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Title: Oxford Romance: Male Homosexuality in Modernist Literature.
Creator: Carper, Kelsey, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Gregory Woods states in A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition, "It would be difficult – though many critics have managed it, perhaps inadvertently – to take an overview of flourishing Modernist fiction without acknowledging the emergence of male homosexuality as a significant issue in the make-up of incidental characters and even, in many cases, of central characters" (192). Homosexuality makes a large appearance in many modernist works, as Woods argues, and yet male homosexuality,...
Show moreGregory Woods states in A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition, "It would be difficult – though many critics have managed it, perhaps inadvertently – to take an overview of flourishing Modernist fiction without acknowledging the emergence of male homosexuality as a significant issue in the make-up of incidental characters and even, in many cases, of central characters" (192). Homosexuality makes a large appearance in many modernist works, as Woods argues, and yet male homosexuality, in particular, is greatly overlooked or outright denied by scholars when discussing modernist novels. Woods' assertion is a response to early scholarship that has notably ignored and rejected the existence of romantic relationships between male characters that clearly shared intimate bonds. Unfortunately, there has continued to be a large gap of scholarship to really refute these statements of denial. In dismissing these relationships, critics ignore an important aspect of modernism. By including homoerotic relations in their novels, modernist writers presented a forum for their society to explore relations that would have been considered taboo or even punishable, which can be observed in the 1928 trial against Radclyffe Hall's lesbian novel, The Well of Loneliness, or the Labouchere Amendment that prosecuted homosexual men in Britain from 1885 until 1967.
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Date Issued: 2017
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0425
Format: Thesis

Title: The Closest You Can Be to Outer Space: A Collection of Stories and an Essay.
Creator: Zent, Carly Rae M., Department of English
Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0531
Format: Thesis

Title: Dusktime Shows: Five Stories.
Creator: Gammon, Alex, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This thesis is a creative project consisting of five short stories. Much of the material is influenced by the social interactions of my family members and friends. Situationally and thematically, the stories are concerned with class conflict, epiphany, physical/social image, and the crossroads between self-perception and the perception of others.
Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0472
Format: Thesis

Title: Teenage Rebellion: The Ideological State Apparatus in Young Adult Literature Origins.
Creator: Abshier, Kristine Lake, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This thesis examines the presence of anti-Ideological State Apparatus (ISA) themes in three influential young adult literature novels: The Catcher in the Rye, A Separate Peace, and To Kill a Mockingbird. Due to their time of publishing, this project refers to these books as origins of American young adult literature. Through use of reader-response theory, I find that the novels encourage readers to seek a place outside ISAs for the remainder of their adolescence and approaching adulthood.
Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0524
Format: Thesis

Title: Your Diligent Looking Discover the Lacking: Individual and Societal Reconciliation in Isherwood and Auden's 1930S Literature.
Creator: Lonsberry, Samuel, Department of English
Abstract/Description: The work aims to explore the similarities and differences between Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden's 1930s literature. As unique authors within the decade, emphasizing artifice and aesthetics in relation to socially-conscious writing, both artists provide an interesting study of one sub-category of 1930s literature. Defining themselves against the likes of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley, Auden and Isherwood attempt to retain the aesthetic-driven forms of 1920s Modernism while further...
Show moreThe work aims to explore the similarities and differences between Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden's 1930s literature. As unique authors within the decade, emphasizing artifice and aesthetics in relation to socially-conscious writing, both artists provide an interesting study of one sub-category of 1930s literature. Defining themselves against the likes of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley, Auden and Isherwood attempt to retain the aesthetic-driven forms of 1920s Modernism while further melding them with more politically focused cultural trends.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0506
Format: Thesis

Title: Ferocious Motherhood: The Characterization of the Contemporary Single Mother in Southern Women's Fiction.
Creator: Kranz, Tova E., Department of English
Abstract/Description: Past the fall of the great Southern plantations and Agrarian prosperity, the Southern lady/gentleman persisted in the works of many Southern writers who wrote novels lauding the Old South in an attempt to preserve the culture of the region. Contemporary Southern writers, however, depict the South as it is. Novelists including Dorothy Allison, Barbara Kingsolver, and others reject the image of the Southern belle, and instead depict Southern women, single mothers in particular, as resolute and...
Show morePast the fall of the great Southern plantations and Agrarian prosperity, the Southern lady/gentleman persisted in the works of many Southern writers who wrote novels lauding the Old South in an attempt to preserve the culture of the region. Contemporary Southern writers, however, depict the South as it is. Novelists including Dorothy Allison, Barbara Kingsolver, and others reject the image of the Southern belle, and instead depict Southern women, single mothers in particular, as resolute and strong-willed rather than demure and pious. My research analyzes the characterization of single mothers in contemporary fiction by Southern women writers alongside the widows in two novels by Augusta Evans Wilson, a popular late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century novelist. In examining the two side-by-side I was able to compare the way in which these authors use characterization to reveal, and at times dispute with, the attitudes towards single mothers and the ways these mothers challenge them.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0510
Format: Thesis

Title: Mama's Boy.
Creator: Marquez, Francisco, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Mama's Boy is a collection of poems structured in three parts: my life growing up gay in Venezuela, my changing cultural identity upon moving to the United States, and the future I see myself inhabiting. These poems were written in my time here at FSU, and in my time backpacking through Europe. This is my first collection.
Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0550
Format: Thesis

Title: Stories from Belfast: Eight Weeks in Northern Ireland.
Creator: Mazzotta, Kate M., Department of English
Abstract/Description: A project derived from eight weeks of research in Belfast, Northern Ireland, this examines the role of The Troubles in the current conscious of community leaders, politicians, and every day people. Particular attention is paid to division: Belfast is divided into pockets of Catholic and Protestant communities by walls, which have only increased in number since the 1998 peace agreements. Through interviews, this project studies why these emotional barriers are so permanent in the conscious and...
Show moreA project derived from eight weeks of research in Belfast, Northern Ireland, this examines the role of The Troubles in the current conscious of community leaders, politicians, and every day people. Particular attention is paid to division: Belfast is divided into pockets of Catholic and Protestant communities by walls, which have only increased in number since the 1998 peace agreements. Through interviews, this project studies why these emotional barriers are so permanent in the conscious and why walls are more than just concrete.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0523
Format: Thesis

Title: Roads to No One: The Problem of Alterity in the American Postmodern Novel.
Creator: Perdue, Shannon, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This thesis explores the formation of male characters as outsiders in postmodern American literature written by male authors, defining outsiders as men who are socially isolated, particularly from women, and fail to achieve personal commitments or deep emotional commitments with the other. This thesis examines this formation through the works The Road and Child of God by Cormac McCarthy, On the Road and Big Sur by Jack Kerouac, and Jesus' Son and Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson, and ultimately...
Show moreThis thesis explores the formation of male characters as outsiders in postmodern American literature written by male authors, defining outsiders as men who are socially isolated, particularly from women, and fail to achieve personal commitments or deep emotional commitments with the other. This thesis examines this formation through the works The Road and Child of God by Cormac McCarthy, On the Road and Big Sur by Jack Kerouac, and Jesus' Son and Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson, and ultimately concludes that each of the three authors situate their men as characterized by individualism, and either a sufficiency without the other or an active desire to flee from connection. In contrast, they represent their women as largely communitarian and seeking meaningful and committed relationships.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0540
Format: Thesis

Title: The Bird Show.
Creator: Valdespino, Amanda, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This thesis seeks to examine identity within a variety of topics. The author uses themes such as family, pop-culture, relationships, and fairy tales to form a personal identity in a narrative dominated poetry style.
Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0482
Format: Thesis

Title: Running Away on Rollerskates.
Creator: Gabor, Diana, Department of English
Abstract/Description: "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Having been asked this question myself, at every stage in life, I find it ironic that not much of fiction deals with this subject. Sure, there's the "coming of age" category, but it seems explicitly reserved for teenagers and young kids losing their innocence. Where does the twenty-something, fresh out of college, with the entire world (really universe) blossoming at their feet, fit? I endeavor to challenge society's view on adolescence. In our...
Show more"What do you want to be when you grow up?" Having been asked this question myself, at every stage in life, I find it ironic that not much of fiction deals with this subject. Sure, there's the "coming of age" category, but it seems explicitly reserved for teenagers and young kids losing their innocence. Where does the twenty-something, fresh out of college, with the entire world (really universe) blossoming at their feet, fit? I endeavor to challenge society's view on adolescence. In our grandparent's days, they had to walk twelve miles in the snow to school, use the card catalog system, etc., etc.. Yet in our days, we must find gravity in a floating world: new technologies are cropping up daily, the government seems more disconnected from its populace, new job markets are opening up, others shutting down, print might die. Modernism began as artists attempted to make sense of the horrors of the world wars and emerging technologies. Post-modernism reacted to it. Where are we today? I feel that now, more than ever, it is valid to say that the average twenty-something is lost. Settling on anything, be it a career or significant other, is more difficult due to globalism and rapid societal changes. For my thesis project, I will be writing a novella about two characters undergoing this "quarter-life" crisis of realizing the rest of their lives is in their hands.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0375
Format: Thesis

Title: Reasons for the Dark to Be Afraid.
Creator: Ruiz, Daniel, Department of English
Abstract/Description: The poems and translations in this thesis explore the "three strong voices" that poet Federico García Lorca believes the artist should heed: "the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art." The sequence of these poems is meant to reflect the poetic speaker's interactions with these voices. Three of the four sections are named after iconic paintings by Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso, and the poems in each of these sections indirectly reflect the concepts...
Show moreThe poems and translations in this thesis explore the "three strong voices" that poet Federico García Lorca believes the artist should heed: "the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art." The sequence of these poems is meant to reflect the poetic speaker's interactions with these voices. Three of the four sections are named after iconic paintings by Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso, and the poems in each of these sections indirectly reflect the concepts these works present in an attempt to create a dialogue between the written and visual arts. The two works by Dali are The Persistence of Memory and The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory, and the development from the former, which is the second section, to the latter, which is the fourth, is supposed to suggest the interaction between a poet and his or her influences as they work to develop their own unique style, playing at the binary between originality and influence. The title section of the collection is an exploration into the search for truth and originality within this binary—the "irreconcilable feud" between a young artist and a poetic tradition that began thousands of years ago.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0332
Format: Thesis

Title: Autocorrect Awareness: Categorizing Autocorrect Changes and Measuring Authorial Perceptions.
Creator: Wood, Nicola, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This thesis studies changes made by Autocorrect software and authorial awareness and perceptions of those changes through analysis of case studies conducted on five volunteers aged 19 to 22. The study consisted of two phases: 1. three writing tasks, and 2. a post-writing survey given to the authors. For the first task, each subject completed three predetermined writing prompts: an email message, a text message, and a Facebook status—each with a specific intended audience—on their iPhones....
Show moreThis thesis studies changes made by Autocorrect software and authorial awareness and perceptions of those changes through analysis of case studies conducted on five volunteers aged 19 to 22. The study consisted of two phases: 1. three writing tasks, and 2. a post-writing survey given to the authors. For the first task, each subject completed three predetermined writing prompts: an email message, a text message, and a Facebook status—each with a specific intended audience—on their iPhones. Subjects then completed the survey to self-report their level of awareness of AutoCorrect's changes. Correction data was coded and categorized into one of four types of changes. The change type was determined by analyzing video recordings of each prompt. Type B changes—made when the subject accidentally hit the wrong key—proved to be the most common, followed by Type A changes (made when the subject seemed unable to spell the word), Type C changes (made as a result of incorrect capitalization or punctuation), and Type D changes (changes that did not fit into another category). Four out of five subjects self-reported that AutoCorrect changed their writing over 10 times. The fifth participant reported that AutoCorrect made 6-10 changes, though the program had actually altered his work 18 times. His response suggests that AutoCorrect may be becoming invisible to some users. The observations in this thesis are not generalizable; instead, they serve to provide a starting point for further exploration into authorial awareness in digital writing contexts.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0351
Format: Thesis

Title: Can't Choose Your Family, and other stories.
Creator: Avagliano, Kathryn, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This work is a collection of short stories entitled Can't Choose Your Family. The collections consists of six stories produced during writing workshops at Florida State University. Humans have a great instinct for family, yet it's the people we live with day after day that can be the greatest mysteries. I was raised in a large family—mother and father, two sisters, one brother, a revolving door of dogs underfoot. My best friends are my siblings, and the greatest people I know are my parents,...
Show moreThis work is a collection of short stories entitled Can't Choose Your Family. The collections consists of six stories produced during writing workshops at Florida State University. Humans have a great instinct for family, yet it's the people we live with day after day that can be the greatest mysteries. I was raised in a large family—mother and father, two sisters, one brother, a revolving door of dogs underfoot. My best friends are my siblings, and the greatest people I know are my parents, and yet, even though stories are told every night at long dinners there were some mysteries that were never solved. My father was expelled from high school. My mother quit veterinary school to become a doctor. I see other taboo subjects in the families of my friends. A seemingly safe subject is mentioned and someone will laugh too fast and say, "Oh, we never talk about that." These unspeakable stories are the most interesting ones, and I was not surprised when my writing started to explore the nature of secrets within a family. The stories I have chosen to revise and include in Can't Choose Your Family all revolve around the various alliances and secrets that spring up within a family group, both blood relations and close family-like friends. The title piece takes place in a small town and tells the story of a teenage boy whose father is accused of touching another boy on his wrestling squad. In the story, I concentrated on the many things that remain unsaid between fathers and sons. Real Money explores a love triangle as a trio of friends run diamonds into New York City. In 21st Century Witchcraft, a newly engaged young woman is reminded of a life she's been successfully avoided when her nephew commits suicide. Growing Pains takes place in 1944 and revolves around a young boy who is left with his grandfather to coalesce after a long illness and spends the time wishing he was in the war. It is important for writers to "write what you know," which I believe I've done in writing about strong family bonds. Yet it is equally important to write about what we don't know, to probe the situations too tragic or strange to arise in our own lives, to explore different perspectives and situations and come out on the other side.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0439
Format: Thesis

Title: All News Is Good News.
Creator: Schurer, Kelsey E., Department of English
Abstract/Description: Kelsey Schurer has compiled a collection of her work, both fiction and poetry, that explores the female perspective coming-of-age through story-telling. Joyce Carol Oates says in her introduction to her edited anthology Telling Stories, "We look to stories, our own and others', as we look into mirrors: that which is locked inside of us can be released by the magic of another's art, or maybe our own." All News Is Good News explores the female perspective and how the self changes through...
Show moreKelsey Schurer has compiled a collection of her work, both fiction and poetry, that explores the female perspective coming-of-age through story-telling. Joyce Carol Oates says in her introduction to her edited anthology Telling Stories, "We look to stories, our own and others', as we look into mirrors: that which is locked inside of us can be released by the magic of another's art, or maybe our own." All News Is Good News explores the female perspective and how the self changes through relations with family and friends, men and women. Her narratives focus on women who realize their own self-worth, or redefine self-image through the relationships they struggle in and out of, and through the people they can't seem to let go.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0426
Format: Thesis

Title: The "Endless Space Between": Exploring Film's Architectural Spaces, Places, Gender, and Genre.
Creator: Page, Sarah, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Architectural spaces and places within films often work to represent larger themes of the films' stories. This paper explores how films from three different genres, horror, science fiction, and romance, utilize architectural places and space on screen to represent gender. Films explored include Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, Ridley Scott's Alien, and Spike Jonze's Her.
Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0433
Format: Thesis

Title: That Which Burns.
Creator: Grenville, Landis, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This collection of short fiction and poetry is structured around the explorations of extremes. Split into two sections, this thesis delves into the reckless heat and motion of life and then looks at the cold meditative moments of pause. The first section, Perched in the Sun, opens with poems about the desert, scarecrows, and highways and then deposits the reader into the lives of Billy and Mae in the story, "The Right Kind of Light". The second section, The Fronds Above her Head, explores the...
Show moreThis collection of short fiction and poetry is structured around the explorations of extremes. Split into two sections, this thesis delves into the reckless heat and motion of life and then looks at the cold meditative moments of pause. The first section, Perched in the Sun, opens with poems about the desert, scarecrows, and highways and then deposits the reader into the lives of Billy and Mae in the story, "The Right Kind of Light". The second section, The Fronds Above her Head, explores the sea, fears, and the quiet to reach a moment of struggle and cold acceptance in the story, "After the Party's Over". This thesis blends poetry and fiction to create mediation the extremes we experience in life, those of temperature, of affection, and of movement. Poetry is made of the smallest moments, the flit of a sensation, the touch of image; it builds an atmosphere. Fiction is the journey, the progression that takes a person to understanding. In combining the two genres this thesis tries to capture life, both the instances of soft, almost intangible awareness and the action that drives life onward.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0423
Format: Thesis

Title: The "Trafalgar Square Conservation Area": Deconstructing Spatial Narratives with/in a Collective Framework.
Creator: Bergholtz, Joel, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Abstract: (Key Terms: Collective Framework, Rhetorical Theory, Trafalgar Square, Spatial Narratives) This thesis is a rhetorical examination of language as elicited in spatial narratives. In doing so, it examines the various symbols that public spaces employ in order to rhetorically speak to us, move us, and make us act in certain ways. More specifically, it addresses Trafalgar Square as a problem space, deconstructing the various spatial narratives leading into and within the square. In...
Show moreAbstract: (Key Terms: Collective Framework, Rhetorical Theory, Trafalgar Square, Spatial Narratives) This thesis is a rhetorical examination of language as elicited in spatial narratives. In doing so, it examines the various symbols that public spaces employ in order to rhetorically speak to us, move us, and make us act in certain ways. More specifically, it addresses Trafalgar Square as a problem space, deconstructing the various spatial narratives leading into and within the square. In deconstructing these narratives, it attempts to find implicit meaning in what is explicitly inscribed into the land, and to examine this meaning alongside the social narrative that its occupants hold. This constructed narrative is explored through three frameworks: that of the physical framework of the square, those spatially enacted frameworks leading into it, and the larger collective framework of the city to which the square contributes. It finds that the frameworks of public space generally work toward establishing and authorizing a unifying ideological connection between the present society and societies of the past. However, these narratives are dependent on individual agents participating in the space's various frameworks; the meaning of a space is obfuscated by a society's current participant's usage of the space. In addition to this obfuscation, it discovers that the past role of a space can obfuscate the present meaning and role of the space in the overall framework, and that the present meaning can in turn obfuscate how individuals relate to and interpret the past.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0294
Format: Thesis

Title: Dead Elements.
Creator: White, Barrett, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This thesis, an interdisciplinary project entitled DEAD ELEMENTS, seeks to explore the complex relationship between performance and text. Seven common literary elements were selected and then interpreted both in a performative action and a written work. The work engages the traditions of both performance art and conceptual writing, blurring the distinction between physical body and textual body. Ultimately, DEAD ELEMENTS serves as a critique of academic literature, a reification of...
Show moreThis thesis, an interdisciplinary project entitled DEAD ELEMENTS, seeks to explore the complex relationship between performance and text. Seven common literary elements were selected and then interpreted both in a performative action and a written work. The work engages the traditions of both performance art and conceptual writing, blurring the distinction between physical body and textual body. Ultimately, DEAD ELEMENTS serves as a critique of academic literature, a reification of abstractions, a meditation on the body, and an engagement with my own idiosyncratic artistic practice.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0370
Format: Thesis

Title: Fights of Funny People: How the Wodehouse/Milne Literary Feud Changed Their Writing and Legacies.
Creator: Lockaby, Curtis D., Department of English
Abstract/Description: A.A. Milne and P.G. Wodehouse are two of the most famous English writers and humorists of their time, with Milne being known for the creation of Winnie the Pooh and Wodehouse celebrated for his Wooster and Jeeves novels. Not only that, these two literary giants were contemporaries and friendly adversaries for the majority of their careers. That is why it is so interesting when, with the development of World War Two, a brutal feud erupted between them. My essay will examine the literary and...
Show moreA.A. Milne and P.G. Wodehouse are two of the most famous English writers and humorists of their time, with Milne being known for the creation of Winnie the Pooh and Wodehouse celebrated for his Wooster and Jeeves novels. Not only that, these two literary giants were contemporaries and friendly adversaries for the majority of their careers. That is why it is so interesting when, with the development of World War Two, a brutal feud erupted between them. My essay will examine the literary and personal feud between A.A. Milne and P.G. Wodehouse, detailing its origins, outcomes, and how it manifested itself in their written work. First the paper will outline Milne and Wodehouse's work prior to the war and touch on their collaborations to display their status as friendly competitors. Then it will describe the events leading up to and the immediate results of the infamous Berlin broadcast, including Milne's response which kicked off the feud. Next we shall outline the post-war lives of both authors and highlight their relevant literary output, all of which was influenced by their feud. And finally the works will be (the tone, style and subject matter) examined. While a good deal of this may seem biographical, it is necessary to provide background for the literary argument. The main focus in the paper will be the effects seen in the post-war writings and the exact impact that these texts have had on their writer's legacies and the literary world.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0468
Format: Thesis

Title: Dead Elements.
Creator: White, Barrett, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This thesis, an interdisciplinary project entitled DEAD ELEMENTS, seeks to explore the complex relationship between performance and text. Seven common literary elements were selected and then interpreted both in a performative action and a written work. The work engages the traditions of both performance art and conceptual writing, blurring the distinction between physical body and textual body. Ultimately, DEAD ELEMENTS serves as a critique of academic literature, a reification of...
Show moreThis thesis, an interdisciplinary project entitled DEAD ELEMENTS, seeks to explore the complex relationship between performance and text. Seven common literary elements were selected and then interpreted both in a performative action and a written work. The work engages the traditions of both performance art and conceptual writing, blurring the distinction between physical body and textual body. Ultimately, DEAD ELEMENTS serves as a critique of academic literature, a reification of abstractions, a meditation on the body, and an engagement with my own idiosyncratic artistic practice.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0466
Format: Thesis

Title: Fall Out Girl.
Creator: Mulholland, Lauren, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This thesis explores the presence of prose writing techniques and their application in poetry. I attempt to examine through narrative poetry—along with a few other styles—how elements of fiction are not tools limited to novels and short stories. To accomplish this I explore the dynamics of relationships, love, and desire. By focusing on aspects of these large and broad subjects, I hope to highlight the art of storytelling through poetry.
Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0334
Format: Thesis

Title: From Rubrication to Typography: Die geesten of geschiedenis van Romen and the History of the Book in the Low Countries.
Creator: Gibbons, Jacob, Department of English
Abstract/Description: The development of printing in the fifteenth century did not transform the medieval Book from the manuscript to the modern mass-market paperback overnight—instead, changes in the design of late medieval texts occurred gradually over the first decades of printing in Europe. This has significant repercussions for the way we should evaluate terms like "print culture" and how we understand features of book production traditionally assigned to manuscript or print. To illuminate this transition, I...
Show moreThe development of printing in the fifteenth century did not transform the medieval Book from the manuscript to the modern mass-market paperback overnight—instead, changes in the design of late medieval texts occurred gradually over the first decades of printing in Europe. This has significant repercussions for the way we should evaluate terms like "print culture" and how we understand features of book production traditionally assigned to manuscript or print. To illuminate this transition, I will discuss the changes in the structuring and layout of books at the end of the fifteenth century, with a particular focus on "rubrication," the strategic use of red ink to guide readers' eyes through the pages of the medieval manuscript. Despite the development of printing and its affordances for using font, size, and spatial arrangement of the text to orient the reader, rubrication continued to be used in complex and multivalent ways throughout early printing. A detailed case study of several early print and manuscript editions of the Gesta Romanorum—one of the most popular storybooks of the Late Middle Ages—reveals a gradual transition from the use of rubrication and other visual cues in the medieval manuscript to the spatially-typographically oriented printed book. This transition was characterized by continuity and measured evolution—rather than an abrupt shift to something as concrete as "print culture"—in which the new technology emulated its predecessor as it progressively developed its own identity and made its own imprint on literate society.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0207
Format: Thesis

Title: The "Mysteries" Behind The Adapted Story.
Creator: Wallace, Alexandria, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This creative thesis project focuses on adapting the short story form to short film. My work examines how a particular short story can be adapted into different film genres for different audiences. The project adapts the short story by Elizabeth Tallent entitled, "No One's A Mystery" into four very different scripts: a "faithful" adaptation, a hand-drawn limited-animation children's narrative, a "loose" adaptation, and a music video treatment. In this text, the reader will find some...
Show moreThis creative thesis project focuses on adapting the short story form to short film. My work examines how a particular short story can be adapted into different film genres for different audiences. The project adapts the short story by Elizabeth Tallent entitled, "No One's A Mystery" into four very different scripts: a "faithful" adaptation, a hand-drawn limited-animation children's narrative, a "loose" adaptation, and a music video treatment. In this text, the reader will find some introductory information on adaptation theory and a brief overview of some scholarly debate; followed by the four scripts and analyses for each short film. The major focus of the analyses are on the adaptation process. They will also include each interpretation's relationship to the short story, theory, and how audience and genre affect the process. Two of the four scripts (the children's narrative and music video adaptations) have been filmed and edited together as well to further understand the adaptive mode.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0198
Format: Thesis

Title: Collected Works in Fiction and Nonfiction.
Creator: Scott, Paige, Department of English
Abstract/Description: The pieces included here represent the capstone of my work in undergraduate workshops in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction here at Florida State University. Each piece is wholly unrelated to the others and hopefully shows an experimentation in different styles, from flash fiction to the traditional short story, and from place essay to historical event. Every story was a pure joy to create. "100 Needles" was published in the Summer 2011 edition of Flashquake, an online literary journal for flash...
Show moreThe pieces included here represent the capstone of my work in undergraduate workshops in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction here at Florida State University. Each piece is wholly unrelated to the others and hopefully shows an experimentation in different styles, from flash fiction to the traditional short story, and from place essay to historical event. Every story was a pure joy to create. "100 Needles" was published in the Summer 2011 edition of Flashquake, an online literary journal for flash fiction. This was my first attempt at flash fiction and came to me on the back of a memory of a visit to St. Ives in Cornwall, England in the summer of 2009. St. Ives is a place of old heritage and revival; what was once a fishing village is now a sought after vacation spot for tourists and a haven for artists. During my visit there I began to wonder what had happened to the old villagers and their way of life. "100 Needles" is the result of that speculation, one that combined heritage and art and a longing for old ways. "Drift" began as a voice, that of a man three-quarters cultured and one-quarter redneck, who simply would not leave me until I told his story. Darryl Boulard is also partly inspired by a friend who loves to hunt and will sit in a tree for an entire day, tweeting about the things he sees as he passes his time. This story is still evolving and may eventually be novelized. "Geronimo Slept Here" is a nonfiction place essay that is a reminiscence of my life as a military brat and one who was very connected to the land. The time period is the seventies when a new appreciation for Native Americans was sweeping the nation, perhaps as a result of free-thinking hippies who wanted to get "back to the garden." South Dakota, a land steeped in Native American heritage, specifically the Lakota-Sioux, was a place of whispering winds and unforgiving landscapes. But for a child of eleven, it was an enchanted world in which to live. This essay was a finalist in the Kudzu Review Fall 2011 Contest. The last piece, "A Hanging in Lima", is the true story of the execution of my great uncle (four times removed), Andrew Brentlinger for the murder of his wife, Sarah. It was a story completely unknown to our family until my sister and I ran across it during a research of our family genealogy. Because it was such a shocking event for its time, the event was written up in papers across the U.S. It involved a future President, accusations of torrid behavior, a circus, and a botched hanging. This, I knew, was a story that needed telling in its entirety, and I spent a year collecting information from local Ohio histories and a vast array of newspapers printed in 1871 to 1872.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0192
Format: Thesis

Title: Gender and Genre: Contextualizing Two Early American Novels.
Creator: Shoemaker, Kahla, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This project focuses on the role of gender in Susanna Rowson's seduction novel Charlotte Temple and Charles Brockden Brown's gothic novel Wieland. Incorporating literary analysis, historical information, and the work of other scholars, I contextualize these two novels within early American life and literature. Through this project, I urge readers to resist reading early American novels as a truthful reflection of the historical situation and encourage analysis that is based in gender...
Show moreThis project focuses on the role of gender in Susanna Rowson's seduction novel Charlotte Temple and Charles Brockden Brown's gothic novel Wieland. Incorporating literary analysis, historical information, and the work of other scholars, I contextualize these two novels within early American life and literature. Through this project, I urge readers to resist reading early American novels as a truthful reflection of the historical situation and encourage analysis that is based in gender criticism, rather than feminist criticism. Through this focus, I explore the progressive and regressive aspects of gender representations in the novels, acknowledging both Charlotte Temple and Wieland as multifaceted in their didacticism.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0245
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: Nation and Freedom in Ireland's National Theatre: J.M. Synge's Role in Establishing the Abbey as a Theatre of Free Experimentation.
Creator: Hill, Kelly, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Many of the early plays written and performed at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin were controversial, creating dissent between religious, social, and political groups in Ireland. Among the most volatile of these controversial pieces were those written by John Millington Synge. His In the Shadow of the Glen (1902) and The Playboy of the Western World (1907) enhanced a diverse dialogue regarding the role of the Abbey in Ireland as a national theatre. He helped answer the question of whether or not...
Show moreMany of the early plays written and performed at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin were controversial, creating dissent between religious, social, and political groups in Ireland. Among the most volatile of these controversial pieces were those written by John Millington Synge. His In the Shadow of the Glen (1902) and The Playboy of the Western World (1907) enhanced a diverse dialogue regarding the role of the Abbey in Ireland as a national theatre. He helped answer the question of whether or not the Abbey would be a place to strengthen and praise idealized nationalistic and conservative norms, or a space of free experimentation for Ireland's dramatic artists. Synge's plays spurred on the necessary conversations and conflicts surrounding the Abbey Theatre, forcing her management and audiences alike to decide what material they considered most appropriate to represent the nation. As is discussed at length in this project, Synge's works survived critical backlash in order to establish the Abbey as a haven for Ireland's experimental artists.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0191
Format: Thesis

Title: Blake's and Shelley's Reader Responses to Milton's Satan in Paradise Lost.
Creator: Noud, Jennifer, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This study surveys William Blake's and Percy Bysshe Shelley's reader responses of Satan in John Milton's Paradise Lost. Blake and Shelley were both Romanticists and were highly captivated with the character of Satan. Their critiques of Milton's Satan are evident through their works. Blake's works that are examined are "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell," an eleven-page poem, Milton, an epic poem, and the illuminated printings of Milton's Paradise Lost. Shelley's works that are studied are...
Show moreThis study surveys William Blake's and Percy Bysshe Shelley's reader responses of Satan in John Milton's Paradise Lost. Blake and Shelley were both Romanticists and were highly captivated with the character of Satan. Their critiques of Milton's Satan are evident through their works. Blake's works that are examined are "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell," an eleven-page poem, Milton, an epic poem, and the illuminated printings of Milton's Paradise Lost. Shelley's works that are studied are Prometheus Unbound, a closet lyrical drama, and "A Defense of Poetry" which is an essay. Blake and Shelley believed that Satan was the proper hero of Milton's Paradise Lost. They both critiqued Milton's Satan by finding several imperfections in Paradise Lost. Both tried to surpass Milton by creating their own perfect version of Milton's Satan. Shelley goes a step beyond Blake when designing his Satan by producing a new tragic hero that does not have a hamartia.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0234
Format: Thesis

Title: Decoding Dubstep: A Rhetorical Investigation of Dubstep's Development from the Late 1990s to the Early 2010s.
Creator: Bradley, Laura, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This thesis will rhetorically analyze dubstep, a British electronic music genre that has now achieved international fame, through two rhetorical frameworks. My interest in this project began with a love for the music itself, and developed as I realized how little attention has been paid to electronic music genres by rhetorical scholars. These genres are rich with musical sampling and intertextuality, making them a great place for collaboration between music theory and rhetorical scholarship....
Show moreThis thesis will rhetorically analyze dubstep, a British electronic music genre that has now achieved international fame, through two rhetorical frameworks. My interest in this project began with a love for the music itself, and developed as I realized how little attention has been paid to electronic music genres by rhetorical scholars. These genres are rich with musical sampling and intertextuality, making them a great place for collaboration between music theory and rhetorical scholarship. First, this project examines the cultural context that made and shaped the genre using Lloyd Bitzer's rhetorical situation framework to identify dubstep's rhetorical exigence, audience, and constraints. I chose Bitzer's framework to locate cultural context because of is close examination of exigence, audience and constraints in shaping rhetorical bodies. Then I will use Ernest Bormann's fantasy theme analysis to look more closely at the musical texts themselves, analyzing the musical narrative through sampled lyrics as products of the previously studied rhetorical situation. Dubstep's original exigence was to provide an overwhelming experience to overtake the body and allow its rhetorical audience (a small electronic music community of producers and potential producers) to confront a communal sense of individual anxieties, isolation, and disappointment with their urban environment and society. When the music gained fame and the audience became wider spread and less culturally connected to its roots, a schism occurred and the exigence changed to one of bacchanalian release, as producers made music to let a crowd let loose and blow off steam. This shift caused a notable change, and the change can be observed in the shifting fantasy themes within the musical texts. The fantasy theme of isolation, for instance, shifted from moody and gloomy isolation to violent rejection of societal rules. This project highlights the importance of audience in shaping a rhetorical body, and also demonstrates rhetoric's utility in analyzing electronic music, which is full of intertextual sampling.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0163
Format: Thesis

Title: Asterisk Comics: Visual Rhetoric and Digital Media in Writing Instruction.
Creator: Salamanca, Valentina, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Asterisk* Comics seeks to provide visual and interactive tools through which young adults can develop their writing skills. The website's primary focus is to serve as a medium for instructional materials and to promote writing by marketing it in a new, fresh way. Up to this point, most writing advice offered online takes the form of a textbook pasted unto the web, and this means college and high school students have to weed through protracted explanations to have a simple question answered....
Show moreAsterisk* Comics seeks to provide visual and interactive tools through which young adults can develop their writing skills. The website's primary focus is to serve as a medium for instructional materials and to promote writing by marketing it in a new, fresh way. Up to this point, most writing advice offered online takes the form of a textbook pasted unto the web, and this means college and high school students have to weed through protracted explanations to have a simple question answered. Googling for writing instruction can become a tortuous experience for anyone, but Asterisk* Comics seeks to break this tedious trend. Asteriskcomics.org will house the same type of information offered by instructional writing websites, but they will be made available through interactive and visual means. Writing instruction and advice will be conveyed to its audience through comics and illustrated texts. It aspires to house videos and interactive media in the future.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0239
Format: Thesis

Title: The Anthology of Awkardness.
Creator: Ostermeyer, Emily, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This thesis explores different styles of creative nonfiction. I am attempt to examine on a more intimate level the human experience of awkwardness. I hope to catalogue my personal experiences of awkwardness. To accomplish this I explore the notion of awkwardness as a human experience in humorous terms that suggest serious consequences for the weight we tend to put on awkward situations. The overall arc of this collection is meant to fluctuate and retrace itself. I intentionally have multiple...
Show moreThis thesis explores different styles of creative nonfiction. I am attempt to examine on a more intimate level the human experience of awkwardness. I hope to catalogue my personal experiences of awkwardness. To accomplish this I explore the notion of awkwardness as a human experience in humorous terms that suggest serious consequences for the weight we tend to put on awkward situations. The overall arc of this collection is meant to fluctuate and retrace itself. I intentionally have multiple essays on similar subjects, such as those about romantic relationships and the dynamics of a mother-daughter relationship, because I want to highlight the complexity of those relationships and examine the so-called awkwardness on different levels.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0197
Format: Thesis

Title: The Art of Adaptation Through the Analysis of Stanley Kubrick Films.
Creator: Sonenreich, Brooke Nicole, 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-0467
Format: Thesis

Title: What We Talk About When We Talk About Education Reform.
Creator: Smith, Danielle, Department of English
Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0150
Format: Thesis

Title: Three Stories.
Creator: Nerger, Matthew, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Three stories of various lengths
Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0230
Format: Thesis

Title: Freud, Foreign Lands, and Food.
Creator: Stein, Benay, Department of English
Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0254
Format: Thesis

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

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