issued: 1989
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14504
Subject Headings: Religion, General, Literature, English, Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies
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Title: The poetics of the affective-expressive in the novels of Chinua Achebe.
Creator: Brown-McDonald, Patricia Rena., Florida Atlantic University, Lewis, Krishnakali
Abstract/Description: Chinua Achebe is one of Africa's most renowned writers. However, the excellence of his work is compromised by the assumptions of Western poetics, that is, mimesis. European critics contend African writing suffers from the prevalent use of proverbs, and obtrusive authorship, among others. But, Earl Miner, through his discourse on the poetics of the affective-expressive, challenges mimesis. He shows that only Western poetics is rooted in drama, all others are rooted in lyric. This fact reverses...
Show moreChinua Achebe is one of Africa's most renowned writers. However, the excellence of his work is compromised by the assumptions of Western poetics, that is, mimesis. European critics contend African writing suffers from the prevalent use of proverbs, and obtrusive authorship, among others. But, Earl Miner, through his discourse on the poetics of the affective-expressive, challenges mimesis. He shows that only Western poetics is rooted in drama, all others are rooted in lyric. This fact reverses the table. African writing, rather than being an oddity, represents a global poetics. Miner shows new ways of analyzing literature by incorporating monogatari, re-evaluating the relationship between history and fiction, looking at points of attention, and examining a lyrical poetics. By taking another look at Achebe's work, particularly Things and Fall Apart and Anthills of the Savannah in the affective-expressive mode, Achebe's real genius as a writer is all the more evident.
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Date Issued: 1998
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15526
Subject Headings: Achebe, Chinua--Criticism and interpretation, Poetics, African literature (English)
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Title: Head Lines of the Extra Ordinary: Collisions and Miracles.
Creator: Wright, Kathrine Leone, Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: "Head Lines of the Extra Ordinary: Collisions and Miracles" is a language-driven 15-story fiction collection that experiments with intertwining the traditions of oral and written storytelling. Within these stories, ordinary people step up to the extraordinary because of an unusual occurrence that requires a moment of change. Several of the stories within the collection take their premise from actual news headlines. To lend cohesion to the collection, multiple stories contain one or more...
Show more"Head Lines of the Extra Ordinary: Collisions and Miracles" is a language-driven 15-story fiction collection that experiments with intertwining the traditions of oral and written storytelling. Within these stories, ordinary people step up to the extraordinary because of an unusual occurrence that requires a moment of change. Several of the stories within the collection take their premise from actual news headlines. To lend cohesion to the collection, multiple stories contain one or more reappearing characters.
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Date Issued: 2007
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00001000
Subject Headings: Oral tradition in literature, Storytelling, English language--Rhetoric, Written communication in literature
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Title: Grendles Modor: Representation in a linguistic landscape.
Creator: Ciufo, Patience Corinne., Florida Atlantic University, Faraci, Mary
Abstract/Description: Beowulf has inspired readers and listeners since the eighth century, first as a performance then as a written poem. It is an epic tale of Anglo-Saxon warriors, life, and history. Recently, studies of Beowulf have introduced questions of twentieth-century gender stereotypes that provide a new understanding of the epic's characters and themes. However, these studies have delivered too simple a reading of complex characters like Grendel's mother and have led scholarship away from the poem. To...
Show moreBeowulf has inspired readers and listeners since the eighth century, first as a performance then as a written poem. It is an epic tale of Anglo-Saxon warriors, life, and history. Recently, studies of Beowulf have introduced questions of twentieth-century gender stereotypes that provide a new understanding of the epic's characters and themes. However, these studies have delivered too simple a reading of complex characters like Grendel's mother and have led scholarship away from the poem. To bring critics back to the poem, this study attempts to make the poem a landscape. When the total landscape, the language, style, alliteration, and violence (physical and emotional), is studied, the poem is opened up to more than just simple readings. In a landscape reading, Grendel's mother becomes a force strong enough to disrupt the structure of the language and to battle the barriers between female and male, warrior and monster, and pagan and nonpagan. A landscape that is as violent as the characters is discovered, one in which all life is celebrated.
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Date Issued: 1998
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15542
Subject Headings: Beowulf--Characters, English poetry--Old English, ca 450-1100--History and criticism, Stereotype (Psychology) in literature, Sex role in literature
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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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Title: The philosophy of the animal in 20th century literature.
Creator: Johnson, Jamie, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: The following dissertation examines the philosophy of the animal as it appears in twentieth-century British and American literature. I argue that evolutionary theory, along with the Romantic emphasis on sympathy, creates an historical shift in our perception of humans and nonhumans. Beginning with Herman Melville's classic novel, Moby-Dick, the whale represents what I call a transitional animal figure in that the whale not only shows the traditionally symbolic literary animal but also the...
Show moreThe following dissertation examines the philosophy of the animal as it appears in twentieth-century British and American literature. I argue that evolutionary theory, along with the Romantic emphasis on sympathy, creates an historical shift in our perception of humans and nonhumans. Beginning with Herman Melville's classic novel, Moby-Dick, the whale represents what I call a transitional animal figure in that the whale not only shows the traditionally symbolic literary animal but also the beginnings of the twentieth century shift toward the literal animal-as-subject. My proposed comparative analysis consists of a return to classic existential and phenomenological philosophers with animal studies in mind. A handful of critical essays in recent years have conducted just such an analysis. My contribution extends these philosophical endeavors on the animal and applies them to major literary authors who demonstrate a notable interest in the philosophy of animals. The first chapter of the dissertation begins with D.H. Lawrence, whose writings in selected essays, St. Mawr, and "The Fox" continue considerations made by Melville concerning animal being. Because Lawrence often focuses on gender, sexuality, and intuition, I discuss how a Heideggerian reading of animals in Lawrence adds value to interpretations of his fiction which remain unavailable in analyses of human subjects. In Chapter Two, I move on to William Faulkner's classic hunting tale of "The Bear" and other significant animal sightings in his fiction and nonfiction. For Faulkner, the animal subject exists in the author's particular historical climate of American environmentalism, modernism's literary emphasis on visuality, and race theory., This combination calls for a natural progression from a Heideggerian existential phenomenology: a contemporary Sartrean reading of animal being. Finally, the last chapter examines J.M. Coetzee, an author whose texts show the accumulated existential and phenomenological progression in the philosophy of the animal with a combined interest in current political and social issues surrounding animal life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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Date Issued: 2009
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/192984
Subject Headings: Symbolism in literature, Animals (Philosophy), Human-animal relationships in literature, Animals in literature, American prose literature, Criticism and interpretation, English prose literature, Criticism and interpretation
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Title: Creating a Religious Divide: Journeys Through Hell in British and American Science Fiction.
Creator: Sachdev, Advitiya, McGuirk, Carol, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Science fiction, like any other genre, is sub-divided into categories. Yet scholars in the field have long debated the existence of multiple, regional sf genres. The most critiqued of these classifications is between sf produced in Britain, and America. Though Britain remains the birthplace of sf, American author have undoubtedly left a mark on the genre. Scholars mark this difference in the writing styles and themes of authors in these regions. To examine this difference, I analyze two...
Show moreScience fiction, like any other genre, is sub-divided into categories. Yet scholars in the field have long debated the existence of multiple, regional sf genres. The most critiqued of these classifications is between sf produced in Britain, and America. Though Britain remains the birthplace of sf, American author have undoubtedly left a mark on the genre. Scholars mark this difference in the writing styles and themes of authors in these regions. To examine this difference, I analyze two authors that have worked on a common theme: religion and in particular, the concept of hell. Evaluating the arguments put forth by critics such as Peter Kuczka, Cy Chavin, Franz Rottensteiner, and others; I examine works by Scottish author Iain m. Banks, and American author Cordwainer Smith to determine the validity of this classification.
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Date Issued: 2016
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004785, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004785
Subject Headings: Science fiction--Religious aspects., Religion and literature--English-speaking countries., Science fiction, English--History and criticism., Science fiction, American--History and criticism., Fantasy fiction, English--History and criticism., Fantasy fiction, American--History and criticism.
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Title: Goethe and Wordsworth: A comparative analysis.
Creator: St. Pierre, Karin Lynn., Florida Atlantic University, Mulvaney, Becky
Abstract/Description: Although Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe and William Wordsworth had no personal contact, and, in fact, were adversaries, several parallel passages show correspondences between the two artists. An examination of Faust and The Excursion reveals a strikingly similar attitude toward nature. A comparison of Faust and "Resolution and Independence" shows several significant resemblances: unusual verse measures, the use of personification, the bestowal of natural landscapes with consciousness, and the...
Show moreAlthough Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe and William Wordsworth had no personal contact, and, in fact, were adversaries, several parallel passages show correspondences between the two artists. An examination of Faust and The Excursion reveals a strikingly similar attitude toward nature. A comparison of Faust and "Resolution and Independence" shows several significant resemblances: unusual verse measures, the use of personification, the bestowal of natural landscapes with consciousness, and the presence of images which suggest fluctuation and development. Finally, a close reading of Faust and the The Prelude reveals similar motifs such as veils, waterfalls, and mirrors; also common in both works is a satiric denunciation of scholarly learning. These parallels prove that incompatible poetic minds, without influencing each other directly, can share fundamental images, thoughts, and diction.
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Date Issued: 1988
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14480
Subject Headings: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,--1749-1832--Criticism and interpretation, Wordsworth, William,--1770-1850--Criticism and interpretation, Literature, Comparative--English and German, Literature, Comparative--German and English
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Title: Ecoqueer: Moving Beyond Ecocomposition's Heteronormative Binaries.
Creator: Hoover, Megan L., Barrios, Barclay, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: An examination of ecocomposition reveals that despite being careful to embrace all humans, it is still operating from a heterononnative standpoint. This perspective has led to an exclusion of gay male writers from its place-based approach to the study of the production of writing. By including the work of gay nature writer James Schuyler, the boundaries of ecocomposition are expanded to include yet another way of moving beyond restrictive cultural dualisms. Schuyler's work shows that...
Show moreAn examination of ecocomposition reveals that despite being careful to embrace all humans, it is still operating from a heterononnative standpoint. This perspective has led to an exclusion of gay male writers from its place-based approach to the study of the production of writing. By including the work of gay nature writer James Schuyler, the boundaries of ecocomposition are expanded to include yet another way of moving beyond restrictive cultural dualisms. Schuyler's work shows that definitions of masculinity need to be expanded to include gay males, and also highlights how sexual identity and setting interact to produce various interpretations of the self in one's writing. An expansion of ecocomposition results in a truly liberatory theory and pedagogy, one that encourages interactions that promote of all kinds of writing by all kinds of writers.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000929
Subject Headings: Human ecology in literature, Literature, Modern--Criticism and interpretation, Environmental literature--Authorship--21st century, Homosexuality and literature--United States, English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--Social aspects--United States
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Title: And yet: studio sulla traduzione di alcuni “appunti” epigrammatici di sandro penna.
Creator: Scalzo, Zachary J., Ruthenberg, Myriam Swennen, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Lingustics and Comparative Literature
Abstract/Description: Sandro Penna, an understudied Italian poet whose literary corpus is produced during the end period and eventual fall of Italian fascism, writes Appunti, the second volume of his major poetic corpus, from 1938-49. In it, he explicates a poetic of an unapologetic, open homoeroticism that allows one to examine the obstacles a translator faces in considering how one can remain faithful to the original poems and the identity the poet creates. Keeping in mind theoretical influences informing the...
Show moreSandro Penna, an understudied Italian poet whose literary corpus is produced during the end period and eventual fall of Italian fascism, writes Appunti, the second volume of his major poetic corpus, from 1938-49. In it, he explicates a poetic of an unapologetic, open homoeroticism that allows one to examine the obstacles a translator faces in considering how one can remain faithful to the original poems and the identity the poet creates. Keeping in mind theoretical influences informing the creation and translation of poetry and the political choices inherent therein, my translations of these poems mediate the content and form in the target text to maintain the importance of the context in which the originals are written. This thesis and these translations aim to reexamine the importance of Penna as a poet, address the importance of translation in the establishment of foreign poets, and develop a new perspective in Translation Studies that considers the interdisciplinary applications of Gender and Sexuality Studies.
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Date Issued: 2014
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004158, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004158
Subject Headings: Homosexuality in literature, Intimacy (Psychology) in literature, Penna, Sandro -- Appunti -- Criticism and interpretation, Poetry, Italian -- 20th century -- Translations into English
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Title: The "mental crisis" of John Stuart Mill: The destruction of a mechanical consciousness.
Creator: Dhuwalia, Raj Kumar., Florida Atlantic University, Buckton, Oliver
Abstract/Description: In Chapter Five of his Autobiography, John Stuart Mill discusses a "mental crisis" which struck in 1826 and lingered for some time. Mill addresses one causative element of this crisis, a perception of himself at twenty as a "mechanical man." Yet these much-quoted words understate a greater point. I shall argue that Mill's crisis was the destruction of an almost purely mechanical consciousness, or at least a strike at his foundations of a breadth and severity that has not been fully addressed...
Show moreIn Chapter Five of his Autobiography, John Stuart Mill discusses a "mental crisis" which struck in 1826 and lingered for some time. Mill addresses one causative element of this crisis, a perception of himself at twenty as a "mechanical man." Yet these much-quoted words understate a greater point. I shall argue that Mill's crisis was the destruction of an almost purely mechanical consciousness, or at least a strike at his foundations of a breadth and severity that has not been fully addressed by Mill scholarship. I shall consider various aspects of Mill's life and thought before and after the crisis as a means of identifying the nature of this fundamental change in Mill. These aspects of Mill's thought include philosophy, economics, epistemology, poetry, and politics, and these aspects of Mill's life include education, his relationship with his father and Bentham, his early activism, his influences, and his perceptions of man and society.
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Date Issued: 1996
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15319
Subject Headings: Mill, John Stuart,--1806-1873--Autobiography, Consciousness in literature, Philosophy in literature, Authors, English--19th century--Biography--History and criticism
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Title: "Fore-conceit," autonomy, and Sidney's view of mimesis.
Creator: Lewis, Steven Michael., Florida Atlantic University, Collins, Robert A.
Abstract/Description: In Sidney's conception of mimesis, a pyramid of autonomy exists with God as the ultimate artificer, and the succeeding levels peopled with human artificers, then fictional artificers. The autonomous character of each descending artificer connects one to the power of the heavenly maker. Sidney's use of mimesis argues for cognizance of our innate capacities, for which we are grateful solely to God. In creating the characters of The Old Arcadia, Sidney first endows them with the capacity for ...
Show moreIn Sidney's conception of mimesis, a pyramid of autonomy exists with God as the ultimate artificer, and the succeeding levels peopled with human artificers, then fictional artificers. The autonomous character of each descending artificer connects one to the power of the heavenly maker. Sidney's use of mimesis argues for cognizance of our innate capacities, for which we are grateful solely to God. In creating the characters of The Old Arcadia, Sidney first endows them with the capacity for "fore-conceit," a necessary corollary to Free will, the essential aspect of man's condition as Sidney conceived it. By emphasizing the artificer/artifact relationship on successive levels, Sidney implies the focal importance of the creative process. Because Sidney's artifacts are constructed in the image of their maker, despite the limitations of an "infected will," they are also artificers themselves, at least insofar as they approach a true mimesis of the nature of man.
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Date Issued: 1995
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15171
Subject Headings: Sidney, Philip,--1554-1586--Arcadia, Sidney, Philip,--1554-1586--Criticism and interpretation, Mimesis in literature, English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism
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Title: Atrave(s) and fronte(i)ras: la traducciâon del Portuguâes al Espaînol de la novella Brasilîena Adeus, Rio Doce.
Creator: Bandeira de Mello, Clarisse., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
Abstract/Description: The translation of Geny Vilas-Novas' novel Adeus, Rio Doce emphasizes the importance of promoting a literary exchange between Brazil and the Spanish-speaking world. This study analyses contemporary Brazilian literature and situates the author in the post-modern literary movement, stressing two post-colonial fundamental themes: emigration and feminine literature. Millions of undocumented emigrants from Latin America live nowadays in the United States displaced in the American society and leave...
Show moreThe translation of Geny Vilas-Novas' novel Adeus, Rio Doce emphasizes the importance of promoting a literary exchange between Brazil and the Spanish-speaking world. This study analyses contemporary Brazilian literature and situates the author in the post-modern literary movement, stressing two post-colonial fundamental themes: emigration and feminine literature. Millions of undocumented emigrants from Latin America live nowadays in the United States displaced in the American society and leave suffering family members abandoned in their native countries. One of the roles of Latin- American women writers like Vilas-Novas is to reveal and denounce the subaltern conditions of this emigration movement in the globalization process, under the unusual perspective of those left behind. The linguistic and semantic challenges and difficulties faced during translation are a metaphor for the crossing of linguistic, cultural, social, and historical borders by Latin-Americans in search of better life opportunities.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/186336
Subject Headings: Brazilian fiction, Translations into English, Brazilian literature, Criticism and interpretation, Postmodernism (Literature), Feminism and literature, Criticism and interpretation
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Title: (In)visible dimensions of identity in Virginia Woolf.
Creator: Hunter, Leeann D., Florida Atlantic University, Sheehan, Thomas
Abstract/Description: This study of three novels by Virginia Woolf---Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves---examines the various narrative techniques Woolf employs to construct her concept of character in the modernist novel, and also considers her related assumptions about the multiple dimensions of identity. As Woolf questions whether life and reality are "very solid or very shifting," she generates a series of framing devices---such as mirrors, portraits, dinner parties, and narratives---that...
Show moreThis study of three novels by Virginia Woolf---Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves---examines the various narrative techniques Woolf employs to construct her concept of character in the modernist novel, and also considers her related assumptions about the multiple dimensions of identity. As Woolf questions whether life and reality are "very solid or very shifting," she generates a series of framing devices---such as mirrors, portraits, dinner parties, and narratives---that acknowledge a solid, visible, and structured reality within the frame amidst a shifting, invisible, and unstructured reality outside it. Woolf's attention to the operation of the frame as simultaneously facing inward and outward enables her to umbrella this contradistinction of elements in her expression of identity. This analysis of Woolf's orchestration of multiple framed perspectives and images evidences her visionary contributions to studies in narrative and human character.
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Date Issued: 2004
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13165
Subject Headings: Modernism (Literature), Woolf, Virginia,--1882-1941--Philosophy, Knowledge, Theory of, in literature, English literature--20th century--History and criticism, Woolf, Virginia,--1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation
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Title: The malignant intimacy: Doubles, atheists, and orphans in "Frankenstein Unbound".
Creator: Clarry, Stuart, III., Florida Atlantic University, Collins, Robert A.
Abstract/Description: Brian Aldiss's Frankenstein Unbound is both a tribute to and exegesis of Mary Shelley's novel. The central figure, Joseph Bodenland, the 'everyman' of modern technological society, emerges as a composite of Victor Frankenstein and the Creature; he is the pivotal character through whom Aldiss revises and reinterprets Shelley's themes. Bodenland's role as a double reveals how Aldiss has updated Shelley's biographically inspired atheism and psychological orphanhood. As an atheist, Bodenland...
Show moreBrian Aldiss's Frankenstein Unbound is both a tribute to and exegesis of Mary Shelley's novel. The central figure, Joseph Bodenland, the 'everyman' of modern technological society, emerges as a composite of Victor Frankenstein and the Creature; he is the pivotal character through whom Aldiss revises and reinterprets Shelley's themes. Bodenland's role as a double reveals how Aldiss has updated Shelley's biographically inspired atheism and psychological orphanhood. As an atheist, Bodenland symbolizes technology and modern society's increasing separation from faith and God. Bodenland's sense of orphanhood suggests humanity's separation from the natural world, and by extension, the loss of individual identity in a technological, scientific world. Bodenland's status as the last man on Earth symbolizes Aldiss's concern that modern society has not been responsible for its actions.
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Date Issued: 1997
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15414
Subject Headings: Aldiss, Brian W--(Brian Wilson),--1925---Criticism and interpretation, Aldiss, Brian W--(Brian Wilson),--1925---Frankenstein unbound, Horror tales, English--History and criticism, Doubles in literature, Atheism in literature, Orphans in literature
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Title: Multicultural education and high school English teachers: a teacher awareness study.
Creator: Hamilton, Rebecca, Weber, Roberta K., Florida Atlantic University, College of Education, Department of Curriculum, Culture, and Educational Inquiry
Abstract/Description: Multicultural education has been mandated in the state of Florida as part of State Mandate 1003.42. In order for this mandate to be implemented, it is necessary for teachers to know what effective multicultural education is and how it is to be implemented. This study was designed to find out what English teachers know about the state mandate and multicultural education and how they use multicultural education in their classrooms. High school English teachers in one South Florida school...
Show moreMulticultural education has been mandated in the state of Florida as part of State Mandate 1003.42. In order for this mandate to be implemented, it is necessary for teachers to know what effective multicultural education is and how it is to be implemented. This study was designed to find out what English teachers know about the state mandate and multicultural education and how they use multicultural education in their classrooms. High school English teachers in one South Florida school district participated in an online survey, and 11 of those respondents also participated in a follow-up personal interview. According to multiple scholars, there are three categories for multicultural education: Recognition, Transformation, and Action, with Recognition serving to recognize and respect other cultures without any change to the mainstream curriculum and instruction, Transformation serving to transform the curriculum and instruction to reflect students and their various cultures while introducing them to others and meeting the various instructional needs of the students, and Action motivating students to take action to bring about social justice. Overall, high school English teachers’ understanding of effective multicultural education is on the Transformation level. The survey found that high school English teachers use multicultural education on the Action level; however, the follow-up interviews did not support that finding. Also based on the interviews, teachers are willing and eager to learn more and would like the district to implement their suggestions to help with their learning.
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Date Issued: 2015
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004376, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004376
Subject Headings: Cultural pluralism, Curriculum planning, Educational equalization, English language -- Study and teaching (Secondary), English literature -- Study and teaching (Secondary), Ethnicity -- Study and teaching, Multicultural education -- Case studies, Teachers, Training of
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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
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Title: Against the grain: Female detectives and "lawyers in petticoats" in the fiction of Wilkie Collins.
Creator: Fein, Audrey Caming., Florida Atlantic University, Buckton, Oliver
Abstract/Description: Wilkie Collins (1824--1889) changed the direction of English fiction during his lifetime and created the prototype for a new and lasting genre. "The Diary of Anne Rodway," The Dead Secret, The Woman in White, No Name, and The Law and the Lady all exemplify his skill in crafting tales of mystery and detection, and feature women as detectives. He was one of the most feminist of Victorian writers in his portrayal of women as intelligent, assertive and resourceful, as well as in his attacks on...
Show moreWilkie Collins (1824--1889) changed the direction of English fiction during his lifetime and created the prototype for a new and lasting genre. "The Diary of Anne Rodway," The Dead Secret, The Woman in White, No Name, and The Law and the Lady all exemplify his skill in crafting tales of mystery and detection, and feature women as detectives. He was one of the most feminist of Victorian writers in his portrayal of women as intelligent, assertive and resourceful, as well as in his attacks on gender and class prejudices. His innovative plot devices established him as the founder of English detective fiction. Collins's interest in social and legal reforms, especially of the laws relating to marriage and family, informs his novels foregrounding women as sleuths. Female incursions into masculine domains of law and detection represent a bold departure from convention; his transgressive heroines challenge stereotypes and succeed where men have failed.
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Date Issued: 2001
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12828
Subject Headings: Collins, Wilkie,--1824-1889--Criticism and interpretation., Detective and mystery stories, English--History and criticism., Women detectives in literature.
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Title: Medieval Dramatic Sources for Paradise Lost.
Creator: Doubleday, Beth, Leeds, John, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: Many scholars agree that portions of Paradise Lost show the influence of mystery and morality plays from the Middle Ages, yet it is difficult to establish the availability of these plays for John Milton. He wrote the poem during the Puritan Revolution in seventeenth-century England when medieval drama was suppressed and suspect because of its Catholic origins and content. As a Puritan propagandist, Milton might have been expected to share the Protestant distrust of medieval Catholic culture....
Show moreMany scholars agree that portions of Paradise Lost show the influence of mystery and morality plays from the Middle Ages, yet it is difficult to establish the availability of these plays for John Milton. He wrote the poem during the Puritan Revolution in seventeenth-century England when medieval drama was suppressed and suspect because of its Catholic origins and content. As a Puritan propagandist, Milton might have been expected to share the Protestant distrust of medieval Catholic culture. However, he evinced his broadmindedness both by holding theological views that were nearer to Catholic than to Calvinist orthodoxy, and by making substantial literary use of medieval sources. Although the revolution of which he was a part made it difficult for him to access medieval biblical drama, there were avenues through which these plays were available, in texts or performances, to Milton as he composed Paradise Lost.
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Date Issued: 2007
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000911
Subject Headings: Milton, John,--1608-1674.--Paradise lost., Civilization, Medieval--Influence., Civilization, Medieval, in literature., English drama--17th century--History and criticism.
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Title: Revisiting Christopher Fry: Sacred temporality on a modern stage.
Creator: Harriman, Lucas H., Florida Atlantic University, Martin, Thomas L.
Abstract/Description: Christopher Fry was instrumental in the early twentieth-century resurgence of plays dealing with religious themes. This movement can at first be seen as anomalous within the era of modernism, when many writers and theorists considered religious sentiment to be a barrier to the more crucial aspects of living authentically within a modern society haunted by history. Nevertheless, Fry's particular appropriation of a sacred conceptualization of time on the modern stage reveals a degree of...
Show moreChristopher Fry was instrumental in the early twentieth-century resurgence of plays dealing with religious themes. This movement can at first be seen as anomalous within the era of modernism, when many writers and theorists considered religious sentiment to be a barrier to the more crucial aspects of living authentically within a modern society haunted by history. Nevertheless, Fry's particular appropriation of a sacred conceptualization of time on the modern stage reveals a degree of congruity between him and his contemporaries in their varied attempts to represent transcendent value on the stage without simultaneously removing the audience from their own historical present. In The Boy with a Cart, Fry's superimposition of the life of a tenth-century saint onto modern experience infuses the temporality of the play with transcendent value. Fry shifts his focus to the question of authentic action in A Sleep of Prisoners, and uses a series of biblical dreams to stress the need for a conceptualization of eternity in the passing moment in order for one to act authentically within history.
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Date Issued: 2004
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13153
Subject Headings: Fry, Christopher,--1907---Criticism and interpretation, Religious drama--Criticism and interpretation, Time in literature, Theater--Philosophy, Verse drama, English--Criticism and interpretation
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