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This thesis serves to provide insight into the interpretation and performance of Rebecca Clarke’s Sonata for Viola and Piano (1919). To provide context to the analysis and interpretation, the life and work of Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979) is described. The viola sonata is analysed in terms of harmony, colours and technical elements for the purpose of aiding the interpretation and performance. The sonata is also cross referenced with other works by the same composer, to further pinpoint the stylistic elements and their importance for the result. From the analysis it is concluded that the common elements in Clarke’s music and in the sonata in particular, include modality, harmonic ambiguity, polytonality and a range of instrumental techniques. The meticulous notation and the overall instrumental ergonomics of the piece shows both that Clarke had a clear vision for her music, and that she knew the nature of both the viola and the piano well. In conclusion, I argue that in order to present a captivating performance of the piece, great care must be taken to the distinction and sensitivity of these elements in particular. / <p>R. Clarke: Viola Sonata</p><p>I. Impetuoso</p><p>II. Vivace</p><p>III. Adagio</p><p>S. Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, arr. V. Borisovsky</p><p>I. Introduction</p><p>III. Juliet as a Young Girl</p><p>IV. Dance of the Knights</p><p></p><p>Isela Halonen, Viola</p><p>Anna Christensson, Piano</p>

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Despite the fame the prolific impressionistic, confessional poet, novelist, literary iconoclast, and pioneer of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac, has acquired since the late 1950’s, his written letters are not recognized as works of literature.  The aim of this thesis is to examine the different ways in which Kerouac develops and employs the poetics he is most known for in the letters he wrote to friends and publishers before becoming a well-known literary figure.  In my analysis of Kerouac’s poetics, I analyze 20 letters from Selected Letters, 1940-1956.  These letters were written before the publication of his best-known literary work, On The Road. The thesis attempts to highlight the characteristics of Kerouac’s literary control in his letters and to demonstrate how the examination of these poetics: repetition, language, and narration merits the letters’ treatment as works of artistic literature. Likewise, through the scrutiny of my first novella, “Trails” it then illustrates how the in-depth analysis of Kerouac’s letters improved my personal poetics, which resemble the poetics featured in the letters.

This dissertation explores how literary descriptions of visual artworks affect the narrative and descriptive fabric of a text. The novels I examine operate on three textual levels: the painter's creative struggles, his amorous entanglements with his model and/or the painted women of his canvas, and his aesthetic claims to revolutionize painting. My project argues that ekphrasis is a translational mode that takes two forms: the traditional, "contained" description of a visual artwork; and a mode of writing that pervades the entire text and emulates the characteristics of painting. For example, Balzac's "Le Chef d'oeuvre inconnu" and the Goncourts' Manette Salomon successfully adopt the ekphrastic mode of writing, transforming the narrative into a canvas where the boundaries between the media are blurred. On the other hand, Zola's L'oeuvre exploits ekphrasis in order to advance the superiority of literature over painting. At the heart of these Realist and Naturalist texts, the fundamental adherence to the mimetic principle of art is confronted with the nonfigurative experiments of their fictional painters. The female body, as the embodiment of Art and the manifestation of the artist's desire, becomes the symptom of his incursion into abstract painting and the site of the resistance to ekphrasis.

Revision of Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Michigan, 1977. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-218) and index.

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Le 29 janvier 1906, un groupe d’artistes et de collectionneurs créent au Havre le Cercle de l’art moderne. Parmi eux : les peintres Georges Braque, Raoul Dufy et Émile Othon Friesz, l’architecte Édouard Choupaÿ, le critique littéraire G. Jean-Aubry et quelques-uns des plus importants amateurs d’art de ce début de siècle : Olivier Senn, Charles-Auguste Marande, Pieter van der Velde, Georges Dussueil… L’association se fixe comme objectif de promouvoir l’art moderne dans toute sa diversité, organisant des expositions, des conférences et des concerts de musique. Monet, Renoir, Signac mais surtout les fauves, Matisse, Derain, Manguin, Marquet, Van Dongen, Vlaminck exposent leurs créations les plus récentes tandis que Debussy, Ravel et Roussel interprètent leurs compositions les plus originales. Frantz Jourdain et Guillaume Apollinaire apportent leur parrainage à l’association, qui affiche d’emblée sa filiation avec le Salon des XX à Bruxelles et le jeune Salon d’Automne à Paris. Le succès est retentissant, dépassant largement les frontières de la Ville. Cette thèse se propose de montrer combien ces années ont été cruciales pour Le Havre qui voit se créer un véritable marché de l’art fauve avec ses marchands, ses critiques d’art et ses amateurs. Le Cercle de l’art moderne a définitivement infléchi la politique artistique havraise vers une ouverture à l’art contemporain, plaçant la ville au rang de capitale culturelle de l’art moderne, dans une relation directe avec Paris et Bruxelles. / On the 29th of January 1906, a group of artists and collectors created the “Circle of Modern Art” in Le Havre. Among them were painters Georges Braque, Raoul Dufy and Émile Othon Friesz, the architect Édouard Choupaÿ, the art critic G. Jean-Aubry and some of the most important collectors of that time: Olivier Senn, Charles -Auguste Marande, Pieter van der Velde, Georges Dussueil and many others. The association's goal was to promote all aspects of Modern Art, organised many activities such as exhibits, conferences, concerts and so on. Monet, Renoir, Signac and especially the French “Fauves”—Matisse, Derain, Manguin, Marquet, Van Dongen, Vlaminck—exhibited their most recent creations while Debussy, Ravel and Roussel performed their most recent original compositions. Frantz Jourdain and Guillaume Apollinaire supported the association, which early on showed its affiliation with the Salon des XX in Brussels and the young Salon d'Automne in Paris. It was a great success in Le Havre and throughout France and Europe, resounding far beyond the city's borders. This study goes back to those crucial years in Le Havre and focuses on that very special time that saw the creation of a real art market devoted to the “Fauve” painters, with its art dealers, critics and collectors. The “Circle of Modern Art” definitely influenced the artistic policy of Le Havre, opening it up to contemporary art and ranking the city as a cultural Capital of Modern Art, directly in conjunction with Paris and Brussels.