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"Our experience is only with the imaginary, and, because the imaginary is the domain of self, self finds its boundaries at the limits of its own experience."
An Interpretive Reading of
Virginia Woolf's The Waves, p. 9
Virginia Woolf's The Waves, p. 9
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Ph.D. University of South Florida. English. May, 1995
Dissertation: Law in the Margin: Chaos Theory and the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut
(A crossdisciplinary work applying principles of chaos theory to the analysis of literary texts. The work involved extensive work with a chaotician from the mathematics department and the chair of the philosophy department.)
Thesis: "The Brainwashing of Temple Drake in William Faulkner's Sanctuary"
(Applies my background in psychology to Faulkner's controversial novel.)
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Postdoctoral Study: Classical Rhetoric
Undergraduate specialization in music and psychology