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Thelonious Monk's Prototypical Style: Close And Distant Readings Of Jazz Stylings, Connor Davis Jul 2019

Thelonious Monk's Prototypical Style: Close And Distant Readings Of Jazz Stylings, Connor Davis

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Thelonious Monk’s style has been considered non-conformist, modernist, technically stilted, intentionally unconventional, even incompetent. His performing is idiosyncratic, to say the least. However, by what metric is his performing idiosyncratic, or, framed another way, in what ways do Thelonious Monk’s performances deviate from the prototypical performance? Situated within family resemblance theories of prototypicality, I utilize supervised and unsupervised machine learning approaches to categorize jazz solos based on their melodic usage of standard jazz language (novel corpus of 530 jazz solo improvisations). Using these distant readings to determine which solos are prototypical, I perform a close reading of these prototypical solos …


Inventing An Ethics: Existentialism And Engagement Through Literature, Michael Foster Wickham Apr 2018

Inventing An Ethics: Existentialism And Engagement Through Literature, Michael Foster Wickham

LSU Master's Theses

The existentialist ethics of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone De Beauvoir offers a unique perspective that challenges a traditional, normative picture that has been dominant throughout the history of ethical thinking and continues to dominate in contemporary discourse. The perspective in question refuses to rely on essence to ground its positions, opting instead to focus on the contingency of the subject and the interpersonal as being fundamental in the invention of moral values and ethical practices. This thesis looks to – in the first chapter – explore the relationship between the subjective and the interpersonal through a discussion of Heidegger’s Mitsein …


Front Matter Jan 2016

Front Matter

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Social Mobility And Personal Displacement Queen Charlotte Between England And Germany, Mascha Hansen Jan 2016

Social Mobility And Personal Displacement Queen Charlotte Between England And Germany, Mascha Hansen

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Eighteenth-Century Merchant Circles In London's Wapping Peter Hieuusson, Maritime Trade, And The Global Movement Of Money, Kenneth J Cozens Jan 2016

Eighteenth-Century Merchant Circles In London's Wapping Peter Hieuusson, Maritime Trade, And The Global Movement Of Money, Kenneth J Cozens

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Cook's Ark Animals On The Move In The Service Of Empires, Bärbel Czennia Jan 2016

Cook's Ark Animals On The Move In The Service Of Empires, Bärbel Czennia

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Index Jan 2016

Index

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Moving Letters In Eighteenth-Century Epistolary Writing Arrivals And Departures, Hélène Dachez, Allan Ingram Jan 2016

Moving Letters In Eighteenth-Century Epistolary Writing Arrivals And Departures, Hélène Dachez, Allan Ingram

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Picturesque Movement In Ann Radcliffe's Novels, Julien Morel Jan 2016

Picturesque Movement In Ann Radcliffe's Novels, Julien Morel

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Yorick And Lovelace Physical Manifestations And Internal E-Motions, Maryam Ghabris Jan 2016

Yorick And Lovelace Physical Manifestations And Internal E-Motions, Maryam Ghabris

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Motion In (Eighteenth-Century) Poetry, Bill Overton Jan 2016

Motion In (Eighteenth-Century) Poetry, Bill Overton

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Swift's Concept Of Physical Exercise: The Gravel Path To Human Perfection, Esther F. Sommer Jan 2016

Swift's Concept Of Physical Exercise: The Gravel Path To Human Perfection, Esther F. Sommer

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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The Creative Cost Of Jane Austen's Move To Bath, Gerald J Butler Jan 2016

The Creative Cost Of Jane Austen's Move To Bath, Gerald J Butler

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Stability Turned Into Motion Erasmus Darwin's Recourse To Ovid's Metamorphoses, Sonja Fielitz Jan 2016

Stability Turned Into Motion Erasmus Darwin's Recourse To Ovid's Metamorphoses, Sonja Fielitz

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Kinetic Metaphors In Alexander Pope's The Rape Oe The Lock, Essay On Man, And The Dunciad, Michael Szczekalla Jan 2016

Kinetic Metaphors In Alexander Pope's The Rape Oe The Lock, Essay On Man, And The Dunciad, Michael Szczekalla

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Drifting Unguided Or Involuntary Motion And The Enlightenment Sense Of Direction, Kevin L Cope Jan 2016

Drifting Unguided Or Involuntary Motion And The Enlightenment Sense Of Direction, Kevin L Cope

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Thomas Jefferson, Travel Writer, Kevin J Hayes Jan 2016

Thomas Jefferson, Travel Writer, Kevin J Hayes

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Traveling To Rome For Artistic Purposes The Theoretical Background In Eighteenth-Century France And Britain, Elisabeth Martichou Jan 2016

Traveling To Rome For Artistic Purposes The Theoretical Background In Eighteenth-Century France And Britain, Elisabeth Martichou

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Turning Round Or Standing Still Movement And Stasis In Defoe, Pope, And Sterne, Allan Ingram, Hélène Dachez Jan 2016

Turning Round Or Standing Still Movement And Stasis In Defoe, Pope, And Sterne, Allan Ingram, Hélène Dachez

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Front Matter Jan 2015

Front Matter

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Special Feature Paper, Ink, And Achievement: Gabriel Hornstein Jan 2015

Special Feature Paper, Ink, And Achievement: Gabriel Hornstein

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Fugitive Allusions In Boswell In Search Of A Wife, Or The Charming Mr. Boswell, Robert G. Walker Jan 2015

Fugitive Allusions In Boswell In Search Of A Wife, Or The Charming Mr. Boswell, Robert G. Walker

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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"Go Not Far To Dine" Pedagogical Approaches To Sustainable Consumption In The Eighteenth-Century Studies Classroom And Beyond, Marlon Pareja, Sher Li Ong, Michelle Merrill, Samara Anne Cahill Jan 2015

"Go Not Far To Dine" Pedagogical Approaches To Sustainable Consumption In The Eighteenth-Century Studies Classroom And Beyond, Marlon Pareja, Sher Li Ong, Michelle Merrill, Samara Anne Cahill

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Permanent Markers The Monumental, The Mobile, And The Sustainable In Enlightened Eras, Kevin L. Cope Jan 2015

Permanent Markers The Monumental, The Mobile, And The Sustainable In Enlightened Eras, Kevin L. Cope

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Sustaining The Eighteenth Century?, Samara Anne Cahill Jan 2015

Sustaining The Eighteenth Century?, Samara Anne Cahill

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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The Arabian Nights And The Oriental Tale Sustainable Enlightenment Texts, Malcolm Jack Jan 2015

The Arabian Nights And The Oriental Tale Sustainable Enlightenment Texts, Malcolm Jack

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Three Bibliopoles, J. T. Scanlan Jan 2015

Three Bibliopoles, J. T. Scanlan

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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The Unending Dunciad Pope's Weird Revenge, Cedric D. Reverand Ii Jan 2015

The Unending Dunciad Pope's Weird Revenge, Cedric D. Reverand Ii

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Religious Exchanges Solomon's Temple, Holy Land Travel, And A Georgics Of Sacred Space In Seventeenth- And Eighteenth-Century English Writing, Michael Rotenberg-Schwartz Jan 2015

Religious Exchanges Solomon's Temple, Holy Land Travel, And A Georgics Of Sacred Space In Seventeenth- And Eighteenth-Century English Writing, Michael Rotenberg-Schwartz

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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"Iron War" As "Daily Care"Sustainability And The Dialectic Of Care In Dryden's Georgics, Erin Drew Jan 2015

"Iron War" As "Daily Care"Sustainability And The Dialectic Of Care In Dryden's Georgics, Erin Drew

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.