Proefschrift--Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, 1997. / Bibliogr. p. 192-214. Index. Résumé en français.

Diss.--Heidelberg, 2002-2003. / Bibliogr. p. [477]-489. Notes bibliogr.

My thesis examines the event of Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School, which has branches in over 120 cities worldwide. Dr Sketchy's combines the format of a life drawing class with burlesque performance, creating an event that focuses on both the performance and the creation of art by the attendees. Dr Sketchy's was begun in New York in 2005 by its creator Molly Crabapple, now an internationally recognized artist and popular alternative celebrity. I focus my study on the Christchurch branch of Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School, founded in June 2010 by Audrey Baldwin, a performance artist and Fine Arts graduate of the University of Canterbury. In my thesis I discuss the way Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School combines and compromises between the life drawing format and the burlesque performance, despite the differences and seeming incompatibilities between these two forms. I investigate Dr Sketchy's as a contemporary cultural performance which combines and to some degree inverts established genres of performance. I give a detailed history of burlesque performance and of life drawing within art education to allow a comprehensive comparison of the two traditions, particularly the way each has conceptualized the nude female body. I argue that the combination of the two forms allows Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School to transgress the traditional boundaries of each format and introduce influences that would otherwise endanger the status of life drawing and burlesque performance within their respective contexts. I also argue that the nude within Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School transgresses the traditional conception of the nude within life drawing by using burlesque as an acceptable reference for the transgressive elements of the show. The arguments put forward in this thesis are the product of extensive participant observation, interviews and literature reviews on the relevant art and performance traditions.

Thèse univ.--Paris--Lettres, 1930. / L'éd. de 1931 a paru dans la "Bibliothèque de la Revue de littérature comparée" Bibliogr. p. 197-211. Index.

Texte remanié de: Th. Ph. D.--University of Illinois, 1960. / Bibliogr. p. 443-466.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on August 12, 2009) Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Face aux incertitudes génériques liées à la perte des contours stricts entre les genres, qui se renforce dans les années 1950 avec les oeuvres du « Nouveau Théâtre », la théorisation de la comédie contemporaine et sa définition selon des critères génériques s'avèrent problématiques. Puisque les structures, les procédés d'écriture et les intentions des comédies divergent suivant les auteurs et leurs pratiques, dans une démarche descriptive et analytique, cette thèse propose un état des lieux de la situation de la comédie contemporaine française d'un point de vue générique. Trois manières d'écrire la comédie se dessinent. Les auteurs composent dans le genre, en pratiquant l'intertextualité, à partir des comédies classiques françaises, de la farce ou du vaudeville. Profitant d'un cadre structurel établi, ils s'approprient et radicalisent les procédés de ces genres issus de la tradition. Ils usent ensuite de techniques de composition coutumières du drame et de la tragédie pour créer des comédies catastrophiques qui superposent le comique et le tragique et jouent avec l'« horizon d'attente » de la comédie. Ils élaborent enfin des comédies scéniques à partir du plateau, en s'appuyant sur les formes comiques populaires. Malgré leur diversité, ces comédies présentent des éléments de poétique communs : elles maintiennent une ligne de fable, l'existence de personnages et la présence de dialogues, qui tendent à la conversation. Le comique reste l'élément essentiel du genre et se retrouve dans la vitalité des comédies burlesques, l'équivoque des comédies humoristiques et la critique des comédies satiriques. Forte de son hétérogénéité, puisant dans sa tradition qu'elle réinvente et osant l'inédit, la comédie contemporaine persiste en tant que genre. / Theorizing about contemporary comedy and defining it according to generic criteria has been getting harder and harder ever since the frontiers between literary genres became blurry, especially since the 1950s with the influence of the "Nouveau Théâtre". Since the structures, literary devices, and intentions of comedies vary according to their authors and the latter's practices, we will adopt a descriptive and analytical approach in assessing the situation of French contemporary comedy from a generic point of view. Three ways of writing comedy will emerge from our study. Some authors compose their texts from within the generic frame of comedy by building intertextual bridges with French classic comedy, farce or vaudeville and by exaggerating the traditional devices of the genre. Some choose to use composition techniques usually found in drama or tragedy in order to create comedies that end in disaster thus juxtaposing comedy and tragedy in a playful attitude with comedy's usual "horizon of expectation". Finally, others write comedies from the stage onwards and draw on popular comic conventions. Despite their diversity, these comedies share common poetic traits: they are all built around a storyline, characters and dialogues that verge on idle talk. The comic remains the essential element of the genre, be it in the vitality of burlesque comedies, the ambiguity of humorous comedies, or the criticism of satirical comedies. Contemporary comedy, buoyed by its heterogeneity and its ability to reinvent its own traditions, remains a relevant genre in today's theatrical landscape.

This paper describes the experiences of exploitation and liberation for neo burlesque performers using feminist theory as the context for analysis. The project had the following goals: to identify using phenomenology, the essence of new burlesque participant experiences, to analyze those experiences using feminist theories of exploitation and liberation regarding sex work, to compare burlesque to stripping, and to compare new burlesque to classic burlesque for understanding how burlesque is different today. To obtain these goals, participant observations were done of neo burlesque shows and neo burlesque performers agreed to an interview in which questions were asked that highlight their perceptions. The phenomenological aspect of the studies emphasizes their experiences of exploitation and liberation. There were specific experiences regarding the structure of participation that allowed for differences between stripping and burlesque, as well as perceptions that burlesque is an empowering medium of self-expression.

During the creation or invention of literary canon some texts are excluded with respect to the aims of the historians. This thesis analyses the process of exclusion in a historical context and tries to show how those texts are related to literary canon or socalled traditional-classical literature by means of intertextuality. It focuses on the burlesque pieces of literature of the 18th century and how they are composed with regard to the genres and forms they are transforming.