The stage is a place where symbolic space and real space, symbolic time and real time are superimposed. The critical part of our thought process entitled La figure du chansonnier: resurgence du sujet, tries to examine the way singers (Gilles Vigneault as it happens) create a symbolic place where the risk of fusion between reality and symbolism is much lesser than in other art forms: therefore it is possible not to dissociate the singer as shown to the public and the I that both mark out and cover his work. We think this is a very soft way to work the stage, that values the union between the subject and his message. / On the other hand, theater through all its conventions more clearly defines the fusion between reality and symbolism and the risk involved with such an enterprise. Maybe the actor who is both symbolically and literally under the lights is in much greater danger than the singer of being irreconcilably and without an end exposed to that fusion of reality and symbolism. We think that art, which probably consists of creating a symbolic distancing, gets its greatest strength when its second will is in motion: achieving symbolism and then coming back to reality transformed (for the better). What interested us all through Marie-la-putain, the play which constitutes the creation part of our thesis is to investigate the grey zone where through the spotlight there is no going back to reality: we don't go back to reality, or if we do, it is with great difficulty. All through the play the heroine will on stage try to sacrifice a part of her she would not normally have. / The creation part, through Marie, is in fact the opposite of the critical part: it examines the stage as a place that allows disappropriation and dissolution.

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Prepared by Thomas A. Kochan and Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, with additional contributions from Robert B. McKersie ... [et al]. / Bibliography: p. 38-39. / Support for this research was provided by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Management Relations and Cooperative programs contract no. J 9-P-4-0021

Jason D. Papastavrou and Michael Athans. / Cover title. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 35-37). / Research supported by the National Science Foundation. NSF/IRI-8902755 Research supported by the Office of Naval Research. ONR/N00014-84-K-0519

The thesis examines the history of the MPR between 1924 and 1928, establishes a chronology of events and identifies the personalities involved. It describes the creation of political structures after Soviet models; the transfer of the Mongolian economy from the Chinese to the Soviet system; the growth of secular education; and the attempt to subject the organization and economic power of the Buddhist church to state control. These developments were strongly influenced by the Mongols' desire to remain independent of China and to assume the form and characteristics of powerful nation-states. However the heavy demands of allegiance to the USSR and the Comintern distorted native aspirations and compelled Mongols to give up ideas of Pan-Mongolism, Buddhist reform and an independent foreign policy. Until the end of 1926 modernization and the integration of the MPR into the Soviet system was gradual but from 1927 the Comintern ordered stricter measures of class discrimination, harsher religious policies and a more rapid construction of state capitalism. Some Mongolian leaders believed the demands unsuitable to Mongolian conditions. The Comintern fomented differences among the leadership and in 1928 most former MPRP leaders were ousted on the charge of Right Deviation. The USSR's deteriorating foreign relationships and Stalin's plan for the rapid industrialization of the USSR were root causes of this development. Unquestioning loyalty of the MPR to the USSR was required for strategic reasons. Cooperative and state forms of capitalism would facilitate the transfer of more Mongolian products to the Siberian industries. The thesis draws the conclusion that the MPRP submitted to Comintern demands in 1928 through conviction, coercion and because there was no alternative ally prepared to guarantee Mongolian independence. It also points to the experience of the MPR as a suitable development model for nomadic, pre-industrial societies. The MPR may also be compared with other states traditionally linked with China but now closely associated with the USSR.

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