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51	Gendered Virtue: A Study of its Meaning and Evolution in Early Modern France Saad, Mariela 01 January 2016 (has links) Virtue in early modern France was a broad concept considered by clergymen, philosophers, and moralists as an instrument for measuring and implementing human ethics. This unprecedented research seeks to track the development of the notion of virtue from a gendered and dichotomous notion to a unique and undivided term. The word virtue is constantly present in French texts such as manuels de conduite1 , since the medieval period. Thus, it can be regarded as one of the most significant concepts defining genders in Western civilization. However, it is difficult for modern readers to grasp the complexity of the debate unless it is explained through its socio-historical and cultural implications regarding gender behavior. What is the author referring to when he/she uses the word virtue? Is it chastity for women, strength for men, or just the achievement of the highest moral standard? What are the social implications of virtue? Through an inter and multidisciplinary study involving literature, religion, philosophy, folklore, women and gender studies, and sociology, this cutting-edge research revolves around the literary analysis of conduct manuals, plays, novels and treatises, from the middle ages to the 18th century. Its objective is to map the evolution of the notion of virtue by evidencing social fluctuation of gender differences and conceptualizing our western civilization through the lenses of its moral discourse. virtue gendered virtue origin and evolution of virtue early modern france feminine virtue masculine virtue Ethics and Political Philosophy Feminist Philosophy French and Francophone Literature History of Gender Women's Studies
52	Re-Imagining the Victorian Classics: Postcolonial Feminist Rewritings of Emily Brontë Celestrin, Yannel 27 March 2018 (has links) ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS RE-IMAGINING THE VICTORIAN CLASSICS: POSTCOLONIAL FEMINIST REWRITINGS OF EMILY BRONTË by Yannel M. Celestrin Florida International University, 2018 Miami, Florida Professor Martha Schoolman, Major Professor Through a post-structural lens, I will focus on the Caribbean, specifically Cuba, Guadeloupe, Marie-Galante, and Roseau, and how the history of colonialism impacted these islands. As the primary text of my thesis begins during the Cuban War of Independence of the 1890s, I will use this timeframe as the starting point of my analysis. In my thesis, I will compare Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heightsand Maryse Condé’s Windward Heights. Specifically, I will examine Condé’s processes of reimagining and rewriting Brontë’s narrative by deconstructing the notions of history, race, gender, and class. I will also explore ways in which Condé disrupts the hegemonic and linear notions of narrative temporality in an attempt to unsilence the voices of colonized subjects. I argue that Condé’s work is a significant contribution to the practice of rewriting as well as to the canon of Caribbean literary history. I argue that the very process of rewriting is a powerful mode of resistance against colonizing powers and hegemonic discourse. post structuralism post colonialism literature Caribbean Francophone literature Anglophone literature gender race class narrative temporality French and Francophone Literature Literature in English, North America Other English Language and Literature
53	Listening/Reading for Disremembered Voices: Additive Archival Representation and the Zong Massacre of 1781 Cartaya, Jorge E 27 March 2017 (has links) This thesis grapples with questions surrounding representation, mourning, and responsibility in relation to two literary representations of the ZONG massacre of 1781. These texts are M. NourbeSe Philip’s ZONG! and Fred D’Aguiar’s FEEDING THE GHOSTS. The only extant archival document—a record of the insurance dispute which ensued as a consequence of the massacre—does not represent the drowned as victims, nor can it represent the magnitude of the atrocity. As such, this thesis posits that the archival gaps or silences from which the captives’ voices are missing become spaces of possibility for additive representation. This thesis also examines the role voice and sound play in these literary texts and the deconstructive-ethical philosophies of Jean-Luc Nancy and Jacques Derrida. This thesis argues that these texts invoke the sonic materiality of voice in the service of responding to the disremembered dead through mourning and acknowledgment. English language and literature Middle Passage Zong massacre Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade M. NourbeSe Philip Fred D'Aguiar Toni Morrison Jean-Luc Nancy slavery archive ethics voice sound studies postcolonial deconstruction deconstructive ethics Caribbean Languages and Societies Comparative Literature Continental Philosophy Cultural History French and Francophone Literature
54	Operatic Mysticisms: Mountains, Deserts, Waterscapes Demczuk, Andrew 01 May 2022 (has links) Operatic Mysticisms: Mountains, Deserts, Waterscapes examines the ways we encounter environments as readers/viewers of operas, literature, film, and sound recordings, and how each medium requires different detail-gathering techniques. Respective to the previously mentioned mediums, Sun & Sea (2017), Mount Analogue (1952), El Mar La Mar (2017), and Energy Field (2010) are analyzed by engaging with environmental media studies and invention. Reflecting the nature of each landscape—summits of mountains, aporias of deserts, and mysteries of waterscapes—an elemental approach is taken in investigating how these spaces may be noticed, internalized, recorded, and traversed by both the artist and viewer. With an emphasis on limitations of mediums, language, and equipment, this thesis argues that artists/readers/viewers in turn inhabit these rendered environments—while a looped response (termed as operatic mysticism) threads ekphrasis and imagination before and during the production, in the art proper, and in our minds during and well-after consumption. René Daumal El Mar La Mar Jana Winderen Ekphrasis Environmental Media Studies Ambience and Emergence Audio Arts and Acoustics Biodiversity Composition Contemporary Art Creative Writing Environmental Health Environmental Studies European Languages and Societies Film and Media Studies French and Francophone Literature Illustration Interdisciplinary Arts and Media Other Music Performance Studies Philosophy of Mind Rhetoric Theory and Criticism Visual Studies
55	Subversive Representations of Education in Francophone Novels of the Colonial Maghreb Bevill, Whitney 01 January 2011 (has links) (PDF) Much work exploring alterity and hybridity in the Maghreb ignores representations of education which confront seminal formative experiences, specifically education. French colonial education was problematic because it granted access to the colonizer’s culture, yet it also created a rupture in self-identity for Maghrebi students. In this thesis, I interrogate the literary representations of sites and sources of education by analyzing how these representations discuss the tension between formal French education and informal Maghrebi education. My thesis begins with a historical overview of colonial education in the Maghreb. I then discuss literary methods of negotiating identity, contrasting Arab and Western autobiography especially. Furthermore, I compare writing practices informed by a French education and a North African upbringing. Next, I compare formal and informal sites of education—the school, home and community—which articulate sources of alterity experienced during colonial childhood. Writers interrogate formal settings, including the school, classrooms, teachers, and examinations, and gaze upon the normative space and dominant culture which contradict that of the home. Conversely, informal settings provide subversive sources of education that resist the power structures of colonial France. These sites, including parents, the home, and community, provide an oppositional education and a means of resistance to rejected systems of power. Both settings represent spaces of cultural confrontation that serve as both a means of betrayal as well as benefit to students. The texts I consider discuss the dynamic end of the French colonial period yet were written over a period of time that allowed for personal reflection by the authors as well as for contributions by literary critics and historians that affected the perception and comprehension of the volatile period at the end of French colonialism and the fall of the Fourth Republic. Maghreb colonial education North Africa representations Francophone novel Arts and Humanities Curriculum and Instruction Education French and Francophone Literature International and Comparative Education Other Education Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures
56	Good Game Blake, Greyory 01 January 2018 (has links) This thesis and its corresponding art installation, Lessons from Ziggy, attempts to deconstruct the variables prevalent within several complex systems, analyze their transformations, and propose a methodology for reasserting the soap box within the display pedestal. In this text, there are several key and specific examples of the transformation of various signifiers (i.e. media-bred fear’s transformation into a political tactic of surveillance, contemporary freneticism’s transformation into complacency, and community’s transformation into nationalism as a state weapon). In this essay, all of these concepts are contextualized within the exponential growth of new technologies. That is to say, all of these semiotic developments must be framed within the post-Internet sphere. platform capitalism surveillance video games social media the dromosphere Ziggy Advertising and Promotion Management American Film Studies American Literature American Material Culture American Popular Culture Art Practice Audio Arts and Acoustics Book and Paper Business Analytics Business and Corporate Communications Business Intelligence Contemporary Art Cultural History Digital Humanities Diplomatic History Ethics and Political Philosophy Fiction French and Francophone Literature French Linguistics Game Design Graphic Design Illustration Industrial and Product Design Interdisciplinary Arts and Media Labor History Management Information Systems Marketing Nonfiction Other American Studies Other Business Other Film and Media Studies Philosophy of Mind Photography Poetry Political History Public History Sculpture Social History Technology and Innovation Television Theory and Criticism Visual Studies

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