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"Room for you and me"
Title
"Room for you and me": an ethical critique of noncanonical labor literature.
Creator
McDermott, Rachel., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
Labor literature is in popular and academic neglect. I argue that labor literature's neglect is unjust, and I provide a way of examining labor literature that can rescue it from neglect. I shall be concerned with labor literature's academic decline due to its apparent lack of value according to traditional standards of literary criticism. I will argue that ethical criticism - criticism of literature that considers the ethics of a work as a part of its literary value - can reveal new...
Show moreLabor literature is in popular and academic neglect. I argue that labor literature's neglect is unjust, and I provide a way of examining labor literature that can rescue it from neglect. I shall be concerned with labor literature's academic decline due to its apparent lack of value according to traditional standards of literary criticism. I will argue that ethical criticism - criticism of literature that considers the ethics of a work as a part of its literary value - can reveal new complexities in labor literature. An ethical critical analysis of the representation of American labor movements and workers in noncanonical texts will show the distinctive ethical value such texts hold. I will argue that labor texts possess ethical value insofar as they help readers develop awareness of complex ethical issues posed by labor and community, and that the ethical value of labor literature provides a new reason to value such works.
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Date Issued
2012
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3342209
Subject Headings
Narration (Rhetoric), Authenticity (Philosophy) in literature, Criticism and interpretation, Labor in literature, Criticism and interpretation
Format
Document (PDF)
Excuse me (random acts of encounter and exploration)
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)
High summer
Title
High summer.
Creator
Hasler Martinez, Michelle., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
High Summer is a manuscript-length compilation of narrative science essays that trace the relationship the narrator has with her father. These essays focus on the ongoing presence of drugs, their historical basis, and their pharmacological effects on the body.
Date Issued
2012
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3358552
Subject Headings
Fathers and daughters, Parent and child, Symbolism in literature, Psychology, Pathological, Substance abuse, Physiological aspects, Narration (Rhetoric), Creative nonfiction
Format
Document (PDF)
Polysemy in John Milton's Paradise Lost
Title
Polysemy in John Milton's Paradise Lost.
Creator
Harrawood, Suzanne., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
This is a study of the polysemous language in John Milton's Paradise Lost. Unlike some of his seventeenth-century contemporaries, Milton did not harbor a mistrust of highly symbolic and interpretable language, and the fact that he did not has deep repercussions in Milton's great epic. I examine the porous and mutable nature of Edenic language, and how it challenges the idea of prelapsarian language as devoid of polysemous gloss. Prior to the Fall, Adam and Eve's perfect acquisition of...
Show moreThis is a study of the polysemous language in John Milton's Paradise Lost. Unlike some of his seventeenth-century contemporaries, Milton did not harbor a mistrust of highly symbolic and interpretable language, and the fact that he did not has deep repercussions in Milton's great epic. I examine the porous and mutable nature of Edenic language, and how it challenges the idea of prelapsarian language as devoid of polysemous gloss. Prior to the Fall, Adam and Eve's perfect acquisition of knowledge is not undermined by the symbolism of language. Nevertheless, Satan cleverly exploits the polysemy of Edenic language in order to effectuate Adam and Eve's transgression. Ultimately, Milton's Paradise Lost departs from common seventeenth-century theories about language and knowledge. Milton's view is unique in that it retains a positive view of symbolic language and suggests that postlapsarian humanity is bereft of divine guidance and left to struggle for knowledge through experience.
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Date Issued
2009
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/332913
Subject Headings
Criticism and interpretation, Symbolism in literature, Narration (Rhetoric), Polysemy, Semiotics
Format
Document (PDF)
power of subtext and the politics of closure
Title
The power of subtext and the politics of closure: an examination of self, representation, and audience in 3 narrative forms.
Creator
Berzak, Adam., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
This thesis explores the ways that certain artists-including Joseph Conrad, Alan Moore, Richard Attenborough, and Francis Ford Coppola-break from their inherited traditions in order to speak from an alternative perspective to western discourse. Conventional narrative formulas prescribe that meaning will be revealed in a definitive end, but all of the texts discussed reveal other avenues through which it is discerned. In Heart of Darkness, the tension between two divergent narratives enables...
Show moreThis thesis explores the ways that certain artists-including Joseph Conrad, Alan Moore, Richard Attenborough, and Francis Ford Coppola-break from their inherited traditions in order to speak from an alternative perspective to western discourse. Conventional narrative formulas prescribe that meaning will be revealed in a definitive end, but all of the texts discussed reveal other avenues through which it is discerned. In Heart of Darkness, the tension between two divergent narratives enables Conrad to speak beyond his social context and imperialist limitations to demonstrate that identity is socially constructed. In Watchmen, Moore breaks from comic convention to illustrate ways meaning may be ascertained despite the lack of plot ends. The third chapter explores the ways that Attenborough and Coppola subvert technical and plot conventions to resist static constitutions of identity endemic to Hollywood film. The several texts discussed subvert the Self/Other duality by suggesting alternatives to the western narrative model.
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Date Issued
2010
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2683123
Subject Headings
Narration (Rhetoric), Closure (Rhetoric), Symbolism in literature, Postmodernism (Literature), Rhetorical criticism
Format
Document (PDF)