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1	A Faint, Blue Idea of Order Custeau, Philippe 22 May 2006 (has links) Wells Oliver, a mathematician, and his partner Malin move to Kythera, a remote Greek island, from Canada and Sweden, their respective countries of origin. In doing so, they hope to transform their lives in a way that will allow them to focus on their budding love affair, but they are also running away from obligations and people they are trying to leave behind. On Kythera, they realize that even in the most distant locales, the past is never far below the surface. Novel Canadian Greece Leonard Cohen Montreal Kythera
2	The Question as an Instrument of Nationalism: Interrogating the Nation in Earle Birney, Phyllis Webb, and Leonard Cohen Houk, Virginia 22 August 2012 (has links) Through the study of selected works written by Earle Birney, Phyllis Webb, and Leonard Cohen, this thesis seeks to interrogate the wave of modern Canadian nationalism and culture construction that grew as a result of the loosening ties to British roots, the increasing infiltration of American influence, and the political climate following the Second World War. As the Cold War began to take root, Canada found itself amid not only a political conflict, but also a barrage of emerging mass media on a global scale. As a result of this crossfire of national voices, the Canadian culturati made efforts to join in the conversation—through national radio, film, literature, and the creation of a new flag and dictionary—but before the nation could speak, it had to answer the questions that dominated the era: Who is Canada? What is the voice of Canada? Whose voice speaks for the nation? This thesis aims to study the evolution of the answers that were given to these questions. Through the lens of nationalist theory, translation theory, and the postcolonial Gothic, this thesis traces a route from Birney’s attempt to create a nation within a perceived “lack of ghosts,” to Webb’s efforts to question the very question of nationalism, ultimately to Cohen’s illumination of the internal mechanics of national identity as he worked to reconstruct it in a movement toward the Clear Light. Canadian Literature Nationalism Earle Birney Phyllis Webb Leonard Cohen
3	“The Past is Perfect”: Leonard Cohen’s Philosophy of Time Vesselova, Natalia 07 May 2014 (has links) 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. Leonard Cohen Canadian literature Canadian novel Canadian poetry Time in literature Jewish Canadian heritage
4	“The Past is Perfect”: Leonard Cohen’s Philosophy of Time Vesselova, Natalia January 2014 (has links) 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. Leonard Cohen Canadian literature Canadian novel Canadian poetry Time in literature Jewish Canadian heritage
5	”Cohen, Coping och Kommentarsfälten” : – en receptionsstudie om hur religiös coping kan tänkas yttra sig i kommentarsfälten under Leonard Cohens musik på videoplattformen Youtube Olofsson, Petter January 2020 (has links) 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 Religiös Coping RCOPE Leonard Cohen Religion och sociala medier Youtube Religious Studies Religionsvetenskap
6	Enfouies suivi de Poétique de la spectralité dans Beautiful Losers de Leonard Cohen Payette, Édith 08 1900 (has links) No description available. Spectralité Leonard Cohen Jacques Derrida double Spectrality Beautiful Losers Les perdants magnifiques
7	Les démons de la tradition : Book of Mercy ou les psaumes de Leonard Cohen Satre, Hugo 08 1900 (has links) À travers une lecture de Book of Mercy, le recueil de psaumes de Leonard Cohen, le présent mémoire examine le rapport que le poète entretient avec la tradition hébraïque. Ancrant sa production poétique dans l’histoire du psaume, qui remonte à la Bible hébraïque ou, pour les chrétiens, à l’Ancien Testament, Book of Mercy constitue effectivement un cadre à l’intérieur duquel se déploie une confrontation sans égale dans l’œuvre de Cohen. Dressant, dans un premier temps, le portrait de la tradition scripturale dont hérite le poète, nous nous pencherons, dans un deuxième temps, sur ce psaume qu’elle lui lègue, afin d’étudier, dans un troisième et dernier temps, la singularité du projet littéraire qui en échoit. De fil en aiguille, se profile avec ce rapport à la tradition hébraïque un poète qui éclaire de sa modernité les soubassements littéraires d’une poésie qu’il montre mue par l’expression prosaïque de l’humain. / Through a reading of Book of Mercy, Leonard Cohen’s collection of psalms, this study examines the poet’s relationship with the Hebrew tradition. Anchoring its poetic production in the history of the psalm, which dates back to the Hebrew Bible, or, for Christians, to the Old Testament, Book of Mercy constitutes indeed a framework within which unfolds a confrontation unequaled in Cohen’s work. Drawing the portrait of the scriptural tradition inherited by the poet, we will therefore delve into the psalm that tradition bequeathed to him, in order ultimately to study Cohen’s singular literary project. Against the backdrop of this evolving relationship to the Hebrew tradition, the poet reveals in his modernity the literary underpinnings of poetry moved by the prosaic expression of the human. Leonard Cohen tradition hébraïque psaumes littérature altérité Hebrew tradition psalms literature otherness
8	Conceptual Metaphors in Lyrics by Leonard Cohen Johansson, Anna January 2016 (has links) The purpose of this study is to find and analyse conceptual metaphors in the lyrics, A Thousand Kissed Deep, Here It Is, and Boogie Street from the album Ten New Songs (2001) by Leonard Cohen using Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT). In order to detected the conceptual metaphors, the source and target domains were identified. Conceptual metaphors were found by mapping source domains onto target domains and viewing the lexical expressions in the lyrics. The result and analysis of the findings in this study show that linguistic expressions of LOVE, LIFE and DEATH are conceptually present in the lyrics. Conceptual Metaphor Theory Lexical expression LOVE LIFE DEATH Ten New Songs Leonard Cohen General Language Studies and Linguistics
9	"Estimate Your Distance from the Belsen Heap": Acknowledging and Negotiating Distance in Selected Works of Canadian Holocaust Literature Berard, Jordan January 2016 (has links) In his 1987 essay "Canadian Poetry After Auschwitz," Michael Greenstein argues that A.M. Klein's mock-heroic poem, The Hitleriad (1944), ultimately fails to portray the severity and tragedy of the Holocaust because "it lacks the necessary historical distance for coping with the enormity" of the event (1). Greenstein's criticism is interesting because it suggests that in order for a writer to adequately represent the horrors of a traumatic event like the Holocaust it is "necessary" for him to be distanced from the event. While Greenstein specifically addresses historical (or temporal) distance, Canadian authors writing about the Holocaust have also, inevitably, had to negotiate their geographical and cultural distance from the historical event as well. Not surprisingly, their works tend to be immensely self-reflexive in nature, reflecting an awareness of the questions of authority and problems of representation that have shaped critical thinking about Holocaust literature for over half a century. This dissertation examines the role that distance has played in the creation and critical understanding of representative works of Canadian Holocaust literature. It begins with an extensive analysis of the poetry and prose of geographically-distanced poet A.M. Klein, whose work is unique in the Canadian literary canon in that it mirrors the shifting psychological state of members of the Canadian Jewish community as news of the Holocaust slowly trickled into Canada. This is followed by a discussion of the Holocaust texts of Irving Layton and Leonard Cohen, both of whom experimented with increasingly graphic Holocaust imagery in their works in response to the increasingly more horrifying information about the concentration camps that entered the Canadian public conscience in the 1960s. The dissertation then turns its attention to the uniquely post-memorial and semi-autobiographical works of two children of Holocaust survivors, Bernice Eisenstein and J.J. Steinfeld, before focusing on the Holocaust works of Timothy Findley and Yann Martel, both of whom produce highly metafictional novels in order to respond to the questions of appropriation and ethical representation that often surround works of Holocaust fiction created by non-Jewish writers. The dissertation concludes with an analysis of Anne Michaels' novel Fugitive Pieces—a text that addresses all three types of distance that stand at the center of this dissertation, and that illustrates many of the strategies of representation that Canadian writers have adopted in their attempts to negotiate, highlight, erase, and embrace the distance that separates them from the Holocaust. Canadian Holocaust literature A.M. Klein Irving Layton Leonard Cohen J.J. Steinfeld Bernice Eisenstein Timothy Findley Yann Martel Canadian Literature Canadian poetry Canadian fiction Holocaust literature
10	Like pilgrims to this moment : myth, history, and politics in the early writing of Seamus Heaney and Leonard Cohen Ward, Caitlin 23 December 2008 This thesis examines the early work of poets Leonard Cohen and Seamus Heaney in light of their treatment of mythology, ritual, and mythologization, moving either from personal to political awareness (Heaney), or from political to personal awareness (Cohen). Heaney, writing in the midst of the Irish Troubles throughout the late 1960s and 1970s, slowly works up to political awareness as the situation from which he is writing becomes more dire. By contrast, Cohen writes during the beginnings of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec, from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, moving progressively farther away from the highly political and mythologized work of his first book. This thesis analyzes both poets first four books of poetry and how each poet addresses the politics of his historical time and place as a minority figure: an Irish Catholic in Northern Ireland, and an Anglophone Jew in Montreal, respectively. Ultimately, each poet chooses to mythologize and use traditional mythologies as a means of addressing contemporary horrors before being poetically (and politically) exhausted by the spiritual and mental exertion involved in the "poetry of disfigurement." Northern Irish poetry Belfast poetry Montreal poets Belfast poets Irish literature Canadian literature the Troubles Seamus Heaney Leonard Cohen Montreal Belfast Jewish poets Irish poets Irish Republican poetry Quiet Revolution Silent Revolution Irish poetry mythology bog poetry 20th century poetry English literature poetry 20th century studies ethnic minorities religious minorities mythologization Hebrew scripture Tollund Man North Let Us Compare Mythologies Death of a Naturalist Flowers For Hitler Wintering Out Door Into the Dark Spice-Box of Earth Parasites of Heaven

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