Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2006. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 183-189). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Thesis (M.F.A.)--Montana State University--Bozeman, 2004. / Typescript. Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Stephanie Newman.

L’objectif de cette thèse est de souligner les spécificités de la région du Lori et de déterminer les bases théoriques et pratiques du développement d’un tourisme respectueux, durable et décentralisé permettant la réhabilitation et la conservation du patrimoine monumental.La première partie analyse la géographie, l’histoire médiévale et les dynasties arméniennes à l’origine de l’âge d’or de cette région du nord de l’Arménie. Notre étude du patrimoine monumental est centrée sur le monastère arméno-chalcédonien d’Akhtala, source de curiosités et de polémiques, très controversé, toujours considéré comme patrimoine géorgien et donc réclamé par la Géorgie. Cette partie permet de constater que la richesse essentielle du Lori est son patrimoine médiéval, marqué par l’influence d’autres courants architecturaux et confessionnels que ceux de l’Église Apostolique [orthodoxe] Arménienne, en raison de à sa situation géographique et à son attachement administratif et politique, à plusieurs reprise, à la Géorgie.Pour comprendre les aspects touristiques, la deuxième partie retrace, dans la mesure du possible, l’histoire du développement touristique en R.S.S. d’Arménie et après l’indépendance en 1991, soulignant les potentiels et les handicaps de ce secteur, analysant les projets d’État ainsi que les textes juridiques relatifs au tourisme, à l’utilisation des monuments historiques, ou encore à la classification des établissements d’hébergement touristique.Enfin, la troisième partie présente les possibles plan d’actions à mettre en œuvre dans le Lori, mobilisant les ONG locales et étrangères en partenariat avec les acteurs et les collectivités territoriales arméniennes et européennes. Cette partie vise à montrer comment le tourisme peut concrètement être mobilisé comme instrument de mise en valeur du patrimoine monumental, facteur de création d’emplois dans les villages, de stabilisation économique, ainsi que d’aménagement de territoire et de développement local / The purpose of this study is to underline the specificities of Lori region and determine practical and theory bases to develop responsible travel, sustainable and decentralized tourism that helps rehabilitation and protection of cultural and historical heritage sites.The first part analyses the geography, the medieval history and the Armenian dynasties that created the golden era of this region located at the north of Armenia. Our study of Armenian heritage is dedicated to the Armenian-chalcedonian monastery of Akhtala, source of curiosities, polemics and controversies, considered Georgian monument and demanded by them. This part of thesis helps us to notice that the most important attraction of Lori is his medieval monuments that carry non Armenian Orthodox Church architectural and confessional influences, because of its geographic location and repeated attachment to Georgia.To understand Armenia’s and Lori’s tourism aspects, the second part trace, as long as possible, the history of tourism development in S.S.R. Armenia and after its independence in 1991. Our research continue to highlight potentials and disadvantages of tourism, analyzing state projects and law texts relative to tourism, exploitation of historical monuments or classification of tourist accommodation establishments.At last, the third part presents possible action plans in Lori, mobilizing local and foreign ONGs in partnership with Armenian and Europeans territorial administrations. This last part aims to show how tourism can be a tool to revalorize heritage monuments, an instrument of economic stabilization, local planning and development and job creation in rural areas

Thesis (M.A.) - Carleton University, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 156-171). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

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1 Thesis Abstract The present thesis explores six plays written by three (post)modern American playwrights - David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago and Oleanna, Sam Shepard's Buried Child and True West, and Suzan-Lori Parksʼ The America Play and Topdog/Underdog in order to define and analyze the functions of performative storytelling in the dramatic texts as well as its effects on the characters' identity. In Reading Narrative, J. Hillis Miller analyzes performative storytelling as a human shaped process that people use in order to translate events into meaning and meaning into shared information. Moreover, in Narrative as Performance, Marie Maclean demonstrates the importance of this device in recalibrating human memory and communication and in enriching the traditional mimetic process used in theatre. These ideas are closely followed in the aforementioned American plays through the lenses of the most prominent themes of the end of the twentieth century American theatre. Each of the three American writers uses performative storytelling to delineate socio-political themes. David Mamet comments on the artificiality of the American self, Sam Shepard speaks about the importance of familial past and relationships, whereas Suzan-Lori Parks describes the impact of major national narratives on the...

This thesis examines the relationship between dramatic structure and women's responses to oppression. By looking at Blasted by Sarah Kane, Father Comes Home from the Wars Parts 1, 2, & 3 by Suzan-Lori Parks, and Feminaal by Nina Morrison, I examine the ways that questions of structure become questions of gender. I argue that these plays’ forms are purposeful embodiments of resistance and aggression and that the energetic connection between these plays is a current of anger.

In an interview conducted by Matthew C. Roudané, Arthur Miller elaborates on the extent the myth of the American Dream infuses our literature: “The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out—the screen of the perfectibility of man. Whoever is writing in the United States is using the American Dream as an ironical pole of his story” (374). Suzan-Lori Parks is no exception to this rule. In her Pulitzer-Prize winning Topdog/Underdog, Parks reveals the illusory nature of the American Dream on a private, deeply personal level by focusing her drama on two brothers living in one under-furnished room in a rooming house. As the audience watches the main characters spiral into their tragic undoing, we are forced to question the validity of the American Dream and our free-enterprise system that supposedly enables that dream.

Thesis (M.A.)--Bowling Green State University, 2007. / Document formatted into pages; contains x, 127 p. : ill. (some col.) Includes bibliographical references.