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Title: Staging Ireland: The Sociopolitical Import of John O'Keeffe's Comedies.
Creator: Hause, Brittany, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Despite the current general lack of critical acclaim for the works of John O'Keeffe (1747-1833), this study suggests that the stage comedies of the Dublin-born, London-residing playwright merit examination within the context of the notoriously conflicted relationship between the perceived nations of Ireland and England. Where some have claimed that O'Keeffe's plays pander to their London audiences by supporting English-constructed, debilitating stereotypes of Irishness, this study instead...
Show moreDespite the current general lack of critical acclaim for the works of John O'Keeffe (1747-1833), this study suggests that the stage comedies of the Dublin-born, London-residing playwright merit examination within the context of the notoriously conflicted relationship between the perceived nations of Ireland and England. Where some have claimed that O'Keeffe's plays pander to their London audiences by supporting English-constructed, debilitating stereotypes of Irishness, this study instead demonstrates that the comedies implicitly argue against nationalistic prejudice, critique the British government of O'Keeffe's day, and promote a less restricting view of what it is to be Irish or English, thereby deflating arguments in favor of an antagonistic opposition between the two countries.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0122
Format: Thesis

Title: The Art of Adaptation through the Analysis of Stanley Kubrick Films.
Creator: Sonenreich, Brooke, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This thesis examines Stanley Kubrick's novel-to-film adaptations and uses the auteur's strategies in the creative portion of the thesis: a full length, adapted screenplay. The study analyzes original texts, screenplays, films, and associating film theory of five Kubrick adaptations (Lolita, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and Eyes Wide Shut). Since this is a creative project, it is split up into an explanative research preface and a full length, adapted screenplay. The...
Show moreThis thesis examines Stanley Kubrick's novel-to-film adaptations and uses the auteur's strategies in the creative portion of the thesis: a full length, adapted screenplay. The study analyzes original texts, screenplays, films, and associating film theory of five Kubrick adaptations (Lolita, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and Eyes Wide Shut). Since this is a creative project, it is split up into an explanative research preface and a full length, adapted screenplay. The screenplay is an adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's short story "The Split Second." The preface component provides details on what Kubrick strategies were and were not used during the adapting process.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0278
Format: Thesis

Title: Intimate Invasions: Examinations of the Idea of Home in Filipino-American Drama.
Creator: Banta, Vanessa L., Mayorga, Irma, Baldyga, Natalya, Salata, Kris, School of Theatre, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This thesis' focus lies deep within the Filipino immigrant's "home" in the U.S. and offers an investigation of how different Filipino/Filipino-American homes in the texts examined challenge and confront the seeming viability and stability of U.S. boundaries that exclude them. Using postcolonial theory, critical scholarship on the "idea of home" and transnationalism, and guided by the metaphor of the local Philippine custom of the bayanihan, I argue that Filipino-American playwrights, rather...
Show moreThis thesis' focus lies deep within the Filipino immigrant's "home" in the U.S. and offers an investigation of how different Filipino/Filipino-American homes in the texts examined challenge and confront the seeming viability and stability of U.S. boundaries that exclude them. Using postcolonial theory, critical scholarship on the "idea of home" and transnationalism, and guided by the metaphor of the local Philippine custom of the bayanihan, I argue that Filipino-American playwrights, rather than writing homes solely rooted either as a point of origin or relocation, activate the Filipino-American home by rendering the home as open, mobile, and unfixed and constantly enacting the process of home-making. Chapter One focuses on Chris B. Millado's PeregriNasyon, a historical drama that provides an elaboration of how Filipino domestic space was invaded and managed during the earliest stages of U.S. occupation. By looking at how Millado's dramaturgy urges for an oscillating investigation of the two foregrounded homes in his play, I focus on how the domestic space gets activated in order to evince the relationship of the Philippines and the U.S. Chapter Two of my discussion looks at how the central Filipina maternal figure in Ralph Peña's Flipzoids, opens up the Filipino-American home as a provocative site where constitutive racial dimensions of "belonging" in the U.S. for Filipino immigrants may be interrogated. I argue for the rethinking of the Filipino-American home to foreground how home-making for Filipino immigrants involves a constant process of building and rebuilding. In Chapter Two, I then examine Han Ong's play Middle Finger, a differential assessment to Flipzoids. I examine how the play entraps the Filipino-American family and de-activates the home despite its attempts to highlight the systems of social control that negatively affects its young, male Filipino-American characters. The plays discussed in my thesis re-present homes marked by their transit from the Philippines to the United States. These plays stage the challenges in rebuilding new homes caused by the immigrants' uprooting and their struggles encountered as minorities in the U.S. As I argue, not only do these plays paint a picture of home as one that is constantly harrowed by its colonial past, ultimately, they ask what lies ahead for the Filipino-American home.
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Date Issued: 2010
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-1053
Format: Thesis

Title: Southernness, Not Otherness: The Community of the American South in New Southern Gothic Drama.
Creator: Boyd, J. Caleb, Sandahl, Carrie, Graham-Jones, Jean, Gonzalez, Anita, School of Theatre, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The South is a region of mystery, of tradition, of shifting identity. As a cultural region within the United States, the South has always defined (and redefined) itself in such a way that it remains distinctive from, even oppositional to, mainstream American culture. All too often, however, this identity redefinition casts the South as an outsider culture, a comic extreme, or a tradition-bound cultural backwater. In recent years, this process has stagnated within Southern culture and the...
Show moreThe South is a region of mystery, of tradition, of shifting identity. As a cultural region within the United States, the South has always defined (and redefined) itself in such a way that it remains distinctive from, even oppositional to, mainstream American culture. All too often, however, this identity redefinition casts the South as an outsider culture, a comic extreme, or a tradition-bound cultural backwater. In recent years, this process has stagnated within Southern culture and the theatrical arts that simultaneously shape and reflect Southern identity. This dissertation reinvigorates the South's historical process of redefinition in the face of the postmodern complexity facing the region. As dramatic representations of the region are limited to a select historical canon, the first element of this reinvigoration is the need for contemporary representations of Southernness in the theatre and festivals of the region. Thus, this dissertation identifies several new Southern playwrights (including Hilly Hicks, Steve Murray, Shay Youngblood, Elizabeth Dewberry, Bob Devon-Jones, Glenda Dickerson, and Breena Clarke) and their plays' construction and reconstruction of Southern culture. These plays are then examined through framework of the New Southern Gothic (NSG) mode, a model of community representation that places seemingly contradictory or oppositional elements in a flexible structure of community and potential for social, cultural, and political development The characteristics of this NSG genre are then looked at in the larger cultural context of Southern history and the issues facing the region today. They are used to evaluate the limited potential of existing Southern representations (such as that put forth by the 1996 Olympic Arts Festival.) Then, newer, more flexible models of Southernness are drawn from NSG plays. These NSG models provide the basis for envisioning a future cultural identity for the South that preserves its distinctiveness while avoiding the trap of homogenization, fetishization, and historicization that characterize traditional representations of the region. These new models also provide a communal basis for Southerners to join forces while acknowledging their differences. From the stage to regional festivals to the public arena, these models can then be used to enact social and cultural change within the region.
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Date Issued: 2004
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-3452
Format: Thesis

Title: The Art of Immortality: Personal, Cultural, and Aesthetic Identity in the Plays of Arthur Kopit.
Creator: Bostian, Kyle, Degen, John, Laughlin, Karen, Sandahl, Carrie, School of Theatre, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Arthur Kopit's plays express what I believe to be the dominant cultural anxiety of the latter half of the 20th century: the conflict between the human need for order and meaning and our existence in a chaotic and fragmented world. The playwright's works depict the traumatic impact of this conflict on people both individually and collectively; at the bottom of the dilemma is the human inability to accept our inevitable mortality. Kopit's plays also express deep cultural anxieties of their...
Show moreArthur Kopit's plays express what I believe to be the dominant cultural anxiety of the latter half of the 20th century: the conflict between the human need for order and meaning and our existence in a chaotic and fragmented world. The playwright's works depict the traumatic impact of this conflict on people both individually and collectively; at the bottom of the dilemma is the human inability to accept our inevitable mortality. Kopit's plays also express deep cultural anxieties of their particular social moment. Reductively summarized, the causes of those anxieties are family dysfunction (_Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad_ – 1960), the Vietnam War (_Indians_ – 1969), aging and disability (_Wings_ – 1978), nuclear proliferation (_End of the World With Symposium to Follow_ – 1987), obsessive materialism (_Road to Nirvana_ – 1991), and technological invasions of privacy (_BecauseHeCan_ – 2000). Kopit's works feature breakdowns in personal identity (through characters and action), cultural identity (through themes and settings), and aesthetic identity (through formal elements). At the heart of those breakdowns are the identity components of "commemoration" (memory, history/myth, artistic tradition), perception, and language. Ultimately, those components prove to be insufficient bases for identity – but the only ones available. The playwright puts his protagonists into crises that call into question their senses of self. Those crises expand from the personal to the cultural by virtue of their context in the turbulent late 20th-century U.S. society; individuals in crisis become emblematic of "America" in crisis. And the form reinforces this content. Each play combines and distorts established genres, techniques, and/or other works in ways that break down their aesthetic identities. Further, the theatrical effect of each play parallels the experience undergone by the characters, so that the causes – and cultural dimensions – of their personal crises are felt firsthand by audience members. Kopit's oeuvre thus provides tremendous insight into the complexities of existence in the contemporary age.
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Date Issued: 2003
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-3509
Format: Thesis

Title: A comparison of the contributions of two art education leaders in a specific publication of each with special reference to creative painting in the lower elementary school.
Creator: Fisher, Frances, Schwartz, Julia, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: "The two books, Creative and Mental Growth by Viktor Lowenfeld and The New Art Education by Ralph Pearson, were chosen in order to compare the contributions of two art education leaders in a specific publication of each with special reference to creative painting in the lower elementary grades. These books were selected because both deal with education through art with emphasis upon painting; for the influence, reputation, and recognition which they have had in the teaching field, for their...
Show more"The two books, Creative and Mental Growth by Viktor Lowenfeld and The New Art Education by Ralph Pearson, were chosen in order to compare the contributions of two art education leaders in a specific publication of each with special reference to creative painting in the lower elementary grades. These books were selected because both deal with education through art with emphasis upon painting; for the influence, reputation, and recognition which they have had in the teaching field, for their divergent objectives, and for their value in the teaching profession. My purpose in examining these two books was twofold; to compare the contributions of each book, and to clarify my own philosophy in teaching art. In terms of this purpose I have restricted the data included in this paper to the direct contents found in the named publications"--Introduction.
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Date Issued: 1952
Identifier: FSU_historic_aku3795
Format: Thesis

Title: The Southern review: A history and appraisal.
Creator: Vanderford, Dorothy June, Clapp, Robert George, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: "In writing the organized report of the findings an effort will be made, first, to present a historical sketch of the Review with background information explaining some of its whys and wherefores; secondly to introduce its editors, their work and accomplishment; and thirdly, to call the attention of the reader to the scope, magnitude, and performance of the Southern Review itself. In the course of examination of the journal some exercises in patience were performed; i. e., a listing of all...
Show more"In writing the organized report of the findings an effort will be made, first, to present a historical sketch of the Review with background information explaining some of its whys and wherefores; secondly to introduce its editors, their work and accomplishment; and thirdly, to call the attention of the reader to the scope, magnitude, and performance of the Southern Review itself. In the course of examination of the journal some exercises in patience were performed; i. e., a listing of all contributors, the number of the contributions that each made and the volumes in which these contributions appeared; and a chart showing the contents of each volume; i. e., the number of the different types of essays included, and the number of poems, short stories, and book reviews published. These, as of possible interest to someone other than this writer, will appear in Appendix I and Table I, respectively"--Introduction.
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Date Issued: 1952
Identifier: FSU_historic_akd9126
Format: Thesis

Title: Best selling religious fiction, 1900-1953.
Creator: Wildner, Gertrude Phillips, Clapp, Robert George, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: "In recent years the writer has noted from time to time the recurrence on best seller lists of titles that could be called, because of the setting, characterization, and problems, religious fiction. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the titles of religious fiction for the period 1900-1953 with view to determining how many such novels achieved best seller status; of ascertaining what types have been widely read; and with view of determining what in the minds of authors and reviewers was...
Show more"In recent years the writer has noted from time to time the recurrence on best seller lists of titles that could be called, because of the setting, characterization, and problems, religious fiction. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the titles of religious fiction for the period 1900-1953 with view to determining how many such novels achieved best seller status; of ascertaining what types have been widely read; and with view of determining what in the minds of authors and reviewers was the need served and the reason for their popularity. No attempt will be made to show that these books ought to be read, that they are outstanding literature, or that they will necessarily live--the aim is to show that the religious novel is a force that cannot be ignored in the study of fiction and current trends in writing"--Introduction.
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Date Issued: 1955
Identifier: FSU_historic_akd9132
Format: Thesis

Title: The Atlantic novel contest: An evaluation of its function of author selection.
Creator: Young, Dorothy Ann, Rockwood, Ruth H., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Literary contests have been quite popular in recent years among American publishers. Regardless of their merits, such contests have raised two questions for librarians charged with responsibilities for book selection. The first is whether such award winners are of sufficient merit as to justify immediate purchase as a result of their being the recipients of the publisher's prizes, or whether such titles should have the same slow, careful screening that is set up by the library policy for...
Show moreLiterary contests have been quite popular in recent years among American publishers. Regardless of their merits, such contests have raised two questions for librarians charged with responsibilities for book selection. The first is whether such award winners are of sufficient merit as to justify immediate purchase as a result of their being the recipients of the publisher's prizes, or whether such titles should have the same slow, careful screening that is set up by the library policy for other new titles. The second question is whether other titles by prize-winning authors could be justified for purchase on the grounds that the authors had been proved of merit in their production of prize-winners, or whether the works other than their prize novels should be subjected to closed scrutiny. For these questions there have been no ready answers. In order to help answer the above questions a study has been made of one publisher's contest, analyzing the Atlantic Novel Prize winners together with a brief survey of later works of the recipients of that award. This study will attempt to show how both the later books by the Atlantic authors and the prize novels have been received immediately by the reviewers and how they have stood the test of time as revealed by their presence or absence in the standard selection aid.
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Date Issued: 1958
Identifier: FSU_historic_akd9332
Format: Thesis

Title: James Daugherty: Contemporary author-illustrator of books for young people.
Creator: Stemple, Ruth M., Gregory, Agnes, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: "The purpose of this paper is three-fold: to give a brief sketch of the life of James Daugherty and the development of his art; to summarize the contemporary criticism of his work as to his ability as an author-illustrator for children; and to assemble a bibliography of his contributions to art and literature. The portion concerned with critical analysis has been limited to those books both written and illustrated by Mr. Daugherty"--Introduction.
Date Issued: 1955
Identifier: FSU_historic_akd9356
Format: Thesis

Title: An analysis of a selected list of books of historical fiction that have developmental values for the intermediate grades.
Creator: Allen, Margaret Louise, Gregory, Agnes, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: "It is the purpose of this paper, therefore, to explore some of those books included in several literary selection tools in order to determine whether they present the needs of children and the satisfaction of those needs in terms of experiences showing developmental values of a social and ethical nature. To recognize that a certain youngster needs more self-confidence, to give him a book in which the hero is beset by the same situation and overcomes it, and then to sit back with the calm...
Show more"It is the purpose of this paper, therefore, to explore some of those books included in several literary selection tools in order to determine whether they present the needs of children and the satisfaction of those needs in terms of experiences showing developmental values of a social and ethical nature. To recognize that a certain youngster needs more self-confidence, to give him a book in which the hero is beset by the same situation and overcomes it, and then to sit back with the calm expectation of seeing a miracle wrought would be optimistic to the point of simple-mindedness. All that the librarian can do is to present the book to the child in the hope that he will absorb some help from his reading and thus be encouraged to solve his problems successfully"--Introduction.
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Date Issued: 1958
Identifier: FSU_historic_akd9730
Format: Thesis

Title: A study of the Winston adventure books series.
Creator: Bush, Alice Elizabeth, Srygley, Sara Krentzman, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This paper is a study of a series of books known as the Winston Adventure Books, published by the John C. Winston Company. Each of these books, recommended by the publishers for children ten years of age or older, is based on little-known incidents in the life of an unsung hero who helped shape history. The editors of the series have planned these books to deal with events and personalities not adequately described in history. The various books in the series cover civilization from 1300 to...
Show moreThis paper is a study of a series of books known as the Winston Adventure Books, published by the John C. Winston Company. Each of these books, recommended by the publishers for children ten years of age or older, is based on little-known incidents in the life of an unsung hero who helped shape history. The editors of the series have planned these books to deal with events and personalities not adequately described in history. The various books in the series cover civilization from 1300 to World War II in 1942. This series is of sufficient importance to justify a study to determine the content and quality of the individual volumes in the series and their acceptance by professional librarians and reviewers. The characteristics of the series as a whole will be analyzed. Such a paper may prove to be useful to those interested in the study of children's and young people's literature and a valuable bibliographic source for a librarian interested in identifying books appropriate for slow or reluctant readers in high schools and in becoming familiar with books potentially valuable for supplementary reading in the social studies.
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Date Issued: 1960
Identifier: FSU_historic_akd9765
Format: Thesis

Title: An appraisal of the Best American short stories with an analysis of the selections from the period 1939-1949.
Creator: Salomon, Ingeborg, Clapp, Robert George, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: "Of the endeavors made each year to select and reprint in an anthology the best magazine stories of the preceding twelve months, Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien's Best Short Stories, the first to be initiated, is one of the best known and most widely recognized. Many college, public, and secondary school librarians have accepted the collections as representative of the best current short story writing, and have made them a permanent part of their annual acquisitions. In this study, an...
Show more"Of the endeavors made each year to select and reprint in an anthology the best magazine stories of the preceding twelve months, Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien's Best Short Stories, the first to be initiated, is one of the best known and most widely recognized. Many college, public, and secondary school librarians have accepted the collections as representative of the best current short story writing, and have made them a permanent part of their annual acquisitions. In this study, an attempt shall be made to determine O'Brien's purpose in establishing the anthology, the criteria followed, the procedures used in making the selections, and the critics' reactions to these criteria, procedures, and selections from 1915 to 1949. And finally, in order to determine more clearly what the reader may expect to find in a volume of Best Short Stories in terms of authors, kinds of stories, and magazines represented, an examination shall be made of these three factors in the selections of the eleven-year period, 1939-1949"--Introduction.
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Date Issued: 1951
Identifier: FSU_historic_acr5159
Format: Thesis

Title: The Performativity of the Creation of Visual Art.
Creator: Jordan, Jasmine, School of Theatre
Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0319
Format: Thesis

Title: Regionalism in some novels of Fernán Caballero, Valera, Palacio Valdés, and Pardo Bazán.
Creator: Odom, Mary
Date Issued: 1931
Identifier: 16260937, FSU_ARCH_PQ6144O36
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A study of the older romance meters with a possible solution of the "Cid".
Creator: Price, Dorothy Ina
Date Issued: 1927
Identifier: 12718654, FSU_ARCH_PQ6376P74
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Dramatic art of Benito Pérez Galdós.
Creator: Campbell, Margaret Virginia
Date Issued: 1935
Identifier: 12680409, FSU_ARCH_PQ6555Z5C26
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The English cycle of love sonnets.
Creator: Perkins, Isabel Landreth
Date Issued: 1935
Identifier: 10810674, FSU_ARCH_PR509S7P47
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Introduction to Troilus and Cressida.
Creator: Woodbery, Mary
Date Issued: 1908
Identifier: 13296200, FSU_ARCH_PR2836W65
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A study of the satire of Swift.
Creator: Partridge, Jessie
Date Issued: 1914
Identifier: 12398742, FSU_ARCH_PR3728S2P37
Format: Document (PDF)

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