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Title: Mind the Gap: Overcoming Dualities in Motor City, USA.
Creator: Houser, Tai Lynden, Blakemore, Steven, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: Contemporary thinking, bound as it is to a dualistic paradigm, inherently privileges one side of the duality over the other. Feminists - most notably in this dissertation, Val Plumwood - argue that we must overcome these privileged dualities and reconstruct a way of knowing that recognizes difference while not granting privilege to one side or the other. Dualities result from the modernist and postmodernist desire to name and control. One of the reasons that we cannot transcend this desire is...
Show moreContemporary thinking, bound as it is to a dualistic paradigm, inherently privileges one side of the duality over the other. Feminists - most notably in this dissertation, Val Plumwood - argue that we must overcome these privileged dualities and reconstruct a way of knowing that recognizes difference while not granting privilege to one side or the other. Dualities result from the modernist and postmodernist desire to name and control. One of the reasons that we cannot transcend this desire is because we have lost our connection to our environment. Examining novels and films set in Detroit, Michigan, as well as coming to terms with that city's history, will allow us to find places where clairvoyant messengers can commune with the environment and offer us an insight into ways of overcoming the radical "othering" ofduality. This project begins by examining the literary history of urban fiction in the United States and pointing to the tradition of duality and some of its surface problems. Then, the project begins to construct a history of Detroit that exposes the complex layers of duality that have informed the city's growth and ultimately led to the 1967 riots. Next, the argument suggests the importance of fiction and film in understanding modern dualities. The first fictive example, Maureen, from Joyce Carol Oates's novel them is an example of a potential clairvoyant. However, bound as she is to a postmodern existence, Maureen experiences her "other'' but fails to provide a didactic example of non-dualistic thinking. Ultimately, postmodernism and postmodern/post riot Detroit only mystify and compound the problems associated with modern dualities. Likewise, Jeffrey Eugenides transgendered hero/ine Calliope (Middlesex) experiences her natural "other" and allows us to call into question the traditional binaries we use to create our understandings of gender. Both characters retell their experience and re-present their bodies in an attempt to bridge dualities and overcome their "otherness." Finally, the dissertation finds a representation of contemporary Detroit, Eminem's 8 Mile, and argues that violence and shame are at the root of dualities and ultimately distract us from overcoming both fictional and real examples of the oppressive "othering" which results from a culture steeped in dualistic thinking.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000984
Subject Headings: Detroit (Mich)--In literature, Detroit (Mich)--History--21st century--Criticism and interpretation, Symbolism in literature, Postmodernism--Psychological aspects, Philosophy of nature
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Happenstance and Circumstance: A Collection of Short Stories.
Creator: Storms, Winifred M., Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: This short story collection is a meditation on happenstance and circumstance as played out in each character's life often catalyzed through the introduction of an unknown element: whether that element be a new character, perspective, or knowledge. Stylistically, the voice of the narration is colorful and humorous though the subject matter may be of the melancholic or macabre variety. The point of view changes from first to third, depending on the story and main character; however, the...
Show moreThis short story collection is a meditation on happenstance and circumstance as played out in each character's life often catalyzed through the introduction of an unknown element: whether that element be a new character, perspective, or knowledge. Stylistically, the voice of the narration is colorful and humorous though the subject matter may be of the melancholic or macabre variety. The point of view changes from first to third, depending on the story and main character; however, the unifying factors of this collection is that each character is changed because of a loss, whether metaphoric or literal.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000967
Subject Headings: Symbolism in literature, Short stories, American--Collections
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The Concept of Nature in American Transcendentalism: Emerson and Thoreau appropriating Kant.
Creator: Unger, Ulrike, Augustyn, Prisca, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: The objective of this study is to compare Emerson's and Thoreau's concepts of nature as they are informed by Immanuel Kant. In particular, this study examines Emerson's Nature, The Transcendentalist, The Divinity School Address, The Conservative; and Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Walden; or, Life in the Woods and The Maine Woods to analyze how their ideas of nature are anchored in Kant's three Critiques. Emerson and Thoreau develop Kant's ideas and both arrive at an...
Show moreThe objective of this study is to compare Emerson's and Thoreau's concepts of nature as they are informed by Immanuel Kant. In particular, this study examines Emerson's Nature, The Transcendentalist, The Divinity School Address, The Conservative; and Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Walden; or, Life in the Woods and The Maine Woods to analyze how their ideas of nature are anchored in Kant's three Critiques. Emerson and Thoreau develop Kant's ideas and both arrive at an unlimited nature which is not bound to objects of form. While Emerson focuses on human nature in the organism, Thoreau is concerned with organic nature in particular.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000971
Subject Headings: Emerson, Ralph Waldo,--1803-1882--Criticism and interpretation, Thoreau, Henry David,--1817-1862--Criticism and interpretation, Kant, Immanuel,--1724-1804--Criticism and interpretation, Transcendentalism in literature, Nature in literature, Symbolism in literature
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Title: Temporary Death.
Creator: Vanik, Phyllis Jean, Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: In this novel of first person present tense , a family of women responds to death in techniques of memento mori and carpe diem. Whether living for a cause or without one, their journeys cover three continents and five islands where geography is metaphor for the violence, wanderlust, power, love, and need to create that drives thems as they interrogate the controlled demolition of their world, answering it with a return to nomadic lifestyles. Celia is an escape artist, satirizing the world as...
Show moreIn this novel of first person present tense , a family of women responds to death in techniques of memento mori and carpe diem. Whether living for a cause or without one, their journeys cover three continents and five islands where geography is metaphor for the violence, wanderlust, power, love, and need to create that drives thems as they interrogate the controlled demolition of their world, answering it with a return to nomadic lifestyles. Celia is an escape artist, satirizing the world as she wanders through it, putter her own perspective stamp and slant on things, while Taylor wants to be president but leaves mainstream for the slipstream of trauma. Elaine is a cornucopia of inputs, energies, and charges fired up all at once, while Ruth paces her longevity in the flatness of the new world. At the hidden center, Noni attempts to reincarnate herself without dying.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000973
Subject Headings: Symbolism in literature, Death in literature, Aesthetics--Moral and ethical aspects--Fiction, Death and dying--Fiction
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Her Own House.
Creator: Vann, Kim McCoy, Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: This collection of eight short stories explores the themes of nonconformity, selfacceptance, and transformation. Characters confront religious, racial, and moral issues, which result in overcoming some internal or external challenge. The stories are told with magical, satirical, and traditional story-telling elements. For example, "The Liberation of Mammy" is about a slave who uses her secret pancake recipe to cause a distraction that allows her to escape from bondage; "Her Own House," is...
Show moreThis collection of eight short stories explores the themes of nonconformity, selfacceptance, and transformation. Characters confront religious, racial, and moral issues, which result in overcoming some internal or external challenge. The stories are told with magical, satirical, and traditional story-telling elements. For example, "The Liberation of Mammy" is about a slave who uses her secret pancake recipe to cause a distraction that allows her to escape from bondage; "Her Own House," is inspired by the biblical burning bush story; and "Notes on a Video Honey" is the story of a young girl who doesn't complete! y understand or approve of her mother's decision to degrade herself by being mere eye candy in rap videos. Worlds similar to our own and worlds that are exaggerations of our own are intended to guide readers to ideas they may have never before considered.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000974
Subject Headings: Short stories--Collections, Symbolism in literature, Self in literature
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Bullet.
Creator: Pumphrey, Christopher J., Schwartz, Jason, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: Bullet is a collection of short stories that fictionalizes the last days of twentieth century world authors. Inspired heavily by the biographies of each writer, the stories depict the spiraling psyches of each suicide. Each narrator is carefully crafted out of the real life of each author though, first and foremost, each story is fiction. By the end, Bullet is a contemplation of both life and death from the perspective of the greatest minds of the last one hundred years. Only now, in the new...
Show moreBullet is a collection of short stories that fictionalizes the last days of twentieth century world authors. Inspired heavily by the biographies of each writer, the stories depict the spiraling psyches of each suicide. Each narrator is carefully crafted out of the real life of each author though, first and foremost, each story is fiction. By the end, Bullet is a contemplation of both life and death from the perspective of the greatest minds of the last one hundred years. Only now, in the new millennium, can the twentieth century be definitively sketched. Bullet is one of the first pieces of writing to do so.
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Date Issued: 2009
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000952
Subject Headings: Short stories, American, Symbolism in literature, Death--Fiction, Suicide--Fiction
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Title: Work ln Progress.
Creator: Robinson, Nick R., Bradley, William, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: Consistent with Vivian Gornick's "idea of self," Work In Progress is, in many ways, a classic coming-of-age story in which the boy, Nicky, along his life-journey, struggles to discover who he is. If Work In Progress is unusual, it is in the degree and the detail that it delves into its major themes, which I discuss below. Second, Work in Progress is unusual in the number of purposeful stylistic variations employed across the project's books. Nicky's story is told in seven books, each of which...
Show moreConsistent with Vivian Gornick's "idea of self," Work In Progress is, in many ways, a classic coming-of-age story in which the boy, Nicky, along his life-journey, struggles to discover who he is. If Work In Progress is unusual, it is in the degree and the detail that it delves into its major themes, which I discuss below. Second, Work in Progress is unusual in the number of purposeful stylistic variations employed across the project's books. Nicky's story is told in seven books, each of which is a standalone, personal essay. Through the books the reader is provided an episodic snapshot of Nicky's life. Each of the snapshots facilitate a particular view of Nicky, each is a jigsaw-puzzle-piece that, when snapped together with the other puzzle pieces, form a single, holistic image of the boy and his search for self I provide an overview of each of the seven books below. I am also endeavoring to write Work in Progress on three levels: The first level is the compelling, personal level that draws the reader to the individual, Nicky, and the group of supporting characters. The story has to be compelling enough to pull the reader through the various stylistic iterations of each of the different books. Second, through the exploration of the major themes of institutionalization, abuse, religion, and racism (including the offshoots: race-based self-hatred and the discrimination within races that Alice Walker cans colorism), I attempt to raise the story up to another level, a level of universal applicability. Specifically, I want the everyday reader, the reader who has not suffered these circumstances to know them through the reading experience, and, consequently, to relate to and with Nicky. Toward this end, I use every narrative tool and technique at my disposal including utilizing reflection in the form of stream of consciousness and dreams, for example, to put the reader into the experience instead of telling the reader what the protagonist is thinking. I also maximize the use of scene, imagery, metaphor, and dialogue, to show the reader, and to allow the reader to come to their own conclusions.
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Date Issued: 2009
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000958
Subject Headings: Symbolism in literature, Self in literature
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Title: Hungry and Other Stories.
Creator: Sheffield, Mary, Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: This is a collection of short stories that deal with elements of identity, the fantastic, fragmentation, poetry, the media, politics, and myriad other themes. The stories are connected by an interwoven thread of self-discovery and awareness. These stories present an image and then rework it, giving greater or varied details about whatever is being describing in the hope of achieving a more visceral story, a more true experience of writing and reading, and a better understanding of the...
Show moreThis is a collection of short stories that deal with elements of identity, the fantastic, fragmentation, poetry, the media, politics, and myriad other themes. The stories are connected by an interwoven thread of self-discovery and awareness. These stories present an image and then rework it, giving greater or varied details about whatever is being describing in the hope of achieving a more visceral story, a more true experience of writing and reading, and a better understanding of the emotions that underlie the story. These stories also try to capture and communicate the idea that our experience is a common one, across time and cultures, and the idea that many, many more writers than I could ever read in my lifetime have written about this experience.
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Date Issued: 2009
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000963
Subject Headings: Symbolism in literature, Short stories, American--Collections, Conduct of life
Format: Document (PDF)

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

Title: Mobile Modernity: Transportation in the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.
Creator: Johnston, Carrie E., Furman, Andrew, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: A central paradox in modernism is its disdain for mass culture, despite mass culture 's undeniable presence in modernist literature. American authors writing during the early twentieth century tried to establish themselves as "highbrow" by leaving the U.S. and traveling to Europe. In doing so, they created a particular aesthetic characterized by depictions of the transportation that facilitated this travel. These depictions reveal modernism's dependence on mass culture, and more importantly,...
Show moreA central paradox in modernism is its disdain for mass culture, despite mass culture 's undeniable presence in modernist literature. American authors writing during the early twentieth century tried to establish themselves as "highbrow" by leaving the U.S. and traveling to Europe. In doing so, they created a particular aesthetic characterized by depictions of the transportation that facilitated this travel. These depictions reveal modernism's dependence on mass culture, and more importantly, create a space in which modernist authors can negotiate what was once a choice between high or low culture, exile or tourist, and ultimately, modernism or mass culture. Analyzing the car and train scenes in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night and Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises reveals the hybrid spaces made available to these authors through transportation.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000930
Subject Headings: Fitzgerald, F Scott--(Francis Scott),--1896-1940--Tender is the night--Criticism and interpretation, Hemingway, Ernest,--1899-1961--Sun also rises--Criticism and interpretation, Literature and society--United States, Symbolism in literature, Travel in literature, Postmodernism (Literature)
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Title: Otway.
Creator: Hall, Sherry L., Mitchell, Susan, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: Otway is a verse collection that explores the journey of the self in isolation. The collection commences with the narrator's inability to make sense of involuntary isolation. The subsequent melancholia prompts the narrator's journey of self-exploration, which progresses outward into the natural world. This journey is signified through the narrator's travels, which bring her into direct contact with the numinous (nature). Consequently, both narrator and numen become integrated, leading to the...
Show moreOtway is a verse collection that explores the journey of the self in isolation. The collection commences with the narrator's inability to make sense of involuntary isolation. The subsequent melancholia prompts the narrator's journey of self-exploration, which progresses outward into the natural world. This journey is signified through the narrator's travels, which bring her into direct contact with the numinous (nature). Consequently, both narrator and numen become integrated, leading to the transformation of solitude as "undesirable" space into "sacred" space, one in which self-discovery can occur.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000915
Subject Headings: Symbolism in literature, Self-perception, Poetry--Collections
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Only sound remains.
Creator: Filsoofi, Raheleh T., McConnell, Brian E., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Visual Arts and Art History
Abstract/Description: We each experience the world through the prism of our upbringing, our traditions and the familiar sights and sounds embedded deep within our soul. Only Sound Remains is an installation in which I explore and share those experiences through objects, sounds and video. Ceramic vessels inspired by the traditions of my ancestors hide and shape sounds that narrate simple and complex experiences, which are the stories of my life. The sounds relate to the world that I came from and that still can be...
Show moreWe each experience the world through the prism of our upbringing, our traditions and the familiar sights and sounds embedded deep within our soul. Only Sound Remains is an installation in which I explore and share those experiences through objects, sounds and video. Ceramic vessels inspired by the traditions of my ancestors hide and shape sounds that narrate simple and complex experiences, which are the stories of my life. The sounds relate to the world that I came from and that still can be heard now. The sounds are not clear until one gets close to the vessels and lifts the lid-- a bazaar, praying, marching, an explosion, a woman telling a story, traditional Iranian music. The installation is a metaphor for the way in which we experience the world. The vessels represent a selection of personal and cultural experiences through sounds that may or may not be fully understood.
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Date Issued: 2014
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004108, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004108
Subject Headings: Iran -- Social life and customs, Memory -- Social aspects, Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics, Symbolism in literature
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Title: The sui generis in Charles G. Finney’s The Circus Of Dr. Lao.
Creator: White, Adam J., Martin, Thomas L., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Charles G. Finney’s 1936 novel The Circus of Dr. Lao was published to enthusiastic reviews, but fell into relative obscurity shortly thereafter. Since its publication, it has been the subject of one peer-reviewed critical essay, a number of reviews, one non-peer-reviewed essay, and a master’s thesis. It was published in a world where the fantastic and unique found only barren desert soil, with no scholarly tradition for the fantastic, nor a widely receptive lay audience for something truly...
Show moreCharles G. Finney’s 1936 novel The Circus of Dr. Lao was published to enthusiastic reviews, but fell into relative obscurity shortly thereafter. Since its publication, it has been the subject of one peer-reviewed critical essay, a number of reviews, one non-peer-reviewed essay, and a master’s thesis. It was published in a world where the fantastic and unique found only barren desert soil, with no scholarly tradition for the fantastic, nor a widely receptive lay audience for something truly unique, or sui generis. The concept of the sui generis, meaning “of its own kind,” provides a useful lens for examining the novel, as Finney develops not only creatures, but people, which are truly of their own kind, borrowing from existing mythologies, traits of humanity, and aspects of nature, recombining them in a singular way which resists classification.
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Date Issued: 2013
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA0004073
Subject Headings: Fantasy fiction, American -- Criticism and interpretation, Finney, Charles G. -- (Charles Grandison) -- 1905-1984 -- Circus of Dr. Lao -- Criticism and interpretation, Individualism (Philosophy), Knowledge, Theory of, in literature, Meaning (Philosophy), Symbolism in literature
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Title: The religion of William Butler Yeats.
Creator: Turso, Betty Doris., Florida Atlantic University, Peyton, Ann
Abstract/Description: William Butler Yeats created his own mythology which is a religion unto itself. He took the myths of ancient heroic Ireland and combined these with the dominant Christian beliefs in Ireland during his lifetime and created a new religion that would serve to unite Ireland that was divided along religious lines. My thesis will show that Yeats, out of a fardel of tales, created not only his own mythology but a religion as well. With the help of the theories of Joseph Campbell, I will prove that...
Show moreWilliam Butler Yeats created his own mythology which is a religion unto itself. He took the myths of ancient heroic Ireland and combined these with the dominant Christian beliefs in Ireland during his lifetime and created a new religion that would serve to unite Ireland that was divided along religious lines. My thesis will show that Yeats, out of a fardel of tales, created not only his own mythology but a religion as well. With the help of the theories of Joseph Campbell, I will prove that Yeats's writing provided a virtual medium through which he disseminated his belief system. Therefore, this exploration is essential to give a deeper understanding to the total scope of Yeats's work.
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Date Issued: 1996
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15273
Subject Headings: Yeats, W B--(William Butler),--1865-1939--Criticism and interpretation, Religious poetry--History and criticism, Religion in literature, Symbolism in literature
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Title: residue.
Creator: Carlson, Susan L., Florida Atlantic University, Scroggins, Mark
Abstract/Description: This creative thesis contains 19 poems exploring and examining the association of residues, primarily through that of memory and memories, through a process of defining and (re)defining those associations of memory (the residues) that attach themselves to memory and the actions of and upon memory. This thematic thread is woven throughout with narrative prose and verse, traditional and free verse, and the melding of each in an effort to exemplify the relationships between memory and its...
Show moreThis creative thesis contains 19 poems exploring and examining the association of residues, primarily through that of memory and memories, through a process of defining and (re)defining those associations of memory (the residues) that attach themselves to memory and the actions of and upon memory. This thematic thread is woven throughout with narrative prose and verse, traditional and free verse, and the melding of each in an effort to exemplify the relationships between memory and its residual associations through structure, form, and language. Speakers are most often characters who represent the roles of memory and the associate value of the residues attached to it. The notion of residue is defined and redefined through the formation of memories, cultural associations, environmental and educational influences.
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Date Issued: 2006
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13339
Subject Headings: Poems, Symbolism in literature, Memory--Miscellanea
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Masks.
Creator: Leen, Carmel Codd., Florida Atlantic University, Bucak, Ayse Papatya
Abstract/Description: The story of an Irish grandfather, Brendan Doran, covers the period 1918 through 1966; the story of his granddaughter, Maisie Doyle covers the summer of her seventeenth year. Brendan's perceptions are given in the first person viewpoint; Maisie's in the third-person viewpoint. A faithful following is given of Brendan's vernacular in young manhood; then, as he grows in sophisticated use of language his first-person narration reflects this. Both stories trace the psychological development of...
Show moreThe story of an Irish grandfather, Brendan Doran, covers the period 1918 through 1966; the story of his granddaughter, Maisie Doyle covers the summer of her seventeenth year. Brendan's perceptions are given in the first person viewpoint; Maisie's in the third-person viewpoint. A faithful following is given of Brendan's vernacular in young manhood; then, as he grows in sophisticated use of language his first-person narration reflects this. Both stories trace the psychological development of the two, leading to questions regarding the similarities and the differences between the romantic dreams of a young man and a young woman. An omniscient narrator is the narrative voice for an overview of family history, with emphasis on the family dwelling and land, Bloomlands, and on the story of Maisie's mother and father, Essie and Eddie Doran.
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Date Issued: 2006
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13330
Subject Headings: Symbolism in literature, Ireland--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Four Sparks Fall: A novella.
Creator: Noonan, Tiffany., Florida Atlantic University, Schwartz, Jason
Abstract/Description: four sparks fall is a complex narrative, darting among symbols, languages, puzzles, and styles. There is the story of Susanna, our narrator, and there is a diary of May, Susanna's twin sister---a story within a story. To further complicate matters, both narratives are "interrupted" by May, who manifests an uncanny ability to project her thoughts into Susanna's mind. In a sense, both characters know and do not know what is happening, and their struggle to come to terms with multiple ways of ...
Show morefour sparks fall is a complex narrative, darting among symbols, languages, puzzles, and styles. There is the story of Susanna, our narrator, and there is a diary of May, Susanna's twin sister---a story within a story. To further complicate matters, both narratives are "interrupted" by May, who manifests an uncanny ability to project her thoughts into Susanna's mind. In a sense, both characters know and do not know what is happening, and their struggle to come to terms with multiple ways of "knowing" is manifested in the structure, which experiments with visual layout and language in new, interesting ways. This project began as an experiment in "organic writing": the process of writing without a direction or end in mind. One of my weaknesses as a writer is a tendency to "over-think" my work, and four sparks fall represents my attempt to address this issue.
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Date Issued: 2006
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13329
Subject Headings: Symbolism in literature, Twins--Fiction, Sisters--Fiction
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: 2 Vietnams.
Creator: Rooney, Scarlett Elizabeth., Florida Atlantic University, Schwartz, Jason
Abstract/Description: 2 Vietnams documents modern Vietnam through alternating chapters of collage fictions and images: "East-West Documentation," "Vietnam in the Twilight-Hour," "Correspondence," and "Confessional Archives." Although 2 Vietnams serves as a documentary-style account of the many Vietnams that exist and confront our American memory of Vietnam, each chapter contains social narratives that connect to each other forming larger, subtler narratives. "East-West Documentation" follows a fictional writer's...
Show more2 Vietnams documents modern Vietnam through alternating chapters of collage fictions and images: "East-West Documentation," "Vietnam in the Twilight-Hour," "Correspondence," and "Confessional Archives." Although 2 Vietnams serves as a documentary-style account of the many Vietnams that exist and confront our American memory of Vietnam, each chapter contains social narratives that connect to each other forming larger, subtler narratives. "East-West Documentation" follows a fictional writer's experience living in Vietnam, conducting interviews and reading articles. "Vietnam in the Twilight-Hour" strings narrative poetry together with titles ranging from "Neocolonialism," "Love in Notations," to "SocialPolygrams." In addition to these poetic narratives are photographs that tell snapshot stories. "Correspondence" contains fictions such as "Think and It Will Happen," "StoryOptics," and "Flame of Life." Lastly, "Confessional Archives" contains images and non-fictional stories from veterans, both Vietnamese and American.
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Date Issued: 2005
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13310
Subject Headings: Memory in art, Vietnam--History--Pictorial works, Vietnam War, 1961-1965--Pictorial works, Symbolism in literature, Indochina--History--1945---Sources
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Title: "Strange Snow" and other stories.
Creator: DeJong, Laura Quinlan, Florida Atlantic University, Bucak, Ayse Papatya
Abstract/Description: Weather assists in shaping our reality. It is an unalterable condition of the world that we are born into. This short story collection aims to present the nuances of weather. It attempts to acknowledge wind, rain, snow and lightning as forces that shape the world of its characters, forces that even influence the structure of the story itself. In some cases, weather acts as metaphor; in others, the weather seeks to alter language itself. The beauty of a snowflake resides in image and language.
Date Issued: 2005
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13293
Subject Headings: Symbolism in literature, Fiction--Technique, Weather--Literary collections, Short stories--Collections
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Hot Pink.
Creator: Pifer, Lee E., Florida Atlantic University, Mitchell, Susan
Abstract/Description: The poems of this thesis take the reader to primal places of the mind, body, and soul, often considered better left unspoken or unseen. These places are no doubt dark and full of strange dreams. Here, relationships have a lack of resolution and, of course, are engineered by pleasure and pain. Pain is fire, ice, or reflection. Pleasure is also pain. It is all an eternal dance. Pain gives pleasure meaning and vice versa, like violence and passion. There is a pleasure in the heat rising from a...
Show moreThe poems of this thesis take the reader to primal places of the mind, body, and soul, often considered better left unspoken or unseen. These places are no doubt dark and full of strange dreams. Here, relationships have a lack of resolution and, of course, are engineered by pleasure and pain. Pain is fire, ice, or reflection. Pleasure is also pain. It is all an eternal dance. Pain gives pleasure meaning and vice versa, like violence and passion. There is a pleasure in the heat rising from a red bottom, and a beauty in that image. I challenge social customs and emotional aversions with my imagery. I utilize rhyme and a lack of punctuation to disturb boundaries as dreams do, or other malleable states of living. I focus on the intangible trauma of self-destruction in the pursuit of creativity, intimacy, and expression. In simpler terms, the poems of this thesis have been caught having a threesome with sex and death. Tempted to peek?
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Date Issued: 2005
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13278
Subject Headings: Poems, Symbolism in literature, Conduct of life
Format: Document (PDF)

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