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Bibl. Nat. Ms. Fr. 379: A Study In Word And Image. (Volumes I And Ii)., Adelaide Stuart Frazier
Bibl. Nat. Ms. Fr. 379: A Study In Word And Image. (Volumes I And Ii)., Adelaide Stuart Frazier
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The Bibl. Nat. ms. fr. 379 offers a religious, social, literary and artistic comment on the implications of the early sixteenth century world. The cult of the Virgin is considered as it supported and directed the poetry contests or puy at Rouen and Dieppe in their particular emphases on the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption of the Virgin, both ideas more dogmatic than scriptural. The conduct of the puy controlled the literary and artistic expressions on the subject. A detailed discussion submits the evidence that the poets reflected the secular world in their poems and the artists' illustrations often rejected …
Community Versus The Imperial Mind: Images Of Civil Strife In Hawthorne's "The Marble Faun"., Henry Michael W Russell
Community Versus The Imperial Mind: Images Of Civil Strife In Hawthorne's "The Marble Faun"., Henry Michael W Russell
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun allegorically represents the crisis of civil order in the American Republic in the 1850s foreshadowing the Civil War that erupted a year after the novel's publication. Hawthorne's last completed romance, set in Rome, suggests Americans must judge themselves against the community and continuity embodied in the European culture they had recently cast off. Challenging Emerson's doctrine that man may have an original relationship to history and the Creator, Hawthorne undermines the Founders' great idea: that an assembly of men could discover and formulate--in an act of the human mind--self-evident, inalienable rights that govern political and …
Decolonizing The Text: Glissantian Readings In Caribbean And African-American Literatures., Debra Lynn Anderson
Decolonizing The Text: Glissantian Readings In Caribbean And African-American Literatures., Debra Lynn Anderson
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This dissertation proposes to derive a critical reading from the writings of the Martinican poet, novelist, and theorist, Edouard Glissant. This reading would most directly involve, but not limit itself to, literatures written by black writers from the Caribbean and the United States. As critics such as Christopher Miller and Anthony Appiah suggest, these literatures have become the ground upon which colonization is symbolically re-enacted. Criticism colonizes these literatures by its textual appropriation, its imposition of Western critical models, and by bringing its own assumptions to the text. The critically acclaimed prefaces of Jean-Paul Sartre ("Orphee noire") and Andre Breton …
Contact Phase: Forms Of Postmodernism. (Volumes I And Ii)., Michael Owen Crumb
Contact Phase: Forms Of Postmodernism. (Volumes I And Ii)., Michael Owen Crumb
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This dissertation examines variant mimetic strategies as the basis for a major dialectic within postmodern culture. The method applies and sometimes extends largely accepted theoretical statements on literary form. This synthesis provides an accessible, if at times complex, schema for organizing types, genres, and postmodern products based on image production and forms of spatial/temporal discourse. An investigation of several theorists and artists grounds a theory of literary and cinematic expressionism as the basis for postmodern culture, with particular emphasis given to the interpenetration of literary and cinematic styles in the twentieth century. An aesthetic dialectic emerges in the movement toward …
"Mademoiselle De Maupin": A Close Reading And Study Of The Process Of Subjectivity In Theophile Gautier's Early Nineteenth Century Novel., Rebecca Lucille Tebeau
"Mademoiselle De Maupin": A Close Reading And Study Of The Process Of Subjectivity In Theophile Gautier's Early Nineteenth Century Novel., Rebecca Lucille Tebeau
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This dissertation proposes a close reading of Theophile Gautiers's Mademoiselle de Maupin. The purpose of this reading is to explore subjectivity by first assuming that it is a process, enacted by the protagonist's explorations of their own identities, but not an object contained in their elaborations. This view of subjectivity implies both the representational strategies of the protagonists, as well as the narrative strategies of the text. Since Mademoiselle de Maupin's narrative structure is so inconsistent and self-conscious, the explorations of self within the text draw attention to both the fiction of identity and the "identity" of fiction as a …
John Donne's Verse Letters To Lucy Russell, Countess Of Bedford: Rhetorical Means To A Friendship., Joan Frances Faust
John Donne's Verse Letters To Lucy Russell, Countess Of Bedford: Rhetorical Means To A Friendship., Joan Frances Faust
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
John Donne's verse letters to Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford, are more than static hyperbolic praise to a patroness interchangeable with any other patroness. Rather, they are viable and personal means by which Donne creates and sustains a friendship. Through the five verse letters examined in this dissertation, "Reason is the soules left hand," "You have refin'd mee," "T'Have written then," "To the Countesse of Bedford At New-yeares Tide," and "Honour is so sublime perfection," Donne rhetorically demonstrates his understanding of and ability to function within the various contexts of Bedford's life. Using the accepted view of the epistolary form …
Echoes Of The Past In Flaubert's "L'Education Sentimentale", "Bouvard Et Pecuchet" And "Salammbo"., Deborah Lee Trott Pierce
Echoes Of The Past In Flaubert's "L'Education Sentimentale", "Bouvard Et Pecuchet" And "Salammbo"., Deborah Lee Trott Pierce
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Flaubert's novels demonstrate how the nineteenth-century's self-conception was defined by a disciplined obsession with the past. By looking at History, past and present, Flaubert's novels attempt to comprehend the individual and his evolving social reality. As evidenced in L'Education sentimentale, Bouvard et Pecuchet and Salammbo, one of Flaubert's main concerns is that of man's personal connection with history. The historian and the novelist both work within the constraints imposed upon them by language. Both take from the world around them to construct a narrative that in many ways is similar. By the fusion of the familiar in his work the …
Modernity And War In The Poetry Of T. S. Eliot., Patricia Anne Gabilondo
Modernity And War In The Poetry Of T. S. Eliot., Patricia Anne Gabilondo
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Although most readers of T. S. Eliot have agreed that the European experience of world war and the resultant political and cultural dislocations provided an important context and source of imagery for much of his work, what has not been recognized is Eliot's use of figures of war to represent the intimate yet antagonistic relations between the poet's writing of modernity and the text that is history. Beginning with a tropological analysis of Eliot's "A Note on War Poetry," relative to both the genre of war poetry and aesthetic modernity, this study examines the figural interpenetration of war and literary …
High Drama At The Little Theatre, 1730-1737: Henry Fielding, Eliza Haywood, Charlotte Charke, And Company. (Volumes I And Ii)., Polly Stevens Fields
High Drama At The Little Theatre, 1730-1737: Henry Fielding, Eliza Haywood, Charlotte Charke, And Company. (Volumes I And Ii)., Polly Stevens Fields
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Staging works unaccepted by and unacceptable to the establishment, Henry Fielding, Eliza Haywood, Charlotte Charke, and company produced a series of protest dramas at the Little Theatre in the Haymarket between 1730 and 1737. The playwrights deliberately ruptured theatric traditions and boldly presented plays challenging not only the mainstream theatre, but the current social system. Negating the age-old doctrine that tragedy properly concerns the great man, and comedy reviles the low-born, the playwrights at the Little Theatre in both their tragedies and comedies enlarged the province of the drama to include the ordinary human with real problems. By this means, …