Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 32-06, Section: A, page: 3260. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1971.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 30-02, Section: A, page: 0683. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1968.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 30-02, Section: A, page: 0683. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1968.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 30-09, Section: A, page: 3903. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1969.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 30-11, Section: A, page: 4933. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1969.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 30-12, Section: A, page: 5400. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1969.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 31-09, Section: A, page: 4711. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1970.

The collection of poems is divided into three parts. All of the poems are in the open form although some are obviously influenced by traditional forms. Each section contains motifs and themes common to the other two sections. The first two parts are antithetical to a large extent; the third part is a synthesizer. / The predominant mood, tone, and theme of "Dancing Dust" is celebratory, a search for and attainment of heightened reality in the submission to art, ritual, or any other form of illuminated life. The primacy of "The Widows" is loss, the passage into new being brought on by larger than human forces. "Carbon Rites" is an expansive section affirming that life and art happen anywhere between, and inclusive of, the moment of ecstasy and the moment of despair. / The major influences on the work become sometimes the subjects of the poems. There are a number of music poems, their range from classical to rock. There are dance poems. The two art forms so inherent in all ritual are a major force in these works. / Region is also an influence. Few of the poems are not country poems. They reflect the south Louisiana from which they were written. Consequently, there are linguistic and sociological implications of the area and culture. Several reveal folk belief and custom; many employ a weaving of cajun French because that linquistic behavior is peculiar to that region. / However, the collection's title Carbon Rites lifts the poems out of regional poetry. They focus on one region with an eye for the universal longings and quests of every man. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-03, Section: A, page: 1133. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1981.

Joseph Conrad's political novels, Nostromo, The Secret Agent, and Under Western Eyes, are examined in a new critical study. Each novel has a distinctive method of narration which is explored in and of itself. The study finds its unity in the discovery of ironic affirmation broadly underlying the more obvious themes of each novel. Authorial intrusion and direct commentary are attributed to the narrators of each novel rather than to Conrad and are seen as the primary loci of assertion of affirmation. / Nostromo is narrated by a divided consciousness: a narrative voice which essentially carries out the storytelling functions and an intrusive voice which corrects and defines reader perceptions, calling the reader to distanced participation in the life of the novel. The Secret Agent is narrated by a voice which gives clues to its own personality while adding its own valuation and which ranges from grimly comic in its early perceptions to transcendently tragic in its concluding views. The narrator of Under Western Eyes fails in deluding the reader about his character but succeeds in becoming a symbolical figure in the dialectic of the novel. / All three novels develop the idea of the failure of political solutions in modern civilization. This failure added to the failure of traditional absolutes is countered by the tenuous assertion, arising from the narrative techniques of the novels, of a belief in human community. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-01, Section: A, page: 0202. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1981.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 40-10, Section: A, page: 5429. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1979.