Thèse (Ph.D.) - Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, 2006. / Comprend des réf. bibliogr. : f. 269-306. Également disponible en format microfiche.

Thesis (M.A.)--Eastern Illinois University, 1972. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 134-137).

Ch. 1: Introduction: A Destruction without Adequate Precedent. Ch. 2: Rupture and the Holy Ideal: Redemption in the Hebrew Bible. Ch. 3: Giving the Sense: The Rise of Commentary. Ch. 4: Rabbi Eliezer’s Silence. Ch. 5: Gold and Glass: Ethical Rupture in Mystical Union? Ch. 6: Our Impossible Victory.

This thesis analyzes in detail the work of Leonard Bernstein: MASS. The analysis covers both the theoretical and formal point of view as well as the interpretation issues, while focusing specifically on the issue of interpreting the multi-genre musical work and its definition.

abstract: A resurgence of the American art song is underway. New art song composers such as Adam Guettel, Michael John LaChiusa, and Georgia Stitt are writing engaging and challenging songs that are contributing to this resurgence of art song among college students. College and University musical theatre programs are training performers to be versatile and successful crossover artists. Cross-training in voice is training a performer to be capable of singing many different genres of music effectively and efficiently, which in turn creates a hybrid performer. Cross-training and hybridity can also be applied to musical styles. Hybrid songs that combine musical theatre elements and classical art song elements can be used as an educational tool and create awareness in musical theatre students about the American art song genre and its origins while fostering the need to learn about various styles of vocal repertoire. American composers Leonard Bernstein and Ned Rorem influenced hybridity of classical and musical theatre genres by using their compositional knowledge of musicals and their classical studies to help create a new type of art song. In the past, academic institutions have been more accepting of composers whose careers began in classical music crossing between genres, rather than coming from a more popularized genre such as musical theatre into the classical world. Continued support in college vocal programs will only help the new hybrid form of American art song to thrive. Trained as a classical pianist and having studied poetry and text setting, Georgia Stitt understands the song structure and poetry skills necessary to write a contemporary American art song. This document will examine several of Carol Kimball’s “Component of Style” elements, explore other American composers who have created a hybrid art song form and discuss the implementation of curriculum to create versatile singers. The study will focus on three of Georgia Stitt’s art songs that fit this hybrid style and conclude with a discussion about the future of hybridity in American art song. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Music 2018

This thesis considers the theme of suffering and its resolution in the novels of Jack Kerouac, Leonard Cohen, and William Burroughs, three avant-garde contemporary writers. It discusses most of their work in a general way, with reference to the theme of suffering; and it also analyses in a much more detailed manner the Subterraneans by Kerouac, The Favorite Game and Beautiful Losers by Cohen, and Naked Lunch by Burroughs. Cohen envisions man as a suffering being who experiences his pain in many different ways. He criticizes the old ritual patterns in which suffering once took its form - the pattern of religion which teaches man that suffering is good, and History which teaches that the cycle of civilization operates only in terms of the torturer and his victim. He rejects, too, the contemporary form of pop art which ignores the fact that suffering is a very real and overwhelming part of man. Having lost the old ritual patterns of suffering, man feels alienated from his own personal pain. Through the magic of good art, Cohen feels, man can regain entrance to his own being, for by experiencing another's suffering in art, he can regain his own awareness of suffering. If we misinterpret or misuse our own pain, we become one of Cohen's 'losers,' for we lose the core of our being to false ritual. Cohen believes the ancient notion that suffering deepens character, and he argues that man, through an understanding of his own pain, becomes a richer and better person, more capable of recognizing the magic which exists along with pain. For magic does exist with pain, and in art we gain a momentary entrance into this world of magic. Through the investigation of self and the uniqueness of self, man comes to recognize the uniqueness and magic of all. The artist takes on the role of prophet visionary showing all men that "magic is afoot." Jack Kerouac suffered a different form of pain - a pain which originated in his desperate search for innocence. His Catholic heritage taught him that the world of mind and spirit could see God, while the physical body was the realm of the sinful and guilty. His life became a quest in search of an innocence in which man could, transcend his guilt and shame and become beatific. Kerouac named the entire beat generation beatific, but he could not evade his feeling of guilt and shame within his own life, and he fluctuated throughout life between ecstatic idealism and hopeless despair. His strong mother fixation was a major cause for the split between his sense of idealism and the life of the physical body - and his mother became associated in his mind with those aspects of consciousness he considered 'ideal.' Yet Kerouac also longed for freedom and individuality, realms of experience outside his mother's hold. He expressed his life within his art, showing his tension and anguish from the pull of these two forms of experience. Kerouac's final interpretation of suffering paralleled the Catholic vision, for art became, in his life, a means of personal confession and penance. William Burroughs' despair is expressed through fear and rage, and a figurative comparison with 'paranoia' defines the range of his suffering fairly closely. Burroughs fears persecution from society which controls man through his need, fearing especially the implosive and depersonalizing forces of society which threaten to degrade and annihilate man. Man's own body takes part in this social degradation, for it is man's body which succumbs to addictive need. Burroughs strives to preserve his sense of inner reality and freedom at all costs. He purges his own personal sense of fear through his art, and art becomes, in his use of it, a social act of exorcism. He shouts the unspeakable and becomes a priest in a cultural purification rite; he shows the absurdity of man's reality in the form of comedy and dream and these become the source of his release. He defends himself against social control by his ability to exaggerate the power of society to the point of the grotesque, and art becomes the written form of his protest. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

ABSTRACT This dissertation, “The Past is Perfect”: Leonard Cohen’s Philosophy of Time, analyzes the concept of time and aspects of temporality in Leonard Cohen’s poetry and prose, both published and unpublished. Through imagination and memory, Cohen continuously explores his past as a man, a member of a family, and a representative of a culture. The complex interconnection of individual and collective pasts constitutes the core of Cohen’s philosophy informed by his Jewish heritage, while its artistic expression is indebted to the literary past. The poet/novelist/songwriter was famously designated as “the father of melancholy”; it is his focus on the past that makes his works appear pessimistic. Cohen pays less attention to the other two temporal aspects, present and future, which are seen in a generally negative light until his most recent publication. The study suggests that although Cohen’s attitude to the past has not changed radically from Let Us Compare Mythologies (1956) to Book of Longing (2006), his views have changed from bitterness prompted by time’s destructive force to acceptance of its work and the assertion of the power of poetry/art to withstand it; there is neither discontent with the present nor prediction of a catastrophic future. Time remains a metaphysical category and subject to mythologizing, temporal linearity often being disregarded. Although Cohen’s spiritual search has extended throughout his life, his essential outlook on time and the past is already expressed in the early books; his latest publications combine new pieces and selections from previous books of poetry and prose works, confirming the continuity of ideas and general consistency of his vision.

This diplomatic edition of Leonard Digges's 1555 of *A PROGNOSTICATION OF RIGHT GOOD effect fruitfully augmented, containing plain, brief, pleasant, chosen rules, to judge the weather forever, by the Sun, Moon, Stars, Comets, Rainbow, Thunder, Clouds, with other Extraordinary tokens, not omitting the Aspects of Planets, with a brief judgement forever, of Plenty, Lack, Sickness, Death, Wars, etc. Opening also many natural causes, worthy to be known* is intended to make the treatise available in an edited form which preserves the original page layout and wording, while modernizing spelling and providing a complete scholarly apparatus based on the latest scholarship. This apparatus includes historical notes, translations of all Latin text, a glossary of terms unfamiliar to modern audiences, and a catalogue of any conjectural emendations.

The aim of this paper is to study how the researchers Kenneth I. Pargament, Harold G. Koenig and Lisa M Perez five RCOPE-strategies can be related to the comment fields of five music videos by the artist Leonard Cohen. The video material can be found on the social platform YouTube.      The comments were analyzed in relation to the five coping strategies and people's needs for holiness and religion in the late modern secular society.  The five coping strategies were: (1) Meaning, (2) Control, (3) Comfort/Spirituality, (4) Intimacy/Spirituality and (5) Life transformation.   The methodology of this inductive study was based on an intersection between a qualitative text analysis, and a more netnographically oriented style of observation.   The conclusion while analyzing the data in relation to RCOPE- strategies was that two of these five strategies were more clearly projected. These strategies were (3) Comfort /Spirituality and (4) Intimacy/Spirituality. This paper is moving in a relatively unexplored field of research and can be seen as a springboard for further research on the relationship between secularization, digital media, and human religious orientation in dealing with existential crises.     Keywords: Religious Coping Strategies, Leonard Cohen, Comfort Spirituality, Intimacy, Spirituality, Social Media, Youtube

We study the fluctuation effects in the seminal cyclic predator-prey model in population dynamics due to Robert May and Warren Leonard both in the zero-dimensional and two-dimensional spatial version. We compute the mean time to extinction of a stable set of coexisting populations driven by large fluctuations. We see that the contribution of large fluctuations to extinction can be captured by a quasi-stationary approximation and the Wentzel–Kramers–Brillouin (WKB) eikonal ansatz. We see that near the Hopf bifurcation, extinctions are fast owing to the flat non-Gaussian distribution whereas away from the bifurcation, extinctions are dominated by large fluctuations of the fat tails of the distribution. We compare our results to Gillespie simulations and a single-species theoretical calculation. In addition, we study the spatio-temporal pattern formation of the stochastic May--Leonard model through the Doi-Peliti coherent state path integral formalism to obtain a coarse-grained Langevin description, i.e. the Complex Ginzburg Landau equation with stochastic noise in one complex field. We see that when one restricts the internal reaction noise to small amplitudes, one can obtain a simple form for the stochastic noise correlations that modify the Complex Ginzburg Landau equation. Finally, we study the effect of coupling a spatially extended May--Leonard model in two dimensions with symmetric predation rates to one with asymmetric rates that is prone to reach extinction. We show that the symmetric region induces otherwise unstable coexistence spiral patterns in the asymmetric May--Leonard lattice. We obtain the stability criterion for this pattern induction as we vary the strength of the extinction inducing asymmetry. This research was sponsored by the Army Research Office and was accomplished under Grant Number W911NF-17-1-0156. / Doctor of Philosophy / In the field of ecology, the cyclic predator-prey patterns in a food web are relevant yet independent to the hierarchical archetype. We study the paradigmatic cyclic May--Leonard model of three species, both analytically and numerically. First, we employ well--established techniques in large-deviation theory to study the extinction of populations induced by large but rare fluctuations. In the zero--dimensional version of the model, we compare the mean time to extinction computed from the theory to numerical simulations. Secondly, we study the stochastic spatial version of the May--Leonard model and show that for values close to the Hopf bifurcation, in the limit of small fluctuations, we can map the coarse-grained description of the model to the Complex Ginsburg Landau Equation, with stochastic noise corrections. Finally, we explore the induction of ecodiversity through spatio-temporal spirals in the asymmetric version of the May--Leonard model, which is otherwise inclined to reach an extinction state. This is accomplished by coupling to a symmetric May-Leonard counterpart on a two-dimensional lattice. The coupled system creates conditions for spiral formation in the asymmetric subsystem, thus precluding extinction.