Figure moderniste à la fois centrale et marginale, radicale et anachronique, locale, cosmopolite et idiosyncratique, Marianne Moore (1887-1972) semble depuis ses débuts résister à la catégorisation. Son œuvre en vers et en prose permet ainsi de remettre en question les notions d’origines et d’originalité constamment invoquées dans les débats culturels sur l’Amérique, des années 1900 aux décennies suivant la seconde guerre mondiale. Tandis que, face à la hantise de la répétition, du retard, et de la dérivation, certains auteurs et critiques cherchent à recouvrer un fondement plus ou moins mythifiée, en passant ou non par l’Europe, elle tend à substituer à l’origine fixe les figures plurielles de l’amorce et du (re)commencement. Pour autant, son travail n’est aucunement voué aux idéaux de nouveauté et d’originalité artistiques. L’Amérique qu’elle décrit laisse affleurer les survivances de temps plus anciens, observées au filtre de multiples intermédiaires, visuels, scripturaires, et culturels. Le statut de l’auteur s’en trouve par là-même subverti, le créateur cédant le pas au lecteur, au critique, à l’artisan ou encore au bricoleur. Dès lors, la tradition n’est plus un modèle à refonder ou à exclure, mais le lieu d’aménagements continuels, où le mimétisme se révèle créatif et les importations étrangères une source d’expériences et d’adaptations, laissant toute place aux singularités irréductibles. L’enjeu de ce travail est d’étudier ces différents déplacements, ainsi que les redéfinitions qu’ils permettent autour de l’Amérique et de sa littérature. / As a modernist, Marianne Moore (1887-1972) appears both central and marginal, radical and anachronistic, local, cosmopolitan and idiosyncratic, and she seems to have resisted categorization ever since her first texts. Her verse and prose works therefore enable us to question the notions of origins and originality which constituted the heart of the cultural debates about America, from the 1900s to the decades following the Second World War. While, faced with the anxiety of repetition, belatedness and derivation, some authors and critics sought to recover a more or less mythical foundation, through Europe or not, she tended to replace the idea of a fixed origin with multiple beginnings and new starts. Yet, her work was not dedicated to the ideals of artistic novelty and originality. The America she described let the surviving forms of older times surface, and it was observed through a multiplicity of visual, scriptural or cultural intermediaries. The author’s status was thus questioned, giving way to more humble characters— the reader, the critic, the craftsman or the bricoleur. Tradition was no longer a model to be recovered or excluded, but the stage for continuous accommodation, through which mimicry could become creative and foreign imports could inspire experiments and adaptations, without erasing radical singularities. The purpose of this work is to study these various displacements, as well as the redefinitions of America and its literature they allowed.

This study comprises a close reading and textual analysis of The Sentients of Orion, a space opera series by Australian author Marianne de Pierres, with a view to investigating the representations of gender in modern, popular science fiction by women authors. I hypothesise that de Pierres will pose a fictional enquiry into gender, based on the richness of science fiction by women, but that a closer examination of physical and emotional intimacy (both positive and negative) in these ‘less literary works’ will prove de Pierres’ gender enquiry to be superficial and inconsistent in nature. My main approach is a qualitative exploration of selected incidents through the theoretical lenses of feminist literary criticism, gender theory and, where applicable, queer theory. While I draw eclectically on these interpretive paradigms, my approach is most closely aligned with poststructuralist feminism. Proving the first part of my hypothesis, my findings show that de Pierres does pose an enquiry into gender through her portrayal of plot and character. The particular focus on the intimacies involving the heroine, women, men, and alien characters, proves the second part of my hypothesis incorrect as it reveals how de Pierres not only deeply and consistently challenges the heteronormative status quo, questioning dynamics in relationships, gender roles, ageism, sexism and societal stereotypes, but also provides possible alternatives. / English Studies / D. Litt. et Phil. (English)

Victoria Benedictsson (1850-1888) skrev romanen Fru Marianne i en tid präglad av den industriella revolutionen och en framväxande modernitet. En analys av romanens pastorala ideal – i vilken mån romanen formulerar villkoren för ett gott liv som ett liv närmare naturen – gör det möjligt att placera henne bland de författare från samma tid, däribland August Strindberg och Verner von Heidenstam, som reagerade på det nya samhälle som växte fram under slutet av 1800-talet och skrev en litteratur som visade på ett alternativ. Analysen genomförs med hjälp av ett ekokritiskt perspektiv vilket medför att synen på pastoral går från att uppfatta den lantliga miljön enbart som en kuliss för mänsklig aktivitet till att uppfatta den som medaktör och med ett inneboende värde i likhet med människan. Det ekokritiska perspektivet belyser romanens hållbara förhållningssätt till naturen; genom att låta kvinnans emancipation i ett agrart samhälle öppna upp för en uppvärderande vision av naturen och en jämlik relation mellan natur och människa skapar romanen en framtidsorienterad berättelse med stor aktualitet.

This dissertation examines the influence of film on the poetry of H.D., Marianne Moore, and Adrienne Rich. It builds on scholarship by Susan McCabe (2005), Lawrence Goldstein (1994) and others, who have traced the way twentieth-century American poets reacted formally to film culture in their writing. My project responds to the call of the editors of the volume of Close Up 1927-1933: Cinema and Modernism for critics to interrogate how authors harnessed the aesthetic and political possibilities opened up by cinema. This study draws from theories of feminist film phenomenology by Vivian Sobchack and Laura U. Marks to analyze the aims and arguments of the texts. The literary works studied include: H.D.’s Sea Garden, “Projector” series, Trilogy, Helen in Egypt, and film essays; Marianne Moore’s animal poems from the 1930s and early 1940s and film essays; and Adrienne Rich’s The Will to Change. This dissertation argues that the poets drew from film to renovate their poetic vision and forms and ply at questions of power, visuality, and bodies. The poems articulate an awareness of the filmic gaze and how it constructs feminine or animal others. Through careful analysis of the poems, this dissertation locates each poet’s particular rapport with film and how it influenced her literary style and prompted her to challenge dominant patriarchal scripts. This dissertation makes several original contributions to twentieth-century Anglo-American poetry scholarship. It sets these three authors alongside one another to reveal how their engagements with film inspired their poetics and politics at various points throughout the twentieth century. The conclusions herein determine how the poets turned to film to construct their poetic projects. The dissertation offers new readings of the work of H.D., Moore and Rich as queer women poets invested in film culture. / Graduate

Diploma Thesis Celebrity Marketing as a Tool for Marketing Communication: A Comparison of the Attitudes of the Brands Lancôme and Estée Lauder addresses the phenomenon of celebrity marketing and also how these brands work with celebrities in their advertising campaigns. The thesis is opened by a theoretical chapter that deals with the concept of celebrity, history of celebrity and celebrity marketing as well. It deals with the theories of choice of celebrities, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of using famous faces in the campaigns. In the descriptive part, there are descripted selected brands, their history, identity and ways of their working with the celebrities. The analytical part of the thesis examines how are celebrities used by both brands. For the analysis, the printed magazine (Elle, Marianne and Marie Claire) and the advertisements inside were selected. The main focus is on determining whether the celebrities are really used by the brands and how. It is believed that the brands use celebrities, but each brand works differently with them. The work primarily uses the methods of quantitative content analysis, but part of the research is also qualitative. The main goal of the thesis is to find out to what extent celebrities are used in the marketing campaigns of both brands and...

This essay is about how the library can make a difference inintegrating the minority Roma people into the Swedish society.Roma people have been subjected to persecution anddiscrimination for a long time. In this essay, I examine theactivities, functions and capabilities of libraries that can have apositive effect for the integration of the Roma people. Myquestions are: How can libraries reach out to the Roma people andwhat function do the library have for the integration of the Romapeople? I have used Marianne Anderssons and Dorte Skot-Hansens theory the four functions of the library – the culutralcenter, the knowledge center, the information center and the socialcenter. Based on this theory, I have interpreted and analyzed thematerial that I have gathered through interviews and literaturestudies such as thesis, dissertations, repors and parliamentdocuments. The results of my studies show a predominance of twoof the four library functions – the cultural center and theknowledge center. It was largely about literature, learning andknowledge. Some informants associated the library only withbooks and silence, which can be a result of how the librarypromote itself. As the four functions overlap, activities can oftenbe interpreted from several angles. / Program: Bibliotekarie

The poems in A Rat-Shaped Tear consider wide-ranging ideas of otherness using character and voice. Through misdirection, understatement and unexpected imagery I confront ideas of animal and female otherness in playful ways as a means of subverting traditional impressions of both. The othering effects of grief are also examined in poems that reflect on bereavement and mortality. Human-animal interaction is used to further explore the effects of death and disappointment, though overtones of cartoonish extravagance, dark humour and the surreal temper the more serious themes of loss, disillusionment and loneliness that recur within the collection. In the accompanying thesis, I focus on the work of three poets - D.H Lawrence, Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop - each of whom confront animal otherness in their work. Through close examinations of their individual works, I explore the differences in approach to human-animal interaction, and the ways in which these poets draw meaning from animal otherness. It is suggested that although they engage with the concept using varied poetic techniques, they are drawn together by the intimations of spiritual transcendence that permeate each of their animal poetics.

Der Beitrag setzt zwei künstlerische Positionen aus den Bereichen Bildende Kunst und Choreografie in Beziehung, die auf prägnante Weise Bildarchive von geschlechterspezifischen Körperhaltungen zur Anwendung bringen. Mein Fokus liegt dabei auf dem formal und medial jeweils vielschichtigen Umgang der beiden Künstlerinnen mit geschlechterspezifischer Körpersprache und ihrem performativen Charakter.

Thesis (D. Mus. Arts)--University of Washington, 1994. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [118]-120).

Thesis (M.A.)--Mississippi State University. Department of English. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.