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L'Etat et les artistes: entre révolution et réaction, les politiques culturelles de la Belgique (1918-1944)Devillez, Virginie January 2000 (has links)
Doctorat en philosophie et lettres / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished
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Looking through ruin : Canadian photography at Ypres and the archive of warAlexandre, David 11 1900 (has links)
This thesis examines the relationship between the photographic archive of the First World War
and Canadian war memory through an analysis of the production of photographs depicting the
ruins of Ypres, Belgium and their postwar appropriation. Taken by official photographers in the
employment of the Canadian War Records Office, the photographs were intended to act as both
historical documents and, paradoxically, as publicity and propaganda images. Both functions of
the photographs work to construct a unified image of the war and are similarly characterized by a
repressive structure. Ypres, almost entirely destroyed during the war, was both the site of
Canada's first battle and major victory as well as a contentious site connoting military
mismanagement and wasteful loss of life. Resultantly, representations of the city's ruins are
suggestive of a corresponding shift from a mythic to a horrific war in First World War
historiography that took place in the decades proceeding it. Images of Ypres' ruins were filtered
through both material censorship enforced by the military to elicit high morale and psychic
censorship. Photographers made mechanized war conform to their visual expectations.
However, the repressive structure literally contains that which it represses as an uncanny double
and invariably allows for the possibility of its return. I argue that the anodyne and
conventionalized image generated by official photographs of ruins also contains and signifies the
destructive violence of modern warfare. Finally, I examine the construction of these conflicting
narratives as they develop around the simultaneous processes of archivization and circulation
ever-widening circles of mnemonic constructs such as postcards and tourist brochures at the
same time that they were being archived. I argue that rather than contaminating and damaging
the archival meaning of the photographs, the archive is an accumulative institution capable of
incorporating a variety of conflicting narratives without ruining its authority. / Arts, Faculty of / Art History, Visual Art and Theory, Department of / Graduate
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Wartime text and context: Cyril Connolly's HorizonBoykin, Dennis Joseph January 2007 (has links)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / This thesis examines the literary journal Horizon, its editor Cyril Connolly, and a selection of its editorial articles, poems, short stories and essays in the context of the Second World War, from 1939-45. Analyses of these works, their representation of wartime experience, and their artistic merit, serve as evidence of a shared and sustained literary engagement with the war. Collectively, they demonstrate Horizon’s role as one of the primary outlets for British literature and cultural discourse during the conflict. Previous assessments of the magazine as an apolitical organ with purely aesthetic concerns have led to enduring critical neglect and misappraisal. This thesis shows that, contrary to the commonly held view, Horizon consistently offered space for political debate, innovative criticism, and war-relevant content. It argues that Horizon’s wartime writing is indicative of the many varied types of literary response to a war that was all but incomprehensible for those who experienced it. These poems, stories and essays offer a distinctive and illuminating insight into the war and are proof that a viable literary culture thrived during the war years. This thesis also argues that Horizon, as a periodical, should be considered as a creative entity in and of itself, and is worthy of being studied in this light. The magazine’s constituent parts, interesting enough when considered separately, are shaped, informed, and granted new shades of meaning by their position alongside other works in Horizon. Chapters in the thesis cover editorials and editing, poetry, short stories, political essays, and critical essays respectively. Analyses of individual works are situated in the context of larger concerns in order to demonstrate the coherence of debate and discourse that characterised Horizon’s wartime run. In arguing that Horizon is a singular creative entity worthy of consideration in its own right, this thesis locates itself within the emerging field of periodical studies. Further, by arguing that the magazine demonstrates the value of Second World War literature, it articulates with other recent attempts to reassess the scope and quality of that literature. More specifically, this thesis offers the first focused and in-depth analysis of Horizon’s formative years.
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Wartime text and context: Cyril Connolly's HorizonBoykin, Dennis Joseph January 2007 (has links)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / This thesis examines the literary journal Horizon, its editor Cyril Connolly, and a selection of its editorial articles, poems, short stories and essays in the context of the Second World War, from 1939-45. Analyses of these works, their representation of wartime experience, and their artistic merit, serve as evidence of a shared and sustained literary engagement with the war. Collectively, they demonstrate Horizon’s role as one of the primary outlets for British literature and cultural discourse during the conflict. Previous assessments of the magazine as an apolitical organ with purely aesthetic concerns have led to enduring critical neglect and misappraisal. This thesis shows that, contrary to the commonly held view, Horizon consistently offered space for political debate, innovative criticism, and war-relevant content. It argues that Horizon’s wartime writing is indicative of the many varied types of literary response to a war that was all but incomprehensible for those who experienced it. These poems, stories and essays offer a distinctive and illuminating insight into the war and are proof that a viable literary culture thrived during the war years. This thesis also argues that Horizon, as a periodical, should be considered as a creative entity in and of itself, and is worthy of being studied in this light. The magazine’s constituent parts, interesting enough when considered separately, are shaped, informed, and granted new shades of meaning by their position alongside other works in Horizon. Chapters in the thesis cover editorials and editing, poetry, short stories, political essays, and critical essays respectively. Analyses of individual works are situated in the context of larger concerns in order to demonstrate the coherence of debate and discourse that characterised Horizon’s wartime run. In arguing that Horizon is a singular creative entity worthy of consideration in its own right, this thesis locates itself within the emerging field of periodical studies. Further, by arguing that the magazine demonstrates the value of Second World War literature, it articulates with other recent attempts to reassess the scope and quality of that literature. More specifically, this thesis offers the first focused and in-depth analysis of Horizon’s formative years.
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