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APOLLONIAN-DIONYSIAN CONFLICT IN THREE TENNESSEE WILLIAMS PLAYS.
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FOTOPOULOS, NIKI PRAVLIS., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
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This thesis explores the conflicts between and within the main characters in three Tennessee Williams plays: A Streetcar Named Desire, Summer and Smoke, and Orpheus Descending. It demonstrates that the conflicts between the characters, the inevitable outcome of the individual's persistent adherence to established ideals and denial of his instinctive impulses, are analogous to the antithetical Apollonian-Dionysian forces as explored by Friedrich Nietzsche and Euripides. Of these opposed forces...
Show moreThis thesis explores the conflicts between and within the main characters in three Tennessee Williams plays: A Streetcar Named Desire, Summer and Smoke, and Orpheus Descending. It demonstrates that the conflicts between the characters, the inevitable outcome of the individual's persistent adherence to established ideals and denial of his instinctive impulses, are analogous to the antithetical Apollonian-Dionysian forces as explored by Friedrich Nietzsche and Euripides. Of these opposed forces, one represents the learned traits the other the unlearned primitive impulses. When further related to man's divided psyche they reveal that man's emotional stability depends upon the harmonious coexistence of both his conscious and unconscious impulses. However, as the study reveals, it is impossible for man to suppress and deny his natural impulses which, like nature itself, are too powerful and imperative to man's basic existence and spiritual salvation. To Williams Dionysus becomes the symbol of modern man who, haunted by ineffectual traditional values and threatened by technological encroachment, refuses to become extinct and defiantly fights to create a fresh and meaningful life.
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Date Issued
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1974
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13681
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Williams, Tennessee,--1911---Criticism and interpretation.
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Aspects of absence in selected works of Eudora Welty.
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Unks, Ruth Richwalls., Florida Atlantic University, Peyton, Ann
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Eudora Welty's works display multiple ways of handling absence. Absences leading to despair are evident in the characters of R. J. Bowman in "Death of a Traveling Salesman," Howard in "Flowers for Marjorie," and Jason and Sara Morton in "The Whistle." They cannot face the absence of a personal relationship, the absence of hope, the absence of a future. Absences causing a stagnation or fear of changing a status quo appear for Ruby Fisher and her husband in "A Piece of News": they live only in...
Show moreEudora Welty's works display multiple ways of handling absence. Absences leading to despair are evident in the characters of R. J. Bowman in "Death of a Traveling Salesman," Howard in "Flowers for Marjorie," and Jason and Sara Morton in "The Whistle." They cannot face the absence of a personal relationship, the absence of hope, the absence of a future. Absences causing a stagnation or fear of changing a status quo appear for Ruby Fisher and her husband in "A Piece of News": they live only in the present out of fear of facing the absence of closeness in their marriage, and Ellie Morgan in "The Key" cannot look into her relationship with husband Albert or project into the future. Unlike Ruby and Ellie, Mrs. Larkin in "A Curtain of Green," "Livvie," and William Wallace in "The Wide Net," realize the absences in their lives, reject stagnation, and adopt a positive attitude for future development. Losing Battles incorporates all three aspects of handling absences--despair, status quo, and recognition for growth--in the characters of Julia Mortimer, Beulah Renfro, and Gloria Short.
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1991
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14684
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Welty, Eudora,--1909---Criticism and interpretation
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David Mamet's games in "Glengarry Glen Ross", "Homicide", and "House of Games".
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Woods, Mary., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
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David Mamet's use of play and games in his dramas illustrates the nature of play: its power to attract and hold players in its spell. Play and games fascinate and master the characters. Shelley Levene in Glengarry Glen Ross, Bob Gold in Homicide, and Margaret Ford in House of Games are convinced that they know the rules of the game and thus believe they are in control. They assume roles that they believe make them major players in the game they think they are playing. But rather than being in...
Show moreDavid Mamet's use of play and games in his dramas illustrates the nature of play: its power to attract and hold players in its spell. Play and games fascinate and master the characters. Shelley Levene in Glengarry Glen Ross, Bob Gold in Homicide, and Margaret Ford in House of Games are convinced that they know the rules of the game and thus believe they are in control. They assume roles that they believe make them major players in the game they think they are playing. But rather than being in control of the game and its rules, each of these characters is an unwitting player in a larger game where they are the pawns. In addition, these characters contribute to their own victimization by breaking the rules of their own games. The audience participates in these characters' games and adventures very much as the characters themselves do and are thus mesmerized, mastered, and ultimately set up by the game that Mamet plays with them.
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1993
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14906
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Mamet, David--Criticism and interpretation
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CUBAN REFUGEES IN MIAMI: PATTERNS OF ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL ADJUSTMENT.
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DARASZ, KATHY ANN., Florida Atlantic University, Mohl, Raymond A.
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Since 1959, Cuban refugees have transformed the economic and political structure of the Miami metropolitan area. Refugees have been successful in their employment and housing pursuits, although they have often been in competition with Miami's Blacks. However, by strengthening the local economy, Cuban refugees have ultimately benefited the entire metropolitan area. This infrastructure of the Cuban community has promoted economic success, but it has also altered refugee economic assimilation...
Show moreSince 1959, Cuban refugees have transformed the economic and political structure of the Miami metropolitan area. Refugees have been successful in their employment and housing pursuits, although they have often been in competition with Miami's Blacks. However, by strengthening the local economy, Cuban refugees have ultimately benefited the entire metropolitan area. This infrastructure of the Cuban community has promoted economic success, but it has also altered refugee economic assimilation into the American mainstream. Cuban refugees also dramatically altered metropolitan Miami's political structure. Participation in exile politics at first slowed political assimilation, but by the seventies naturalized Cubans began to participate in American electoral politics. The growth of Cuban- American voting has Cubanized local politics, particularly in Miami and Hialeah.
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Date Issued
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1982
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14127
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Ionesco, Eugène--Criticism and interpretation
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THE BREAKDOWN OF COMMUNICATION IN THE THEATER OF IONESCO: A LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS.
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DASHER, CAROLE VANN., Florida Atlantic University, Trammell, Robert L.
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Four plays, La Cantatrice cuavre, La Lecon, Jacques ou la soumission and Les Chaises, are analyzed from a psycho-linguistic point of view. The emphasis is on problems related to the discrepancy between the "name" (word) and the "referent" (that which is referred to) behind the name. This discrepancy occurs in a variety of forms, including contradictory statements, cliches, socially inappropriate words or phrases, and non sequiturs, as well as the use of words as instruments of power rather...
Show moreFour plays, La Cantatrice cuavre, La Lecon, Jacques ou la soumission and Les Chaises, are analyzed from a psycho-linguistic point of view. The emphasis is on problems related to the discrepancy between the "name" (word) and the "referent" (that which is referred to) behind the name. This discrepancy occurs in a variety of forms, including contradictory statements, cliches, socially inappropriate words or phrases, and non sequiturs, as well as the use of words as instruments of power rather than tools of communication of thought. This communications gap, while exaggerated in the theater of Ionesco, is shown to be similar to that encountered recently in our everyday lives.
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Date Issued
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1974
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13645
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Ionesco, Eugène--Criticism and interpretation
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BIRTH, DEATH AND SALVATION OF BECKETTIAN MAN.
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KALT, URSULA MARY., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
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Samuel Beckett is generally considered to write in the pessimistic tradition. For his characters, life is a process of "dying on" in a chaotic universe. God, if he exists, is cruelly indifferent. Death has no purpose, and therefore life is pointless. Suffering is real, however, and made more painful by the knowledge that there is neither Savior nor Salvation. Nevertheless Beckett repeatedly examines the Christian concept of Salvation in his work. Indeed, it has become framework, linguistic...
Show moreSamuel Beckett is generally considered to write in the pessimistic tradition. For his characters, life is a process of "dying on" in a chaotic universe. God, if he exists, is cruelly indifferent. Death has no purpose, and therefore life is pointless. Suffering is real, however, and made more painful by the knowledge that there is neither Savior nor Salvation. Nevertheless Beckett repeatedly examines the Christian concept of Salvation in his work. Indeed, it has become framework, linguistic storehouse, source of metaphor, and spiritual yardstick in much of his canon. The doctrine of Salvation raises "the old questions" regarding man's destiny which so preoccupy Beckettian man; their contemplation has provided the matter for Beckett's writing, and that writing itself has perhaps saved him from despair.
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Date Issued
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1982
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14137
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Beckett, Samuel,--1906---Criticism and interpretation
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HENRY JAMES'S REVISION OF "THE PUPIL.".
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MYERS, JAMES VINCENT., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
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Henry James's revision of "The Pupil" conforms to a plan of revision which contradicts, in part, the assertion that "late" James is deliberately obscure. In preparing the story for the New York Edition, James simplified its style and clarified its meaning, but did not alter the overall structure. Punctuation is repeatedly made less obstructive, through hundreds of sub-stitutions or eliminations. Sentence structure is often simplified by reduction of predicationJ Two clauses are telescoped...
Show moreHenry James's revision of "The Pupil" conforms to a plan of revision which contradicts, in part, the assertion that "late" James is deliberately obscure. In preparing the story for the New York Edition, James simplified its style and clarified its meaning, but did not alter the overall structure. Punctuation is repeatedly made less obstructive, through hundreds of sub-stitutions or eliminations. Sentence structure is often simplified by reduction of predicationJ Two clauses are telescoped into one and clauses are reduced to phrases. Vocabulary revisions are sometimes made to remove clumsy expressions or simply to suit what the author felt to be the best phrasing. More often, such changes create subtle shifts in meaning. In addition to direct revisions which state his themes more precisely, James introduced new and more coherent imagery. The cumulative effect of these revisions is to meticulously redefine, but not change, the characterization.
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Date Issued
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1972
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13513
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James, Henry,--1843-1916--Criticism, Textual.
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ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER'S MYSTICISM.
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TURBEVILLE, WILLIAM JACKSON., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
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An analysis of Isaac Bashevis Singer's writing will show a strong vein of mystical thought. While deeply indebted to the traditions of Jewish mysticism, Singer goes beyond the traditional in his search for mystical insight. The passionate sensuality, the use of the supernatural, and the pantheistic qualities all speak of a non-conforming individual. From the worldly naive but spiritually wise simpleton of "Gimpel the Fool" to the tormented Job-like seeker of The Slave, Singer's mysticism both...
Show moreAn analysis of Isaac Bashevis Singer's writing will show a strong vein of mystical thought. While deeply indebted to the traditions of Jewish mysticism, Singer goes beyond the traditional in his search for mystical insight. The passionate sensuality, the use of the supernatural, and the pantheistic qualities all speak of a non-conforming individual. From the worldly naive but spiritually wise simpleton of "Gimpel the Fool" to the tormented Job-like seeker of The Slave, Singer's mysticism both takes from traditional religion and explores new ground. Some critics have seen I.B. Singer as a rash of contradictions, but these seeming contradictions all fit into the elements of his mysticism.
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1981
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14057
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Singer, Isaac Bashevis,--1904---Criticism and interpretation
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RICHARD BRAUTIGAN AND THE PASTORAL ROMANCE.
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GRADDY, JULIA COLOMITZ., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
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Three of Richard Brautigan's novels extensively employ the American pastoral motif in a predominantly romance form. All contrast the urban American present with a simpler, idealized pastoral setting. Working within each book is the "return to nature" mystique or impulse, treated comically or ironically. In A Confederate General from Big Sur, the "return to nature" impulse is comically linked to an extended metaphor of the Civil War. The combination denigrates the pastoral time away, creating...
Show moreThree of Richard Brautigan's novels extensively employ the American pastoral motif in a predominantly romance form. All contrast the urban American present with a simpler, idealized pastoral setting. Working within each book is the "return to nature" mystique or impulse, treated comically or ironically. In A Confederate General from Big Sur, the "return to nature" impulse is comically linked to an extended metaphor of the Civil War. The combination denigrates the pastoral time away, creating a comic burlesque. In watermelon Sugar "returns to nature" in a fantasy, postindustrial Eden. Far from depicting the successful attainment of the yearned-for simplicity in a second Eden, Brautigan critically and ironically renders the perfect pastoral paradise. In Trout Fishing in America, the narrator searches for the pastoral ideal in urban America. A viable pastoral retreat is attained through the power of the imagination that reconciles contemporary industrialized America to its pastoral past.
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Date Issued
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1978
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13916
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Brautigan, Richard--Criticism and interpretation.
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Robert Penn Warren's short fiction: His theory, his stories, and his critics.
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Higgins, Barbara B., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
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Robert Penn Warren is an accomplished poet, novelist, teacher, and critic. Critics of his work consider the short story to be the weakest genre in his canon; however, an examination of each of the fourteen stories in The Circus in the Attic and Other Stories with a combination reader-response, historical, and analytical reading proves that some of the stories are very good. A comparison of these stories with "Technical Problems and Principles in the Composition of Fiction--A Summary," the...
Show moreRobert Penn Warren is an accomplished poet, novelist, teacher, and critic. Critics of his work consider the short story to be the weakest genre in his canon; however, an examination of each of the fourteen stories in The Circus in the Attic and Other Stories with a combination reader-response, historical, and analytical reading proves that some of the stories are very good. A comparison of these stories with "Technical Problems and Principles in the Composition of Fiction--A Summary," the appendix of Understanding Fiction, an outstanding textbook co-authored by Warren, emphasizes their quality. The stories should not be grouped under the label "Stories of Robert Penn Warren," but rather they should be read, enjoyed, and judged as individual works of art.
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Date Issued
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1990
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14628
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Warren, Robert Penn,--1905---Criticism and interpretation
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Sally Potter: A filmmaker's use of deconstruction in film.
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Honour, Diane Susan., Florida Atlantic University, Freedman, Eric M.
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Hollywood films have a great impact on many countries in the world. Fictional cinema tends to predominantly follow a particular form of narrative which is used beyond the United States. British film tends to use this format but there are filmmakers who prefer to take an alternative route to creating film. Theoretical systems of postmodernism and poststructuralism, and textual analysis, reveal that the body of films by Sally Potter: Thriller, The Gold Diggers, The-London Story, Orlando and The...
Show moreHollywood films have a great impact on many countries in the world. Fictional cinema tends to predominantly follow a particular form of narrative which is used beyond the United States. British film tends to use this format but there are filmmakers who prefer to take an alternative route to creating film. Theoretical systems of postmodernism and poststructuralism, and textual analysis, reveal that the body of films by Sally Potter: Thriller, The Gold Diggers, The-London Story, Orlando and The Tango Lesson demonstrate deconstruction to varying degrees. Analysis indicates that Potter's deconstructive films speak from different perspectives, draw attention to stereotypical representations in cinema, expose binary oppositions, comment on the nature of film, and address issues that might be ignored in dominant film. The analysis explores the roots of her deconstructive tendency, examining national and artistic angles.
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Date Issued
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2000
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12683
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Potter, Sally--Criticism and interpretation, Deconstruction
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SYLVIA PLATH'S POETRY AS ARTIFACT: TWO-DIMENSIONALITY AND EFFECTS.
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QUEENAN, DEBORAH CLARK., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
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This study explores the two-dimensionality and artistlC distancing present within Sylvia Plath's poetry contained in Crossing the Water, Winter Trees, and Ariel. Plath's poetry inevitably presents the conflict inherent in the art versus life dichotomy; her poetry tends toward the reflexive, as its metaphors mirror poetry as the poetry mirrors life. Two-dimensional images recur, calling to mind the power of the artistic, as mirrors, photographs, paintings, silhouettes, outlines, and the black...
Show moreThis study explores the two-dimensionality and artistlC distancing present within Sylvia Plath's poetry contained in Crossing the Water, Winter Trees, and Ariel. Plath's poetry inevitably presents the conflict inherent in the art versus life dichotomy; her poetry tends toward the reflexive, as its metaphors mirror poetry as the poetry mirrors life. Two-dimensional images recur, calling to mind the power of the artistic, as mirrors, photographs, paintings, silhouettes, outlines, and the black letter on the white page fairly inundate her works. In Plath's poetry, the reader finds a disclosure of poetry, a definition of poetry, and a reaffirmation of the supremacy of the imagination. Plath speaks to an elite audience; hers is a cry to and for the intellectual in a world of violence and chaos; here is the desperately needed source of pleasure for those who delight in the original metaphor, who long for the hunt for the similar within those things ostensibly dissimilar.
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Date Issued
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1980
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14029
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Plath, Sylvia--Criticism and interpretation
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SYMBOLS AND MYSTICISM IN THE NOVELS OF THOMAS BURNETT SWANN.
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HUNT, LEIGH INA., Florida Atlantic University, Collins, Robert A.
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The three great classes of symbols identified by Evelyn Underhill in mystical literature are present in Swann's novels. They are the symbols of the journey, human love and marriage, and purity and perfection. An analysis of the symbols shows that their use is not random, but consistent with a pattern of spiritual development composed of several stages and called the Mystic Way. As a result, Swann's novels can be read and enjoyed as works of fantasy or of mysticism.
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Date Issued
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1981
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14088
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Swann, Thomas Burnett--Criticism and interpretation
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THE SURVIVOR IN JERZY KOSINSKI'S "COCKPIT" (POSTMODERNISM).
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CHILDRESS, RONALD., Florida Atlantic University, Rice, Julian
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The individual's survival in a hostile, postmodern environment is a principal theme of Jerzy Kosinski's Cockpit. Tarden, the preeminent survivor in this landscape, equates survival with control. He achieves control, both of himself and others, by aggressive forms of psychological and physical manipulation. The final goal of this manipulation is the absolute subversion of death. As he ages, Tarde!} realizes that death can only be diverted, and· his strategies to a void the inevitable become...
Show moreThe individual's survival in a hostile, postmodern environment is a principal theme of Jerzy Kosinski's Cockpit. Tarden, the preeminent survivor in this landscape, equates survival with control. He achieves control, both of himself and others, by aggressive forms of psychological and physical manipulation. The final goal of this manipulation is the absolute subversion of death. As he ages, Tarde!} realizes that death can only be diverted, and· his strategies to a void the inevitable become more sophisticated. Initially a being of action, he finally seeks refuge in words, in confession. Yet his confession is a violent parallel to his life; as such it becomes another diversionary act. The reader, at whom the confession is directed, is the target of this will to control and its violence.
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Date Issued
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1986
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14342
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Kosinski, Jerzy N,--1933---Criticism and interpretation
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS' CIRCLE OF LIGHT.
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LENAHAN, TERI S., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
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Light imagery in Tennessee Williams' plays can be seen in terms of a metaphorical circle of light. The characters in Outcry and In the Bar of a Toyko Hotel are living outside of the realm of light, in a darkness that leads to death. In A Streetcar Named Desire Blanche is symbolically slipping over the edge of light into outer darkness that becomes, for her, insanity. Paradoxically she is hiding from and searching for light simultaneously. The characters in The Night of the Iguana, The...
Show moreLight imagery in Tennessee Williams' plays can be seen in terms of a metaphorical circle of light. The characters in Outcry and In the Bar of a Toyko Hotel are living outside of the realm of light, in a darkness that leads to death. In A Streetcar Named Desire Blanche is symbolically slipping over the edge of light into outer darkness that becomes, for her, insanity. Paradoxically she is hiding from and searching for light simultaneously. The characters in The Night of the Iguana, The Milktrain Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, and Vieux Carre move closer to their circle of light, finding hope and acceptance from a compassionate friend. Defined as the "protection of our existence," the circle of light can be found throughout the plays of Tennessee Williams.
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Date Issued
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1982
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14115
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Williams, Tennessee,--1911---Criticism and interpretation
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The artist manque in the novels of John Hawkes.
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Steinmetz, Robin., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
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The making and the unmaking of the artist manque is the central theme of five successive novels of John Hawkes from The Blood Oranges (1972) to Virginie: Her Two Lives (1981). The main characters in each of these five works are "artists" in one form or another. Each of them is a fragment of Hawkes himself, a detached figment of his imagination; they and their aesthetic-erotic obsessions had to be imagined by their creator. In a special sense, these characters are innocent because they are...
Show moreThe making and the unmaking of the artist manque is the central theme of five successive novels of John Hawkes from The Blood Oranges (1972) to Virginie: Her Two Lives (1981). The main characters in each of these five works are "artists" in one form or another. Each of them is a fragment of Hawkes himself, a detached figment of his imagination; they and their aesthetic-erotic obsessions had to be imagined by their creator. In a special sense, these characters are innocent because they are unaware of the extent and reasons their inspirations are tainted at the source, their psyches; and they, unlike Hawkes, cannot detach themselves from their own fantasies and their desires to realize them, whatever the risk. No wonder then the suffering and destruction they inflict on themselves and others.
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Date Issued
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1988
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14478
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Hawkes, John,--1925---Criticism and interpretation
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From void to plenty: A phenomenological approach to the poetry of Robert Bly.
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Samet, Donna Mary., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
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Robert Bly's concern with wholeness of self connects him with the phenomenology of Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty. Bly's search for wholeness begins with his experimentation with the object and prose poem. The search continues and intensifies with poems that express unification of subject and object. Bly also sees language as a further manifestation of the outer and inner bounds of self. His search appears to rest in a fullness of being as represented in the beauty and importance of human...
Show moreRobert Bly's concern with wholeness of self connects him with the phenomenology of Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty. Bly's search for wholeness begins with his experimentation with the object and prose poem. The search continues and intensifies with poems that express unification of subject and object. Bly also sees language as a further manifestation of the outer and inner bounds of self. His search appears to rest in a fullness of being as represented in the beauty and importance of human relationships.
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Date Issued
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1990
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14586
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Bly, Robert--Criticism and interpretation
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MARGARET ATWOOD'S "TRICK HIP": TRANSCENDING DUALITY WITH IMAGINATION.
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LAMB, MARTHA MOSS., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
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The major theme of Margaret Atwood's work is the transcendence of duality. Several critics, led by Cheryl Grace, have emphasized the duality only, yet there are many examples of wholeness in Atwood's early poems and novels as well as in her more recent fiction. The clearest examples of the reconciliation of opposites are in Atwood's late poems. The poetics of the romantics Blake and Coleridge, as discussed by the twentieth-century critics Northrop Frye and I. A. Richards, and underscored by...
Show moreThe major theme of Margaret Atwood's work is the transcendence of duality. Several critics, led by Cheryl Grace, have emphasized the duality only, yet there are many examples of wholeness in Atwood's early poems and novels as well as in her more recent fiction. The clearest examples of the reconciliation of opposites are in Atwood's late poems. The poetics of the romantics Blake and Coleridge, as discussed by the twentieth-century critics Northrop Frye and I. A. Richards, and underscored by new theories in physics, may be used to clarify how Atwood resolves dualities. The last five poems of "New Poems 1985-1986" from Selected Poems II demonstrate the blending of life/death, God/human, spiritual/material, body/nature, real/imaginary, male/female, subject/object into one through the use of paradox, poetic image, and remaking of myth, techniques of the imagination that Atwood shares with Blake and Coleridge.
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Date Issued
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1994
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15037
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Atwood, Margaret Eleanor,--1939---Criticism and interpretation
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LES TRIPEDES DE LA TRILOGIE: ETUDE DE L'HOMME AU BATON CHEZ BECKETT. (FRENCH TEXT).
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PERRU, JEAN-PHILIPPE., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
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Critics of Beckett's trilogy (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable) have long puzzled over the profusion of bilabials in the characters' names: Molloy, Moran, Malone, Macmann. They all share a common initial. "Les Tripedes de la Trilogie" attempts to offer yet another interpretation: with its three bases, the letter M suggests in the context of the trilogy a man and his stick, reminiscent to Beckett of the three-legged "animal" in the riddle of the Sphinx. The omnipresent stick, in both its...
Show moreCritics of Beckett's trilogy (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable) have long puzzled over the profusion of bilabials in the characters' names: Molloy, Moran, Malone, Macmann. They all share a common initial. "Les Tripedes de la Trilogie" attempts to offer yet another interpretation: with its three bases, the letter M suggests in the context of the trilogy a man and his stick, reminiscent to Beckett of the three-legged "animal" in the riddle of the Sphinx. The omnipresent stick, in both its physical and symbolic functions, is shown to be the crucial instrument keeping the unstable Beckettian creatures briefly upright in their "struggle for life." As an extension of the body, it allows them to fight and to survive. As a cylindrical rod, it acquires metaphysical associations with divine or supernatural power.
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Date Issued
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1986
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14293
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Subject Headings
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Beckett, Samuel,--1906---Criticism and interpretation
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Document (PDF)
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Title
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FUTILE BENEVOLENCE IN THREE VONNEGUT NOVELS: "THE SIRENS OF TITAN," "CAT'S CRADLE," AND "GOD BLESS YOU, MR. ROSEWATER.".
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Creator
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SWARTZEL, STEVEN BRUCE., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
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Abstract/Description
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Many of Kurt Vonnegut's central characters are benevolent advocates of positive human change. Because of the absurdities of their world, these efforts are futile and doomed to failure. Rumfoord attempts "to do good for my native earth" in The Sirens of Titan, on a cosmic scale. Lionel Boyd Johnson, Bokonon, in eat's Cradle, creates a religion based on lies to lessen the awful truth. Eliot Rosewater in God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater attempts to love the "discarded" Americans of Rosewater,...
Show moreMany of Kurt Vonnegut's central characters are benevolent advocates of positive human change. Because of the absurdities of their world, these efforts are futile and doomed to failure. Rumfoord attempts "to do good for my native earth" in The Sirens of Titan, on a cosmic scale. Lionel Boyd Johnson, Bokonon, in eat's Cradle, creates a religion based on lies to lessen the awful truth. Eliot Rosewater in God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater attempts to love the "discarded" Americans of Rosewater, Indiana, on a one-to-one basis. The conflicts inherent in. Vonnegut's world cloud the motivation of these efforts but they are still sincere efforts within their pluralistic framework. The results are a mixture of positive and negative; the most positive exist on a small human scale; the most negative on a collective or institutional scale.
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Date Issued
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1983
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14143
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Subject Headings
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Vonnegut, Kurt--Criticism and interpretation
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Document (PDF)
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