Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 122-128). Also available online in Scholars' Bank.

A la fin du XIIIème et au XIVème siècle, s’est développé, sur les murs des palais nasrides de l’Alhambra de Grenade, un art de l’épigraphie d’une variété extrême, combinant virtuosité plastique, qualités visuelles, message poétique et politique. Bandeaux, frises et médaillons inscrits, structurent le programme ornemental des palais. Aux inscriptions votives se mêlent des calligrammes dont les lettres, adossées à un fin réseau sculpté d’entrelacs végétaux, génèrent des silhouettes architecturées. S’y ajoutent des poèmes, sculptés sur les murs, indissociables du pouvoir qu’ils soutiennent.A l’Alhambra la parole devient construction, les mots eux-mêmes se transforment en structures imaginaires : façonnant le mythe, ils constituent le socle d’une dynastie culturellement brillante mais en perte de puissance. Œuvres de trois vizirs poètes, Ibn al-Jayyab, Ibn al-Khatib et Ibn Zamrak, ces poésies sultanesques, qasa’id sultaniya, exaltent, sous la forme de panégyriques, la grandeur de la dynastie nasride. Ils affirment la mission des souverains et célèbrent en images exaltées la majesté du lieu : c’est un exemple unique dans l’art ornemental arabo-islamique. Ils rassemblent, de manière synthétique, des renseignements sur les problématiques soulevées par le corpus épigraphique. Pour autant, ce travail ne prétend pas être exhaustif. Il veut plutôt explorer et présenter, sous la forme de bilan analytique, le programme ornemental des palais, suivre le fil conducteur d’une approche contextuelle historique et artistique, voire psychologique, contribuer à l’analyse des liens qui unissent données littéraires et poétiques, symbolisme décoratif et leurs antécédents préislamiques. / From the late thirteenth and especially fourteenth century, grew on the walls of the Nasrid palaces of the Alhambra of Granada, a scriptural art of great variety, combining plastic virtuosity, visual qualities, poetic and political messages. Bands, epigraphic friezes and medallions underline the ornamental program of the palaces. The votive inscriptions are mingled with calligrams whose letters, backed by a fine carved network, generate architected silhouettes of plant-like interlacing Added to this poems, carved into the walls, closely linked to the power it underlines. Thus speech becomes construction and the words themselves also become imaginary buildings: therefore constituting the basis for a dynasty culturally brilliant while politically in decline.Works of three viziers poets of the end of the Nazari dynasty, Ibn al-Jayyab, Ibn al-Khatib and Ibn Zamese “sultanistic” poems qasa'id Sultaniya exalt in form of eulogies the greatness of the dynasty. They claim the religious mission of Nasrid sovereigns and celebrate through exalted images the majesty of the place representing a unique example in the Arab-Islamic ornamental art.Inseparable from the architecture they adorn, thirty poems were specially written and inscribed on the walls of the Alhambra with certain texts tracing the origin to now extinct palaces of the XIth century. They bring together, in summary form, information on the issues raised by the epigraphic corpus. However, this work does not claim to be exhaustive. It rather wants to explore and expose, in the form of an analytical assessment, the decorative program of the palace, following the thread of a historical and artistic, even psychological, contextual approach, contribute to the analysis of the links between literary and poetic facts, decorative symbolism and their pre-Islamic origins.

xii, 128 p. : ill. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / Beginning in the early decades of the nineteenth century, British artists became increasingly fascinated by the Alhambra palace complex in Granada, Spain. This thesis examines the prints of three such artists who traveled to Granada, James Cavanah Murphy (1760-1814), John Frederick Lewis (1805-1876) and David Roberts (1796- 1864), in order to shed light on their shifting attitudes and approaches to the Alhambra. A comparison of Murphy's publication of 1815 and the works of Lewis and Roberts, published in the 1830s, will reveal a shift from an attempt to accurately and methodically record Granada's palace complex, to an increasingly subjective and emotionally-based approach. The social and cultural context of Britain and Spain in the early nineteenth century, and the role played by the accompanying text in these publications will also be considered. / Committee in Charge: Dr. Andrew Schulz, Chair; Dr. Kate Mondloch; Dr. Elizabeth Bohls

A Grenade comme dans toute la Péninsule, l'Alhambra se révèle, incontestablement, comme l'expression la plus aboutie de la culture musulmane de l'eau. Inspirés des plus grandes civilisations antérieures, les Nasrides sont effectivement parvenus à compléter ce legs ancestral pour le transformer en une véritable culture de l'eau en Espagne ; il leur fallait pour cela non seulement une implication dans la vie quotidienne et religieuse des habitants, mais également au niveau architectural, par le biais de l'esthétisme et du ludisme. Ce fait étant établi, il est intéressant de se pencher plus avant sur l'héritage de cette culture au sein de l'Alhambra. Car force est de constater que ce legs, aujourd'hui, revêt deux aspects distincts. Bien entendu, il nous faut le considérer en termes matériels puisque cette culture s'exprime encore de nos jours pleinement dans l'architecture même des palais et jardins du joyau nasride de Grenade. Mais nous ne pouvons ni ne devons oublier que cette culture s'est également longtemps exprimée à travers le domaine de l'imaginaire, parfois même en dehors et au détriment de cette réalité matérielle et historique du monument. En ce sens, il nous semble important de nous interroger sur le pouvoir de ces deux héritages de la culture nasride de l'eau aujourd'hui, et leur dimension respective dans les mentalités actuelles concernant l'Alhambra.

This thesis proposes that architecture has the potential to organize experience through its sensory effects and that the body is the fundamental link between experience and the imagination. The project in this thesis is a traveling theater. It was inspired by an interest in the intersection between architecture and contemporary theater. The theater borrows elements from traditional theaters and street theater in an effort to establish a separation between actor and spectator while also encouraging exploration of that basic theatrical relationship. There were three fundamental moves in the theater: the cubic volume; the siting and decision to travel; and the separation of the structure and skin. Each of these was a starting point for sensory effects explored in the theater. / Master of Architecture

Thesis covering topic of Linking social novel and fantasy on an example of Kirsten Boie. Didactic adaptation of the novel "Alhambra" deals with the use of literature in foreign language teaching. The theoretical part discusses its overall contribution to the development of key skills of mastering a foreign language for a student, on the conditions and rules for its use in class. Literature used in class may represent a new source of information about the target language and society that uses it, so it can be used also for multicultural education and with cross-subject projects. The second part deals with the personality of Kirsten Boie and her art, especially the novel "Alhambra" and its theoretical and practical specifics, including a possible contribution to the lesson. In this part an alternative educational material was created, which alone represents a new impetus and a change in the method of teaching for pupils and teachers. Theme and stylistic style of social novel "Alhambra" with historical and fantasy elements doesn't resemble a classic-sounding articles in textbooks, it is thematically attractive for students and arouses curiosity and motivation to read it. Work with the alternative material will deepen not only their foreign language knowledge and skills, but it will gain a new...