Thesis--University of Wisconsin--Madison. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 158-164).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1981. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 119).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves: 133-141)

Cette thèse, sous la direction de Claude Jamain, interroge l’affirmation de Duncan selon laquelle elle n’invente pas sa danse qu’elle qualifie de naturelle. Afin de répondre à ce paradoxe, l’idée est de saisir l’élaboration de sa danse comme matière en termes kinesthésiques, moteurs et qualitatifs, en interactions avec les contextes historiques et culturels auxquels elle se confronte en Amérique, en Europe et à la charnière des XIXe et XXe siècles. Après une présentation des pratiques corporelles en Amérique, la thèse aborde la façon dont l’imaginaire de la nature en Amérique et les différentes visions de l’antique aux Etats-Unis d’Amérique et en Europe participent de l’élaboration de sa danse. La conclusion,loin d’apporter une réponse radicale, tendrait à considérer sa danse à la fois comme renaissance de l’antique et naissance d’une nouvelle danse. / This thesis, directed by Professor Claude Jamain, questions Duncan’s assertion that she does not invent her dance, which she describes as natural, even though, it is immediately praised for its novelty. In order to deal with this paradox, this research seeks to capture the way she developed her dance as a discipline with its kinesthetic, motor and qualitative aspects,against the historical and cultural contexts she encountered in America and Europe at theturn of the 19th and 20th centuries. After a presentation of bodily-practices in the United States, the thesis shows how the imaginary view of nature in America and the differing visions of antiquity in the United States and in Europe feed the development of her dance.Our conclusion, far from offering a radical answer, would rather consider her dance as are birth of the antique, as well as a new emerging dance.

Radical Law: Anarchism & Myth in the Poetry of Robert Duncan investigates the relationship between religious and political radicalism in the poetry and poetics of San Francisco Renaissance poet Robert Duncan (1919-1988). I argue that Duncan draws on a nexus of religious and political "heresies" (e.g., Gnosticism, anarchism) to create a complex ethical vision of individual freedom and communal interdependence, what the poet called a "symposium of the whole." As my argument demonstrates, Robert Duncan's mytho-anarchism serves as a critique of twentieth-century political ideology, as well as the cultural politics of such precursors and contemporaries as Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, Charles Olson, and Denise Levertov.

Looking at John Duncan's 1980 art performance, BLIND DATE, and its morally controversial content, I propose to investigate the nature of art's relationship to morality. My research consists of determining whether "immorality" represents an obstacle to the ontological identity of art and to artistic value. To question the authority of ethical criticism in art, I review a contemporary philosophical debate, which opposes two main schools, one in support of the validity of ethical criticism in art and the other against it. Following up on the second position, I elaborate a definition of art and a system of evaluation that aims to determine artistic value, both of which allow space for the potential artistic legitimacy of immoral art.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2005. Graduate Programme in English. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 299-320). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:NR11602

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 1990. / Adviser: Martin Green. Submitted to the Dept. of English. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [263]-273). Access restricted to members of the Tufts University community. Also available via the World Wide Web;

Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Auburn University, 2007. / Abstract. Includes bibliographic references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Auburn University, 2007. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 29-244).