Date of Award
1997
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Paton, Priscilla
Abstract
Concentrating on Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," with M. L. Rosenthal's term "floating realities" as my starting point, I discuss how time and its malleable nature relates to Prufrock's "linear reality" and his "non-linear" "floating realities." Prufrock's "linear reality" is the external world of appearances and his internal psychological landscape. I then reveal the "floating realities" that are generated by Eliot's otherworldly allusions. Finally, I discuss chaos theory, another way to explore the poem's multi-dimensional nature.
Extent
56 p.
Recommended Citation
Lewman, Monica Laine, ""Floating realities": Multi-dimensionality in T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"" (1997). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999. 1046.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_4/1046
Identifier
FADT15416
Comments
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1997.|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters