<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>

This thesis investigates the relationship between the apocalyptic narrative and the postmodern novel. It explores and builds on Patricia Waugh‟s hypothesis in Practising Postmodernism: Reading Modernism (1992) which suggests that that the postmodern is characterised by an apocalyptic sense of crisis, and argues that there is in fact a strong relationship between the apocalyptic and the postmodern. It does so through an exploration of apocalyptic narratives and themes in five postmodern novels. It also draws on additional supporting material which includes literary and cultural theory and criticism, as well as historical theory. In using the novel as a medium through which to explore apocalyptic narratives, this thesis both assumes and affirms the novel‟s importance as a cultural artefact which reflects the concerns of the age in which it is written. I suggest that each of the novels discussed in this thesis demonstrates the close relationship between the apocalyptic and the postmodern through society‟s concern over the direction of history, the validity of meta-narratives, and other cultural phenomenon, such as war, the development of nuclear weaponry, and terrorism. Although the scope of this thesis is largely confined to the historical-cultural epoch known as postmodernity, it also draws on literature and cultural criticism from earlier periods so as to provide a more comprehensive framework for investigating apocalyptic ideas and their importance inside the postmodern novel. A number of modernist writers are therefore referred to or quoted throughout this thesis, as are other important thinkers from preceding periods whose ideas are especially pertinent. The present thesis was researched and written between March 2010 and August 2011 and is dedicated to all of those people who lost their lives in the apocalyptic events of the February 22nd Christchurch earthquake.

Zugl.: Vechta, Hochsch., Diss., 2004

Le répertoire profane imprimé dans la seconde moitié du XVIe siècle et au début du XVIIe siècle est riche de multiples objets musicaux, si l'on en croit tout du moins la diversité lexicale des titres de volumes publiés en France. Alors que dans la première moitié du XVIe siècle, le terme « chanson » est le titre incontournable placé en tête de volume par les imprimeurs de musique, à partir des années 1550 fleurissent de nouvelles appellations comme « chanson en forme de voix de ville », « ode », « chanson en façon d'air », « air de cour », « air », « dialogue », « sonnet », « Amours », « poésie », « quatrain », « chansonnette mesurée », « villanelle », « mascarade », « ballet », « récit » ou « vers mesurez ». Ces multiples dénominations ne renvoient toutefois pas nécessairement à des objets musicaux différents : pour exemple, au XVIe siècle, une même pièce peut être indifféremment appelée « chanson » et « ode » selon les publications. Cette observation amène à supposer que ces termes ne désignent pas des catégories s'excluant les unes les autres. Ces différentes rubriques sont au contraire poreuses, et leurs contours paraissent parfois vagues aux yeux du chercheur, notamment parce que les théoriciens de la musique, en particulier à la Renaissance, ne définissent pas les dénominations que l'on trouve dans les imprimés. Pour cette raison, l'enjeu de ce travail consiste à observer et à comprendre quelles sont les réalités éditoriales et musicales que recoupent les classifications et les termes utilisés dans les livres. Ce faisant, il s'agit de mettre en lumière le rôle clef de l'imprimeur de musique dans la fabrication matérielle du livre, et de se demander ainsi quelle est la part qu'il prend dans les mutations musicales. / The french repertory printed during the second half of the sixteenth century and at the beginning of the seventeenth century is rich of many musical objects. If in the first half of the sixteenth century, the term « chanson » is the only title used in the editions, other denominations appear from 1552 as « chanson en forme de voix de ville », « ode », « chanson en façon d'air », « air de cour », « air », « dialogue », « sonnet », « Amours », « poésie », « quatrain », « chansonnette mesurée », « villanelle », « mascarade », « ballet », « récit » or « vers mesurez ». These denominations don't designate necessarly differents musical objects : for exemple, during the sixteenth century a same work could sometime be named « chanson » and « ode ». This observation tends to suppose that these terms don't designate indepedant categories. On the contrary, these headings are porous, and their outlines seems sometime vague, in particular because the renaissance music theorists don't define the terms used in the prints. For this reason, the goal of this dissertation consist to observe and understand what are the editorial and musical realities which tally with the classifications and the terms used in the collections. Thus, we would like to highlight the role of the music printer in the making of the book, and to wonder what is the part he takes in the musical mutations.

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. 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.

Utilizando a teoria do polissistema literário de Itamar Even-Zohar, as concepções psicanalíticas de Sigmund Freud e de Erich Fromm, como também posições defendidas por teóricos tais como Roland Barthes, Christian Metz, Julia Kristeva e pelos líderes do movimento Futurista Italiano, entre outros, o presente trabalho analisa duas obras: Crash, romance de J. G. Ballard e Crash, filme de David Cronenberg. O objetivo não é de contrapôlas. Ao contrário, muitas vezes elas serão tratadas como se fossem partes de uma mesma obra, servindo assim uma para expandir a outra. Em relação ao filme, é destacada a forma como Cronenberg assume a autoria de Crash e como o filme rompe os limites do polissistema cinematográfico. É questão central deste trabalho a representação do desastre automobilístico, bem como dos elementos a ele associados, em Crash, romance e filme, especialmente sua reconstituição, bem como o acidente sendo encarado como uma maneira de concretizar o desejo de cometer suicídio e as conseqüências no corpo humano causadas por esse tipo de evento. Para expandir essa análise, aborda-se ainda a maneira como esse repertório é apresentado em outras formas de manifestação artística, fato do qual resulta um diálogo entre cada uma delas e Crash. / Making use of Itamar Even-Zohar’s theory of the literary polysystem, the psychoanalytical ideas expressed by Sigmund Freud and Erich Fromm, as well as point of view expressed by theorists such as Roland Barthes, Christian Metz, and Julia Kristeva, and the leaders of the Italian Futurist movement, among others, this thesis has as its basic aim to analyse two works: Crash, a novel by J. G. Ballard, and Crash, the film by David Cronenberg. The intention here is not to oppose them. On the contrary, in many cases they are to be considered as if they were parts of the same work, each one contributing to expand the other. Concerning the film, special attention is paid to the way Cronenberg takes hold of the authorship of Crash and how the movie breaks through the limits of the cinematographic polysystem. The focus of this thesis is centred upon the representation of automobile disasters as well related elements in Crash, novel and film, especially their reproduction, as well as the accident regarded as a means to commit suicide, and the consequences upon the human body caused by the violence of such events. In order to expand this analysis, the presence of the automobile accident in other forms of artistic expression is examined, a fact which will lead to a dialogue between each one of them and Crash.

Utilizando a teoria do polissistema literário de Itamar Even-Zohar, as concepções psicanalíticas de Sigmund Freud e de Erich Fromm, como também posições defendidas por teóricos tais como Roland Barthes, Christian Metz, Julia Kristeva e pelos líderes do movimento Futurista Italiano, entre outros, o presente trabalho analisa duas obras: Crash, romance de J. G. Ballard e Crash, filme de David Cronenberg. O objetivo não é de contrapôlas. Ao contrário, muitas vezes elas serão tratadas como se fossem partes de uma mesma obra, servindo assim uma para expandir a outra. Em relação ao filme, é destacada a forma como Cronenberg assume a autoria de Crash e como o filme rompe os limites do polissistema cinematográfico. É questão central deste trabalho a representação do desastre automobilístico, bem como dos elementos a ele associados, em Crash, romance e filme, especialmente sua reconstituição, bem como o acidente sendo encarado como uma maneira de concretizar o desejo de cometer suicídio e as conseqüências no corpo humano causadas por esse tipo de evento. Para expandir essa análise, aborda-se ainda a maneira como esse repertório é apresentado em outras formas de manifestação artística, fato do qual resulta um diálogo entre cada uma delas e Crash. / Making use of Itamar Even-Zohar’s theory of the literary polysystem, the psychoanalytical ideas expressed by Sigmund Freud and Erich Fromm, as well as point of view expressed by theorists such as Roland Barthes, Christian Metz, and Julia Kristeva, and the leaders of the Italian Futurist movement, among others, this thesis has as its basic aim to analyse two works: Crash, a novel by J. G. Ballard, and Crash, the film by David Cronenberg. The intention here is not to oppose them. On the contrary, in many cases they are to be considered as if they were parts of the same work, each one contributing to expand the other. Concerning the film, special attention is paid to the way Cronenberg takes hold of the authorship of Crash and how the movie breaks through the limits of the cinematographic polysystem. The focus of this thesis is centred upon the representation of automobile disasters as well related elements in Crash, novel and film, especially their reproduction, as well as the accident regarded as a means to commit suicide, and the consequences upon the human body caused by the violence of such events. In order to expand this analysis, the presence of the automobile accident in other forms of artistic expression is examined, a fact which will lead to a dialogue between each one of them and Crash.

Utilizando a teoria do polissistema literário de Itamar Even-Zohar, as concepções psicanalíticas de Sigmund Freud e de Erich Fromm, como também posições defendidas por teóricos tais como Roland Barthes, Christian Metz, Julia Kristeva e pelos líderes do movimento Futurista Italiano, entre outros, o presente trabalho analisa duas obras: Crash, romance de J. G. Ballard e Crash, filme de David Cronenberg. O objetivo não é de contrapôlas. Ao contrário, muitas vezes elas serão tratadas como se fossem partes de uma mesma obra, servindo assim uma para expandir a outra. Em relação ao filme, é destacada a forma como Cronenberg assume a autoria de Crash e como o filme rompe os limites do polissistema cinematográfico. É questão central deste trabalho a representação do desastre automobilístico, bem como dos elementos a ele associados, em Crash, romance e filme, especialmente sua reconstituição, bem como o acidente sendo encarado como uma maneira de concretizar o desejo de cometer suicídio e as conseqüências no corpo humano causadas por esse tipo de evento. Para expandir essa análise, aborda-se ainda a maneira como esse repertório é apresentado em outras formas de manifestação artística, fato do qual resulta um diálogo entre cada uma delas e Crash. / Making use of Itamar Even-Zohar’s theory of the literary polysystem, the psychoanalytical ideas expressed by Sigmund Freud and Erich Fromm, as well as point of view expressed by theorists such as Roland Barthes, Christian Metz, and Julia Kristeva, and the leaders of the Italian Futurist movement, among others, this thesis has as its basic aim to analyse two works: Crash, a novel by J. G. Ballard, and Crash, the film by David Cronenberg. The intention here is not to oppose them. On the contrary, in many cases they are to be considered as if they were parts of the same work, each one contributing to expand the other. Concerning the film, special attention is paid to the way Cronenberg takes hold of the authorship of Crash and how the movie breaks through the limits of the cinematographic polysystem. The focus of this thesis is centred upon the representation of automobile disasters as well related elements in Crash, novel and film, especially their reproduction, as well as the accident regarded as a means to commit suicide, and the consequences upon the human body caused by the violence of such events. In order to expand this analysis, the presence of the automobile accident in other forms of artistic expression is examined, a fact which will lead to a dialogue between each one of them and Crash.

Focusing on works between the 1960s and the early ’80s, this thesis sets the literature of Donald Barthelme (1931–1989) and J.G. Ballard (1930–2009) within the context of twentieth-century architectural theory and history (written), design (drawn), productions (built), professional practice (managed), and pedagogy (taught). The primary aim of this study is to explore the discursive exchange between literature and architecture, while probing the putative association between postmodernity and architecture. By introducing a broader set of social phenomena into debates about postmodernity, my thesis enables a revaluation of how the architectural idiom is interpreted in literature. Using textual and visual analysis, this thesis argues that Barthelme’s and Ballard’s literary works operate at an intersection of the visual arts and mass media. Responding to American and European twentieth-century visual avant-gardes and socio-cultural transformations, architecture participates in the formulation of avant-garde conceptual frameworks. Critically, architecture is not only an aesthetic discipline; it is also a social discourse. Through the discipline’s alignment with ‘new’ and ‘old’ avant-gardes, Barthelme and Ballard use architecture as a point of creative departure to undertake formal and thematic literary experiments. For both authors, contact with the architectural avant-garde has literary consequences. This thesis considers four interconnecting ways literature and architecture ‘speak’ to each other: representation, discourse, formal comparisons, and influence or inspiration. Within my study these topics are examined through critical meditations on architecture from geographical (Fredric Jameson, David Harvey), architectural (Robert Venturi, Charles Jencks) and visual cultural (W. J. T. Mitchell, Marshall McLuhan) sources. Also figuring prominently are epitextual materials, especially archival documentation from the Donald Barthelme Literary Papers at the University of Houston and the Papers of J. G. Ballard collection at the British Library. This thesis opens up new ways of understanding the interart pluralism that characterises the postmodern.

American Indian music and dance traditions unilaterally contain the following three elements: singing, dancing, and percussion instruments. Singing and dancing are of the utmost importance in American Indian dance traditions, while the expression of percussion instruments is superfluous. Louis W. Ballard has composed a piece of music for percussion ensemble which was inspired by the music and dance traditions of American Indian tribes from across North America. The controversy that this presents is relative to the fact that there is no American Indian tradition for a group comprised exclusively of percussion instruments. However, this percussion ensemble piece, Cacega Ayuwipi, does exhibit the three elements inherent to all American Indian music and dance traditions. Cacega Ayuwipi is consistent with American Indian traditions in that the audience must see the instruments, watch the movements of the percussionists, and hear the percussive expressions in order to experience the musical work in its entirety. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2015. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection