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- Title
- JIM-BOB'S GIRL: A COLLECTION OF CREATIVE NON-FICTION.
- Author
- Rodgers, Elesebeth Stevenson, Sakalarios-Rogers, Regina A., Yeager, Robert F., University of West Florida
- Abstract/Description
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This collection of creative non-fiction explores the seasons of life through the lens of a season of loss and considers the final transformation from child into adult. It examines the reverse role of an adult child during the years when parent-becomes-child and the anticipation of the loss of the life force of an elderly but still powerful parent. The decline of the parent into a second childhood through the path of dementia makes this journey poignant and the recording of this season...
Show moreThis collection of creative non-fiction explores the seasons of life through the lens of a season of loss and considers the final transformation from child into adult. It examines the reverse role of an adult child during the years when parent-becomes-child and the anticipation of the loss of the life force of an elderly but still powerful parent. The decline of the parent into a second childhood through the path of dementia makes this journey poignant and the recording of this season significant. The chapters include an introduction which takes up the concept of dementia and impending death entitled "The Dreamwork," the voice of the adult child fearing the loss of a parent in "Red Letter Day," the young child desiring parental approval in "The High Dive," the teenager seeking peer affirmation in "Skinnydipping," the arc of child through fifty years as she defines worth in people, relationships and material goods in "The Diamond," the challenge of a parent who struggles to empower her own child in "Alpengeist," and finally, the resolution of the adult child facing the final loss of the parent in "Five Thirty Five."
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- 2012
- Identifier
- WFE0000312, uwf:61016
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- LOVE WITHIN REASON IN CHAUCER'S TROILUS AND CRISEYDE.
- Author
- Schoolcraft, Britni Irene, Yeager, Robert F., Romack, Katherine M., University of West Florida
- Abstract/Description
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This research investigates the connection between Boethian ethics as presented in Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy and courtly love in Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. This research explains that Boethian ethics intersect with the idea of courtly love most recognizably in the relationships among Troilus, Criseyde, and Diomede. The goal of this research is to show that Boethian ideals reduce the tradition of courtly love to utter insignificance. This research puts forth the claim...
Show moreThis research investigates the connection between Boethian ethics as presented in Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy and courtly love in Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. This research explains that Boethian ethics intersect with the idea of courtly love most recognizably in the relationships among Troilus, Criseyde, and Diomede. The goal of this research is to show that Boethian ideals reduce the tradition of courtly love to utter insignificance. This research puts forth the claim that Troilus and Criseyde uses the infusion of Boethian ethics and values into a narrative dealing with courtly love in order to critique the value system put in place by the love tradition. This research intends to prove that Boethian ethics and values, with specific emphasis on reason's connection with divinity, in Troilus and Criseyde work to illustrate the subjection of both Fortune and courtly love to divine rationality.
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- 2015
- Identifier
- WFE0000519, uwf:61249
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- MISSING THE TREES FOR THE FOREST: THE ARBOREAL "MAGIC" OF ROBIN HOOD.
- Author
- Hogue, Jason Charles, Yeager, Robert F., Prewitt, Terry J., University of West Florida
- Abstract/Description
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In the outlaw ballad tradition as well as in tales of chivalric romance, the greenwood often plays a crucial part and is integral to the Robin Hood legend. This thesis explores the narrative reverence of and meditation on the greenwood of early Robin Hood ballads, a reverence that hearkens back to ancient pagan tree worship. In spite of the Christian influence of the early Robin Hood poets, the very setting of the greenwood in the ballads preserves an eradicable trace of the legend's pagan...
Show moreIn the outlaw ballad tradition as well as in tales of chivalric romance, the greenwood often plays a crucial part and is integral to the Robin Hood legend. This thesis explores the narrative reverence of and meditation on the greenwood of early Robin Hood ballads, a reverence that hearkens back to ancient pagan tree worship. In spite of the Christian influence of the early Robin Hood poets, the very setting of the greenwood in the ballads preserves an eradicable trace of the legend's pagan roots. The outlaws are enmeshed within a framework that medieval and early Modern subjects would have identified with superstition, mysticism, and the spirit(s) of the wood, and thus, Robin Hood's literary incarnation in early ballads casts him as a representative of repressed paganism, through his proximity to and relationship with the greenwood.
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- 2012
- Identifier
- WFE0000339, uwf:60986
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- OF SCHIPES AL THE WORLD AT ONES: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF JOHN GOWER'S USE OF MARITIME VOCABULARY IN CONFESSIO AMANTIS.
- Author
- Keohane, Colin James, Bratten, John R., Yeager, Robert F., Cook, Gregory D., University of West Florida
- Abstract/Description
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The maritime vocabulary of the Middle English poet John Gower provides a window into the seafaring culture of 14th-century London. A survey of phrases and terms that refer to nautical technology in Gower's Confessio Amantis reveals the poet's immersion in Anglo-French largeship traditions as well as a direct experiential connection to Iberian or Mediterranean trade networks. By analyzing the words of Confessio Amantis in their original historical and nautical contexts, this thesis argues that...
Show moreThe maritime vocabulary of the Middle English poet John Gower provides a window into the seafaring culture of 14th-century London. A survey of phrases and terms that refer to nautical technology in Gower's Confessio Amantis reveals the poet's immersion in Anglo-French largeship traditions as well as a direct experiential connection to Iberian or Mediterranean trade networks. By analyzing the words of Confessio Amantis in their original historical and nautical contexts, this thesis argues that Gower, within his poetry, recorded the voice of medieval London's maritime community.
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- 2016
- Identifier
- WFE0000532, uwf:61214
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- THE BEST THAT HAS BEEN THOUGHT OR SAID: CULTURAL DIVISION AND THE POSTMODERN TURN IN POINT COUNTER POINT.
- Author
- Fischer, Erica Kerstin, Earle, David M., Yeager, Robert F., University of West Florida
- Abstract/Description
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In After the Great Divide, Andreas Huyssen argues that, motivated by the desire to self-construct their own elite canon, modernist intellectuals, such as Aldous Huxley, encouraged a force of separation by attempting to separate high and low culture. However, Huxley's novel, Point Counter Point, dissolves such hierarchies that privilege reason over passion, activity over passivity, and production over reception in its discursive attempts to achieve what Huxley calls intellectual balance. In...
Show moreIn After the Great Divide, Andreas Huyssen argues that, motivated by the desire to self-construct their own elite canon, modernist intellectuals, such as Aldous Huxley, encouraged a force of separation by attempting to separate high and low culture. However, Huxley's novel, Point Counter Point, dissolves such hierarchies that privilege reason over passion, activity over passivity, and production over reception in its discursive attempts to achieve what Huxley calls intellectual balance. In The Postmodern Turn, Steven Best and Douglas Kellner contend that postmodernism became possible when there was a conscious awareness of the instability of boundaries. I argue that the collapse of binary oppositions evident in Point Counter Point offers an example of the turn to postmodernism that the modernist project encouraged. The recognition of the intent behind the modernist force of separation invalidates the attempt by collapsing the separation, subsequently leading to the fragmented development of the superficiality of play and pastiche in postmodernist literature.
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- 2009
- Identifier
- WFE0000152, uwf:60838
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- THE ROAD TO HAMMER: NEOLIBERALIST-MASCULINITY AND THE POLITICS OF MIKE HAMMER.
- Author
- Heiligenthal, Marcus Gary, Earle, David M., Yeager, Robert F., University of West Florida
- Abstract/Description
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Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer novels rank among the most popular texts in American fiction. Despite Spillane's enormous popularity, or perhaps because of it, there remains little critical consideration of his works. Spillane's work has been dismissed as overly simplistic, highly formulaic, and hyper-violent by the literary community. I assert that Spillane's work serves both as an archive of the popular cultural turmoil of late modernity and as a vehicle to forward Spillane's own hyper...
Show moreMickey Spillane's Mike Hammer novels rank among the most popular texts in American fiction. Despite Spillane's enormous popularity, or perhaps because of it, there remains little critical consideration of his works. Spillane's work has been dismissed as overly simplistic, highly formulaic, and hyper-violent by the literary community. I assert that Spillane's work serves both as an archive of the popular cultural turmoil of late modernity and as a vehicle to forward Spillane's own hyper-masculine politics. Considering Spillane in the context of other hardboiled writers illuminates the ideological nature of Spillane's Mike Hammer novels. While other writers of the genre used the detective story as a means to articulate nuanced modernist discourses, Spillane flouts this tradition in a dangerously simplistic attempt to forward a highly nationalistic, neoliberalist-masculine ideology.
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- 2012
- Identifier
- WFE0000311, uwf:61011
- Format
- Document (PDF)