Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
- Keyword
-
- Acting (2)
- Killer Joe (2)
- Screenplay (2)
- Shakespeare (2)
- 1960's (1)
-
- 80 infantry division (1)
- Acting thesis (1)
- Adolescent (1)
- Affrontement (1)
- American film (1)
- American impressionism (1)
- Apothecary (1)
- Assainissement (1)
- Auteur (1)
- Brotherhood (1)
- Cake (1)
- Ceramics (1)
- Cezanne (1)
- Chaos (1)
- Cinema studies (1)
- Classical Armenia (1)
- Cognitive science (1)
- Comparative literature (1)
- Confessional poetry (1)
- Corps (1)
- Cragsmoor (1)
- Dessert (1)
- Divination (1)
- Doll (1)
- Dorset (1)
Articles 1 - 30 of 37
Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
As The Ravens Watch: Exploring The Oracle, Kathryn Lavender Hunter
As The Ravens Watch: Exploring The Oracle, Kathryn Lavender Hunter
LSU Master's Theses
I believe in the process in which the artist never works alone but always in collaboration with the elements of chance. As an artist I live and work everyday collaborating with chance, from reading my cards to creating ethereal birds. As I sew pieces together, the thread becomes another element of the image by chance, stitches to lines, lines to pattern. Chance leads the birds to portraying their own personality as they are each created, one’s head tilts to the right while another sits tall with dignity. This work is about the connection to the subconscious, my connection to it …
Revisiting A "Lost Victory" At Kursk, Jonathan Page Klug
Revisiting A "Lost Victory" At Kursk, Jonathan Page Klug
LSU Master's Theses
The battle of Kursk in the summer of 1943 was a pivotal battle of World War II. The defeat at Kursk placed the Wehrmacht on the permanent strategic defensive on the Eastern Front. The opening of the Soviet archives after 1989 has permitted more thorough analysis of that battle and produced greater appreciation of the Red Army’s performance, while casting doubt on the notion that the Germans were close to an operational victory. Preceding the clash, both sides prepared feverishly, attempting to bring the units involved to their maximum capability by replacing personnel, upgrading equipment, and conducting training. The Germans …
The Role Of Speed In Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen Of Verona: A Production Thesis In Acting, Jennifer Nicole Kelley
The Role Of Speed In Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen Of Verona: A Production Thesis In Acting, Jennifer Nicole Kelley
LSU Master's Theses
The author chose Speed from Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona directed by John Dennis, as her thesis project in Fall 2002. This thesis includes an introduction, a character analysis, a journal of the rehearsal process and a conclusion.
Strange Fire, Sharon Nelson
Strange Fire, Sharon Nelson
LSU Master's Theses
In the aftermath of a worldwide war, the planet Xica is split into small pockets of humanoid civilization. One pocket is a divided abandoned military compound. Beyond the wall is the Outer Rim where people are free yet violence is rampant. Within the wall is the state of Sheol whose inhabitants are drugged and have few choices. Sheol’s ruler, Jared, conducts an experiment where children are raised without physical contact in the Complex at the center of the city. One boy, Zahid, escapes from the Complex and meets other children; Nick in Sheol and Alexandra in the Outer Rim. Together, …
Bathroom Issues, Craig Edward Clifford
Bathroom Issues, Craig Edward Clifford
LSU Master's Theses
"Obscenity is a human manifestation. The toilet has no central nervous system. No level of consciousness. It is not aware; it is a dumb toilet; it cannot be obscene; it's impossible." Lenny Bruce How to Talk Dirty and Influence People Things that make people uncomfortable intrigue me and I find that these same things are very ones that make us laugh the hardest. The fact that sex and bodily functions both make people laugh in addition to making them feel uncomfortable is no accident.
Insiders: Louisiana Journalists Sallie Rhett Roman, Helen Grey Gilkison, Iris Turner Kelso, Angie Pitts Juban
Insiders: Louisiana Journalists Sallie Rhett Roman, Helen Grey Gilkison, Iris Turner Kelso, Angie Pitts Juban
LSU Master's Theses
Sallie Rhett Roman, Helen Grey Gilkison and Iris Turner Kelso were three women journalists in Louisiana, active in consecutive time periods from 1891 to 1996. Their work brings up five particular questions. First, Why did these women start working and how did they negotiate public employment? Second, how did they balance the relationship between work and home since they did find employment outside of the home? Third, how did they fit into their contemporary image of women and journalists? Fourth, how did they use written language to portray a particular voice to the reader for a particular purpose? Fifth, did …
The Role Of Dottie In Tracy Letts' Killer Joe: A Production Thesis In Acting, Elizabeth Jane King
The Role Of Dottie In Tracy Letts' Killer Joe: A Production Thesis In Acting, Elizabeth Jane King
LSU Master's Theses
The role of Dottie in Killer Joe by Tracy Letts was selected as a thesis project spring semester of 2003. This thesis is a written record of the actor’s work on the character of Dottie throughout the rehearsal process in the form of a rehearsal journal and a character analysis.
Conceptualized Direct Perception: A Hybrid Theory Of Vision, Jason L. Megill
Conceptualized Direct Perception: A Hybrid Theory Of Vision, Jason L. Megill
LSU Master's Theses
I formulate a hybrid theory of perception, one in which the mind’s interaction with the world is a more direct affair than many suppose (no perceptual mental representations, no sense data, no Cartesian Theater), but one in which our concepts also play a role. My claims have implications for philosophical attempts to understand perception, cognitive science theories of vision, debates over the nature of consciousness, and philosophical debates concerning Artificial Intelligence.
The Role Of Ansel In Tracy Letts' Killer Joe: A Production Thesis In Acting, Ronald William Smith
The Role Of Ansel In Tracy Letts' Killer Joe: A Production Thesis In Acting, Ronald William Smith
LSU Master's Theses
This thesis will explore my development of the character Ansel Smith in Tracy Letts’ Killer Joe. The thesis is in a journal format and it will chronicle the rehearsal process from preproduction, through the run, and postproduction. It will explore the progression of finding this character and the overall process of developing the show with two casts.
Facing Nature, Facing Paint, Emily Jane Ritchey
Facing Nature, Facing Paint, Emily Jane Ritchey
LSU Master's Theses
The visual portion of this thesis is made up of paintings that juxtapose built and natural forms. Particular emphasis is placed upon the element of line and the plein-air painting experience. Journal entries chronicle the evolution of painting practice during thesis research, placing the work within the context of the artist’s life.
Street Fighting: Lessons Learned From The Battle For Hue For 21st Century Urban Warfare, Edward J. O'Neill
Street Fighting: Lessons Learned From The Battle For Hue For 21st Century Urban Warfare, Edward J. O'Neill
LSU Master's Theses
Increasing urbanization in a global setting of political and economic instability indicates that urban warfare may well be the major conflict scenario of the 21st century. The United States armed forces are not currently prepared to meet that challenge. The last major urban conflict involving the American military was the Battle of Hue during the Vietnam War. As part of the Tet Offensive in 1968, Communist forces seized control of Hue and held it for nearly a month. Having undergone intensive tactical training for their mission, the enemy, solidly entrenched in buildings of various kinds, offered fierce resistance to the …
Keys Of War, Clay Carter Weill
Keys Of War, Clay Carter Weill
LSU Master's Theses
At the dawn of time the gods created heaven and earth. The creator of the moon joined with the creator of the sun and together they produced the first Empress. She is the embodiment of all that is good and holy. She is the spiritual guide to all the tribes of man. The tribes are ruled by men. When one man, Baron Stier, rises above the others he is crowned Archduke. He rules in the Empress’s name and his dynasty lasts for half a millennia. Upon the discovery of the land beyond the sacred islands the dynasty falls. And tribes …
Accelerate Into The Accident, Jeffey D. Hill
Accelerate Into The Accident, Jeffey D. Hill
LSU Master's Theses
The installation uses purely steel to describe the organic and chaotic nature of thought processes. It looks for a way to confront grief and anxiety. The procedure's purpose is to understand abstract, emotional thinking in immediate, familiar physical terms. By examining each fine strand, either steel rod or line of thought, I attempt to revel in the overwhelming complexity and irrefutable beauty of the mind. It is not a strategy to control mental imbalance. It is rather a humble acceptance of the organic chaos of thought.
From Orthodoxy To Atheism: The Intellectual Development Of Bruno Bauer, Stan Michael Landry
From Orthodoxy To Atheism: The Intellectual Development Of Bruno Bauer, Stan Michael Landry
LSU Master's Theses
In this paper I argue that the Young Hegelian Protestant theologian Bruno Bauer was ‘radicalized’ by the events of 1840s Prussia, and that the personal experiences he endured during this period explain his transition from the orthodox Hegelian Christianity that he espoused during his student days at the University of Berlin, to the vitriolic atheism and criticism of the Prussian state which he spouted from 1842 until the dissolution of his radical band of Young Hegelian friends known as Die Freien. The events that had such profound effects on Bruno Bauer’s thought include his frustration with the reactionary policies of …
Spiritual Union: An Intersection Of Artistic Expression With Scientific Methods, Taehee Kim
Spiritual Union: An Intersection Of Artistic Expression With Scientific Methods, Taehee Kim
LSU Master's Theses
My body of work, “Spiritual Union,” is an exploration of artistic ideas contrasted with approaches to scientific technology. I investigate diverse physical phenomena and media and examine symbolic structures to express concepts of transcendence and spirituality in Buddhism. On deep levels, I have observed the natural beauty, richness, and complexity of organic forms. This has led to exploration and experimentation in the area where the boundaries between the artistic and the scientific fields converge. Employing an interdisciplinary approach that includes art and science, I have expressed the spiritual meaning of Buddhist lotus motifs and created a record of my own …
Robert Lowell's Life-Writing And Memory, Gye-Yu Kang
Robert Lowell's Life-Writing And Memory, Gye-Yu Kang
LSU Master's Theses
This thesis examines Robert Lowell's use of memory in such autobiographical works as Life Studies and Day by Day. In those volumes, Lowell returns to recollect his private past; his act of remembering becomes the poetic process by which Lowell is able to create the retrospective truth of his life. The most important feature of memory in his life-writing is in its role as an imaginative reconstruction. In the first chapter, I review recent models that regard memory as a reconstructive process. Memory involves more than fact, according to these investigations; it also represents a fictionalizing process of self. In …
Led Into Temptation, Pamela Elizabeth Caskanett
Led Into Temptation, Pamela Elizabeth Caskanett
LSU Master's Theses
I am leading the viewer to experience a room full of sinful, sensual and guilty pleasures through a visual feast of sugary excess. I create a tactile environment of anticipation, desire and delight. Using sugary sweet colors, smooth curvaceous forms dressed with spikes, nipples, bumps and knobs, and objects of scale. The objective is to make the viewers salivate, confusing desire with need, leaving them to question, "What is temptation?" A visceral visual sugary landscape is created where food and vessel co-exist, each relying on the other to be complete and fulfilling.
Blurr, Yuka Seko
Blurr, Yuka Seko
LSU Master's Theses
Blurr is a short narrative based on the author’s life accompanied by a series of paintings and drawings.
How To Tell A Sea Story, Brock Yusef Hamlin
How To Tell A Sea Story, Brock Yusef Hamlin
LSU Master's Theses
A young African American adolescent named Lion is forced to leave his hometown of Rivertown, and join the navy. While in the navy, Lion acts an enforcer and collector for another sailor who runs an illegal money-lending operation on the ship. Lion also learns how to box and manages to fight his way to the Fifth Fleet championships. After winning the championship fight, the captain of the ship uses his influence to place Lion in a very competitive commissioning program. With the chance of becoming an officer, Lion changes his behavior, leading to serious conflict with old allies. He escapes …
Perspectives On Comparative Literature, Alexandru Boldor
Perspectives On Comparative Literature, Alexandru Boldor
LSU Master's Theses
The main objective of this dissertation was to provide researchers interested in the history and evolution of "comparative literature" with a collection of references delineating the evolution of the concept and the development of academic departments dedicated to its study. The paper includes a first section describing the main issues contributing to the "identity crisis" with which studies and departments defining themselves as "comparative" were consistently confronted ever since the term was coined. The "preliminary concepts" section offers an overview of the elements that usually confer a "comparative" quality to a literary study, such as interdisciplinarity and multiculturalism, together with …
Drawing Of The Mind, Buddy Harper
Drawing Of The Mind, Buddy Harper
LSU Master's Theses
The rules of drawing I have described are an outline to my method of working. It is to be used like the rules of a game. The thesis paper provides the viewer the basic parameters for looking at my work. The body of work is produced like two people playing a game of chess. I establish the rules and then I develop the work in an investigative manner.
Disarming The Externalist Threat To Self-Knowledge, Gabriel Guy Cate
Disarming The Externalist Threat To Self-Knowledge, Gabriel Guy Cate
LSU Master's Theses
The purpose of this thesis is to examine various attempts to disarm the externalist threat to self-knowledge. That threat is engendered by a certain causal theory of meaning and reference, which suggests that empirical investigations may be required to know the contents of our own thoughts. It is claimed, then, that direct, non-inferential self-knowledge of our own mental states, is not possible if externalism is true. The leading compatibilist strategies that attempt to reconcile these apparently conflicting theses are explored and criticized. I conclude by offering what I take to be the essential features of a more successful compatibilist strategy.
Five Films Of Steven Soderbergh, Donald Beale
Five Films Of Steven Soderbergh, Donald Beale
LSU Master's Theses
This study examines five films of Steven Soderbergh: sex, lies, and videotape (1989), The Underneath (1995), Out of Sight (1998), The Limey (1999), and Traffic (2000). For each film, themes and cinematic form and technique are analyzed with the intent of demonstrating a consistent authorial voice of the director. The investigation reveals that common themes include the protagonist at odds with the world about him, journey, ambiguities and uncertainties in the characters' worlds, and the nondichotomous nature of reality, especially in regard to morality. The study also argues that Soderbergh has evolved a style that favors a nonlinear narrative and …
Truth's Veil: Language And Meaning In Merleau-Ponty And Derrida, Helen Troy Mellon
Truth's Veil: Language And Meaning In Merleau-Ponty And Derrida, Helen Troy Mellon
LSU Master's Theses
The linguistic structuralism of Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) attracted the attention of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, prompting what is thought to be Merleau-Ponty’s “linguistic turn” of 1947. Saussure’s theory of the self-referential structure of linguistic signs as constitutive of value, was tied by Merleau-Ponty to his conception of the structure of intercommunication as constitutive of human value and meaning. Jacques Derrida, in the 1960s, also appealed to Saussure’s theory in formulating his thesis of a deferring and differing relationship between linguistic signs as constitutive of meaning, but rejected what he saw as the privileging of a metaphysics of presence-to-meaning in Saussure. One …
Caller Id, Plamen Ivanov Arnaudov
Caller Id, Plamen Ivanov Arnaudov
LSU Master's Theses
As one might expect from a young poet writing at the turn of a millennium, recurrent in "Caller ID" is the theme of struggle with literary tradition and of seeing it as both necessary and constricting to the project of forging one's own creative identity. The collision between history and the self is visible in the often conflicted references to great philosophers and poets of the past as well as in the call for renewal of the body poetic after an envisioned 'end of history' marked by creative sterility and exhaustion. The proposed renewal does not entail destruction of tradition …
Re-Evaluating The Mausoleum Of Galla Placidia, Lisa Onontiyoh West
Re-Evaluating The Mausoleum Of Galla Placidia, Lisa Onontiyoh West
LSU Master's Theses
The Mausoleum of Galla Placidia has generated a lengthy bibliography over the centuries but, in spite of repeated investigations, the north and south arm barrel vaults have received almost no attention. Commentary on these areas of the mosaic program is usually brief and limited to a comparison between the appearance of the barrel vaults and patterns found in various textiles, such as carpets. This thesis seeks to fill the void in the body of scholarly research pertaining to the north and south arm barrel vaults by viewing their decorative motifs through the eyes of a fifth-century Christian. When seen from …
A Vivid Exploration Of Shakespeare's Silvia In The Two Gentlemen Of Verona: An Mfa Production Thesis In Acting, Debbie A. Fleming
A Vivid Exploration Of Shakespeare's Silvia In The Two Gentlemen Of Verona: An Mfa Production Thesis In Acting, Debbie A. Fleming
LSU Master's Theses
The role of Silvia in The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare was selected as a thesis project in the fall of 2002. This thesis is a written record of the actor's work in and out of rehearsal in the form of a score. It also includes an introduction, character analysis and a conclusion.
The Correlation Between College Students' Familiarity With Potentially Offensive Popular Music And Self-Reported Tolerance Of Obscene Language And Sexual Behavior, Harry Emons Martin
The Correlation Between College Students' Familiarity With Potentially Offensive Popular Music And Self-Reported Tolerance Of Obscene Language And Sexual Behavior, Harry Emons Martin
LSU Master's Theses
This study's purpose was to examine the correlations among popular music preference, sexual behavior tolerance, and potentially obscene language usage. Subjects (N = 81) were college freshmen over the age of 18 who graduated from high school in 2001. They were drawn from one section each of a Music Appreciation course (non-music majors) and an Introduction to Music Study course (music majors). The top 20 songs from the October 27, 2001 Billboard Magazine's Top 100 charts were analyzed for occurrences of potentially offensive words and whole lines of lyrics containing sexual references. Subjects responded to a 4-part questionnaire. In part …
The Role Of Proteus In William Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen Of Verona: A Production Thesis In Acting, Adam B. Hose
The Role Of Proteus In William Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen Of Verona: A Production Thesis In Acting, Adam B. Hose
LSU Master's Theses
The role of Proteus in The Two Gentlemen of Verona written by William Shakespeare was selected as a thesis project in the fall semester of 2002. This thesis is a written record of the actor’s work on the character throughout the rehearsal process and performance of the production in the form of an Actor’s Score. It also includes an Introduction, Character Analysis, Research, Photos and a Conclusion.
L'Engagement Dans La Litterature Africaine: Etude Du Mythe Poetique: Maieto Pour Zekia De Joachim Bohui Dali Ou La Violence Comme Symbole De L'Amour, Souleymane Fofana
L'Engagement Dans La Litterature Africaine: Etude Du Mythe Poetique: Maieto Pour Zekia De Joachim Bohui Dali Ou La Violence Comme Symbole De L'Amour, Souleymane Fofana
LSU Master's Theses
My thesis deals with : ««Engagement» in African Literature : the study of the Poetic Myth: Maïéto Pour Zékia by Joachim Bohui Dali or the Violence as the Symbol for Love». According to the myth of Maïé, at the beginning of the world, men and women lived in different areas and the two communities did not have any physical let alone sexual contact. After a significant war between these two groups, the women were defeated and therefore forced the men to marry. In short, the myth of Maïé explains how men and women met. Bohui Dali, in his book has …