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Pretense And Possibility: The Tomorrows Of Charles, Lula And Marie Cardinal, Claire Marrone Jan 2004

Pretense And Possibility: The Tomorrows Of Charles, Lula And Marie Cardinal, Claire Marrone

Languages Faculty Publications

In this essay Claire Marrone discusses the relationship between the dual protagonists in Les Jeudis de Charles et de Lula and notes their gender-based differences in thought, language, and desires.


The Political Economy Of The Indie Blockbuster: Fandom, Intermediality, And The Blair Witch Project, James Castonguay Jan 2004

The Political Economy Of The Indie Blockbuster: Fandom, Intermediality, And The Blair Witch Project, James Castonguay

Communication, Media & The Arts Faculty Publications

The primary focus of this chapter is on what could be broadly described as The Blair Witch Project's political economy. This includes a consideration of the film's relationship to patterns of ownership and the economic structures of film production, distribution, and marketing within the structure of the entertainment industry and in the context of its critical and popular reception. The second half of the essay historicizes BWP in relation to film production and exhibition in the 1890s, and concludes with an examination of its mythic status as an independent film that threatened to undermine Hollywood's blockbuster paradigm. By placing …


Gender Assignment To English Words In The Spanish Of Southern Arizona, Elise M. Dubord Jan 2004

Gender Assignment To English Words In The Spanish Of Southern Arizona, Elise M. Dubord

Faculty Work

This paper examines the gender assignment of English words in the Spanish of Southern Arizona based on the categories of biological sex, phonological gender, and analogical gender. It is determined that biological sex is the greatest indicator of gender assignment, followed by phonological gender and lastly by analogical gender. There was a small (7.9%) proportion of variation in gender assignment to English words in the corpus that is attributed to a combination of words that are neither phonologically nor socially integrated into the Spanish lexicon and the linguistic insecurity of the participants.


Volume 18, Various Authors Jan 2004

Volume 18, Various Authors

Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy

No abstract provided.


Williams's Lyric "These": His Deepest Descent, Peter Schmidt Jan 2004

Williams's Lyric "These": His Deepest Descent, Peter Schmidt

English Literature Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Truncated Love In Candida And Heartbreak House, Harold E. Pagliaro Jan 2004

Truncated Love In Candida And Heartbreak House, Harold E. Pagliaro

English Literature Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Book Review Of Housing The Stranger In The Mediterranean World: Lodging, Trade And Travel In Late Antiquity And The Middle Ages, By Olivia Remie Constable, Kathryne Beebe Jan 2004

Book Review Of Housing The Stranger In The Mediterranean World: Lodging, Trade And Travel In Late Antiquity And The Middle Ages, By Olivia Remie Constable, Kathryne Beebe

History Faculty Publications & Presentations - Archive

No abstract provided.


Wisdom To Know The Difference: The Rhetoric Of Pat Nixon, Linda B. Hobgood Jan 2004

Wisdom To Know The Difference: The Rhetoric Of Pat Nixon, Linda B. Hobgood

Rhetoric and Communication Studies Faculty Publications

Henriette Wyeth Hurd painted the official portrait of Patricia Nixon. The woman depicted is serene, almost sad. She appears fragile, yet brave. Above all, the face that gazes from the canvas understands--the wisdom in her eyes reflects that sense of tribulation bequeathed by experience. Both the painting and the subject reflect "calm at the center." It is an insightful portrayal of the American first lady known to the world as "Pat."


Concert Recording 2004-12-05a, Matt Mondier, Will Watts, Hank Stone, James Greeson, Tim Yarbrough, Ryan Ceola, Jeff Kearney, Jake Weeden, Zac Scott, Jonathan Suit, Matthew Bridges, Drew Packard, Scotty Walters Jan 2004

Concert Recording 2004-12-05a, Matt Mondier, Will Watts, Hank Stone, James Greeson, Tim Yarbrough, Ryan Ceola, Jeff Kearney, Jake Weeden, Zac Scott, Jonathan Suit, Matthew Bridges, Drew Packard, Scotty Walters

Concert Recordings & Programs

Lagrima / Francisco Tarrega -- Prelude / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Estudio 5 ; Estudio 6 ; Estudio 2 / Fernando Sor -- Blue Monk / Thelonious Monk -- I've always thought of you / Tommy Emmanuel -- Stompin' at the Savoy / Goodman, Webb, Sampson and Razaf -- Invention no. 4 in d minor / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Watch what happens / Michel Legrand -- Black Orpheus / Luiz Bonfa -- Freddie Freeloader / Miles Davis -- All the things you are / Kern and Hammerstein -- Portrait of Tracy / Jaco Pastorius -- Squeeze me / Duke …


180 Degrees: An Extension Of Self In Photography, Bradly Dever Treadaway Jan 2004

180 Degrees: An Extension Of Self In Photography, Bradly Dever Treadaway

LSU Master's Theses

180 Degrees is a conceptual body of digital photography and video that deals with self-portraiture, identity and change. Intended to serve as a form of therapy, the work analyzes who I have become over the last couple of years by illustrating issues of compulsion, obsession and insecurity. The investigation confronts unexpected and unsettling attributes of my character. Some of it is a little uncomfortable for me to reveal but if nothing else it is the truth.


Paul Durand-Ruel And The Market For Early Modernism, Marci Regan Jan 2004

Paul Durand-Ruel And The Market For Early Modernism, Marci Regan

LSU Master's Theses

This thesis examines the art sales and marketing of Impressionism in the late nineteenth century, focusing on the dealer Paul Durand-Ruel. Throughout the nineteenth century in Paris, the Académie des Beaux-Arts wrote the history of art by supporting certain artists who followed its ideas of what art should look like. The artists that the Academy chose to support had lucrative careers; they were offered commissions from both the church and state to paint grand historical pictures. Throughout the nineteenth century and until World War II, Paris was the artistic center of the world, and the birthplace of many avant-garde groups. …


A Painting Process: A Journal, Kenneth Alexander Mcashan Jan 2004

A Painting Process: A Journal, Kenneth Alexander Mcashan

LSU Master's Theses

This thesis is presented in journal format and represents a process of painting initiated September 2001 at Louisiana State University. The basis of my paintings can best be described as image oriented mark making. Initially figural images are taken from life drawings then used as starting points to investigate the forms through changes made to their visual properties. Fragments of the images are traced onto paper, manipulated, and then reassembled. This process provides a spring board, a shift from what was recorded earlier by direct observation to images not confined by the requirements of representation.


Cranks, Libertarians, And Zealots: An Examination Of Opposition To Jefferson Davis In The Provisional And First Confederate Congresses, Tereal Wayne Edmondson Jan 2004

Cranks, Libertarians, And Zealots: An Examination Of Opposition To Jefferson Davis In The Provisional And First Confederate Congresses, Tereal Wayne Edmondson

LSU Master's Theses

While many historians have maintained that the Provisional and First Confederate Congresses both served as legislatures intent on obstructing Jefferson Davis's policies, these southern assemblies actually provided little notable resistance to the president. Congressmen who did oppose Davis's policies never coalesced into a formal opposition. This lack of cohesion resulted from two factors: the Confederacy's eschewal of political parties following secession from the Union and the inability of disgruntled solons to organize an oppositional faction thereafter. When objections to increased centralization of the war effort came, they were from individuals who acted alone or in small factions. Consequently, Davis had …


Black Women Writing Black Mother Figures: Reading Black Motherhood In Their Eyes Were Watching God And Meridian, Alexis Durell Powe Jan 2004

Black Women Writing Black Mother Figures: Reading Black Motherhood In Their Eyes Were Watching God And Meridian, Alexis Durell Powe

LSU Master's Theses

This research explores connections between Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Alice Walker's Meridian, two important novels in the African American canon rarely studied in conjunction. I examine the novels' portrayals of Black mothers, comparing and contrasting Nanny Crawford and Mrs. Hill as central mother figures. I also examine Leafy Crawford, Meridian Hill, and other minor Black mother/women characters. Though Hurston's and Walker's presentations of Black mothers differ, both authors work toward dismantling traditional stereotypes of Black motherhood, particularly the Black superwoman stereotype, and, thereby, ultimately redefining Black womanhood. In defending this claim, I explore Hurston's …


Morehead & North Fork Railroad Records, Morehead & North Fork Railroad Jan 2004

Morehead & North Fork Railroad Records, Morehead & North Fork Railroad

Morehead State University Manuscripts Collections

MS026-2004


(Re)Solution, Benjamin M. Dillon Jan 2004

(Re)Solution, Benjamin M. Dillon

LSU Master's Theses

This thesis report explains the process of creating the work in (Re)solution. The relationship between transferred digital prints and paint is described in relation to the intent of the work. Finally, there is a discussion of the questions and dilemmas posed by the working process as well as the completed work.


Thick Skinned, Alair Dyan Wells Jan 2004

Thick Skinned, Alair Dyan Wells

LSU Master's Theses

“Thick Skinned” is a series of sculptures using the domestic structure as a metaphor for the body. Issues of sexuality, gender roles, and domesticity are explored in this mixed-media installation. Viewer interaction with the work is encouraged for a complete sensual experience. The body and home are protective, yet fragile and delicately vulnerable. My work confronts notions of beauty and cruelty, bodily function and presence, with a focus on gender-biased social conventions in our culture. Conceptually, the work is autobiographical in nature, as it pertains to my experiences as a woman. Universally, it deals with the merging of sexuality and …


Capturing The Ordinary: Russell Lee In Southeastern Louisiana, Brent Mitchell Jan 2004

Capturing The Ordinary: Russell Lee In Southeastern Louisiana, Brent Mitchell

LSU Master's Theses

The photographers who worked for the Farm Security Administration Historical Section from 1935-1942 produced a large body of photographic work that now resides in the Library of Congress. These photographs serve as valuable visual resources for depicting an economically deprived section of America's population during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. Some of these photographers, like Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange, are widely recognized for their work, while others remain obscure. Russell Lee falls into the latter category, although he contributed the largest number of captioned photographs to the FSA photographic files. This paper explores Lee's photographic techniques in …


Inter-An Evolving Installation, Lyman Landreth Edwards Jan 2004

Inter-An Evolving Installation, Lyman Landreth Edwards

LSU Master's Theses

Inter- An Evolving Installation is an interactive site specific installation designed and constructed in the School of Art Gallery at Louisiana State University. This installation explores the interplay between the ideas of order and change by presenting the visitor with a very structured environment that by nature of its design and materials changes with each footstep. Sand, granulated carbon, and clay cover the floor of the gallery in a geometric pattern inspired by the Fibonacci Sequence and Buddhist sand paintings. As a person enters the installation it immediately changes from its original design simply through disturbance by the visitor's footsteps …


Guanajuato: A Virtual Exhibit, Norma Elena Gonzalez Jan 2004

Guanajuato: A Virtual Exhibit, Norma Elena Gonzalez

LSU Master's Theses

This thesis will present a virtual exhibition of a tourist destination in Mexico, Guanajuato City. By applying my previous experiences and the knowledge and skill acquired during this MFA program, I developed a Multimedia exhibition that encompasses a new virtual experience of the Mexican culture. This exhibition demonstrates my proficiency in the area of motion graphics.


Heidegger's Relationship To Kantian And Post-Kantian Thought, Ryan S. Hellmers Jan 2004

Heidegger's Relationship To Kantian And Post-Kantian Thought, Ryan S. Hellmers

LSU Master's Theses

I provide a close analysis of truth and freedom in Heidegger’s work during the passage from Being and Time (Sein und Zeit) in 1927 to the Contributions to Philosophy (Beiträge zur Philosophie) in 1938. This analysis demonstrates the passage from a Kantian style transcendental analysis of the self to an Idealist inspired study of being-historical thinking. Throughout this shift in thinking, the work of Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling is shown to play an increasingly decisive role in Heidegger’s thought, finally leading him to an understanding of the self in terms of freedom, community, culture, and history that carries important …


Concert Recording 2004-11-21a, Lance Hall, Alicia Friend, Jonathon Barranco, Courtney Hoover, Jeannie Lee, Lawrence Pereira, Sharon Holloway, Angela Berrios, Jason Watson, Leanne Scaggs, Robert Fitzgerald, Molly Volmer, Windsor Dutton Jan 2004

Concert Recording 2004-11-21a, Lance Hall, Alicia Friend, Jonathon Barranco, Courtney Hoover, Jeannie Lee, Lawrence Pereira, Sharon Holloway, Angela Berrios, Jason Watson, Leanne Scaggs, Robert Fitzgerald, Molly Volmer, Windsor Dutton

Concert Recordings & Programs

Danza, danza fanciulla gentile / Francesco Durante -- O del mio dolce ardor / Christoph W. Gluck -- Oh quand je dors / Franz Liszt -- Caro mio ben / Giuseppe Giordani -- Nymphs and shepherds / Henry Purcell -- Go, lovely rose / Roger Quilter -- O del mio amato ben / Stephano Donaudy -- Sento nel core / Alessandro Scarlatti -- Tannhauser. O du mein holder Abendstern / Richard Wagner -- Nel cor piu non mi sento / Giovanni Paisiello -- Toglietemi la vita / Alessandro Scarlatti -- Go down, Moses / Harry T. Burleigh -- Che fiero …


Concert Recording 2004-11-17, Kelly Belote, Nicole Cotton, Sam Ross, Jason Watson, Sarah Mesko, Drew Cogbill, Joel Libertini, Charles Spann, Jeannie Lee, Ashley Baker Jan 2004

Concert Recording 2004-11-17, Kelly Belote, Nicole Cotton, Sam Ross, Jason Watson, Sarah Mesko, Drew Cogbill, Joel Libertini, Charles Spann, Jeannie Lee, Ashley Baker

Concert Recordings & Programs

A letter from Sullivan Ballou / John Kander -- Concerto no. 3 in e-flat major. Allegro / W. A. Mozart -- Die Post / Franz Schubert -- Sonatina. Allegretto grazioso / Eldin Burton --Comfort ye ev'ry valley / Handel -- Concerto no.2. Alla polacca / Carl Maria von Weber -- Sonata for two clarinets / Poulenc


"Ya Know Frenchy, You Talk A Broken Language": An Analysis Of Syllable-Coda Phonetic Realizations In Creole African American Vernacular English, Rachel Rose Mentz Jan 2004

"Ya Know Frenchy, You Talk A Broken Language": An Analysis Of Syllable-Coda Phonetic Realizations In Creole African American Vernacular English, Rachel Rose Mentz

LSU Master's Theses

Creole African American Vernacular English or CAAVE is a variety of English spoken by African Americans of French ancestry who live primarily in the French Triangle of Louisiana. Dubois and Horvath (2003b) have previously published on glide absence in CAAVE and have suggested that CAAVE is a unique dialect of English. They attribute CAAVE’s glide absence to the contact of Creole African Americans with diverse groups of English speakers and not to language interference from French. This research further pursues these hypotheses by studying the phonological realization of word final syllable-codas for six old male speakers of CAAVE. The reduction …


Memories Near And Far, Merrie Marie Wright Jan 2004

Memories Near And Far, Merrie Marie Wright

LSU Master's Theses

Memories Near and Far depicts the transformation, emotionally and psychologically, that occurs when childhood meets adulthood. The loss of naiveté, accumulation of experiences and memories, and the release of memory necessary to move on to new experiences mark this transition. The events that occur during this time period are represented through seven installations: Incubation, I Am What I Fear, Consumed, An Offering: Gifts for Healing, Between Realities, The Self as a House: Self-Confinement, and Gleanings. The work portrays memories of my personal journey through this time, the struggles I encountered, and lessons I have learned. Color, accumulation, and repetition of …


A Settlement Of Great Consequence: The Development Of The Natchez District, 1763-1860, Lee Davis Smith Jan 2004

A Settlement Of Great Consequence: The Development Of The Natchez District, 1763-1860, Lee Davis Smith

LSU Master's Theses

This study examines events, conditions, and circumstances that influenced the development of the Natchez District of West Florida from its acquisition by Great Britain in 1763 until the eve of the Civil War. The strong relationships between West Florida and the “original thirteen” colonies created a dynamic area of Revolutionary and antebellum era growth in West Florida, and particularly in the Natchez District. Eighteenth century westward migration of seaboard colonists exerted pressure on native Americans. At the same time, colonists felt pressure from the presence of British troops remaining in America following the French and Indian War. Colonial officials recognized …


Symphony No.1 - A Symphony Of The Christ, James White Hellums, Iii Jan 2004

Symphony No.1 - A Symphony Of The Christ, James White Hellums, Iii

LSU Master's Theses

Symphony No. 1- A Symphony of the Christ is, in a general sense, a programmatic orchestral work recounting the life of Christ. This is not to say that every musical device or motive represents something explicitly, rather that the music of each movement suggests the overall mood and feeling of its subject matter. The first movement, subtitled “Christ our God to earth descendeth,” corresponds to Christ’s birth. The second movement, subtitled “Dwelt among men, our example is He,” concerns His life and ministry. The third movement, representing His suffering and crucifixion, is subtitled “See, from His head, His hands, His …


Zinnias, Carlyle Wolfe Jan 2004

Zinnias, Carlyle Wolfe

LSU Master's Theses

Impermanence. Quiet. Words. Unfolding. Specificity. Abundance. Pattern. Compilation. Faithfulness. Vulnerability. Obedience. Atmosphere. Begun with a coffee can full of flowers, this work is an exploration of art making, self, and nature.


My Maiden Cowboy Names: Poems, Victoria Brockmeier Jan 2004

My Maiden Cowboy Names: Poems, Victoria Brockmeier

LSU Master's Theses

On the title: for a dichotomy of vulnerability and resistance; for self as plural and/or changeable; for acts of claiming. To hint at tone, setting, and content. On sound: to shape a poem's mood, and because these pieces should leave your mouth a little tired if you read them out loud. On lineation: to highlight the near-misses in language-ambiguities, double meanings, troublesome literalization-and to see these not as pitfalls but as opportunities. On stanza and strophe breaks: if a stanza is a room, the breaks between must be doorways, and who wants to sit down and rest in a doorway? …


Concert Recording 2004-03-08, W. Dale Warren Jan 2004

Concert Recording 2004-03-08, W. Dale Warren

Concert Recordings & Programs

The star-spangled banner / Francis Scott Key -- Ballet suite no. 4, op. 91f / Dimitri Shostakovich -- Glacier / Dan Welcher -- Euphonium concerto / Martin Ellerby -- Three tragic ballads / Percy A. Grainger -- Ride / Samuel R. Hazo