It is the purpose of this study to explore several of Edwin Arlington Robinson’s poems in order to show the poet’s force of language and prosody and to reveal as much as possible his total poetic artistry. The poems are representative of his familiar, shorter Tilbury Town portraits and are taken from his early, middle, and late periods. An honest appraisal will be made to determine the true worth of the poetry, and an attempt will be made to show that Edwin Arlington Robinson deserves a respected position in modern American letters.

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This thesis is a study of Robinson's general mental and philosophical development and the forces which contributed to it, the kinds and sources of Robinson's characters and the method and importance of their portrayal, Robinson's single portraits of men, Robinson's portrayal of women characters, Robinson's historical portraits, and the relationship of the short poems to Robinson's total work.

The study of James Parton Haney is threefold in purpose. The first purpose is to study the life and educational background of Haney in order to gain an understanding of the man and his educational objectives. A second purpose is to gain an insight into Haney's philosophy of education, and the third purpose is to examine the available writings of Haney in an attempt to analyze his philosophy of industrial arts as a phase of general education.

La présente recherche s'intéresse aux stratégies de succès mises en place par l'artiste québécois Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté (1869-1937) basées sur les rôles de son image publique de et de son atelier, à partir de la « Collection Suzor-Coté » du Musée de l'Amérique française. En s'intéressant au personnage public que fut Suzor-Coté, le texte identifie les derniers efforts de l'artiste afin de faire survivre sa réputation, retrace l'histoire de la « Collection Suzor-Coté », projet à sa mémoire et témoin de sa vie, constituée à partir de son fonds d'atelier. Un retour dans le temps, mettra en relief les moyens entrepris par l'artiste afin d'établir sa réputation de grand artiste : la création d'une image professionnelle affirmée et diffusée par la photographie, le rôle de l'atelier en tant qu'outil promotionnel et le mariage entre la promotion des aptitudes artistiques et la presse écrite dans l'élargissement de la renommée acquise.

Ce mémoire amorce une critique sur la problématique des procédés figuratifs à propos des tableaux niçois matissiens (1916-1930), qui se présentent à nous comme les apories d'une pratique picturale vue comme embrayage d'une toute nouvelle figuration. Cette recherche fait le point sur le mouvement des conflits non-résolus, où le repérage de contradictions, de nouvelles mises en rapport, en dehors du discours dominant des oeuvres, sert la transformation du conformisme de notre vision. Le premier chapitre clarifie la notion du retour à l'ordre. Le second analyse les odalisques comme connotant les avants possibles de la figure. Et le troisième est une critique de la théorie réifiée de la valeur esthétique. Dans cette perspective, ce travail cherche à éclaircir la praxis matissienne de la figuration comme catégorie possible de la peinture. / Montréal Trigonix inc. 2018

This dissertation explores what it is that makes Les nuits d’été such an effective musical composition. This is done by analysing the song cycle according to Terry Eagleton’s four categories of psychoanalytical literary criticism. The death of Berlioz’s mother, with whom he had an unresolved conflict at the time of her death, is proposed as the emotional trigger that led to the composition of these songs. The content and form of the music to which he set them reveals a narrative that closely corresponds to Freud’s description of the Oedipal conflict and its successful resolution. Using the psychoanalytical theories of Lacan, Barthes, Kristeva and others, the subliminal catharsis of Berlioz’s song cycle, in the way that it is transposed to the listener through the mediation of the music, is proposed as the reason why Les nuits d’été is such an effective musical composition. / Art History, Visual Arts & Musicology / M.A. (Musicology)

A pesquisa apresentada nessa dissertação pretende trazer novos elementos para o estudo da obra do intelectual e cafeicultor Paulo da Silva Prado (1869-1943). O caminho escolhido para a busca de novos elementos foi o da ampliação da gama documental disponível. Dessa forma, um longo trabalho de pesquisa foi empreendido em lugares como a Biblioteca Mário de Andrade, o Instituto do Ceará e, até, junto à família Prado. Ao lado de cadernos de cópias, anotações e artigos de jornais, uma série de 31 cartas trocadas entre Paulo Prado e Capistrano de Abreu foram encontradas. Em posse de tal material o trabalho propõe uma dupla análise. Em um primeiro momento, a correspondência inédita é analisada juntamente com as cartas já conhecidas. O intuito é a observação da relação de Capistrano de Abreu e Paulo Prado. Posteriormente, empregou-se uma análise das informações coletadas para observar as recepções apresentadas por Paulo Prado em seu livro Retrato do Brasil: ensaio sobre a tristeza brasileira (1928) de ideias e conceitos desenvolvidos por Capistrano de Abreu em sua obra. Por fim, a dissertação apresenta alguns apontamentos acerca das novas possibilidades no estudo da obra de Paulo Prado. / The research developed in this dissertation intends to bring new elements for the study of the work of the intellectual and coffee farmer Paulo da Silva Prado (1869-1943). The path chosen for the search of new elements was the enlargement of the available documentary range. Thus, a long research work was undertaken in places such as the Mário de Andrade Library, the Ceará Institute and even into the Prado family. Beside notebooks with copies of books, notes and newspaper articles, a series of 31 letters exchanged between Paulo Prado and Capistrano de Abreu were found. In possession of such material, the work proposes a double analysis. In a first moment, the unpublished correspondence is analyzed together with the letters already known. The purpose is to observe the relationship between Capistrano de Abreu and Paulo Prado. Later, an analysis of the information collected was used to observe the receptions, presented by Paulo Prado in his book Retrato do Brasil: ensaio sobre a tristeza brasileira (1928), of ideas and concepts developed by Capistrano de Abreu in his work. Finally, the dissertation presents some notes about new possibilities in the study of Paulo Prado\'s work.

La Grande Messe des morts d’Hector Berlioz se remarque entre autres choses par la variété de styles et le changement rapide de climats expressifs. Son écriture novatrice éveille l’émotion du public en cultivant de nombreux effets d’inattendus que la presse de l’époque a soulignés lors de la création. Comment caractériser les différents styles musicaux sur lesquels le Requiem s’articule ? Comment le compositeur captive et éveille-t-il l’émotion de l’auditeur ? Comment l’auditeur perçoit-il la stratégie déployée par le compositeur ? La présente thèse a pour but d’éclaircir le fonctionnement des matériaux musicaux variés chez Berlioz, le mécanisme de la communication compositeur-auditeur et sa conception de la musique « sacrée ». L’étude de la rhétoricité du Requiem est fondée sur quatre enquêtes successives fondées sur la théorie de la communication musicale de Jean Molino et Jean-Jacques Nattiez et l’analyse de la rhétoricité selon Jean-Pierre Bartoli : 1. étude du processus génétique de la composition (analyse de la poïétique externe) ; 2. étude de la critique de la presse musicale (analyse de l’esthésique externe) ; 3. étude des principes du développement et forme narrative (analyse de la poïétique inductive) ; 4. étude des jeux sur l’attente ménagés par le compositeur (analyse de l’esthésique inductive). De cette recherche, on conclut que Berlioz réussit à concilier l’intensité dramatique et la religiosité à travers un certain art du discours, qui maintient l’unité de l’œuvre dans la variété de ses climats, des topiques exploités et des styles d’écriture. / Hector Berlioz’s Grande Messe des morts has been particularly recognized by its variety of styles and the rapid change of expressive atmospheres. His innovative style arouses public’s emotion by cultivating a great number of unexpected effects that the music press in time of its first performance emphasized. How can be characterized various musical styles which connect with one another in this Requiem? How does the composer behave to attract the audience and to arouse their emotion? How did the audience feel composer’s strategy which was deployed in this work? This thesis aims to make clear the function of various musical materials in his composition, a communication mechanism established between composer and audience, and his conception of the “sacred” music. A study of rhetoric in his Requiem is founded on four successive analyses, inspired by Jean Molino and Jean-Jacques Nattiez’s musical communication theory and Jean-Pierre Bartoli’s rhetoric analysis: 1. study of the creative process of the composition (analysis of the external poïétique); 2. study of the music criticism of press articles (analysis of the external esthésique); 3. study of the principal of the music’s development and its formal narrativity (analysis of the inductive poïétique); 4. study of the tactics on audience’s expectation handled by the composer (analysis of the inductive poïétique). This study concluded that Berlioz succeeded in managing the dramatic intensity and the religiousness through a certain art of discourse, which maintains the work’s unity with a variety of atmospheres, musical topics and styles.

A pesquisa apresentada nessa dissertação pretende trazer novos elementos para o estudo da obra do intelectual e cafeicultor Paulo da Silva Prado (1869-1943). O caminho escolhido para a busca de novos elementos foi o da ampliação da gama documental disponível. Dessa forma, um longo trabalho de pesquisa foi empreendido em lugares como a Biblioteca Mário de Andrade, o Instituto do Ceará e, até, junto à família Prado. Ao lado de cadernos de cópias, anotações e artigos de jornais, uma série de 31 cartas trocadas entre Paulo Prado e Capistrano de Abreu foram encontradas. Em posse de tal material o trabalho propõe uma dupla análise. Em um primeiro momento, a correspondência inédita é analisada juntamente com as cartas já conhecidas. O intuito é a observação da relação de Capistrano de Abreu e Paulo Prado. Posteriormente, empregou-se uma análise das informações coletadas para observar as recepções apresentadas por Paulo Prado em seu livro Retrato do Brasil: ensaio sobre a tristeza brasileira (1928) de ideias e conceitos desenvolvidos por Capistrano de Abreu em sua obra. Por fim, a dissertação apresenta alguns apontamentos acerca das novas possibilidades no estudo da obra de Paulo Prado. / The research developed in this dissertation intends to bring new elements for the study of the work of the intellectual and coffee farmer Paulo da Silva Prado (1869-1943). The path chosen for the search of new elements was the enlargement of the available documentary range. Thus, a long research work was undertaken in places such as the Mário de Andrade Library, the Ceará Institute and even into the Prado family. Beside notebooks with copies of books, notes and newspaper articles, a series of 31 letters exchanged between Paulo Prado and Capistrano de Abreu were found. In possession of such material, the work proposes a double analysis. In a first moment, the unpublished correspondence is analyzed together with the letters already known. The purpose is to observe the relationship between Capistrano de Abreu and Paulo Prado. Later, an analysis of the information collected was used to observe the receptions, presented by Paulo Prado in his book Retrato do Brasil: ensaio sobre a tristeza brasileira (1928), of ideas and concepts developed by Capistrano de Abreu in his work. Finally, the dissertation presents some notes about new possibilities in the study of Paulo Prado\'s work.