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Title: Civilization, industrial society, and love; an occasional paper on the free society.
Creator: Nef, John U.
Abstract/Description: This item is part of the Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements (PRISM) digital collection, a collaborative initiative between Florida Atlantic University and University of Central Florida in the Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials (PALMM).
Date Issued: 1961
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00002775
Subject Headings: Civilization, Modern -- History., Civilization, Modern.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The Lucia novels: E. F. Benson's comic reflections on English social change.
Creator: Brister, Winifred Collins, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Edward Frederic Benson's Lucia novels are comic commentaries on social change and the fragmentation of English society from the end of the Edwardian era into the Georgian, especially reflecting the disenchantment of the English people with their traditional beliefs, roles, and class structure. What Matthew Arnold referred to as the Philistines of England--the newly-risen bourgeois--struggle to imitate the upper classes and to emulate their use of leisure time. Benson's characterizations of...
Show moreEdward Frederic Benson's Lucia novels are comic commentaries on social change and the fragmentation of English society from the end of the Edwardian era into the Georgian, especially reflecting the disenchantment of the English people with their traditional beliefs, roles, and class structure. What Matthew Arnold referred to as the Philistines of England--the newly-risen bourgeois--struggle to imitate the upper classes and to emulate their use of leisure time. Benson's characterizations of the villagers of Riseholme and Tilling match closely the descriptions of those Philistines; however, we cannot dislike them for their weaknesses. The positive change in the author's attitude toward them compels us to cheer them on as the victors of the twentieth century.
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Date Issued: 1992
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14877
Subject Headings: Literature, Modern, History, Modern, Literature, English
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The rhetoric of a resignation: A rhetorical analysis of Mikhail S. Gorbachev's last five months in office using crisis rhetoric and apologia.
Creator: Boychuk, Angela N., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Abstract/Description: This study focuses on four major speeches of the final five months of the Gorbachev era. Three are concerned with the putsch of August 1991, and one is concerned with the December 1991 resignation. First the three major speeches given by Gorbachev immediately following the putsch are analyzed using the components of crisis rhetoric. Next the resignation speech is examined using the concepts found in apologia rhetoric. Finally, based on these four speeches, interrelationships between the two...
Show moreThis study focuses on four major speeches of the final five months of the Gorbachev era. Three are concerned with the putsch of August 1991, and one is concerned with the December 1991 resignation. First the three major speeches given by Gorbachev immediately following the putsch are analyzed using the components of crisis rhetoric. Next the resignation speech is examined using the concepts found in apologia rhetoric. Finally, based on these four speeches, interrelationships between the two rhetorical forms are attempted using clues found within the actual rhetoric.
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Date Issued: 1994
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15039
Subject Headings: Biography, Speech Communication, History, Modern
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Langston Hughes's Jesse B. Semple commentaries: A Nietzschean reading.
Creator: Angelone, Tina., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Friedrich Nietzsche's notion of the Apollonian/Dionysian opposition found in The Birth of Tragedy provides a means to analyze Langston Hughes's Jesse B. Semple commentaries. The language and archetypal characters found in the Semple commentaries demonstrates the shifting balance between the struggles and the triumphs of some American Negroes. This shifting balance is represented by the Dionysian and Apollonian traits of Simple and the narrator, Boyd. By creating these characters, Hughes is...
Show moreFriedrich Nietzsche's notion of the Apollonian/Dionysian opposition found in The Birth of Tragedy provides a means to analyze Langston Hughes's Jesse B. Semple commentaries. The language and archetypal characters found in the Semple commentaries demonstrates the shifting balance between the struggles and the triumphs of some American Negroes. This shifting balance is represented by the Dionysian and Apollonian traits of Simple and the narrator, Boyd. By creating these characters, Hughes is able to display the importance of the low-down culture for some black artists. Through the intoxicated Dionysian insight of Semple and the Apollonian logos of the narrator, Hughes demonstrates the blending of folk tradition or myth to common sense or reality. Ultimately, the struggle between these characters constructs the image of the New Negro, as well as the creative framework of the Harlem Renaissance.
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Date Issued: 2004
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13143
Subject Headings: Literature, Modern, History, Black, Literature, American
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The rise and fall of the Boca "Pops".
Creator: Bako-Devant, Maximillion Alexander, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
Abstract/Description: The history of the Boca Pops, so named because it performed popular rather than classical music, began in 1951 with a modest municipal band of 20 volunteer musicians who performed at a Christmas tree lighting ceremony at Boca Raton's Sanborn Square. Yearly, the Pops grew in size and popularity, dominating the local cultural scene, and, as success bred success, the Boca Pops grew into a Titanic. By the late 1980s, the Pops had blossomed into a 95-piece professional orchestra with an annual...
Show moreThe history of the Boca Pops, so named because it performed popular rather than classical music, began in 1951 with a modest municipal band of 20 volunteer musicians who performed at a Christmas tree lighting ceremony at Boca Raton's Sanborn Square. Yearly, the Pops grew in size and popularity, dominating the local cultural scene, and, as success bred success, the Boca Pops grew into a Titanic. By the late 1980s, the Pops had blossomed into a 95-piece professional orchestra with an annual budget of $2.6 million. Obtaining funds from the state, corporations, ticket sales and wealthy social leaders, the Pops seemed to hum along successfully. However, unbeknownst to anyone outside the board room, financial problems surfaced and were left untreated, growing with each passing year. Huge amounts of debt snowballed out of control and ultimately sank the waterlogged organization in 2001.
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Date Issued: 2003
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13018
Subject Headings: History, United States, Music, Business Administration, Management, History, Modern
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC CRISIS, 1965: IMPERIALISM OR BENIGN INTERVENTION?.
Creator: BIELENBERG, DOUGLAS GEORG, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
Abstract/Description: This thesis examines United States intervention in the Dominican Crisis of 1965, against the backdrop of this question: imperialism or benign intervention? The initial chapters comment upon Dominican history, imperialism, and attempt to acquaint the reader with the "land Columbus loved." The remaining chapters are self-explanatory: Prelude to Crisis, Seven Days in April: April 24-30, 1965, and Concluding Comments: Why Intervention.
Date Issued: 1974
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13636
Subject Headings: History, Latin American, History, United States, History, Modern, Political Science, International Law and Relations
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: THESIS, ANTITHESIS, SYNTHESIS: A THREE-PART DIALECTIC OF ELIZABETH BISHOP'S POETRY.
Creator: STIRNEMANN, SHIRLEY A., Florida Atlantic University, Peyton, Ann
Abstract/Description: There is in Elizabeth Bishop's poetry a development which progresses from an objectified, basically Aristotelian, mode of presentation to a subjective mode controlled by post-Kantian ideas of self-awareness to a Husserlian phenomenological expression of integrated experience. By using a Hegelian three-part dialectic in which her three major books, North and South, Questions of Travel, and Geography III, are viewed respectively as thetic, antithetic, and synthetic levels of her aesthetic...
Show moreThere is in Elizabeth Bishop's poetry a development which progresses from an objectified, basically Aristotelian, mode of presentation to a subjective mode controlled by post-Kantian ideas of self-awareness to a Husserlian phenomenological expression of integrated experience. By using a Hegelian three-part dialectic in which her three major books, North and South, Questions of Travel, and Geography III, are viewed respectively as thetic, antithetic, and synthetic levels of her aesthetic development, Bishop's poetry may be seen to reflect the ontogenetic growth of the mind of western man and to be an adumbration of the same whole to part-to-whole to whole-of-parts schema which characterizes Western philosophical thought in general.
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Date Issued: 1985
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14233
Subject Headings: Bishop, Elizabeth,--1911---Criticism and interpretation, Poets, American--20th century--History and criticism, Poetry, Modern--20th century
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The Key West Agreement of 1948: A milestone for naval aviation.
Creator: Vital, Mark David., Florida Atlantic University, O'Sullivan, John
Abstract/Description: The Key West Agreement of 1948 (KWA) was crucial in the Navy's fight to save naval aviation from Air Force encroachment. Prior to the KWA, the Air Force attempted to control the roles and missions surrounding naval aviation. The Air Force in fact, wished to emasculate naval aviation, which in turn would have made it downplayed its importance during the early Cold War years. But the KWA assigned all roles and missions surrounding naval aviation to the Navy and not to the Air Force. In so doing...
Show moreThe Key West Agreement of 1948 (KWA) was crucial in the Navy's fight to save naval aviation from Air Force encroachment. Prior to the KWA, the Air Force attempted to control the roles and missions surrounding naval aviation. The Air Force in fact, wished to emasculate naval aviation, which in turn would have made it downplayed its importance during the early Cold War years. But the KWA assigned all roles and missions surrounding naval aviation to the Navy and not to the Air Force. In so doing, the KWA gave the Navy the right to control all land- and carrier-based aviation as well as develop new technology and weapon systems such as the supercarrier. Without the KWA, the Navy could have lost control of naval aviation. The thesis highlights the importance of the KWA, and explains reasons why historians have failed to focus adequate attention to the subject.
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Date Issued: 1999
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15668
Subject Headings: Naval aviation--History, United States--Military policy, Military history, Modern--20th century, United States--Armed Forces--History
Format: Document (PDF)

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
Format: Document (PDF)

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
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Rereading Gender and the Gothic in Frankenstein and "The Yellow Wallpaper".
Creator: Krol, Jenet Maree, Faraci, Mary, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: Frankenstein and "The Yellow Wallpaper," popular stories of the nineteenth century and included on most college reading lists, have been installed into limited chnons that take away from the art ofthe literature. Written when strict social guidelines ddined and separated the gender spheres, these works show the changing attitudes and resulting social problems for women, between the early nineteenth century (Fmnkenstein) and the late nineteenth century ("The Yellow Wallpaper"). The Gothic...
Show moreFrankenstein and "The Yellow Wallpaper," popular stories of the nineteenth century and included on most college reading lists, have been installed into limited chnons that take away from the art ofthe literature. Written when strict social guidelines ddined and separated the gender spheres, these works show the changing attitudes and resulting social problems for women, between the early nineteenth century (Fmnkenstein) and the late nineteenth century ("The Yellow Wallpaper"). The Gothic genre claims Frankenstein, and since its revival in the 1970s, "The Yell ow Wallpaper" has been firmly seated in the academy under feminist criticism. Each work belongs to both categories, with elements of each attracting more and more readers. Readers can discover that Mary Shelley creates a tale about the horrors of pregnancy and motherhood, while Charlotte Perkins Gilman creates stunning Gothic effects in her short story embraced by feminist criticism.
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Date Issued: 2007
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000931
Subject Headings: Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft,--1797-1851--Frankenstein, Gilman, Charlotte Perkins,--1860-1935--The yellow wallpaper, Gender identity in literature, Feminist fiction, English--History and criticism, Modernism (Literature)--Criticism and interpretation
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Title: The influence of Eliot's modernism in two early novels and autobiographies of Doris Lessing.
Creator: Burns, M. Catherine., Florida Atlantic University, Buckton, Oliver
Abstract/Description: There is deep personal and artistic empathy for T. S. Eliot's modernist poetry in Doris Lessing's early novels and two later autobiographies. As Eliot did, Lessing uses the modernist doctrine of difficulty to portray the education and development of the writer-artist as a long, problematic process, involving prodigious, rigorous, energetic reading efforts, and self-conscious reflexive writing. Lessing also frequently quotes other authors, and she thoroughly uses subverted allusive schemes and...
Show moreThere is deep personal and artistic empathy for T. S. Eliot's modernist poetry in Doris Lessing's early novels and two later autobiographies. As Eliot did, Lessing uses the modernist doctrine of difficulty to portray the education and development of the writer-artist as a long, problematic process, involving prodigious, rigorous, energetic reading efforts, and self-conscious reflexive writing. Lessing also frequently quotes other authors, and she thoroughly uses subverted allusive schemes and extrusive structural complications to render realism in her narratives more vividly. Her mature aesthetic sets at a distance a sense of personal displacement, exile, and uncertain cultural identity and echoes Eliot's dictum that the Poet needed to be impersonal and to seek the significant emotion. Her search for moral intelligibility by narrative framing that combines both fiction and autobiography in autobiographical space or 'pact' may also arguably be modernist.
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Date Issued: 2005
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13294
Subject Headings: Eliot, TS--(Thomas Stearns),--1888-1965--Criticism and interpretation, Eliot, TS--(Thomas Stearns),--1888-1965--Influence, Lessing, Doris,--1919-2013--Criticism and interpretation, Modernism (Literature), Poetry--20th century--History and criticism
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Title: Historical reductionism in Christopher Marlowe's "Edward II".
Creator: Crawford, Kevin Scott., Florida Atlantic University, Collins, Robert A.
Abstract/Description: Marlowe's adaptation of chronicle history for the composition of Edward II entails a multi-leveled process in which the playwright reduces the political and patriotic strife of his source material into a fierce contention of personal will driven by greed, pride, and lust for personal gratification. In opposition to the providential control apparent in Elizabethan accounts of English history, and influenced by the social machinations of the English and Scottish courts in the 1590's, Marlowe...
Show moreMarlowe's adaptation of chronicle history for the composition of Edward II entails a multi-leveled process in which the playwright reduces the political and patriotic strife of his source material into a fierce contention of personal will driven by greed, pride, and lust for personal gratification. In opposition to the providential control apparent in Elizabethan accounts of English history, and influenced by the social machinations of the English and Scottish courts in the 1590's, Marlowe boldly alters the chronology of historical events to achieve a reactionary effect that is not evident in his main source, Holinshed's Chronicles; the ages and backgrounds of many characters are also altered to create almost archetypal antagonists in order to illuminate the human forces at work in the play. Moreover, Marlowe manipulates the staging of military action, personal discord, and Edward II's murder itself to accentuate his reductionist treatment of source material.
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Date Issued: 1995
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15184
Subject Headings: Marlowe, Christopher,--1564-1593--Criticism and interpretation, Edward--II,--King of England,--1284-1327--Drama, English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism, Marlowe, Christopher,--1564-1593--Edward the Second
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