New Orleans has been the subject of a narrative of exoticization throughout much of its history as an American space. The dominant trend in representation casts this city as a lush site of strangeness, intercultural confusion, enchantment, and, occasionally, an alternatively transformative or annihilative freedom. My project travels across genres and critical frameworks to explore the history and development of the narrative of New Orleans’ exoticism in literary and public discourse. The narrative’s evocative rhetoric, including the frequent appearance of the term “jungle,” and its emphasis on both charm and degeneracy encode larger doubts over the ability of the city to fit national ideals. These codes draw on a negative racial imaginary and manifest as sentiments of anxiety and desire over the crossing of nationally normative racial and sexual boundaries. Although the generative position of the narrative has gone largely unrecognized, it surfaces in multiple contexts and in concert with larger discursive trends, such as 19th century interests in racially exclusive American nationalism and 20th century fears of a racialized, sexualized other. This project pays particular attention to the articulations of the narrative in George Washington Cable’s novel The Grandissimes and in the New Orleans-based works of Tennessee Williams. It also explores challenges to the narrative offered by contemporary poets Brenda Marie Osbey and Joy Harjo. Additionally, it investigates the recycling of the narrative in contemporary political discourse. / text

This thesis is a written documentation of the original, devised performance piece, ANTI-BELLUM: A RECLAMATION OF THE SOUTHERN BELLE, written in the fall of 2006 by Chandra O. Hopkins. The document tracks the creative process through the stages of: initial inspiration, written development and script formation, creative collaboration in the rehearsal hall, and finally the staging presentation of the piece through production. In addition to this written document, the original, devised script of the production is also included.

The period from the end of World War I through the 1950s has been called “the Golden Age of Drama on Broadway.” Subsumed within this period is another sort of golden age, of music in the American spoken theater, Broadway and beyond, c. 1935-60. Unlike more familiar, and better-studied, genres of dramatic music such as opera, ballet, and the Broadway-style musical, music composed for spoken dramas is neither a definitive part of the dramatic form nor integral to the work’s original conception. Rather, it is added in production, like sets, costumes, and lighting. This study traces the roots of this rich period of spoken-dramatic music to the collaboration of producer John Houseman, director Orson Welles, and composer Virgil Thomson on the Federal Theatre Project, beginning in 1936. The musical ramifications of that collaboration eventually extended to include composers Paul Bowles and Marc Blitzstein, influential theater companies such as the Theatre Guild and Group Theatre, innovative directors such as Elia Kazan and Margo Jones, and major playwrights such as Lillian Hellman and Tennessee Williams. Following a consideration of the forces that gave rise to this musically rich nexus and the people, materials, and practices involved, three high-profile theatrical collaborations are examined, along with three scores that resulted from them: Thomson’s score for Houseman’s 1957 “Wild West” Much Ado About Nothing; Blitzstein’s score for Welles and the Mercury Theatre’s 1937-38 “anti-Fascist” Julius Caesar; and Bowles’s score for the original production of Williams’s The Glass Menagerie (1944-45). Each score is located within the musico-dramatic history that produced it, and analyzed within the context of the production for which it was written. This work aims to begin to recover a vast body of forgotten American dramatic music, to limn the role of the spoken theater in the careers of these three noteworthy American musical artists, to probe a busy intersection of high and commercial art forms, and to suggest music’s important role in the development of the American spoken theater.

Submitted by Fernando Souza (fernandoafsou@gmail.com) on 2017-08-24T11:29:59Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1236787 bytes, checksum: c4ae07f4375037e57a426f7e9e0cab82 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-24T11:29:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1236787 bytes, checksum: c4ae07f4375037e57a426f7e9e0cab82 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-10-25 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The research developed in this study intends to analyze, in the light of the theory of social drama, the dramatic actions of the characters Blanche Dubois and Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire (translated into Portuguese as Um Bonde Chamado Desejo). In the analysis of that dramatic text, we use, as a theoretical basis for this study, basic concepts related to the dramatic genre, taking as a starting point the fundamentals of Aristotelian tragedy, as well as the contributions of the analytical theory of modern drama formulated by authors such as Hegel, John Howard Lawson, Raymond Williams and Sandra Luna. The contributions of these theorists led us to discern conflictive events in the development of the plot, conflicts mainly engendered by the actions of the main characters: Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski. The antagonism represented by these opponents reveals a dialectical interplay between each character’s ethos and their deeds and words. From the conflicts they experience in the plot, the dramatic actions become tragic, in the sense formulated by Raymond Williams who defines social drama as “modern tragedy”. This study does not intend to make an exhaustive investigation about the play, but to contribute to the debate on the proposal made in this research, opening further discussions regarding the dramatic action in the play. / A pesquisa bibliográfica desenvolvida neste estudo pretende analisar, à luz da teoria do drama social, as evoluções dos conflitos entre as ações das personagens Blanche DuBois e Stanley Kowalski na peça A Streetcar Named Desire (traduzida para o Português como Um bonde chamado Desejo) do escritor Tennessee Williams. Na análise do texto dramático, utilizaremos como fundamentação teórica, conceitos relacionados ao gênero dramático, tomando como ponto de partida os fundamentos aristotélicos da tragédia, bem como as contribuições analíticas da teoria do drama moderno formulados por autores como Hegel, John Howard Lawson, Raymond Williams e Sandra Luna. As contribuições desses teóricos nos conduziram a análises sobre os eventos conflituosos na evolução da trama. Conflitos esses engendrados pelas personagens principais: Blanche DuBois e Stanley Kowalski. O antagonismo representado desses oponentes revela uma dialética ação recíproca entre o ethos das personagens, de suas intenções e palavras. A partir dos conflitos e das experiências representadas na trama, as ações dramáticas das personagens tornam-se trágicas, de acordo com Raymond Williams, que define o drama social como “tragédia moderna”. Este estudo não pretende esgotar o tema investigado, mas, contribuir para a reflexão sobre a proposta realizada e abrir possibilidades de discussões posteriores com relação à ação dramática da peça.

An exploration into the influence of the noh and kabuki on the late plays of Tennesee Williams and the impact his friendship with Yukio Mishima had on his work.

Tennessee Williams, Paul Ibell (2016) London: Reaktion Books, 192 pp., ISBN: 9781780236629, p/bk, $19

Диссертация посвящена проблеме установления эквивалентности перевода оригиналу пьесы Теннесси Уильямса «A Streetcar Named Desire» на основе текстовой категории тональности. Были проанализированы реплики главных персонажей на основании сопоставления маркеров текстовой категории по параметрам набора, комбинаторики, размещения. На основании информации поля тональности и подсчётов эквивалентности были сделаны выводы о творческом своеобразии перевода В. Неделина и его интерпретации подлинника. / This master’s thesis studies the problem of establishing the equivalence of the translation to the original play “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams based on the textual category of tonality. The lines of the main characters were analyzed based on the comparison of the textual category markers by the parameters of the set, combinatorics and placement. According to the information of the tonality fields and equivalence calculations, conclusions about creative originality of V. Nedelin’s translation and his interpretation of the original were drawn.

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ABSTRACT This project compares and contrasts the ways in which selected texts by William Faulkner and Tennessee Williams render their fictional figures as modern subjects engaged in the complex processes of identity-formation and transformation. These processes are deeply rooted within the context of the American South. The interrelatedness of identity and language is explored by investigating how these texts dramatize selfhood not as an essential or homogenous state, but as a perpetual process of self-fashioning and play amid multiple positionings. The central hypothesis is that identity manifests itself necessarily and continuously as a textual discourse in and through language, and that self-fashioning gives rise to ethical questions, because identity involves not only the subject’s relation to the self, but also his or her relationships with others in closely interwoven personal, familial and communal-cultural bonds. This ethical dimension underscores the relational aspects of selfhood, that is, the notion that the individual is always situated inextricably within the social, and that the fashioning of the self is thus inconceivable without a consideration of the other. The following pairs of texts are compared: As I Lay Dying and The Glass Menagerie; The Sound and the Fury and Cat On A Hot Tin Roof; Light in August and A Streetcar Named Desire.

A presente dissertação se propõe a traçar o desenvolvimento do Expressionismo desde sua origem na Alemanha da década de 1910 até o teatro estadunidense da década de 1920, assim como a influência desse movimento de vanguarda na obra do dramaturgo americano do pósguerra, Tennessee Williams. Para esse fim, a relação entre artes visuais, teatro, literatura e cinema é apresentada, definindo essa dissertação no campo dos Estudos Interdisciplinares. A análise será principalmente enfocada nas peças expressionistas americanas da década de 1920 dos dramaturgos Eugene O'Neill, Susan Glaspell, Elmer Rice e Sophie Treadwell, e em quatro peças de Tennessee Williams e suas respectivas versões fílmicas: The Glass Menagerie (1944), Orpheus Descending (1957), Suddenly Last Summer (1958) and A Streetcar Named Desire (1947). Primeiramente, serão apresentadas as origens do Expressionismo na Alemanha na década de 1910 para definir as características do movimento. Posteriormente, serão identificadas características expressionistas no teatro, literatura e cinema estadunidense da década de 1920. Por fim, será verificada a influência do movimento expressionista na obra de Tennessee Williams, tanto em suas peças quanto nas versões fílmicas. O objetivo dessa dissertação é provar a ligação entre a obra de Tennessee Williams e as peças de dramaturgos expressionistas estadunidenses anteriores, assim como discutir a inter-relação e o aspecto colaborativo entre artes visuais, teatro, literatura e cinema. / The aim of this thesis is to track the development of Expressionism from its roots in Germany in the 1910s to its outcome in the American theatre in the 1920s, as well as the influence of the avant-garde movement in the work of the postwar American playwright Tennessee Williams. For the purpose of the present thesis, a relation including the visual arts, theatre, literature and cinema will be traced, thus setting this work in the field of Interdisciplinary Studies. The analysis will mainly focus on 1920s American expressionist plays by Eugene O'Neill, Susan Glaspell, Elmer Rice and Sophie Treadwell, and four plays by Tennessee Williams and their respective film adaptations: The Glass Menagerie (1944), Orpheus Descending (1957), Suddenly Last Summer (1958) and A Streetcar Named Desire (1947). Firstly, the origins of Expressionism in Germany in the 1920s are presented to define the characteristics of the movement. Later, expressionistic aspects are identified in 1920s American theatre, literature and cinema. And finally, the influence of the expressionist movement is verified in the work of Tennessee Williams, both in his plays and film versions. The objective of this thesis is to prove the connection of Tennessee Willliams's work with that of earlier American expressionist playwrights, as well as to discuss the interrelation and collaborative aspect of the visual arts, theatre, literature and cinema.