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- Combining Chemistry and College Writing: A New Model for an Honors Undergraduate Chemistry Course.
- Creator
- Chamely-Wiik, Donna M., Haky, Jerome E., Galin, Jeffrey R., Kasdorf, Krista
- Date Issued
- 2009
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUIR000231
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- Citation
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- Design at the Graduate Level: Preparing Graduate Teaching Assistants to Teach Visual Literacy.
- Creator
- Galin, Jeffrey R., Swartz, Haley, Gleyzer, Marianna, Copley, Rachel, Marino, Nicholas Mennona
- Abstract/Description
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While much has been written about visual literacy and multimodal teaching, almost nothing has been published on preparing instructors and graduate teaching assistants to provide students with the mechanics of visual design, rhetoric, and cultural criticism to help them build complex, multimodal projects that go beyond visual inclusion and critique. This chapter focuses on a graduate course on visual literacy, rhetoric, and design that was taught by one of the authors and taken by the other...
Show moreWhile much has been written about visual literacy and multimodal teaching, almost nothing has been published on preparing instructors and graduate teaching assistants to provide students with the mechanics of visual design, rhetoric, and cultural criticism to help them build complex, multimodal projects that go beyond visual inclusion and critique. This chapter focuses on a graduate course on visual literacy, rhetoric, and design that was taught by one of the authors and taken by the other four. Grounded in previous claims for visual literacy in the field, the authors open by introducing how and why students can be helped to develop visual arguments. It then introduces the graduate course, and 10 strategies for successful multimodal, project-based teaching, which are exemplified by graduate and undergraduate project examples. The chapter concludes with example assignments from two of the graduate authors and a call for a dedicated cross-disciplinary graduate course for multimodal pedagogy.
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- 2018
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUIR000224
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- Citation
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- Program Review English, 2014-2015.
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- Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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Florida Atlantic University Departmental Dashboard Indicators. Department program reviews for Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University.
- Date Issued
- 2014-2015
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007597
- Subject Headings
- Florida Atlantic University -- History
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Program Review English, 2015-2016.
- Creator
- Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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Florida Atlantic University Departmental Dashboard Indicators. Department program reviews for Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University.
- Date Issued
- 2015-2016
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007598
- Subject Headings
- Florida Atlantic University -- History
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- Document (PDF)
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- Program Review English, 2012-2013.
- Creator
- Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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Florida Atlantic University Departmental Dashboard Indicators. Department program reviews for Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University.
- Date Issued
- 2012-2013
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007595
- Subject Headings
- Florida Atlantic University -- History
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Program Review English, 2013-2014.
- Creator
- Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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Florida Atlantic University Departmental Dashboard Indicators. Department program reviews for Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University.
- Date Issued
- 2013-2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007596
- Subject Headings
- Florida Atlantic University -- History
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Program Review English, 2009-2010.
- Creator
- Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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Florida Atlantic University Departmental Dashboard Indicators. Department program reviews for Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University.
- Date Issued
- 2009-2010
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007593
- Subject Headings
- Florida Atlantic University -- History
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Program Review English, 2010-2011.
- Creator
- Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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Florida Atlantic University Departmental Dashboard Indicators. Department program reviews for Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University.
- Date Issued
- 2010-2011
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007594
- Subject Headings
- Florida Atlantic University -- History
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Program Review English, 2016-2017.
- Creator
- Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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Florida Atlantic University Departmental Dashboard Indicators. Department program reviews for Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University.
- Date Issued
- 2016-2017
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007599
- Subject Headings
- Florida Atlantic University -- History
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- Document (PDF)
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- Among cats, between cemeteries, and inside morgues.
- Creator
- Thompson, Lana., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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thesis is written with the intent to connect work I have created since writing The Wandering Womb: a cultural history of outrageous beliefs about women. It began as a collage of stories, poetry, images and memories. I intended to funnel this accumulation of mental maps, unusual vistas and events, poetic moments of inertia, into an alembic that would yield a unique residue, but it boiled over and only words remain. The starting point of these experiences took me to back rooms of museums,...
Show morethesis is written with the intent to connect work I have created since writing The Wandering Womb: a cultural history of outrageous beliefs about women. It began as a collage of stories, poetry, images and memories. I intended to funnel this accumulation of mental maps, unusual vistas and events, poetic moments of inertia, into an alembic that would yield a unique residue, but it boiled over and only words remain. The starting point of these experiences took me to back rooms of museums, morgues, surgical suites and special collections libraries throughout the world to explore the stuff of curiosity. Martin Buber (1878-1965) allegedly, but not verifiably, is quoted as writing, "All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware." Cats in cemeteries, sixteenth century anatomy books, babies in bottles, two headed calves, and chapels constructed from bones are but a few of the marvelous destinations I have discovered.
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- 2010
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3338859
- Subject Headings
- Symbolism in literature
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Asunder.
- Creator
- Harthcock, Rebecca., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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Asunder is a poetic work in various forms. As a manuscript, it includes an erasure of chapter five in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, two poetic images, and a handful of more traditional forms (including a sonnet) that focus on themes of loss and faith.
- Date Issued
- 2013
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3360785
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Between Us and All.
- Creator
- Davidheiser, Caitlyn, Papatya Bucak, Ayse, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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Between Us and All is a collection of fictional stories addressing themes of gender, religion, family, class, and sexuality. A portion of this manuscript is a linked collection of short stories, following the fictional Kelly/Sullivan family through their daily lives in the Coal Region of Pennsylvania.
- Date Issued
- 2019
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013196
- Subject Headings
- Short stories, Fiction, Themes
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Between Waves.
- Creator
- Jensen, Rebecca, Schmitt, Kate, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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Between Waves is a lyrical memoir that explores the changes I faced in transitioning into American life after growing up in rural England. The book is written in two parts; the first is set mostly in England, the second takes place primarily in Florida. I interweave a present, reflective voice through both parts to challenge the ideas of love, loss, and learning to say goodbye as well as attempting to illustrate how perceptions of each can change over time. The lyrical structure of the memoir...
Show moreBetween Waves is a lyrical memoir that explores the changes I faced in transitioning into American life after growing up in rural England. The book is written in two parts; the first is set mostly in England, the second takes place primarily in Florida. I interweave a present, reflective voice through both parts to challenge the ideas of love, loss, and learning to say goodbye as well as attempting to illustrate how perceptions of each can change over time. The lyrical structure of the memoir allows for swift transition between memories, themes, and locations without limitations of a chronological or linear storyline. The stories detailed throughout the memoir are meditative, subjective perceptions that intend to determine what it means to be a child, a parent, a transplant, and what it means to find home within it all.
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- 2017
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004833, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004833
- Subject Headings
- Jensen, Rebecca., Immigrants--United States--Personal narratives., Memory--Social aspects.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Augustinian virtue in the Dickensian world: the role of Christian friendship in the conversion of souls and the move toward the Heavenly City.
- Creator
- Kriegel, Jill A., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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The novels of Charles Dickens resonate with ancient and Christian moral messages: From plots and characters representative of Victorian ideals and concerns emerge themes that reflect centuries of moral, and, as I argue, specifically Augustinian, teaching. While the Christian overtones of Charles Dickens's novels are seldom denied, their Augustinian nature, their purpose, and Dickens's hopes for their effect are rarely given their proper due. In opposition to the postmodern idea of an...
Show moreThe novels of Charles Dickens resonate with ancient and Christian moral messages: From plots and characters representative of Victorian ideals and concerns emerge themes that reflect centuries of moral, and, as I argue, specifically Augustinian, teaching. While the Christian overtones of Charles Dickens's novels are seldom denied, their Augustinian nature, their purpose, and Dickens's hopes for their effect are rarely given their proper due. In opposition to the postmodern idea of an increasing nihilism and despair in Dickens's message, I examine instead his steadfast fascination with and joy in the power of charitable friendships-friendships that embody goodness and the possibility for conversion, friendships that are especially noteworthy amid the societal darkness ushered in by the crises of faith that accompanied nineteenth-century industrialization, commercialization, and de-moralization. Preparing to highlight the undeniable moral value in both the rejected and realized friendships and conversions of Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit, Bleak House, and Great Expectations, first I focus on true friendship as a necessary part of a soul's ascent developed in Plato's Symposium and Phaedrus, as well as in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, illustrating how these classical texts anticipate the Augustinian notion of a soul's transformation from the earthly city to the city of God. With this literary continuum thus established, I contend that the Heavenly City as it is reflected in the Dickensian world relies on its virtuous citizens, those true friends who consistently manifest Christian charity, humility, and forgiveness.
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- 2010
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2683142
- Subject Headings
- Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Christianity in literature, Criticism and interpretation, Religion in literature, Criticism and interpretation, Friendship in literature, Criticism and interpretation, Soul, Christianity
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Authority.
- Creator
- Shelton, Catherine L., Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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Authority is a fictional collection of mixed poetry, prose, and experimental forms of writing. The collection addresses the exchange of power between the reader and the writer surrounding a text, while challenging the forms writing takes on the page during this exchange. Behind this search for authority and the meta-fictional manipulation of the writer, however, is the struggle of an author suffering with depression. An author, who is willing to alienate and risk confusion, in order to share...
Show moreAuthority is a fictional collection of mixed poetry, prose, and experimental forms of writing. The collection addresses the exchange of power between the reader and the writer surrounding a text, while challenging the forms writing takes on the page during this exchange. Behind this search for authority and the meta-fictional manipulation of the writer, however, is the struggle of an author suffering with depression. An author, who is willing to alienate and risk confusion, in order to share their experiences of disorientation, fear, morbid humor, and constant doubt, hoping to find understanding with a faceless reader.
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- 2013
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA0004061
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- Document (PDF)
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- Author-ity, privilege and violation: the role of subaltern and the intellectual in the novels of Julia Alvarez.
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- Alonso, Raquel., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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Can the subaltern really speak? Invoking Gayatri Spivak's post-colonial theory on the subaltern, this study aims to highlight the necessary, yet problematic relationship between intellectuals and the marginalized groups they seek to represent. This study argues that in the last chapter of Julia Alvarez's How the Garcâia Girls Lost Their Accents, the image of the wailing cat becomes a haunting image regarding Alvarez's own subject-position as a writer, a role that often places her in the...
Show moreCan the subaltern really speak? Invoking Gayatri Spivak's post-colonial theory on the subaltern, this study aims to highlight the necessary, yet problematic relationship between intellectuals and the marginalized groups they seek to represent. This study argues that in the last chapter of Julia Alvarez's How the Garcâia Girls Lost Their Accents, the image of the wailing cat becomes a haunting image regarding Alvarez's own subject-position as a writer, a role that often places her in the center of harsh criticism. Consequently, this project traces the subaltern figures through three of Alvarez's texts -¡YO!, In the Time of the Butterflies, and Saving the World - in order to reveal the paradox that defines their relationship with the privileged body that seeks to be their representative. The subaltern cannot speak beyond the margins without the help of the elite; however, the same position of privilege and power that enables the intellectual to write can quickly become the factor that discredits their right to speak. Consequently, this study also attempts to reclaim the voice of Julia Alvarez, who is herself silenced and thus, rendered subaltern in the literary market by critics who feel that her privileged position complicates her ability to represent the collective.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2010
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2867330
- Subject Headings
- Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Marginality, Social
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Autobiography of an Exile: Analyzing the Reproduction of Subjugation Found in Sean O’Casey’s Dublin Trilogy.
- Creator
- Benkly, Jason, Faraci, Mary, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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Sean O’Casey’s Dublin Trilogy travels through the Irish revolutionary period and explores how this environment created a revolutionary Dublin where armed militants struggled to overthrow the authority and privileges of their British oppressors. Seeking to remove the colonial authority that had oppressed the Dublin population for so long, these revolutionaries fought, killed, and died in their quest for an independent Ireland. In this struggle, groups of armed men can be seen employing tactics...
Show moreSean O’Casey’s Dublin Trilogy travels through the Irish revolutionary period and explores how this environment created a revolutionary Dublin where armed militants struggled to overthrow the authority and privileges of their British oppressors. Seeking to remove the colonial authority that had oppressed the Dublin population for so long, these revolutionaries fought, killed, and died in their quest for an independent Ireland. In this struggle, groups of armed men can be seen employing tactics that would only lead to the continued oppression of other sections of the Irish population. By connecting the Dublin Trilogy to his autobiographies, in which he highlights the importance of family as a supportive unit for the Dublin poor, I propose that O’Casey, in the Dublin Trilogy, warns that these ideological reproductions would eventually lead to the continued subjugation of Irish women and other members of the Irish population outside of the masculinist, militant identity supporting the Irish independence struggle.
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- 2017
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004816, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004816
- Subject Headings
- Irish Citizen Army., O'Casey, Sean--1880-1964--Criticism and interpretation., Intimidation--Ireland--History--20th century., Revolutions--Ireland--History--20th century., Ireland--History--Civil War, 1922-1923., Ireland--History--Autonomy and independence movements., O'Casey, Sean--1880-1964.--Shadow of a gunman--Criticism and interpretation., O'Casey, Sean--1880-1964.--Juno and the paycock--Criticism and interpretation., O'Casey, Sean--1880-1964.--The.--Plough and the stars--Criticism and interpretation.
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- Document (PDF)
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- Authorial Narration of Photographs: Postmemory In Erika Dreifus's Short Story Collection Quiet Americans.
- Creator
- Hall, Dennis Carmen, Berger, Alan L., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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Postmemory is an interpretive theory that describes the relationship between the children of Holocaust survivors (Second-generation witnesses) and the trauma suffered by their parents. This thesis extends postmemory in two ways: first, postmemory is extended to include refugees who escaped the Holocaust. Thus, refugee families are situated in the three familial paradigms of Holocaust memory. Second, postmemory is extended to Third-generation witnesses (grandchildren of Holocaust survivors and...
Show morePostmemory is an interpretive theory that describes the relationship between the children of Holocaust survivors (Second-generation witnesses) and the trauma suffered by their parents. This thesis extends postmemory in two ways: first, postmemory is extended to include refugees who escaped the Holocaust. Thus, refugee families are situated in the three familial paradigms of Holocaust memory. Second, postmemory is extended to Third-generation witnesses (grandchildren of Holocaust survivors and refugees). Manifestations and representations of postmemory in Third-generation refugee families is demonstrated by authorial narration of photographs in third-generation refugee writer Erika Dreifus's short story collection Quiet Americans.
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- 2015
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004503, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004503
- Subject Headings
- Children of Holocaust survivors -- Family relationships, Children of Holocaust survivors -- Intellectual life, Dreifus, Erika -- Quiet Americans -- Criticism and interpretation, Holocaust , Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography, Holocaust , Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence, Holocaust , Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives, Holocaust , Jewish (1939-1945) -- Psychological aspects, Photography -- Philosophy, Photography of families
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- At the bank of paradise: and other stories.
- Creator
- McIntosh, Monique, Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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From modern-day parking lot snipers to 18th century Romantic picturesque painters, At the Bank of Paradise: and Other Stories explores the unexpected boundaries of the Caribbean, following those who have come, those who have stayed, and those who have left the Caribbean behind. Inspired by real historical figures at the periphery of the Caribbean experience, these stories dive into untold narratives only glimpsed in the footnotes of history.
- Date Issued
- 2015
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004390, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004390
- Subject Headings
- Short stories, American, Caribbean Area--Civilization, Caribbean Area--Historiography
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Authenticity in the Fictional Voices of Toni Morrison’s Love and Home: Tracing Conversations Among Author, Readers, and Narrators as a Rewrite of U.S. History.
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- Bulacio-Watier, Marisol, Hagood, Taylor, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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Toni Morrison’s later novels Love and Home bring forth an issue of identity anxiety for those involved in the narrative: author, narrators, and readers. Featuring both first-person and third-person narrators, these works offer conflicting narratives in which the writer, Morrison, allows her characters to question her own authorial voice. Greater agency is given to the first-person narrators through which they deconstruct the traditional objectivity of third-person narratives. As such, this...
Show moreToni Morrison’s later novels Love and Home bring forth an issue of identity anxiety for those involved in the narrative: author, narrators, and readers. Featuring both first-person and third-person narrators, these works offer conflicting narratives in which the writer, Morrison, allows her characters to question her own authorial voice. Greater agency is given to the first-person narrators through which they deconstruct the traditional objectivity of third-person narratives. As such, this thesis argues, the structures of Love and Home extend their inside conversations to the real world of readers who must reconsider where their narrative trust has been. Moreover, Morrison’s challenge to her authorial voice becomes the means through which she questions the hegemony of U.S. historical narratives. In the end, it is the subjective voices of the first-person narrators which offer a more reliable, counter narrative of not only Morrison’s fictional stories, but that of the nation’s historical past.
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- 2017
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004995
- Subject Headings
- Dissertations, Academic -- Florida Atlantic University, Morrison, Toni--Criticism and interpretation.
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- Document (PDF)