Thesis (D.M.A.)--University of North Texas, 2004. / Accompanied by recitals, recorded in 1992, Apr. 23, 2001, and Nov. 17, 2003. Includes analysis by Fábregas. Includes bibliographical references (p. 72-74).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Massachusetts, 1975. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 181-185).

Thesis (M.F.A.)--Boston University. Graduate thesis production directed by Akemi Horie in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts] Boston University, School of Fine and Applied Arts, March 1963.

Thesis (D.M.A.)--Boston University, 1962. From the play by Federico Garcia-Lorca, translated by James Graham-Lujan & Richard L. O'Connell.

This dissertation explores the prophetic tradition in lyric poetry, focusing on the example set by Walt Whitman and carried forth in Hispanic letters, most notably in the cases of León Felipe, Federico García Lorca, and César Vallejo. By “prophetic” I do not wish to suggest “predictive” but rather a voice that, like the words of the biblical prophets, speaks to an entire community, by turns profoundly critical, but also appealing to human dignity. In the preface to the first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass, Whitman explains the public value of poetry: “[F]olks expect of the poet to indicate more than the beauty and dignity which always attach to dumb real objects…. they expect him to indicate the path between reality and their souls.” (621) The roots of Whitman’s lyric song would grow deep in these three contemporary Hispanic poets, during times of grave social and political crisis. By tracing the influence of Whitman’s prophetic voice in their works, I show how his aesthetic of sacrifice reaches dramatic conclusions in the New York of Lorca’s poetry, as well as in the Spanish Civil War represented in Felipe’s Ganarás la luz and Vallejo’s España, aparta de mí este cáliz. Their prophetic lyric voice rises from Whitman’s song, founded upon a communal humanity and an “I” freed from the limits of the individual self. This voice, which we see in the poetry of Whitman, Felipe, Lorca, and Vallejo, is a lament culminating in the very personal sacrifice of the first-person poetic subject. I show how these four authors respond to the crises in their own times and lives with contemporary public voices that redeem our own human dignity in a world that might seem otherwise abandoned to its own undoing.

L’objet de notre étude est l’analyse du discours didascalique du poète et dramaturge espagnol, Federico García Lorca. Trois pièces constituent notre champ d’investigation : Bodas de sangre, Yerma et La casa de Bernarda Alba. Les didascalies, en tant que discours émanant de la voix auctoriale, ont fait l’objet de nombreuses recherches et publications depuis l’essor de la linguistique de l’énonciation et de l’analyse du discours dramatique. Ce travail propose une poétique singulière des didascalies et démontre qu’elles forment un code sémiotique particulier, stratégique et poétique au sein du discours théâtral lorquien : loin de ne constituer qu’un péritexte fonctionnel qui se limite à accompagner et à préciser les conditions de mise en scène du discours entre personnages, elles représentent le véritable centre névralgique du théâtre poétique de Lorca. Elles participent pleinement de la construction du sens profond de l’œuvre et livrent des clés interprétatives essentielles fonctionnant à différents niveaux de lecture et de réception théâtrale. La lecture de certaines didascalies représente un véritable plaisir pour le spectalecteur. Elles peuvent être considérées dans une perspective poétique et interprétées dans la matérialité même de leur signe linguistique comme des supports textuels et phoniques. Elles demeurent dans la plupart des cas l’apanage du lecteur car, renversement paradoxal, le metteur en scène est souvent dans l’impossibilité de les représenter totalement sur scène. Ces didascalies correspondent à la première phase de ce travail et sont nommées didascalire. D’autres didascalies concernent d’une façon plus concrète et pratique les détails de la future mise en scène et possèdent une fonction performative et conative. Elles ne sont plus textuelles : le message originel se transforme en d’autres systèmes de signes. Elles font l’objet de la seconde phase de cette étude et sont appelées didascascène. Les parties liminaires (titres – sous-titres et dramatis personae par exemples), les nuances chromatiques et les indications spatio-temporelles, sont revêtues d’une valeur prophétique et d’une portée métathéâtrale : elles portent en germe tous les éléments de l’œuvre et élaborent une réflexion sur le théâtre lui-même. Lorca, dans cette partition didascalique compose une poétique du silence révélant les sentiments profonds des différents personnages de la trilogie. Les didascalies sont le souffle et la respiration du texte qui prend corps et vie devant nos yeux : leur déchiffrement permet d’accéder aux arcanes de l’œuvre. / The aim of this study is to analyse Garcia Lorca's poetic and dramatic use of stage directions with special reference to three plays : Bodas de Sangre , Yerma and La casa de Bernada Alba .There is no denying that since the birth of enunciative linguistics and drama speech analysis, a lot of in-depth research publications have been devoted to stage directions as reverberations of the author's voice . This study will offer a poetic reading of Lorca's stage directions and aim at demonstrating that the latter contribute to creating a specific semiotic code with both a strategic and poetic intent within Lorca's dramatic speech. Far from being a mere functional peritext only meant to organise and set up the staging of discourse between the characters, Lorca's stage directions embody the nerve centre of his poetic drama. They play an active part in building up the innermost meaning of his works, and offer essential keys for interpretation at various levels of reading and theatrical reception. Reading some of these stage directions is a source of enjoyment for the viewer-reader . If we consider them as mere linguistic signs, they can indeed be interpreted in a poetical perspective as text aids through their sound effects when spoken aloud. Yet ,they are restricted to the reader's exclusive benefit as , paradoxically enough, the stage director is very often unable to stage them in their entirety , even by summoning all the senses . These stage directions, analysed in the first phase of this study, can be labelled as 'reading directions '. The other kind of stage directions consists of the more concrete and physical details that can help organise the futur staging of the play. They have an action-inducing and conative function and , as such, are not textual - the author's original message being coded into another system of signs - These 'staging directions' are the focus of the second part of this study. The preliminary parts ( titles, subtitles and dramatis personae for instance), the varied hues, space and time indications are endowed with a metadrama and prophetical value. Indeed, they carry the seeds of all the main characteristics of Lorca's works and weave thoughts about the very essence of drama. By turning his stage directions into a real musical score, Lorca composes a poetry of silence revealing the innermost feelings of the various characters present in the trilogy. The stage directions breathe life into the text , which takes on flesh and blood under our eyes. Deciphering them enables the reader to lift the veil on the mysteries of Lorca's works.

The poet Larry Levis often employed ekphrasis as an elegiac device—particularly with his verbal descriptions of photographic images—to explore human suffering and reconcile feelings of loss. Through the ekphrastic mode, Levis could juxtapose otherwise disparate images, manipulating their temporal and spatial relationships, to achieve what he conceived an authentic portrait of the human experience. The poet, through his verbal descriptions of photographic images, does not try to evade the pain or joy of being human; instead, he confronts his grief directly and, in so doing, transcends that suffering to better understand himself and his own human position. This thesis analyzes the following poems by Larry Levis: “My Only Photograph of Weldon Kees,” “García Lorca: A Photograph of the Granada Cemetery, 1966,” “The Assimilation of the Gypsies,” “Sensationalism,” and “Photograph: Migrant Worker, Parlier, California, 1967.”

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1966 H742 / Master of Science

Freiburg i. Br., Univ., Mag.arb., 2008.

Thesis (Ph. D. in Spanish)--Vanderbilt University, Dec. 2007. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.