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Title: Dramatic deception and black identity in 'The First One' and 'Riding the Goat'.
Creator: Hagood, Taylor, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Date Issued: 2005-01
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/11498
Subject Headings: African Americans--Drama, African Americans--Fiction, American literature
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Program Review English, 2014-2015.
Creator: Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: 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
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Program Review English, 2015-2016.
Creator: Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: 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
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Program Review English, 2012-2013.
Creator: Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: 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
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Program Review English, 2013-2014.
Creator: Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: 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
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Program Review English, 2009-2010.
Creator: Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: 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
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Program Review English, 2010-2011.
Creator: Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: 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
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Program Review English, 2016-2017.
Creator: Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: 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
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Among cats, between cemeteries, and inside morgues.
Creator: Thompson, Lana., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: 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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Date Issued: 2010
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3338859
Subject Headings: Symbolism in literature
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Aquatic phobias permeated through African American culture, economics, and politics.
Creator: Groover, Jon Eric., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This Project involves looking at African American culture as it relates to swimming, water safety awareness, and water skills. The paper explores the myths and cultural norms associated with drowning phobias in African Americans to discover the root causes. Through historic accounts of African American culture one begins to uncover reasons why this culture became, in a sense aqua phobic. The paper will show what water sport professionals are up against, when working with a culture that is...
Show moreThis Project involves looking at African American culture as it relates to swimming, water safety awareness, and water skills. The paper explores the myths and cultural norms associated with drowning phobias in African Americans to discover the root causes. Through historic accounts of African American culture one begins to uncover reasons why this culture became, in a sense aqua phobic. The paper will show what water sport professionals are up against, when working with a culture that is several generations removed from the water and their water skills. The ultimate goal is to draw attention to the importance of water safety and the ability to swim as a life skill.
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Date Issued: 2011
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3170955
Subject Headings: Swimming pools, Social conditions, Minorities, Social conditions, Racism, African Americans, Economic conditions, African Americans in popular culture
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Asunder.
Creator: Harthcock, Rebecca., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: 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
Format: 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
Abstract/Description: 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
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Between Waves.
Creator: Jensen, Rebecca, Schmitt, Kate, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: 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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Date Issued: 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.
Format: 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
Abstract/Description: 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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Date Issued: 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
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Author-ity, privilege and violation: the role of subaltern and the intellectual in the novels of Julia Alvarez.
Creator: Alonso, Raquel., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: 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.
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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
Format: 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
Abstract/Description: 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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Date Issued: 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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Title: 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
Abstract/Description: 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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Date Issued: 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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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.
Creator: Bulacio-Watier, Marisol, Hagood, Taylor, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: 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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Date Issued: 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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Title: BIG GAME HUNTING ON MODERNIST TERRITORY: FEMALE ANIMALITY IN F. SCOTT FITZGERALD AND DJUNA BARNES.
Creator: Krieger, Shannon, Hagood, Taylor, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: Among slaughterhouses and suffragists—writers of the American Modernist movement were called to the creative task of reimagining boundaries between human and nonhuman while also extending this conversation onto the site of “New Women.” The threat to “civilized man” by “primal nonhuman animal” becomes tied up with the threat of an independent “wild” woman to a system which traditionally depends upon her domestication. Female animality in modernist texts thus emerges as a symbol of both...
Show moreAmong slaughterhouses and suffragists—writers of the American Modernist movement were called to the creative task of reimagining boundaries between human and nonhuman while also extending this conversation onto the site of “New Women.” The threat to “civilized man” by “primal nonhuman animal” becomes tied up with the threat of an independent “wild” woman to a system which traditionally depends upon her domestication. Female animality in modernist texts thus emerges as a symbol of both masculine anxiety and feminine liberation. When women begin to challenge traditional institutions which would see her survive exclusively by contract to a male “keeper,” men become increasingly desperate to establish an apex social, economic, and political position. As such, female animality in these texts is designed to reinforce or resist standard constructs of human/nonhuman and masculine/feminine, yet both assert the feminine-animal-character as a hybrid commodity bred for patriarchal consumption. Despite the heteronormative compulsion to sketch woman as an elusive animal to be hunted (courtship), caged (marriage), and kept (children)—there is also an advantage in recognizing one’s place in such a “jungle,” as scholars have often described progressive-era America. By examining the intersection of animality and feminist theory within modernist literature, it becomes clear that the category of nonhuman animal is one historically manipulated through patriarchal systems to delegate women’s bodies as a site of oppression and subordination.
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Date Issued: 2021
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013789
Subject Headings: Modernism (Literature), Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940--Criticism and interpretation, Barnes, Djuna--Criticism and interpretation
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Title: Animate Things and Their Empowered Women in Kate Chopin’s “A Pair of Silk Stockings,” “A Very Fine Fiddle” and “Azelie”.
Creator: Moldow, Susan, Bradford, Adam, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Kate Chopin’s stories including “A Pair of Silk Stockings,” “A Very Fine Fiddle” and “Azelie” are rich in subject-object relationships. Close text analysis helps explicate the power of these objects or things. A thing is animate and an object is not. The stockings, fiddle, and store objects are part of a transaction between things and people; what is an object to one character is a thing to another. Exploration of Victorian women and department stores illuminates how stockings overpower Mrs....
Show moreKate Chopin’s stories including “A Pair of Silk Stockings,” “A Very Fine Fiddle” and “Azelie” are rich in subject-object relationships. Close text analysis helps explicate the power of these objects or things. A thing is animate and an object is not. The stockings, fiddle, and store objects are part of a transaction between things and people; what is an object to one character is a thing to another. Exploration of Victorian women and department stores illuminates how stockings overpower Mrs. Sommers. Research on share tenant life, violins’ value, and Louisiana mixed ancestry reveals how the fiddle enables Fifine and Cleophas to re-imagine their identities and cross social boundaries; similarly, “authentic woman” feminist theory highlights how objects affect Azelie’s agency. Functioning atypically, stockings, a fiddle, and store items become things and not just objects. Things invite Chopin’s characters to embrace uncertainty. We are in things and things are in us.
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Date Issued: 2019
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013244
Subject Headings: Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904--Criticism and interpretation, Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904--Characters--Women
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