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Jean Cocteau: Orpheus Narcissus, Gordon Elliott Walker
Jean Cocteau: Orpheus Narcissus, Gordon Elliott Walker
LSU Master's Theses
Over the course of thirty years, the poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau created a singular artistic project he called the Orphic trilogy: Le Sang d’un poète (1930), Orphée (1950), and Le Testament d’Orphée (1959). This trilogy is marked by an Orphic pattern of a poet’s journey into an underworld to confront death. I will show that Cocteau’s invention is to have Orpheus be in love with death, for death to be an attractive and irresistible force to the poet. Simultaneously, Cocteau avails himself of the Narcissus myth, the man in love with his own reflection. Orpheus and Narcissus converge in …
L'Essentiel Ou Lagniappe: The Ideology Of French Revitalization In Louisiana, Albert Camp
L'Essentiel Ou Lagniappe: The Ideology Of French Revitalization In Louisiana, Albert Camp
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Louisiana’s French revitalization movement has received millions of dollars in taxpayer funding through its various initiatives such as music and cultural festivals, public school French immersion programs, and academic exchange programs, among others. Over forty years ago, the state of Louisiana created CODOFIL, a government agency dedicated to the promotion of Francophone language and culture in Louisiana, yet the number of Francophones in the state has continued to decline at an alarming rate according to the most reliable data available. My study investigates the ideology and demographics of those involved in French education programs in Louisiana’s public schools. Who decides …
Metamorphoses Of The Pygmalion Myth In French Literature 1771 – 1886, Carrie L. O'Connor
Metamorphoses Of The Pygmalion Myth In French Literature 1771 – 1886, Carrie L. O'Connor
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Writers have long explored and attempted to portray the visual artist’s challenge of creating the ideal in the real world through art. My thesis asserts that the Pygmalion myth, originally told in written form in Ovid’s 8 A.D. Metamorphoses, is the quintessential model to explore the changing, and sometimes problematic, relationships between the artist, the creation, and the creative process. The three main characters in the Pygmalion myth – the sculptor, the sculpture, and the divine intervention – each appear, albeit in different manifestations, in its later adaptations. Throughout the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in French literature, authors explored …