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Teenage Rebellion: The Ideological State Apparatus in Young Adult Literature Origins.
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Abshier, Kristine Lake, Department of English
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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.
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2015
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FSU_migr_uhm-0524
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Ferocious Motherhood: The Characterization of the Contemporary Single Mother in Southern Women's Fiction.
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Kranz, Tova E., Department of English
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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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2015
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FSU_migr_uhm-0510
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Roads to No One: The Problem of Alterity in the American Postmodern Novel.
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Perdue, Shannon, Department of English
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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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2015
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FSU_migr_uhm-0540
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