This paper proposes that Samuel Richardson consciously created the motivational complexity of Clarissa Harlowe. The arguments are the following: eighteenth-century scientific interest in motivation influenced Richardson, his Puritanism led him to suspect and emphasize motive, his frequent use of the word motive suggests an awareness, his choice of the epistolary form is ideal for revealing motives, his attention to the ambiguity of motives indicates his interest, and his complexly motivated Clarissa demands a conscious creator. The last argument constitutes the principal section of the study, and Clarissa's motives are analyzed from the events prior to the elopement, through the rape in London, and finally to her death. She is studied as a product of eighteenth-century decorum, individualism, and Puritanism, but also as an intricate personality.

The aim of this thesis is to describe American Lady Club, its origin, development and activities. A particular importace is placed on description of significant members of this club who devoted themselves to educational activity. For a comprehensive view the possibilities of education of women are mentioned as well as some of the other important female clubs.

À partir d’un corpus iconographique de cent vingt-sept miniatures issues de quatre-vingt-un manuscrits copiés et enluminés en France aux XIVe et XVe siècles, ce travail de thèse examine la construction de la figure de « la dame » à travers les textes, mais aussi par et dans l’image. Entre imaginaire et réalité historique, il s’agit d’étudier la manière dont les représentations de cette figure idéalisée, louée par les troubadours et les auteurs du Moyen Âge tardif, influence la vision des rapports sociaux élaborés autour de la femme noble médiévale. En cela, il apparaît nécessaire de distinguer ces entités féminines, l’une réelle, l’autre idéelle, toutes deux partageant néanmoins certaines similitudes au travers des images. Notre approche iconographique repose sur deux principaux axes : les rituels sociaux et l’identité. Pour mener à bien ce travail, nous utilisons une méthodologie d’analyse sérielle, telle que la conçoit Jérôme Baschet, attentive aux répétitions et aux modulations de formules, ainsi qu’à la singularité des œuvres étudiées. Cette démarche conduit à une mise en réseau des images, révélatrice de certains caractères formels permettant de mieux définir le statut d’objet, agent ou sujet, octroyé à la dame au sein des représentations. La thèse explore ainsi la place de la dame dans l’imaginaire et la société chevaleresque, l’approche « courtoise » des rites vassaliques et la question de l’identité du féminin désiré, entre allégorie, genre et transgression. / With a corpus of one hundred and twenty-seven illuminations, from eighty-one manuscripts painted in France in the 14th and 15th centuries, my thesis examines the construction of the lady’s character, through the texts and the imagery.Between imagination and historical reality, we studying how the representations of this idealized figure, praised by troubadours and authors of the late Middle Ages, influence social relationship about the medieval noble woman. It is necessary to distinguish these feminine entities, one real, the other ideal, both sharing some similarities through the images.Our iconographic study is based on two main axes: social rituals and identity. This work uses the serial method of medieval imagery, developped by Jérôme Baschet. It considering recurrences and iconographic modulations, as well as the singularity of the illuminations. This method requires a connection between the images, revealing certain gestures and manners to define the lady’s identity as an object or a subject in the representations.The thesis then explores the role of the lady in the imaginary and the chivalrous society, the "courtly" culture of vassalic rites and the identity of this loved character, between allegory, gender and transgression.

Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses. / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / 2031-01-02

Submitted by Caroline Xavier (caroline.xavier@pucrs.br) on 2017-05-19T17:42:46Z No. of bitstreams: 1 TES_TICIANO_RICARDO_PALUDO_COMPLETO.pdf: 4503183 bytes, checksum: 26a6e1ee4a05505a08456c1b16493040 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-19T17:42:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 TES_TICIANO_RICARDO_PALUDO_COMPLETO.pdf: 4503183 bytes, checksum: 26a6e1ee4a05505a08456c1b16493040 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-22 / This thesis aims to study the articulations and tensions that exist in the 21st century musical myths, and will verify the possibility of tracing a 2000?s mythic construction paradigm to understand the plurality of proposals, platforms and contemporary languages. For this, it presents its own analysis method to think about the total artist concept. An illustrative cut occurs through David Bowie, Kiss and Lady Gaga?s music videos. Bowie will be presented as one of the very first total artists in pop culture, fowward by Kiss, and Gaga. Music videos will be presented as encapsulated operas. In the end, the thesis discuss the adversongs, an union between music, and advertising, apex of the total artist of the 2010 decade. / A presente tese busca compreender as articula??es e tens?es existentes nos mitos musicais do s?culo XXI para verificar a possibilidade de tra?ar-se um paradigma de constru??o m?tica p?s anos 2000 que d? conta da pluralidade de propostas, plataformas e linguagens contempor?neas. Para isso, apresenta metodologia pr?pria de an?lise do que chama de artista total. O recorte ilustrativo se d? atrav?s de videoclipes dos artistas David Bowie, Kiss e Lady Gaga, sendo esta ?ltima uma expoente do referido artista total, e David Bowie, o fundador do modelo. Os videoclipes s?o pensados como ?peras encapsuladas e vetores de constru??o m?tico-espetacular, desde que obede?am a certos crit?rios que s?o explanados durante a pesquisa. Ao final, a tese apresenta o conceito de adversong que compreende a uni?o entre m?sica e publicidade, ?pice do artista total da d?cada de 2010.

abstract: Emmerich Kálmán (1882-1953) was a leading composer during the Silver Age of Viennese operetta. His final work, Arizona Lady (1954), premiered posthumously, on Bavarian Radio, January 1, 1954. The stage premiere followed on February 14, 1954, at the Stadttheater in Bern, Switzerland. It is his only operetta that is set entirely in the United States, in Tucson, Arizona. Arizona Opera commissioned and produced a new adaptation of Arizona Lady, which was performed in October 2015, in both Tucson, Arizona, and Phoenix, Arizona. The libretto was heavily revised, as well as translated, primarily into English with some sections in Spanish and German. Through comparison of the original and adaptation, this study examines the artistic decisions regarding which materials, both musical and dramatic, were kept, removed, or added, as well as the rationale behind those decisions. The changes reflect differences between an Arizonan audience in 2015 and the European audience of the early 1950s. These differences include ideas of geographical identity from a native versus a foreign perspective; tolerance for nationalistic or racial stereotypes; cultural norms for gender and multiculturalism; and cultural or political agendas. Comparisons are made using the published piano/vocal score for the original version, the unpublished piano/vocal score for the adaptation, archival performance video of the Arizona Opera performance, and the compact disc recording of the 1954 radio broadcast premiere. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Performance 2019

Natalie Schmidt Ferreira

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In a time of rapid social change pilgrimages are resurfacing as significant and visible social phenomena. Australia has historically been noted as a very secular society but in recent years there has been some scholarly attention to forms of spirituality outside of the orthodox, Church religion. In matters of national identity and commitment to place it is argued that there could be an upsurge in spirituality, in contrast to the decline of those practising formal religion. In this dissertation it is argued that two journeys undertaken by contemporary Australians can be considered true pilgrimages with spiritual dimensions and are therefore part of a growing spirituality apart from formal Church. A survey of the theological and anthropological literature about pilgrimages allowed the development of an eight-point frame of criteria that could be used as a standard against which an assessment of contemporary journeys could be made. Pilgrimage is a non-local physical journey to a historically and or mythically significant site or shrine that embodies the centre of a person’s most valued ideals. These ideals may or may not be theistic but must be portrayed within the limits of the culture. The shrine casts an image of the culture and has an expert shrine custodian, but has the capacity to absorb a multiplicity of discourses. Pilgrims go to a shrine to experience the place of past events, take home spiritual traces and to model a changed or improved future. In order to apply this frame to two Australian journeys, field trips were made to the plaster image of Mary at Our Lady of Yankalilla Church in South Australia and to Gallipoli in Turkey around the Anzac Day commemorations in 2000. Participant observations and interviews with six key informants, when considered in association with the historical context and media reports, provided ‘thick description’ of the behaviour at the journey destinations and insight into participants’ experiences, motives and understandings. Both journeys, the sacred and ostensibly secular, satisfied the frame of criteria for a pilgrimage. Furthermore they may also exemplify some features that are distinctively Australian, in that in these pilgrimages spontaneity and egalitarianism jostled against bureaucratic structures and national hierarchies.

This dissertation focuses on Archbishop Alonso de Montúfar OP (ca. 1489-1572). It seeks to explore two decades of sixteenth century Mexican Church History mainly through the study of documents found in Spanish and Mexican archives. Born outside Granada in Southern Spain, just after the conquest from the Muslims, Alonso de Montúfar assumed teaching and leading positions within the Dominican order. After more than forty years as a friar, Montúfar was elected archbishop of Mexico and resided there from 1554 until his death eighteen years later. From the 1520s onwards, many missionaries went from Spain to Mexico in order to christianise the native inhabitants and to administer the church’s sacraments to them. Many of the missionaries were members of three mendicant orders: the Franciscans, the Dominicans, and the Augustinians. Alonso de Montúfar’s time as archbishop can be seen as a period of transition and a time that was filled with disputes on how the church in Mexico should be organised in the future. Montúfar wanted to strengthen the role of the bishops in the church organisation. He also wanted to improve the finances of the diocesan church and promote a large number of secular clerics to work in the Indian ministry. All this meant that he became involved in prolonged and very animated disputes with the friars, the members of the cathedral chapter, and the viceroy of Mexico. One chapter of this dissertation is devoted to a detailed study of Archbishop Montúfar’s role in the early cult of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Tepeyac, which today has become of the most important Marian devotions in the world.