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Woman by the Water and Other Stories is a collection of four short stories that range in setting from a touristy beach town in the Florida Gulf to a party school in northern Appalachia, and from old-fashioned Midwestern suburbia to a...
This project engages Antonin Artaud's highly influential critical volume, The Theater and Its Double, through the dual critical lenses of Psychoanalysis and Deconstruction in order to generate responses to questions posed by Artaud’s...
La novela antiesclavista: Presencia e identidad negras en la literature colonial cubana (Spanish text, Anselmo Suarez y Romero, Gertrudis G 'omez de Avellaneda, Cirilio Villaverde)
A collection of poems, for which the organizing principle was the movement from birth to death, from innocence to experience. Thus the poems in section one were initiatory, and proceeded through themes of initiation into sex and...
This is a group of poems dealing primarily with the subjects of memory and the past and how these entities shape and limit an individual's present and future. Many of the poems are concerned with the author's working toward an...
Princess of Oranges is a collection of ten stories set in 1970s Orlando, Florida. The stories render a world where adult dysfunction forces children to choose from a menu of the perilous and the precarious. The juvenilizing adults seem... The collection is thematically centered around the consciousness of Fay Kinney. At her youngest, Fay is nine, at her oldest, sixteen. Four stories trace her sexual and emotional initiations into the adult world via adolescent female... Four stories examine how women's relationships come of age as mothers and daughters and friends revise the ways see themselves and the way they tell their stories. In conflict with their husbands, friends, and each other, the girlfriends...
A rhetorical analysis of three feminist themes found in the novels of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Gloria Naylor
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This study investigated three feminist themes found in the novels of three prominent black women writers. The study asserts that novelist can be rhetors and that their works can have wide persuasive appeal. The novels chosen represented... The study involved an examination of structure and presentation of the message and a determination of whether black feminist novels addressed the major issues of the Women's Movement and also to what extent these novels conformed to or... Research on the history of black women novelists led to the formulation of the following research questions: (1) To what extent were black women novelists successful in publishing before 1970? (2) What feminist themes are addressed in... The study focuses on rhetorical and critical analysis. Aristotelian theory of modes of proof and types of discourse was used to determine the rhetorical structure of the novels. An overview of the history of black women novelists in America is provided in order to examine the situation that prompted the message as well as to identify the target audience of the rhetor. Additionally, a detailed synopsis of each...
A carnival of fears: Affirmation in the postmodern American grotesque
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This study examines grotesque forms in postmodern American literature and the various modes which reflect postmodern concerns. To do so, it describes the origins of the term "grotesque" and discusses the range and breadth of its...
A CRITICAL EDITION OF THE FIRST TWO MONTHS OF W. B. YEATS'S AUTOMATIC SCRIPT (IRELAND)
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William Butler Yeats's involvement in the esoteric and the occult has attracted considerable interest in the past decade, but much remains unknown about his philosophical development during the period of his life when he was engaged in... introduction preceding the transcript demonstrates how this momentous experiment was the logical extension of a series of psychical investigations and, in much broader terms, the culmination of a spiritual odyssey that Yeats had begun...
This ethnographic study is set in the milieu of a shelter for runaway youth as they participate in a ten-week series of poetry workshops, a Florida State University outreach effort. In the style of naturalistic and organic research, this... Subjects considered within the study include the student-centered, student-driven, interactive classroom; praise; authority; respect; community; identity; writing as a practice of wondering; the craft of writing; literacy as a creative... Using qualitative methods of data collection, including field notes, participants' observations, tape-recordings of workshops, and photographs of workshops in progress, the researcher examines herself as ethnographer, creative writer, ...
Since its initial appearance in 1852, Empedocles on Etna has continued to spark controversy. Now frequently celebrated as Matthew Arnold's most significant poem, Empedocles and its author are recognized as central to the development of...
Barbara Honigmann's Autobiographical Writing in Damals, Dann und Danach, eine Liebe aus Nichts, and Roman von einem Kinde: Bridging the Past, Present, and Future
This paper will examine the autobiographical writings of German-Jewish author Barbara Honigmann. Hongimann was born in East Berlin in 1949. She studied theater arts and worked in the theater in Berlin until 1975, when she became a free...
Set in New York City in the 1950's, Valentino's Hair is a short novel about a Puerto Rican barber, Facundo Nieves, and his lame young son Lupe. The focus of the novel is a series of confessional chapters in which the barber tells about a... When the screen idol dies a month later in a New York hospital, the barber at first feels guilty, sure that he has contributed in some way to Valentino's premature death. But after visiting a bruja, a neighborhood witch, the barber... The novel explores Lupe's relationship with his now aged father and his discovery of his father's secret practice of sympathetic magic, the environment of the barber's unique world, the various mythologies associated with hair, and...
Although criticism has established The Sun Also Rises as Hemingway's most enduring novel, Hemingway's public figure, an historical failure to recognize his wide reading, a general failure to acknowledge his fiercely competitive spirit as... Not at all separate and distinct from The Torrents of Spring--generally regarded as little more than Hemingway's embarrassing parody of Sherwood Anderson--The Sun Also Rises must be seen as a refined and controlled effort to establish a...
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