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Title: The Affect of E-books on Reading.
Creator: Lichti, Lindsay, English -Literature
Abstract/Description: This thesis is concerned with the possible effects of e-books on reading from a socio-historical perspective and a neurological perspective. It looks at how reading habits change due to e-books and what that means for society. It also looks at what experts are currently saying about how e-books might affect human brains and the validity of these concerns. In addition, conclusions of areas of research to focus on are suggested. A survey about the reading habits of FSU students was taken. These...
Show moreThis thesis is concerned with the possible effects of e-books on reading from a socio-historical perspective and a neurological perspective. It looks at how reading habits change due to e-books and what that means for society. It also looks at what experts are currently saying about how e-books might affect human brains and the validity of these concerns. In addition, conclusions of areas of research to focus on are suggested. A survey about the reading habits of FSU students was taken. These results were incorporated to track FSU trends compared to national averages.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0077
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: From Classic Novel to Popular Culture: The Transformation of Pride and Prejudice into Film and Television.
Creator: Rojas, Camila, English -Literature
Abstract/Description: This thesis deals with film adaptations of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. This work examines how this particular novel has been translated into film and the issues that arise from changing media. This study focuses on five different films [Pride and Prejudice (1980), Pride and Prejudice (1995), Pride and Prejudice (2005), Bride and Prejudice (2004) and Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)] and their relationship to the book and adaptation theory. To provide the reader with a greater...
Show moreThis thesis deals with film adaptations of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. This work examines how this particular novel has been translated into film and the issues that arise from changing media. This study focuses on five different films [Pride and Prejudice (1980), Pride and Prejudice (1995), Pride and Prejudice (2005), Bride and Prejudice (2004) and Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)] and their relationship to the book and adaptation theory. To provide the reader with a greater understanding of adaptation theory, this thesis will include a section briefly outlining current adaptation studies followed by in-depth analyses of each film in comparison to the novel and theory.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0058
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: Inferno II: To Hell with Kurt Vonnegut.
Creator: Davis, Cameron, English -Literature
Abstract/Description: This is a modern interpretation of Dante's Inferno in which I, Cameron Davis, am guided by Kurt Vonnegut through the circles of hell. The original Inferno was used as a loose framework for this piece in that there are some recurring images, people, and creatures, but also there are some completely new aspects to hell that I invented to make, what I think, a more modern version of hell.
Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0092
Format: Thesis

Title: Living the (Working-Class, College, Double-Major) Life.
Creator: Hall, Melissa E., English - Creative Writing
Abstract/Description: Juggling school work, a job, and a social life can be difficult, especially to a young Seminole. With majors in Music and Creative Writing, as well as a job at Cracker Barrel, a young woman describes her sophomore year through letters to her grandmother and best friend. These letters, while describing essentially the same situation, are completely different to both recipients. To her grandmother, the young woman stays positive, slightly sugar-coating any bad situation. There's a silver lining...
Show moreJuggling school work, a job, and a social life can be difficult, especially to a young Seminole. With majors in Music and Creative Writing, as well as a job at Cracker Barrel, a young woman describes her sophomore year through letters to her grandmother and best friend. These letters, while describing essentially the same situation, are completely different to both recipients. To her grandmother, the young woman stays positive, slightly sugar-coating any bad situation. There's a silver lining, one has only to find it. Letters to the best friend can be described as melodramatic, the complete opposite of the letters to Grandma. Things are terrible. I hate my job. I never have time to do anything. Interspersed with profiles of customers, and lists of lessons learned at Cracker Barrel, this thesis gives an interesting and realistic view of what it means to be a working student.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0084
Format: Thesis

Title: Naked Ballerinas in Flight.
Creator: Lewis, Karlanna, English - Creative Writing
Abstract/Description: Through a collection of imagistic poems, themes of humanity, dance, and their surreal intersection are explored. While dance is a wordless art, a creation through fleeting images of the body, I use words to recreate and preserve the evanescent nature of dance. My poetry focuses on ballerinas, flight, and the body, and how transformation takes place both in ballet and in the world. The interconnectedness of all things is expressed through leaping language, with yearning to connect and to halt...
Show moreThrough a collection of imagistic poems, themes of humanity, dance, and their surreal intersection are explored. While dance is a wordless art, a creation through fleeting images of the body, I use words to recreate and preserve the evanescent nature of dance. My poetry focuses on ballerinas, flight, and the body, and how transformation takes place both in ballet and in the world. The interconnectedness of all things is expressed through leaping language, with yearning to connect and to halt time. What I explore in this manuscript is what makes ballet a special art form. The similarity of dancers to birds and other creatures of flight such as dragonflies and fireflies is considered through fantastical imaginings. The ultimate goal is to wed the diverse disciplines of poetry and dance, and closer unite the variety of human expressions and experiences. By looking at the spiritual nature of dance and the mysterious and physical side, I hope to reveal truths about human existence. On the canvas of the mind words paint a kaleidoscopic collage, much as bodies do on stage. Much as a dancer's practiced silhouette enchants, so too does the right word in poetry. Both in a simple and ancient way moderate the age of machine.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0024
Format: Thesis

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: 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: The Tianjin Trilogy: Three Short Stories.
Creator: Lohr, Heidi, English - Creative Writing
Abstract/Description: Three short stories detailing the journey of James Nester through China. The United States that James came from is a country whose economy has completely collapsed, with China quickly taking its place. He is going to a job at the electronics manufacturing company, WOLFKON, in order to get money for himself and to send back to his family in the U.S. Each story is a commentary on social issues in modern China. In Blue Skies over Tianjin, we are introduced to this new China, examine the...
Show moreThree short stories detailing the journey of James Nester through China. The United States that James came from is a country whose economy has completely collapsed, with China quickly taking its place. He is going to a job at the electronics manufacturing company, WOLFKON, in order to get money for himself and to send back to his family in the U.S. Each story is a commentary on social issues in modern China. In Blue Skies over Tianjin, we are introduced to this new China, examine the manufacturing economy, the prosperity it brings, and its costs. Wonderland takes a more personal examination of life in China as James befriends a female coworker and his supervisor, discussing the lives of people who live under the government, the public and private self, and the ways protest can manifest. Finally, in Fruit and Vinegar, authoritarianism and government corruption are explored as James searches for his friend who has been taken by the government, and James must decide whether he wishes to leave China or stay.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0107
Format: Thesis

Title: Two Ways to Think or Montaigne and Freud on the Human Paradox.
Creator: Countryman, Jennifer, English -Literature
Abstract/Description: According to cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker in his Pulitzer Prize winning study The Denial of Death, man is "at the same time…given the consciousness of the terror of the world and of his own death and decay." Becker's study draws upon the theories of the philosopher Kierkegaard, Freud and such contemporaries as Otto Rank and Eric Fromm, men who were both his disciples and his critics. In his study, Becker insists that this precarious human paradox—a disjunction between mortal body and...
Show moreAccording to cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker in his Pulitzer Prize winning study The Denial of Death, man is "at the same time…given the consciousness of the terror of the world and of his own death and decay." Becker's study draws upon the theories of the philosopher Kierkegaard, Freud and such contemporaries as Otto Rank and Eric Fromm, men who were both his disciples and his critics. In his study, Becker insists that this precarious human paradox—a disjunction between mortal body and self-conscious mind—causes an immense anxiety over our imminent death and engages us in a search for immortality. Becker argues that we create immortality projects—a culture-footprint, anything that marks our participation within a society—so that we may live on through society and our immortality project after death. While Becker's work is too demonstrative in scope and language for the purpose of this thesis, the fundamental claims are part of a nuanced exploration into the human condition, namely, the human paradox. There are many ways to interpret the human paradox—mortal body, immortal soul. This thesis examines that of two thinkers of the ages, Michel de Montaigne and Sigmund Freud. Although not the only intellectuals to take these concepts into consideration in their writing, Montaigne and Freud provide the most comprehensive approach; they provide textual evidence that great minds have explored these ideas over the course of millennia. With an exposition of self-mastery, Montaigne and Freud first inspired their own historical milieu; following in their footsteps, successive generations have inculcated their techniques, gaining insight into the perennial issues that encompass the contemporary selves of each successive generation.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0094
Format: Thesis

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