Ce mémoire intervention en études des arts porte sur la remediation des images photographiques, cinématographiques et télévisuelles dans les médias numériques. Il s'appuie sur l'étude de cas des Stills, série de vidéos alliant vidéographie, photographie et performance, réalisés par l'artiste montréalais Adad Hannah. Le document comporte trois volets : un essai théorique, un compte rendu des activités qui ont permis la réalisation d'une exposition et le catalogue accompagnant celle-ci. Intitulée « Adad Hannah : Peinture de genre comme figure de Still », l'exposition s'est tenue du 2 mai au 13 juin 2010 au Musée d'art contemporain des Laurentides, à Saint-Jérôme (Québec, Canada). La méthodologie pour la portion fondamentale de la recherche se fonde sur une démarche heuristique, principalement basée sur l'archéologie des médias telle que décrite par Jay David Boiter et Richard Grusin; c'est à partir du concept de remediation et de ses applications potentielles que s'organise le discours théorique de l'exposition. Celle-ci ne constitue pas une démonstration empirique de la remediation dans les médias numériques; elle nous a néanmoins permis de prendre connaissance des étapes qui jalonnent la mise en place d'un projet de commissariat. Une partie du mémoire est donc consacrée à ces considérations pratiques. En somme, le premier chapitre présente la démarche de l'artiste, le corpus étudié et sa réception critique. Le deuxième chapitre aborde quant à lui les stratégies de représentation de la photographie, du cinéma et de la télévision, en plus de traiter des médias numériques. Il s'appuie principalement sur des essais théoriques traitant de la médiasphère numérique et des impacts de l'informatique dans les sphères de la communication. Le troisième chapitre se penche sur la préparation et la réalisation de l'exposition. Enfin, les résultats observés lors du volet production concluent ce mémoire. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Adad Hannah, Arts médiatiques, Mémoire de production, Remediation, Art numérique.

My thesis will discuss British Romantic period author and philanthropist Hannah More. I aim to portray her from a perspective that demonstrates her compelling and varying nature, that includes religion and rhetoric as persuasive tools met at times with resistance and at other times compliance. Her work called for educational reform on two accounts: firstly, for a system of education for the poor, and secondly, to reeducate middle and upper class women’s philanthropy. I focus on her didactic literature, namely Cheap Repository Tracts, and the prevalence of her Evangelical zeal embedded in the tracts. I draw particular attention to the stories of The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain, Black Giles the Poacher, and Betty Brown, the St. Giles’s Orange Girl. I argue that traditional understandings of didactic narratives as a low form of literature are misleading and that More’s work exemplifies didactic fiction as a form of literature capable of empowering readers and authors alike. Furthermore, I study the social function aspects of Cheap Repository Tracts as they demonstrated a newfound accessibility to a large and varying audience.

Thesis (B.A.)--Haverford College, Dept. of Political Science, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references.

While scholars have carefully and rightly noted the profound influence that More’s abolitionist writings had on both the abolition movement and the developing women’s rights movement, they omit what is an essential examination of her poetics, particularly the self-conscious poetic form that she develops in her poem, “Slavery, A Poem” (1788). In conjunction with noting the rhetorical and textual devices that More implements in “Slavery” to illustrate the art of self-conscious poetics, this paper explores these same devices in a later satirical essay of More’s entitled Hints towards forming a Bill for the Abolition of the White Female Slave Trade, in the Cities of London and Westminster (1804), arguing that, by comparing the rhetorical points of overlap in these two pieces, we can identify that More’s contribution to her contemporary literary culture transcended mere female participation and publication. More importantly, through “Slavery” and Hints, More develops a unique rhetoric – a poetics of control – with which to discuss the physical constraints of slavery, the trope of the individual versus the collective, and the essential poetic and rhetorical practice of blending authorial creativity with conventional constraint. / text

My thesis will discuss British Romantic period author and philanthropist Hannah More. I aim to portray her from a perspective that demonstrates her compelling and varying nature, that includes religion and rhetoric as persuasive tools met at times with resistance and at other times compliance. Her work called for educational reform on two accounts: firstly, for a system of education for the poor, and secondly, to reeducate middle and upper class women’s philanthropy. I focus on her didactic literature, namely Cheap Repository Tracts, and the prevalence of her Evangelical zeal embedded in the tracts. I draw particular attention to the stories of The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain, Black Giles the Poacher, and Betty Brown, the St. Giles’s Orange Girl. I argue that traditional understandings of didactic narratives as a low form of literature are misleading and that More’s work exemplifies didactic fiction as a form of literature capable of empowering readers and authors alike. Furthermore, I study the social function aspects of Cheap Repository Tracts as they demonstrated a newfound accessibility to a large and varying audience.

This thesis considers the limitations of redress measures for injustices against Indigenous peoples in Canada and seeks to provide an alternative account of reconciliation that aims towards addressing these limitations. Current reconciliation and treaty processes designed to address Indigenous claims have resulted in a disconnect between material and symbolic or affective harms and are insufficiently reciprocal and receptive to the multiplicity of conflicting accounts of history to meaningfully effect a transformation of Indigenous-non-Indigenous relations. Furthermore, current processes aim towards closure with respect to past injustices instead of establishing lasting political relationships through grappling with diverse perspectives on those injustices. This thesis engages with these challenges by exploring Indigenous-non-Indigenous relations in Canada through the lens of Hannah Arendt’s relational, non-instrumental account of politics and recent literature on agonistic reconciliation in order to propose an alternative account of living in reconciliation through treaty relations. / Graduate

Hannah Arendt explored the duality of the privately and publicly constructed realms which serve, through our thoughts and our actions, to position us in the world. She draws a distinction between the vita activa and the vita contemplativa, challenging prior conceptions of the radical division between the two. / I examine, in Arendt's work, the concepts of solitude and isolation and how these inform her discourse on reflective thinking. It is my argument that the distinction between these two concepts cannot be drawn as neatly as she attempted to do. These two states of being in fact meet in the figure of the pariah as critical thinker, as well as storyteller, and finally as a catalyst for public action. / I submit that there is a subtextual theme of temporality within Arendt's work and then move to demonstrate how this theme expresses the nature and context of thinking and judging, in relation to action. / Finally, I draw upon Arendt's distinctions between thinking and judging, arguing that one cannot be extracted from the other and that the two cannot be defined as autonomous, in the context of critical thinking. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)

Diss. Stockholm : Stockholms universitet, 2006.

Thesis (Honors)--College of William and Mary, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 79-81). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago Divinity School, March 1999. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.