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Title: Excuse me (random acts of encounter and exploration).
Creator: Gregorio, Kelly Ann., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: I am living in a world of strangers. Growing up, I was told to never talk to them. As an adult, I have grown self-centered, spending my days filtering the external into my own internal truths. In doing so, a boundary has been set between my brain and everything beyond it. For different reasons I have stayed quiet over the years, and formed opinions of strangers by means of observation; but now, finally, I am reaching out. I am going to places I would not normally go to, slowing down enough to...
Show moreI am living in a world of strangers. Growing up, I was told to never talk to them. As an adult, I have grown self-centered, spending my days filtering the external into my own internal truths. In doing so, a boundary has been set between my brain and everything beyond it. For different reasons I have stayed quiet over the years, and formed opinions of strangers by means of observation; but now, finally, I am reaching out. I am going to places I would not normally go to, slowing down enough to notice, and trying something different. I am trying to talk to strangers, trying to get them to open up to me in a world where a lot of us have curled the focus inward. I am trying to explore, trying to overcome, approach, dig deeper, and above all, learn something that makes each one of us familiar.
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Date Issued: 2011
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3338858
Subject Headings: Symbolism in literature, Narration (Rhetoric), Identity (Psychology), Context effects (Psychology), Conduct of life
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Diamonds in the Rough.
Creator: Friedman, Efrat., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Diamonds in the Rough is a dramatic coming-of-age novel, chronicling the experiences of college student Sofia Dayan. The intricacies of the Forty-Seventh Street diamond exchange are revealed during Sofia's time as an office assistant to a Hassidic diamond dealer, and she slowly discovers that her boss is involved in an illicit transaction concerning her father. Also coping with the symptoms of a newly diagnosed illness, rheumatoid arthritis, she begins a relationship with David Cohen - her...
Show moreDiamonds in the Rough is a dramatic coming-of-age novel, chronicling the experiences of college student Sofia Dayan. The intricacies of the Forty-Seventh Street diamond exchange are revealed during Sofia's time as an office assistant to a Hassidic diamond dealer, and she slowly discovers that her boss is involved in an illicit transaction concerning her father. Also coping with the symptoms of a newly diagnosed illness, rheumatoid arthritis, she begins a relationship with David Cohen - her father's former friend and business associate. Tensions build as Sofia manages her disease, attempts to strengthen her bond with David, and discovers what her father and boss are conspiring. Like a diamond, all the characters within the story are flawed beneath the surface and, to some degree, are living in illusions. Visual art and music enhance this primary theme; both often depict something beautiful but contain a darker subtext.
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Date Issued: 2010
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3356784
Subject Headings: Symbolism in literature, Diamonds, Interpersonal relationships, Coming of age
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Firing back!.
Creator: Gehrmann, Judith., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Visual Arts and Art History
Abstract/Description: This work is comprised of altered, found familiar objects. They are stacked and are covered with Egyptian paste, then fired in a burn-out kiln. Through transformation by fire the objects become post-apocalyptic relics. Raised in an Irish Catholic alcoholic home by a raging perfectionist mother, the kitchen was a battlefield - the home, a place of great drama. After dish throwing and frying pan swinging, dinner was precisely laid out on a clean white tablecloth - order covering disorder. The...
Show moreThis work is comprised of altered, found familiar objects. They are stacked and are covered with Egyptian paste, then fired in a burn-out kiln. Through transformation by fire the objects become post-apocalyptic relics. Raised in an Irish Catholic alcoholic home by a raging perfectionist mother, the kitchen was a battlefield - the home, a place of great drama. After dish throwing and frying pan swinging, dinner was precisely laid out on a clean white tablecloth - order covering disorder. The failed domestic environment of my childhood informs this body of work and is inflected by recovering psychological states. Empowered through feminist critique and filtered through my study of Jungian psychology, these objects enact a precarious balance between the known and the estranged. Through the process of transmutation, a cathartic space is generated, giving space for viewers to potentially confront their memories of home.
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Date Issued: 2011
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3170954
Subject Headings: Symbolism in literature, Conduct of life, Popular culture, Philosophy, Parenting, Psychological aspects
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: roofless.
Creator: Rehman, Sahar., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Here, the natural world is consumed - a physical reality and an internal one. It is walled, but roofless - a contained space. Elements are absorbed, same energies interacting within us that work around us - the natural forces of gravitation and electromagnetism, fire and water, growth, and time. Fundamental interactions in nature, forces that hold the universe together are treated as symbolic of the human experience. The sense of rooflessness is an essential theme to my thesis. There is a...
Show moreHere, the natural world is consumed - a physical reality and an internal one. It is walled, but roofless - a contained space. Elements are absorbed, same energies interacting within us that work around us - the natural forces of gravitation and electromagnetism, fire and water, growth, and time. Fundamental interactions in nature, forces that hold the universe together are treated as symbolic of the human experience. The sense of rooflessness is an essential theme to my thesis. There is a constant return to the sky. The shifting clouds, the stages of the sun and the moon mimic a traveling through time, a constant change. There is a given feeling of freedom and confinement. There is a vulnerability, a destitution, and a lack of shelter. The open sky, always out of reach, is a tease to be free. Though it also hints at a feeling of oneness, a symbolic relation between the divine and the human. The open, uninterrupted path for direct prayer. Roofless indicates a continuous linkage between the ground and the sky, between rain and dirt, between nature and humankind. .
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Date Issued: 2011
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3172701
Subject Headings: Symbolism in literature, Poetry, Poetry, Themes, motives, Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: "Strange Snow" and other stories.
Creator: DeJong, Laura Quinlan, Florida Atlantic University, Bucak, Ayse Papatya
Abstract/Description: 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: Isle of bones.
Creator: Watson, Courtney., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This novel is a work of historical fiction that explores the aftermath of the execution of a local doctor who became infamous after preserving the corpse of his beloved. The two protagonists journey to Key West from Miami during the summer of 1952 to investigate the disappearance of the girl's missing bones, but soon find themselves embroiled in a mystery that plumbs the most terrifying depths of love and its disquieting entanglements. The tale follows the protagonists, Lens Burnside and Iris...
Show moreThis novel is a work of historical fiction that explores the aftermath of the execution of a local doctor who became infamous after preserving the corpse of his beloved. The two protagonists journey to Key West from Miami during the summer of 1952 to investigate the disappearance of the girl's missing bones, but soon find themselves embroiled in a mystery that plumbs the most terrifying depths of love and its disquieting entanglements. The tale follows the protagonists, Lens Burnside and Iris Elliot, as they navigate the island's darkest corridors and expose a few of its most unusual secrets on a journey of love, mayhem and madness as they fall under the spell of the island and fall in love with each other.
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Date Issued: 2009
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/192992
Subject Headings: Symbolism in literature, Man-woman relationships
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Stormland.
Creator: Ferguson, Adam, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: 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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Date Issued: 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: 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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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/77641
Subject Headings: Short stories, Collections, Short stories, Criticism and interpretation, Symbolism in literature, Fiction, Technique
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Only the Body Remembers.
Creator: Geraci, Jeanette, Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Only The Body Remembers is a collection of poems, lyric essays, and short stories that explore several subjects, including love (both romantic and familial), loss, grief, sexuality, identity, and obsession. The primary thematic thread that binds this collection together is somatic memory -- the way the body records experiences, and the strong emotional charge these recorded experiences carry.
Date Issued: 2017
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004838
Subject Headings: Symbolism in literature., Identity (Philosophical concept), Identity (Psychology), Self (Philosophy), Mind and body.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Only sound remains.
Creator: Filsoofi, Raheleh T., McConnell, Brian E., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Visual Arts and Art History
Abstract/Description: We each experience the world through the prism of our upbringing, our traditions and the familiar sights and sounds embedded deep within our soul. Only Sound Remains is an installation in which I explore and share those experiences through objects, sounds and video. Ceramic vessels inspired by the traditions of my ancestors hide and shape sounds that narrate simple and complex experiences, which are the stories of my life. The sounds relate to the world that I came from and that still can be...
Show moreWe each experience the world through the prism of our upbringing, our traditions and the familiar sights and sounds embedded deep within our soul. Only Sound Remains is an installation in which I explore and share those experiences through objects, sounds and video. Ceramic vessels inspired by the traditions of my ancestors hide and shape sounds that narrate simple and complex experiences, which are the stories of my life. The sounds relate to the world that I came from and that still can be heard now. The sounds are not clear until one gets close to the vessels and lifts the lid-- a bazaar, praying, marching, an explosion, a woman telling a story, traditional Iranian music. The installation is a metaphor for the way in which we experience the world. The vessels represent a selection of personal and cultural experiences through sounds that may or may not be fully understood.
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Date Issued: 2014
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004108, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004108
Subject Headings: Iran -- Social life and customs, Memory -- Social aspects, Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics, Symbolism in literature
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Bullet.
Creator: Pumphrey, Christopher J., Schwartz, Jason, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: Bullet is a collection of short stories that fictionalizes the last days of twentieth century world authors. Inspired heavily by the biographies of each writer, the stories depict the spiraling psyches of each suicide. Each narrator is carefully crafted out of the real life of each author though, first and foremost, each story is fiction. By the end, Bullet is a contemplation of both life and death from the perspective of the greatest minds of the last one hundred years. Only now, in the new...
Show moreBullet is a collection of short stories that fictionalizes the last days of twentieth century world authors. Inspired heavily by the biographies of each writer, the stories depict the spiraling psyches of each suicide. Each narrator is carefully crafted out of the real life of each author though, first and foremost, each story is fiction. By the end, Bullet is a contemplation of both life and death from the perspective of the greatest minds of the last one hundred years. Only now, in the new millennium, can the twentieth century be definitively sketched. Bullet is one of the first pieces of writing to do so.
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Date Issued: 2009
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000952
Subject Headings: Short stories, American, Symbolism in literature, Death--Fiction, Suicide--Fiction
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Hungry and Other Stories.
Creator: Sheffield, Mary, Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: This is a collection of short stories that deal with elements of identity, the fantastic, fragmentation, poetry, the media, politics, and myriad other themes. The stories are connected by an interwoven thread of self-discovery and awareness. These stories present an image and then rework it, giving greater or varied details about whatever is being describing in the hope of achieving a more visceral story, a more true experience of writing and reading, and a better understanding of the...
Show moreThis is a collection of short stories that deal with elements of identity, the fantastic, fragmentation, poetry, the media, politics, and myriad other themes. The stories are connected by an interwoven thread of self-discovery and awareness. These stories present an image and then rework it, giving greater or varied details about whatever is being describing in the hope of achieving a more visceral story, a more true experience of writing and reading, and a better understanding of the emotions that underlie the story. These stories also try to capture and communicate the idea that our experience is a common one, across time and cultures, and the idea that many, many more writers than I could ever read in my lifetime have written about this experience.
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Date Issued: 2009
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000963
Subject Headings: Symbolism in literature, Short stories, American--Collections, Conduct of life
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Mount Your Pets.
Creator: Goldberg, Arthur J., Furman, Andrew, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: This novel is the first-person account of Max Rosenbloom, who has difficulty forming personal relationships, difficulty telling the truth. He enters a Work-Study program to graduate from High School, landing a job as an apprentice in a taxidermy shop operated by Richard, who becomes a strong influence in his life. Themes explored include what is art and what is not art within the framework of the modernization of taxidermy techniques. Another theme is how Max deals with death of his father...
Show moreThis novel is the first-person account of Max Rosenbloom, who has difficulty forming personal relationships, difficulty telling the truth. He enters a Work-Study program to graduate from High School, landing a job as an apprentice in a taxidermy shop operated by Richard, who becomes a strong influence in his life. Themes explored include what is art and what is not art within the framework of the modernization of taxidermy techniques. Another theme is how Max deals with death of his father and death of the animals that Max mounts in the course of his taxidermy training. Finally, a major theme is explored concerning the conflict within Max, who has trouble telling the truth and makes a conscious decision to lie in order to further his career.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000920
Subject Headings: Symbolism in literature., Taxidermy--Fiction., Death and dying--Fiction.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Questions for Animals.
Creator: Hamilton, Peggy, Mitchell, Susan, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: Through the worlds of cause and effect, forms, and formlessness, echoing the structure of the shrine Borobudur, this work explores these convergences: Paul Oppenheimer's argument that the best origin of sonnet is sonitus, the music of the spheres perceived in this world as a deafening; the experience of Borobudur 's rectangular stone reliefs within a structure that looks angular but is circular; and a deaf woman's observation that vowel sounds conflate on faces under the duress of pleasure or...
Show moreThrough the worlds of cause and effect, forms, and formlessness, echoing the structure of the shrine Borobudur, this work explores these convergences: Paul Oppenheimer's argument that the best origin of sonnet is sonitus, the music of the spheres perceived in this world as a deafening; the experience of Borobudur 's rectangular stone reliefs within a structure that looks angular but is circular; and a deaf woman's observation that vowel sounds conflate on faces under the duress of pleasure or pain. The attempt, as the sonnet moves through the volume, interrupted four times by poems of other types, is to experience what seems, like stone or path, a most syllogistic of forms, as mandala. Throughout, the relationship between sight and sound is explored, using homophones, syntax working with and against parts of speech and lineation, hearkening to words that keep as unresolved as possible the vowel sounds, as brogues do, and tonal languages.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000924
Subject Headings: Symbolism in literature, Sonnet--History and criticism, Poetry--Collections
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Masks.
Creator: Leen, Carmel Codd., Florida Atlantic University, Bucak, Ayse Papatya
Abstract/Description: 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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Date Issued: 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)

Title: Notes on a liminal state.
Creator: Straub, Patricia., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Notes on a Liminal State is a collection of poetry prepared in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in writing at Florida Atlantic University. While the poems cover a variety of topics, recurring themes include a mother's decline due to Alzheimer's Disease, infertility, adoption, and the observation of rural landscapes. The poems do not adhere to any single form.
Date Issued: 2011
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3356785
Subject Headings: Criticism and interpretation, Poetry, Symbolism in literature
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The Light That Calls Them Back.
Creator: Fedden, Victoria, Mitchell, Susan, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: "The Light That Calls Them Back" is a collection of 23 poems completed during my three years of graduate studies. The poems in this collection are memory based and rely on the use of metaphor to convey emotion. These writings were compiled to demonstrate a range of poetic styles and subject matter. Most importantly, each poem in some way deals with the poet's relationship to different places and the memories (often hazy or inaccurate) associated with certain settings. Additional themes...
Show more"The Light That Calls Them Back" is a collection of 23 poems completed during my three years of graduate studies. The poems in this collection are memory based and rely on the use of metaphor to convey emotion. These writings were compiled to demonstrate a range of poetic styles and subject matter. Most importantly, each poem in some way deals with the poet's relationship to different places and the memories (often hazy or inaccurate) associated with certain settings. Additional themes present throughout these works are the loss that comes with both death and abandonment and the relationship among visual art and images and poetry. The voice in these poems represents the poet in different stages of life. Many of the poems appear to deal with mystical or fantastical elements. These represent the poet's imagination and belief in the unexplained. Some are meant to be taken literally, while others become metaphors or evidence of the poet's desire to escape the ordinary world.
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Date Issued: 2009
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000914
Subject Headings: Poetry--Collections., Symbolism in literature., Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.), Poetry--Themes, motives.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Signs and Wonders.
Creator: Bresciano, Cora, Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: 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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Date Issued: 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: 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
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The Brooch of Clytemnestra.
Creator: Moorhead, Kathleen T., Florida Atlantic University, Bucak, Ayse Papatya
Abstract/Description: The Brooch of Clytemnestra follows the adventures Margaret O'Brien, age thirteen, encounters when her family returns to the United States after living in Venezuela for ten years. Set in 1963, in the fictional town of Desolasol, located on southeastern coast of Florida, the O'Brien family must cope with cultural, social and religious changes in order to adjust to life in the U.S. The story takes place over the course of one week in story present in Florida, and over the course of one year in...
Show moreThe Brooch of Clytemnestra follows the adventures Margaret O'Brien, age thirteen, encounters when her family returns to the United States after living in Venezuela for ten years. Set in 1963, in the fictional town of Desolasol, located on southeastern coast of Florida, the O'Brien family must cope with cultural, social and religious changes in order to adjust to life in the U.S. The story takes place over the course of one week in story present in Florida, and over the course of one year in story past in Venezuela. The protagonist, Meg, runs afoul of the gods, when she unwittingly incurs the wrath of Zeus, who, along with the Pantheon of Greek gods, is summering on the coast in Desolasol. Meg is a normal girl, without magical powers. However, to protect herself, and her family, she must become willing to stand up to Zeus.
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Date Issued: 2006
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13345
Subject Headings: Symbolism in literature., Florida--Social life and customs--20th century., Venezuela--Social life and customary--20th century., Mythology in literature.
Format: Document (PDF)

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