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Elementos Sobrenaturales En Las Diez Comedias De Cervantes., Sara M. Lavastida
Elementos Sobrenaturales En Las Diez Comedias De Cervantes., Sara M. Lavastida
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This dissertation studies the supernatural elements in Cervantes' comedies. There have been studies in the past, like the dissertation of Linton Lomas Barrett and the dissertation of Mary Lewis Dewey Weaver, that deal with some themes similar to this dissertation. The dissertation of Barrett deals only with the supernatural elements in La Numancia, and the dissertation of Dewey Weaver only studies the presence of magic and witchcraft in some of the narrative prose works by Cervantes. This dissertation not only deals with magic and witchcraft but also the supernatural elements that are present in the ten comedies, such as fate, …
Seen And Unseen Cities: Embodied Worlds In Epic And The Novel., Eamon G. Halpin
Seen And Unseen Cities: Embodied Worlds In Epic And The Novel., Eamon G. Halpin
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
By all accounts, the city has ceased to function as a cosmos, a coherent world which can offer meaning and validity to the lives of its inhabitants. If the ancient city presented the very image of order, the city since the advent of the Industrial Revolution has appeared to us as a jungle, a wilderness, a wasteland, an endless labyrinth--all images which suggest an essentially chaotic space, one which lacks any organizing principle or rationale. Moreover, if the city once offered the individual the greatest possible realization of his freedom, it now appears as the space in which he is …
The Politics Of Decolonization: Race, Power, And Ideology In Contemporary American Drama., Byung-Eon Jung
The Politics Of Decolonization: Race, Power, And Ideology In Contemporary American Drama., Byung-Eon Jung
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This dissertation traces the politics of decolonization dramatized in selected plays from the contemporary American playwrights: African Americans (Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, Adrienne Kennedy, and August Wilson), white Americans (Arthur Kopit and David Rabe), and a Chinese American (David Hwang). Through the application of cultural theory to an analysis of dramatic texts, I demonstrate how the plays enact the struggle for decolonization on social, political, and cultural levels. In keeping with the interactions of race, power, and ideology, the plays deconstruct the white cultural formulations of racial minorities. I explore the ways in which the playwrights reclaim the authority of …
Attraction Vs. Repulsion: The Narrative Ambivalence Of Gender In Byron's "Don Juan"., Melinda A. Piontek
Attraction Vs. Repulsion: The Narrative Ambivalence Of Gender In Byron's "Don Juan"., Melinda A. Piontek
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Previous studies of gender in Byron's Don Juan, such as those by Susan Wolfson and Louis Crompton, have concentrated primarily on identifying gender ambivalence and attributing that ambivalence to factors outside the text, such as Byron's ambivalence toward his personal homoeroticism as well as to the social attitudes of Regency England toward questions of gender ambiguity. In this dissertation, I propose to turn the critical gaze back to the text in order to go beyond identifying gender ambivalence to track how that ambivalence works within Don Juan. In order to bring into focus the serial and episodic nature of Byron's …
Comment Redessiner Le Monde: Art Et Anthropologie Dans L'Oeuvre D'Antonin Artaud., Irene Poutier
Comment Redessiner Le Monde: Art Et Anthropologie Dans L'Oeuvre D'Antonin Artaud., Irene Poutier
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
In my dissertation entitled Comment redessiner le monde: Art et anthropologie dans l'oeuvre d'Antonin Artaud, I examine Artaud' s critical writings on painting, music and theatre which are central to his reflection. My research focuses on key concepts in Artaud's writings such as "culture," "primitivite" and "mythe." Notwithstanding the complexity and controversial aspects of these notions in the post-modern era, Artaud uses them as pivot points in the articulation of a totally new philosophy of life, which places art at the heart of social activity. My first point underlines Artaud's belief that western civilization alienates the artist from the pervading …
Encoding Imperialism: Homelessness In American Naturalism, 1890-1918., Janet M. Whyde
Encoding Imperialism: Homelessness In American Naturalism, 1890-1918., Janet M. Whyde
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Homelessness occurs with uncommon regularity in the works of American naturalists, and in each case, the result of a character's homelessness results in a crisis of social identity and self definition. This pattern recurs in the works of the canonically identified naturalists, such as Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, and Theodore Dreiser, as well as other writers who have only been tangentially associated with naturalism--Edith Wharton and Paul Laurence Dunbar, for example. In this study, I analyze the relationship between homelessness as it is represented in the novels and the political debate over the United States's imperialist aspirations at the turn …
Another America, Another Literature: Narratives From Louisiana's Colonial Experience., Germain Joseph Bienvenu
Another America, Another Literature: Narratives From Louisiana's Colonial Experience., Germain Joseph Bienvenu
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This dissertation attempts to establish a literary canon for the first French period of Louisiana's colonial history (1681-1763). The study examines works by writers who heretofore have not been analyzed as colonists of long residence in the New World but as Continentals who happened to spend some time in the Americas and then wrote about their experiences. The present analysis argues that many of these authors, by virtue of the significant time they spent in Louisiana, their devotion to and interest in the promotion of the colony, and their common concerns, should be examined principally not as European literati but …
Legitimite Dans L'Oeuvre Biographique Et Autobiographique De Marguerite Yourcenar., Muriel Helene Placet
Legitimite Dans L'Oeuvre Biographique Et Autobiographique De Marguerite Yourcenar., Muriel Helene Placet
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This dissertation proposes a close reading of the biographical and autobiographical works of Marguerite Yourcenar: Le Labyrinthe du Monde and Memoires d'Hadrien. The purpose of this reading is to explore the process through which Yourcenar attempts to establish the legitimacy of the individual (be it her own self or one of her characters). Since Yourcenar rejects the "cult of the self", the elaboration of her identity is never explicitly at work in the text. In Le Labyrinthe du Monde, the author-narrator explores her "unicity" by reconstructing her genealogy with the result that she never becomes the narrated "object" of the …
Re: (Writing) Desire In "Fragments D'Un Discours Amoureux" By Roland Barthes And "La Carte Postale" By Jacques Derrida., Laura Elizabeth Volpe
Re: (Writing) Desire In "Fragments D'Un Discours Amoureux" By Roland Barthes And "La Carte Postale" By Jacques Derrida., Laura Elizabeth Volpe
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This dissertation examines the way in which Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida rework the psychoanalytical constructions of desire through what can be referred to, short of a better word, as play or gaming. Play takes many forms in these two texts; etymological play and structural play are two of the more prominent manifestations of this gaming. In an effort to analyze and at the same time emulate this play and its use by these two authors, I introduce the idea of the dreidel which functions as a device which objectifies the discourse of desire. It also serves as a physical …
The Transcendental Element In The Absent Presence., Maggie Burnaman Martin
The Transcendental Element In The Absent Presence., Maggie Burnaman Martin
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
"The Transcendental Element in the Absent Presence" analyzes the absent presence, the rhetorical and literary states of being there in the mind of the perceiving individual, though not there physically. It seeks to answer: What does the term "absent presence" mean? Is there a difference between rhetorical and literary absent presences? If so, how is each manifest through the reading process? And, what sustains these absent presences? Evidenced through selected works of Plato, Aristotle, New Testament writers, Sidney, Shakespeare, and Dickinson, the study argues for the intellectually, spiritually, or aesthetically transcendent quality of the absent presence. Any encounter between reader, …
Henry James And The Process Of Autobiography., Paul S. Nielsen
Henry James And The Process Of Autobiography., Paul S. Nielsen
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
James's autobiographies differ from most by dramatizing so extensively the process of recovery and reanimation of memory, the act that signifies autobiographical activity. They therefore reveal a great deal about the generic nature of autobiographical recollection. James's Major Phase, from 1900 to his death in 1916, was chiefly and gloriously autobiographical in purpose and crowns his career with an autobiographical production of astonishing variety, extent, and creativity. The proto-autobiographical material includes biography of a culture (William Wetmore Story and His Friends), travel memoir and cultural analysis (The American Scene), and recapitulation and intimate disclosure of his creative life (the Prefaces …
Race And The Fragmented Self In Twentieth-Century American Literature., Jerold Malcolm Martin
Race And The Fragmented Self In Twentieth-Century American Literature., Jerold Malcolm Martin
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Beginning with a definition of "race" as a system of discourse about human difference sustained by its symbolic articulations, I approach "race" as analogous to the social disciplines that Foucault describes as constructing the modern subject. Bringing together certain speculations of Lacan, Fanon, and Morrison, I suggest that this racial discipline facilitates a racial "mirror stage" through which "blackness" and "whiteness" are projected as distinct and unified conceptions of identity. My readings of representative texts examine how such racial identity patterns are both seductive as resolutions of self-discord and destructive in tension with the multiple, interpersonal, and historical determinations of …
Sallie Rhett Roman (1844-1921): A New Orleans Woman Writer., Nancy Dixon
Sallie Rhett Roman (1844-1921): A New Orleans Woman Writer., Nancy Dixon
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Roman was a New Orleans writer who contributed political editorials and works of fiction to the New Orleans Times Democrat for nearly twenty years beginning in 1891. She was a culturally-aware intellectual woman of the nineteenth century, and her works offer a clearer picture of the political, cultural, and historical post-Reconstruction South. In my extensive scholarly investigation of Roman's work, I began to realize that it was not enough to write about her life and works without making the primary texts, which are hidden away on microfilm in the rare book rooms of South Louisiana, accessible to scholars of Southern …
Oral Noetic And The Communicative Rubric In "Beowulf"., Paul David Muller
Oral Noetic And The Communicative Rubric In "Beowulf"., Paul David Muller
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Theoretically, this treatise is a study at the nexus of two fields: oral tradition and the philosophy of language. In application, it is a "reading" of the Anglo-Saxon epic narrative of Beowulf. It proceeds from the hypothesis that in its present, performative moment, the oral traditional narrative instantiates a moment of communicative meaning evincing characteristics of oral, thus speakerly, and thus intention-vitalized meaning, as defined by linguistic philosophers Austin, Grice, Searle, Schiffer, Strawson, and others. In the light of this theoretical perspective, the oral noetic and thus the communicative moment of the Beowulf poem is sought in its most dynamic …
Looking Like What You Are: Race, Sexual Style And The Construction Of Identity., Lisa Walker
Looking Like What You Are: Race, Sexual Style And The Construction Of Identity., Lisa Walker
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This project explores the function of body politics in constructing minority identities, or how people's physical and stylistic attributes are invested with meanings about who they are. It is interested in how race and sexual differences are defined in the confluence of discourses around visibility and invisibility. The first two chapters set up the parameters of in/visibility with regard to sexual and racial differences in readings of two paradigmatic texts about visibility, Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness, which produces the lesbian as visible in the figure of the butch, and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, which explores the paradoxical notion …