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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Identity, Desire and Spectatorship: An Examination of Germaine Dulac’s <em>La Coquille et le Clergyman</em>

Melko, Jennifer A 11 July 2008 (has links)
Germaine Dulac's 1928 avant-garde film, La Coquille et le Clergyman, based on a script written by Antonin Artaud, presents the idea of the woman as an object of desire, subjected to the male gaze through the cinematic process. Not only is the lone female character the object of desire of her two male suitors on screen, but she also becomes the object of desire for the presumably male viewer of the film, who has become a silent character in the film. Rather than simply being the spectator, the viewer's own identity becomes entwined with that of the on screen characters. While the idea of the woman as the object of desire subjected to the often male gaze in the cinema has been analyzed by many feminist film theorists, including Laura Mulvey, Kaja Silverman and Mary Ann Doane, the theories presented center on films directed either by male directors or female directors since the 1970's. Very little has been written about films directed by women in the 1920's, including La Coquille et le Clergyman. By examining Coquille et le Clergyman, I hope to fill in a gap in the discourse of the majority of feminist film theory. This thesis will not only attempt to understand how Germaine Dulac, an early feminist film director, approaches the idea of the female body as an object of desire subjected to the male gaze differently than her male film director counterparts, but will examine how the relationships between the female character and the two male characters differ from other male directed avant-garde films from the 1920's and how these relationships affect spectatorship. By examining La Coquille et le Clergyman, I hope to better understand how Dulac's cinematic interpretation of Artaud's script treats the idea of spectatorship, not only in 1928, but also today.
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Mnohovrstevná subverze a dvojité ostří subjektivity: Čínská avantgardní literatura 2. poloviny 80. let 20. století / Multilayered Subversion and Double-edged Subjectivity: Chinese Avant-garde Literature of the Second Half of the 1980s

Reismüller, František January 2019 (has links)
Univerzita Karlova Filozofická Fakulta Ústav Dálného východu Teorie a dějiny literatur zemí Asie a Afriky Disertační Práce Mgr. František Reismüller Vedoucí práce: Prof. PhDr. Olga Lomová, CSc. 2019 Multilayered Subversion and Double-edged Subjectivity: Chinese Avant-garde Literature of the Second Half of the 1980s Abstract This thesis analyzes Chinese avant-garde literature of the second half of the 1980s in order to identify the main literary features that are common for the otherwise very diverse works of this literary current. First part of the thesis describes literary-political conditions, discursive changes and literary-theoretical discussions between 1978 and 1989 related to the rapid development of Chinese literature of that period and relevant for the following analysis. Second part then analyzes works of selected authors of the Chinese avant-garde literature and using Western literary theory in combination with the theoretical background described in the first part of the thesis it identifies the most important characteristics of the given literary current. The thesis then reaches the conclusion that the works of the Chinese avant-garde literature of the second half of the 1980s show a critical amount of common features, such as subversion, metafictional elements or questioning of the...
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Sine waves and simple acoustic phenomena in experimental music : with special reference to the work of La Monte Young and Alvin Lucier /

Blamey, Peter J., University of Western Sydney, College of Arts, School of Humanities and Languages January 2008 (has links)
This thesis explores a series of relationships between music and acoustics in order to develop a basis for discussing and critiquing aesthetics in post-Cagean experimental music. Specifically, it examines the acoustic and aesthetic theories that inform the practice of American composers La Monte Young and Alvin Lucier. One particular theme - the sine wave - emerges, both as a prominent feature in the work of these two composers, and also as a nexus point between music and acoustics. Pursuing this theme, the thesis begins by looking at issues in the science, technology, and ideology of acoustics in relation to the study of musical sound in the late nineteenth century. It then aims to situate the sine wave historically, culturally and technologically within a range of scientific and aesthetic practices in operation in the first half of the twentieth century. Finally, it explores the deployment of concepts from the field of acoustics by artists of the avant-garde, and considers what contribution these factors played in broadening the developing discourse of sound within the arts. These discussions then inform detailed investigations into the work of both Lucier and Young, examining their use of sine waves to explore and produce simple acoustic phenomena. / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Theatricality. A critical genealogy.

McGillivray, Glen James January 2004 (has links)
Doctor of Philosophy / ABSTRACT The notion of theatricality has, in recent years, emerged as a key term in the fields of Theatre and Performance Studies. Unlike most writings dealing with theatricality, this thesis presents theatricality as a rubric for a particular discourse. Beginning with a case-study of a theatre review, I read an anti-theatricalist bias in the writer’s genre distinctions of “theatre” and “performance”. I do not, however, test the truth of these claims; rather, by deploying Foucauldian discourse analysis, I interpret the review as a “statement” and analyse how the reviewer activates notions of “theatricality” and “performance” as objects created by an already existing discourse. Following this introduction, the body of thesis is divided into two parts. The first, “Mapping the Discursive Field”, begins by surveying a body of literature in which a struggle for interpretive dominance between contesting stakeholders in the fields of Theatre and Performance Studies is fought. Using Samuel Weber’s reframing of Derrida’s analysis of interpretation of interpretation, in Chapter 2, I argue that the discourse of the field is marked by the struggle between “nostalgic” and “affirmative” interpretation, and that in the discourse that emerges, certain inconsistencies arise. The disciplines of Theatre, and later, Performance Studies in the twentieth century are characterised, as Alan Woods (1989) notes, by a fetishisation of avant-gardist practices. It is not surprising, therefore, that the values and concerns of the avant-garde emerge in the discourse of Theatre and Performance Studies. In Chapter 3, I analyse how key avant-gardist themes—theatricality as “essence”, loss of faith in language and a valorisation of corporeality, theatricality as personally and politically emancipatory—are themselves imbricated in the wider discourse of modernism. In Chapter 4, I discuss the single English-language book, published to date, which critically engages with theatricality as a concept: Elizabeth Burns’s Theatricality: A Study of Convention in the Theatre and Social Life (1972). As I have demonstrated with my analysis of the discursive field and genealogy of avant-gardist thematics, I argue that implicit theories of theatricality inform contemporary discourses; theories that, in fact, deny this genealogy. Approaching her topic through the two instruments of sociology and theatre history, Burns explores how social and theatrical conventions of behaviour, and the interpretations of that behaviour, interact. Burns’s key insight is that theatricality is a spectator operation: it depends upon a spectator, who is both culturally competent to interpret and who chooses to do so, thereby deciding (or not) that something in the world is like something in the theatre. Part Two, “The Heritage of Theatricality”, delves further, chronologically, into the genealogy of the term. This part explores Burns’s association of theatricality with an idea of theatre by paraphrasing a question asked by Joseph Roach (after Foucault): what did people in the sixteenth century mean by “theatre” if it did not exist as we define today? This question threads through Chapters 5 to 7 which each explore various interpretations of theatricality not necessarily related to the art form understood by us as theatre. I begin by examining the genealogy of the theatrical metaphor, a key trope of the Renaissance, and one that has been consistently invoked in a range of circumstances ever since. In Chapter 5 explore the structural and thematic elements of the theatrical metaphor, including its foundations, primarily, in Stoic and Satiric philosophies, and this provides the ground for the final two chapters. In Chapter 6 I examine certain aspects of Renaissance theories of the self and how these, then, related to public magnificence—the spectacular stagings of royal and civic power that reached new heights during the Renaissance. Finally, in Chapter 7, I show how the paradigm shift from a medieval sense of being to a modern sense of being, captured through the metaphor of a world view, manifested in a theatricalised epistemology that emphasised a relationship between knowing and seeing. The human spectator thus came to occupy the dual positions of being on the stage of the world and, through his or her spectatorship, making the world a stage.
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Notes Towards a Mental Breakdown : det teknologiska traumat i J.G. Ballards The Atrocity Exhibition

Nyke, Siri January 2009 (has links)
<p>This study examinates technology's traumatic impact on the male subject in The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard. In my analysis I show how the protagonist uses a fetischistic strategy in order to make sense of the trauma that technology embeds. Paradoxically it proves to be the agent of his trauma, but also functions as his shield. The machine is thus in a position of the hinge, the point in a structural system that both enables and deconstruct the system. In the same position we find the woman. She is the very epicentre of the novel and the violence directed towards her is part of a complex problem that I adress. The woman is divided into pieces and fetischized by the male gaze to serve as a solution for his trauma.</p><p>Hal Foster's notion ”the double logic of prosthesis” constitutes a theoretical base. The model shows how a fetischistic strategy is applied by avant-garde artists to solve the technological trauma that they experience. Both content and composition of The Atrocity Exhibition are inspired by avant-garde practices, I have therefore compared the text with Foster's theory on how the avant-garde problematized the interaction between man and machine. Marshall McLuhan's belief that the human body and technology are inseparable in the era of electronics further helps me to study technology's effect on perception.</p>
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Histoire et fiction : une ��tude comparative des ��uvres de Claude Simon et de Yu Hua

Jin, Jufang 07 December 2010 (has links) (PDF)
Les fictions de Claude Simon et de Yu Hua s'affranchissent de la repr��sentation mim��tique de la r��alit��, traditionnellement consid��r��e comme dogme du roman. Leurs ��uvres, qui ressassent la m��moire des ��v��nements historiques dans l'Histoire du XX�� si��cle, ne visent pas une restauration du pass�� au moyen de la chronologie et de l'encha��nement de causes et d'effets. Le v��cu personnel de Claude Simon et de Yu Hua les incite �� r��fl��chir sur la valeur de l'��criture face �� la violence des d��sastres, et �� remettre en cause toutes les modalit��s de repr��sentation pr��tendant r��tablir l'ordre du monde qui est en r��alit�� radicalement chaotique. L'aspect insaisissable, obs��dant de l'Histoire les obligent �� partir �� la recherche de formes nouvelles, et �� ��laborer une transfiguration de leur objet d'��criture. Ainsi, une exp��rience du temps chaotique voire fantastique, la hantise des a��eux et du p��re, les manifestations d'un ��rotisme intense, d'une violence aveugle, ainsi que tous les proc��d��s de d��sorganisation de la narration, toutes les ��tranget��s du langage, t��moignent d'un constat : l'��vocation du pass�� ne peut advenir qu'obliquement. L'importance de l'Histoire dans la di��g��se et dans la gen��se de leurs ��uvres r��fute un type de critique qui identifie ces ��uvres au formalisme. Ce lien organique entre l'Histoire et la fiction montre aussi qu'une certaine litt��rature contemporaine, caract��ris��e par une volont�� de rupture avec les codes classiques de la repr��sentation romanesque, surmonte une tentation nihiliste pour sugg��rer une ��thique.
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Uncelebrated Stylists: Wyndham Lewis, Ford Madox Ford, and the Artist as Masochist

Erwin, Chase Morgan 01 August 2010 (has links)
This study presents an attempt to understand the political and aesthetic relationship between two of Modernism’s most enigmatic authors, Wyndham Lewis and Ford Madox Ford by examining their novelistic practice in light of their writings on politics and social criticism. A close look at the use of ironic distance, a hallmark feature in our understanding of modernist fiction, in Tarr (1918) and The Good Soldier (1915) reveals both authors conscious effort to distance themselves from their novel’s subjects, Fredric Tarr and John Dowell respectively. In light of both novels’ satirical element, a scathing attack on bourgeois narcissism caused by the wealthier class’ persistent attempts to identify with hollow and self serving social roles through the sham-aristocratic prestige created by England’s pre-war commodity culture, and the fact that both Fredric Tarr and John Dowell are artist figures that somehow resemble their creators, this project reinterprets Ford and Lewis’ ironic distance as an instance of self-distanciation. From this we can infer that both Ford and Lewis were invested in the modernist idea of impersonality, not just as a artistic or literary technique, but as the artist’s only means of escaping the narcissistic and slothful trap of modern subjectivity, and that, along with the production of modernist art, they saw a continual self-effacement as the price of authenticity, therefore inspiring in them the conviction to live as “uncelebrated stylists.”
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Le "Nouveau cinéma latino-américain" : un projet de développement cinématographique sous-continental

Del Valle Davila, Ignacio 27 September 2012 (has links) (PDF)
Au début des années soixante ont lieu les premiers essais pour créer une alliance des expériences de rénovation cinématographique menées dans divers pays d'Amérique latine. La tentative de révolutionner les formes autonomes du cinéma fut conçue comme une contribution à la révolution sociale et politique revendiquées par les mouvements de libération latino-américains de cette époque. Notre étude est consacrée à l'analyse de ce projet de développement cinématographique, qui sera connu comme Nouveau cinéma latino-américain dès la fin des années soixante. Nous examinerons les films et les réflexions théoriques de quelques-uns des cinéastes qui adhérèrent au projet, dont l'œuvre se caractérise par un positionnement subversif au sein du champ cinématographique, face à la position hégémonique du modèle hollywoodien. À travers l'analyse des apports théoriques de ces réalisateurs et l'étude des rencontres et échanges entre eux, nous chercherons à établir les caractéristiques du concept de Nouveau cinéma latino-américain, ainsi que ses contradictions et limites.
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From Performer to Petrushka: A Decade of Alexandra Exter's Work in Theater and Film

Hunt, Laura A 01 May 2011 (has links)
The subject of my thesis is Russian artist Alexandra Exter’s work in the performing arts, with a focus on her theatrical set and costume designs in the Kamerny Theater, her creations for Iakov Protazanov’s 1924 science fiction film, Aelita, and finally her exquisitely fabricated set of approximately forty marionettes. Within these colorful wooden figures are reconciled conflicting notions of stasis and dynamism, sculpture and performer, human and object. Drawing upon Victor Shklovskiĭ’s formalist definition of “enstrangement,” I examine her introduction of the object in place of the human performer as a means of exposing the creative process, forcing the viewer to actively engage with the production. Thus, her manipulation and eventual replacement of the human performer not only exemplifies the interconnectivity and mutability of Russian avant-garde art, but impels the viewer to reconsider the familiar in terms of the strange, ultimately calling attention to the humanity of the dehumanized performer.
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La possibilité du choc : invention littéraire et résistance politique dans les oeuvres d'Olivier Cadiot et de Nathalie Quintane

Farah, Alain January 2009 (has links) (PDF)
Cette thèse de doctorat pose les linéaments d'une histoire de la littérature française contemporaine. Prenant pour objet d'étude une sphère très précise du champ poétique en étudiant les oeuvres d'Olivier Cadiot et de Nathalie Quintane, cette réflexion a pour point de départ le constat de la fin de la domination du modèle avant-gardiste dans le champ culturel à la charnière des années 1970 et 1980. Il s'agit de questionner la possibilité puis les modalités d'un renouvellement des formes après l'avant-garde. Cette problématique s'accompagne de deux autres interrogations sur la résistance au pouvoir et la traduction de l'expérience. S'articule ainsi une réflexion sur le devenir du travail de l'écrivain dans un contexte où les forces d'ordonnancement des corps, de la mémoire et du langage imposent des consensus qui réduisent la probabilité d'un surgissement de nouveauté, entendue ici comme puissance subversive capable de malmener nos représentations du monde. Cette réflexion débute en revisitant, dans une première partie intitulée « Des positions fugitives », plusieurs notions théoriques avec pour objectif avoué de voir en quoi elles peuvent être opératoires dans le contexte contemporain. En analysant les acceptions d'avant-garde (Poggioli, Bürger), de poésie (Gleize, Pinson), de champ (Bourdieu, Lahire) et de politique (Rancière), il s'agit de constituer le cadre intellectuel duquel émerge le corpus étudié. Cette première partie ne fait pas que l'état de la question critique et théorique, elle propose aussi l'étude de quelques textes d'Olivier Cadiot, de Nathalie Quintane et de Christophe Tarkos pour appuyer les démonstrations. « Jouer Gambit », deuxième partie, se consacre exclusivement à l'oeuvre d'Olivier Cadiot. Structurées autour de trois thématiques (la poésie, le pouvoir et la gravité), ces analyses montrent la complexité du travail de l'écrivain, notamment en expliquant, dans « Romaniser la poésie », que la migration que Cadiot opère vers le roman, loin d'être un acte de « haine de la poésie », est une manière pour lui de lui donner une nouvelle intensité. La mise en contexte de la création de L'art poétic' est suivie d'une présentation de la Revue de littérature générale. L'examen des « mises en abyme » de la poésie dans les romans de Cadiot dans Futur, ancien, fugitif; Retour définitif et durable de l'être aimé et Fairy queen explique les tenants et les aboutissants de ce déplacement générique. Dans « Singer le pouvoir », ce sont les nombreuses figures de la domination qui font l'objet d'un développement. L'usage de la métaphore militaire est aussi étudié, Cadiot parvenant par ce biais à déployer la question du politique en littérature. « L'archipel du goujat » se penche sur la question de l'expérience de la gravité, et explique que les différents Robinson de Cadiot opposent deux régimes d'atteinte: l'idiotie et la folie, deux rapports à la désorganisation qui sont aussi deux rapports aux formes et, plus largement, au politique. La deuxième partie se clôt sur une analyse de l'entreprise intertextuelle de Cadiot, qui compare son Robinson à ceux de Daniel Defoe et de Michel Tournier. La troisième partie, « Damer le pion », se consacre à l'oeuvre de Nathalie Quintane. Deux thématiques structurent nos analyses: le rapport à la poésie et le rapport à l'histoire. Le huitième chapitre, « Le mauvais genre », s'attaque à la question générique. Dans l'analyse de Remarques et de Chaussure, l'imperceptibilité de l'oeuvre, identifiée aussi bien, à ses débuts, à la sacralité du quotidien qu'à la littéralité, est mise de l'avant. La posture de l'écrivaine au sujet de la poésie est explicitée: elle résiste à l'idée de la densité comme étalon de valeur de la poéticité en lui opposant la surface, perçue notamment dans la distanciation des remarques qui mettent tout de même de l'avant un « je » qui expérimente avec le corps et la pensée, dans le but avoué d'en finir avec la grandiloquence. Quintane témoigne d'un nouveau parti pris des choses qui confirme l'énorme distance qui la sépare de toutes les pratiques « du soi » tout comme des lieux communs entourant la littérature de « femmes ». La posture faussement ingénue de Quintane se loge dans une pensée esthétique concernée par un travail sur le douteux, l'évènementiel, la surprise. Travaillant avec ce qui importune, ce qui est incongru, l'écrivaine réfléchit aux questions du sérieux, de l'idiotie, de l'absurde, de la fantaisie. « Repasser l'Histoire », neuvième chapitre, montre comment Quintane déplace la matière historique, la repasse, c'est-à-dire opère une mise à plat tout en la revisitant pour la faire voir autrement. L'écrivaine rencontre d'abord Jeanne d'Arc puis la station balnéaire de Saint-Tropez. Dans Cavale et Grand ensemble, elle affronte des sujets délicats -la Commune, la collaboration ou la guerre d'Algérie -à travers la reconstitution de « souvenirs live » qui érige un travail de rétrospection qui engage Quintane du côté de la confusion, perçue comme le moindre mal d'une époque où l'ordre déforme la mémoire. L'écrivaine invite à damer le pion des discours de légitimation tout en dressant une continuité entre un passé douteux et un présent qui de jour en jour nous prouve l'être tout autant. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Avant-Garde, Littérature contemporaine, Expérimentation, Poésie, Société, Politique, Sociocritique, Olivier Cadiot, Nathalie Quintane.

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