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Charles Finney's The Circus of Dr. Lao
| Title: | Charles Finney's The Circus of Dr. Lao: an epistemological fantasy. |
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| Name(s): |
Creed, Daniel B. Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters Department of English |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation | |
| Date Issued: | 2010 | |
| Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
| Physical Form: | electronic | |
| Extent: | vi, 58 p. | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Summary: | Charles Finney's The Circus of Dr. Lao, published in 1936, has been widely read in the last eighty years and has influenced significant authors in the field of fantasy, yet it has been examined in just three critical studies in that time. This study examines Finney's novel as an epistemological fantasy, a heretofore undefined term that precipitates an epistemological crisis of knowing and certainty. The novel opens a way for fantasy literature to establish itself in a Modernist landscape by foregrounding the marvelous and extraordinary knowledge that lies just outside the realm of human experience. Finney presents Dr. Lao's circus as a surrogate model of success, and while many of the characters in the novel are unable to accept the truth offered them by the beings of fantasy, the author uses their experiences to satirize the complacencies he witnessed upon returning to America from the Far East in the 1930s. | |
| Identifier: | 649692065 (oclc), 2683122 (digitool), FADT2683122 (IID), fau:3480 (fedora) | |
| Note(s): |
by Daniel B. Creed. Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2010. Includes bibliography. Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2010. Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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| Subject(s): |
Finney, Charles G. (Charles Grandison), 1905-1984 Symbolism in literature Knowledge, Theory of, in literature Fantasy fiction, American -- Criticism and interpretation Postmodernism (Literature) |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2683122 | |
| Use and Reproduction: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
