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Blake's and Shelley's Reader Responses to Milton's Satan in <em>Paradise Lost</em>
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
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Teenage Rebellion
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
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Ferocious Motherhood
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
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Roads to No One
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
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