This dissertation analyses millennial film adaptations of five of Shakespeare's plays with a specific focus on a selection of different kinds of film. These are William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999: Dir. Michael Hoffman), 10 Things I Hate About You (1999: Dir. Gil Junger), Hamlet (2000: Dir. Michael Almereyda), Titus (1999: Dir. Julie Taymor), and Scotland, PA (2001: Dir. Billy Morrissette). The films covered include both box office and independent, textually close to Shakespeare's words or not, all totally different from each other. This thesis contextualises these film adaptations within the realm of film studies, music theory, Shakespeare performance theory, critical theory and popular culture. Rather than analysing each Shakespearean film adaptation purely on an aesthetic level, my dissertation will identify and analyse each director's

Based on Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of London, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-170) and index. "List of recordings and websites": p. [171]-172.

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Musical ekphrasis was occurring in the twentieth century in different centers around the world, Cuba: Andalusia, Spain; and Harlem, New York, simultaneously. The writers at the heart of this movement used poetry about music as a means to celebrate the cultures of the marginalized people in their lands, los negros, los gitanos, and African-Americans. The purpose of this study is to define musical ekphrasis and identify it in the works of Nicolás Guillén, Federico García Lorca, and Langston Hughes. Also explored are the common characteristics in ekphrastic poetry by the three poets and the common themes found in their ekphrastic poetry, as well as common influences. Each author is considered in the context of his surroundings and his respective culture, and how that influenced his musical tastes as well as his writing style.

[pt] Esta dissertação coteja obras de Primo Levi e Roberto Bolaño a partir de leituras sonoras de seus escritos. Entende-se por leituras sonoras uma atenção ampliada à musicalidade e a outros aspectos auditivos expressos no conteúdo e na forma literária dessas obras. Nessa perspectiva, busca-se apontar sintonias e contrastes entre os expedientes criativos dos autores em questão. Algo que os vincula de antemão é o fato de suas escritas serem atravessadas por experiências em regimes totalitários: Levi é sobrevivente da Shoá, enquanto Bolaño lidou com o autoritarismo das ditaduras latino-americanas. O presente trabalho não procura confrontar estratégias de testemunho e ficção — procedimentos de escrita que emergem dessas vivências —, mas assume que, nos escritores analisados, tais registros de certa forma se imiscuem, formando um tecido sonoro-textual de efeito estético singular que permite diversas análises. Para realizá-las, o pesquisador procura estabelecer e enunciar certas poéticas de escuta, particularmente aquelas de maior acento político, partindo de elementos sonoros como intensidade e ritmo e percorrendo questões como tempo, memória, excesso, imprecisão, morte e arte. O corpus de análise da dissertação é composto de É isto um homem?, A trégua e Os afogados e os sobreviventes, de Levi; dos romances 2666, Estrela distante, O Terceiro Reich e Amuleto e do conto Carnê de baile, de Bolaño. A conexão entre as obras é dinamizada pelo conceito físico-sonoro de ressonância, em diálogo com Tato Taborda, e conta com a interlocução de pesquisadores como Giuliano Obici, Michael J. Shapiro, Marília Librandi-Rocha e Arthur Nestrovski. / [en] This dissertation compares works by Primo Levi and Roberto Bolaño through sound readings of their writings. Sound readings are understood as expanded attention to musicality and other auditory aspects expressed in the content and literary form of these works. We seek to point out harmonies and contrasts between the creative expedients of the authors in question. Something that links them beforehand is the fact that their writings are crossed by experiences in totalitarian regimes: Levi is a Shoah survivor, Bolaño dealt with the authoritarianism of Latin American dictatorships. The present work does not try to confront strategies of testimony and fiction — writing procedures that emerge from these experiences — , but assumes, in the writers analyzed, that such registers somehow intersect, forming a sound-textual fabric of singular aesthetic effect that allows several analyses. To perform these analyses, the researcher tries to establish and enunciate certain poetics of listening, particularly those of greater political accent, starting from sound elements such as intensity and rhythm and going through issues such as time, memory, excess, imprecision, death, and art. The dissertation s corpus of analysis is composed of É isto um homem?, A trégua and Os afogados e os sobreviventes, by Levi; the novels 2666, Estrela distante, O Terceiro Reich and Amuleto, and the short story Carnê de baile, by Bolaño. The connection between the works is dynamized by the sonorous-physical concept of resonance, in dialogue with Tato Taborda, and counts on the interlocution of researchers such as Giuliano Obici, Michael J. Shapiro, Marília Librandi-Rocha, and Arthur Nestrovski.

La thèse ici présentée ambitionne d’étudier l’impact de l’imaginaire musical sur l’écriture de trois poètes majeurs du XXe siècle : Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), Pierre Jean Jouve (1887-1976) et Giorgio Caproni (1912-1990). Elle part d’un constat simple : ces trois poètes ont pour élément fédérateur non seulement une connaissance intime de la musique, mais, risquons le terme, une véritable obsession de celle-ci, qui prend bien souvent les aspects d’une fascination irrationnelle et enchanteresse face à ce que Jouve, dans une expression lourde de sens, appelle la « matière ensorcelée » – entendons par là le pouvoir désarmant du charme musical.Tous trois permettent ainsi l’élaboration, par la comparaison, d’une réflexion sur les positionnements esthétiques et idéologiques possibles de la poésie face à la musique en Europe, dans une période à la fois post-wagnérienne et post-mallarméenne. Ils sont l’occasion d’une méditation sur le rêve énoncé par Vladimir Jankélévitch dans Quelque part dans l’inachevé, appelant à « écrire non pas sur la musique, mais avec la musique », pour « demeurer complice de son mystère ».Pour répondre à ce questionnement, la thèse envisage d’abord la dimension identitaire de l’imprégnation musicale chez les auteurs, puis les modalités de son inscription dans leurs poétiques respectives, avant d’observer les évolutions à l’œuvre dans leur perception du référent musical au fil du temps. Ainsi sera mise en valeur la dimension imaginaire et fantasmatique de cet art qui n’aura cessé de les requérir leur vie durant. / This thesis aims at studying the impact of musical imagination on the writing of three major poets of the XXth century : Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), Pierre Jean Jouve (1887-1976) and Giorgio Caproni (1912-1990). It starts from a simple observation : not only do these poets have an intimate knowledge of music, but, let us risk the term, a real obsession for it, that often verges on an irrational and enchanting fascination for what Jouve, in a thoughtful expression, calls “the bewitched matter” – ie the disarming power of the musical charm.All three of them thus enable the elaboration, through comparison, of a reflection on the esthetical and ideological positionings of poetry in front of music in Europe, in a time both post-wagnerian and post-mallarmean. They make possible a meditation on the dream once stated by Vladimir Jankélévitch in Somewhere in the unfinished, calling for “writing not on music, but with music”, to “remain accomplice of its mystery”.To answer this questioning, the thesis first tackles the search for identity enabled by the authors’ musical impregnation; it then explores the way music comes within the scope of their respective poetics; it finally observes the evolutions in their perception of the musical referent as time goes by. Thus will be underlined the imaginary and fantastical dimension of this art which kept calling for them all their lives.

In Rhythm Changes: Jazz Rhythm in the African American Novel, I demonstrate how novelists from the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement adapted jazz rhythm into literary form. In the prologue to Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison famously defines invisibility as a state of being “never quite on the beat.” Ellison frames the novel as a kind of translation of the “invisible” rhythm the narrator hears in Louis Armstrong, a syncopated rhythm rooted in Black aesthetic and cultural forms. “Could this compulsion to put invisibility down in black and white be thus an urge to make music of invisibility?” Ellison was not alone in this project. The writers I study all exemplify what Duke Ellington calls a “tone parallel”—the concept that literary form could reproduce or “parallel” the particularities of musical form. However, these writers find literary strategies to transcend parallelism, such that the lines between medium begin to touch. Considering devices that cut across music and literature—anaphora, antiphonal dialogue, polysyndeton, parataxis—I argue that novelists, not just poets, respond formally to the rhythmic concepts they hear on the bandstand, synthesizing these innovations with a broader literary tradition. Rudolph Fisher’s novel The Conjure-Man Dies brings the complex rhythmic sensibility of Louis Armstrong to detective fiction; Ann Petry’s The Street channels the rhythmic phrasing of Ethel Waters in a “novel of social criticism”; Ellison’s epic unfinished second novel follows the paratactic rhythm of the preacher and jazz trombonist; and Amiri Baraka’s The System of Dante’s Hell projects the rhythm of Sonny Rollins and Cecil Taylor onto Charles Olson’s “Projective Verse.” By finding the literary in the musical and vice versa, these novelist-experimenters move beyond Pater’s credo that all art aspires to the condition of music.

The purpose of this research is to analyze representations of Queen Elizabeth I of England in nineteenth-century Franco-Italian opera, and the relationship of these representations to contemporaneous singing style and the historical background. The basis for this analysis is three arias: "Quant'é grato all'alma mia" from Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra (1815) by Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868), "Sì, vuol di Francia il rege...Ah! quando all'ara scorgemi...Ah! dal ciel discenda un raggio" from Maria Stuarda (1835) by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848), and "Malgré l'éclat qui m'environne" from Le songe d'une nuit d'été (1850) by Ambroise Thomas (1811-1896). This research is divided into two main sections: the historical background of Italy and France in the nineteenth century, especially in the contemporaneous vocal style and fashions of literature; and a discussion of the composers' musical and dramatic choices for Queen Elizabeth I in the three selected arias. Chapter 2 is a brief introduction to the early nineteenth-century Franco-Italian historical background, vocal style, and popular literature. Chapter 3 presents an analysis of the three arias. The last chapter summarizes the representations of Elizabeth I in nineteenth-century politics, literature, and vocal style.