Florida Southern College Digital Repositorygeneral-feed.descriptionhttps://repository.flsouthern.edu2024-03-28T23:43:41Z2024-03-28T23:43:41Z7161"Books are not absolutely dead things": English literature, material culture and mapping textEskin, Catherine R.https://hdl.handle.net/11416/5682023-02-14T06:32:56Z2018-03-01T00:00:00Zdc.title: "Books are not absolutely dead things": English literature, material culture and mapping text
dc.contributor.author: Eskin, Catherine R.
dc.description.abstract: John Milton's 1644 declaration that 'Books are not absolutely dead things' makes him a rock star among undergraduate English majors who are covetous of the material, reassuringly physical book. This essay explores that metonymic dichotomy through a project that combined the 'old' technology of the hand-press book and the 'new' technology of GIS story-telling. Using a visiting special collection of rare books for students at a small college, the project approached hand-press era books in three phases: 1) a bibliographic description and transcription; 2) book forensics, and 3) a 'deep map' of a book. With mapping--understood as an expression of spatial thinking-- as a guide, students recognized that the singular text, even the dialogic text, is far less remarkable than locating and articulating the links between history, place, literature, and culture. Students engaged with terminology (descriptive bibliography), recognized the temporal lines of the book as an object (provenance), followed the development of a book as a polyglotous intellectual entity, and reviewed the geographic/historical experiences of the author and of the book (biography, publishing). The spatial turn allowed students to construct (and in some cases, deconstruct) the cultural world in which texts, authors and printers collide.
2018-03-01T00:00:00Z"On To Avalon" : The History of Avalon GrovesEdgar, PeterShanks, KelsiHoffman, KaitlynnHarper, Caitlinhttps://hdl.handle.net/11416/3582022-11-03T16:34:25Z2017-04-01T00:00:00Zdc.title: "On To Avalon" : The History of Avalon Groves
dc.contributor.author: Edgar, Peter; Shanks, Kelsi; Hoffman, Kaitlynn; Harper, Caitlin
dc.description.abstract: "When we think of oranges, we think of sunshine, soft winds, flowers and palms. We think of romance and unreal things because the turning of sunshine into golden fruit is one of Nature's absorbing miracles." This is the opening line of a flowery brochure produced by the Orlando Orange Groves Company, in the mid 1920s, and given to every potential investor and tourist who would take a tour of the land outside of Winter Garden, Florida. The business proposal acquired by the staff of the McKay Archives in August 2016, is more quick to come to the point of the sales pitch. It begins "Orange County ... produces approximately one-third of all the oranges grown in the State of Florida. The rolling ridge land, composed of the famous Norfolk Fine Sand, is especially adapted to the culture of the orange."
dc.description: Spring 2017 Fiat Lux poster presentation
2017-04-01T00:00:00Z2012 Fiat Lux Complete Abstract Booklet Florida Southern Collegehttps://hdl.handle.net/11416/4252022-11-03T16:36:28Z2012-11-01T00:00:00Zdc.title: 2012 Fiat Lux Complete Abstract Booklet
dc.contributor.author: Florida Southern College
dc.description: A showcase of Florida Southern College student scholarship, creative works, and research.
2012-11-01T00:00:00Z2013 Fall Fiat Lux Complete Abstract Booklet Florida Southern Collegehttps://hdl.handle.net/11416/4382022-11-03T16:33:50Z2013-11-01T00:00:00Zdc.title: 2013 Fall Fiat Lux Complete Abstract Booklet
dc.contributor.author: Florida Southern College
dc.description: A showcase of Florida Southern College student scholarship, creative works, and research.
2013-11-01T00:00:00Z2013 Spring Fiat Lux Complete Abstract Booklet Florida Southern Collegehttps://hdl.handle.net/11416/4372022-11-03T16:35:44Z2013-04-01T00:00:00Zdc.title: 2013 Spring Fiat Lux Complete Abstract Booklet
dc.contributor.author: Florida Southern College
dc.description: A showcase of Florida Southern College student scholarship, creative works, and research.
2013-04-01T00:00:00Z2014 Fall Fiat Lux Complete Abstract Booklet Florida Southern Collegehttps://hdl.handle.net/11416/4272022-11-03T16:34:34Z2014-11-01T00:00:00Zdc.title: 2014 Fall Fiat Lux Complete Abstract Booklet
dc.contributor.author: Florida Southern College
dc.description: A showcase of Florida Southern College student scholarship, creative works, and research.
2014-11-01T00:00:00Z2014 Spring Fiat Lux Complete Abstract Booklet Florida Southern Collegehttps://hdl.handle.net/11416/4262022-11-03T16:30:31Z2014-04-01T00:00:00Zdc.title: 2014 Spring Fiat Lux Complete Abstract Booklet
dc.contributor.author: Florida Southern College
dc.description: A showcase of Florida Southern College student scholarship, creative works, and research.
2014-04-01T00:00:00Z2015 Fall Fiat Lux Complete Abstract Booklet Florida Southern Collegehttps://hdl.handle.net/11416/4292022-11-03T16:34:57Z2015-11-01T00:00:00Zdc.title: 2015 Fall Fiat Lux Complete Abstract Booklet
dc.contributor.author: Florida Southern College
dc.description: A showcase of Florida Southern College student scholarship, creative works, and research.
2015-11-01T00:00:00Z2015 Spring Fiat Lux Complete Abstract Booklet Florida Southern Collegehttps://hdl.handle.net/11416/4282022-11-03T16:32:58Z2015-04-01T00:00:00Zdc.title: 2015 Spring Fiat Lux Complete Abstract Booklet
dc.contributor.author: Florida Southern College
dc.description: A showcase of Florida Southern College student scholarship, creative works, and research.
2015-04-01T00:00:00Z2016 Fall Fiat Lux Complete Abstract BookletFlorida Southern Collegehttps://hdl.handle.net/11416/1702022-11-03T16:35:53Z2016-12-02T00:00:00Zdc.title: 2016 Fall Fiat Lux Complete Abstract Booklet
dc.contributor.author: Florida Southern College
dc.description: A showcase of Florida Southern College student scholarship, creative works, and research.
2016-12-02T00:00:00Z