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The Logic Of Art: A Thesis On Directing Catherine Butterfield’S Joined At The Head For Lsu Theatre’S Studio Season 2004, Chelsea M. Marcantel
The Logic Of Art: A Thesis On Directing Catherine Butterfield’S Joined At The Head For Lsu Theatre’S Studio Season 2004, Chelsea M. Marcantel
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Stella, Elizabeth, And The Dark Lady: The Character Of The Beloved Mistress In Elizabethan Sonnet Sequences, Claire Dawkins
Stella, Elizabeth, And The Dark Lady: The Character Of The Beloved Mistress In Elizabethan Sonnet Sequences, Claire Dawkins
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Never Mind The Elephant: A Play In Three Dreams And One Prophecy, Ann Glaviano
Never Mind The Elephant: A Play In Three Dreams And One Prophecy, Ann Glaviano
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Expanding The Patriarchal Binary: The New Feminine In William Faulkner’S The Sound And The Fury And The Wild Palms, Melissa Harrigill
Expanding The Patriarchal Binary: The New Feminine In William Faulkner’S The Sound And The Fury And The Wild Palms, Melissa Harrigill
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Full Of Grace: Catholicism In Anne Rice’S Vampire Chronicles, Joseph L. Howe
Full Of Grace: Catholicism In Anne Rice’S Vampire Chronicles, Joseph L. Howe
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Stopping At The Half-Way House: The Theme Of Aging In Byron’S Don Juan, Melanie Parker
Stopping At The Half-Way House: The Theme Of Aging In Byron’S Don Juan, Melanie Parker
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Purposive Action: The Centrality Of Teleology In Kant’S Formula Of Universal Law Of Nature, Franklin D. Worrell
Purposive Action: The Centrality Of Teleology In Kant’S Formula Of Universal Law Of Nature, Franklin D. Worrell
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
A Wind Ensemble Adaptation And Conductor's Analysis Of Selected Movements Of Darius Milhaud's Saudades Do Brazil, With An Examination Of The Influences Of Ernesto Nazareth, Monty Roy Musgrave
A Wind Ensemble Adaptation And Conductor's Analysis Of Selected Movements Of Darius Milhaud's Saudades Do Brazil, With An Examination Of The Influences Of Ernesto Nazareth, Monty Roy Musgrave
LSU Major Papers
French composer Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) lived in Rio de Janeiro from early 1917 to late 1918 as an attaché to the French ambassador to Brazil. While there he discovered its popular music, in particular the works of the Brazilian pianist Ernesto Nazareth (1863-1934). Milhaud was fascinated by the Afro-Brazilian syncopated rhythms that constituted Brazilian popular music, which according to Milhaud “helped me better understand the Brazilian soul.” Milhaud’s Brazilian experiences profoundly affected his compositional style and inspired several important works in this idiom. Upon his return to France, Milhaud composed a suite of twelve dances for piano entitled Saudades do …
Concertino For Piano And Chamber Orchestra, By Mozart Camargo Guarnieri: A Performing Edition With Reduction Of The Orchestra For Second Piano, Francisco Coelho Ribeiro Da Silva
Concertino For Piano And Chamber Orchestra, By Mozart Camargo Guarnieri: A Performing Edition With Reduction Of The Orchestra For Second Piano, Francisco Coelho Ribeiro Da Silva
LSU Major Papers
The Concertino for Piano and Chamber Orchestra, by Brazilian nationalist composer Mozart Camargo Guarnieri (1907-1993), is one of his ten works for piano and orchestra. The work is cast in three movements in sonata, ternary, and rondo forms respectively, and contains elements of Brazilian folk music. It is possibly the most appealing work by Guarnieri in this medium, and it has been performed by artists of the caliber of Laís de Souza Brasil, Joo Carlos Martins, Roberto Szidon, and Caio Pagano. It dates from 1961, and like most of the other works by Guarnieri in this genre, its scores have …
A Survey Of The Operettas Of Emmerich Kálmán, Jessie Wright Martin
A Survey Of The Operettas Of Emmerich Kálmán, Jessie Wright Martin
LSU Major Papers
The purpose of this document is to introduce singers, teachers, and devotees of musical theater to the prolific stage output of Hungarian composer Emmerich Kálmán (1882-1953), who ranks with Johann Strauss II and Franz Lehár as one of the most important and most-often performed among the composers of Viennese operetta. Although today relatively unknown in this country, Kálmán's operettas have been performed consistently in Europe for almost a century. Most of his twenty-two works provide excellent vehicles for both collegiate and professional companies that wish to explore the genre of operetta. Following a biography and brief analysis of his compositional …
Interactive Computer Music: A Performer's Guide To Issues Surrounding Kyma With Live Clarinet Input, Roland Anton Karnatz
Interactive Computer Music: A Performer's Guide To Issues Surrounding Kyma With Live Clarinet Input, Roland Anton Karnatz
LSU Major Papers
Musicians are familiar with interaction in rehearsal and performance of music. Technology has become sophisticated and affordable to the point where interaction with a computer in real time performance is also possible. The nature of live interactive electronic music has blurred the distinction between the formerly exclusive realm of composition and that of performance. It is quite possible for performers to participate in the genre but currently little information is available for those wishing to explore it. This written document contains a definition of interaction, discussion on how it occurs in traditional music-making and a brief history of the emergence …
Three Choral Compositions By Alice Parker: A Conductor's Analysis Of Songstream, Angels And Challengers, And Songs From "The Dragon Quilt", Jennifer Sue King
Three Choral Compositions By Alice Parker: A Conductor's Analysis Of Songstream, Angels And Challengers, And Songs From "The Dragon Quilt", Jennifer Sue King
LSU Major Papers
Alice Parker (b. 1925) has earned a place of respect in choral music through more than half a century of work in arranging and composition, conducting, teaching and writing. Her works reflect diverse interests, from short, unison pieces for treble choir, to the complexity of unaccompanied madrigals, to major choral/orchestral works and operas. Conductors and singers all over the world have been influenced by her writings, seminars and SINGS, and she continues to extol the value of music, both in the concert hall and as a part of everyday life. Scholarly research of her choral compositions is limited, and further …
Full Circle, Elizabeth Cowhig
Full Circle, Elizabeth Cowhig
LSU Master's Theses
My paintings are a result of a mainly intuitive process that evolves out of the combination of shape, color, and texture and originates from personal ideologies involving health phobias and religious beliefs. The imagery in the paintings is of biological origin, cells that fill up with matter, dense spheres that recall cancerous build up, the compositions and colors are inspired by Italian Renaissance paintings. The tangible is inserted into the realm of the ethereal.
Aquinas And The Knowledge Of God, Casey Edler
Aquinas And The Knowledge Of God, Casey Edler
LSU Master's Theses
This thesis concerns the introduction of mystical knowledge into a debate about God that relies on scientific evidence. The thesis focuses in particular on the relevance of Thomas Aquinas' view of mystical experience. After first presenting Aquinas' theory of rapture as an anticipation of the beatific vision and distinguishing it from other ways of knowing God, I argue that such a theory convincingly renders mystical knowledge inadmissible into a debate about God that relies on scientific evidence, owing to one's inability to either remember or communicate such an experience. As a result, introducing mystical knowledge into the debate causes the …
Martin Heidegger's Phenomenology And The Science Of Mind, Charles Dale Hollingsworth
Martin Heidegger's Phenomenology And The Science Of Mind, Charles Dale Hollingsworth
LSU Master's Theses
Phenomenology and cognitive science present two very different ways of looking at mental activity. Recently, however, there have been some attempts to incorporate phenomenological insights and methods into cognitive science, drawing especially on the works of Martin Heidegger. The purpose of this thesis is to determine if a useful combination of cognitive science with Heidegger’s phenomenology is possible, and to determine the form such a combination might take. This thesis begins with a brief overview of the field of cognitive science, and of some of the problems within the field that might benefit from a phenomenological analysis. It then reviews …
Re-Envisioning My Backyard, One Brick At A Time, Kimberly Ellen Greene
Re-Envisioning My Backyard, One Brick At A Time, Kimberly Ellen Greene
LSU Master's Theses
My work is inspired by my immediate environment. I am especially interested in places which exhibit visual evidence of history, of industrial, natural and human life and the corresponding cycles of building, abandonment, destruction and salvage. In Baton Rouge, these relationships are dramatic, the lush vegetation, birds and overwhelming presence of industry make this interplay constantly tangible. My current work began with the phenomenal concerns within the struggle of nature and industry. Newly built industry is highly ordered, the perfect symbol of not only technology, but also control. However, older industry is more chaotic, with the initial order obscured over …
Sufficient To Make Heaven Weep: The American Army In The Mexican War, Brian M. Mcgowan
Sufficient To Make Heaven Weep: The American Army In The Mexican War, Brian M. Mcgowan
LSU Master's Theses
The Mexican War, 1846-1848, has often been overlooked in American history. Scholars have been more interested in assigning blame for the conflict, or assessing the role played by the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in the coming of the Civil War. Only recently have scholars made any attempt to understand the motivations and attitudes brought to Mexico by American soldiers. This thesis focuses on how the racial and religious attitudes of American soldiers during the war were an implementation of the nationalism inherent in Manifest Destiny. Americans used their perceived racial and religious superiority to further the goals of Manifest Destiny. Mexico …
Recovering Ancient Ritual And The Theatre Of The Apache: A Journey Through The False Consciousness Of Western Theatre History, Marla Kathleen Dean
Recovering Ancient Ritual And The Theatre Of The Apache: A Journey Through The False Consciousness Of Western Theatre History, Marla Kathleen Dean
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation examines past cultural influences that have shaped theatre historians' perception of ancient Greek and contemporary Native American performance. It suggests that through a recognition of these influences, which have long tempered the Western narrative of theatre, ancient and Indigenous performance can be reviewed as similar forms of a lived exchange. The study tracks the formation of certain beliefs and assumptions within performance history through Roman, early Christian and Renaissance cultural identities. It notes the misrepresentation of oral and popular theatre within theatrical scholarship through its reliance upon the written remains of the ruling classes and confronts the notion …
The Southern Predicament, Todd Hines
The Southern Predicament, Todd Hines
LSU Master's Theses
The Southern Predicament is an exhibition that explores aspects of self-awareness and identity in the modern south.
An Exploration Of The Quantity And Quality Of Campus Sexual Assault Policies, Kayla Ann Bourg
An Exploration Of The Quantity And Quality Of Campus Sexual Assault Policies, Kayla Ann Bourg
LSU Master's Theses
Sexual assault disproportionately affects female college students, more so than any other group of women in the general population. Therefore, consideration for the safety needs of this particular group of women constitute a great concern for university administrators. Safety measures currently utilized at universities for decreasing sexual assault rates have been insufficient. Some researchers have turned their attention to the role of campus sexual assault policies as a means in which to alleviate this crisis. The present investigation analyzes the prevalence and quality of sexual assault policies at 102 public Doctoral/Research extensive universities in the United States. The majority of …
"Sacred Duties": How Historical Constructs Of Gender And Work Inform Women's Involvement In U.S. Higher Education, Amber Leigh Vlasnik
"Sacred Duties": How Historical Constructs Of Gender And Work Inform Women's Involvement In U.S. Higher Education, Amber Leigh Vlasnik
LSU Master's Theses
This thesis explores how arguments about gender and labor roles have determined women's exclusion from or acceptance to the academy throughout the history of the United States. Race, gender, and class are identified as interlocking identities that shape experiences and women's gendered relationship to labor is demonstrated through the use of a materialist feminist framework. By tracing the distinct eras of colonial and United States history, the thesis illustrates the debates and public mindset of each time period and how they relate to women and higher education. The thesis concludes that popular social conceptions of the female body and women's …
Liquid Architectures: Marcos Novak's Territory Of Information, Camile A. Silva
Liquid Architectures: Marcos Novak's Territory Of Information, Camile A. Silva
LSU Master's Theses
The idea of interactivity between humans and their environment no longer represents the only way of exploring new experiences. Equally passé is the idea that information constitutes the means for this interaction. However, this paper presents that the contemporary idea for interaction has embraced new understandings of the content of experience and the structure of space. New electronic technologies and advanced digital media have separated realities from the realm of the body and transformed experiences into a ubiquitous event. The architectural discourse, that once has been largely a discourse of form and style, has finally overcome those limitations and has …
Lying In Translation, Brooke Rachel Champagne
Lying In Translation, Brooke Rachel Champagne
LSU Master's Theses
Lying in Translation is a thesis of creative non-fiction that is a process of self-discovery as I retell my Hispanic grandmother's stories and the life we lived together. Lala is a woman to be feared and loved by all those who encounter her, and the main thread through the work is whether or not I will ultimately decide to embrace her insanity or running screaming from it. Other questions arise, and hopefully, are answered in this book: What does it mean to be half of one thing and half of another? How do immigrants survive in America, in a land …
The Role Of Pridamant In Tony Kushner's Adaptation Of The Illusion: A Production Thesis In Acting, Brace Easton Harris
The Role Of Pridamant In Tony Kushner's Adaptation Of The Illusion: A Production Thesis In Acting, Brace Easton Harris
LSU Master's Theses
The role of Pridamant in Tony Kushner’s adaptation of The Illusion was performed in the Fall of 2004 and elected as a thesis role at that time. This thesis is a written record of the actor’s interpretation of the character. The thesis includes pre-production work, Character Analysis, and Four Column Score.
Power, Money, And Sex(Uality): The Black Masculine Paradigm, Kendric Coleman
Power, Money, And Sex(Uality): The Black Masculine Paradigm, Kendric Coleman
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
This study develops the Black Masculine Paradigm (BMP), a construct used to trace historically specific components that inform black masculinity and explores the physical and psychological defensive strategies employed by black men in Richard Wright's Black Boy, Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promisedland, Nathan McCall's Make Me Wanna Holler, and James Earl Hardy's B-Boy Blues. Specifically, this project offers that power, money, and sex(uality) are located at the core of the BMP, and these social objectives are negotiated through politicization, prescribed masculinity, and heterosexuality. This project reads the politicization of the black male body through its presence in literature and …
Jean-Paul Sartre's Les Mots And The Nouvelles Autobiographies Of Alain Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraute, And Marguerite Duras: A Comparison, Julie Driessen
Jean-Paul Sartre's Les Mots And The Nouvelles Autobiographies Of Alain Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraute, And Marguerite Duras: A Comparison, Julie Driessen
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Jean-Paul Sartre's autobiography Les Mots (1964) is shown to be a departure from the Sartrean oeuvre because it represents an abandonment of littérature engagée. In Les Mots Sartre not only abandons littérature engagée, but also embraces a view of literature which he formerly opposed--l'art pour l'art. Sartre defines his views of literature--littérature engagée--in Qu'est-ce que la littérature? (1948) Robbe-Grillet defines l'art pour l'art in Pour un nouveau roman (1963). In Les Mots Sartre embraces Robbe-Grillet's l'art pour l'art and abandons his own littérature engagée. Since these two views of literature are theoretically opposed, it is interesting to find that Sartre …
Civil War Prisons In American Memory, Benjamin Gregory Cloyd
Civil War Prisons In American Memory, Benjamin Gregory Cloyd
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The memory of Civil War prisons has always been contested. Since 1861, generations of Americans struggled with the questions raised by the deaths of approximately 56,000 prisoners of war, almost one-tenth of all Civil War fatalities. During the war, throughout Reconstruction, and well into the twentieth century, a sectional debate raged over the responsibility for the prison casualties. Republican politicians invoked the savage cruelty of Confederate prisons as they waved the bloody shirt, while hundreds of former prisoners published narratives that blamed various prison officials and promoted sectional bitterness. The animosity reflected a need to identify individuals responsible for the …
"We Are No Preacher" [Electronic Resource] : Margaret Oliphant's Textual Authority, Shannon Landry Brown
"We Are No Preacher" [Electronic Resource] : Margaret Oliphant's Textual Authority, Shannon Landry Brown
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
In this dissertation, I examine four of Margaret Oliphant's novels, her supernatural fiction, and her literary reviews, revealing how she relies on her knowledge of the cultural sign system, domesticity, and women's value to show how women may successfully navigate middle-class Victorian society. She accomplishes this by identifying the places where women's strengths lie: the boundaries between work and family, between the spiritual and material, amid the everyday details that she herself realizes reveal the workings of society. She sets herself up as a voice of authority within the system itself, not as a distant, all-knowing sage but as someone …
The Relationship Between The Papacy And The Jews In Twelfth-Century Rome: Papal Attitudes Toward Biblical Judaism And Contemporary European Jewry, Marie Therese Champagne
The Relationship Between The Papacy And The Jews In Twelfth-Century Rome: Papal Attitudes Toward Biblical Judaism And Contemporary European Jewry, Marie Therese Champagne
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The relationship of the papacy to the Jews in the Middle Ages, which had developed under the influences of Patristic writers, Roman law, and papal precedent, was marked in the twelfth century by toleration and increasing restriction, but also by papal protection. Between the First Crusade massacres of Jews and the restrictions and persecutions of the thirteenth century, the twelfth century is set apart as a unique era in the lives of European Jews. As Eugenius III (1145-1153) and Alexander III (1159-1181) extended their protection to the Jews of Rome and perhaps all of Christendom through the papal document Sicut …
Pursuing Enlightenment In Vienna, 1781-1790, Heather Morrison
Pursuing Enlightenment In Vienna, 1781-1790, Heather Morrison
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Radical transformations came about in Vienna during the 1780s, as intellectuals in the city embraced the Enlightenment and explored ways in which the movement could be spread. In 1781, Joseph II and his state reformed censorship. In an instant, the Viennese had access to the great scholarly works of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. In an instant, Vienna spawned a multitude of writers, publishing houses, reading rooms and all the accoutrements of a culture of print. The newly generated intellectual culture produced an amazing amount of pamphlets, an era termed the Broschürenflut in Austrian history. Public debate on the state, religion, …