The aim of this research was to explore the piano method and teaching philosophy practised by the Russian piano pedagogue, Natalia Pirozerskaya. Her piano method is not well known and as a former student of hers I firmly believe in its values and implications for piano pedagogy. The focus of her teaching is a holistic concept of the harmonious (organic) development of the artist-musician as expounded by Yakovlev in relation to vocal art and higher nervous activity. Pirozerskaya’s piano methodology addresses the delicate relations between the inner life of the individual and the process of piano playing. She advocates a self-connected pianism characterised by the integration of all processes with the self. Pirozerskaya links the aesthetic values of Glinka’s artistic tradition to piano pedagogy in relation to creative potentialities and self-expression. The participants of this intrinsic case study were Natalia Pirozerskaya, Olga Tsihelashvili (the researcher) and five of Tsihelashvili’s piano students in Johannesburg. I interviewed the five piano students and through validation strategy of crystallisation the themes emerged. Based on the interviews with the students several themes were identified: 1) They explained that they experience an interconnected unity which can be described as oneness; 2) There was also a sense of deep fondness in the way the pupils shared their feelings about the piano; 3) They pinpointed the existence of an inner driving force – a form of artistic energy emerging as a tangible component of their pianistic process; 4) Concerning the special piano touch advocated by Pirozerskaya, all the students unanimously agreed that it is an effortless transmission from the fingertips straight into the piano which “just happens by itself”. They willingly demonstrated this touch on the piano, thus enriching the evidence; 5) With regard to the physical interaction with the instrument, the students observed the element of the opposing spring-support and the feeling of lightness in the body, essential in Pirozerskaya’s piano technique; 6) They mentioned that when they play they experience a deeper perception of the self; 7) Regarding teaching strategies, a rigid teaching approach and inexpressive mechanical piano playing, their spontaneous reactions proved that they have assimilated the fundamentals of Pirozerskaya’s self-connected pianism and developed a deep insight into the pianistic process. / PhD (Music Performance), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2015

The aim of this research was to explore the piano method and teaching philosophy practised by the Russian piano pedagogue, Natalia Pirozerskaya. Her piano method is not well known and as a former student of hers I firmly believe in its values and implications for piano pedagogy. The focus of her teaching is a holistic concept of the harmonious (organic) development of the artist-musician as expounded by Yakovlev in relation to vocal art and higher nervous activity. Pirozerskaya’s piano methodology addresses the delicate relations between the inner life of the individual and the process of piano playing. She advocates a self-connected pianism characterised by the integration of all processes with the self. Pirozerskaya links the aesthetic values of Glinka’s artistic tradition to piano pedagogy in relation to creative potentialities and self-expression. The participants of this intrinsic case study were Natalia Pirozerskaya, Olga Tsihelashvili (the researcher) and five of Tsihelashvili’s piano students in Johannesburg. I interviewed the five piano students and through validation strategy of crystallisation the themes emerged. Based on the interviews with the students several themes were identified: 1) They explained that they experience an interconnected unity which can be described as oneness; 2) There was also a sense of deep fondness in the way the pupils shared their feelings about the piano; 3) They pinpointed the existence of an inner driving force – a form of artistic energy emerging as a tangible component of their pianistic process; 4) Concerning the special piano touch advocated by Pirozerskaya, all the students unanimously agreed that it is an effortless transmission from the fingertips straight into the piano which “just happens by itself”. They willingly demonstrated this touch on the piano, thus enriching the evidence; 5) With regard to the physical interaction with the instrument, the students observed the element of the opposing spring-support and the feeling of lightness in the body, essential in Pirozerskaya’s piano technique; 6) They mentioned that when they play they experience a deeper perception of the self; 7) Regarding teaching strategies, a rigid teaching approach and inexpressive mechanical piano playing, their spontaneous reactions proved that they have assimilated the fundamentals of Pirozerskaya’s self-connected pianism and developed a deep insight into the pianistic process. / PhD (Music Performance), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2015

Este estudio examina la teoría de la imagen-tiempo de Gilles Deleuze tal como queda representada en Los adioses (2017), con el propósito de plantear la eterna recurrencia del pasado en la vida de la escritora mexicana Rosario Castellanos (1925-1974). Además, explora las diferentes técnicas de imagen-tiempo que utiliza Beristáin tales como la yuxtaposición entre las temporalidades del pasado, presente y futuro que conforman las respectivas memorias del pasado y que, al ser combinadas con las vivencias del presente, representan una culminación de experiencias que permiten una nueva perspectiva del pasado. Con cada nueva perspectiva se presenta una dinámica representación de emociones y sensaciones que causan un choque afectivo y por ende hacen manifiesto el constante cambio a la otredad de la escritora.

Le thème des relations familiales est récurrent dans les œuvres de Natalia Ginzburg et de Marguerite Duras car il leur offre un cadre leur permettant d’interroger deux éléments de la construction narrative : la structure de l’œuvre et la syntaxe narrative.Cependant la singularité de leurs œuvres littéraires réside moins dans la reconstitution de vies familiales, que dans « l’image parlante » qu’elles en donnent. En effet, les deux romancières interrogent la réalité familiale comme lieu de remise en cause du langage. À travers les incompréhensions et les maux de la vie familiale, elles dénoncent en fait un phénomène qui dépasse le cadre restreint de la famille : l’inauthenticité du langage quotidien. Premièrement, il s’agit, dans cette étude, d’observer en quoi Natalia Ginzburg et Marguerite Duras refusent l’ordre narratif traditionnel lorsqu’il leur faut représenter le chaos de la vie familiale. Deuxièmement, nous montrons comment elles opérèrent une reconstitution du monde passant, d’un côté, par la création de liens de causes à effets entre les événements, et de l’autre, par l’entrée en crise du langage. Troisièmement, nous observons pour finir comment la recherche de l’unité familiale conduit les deux auteures à subvertir les normes du langage littéraire pour retrouver, dépasser et même abolir, le temps passé perdu. En somme, ce travail de recherche, effectué dans la cadre d’une cotutelle de thèse entre l’Université Lumière Lyon2 et l’Università degli studi di Torino a pour ambition salutaire de faire connaître un peu plus qu’elles ne le sont déjà, les œuvres de Natalia Ginzburg en France et celles de Marguerite Duras en Italie. / The theme of family relationships is recurrent in the works of Natalia Ginzburg and Marguerite Duras because it offers them a framework to question at least two elements of narrative construction: the structure of the work and the narrative syntax.However, the peculiarity of their literary works lies less in the description of family lives than in "the talking image" that they provide of these lives. Indeed, the two novelists look at the family as a means to question language. Through the misunderstandings and pains of family life, they emphasize in fact a phenomenon that goes beyond the narrow limits of the family: the falsity of everyday language.Firstly, in this study, we observe how Natalia Ginzburg and Marguerite Duras refuse the traditional narrative order when they need to represent the chaos of family life. Secondly, we show how they perform a reconstruction of the world proceeding through the creation of cause-effect links between the events, and through the breakdown of language. Thirdly, we see how the search for family unity led both authors to subvert the norms of literary language to rediscover, go beyond and even destroy the lost past.This research work was carried out in the framework of a joint PhD program of the University Lumière Lyon 2 and the Università degli studi di Torino ; in addition to the academic interest that it might generate, this thesis aims at making Natalia Ginzburg's works a little better known in France and those of Marguerite Duras a little better known in Italy.

No abstract available. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Durban-Westville, 1985.

Analisi del parere di lettura come genere editoriale e come strumento utile alla storia dell'editoria, della letteratura e alla filologia. / This study explains the implications of the study of the Einaudi judgements about new manuscripts as instrument of the history of publishers, of literature and philology.

La presente tesis tiene como objetivo describir y comprender las representaciones de género y las narrativas sobre la mujer peruana, a partir del análisis visual / simbólico de un grupo de obras producidas por las artistas Claudia Coca y Natalia Iguiñiz entre los años 2000 y 2005. Para fines del estudio, dichas obras fueron agrupadas en dos corpus temáticos. El primero denominado Mujer Peruana: belleza, raza y mestizaje contiene las obras pictóricas de la artista Claudia Coca: Luchadora (2005), Buena Presencia (2002) y Las Tres Gracias (2004). Este corpus aborda el tema del cuerpo y la belleza peruana desde un análisis de género, raza y clase social. El segundo corpus denominado Mujer - cuerpo - campo de batalla, contiene las obras: Mi cuerpo no es el campo de batalla (2004), afiche de la artista Natalia Iguiñiz, Búmeran (2002) y Ligaduras (2002) óleo sobre tela de la artista Claudia Coca. Este corpus aborda el tema de la violencia de género, el cuerpo andino y la memoria del Conflicto Armado Interno (CAI). La parte teórica de la tesis está compuesta por un anclaje conceptual en base a tres entradas. La primera, el género, entendido como una construcción social determinante de las relaciones sociales. Segundo, el cuerpo como el receptáculo de los mandatos sociales de género y, finalmente, el arte feminista. Esta última parte abre otra donde se profundiza, de manera específica, en el arte feminista plástico producido en el Perú. Por la particularidad de los temas de los corpus, desarrollo, de manera complementaria, dos entradas conceptuales para cada una de ellas. En la primera entrada conceptual, ahondo en el tema de la belleza, su relación con el mestizaje y las clases sociales en el Perú. En la segunda, profundizo en el cuerpo femenino como espacio de conquista de lo masculino en el CAI, así como el reconocimiento de esos crímenes para la elaboración de una nueva narrativa de la memoria pos conflicto, elaborado desde una perspectiva de género. En el análisis de las imágenes busco conocer si las iconografías sobre la belleza femenina en el Perú y la violencia hacia las mujeres durante el CAI, representadas en las obras de las artistas, pueden convertirse en elementos discursivos para la reivindicación para las mujeres, así como para la generación de una conciencia social crítica sobre las relaciones de género en nuestro país. Finalmente, reflexiono sobre el significado que tiene el cuerpo femenino y su representación en relación a las actuales demandas feministas en el Perú. / Trabajo de investigación

The subject of this master's thesis called Family theme in Natalia Ginzburg's works is analysis of the chosen prosaic works of one of the biggest writers of the twentieth century, concentrated on the topic of the family. The introduction is a short presentation of the author (her biographical and bibliographical data). After that there is an analysis of her most known prosaic works with the family topic and with the topic of the relations in general. It is followed by more detailed analysis of her most known novel Lessico famigliare. In the final part, the work is concentrated on the biography of Manzoni's family in La famiglia Manzoni.

Drawing on the methods of feminist art history and my own knowledge of the field, this PhD gives an overview of “Russian” (Russian Empire, Soviet, post-Soviet) art history with women at its center. Starting in the late 18th century and spanning to the present-day, I critically examine women’s artworks, the social contexts in which those women find themselves, as well as their biographies. Thus, this thesis extends beyond strict media analysis as a central concern of feminist criticism. This text consist of five chapters. Chapter One begins at the end of the 18th century and covers women artists working throughout the Russian Empire up through the beginning of the 20th century. Thesis looks at specific women artists and how the path to professionalization opened up new doors while women were still largely excluded from elite artistic circles. This overview demonstrates how this occurred both in explicit social exclusion as well as implicitly – specifically in the ways that the portrayals of women in professional art shifted throughout the 19th century. The ambivalent nature of women’s simultaneous inclusion and exclusion from leading art institutions and groups serves as a defining feature of the art world of the Russian Empire. Chapter Two examines women’s roles in the avant-garde at the beginning of the 20th century. As has been recognized in much popular scholarship, women served as key players in the so-called “Russian Avant-Garde”. For instance, while many Western European artists at the time turned to the colonies of their respective empires for stimulation, many Russian avant-garde artists turned to local peasants. Precisely because of their more differentiated relationships, Chapter Two argues that these women artists produced very dissimilar work from their Western European counterparts. This was due both to questions of gender as well as power and colonialism. From there, thesis shows the ways in which women avant-garde artists made use of various media – especially textiles, porcelain, and book design. Chapter Three revolves around women artists in the Soviet Union. At first it examines how women were portrayed in Socialist Realism, which followed largely three archetypes: the collective farm woman, the sportswoman, and the ballerina. In this chapter focus is on how women navigated the slippery terrain of the social world of Socialist Realism by highlighting the role of its most successful example – Vera Mukhina. Tracing through Mukhina’s path from the avant-garde to Socialist Realism’s most famous female artists, the text reveals continuities between the two genres that have typically been overlooked in the literature. Indeed, Mukhina’s development suggests much more in common between the avant-garde and Socialist Realism than most male artists’ careers would indicate. Finally, this chapter discusses women artists who rejected Socialist Realism and produced so-called “unofficial” art – focusing on the (in)famous Bulldozer Exhibition of 1974. Chapter Four illuminates how women artists negotiated the enormous socio-political changes during Perestroika through past the dissolution of the Soviet Union. In the 1990’s, three prominent all-women art collectives emerged: the Factory of Found Clothes, the Cyber-Femin Club, and the Fourth Height. Based largely on interviews with the women who participated in the groups, text sketches out a general history of how they formed, produced art, and confronted questions of gender and society. Then, chapter four turns to women artists who worked mostly individually throughout the same period. In this thesis women artists from the 90’s are categorized based on their concepts of gender – women who flipped gender dynamics through their art, women who took radical stances toward gender through their art, and women who did not clearly challenge ideas of gender. In the text they are called the “flip-floppers”, the “radicals”, and the “quietists”, respectively. In Chapter Five, there is a break with the chronological approach of the previous chapters. Instead, first part compares the trial of Iuliia Tsvetkova in 2019 and the trial of Natalia Goncharova in 1910. Both women were accused of producing pornography and thus subject to prosecution. Through this comparison, one can see the continuities and ruptures of the gender dynamics in broader society then and now, particularly in relationship to art and art production. Second part of the chapter five, compares the so-called “Leningrad Feminists” of the 1970’s and Pussy Riot from the 2010’s. By highlighting how these two collectives used the imagery of the Virgin Mary in their work, the text draws out parallels between the two that have gone unnoticed, even by the artists themselves. This dissertation is thus fundamentally about connections. Connections, both visible and invisible, define the social constellations in which women artists participate. By drawing out these connections, this thesis reimagines Russian art history and propose new, albeit imperfect, in the words of Amelia Jones, genealogies. Such genealogies open the space for a deep reckoning with the canon.:Table of Contents Introduction But What is a Russian Woman Artist Anyway? Literature Review & Methodology Chapter Outline Chapter 1: Woman as Artist in the Russian Empire Imperialism and Internal Colonization Bridging Art Histories: Between the Russian Empire and the Western Empires The “Russian Empire” periods of Marie-Anne Collot, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, and Kristina Robertson Independent Foreign Women Artists, Operating Beyond Royal Patronage: Maria Gomion and Julie Hagen-Schwarz Representations of Local and European Women Artists in the Russian Empire: Comparing article “Russkie Khudozhnitsy” [Russian Women Artists] and Somov’s article “Zhenshchiny Khudozhnitsy” [Women Artists] Paths to Professional Art for Women Artists in the late Russian Empire Variety of Professional Strategies for Women Artists in the Russian Empire Challenges Faced by Women in the Imperial Academy of Arts: Marfa Dovgaleva, Avdotia Mikhailovna Bakunina, Sofia Sukhovo-Kobylina, and Katerina Khilkova Women Artists from the Russian Empire in the Académie Julian: Maria Bashkirtseff, Princess Maria Tenisheva, Maria Iakunchikova, and Elizaveta Zvantseva Female and Male Paths to Becoming an Artist: The Cases of Elena Polenova and Vasilii Polenov Women in the Wanderers and the World of Art Two Women Wanderers: Emily Shanks and Antonina Rzhevskaia Women in the World of Art and Related Circles: Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva, Elizaveta Kruglikova, Elena Polenova, Maria Yakunchikova, and Zinaida Serebriakova Between Artist, Mother, and Model: Self-Representations of Women Artists Insisting on the Professional Self: Katerina Dolgorukaia, Katerina Chikhacheva, Sofia Sukhovo-Kobylina, Maria Bashkirtseff, Elizaveta Kruglikova, Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva, Marianne Werefkin, and Teresa Ries The Fe[male] Gaze: Ol’ga Della-Vos-Kardovskaia, Tamara de Lempicka, and Zinaida Serebriakova Chapter 2: Women Artists Shaping the Avant-Garde Conceptualizing Avant-Garde in the Russian Empire Framing the “Feminine”: Noble and Peasant Femininities Women Artists and Religion: Natalia Goncharova and Marianne Werefkin Women Artists and Lubok: Sofia Kalinkina, Elizaveta Bem, and Maria Siniakova The Case of Natalia Goncharova: Between Two Worlds Looking West: Goncharova and Gauguin Looking East: Goncharova and Peasant Culture Craft in the Foreground: Women in Textile, Porcelain, and Book Design Women in Textile Design, Embroidery, and Factory Production: Natalia Davidova, Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Nadezhda Udaltsova, Vera Pestel, Ol’ga Rozanova, Varvara Stepanova, and Lubov Popova Women in Costume Design in the Early Soviet Union: Natalia Goncharova, Nina Genke-Meller, Alexandra Exter, Nadezhda Lamanova, Varvara Stepanova, Sonia Delaunay-Terk, and Vera Mukhina Women Artists and Futurist Books: Elena Guro, Natalia Goncharova, and Ol’ga Rozanova Women Artists and Children’s Book Illustration: Vera Ermolaeva, Elena Safronova, Alisa Poret, Tatjana Glebova, Maria Siniakova, Galina and Ol’ga Chichagovy, and others Women artists and Small Sculptural Forms (porcelain and ceramics): Natalia Danko and Alexandra Shekotikhina-Potozkaia Chapter 3: Women Artists in Socialist Realism and Unofficial Art Aligning Art History of the Soviet Union and Gender Studies Official Images of Women in the Soviet Union Kolkhoznitsa [Collective Farm Woman] Sportsmenka [Sportswoman] Balerina [Ballet Dancer] Socialist Realist Women Painters Women Artists in the Moscow School of Socialist Realism: Vera Orlova, Ekaterina Zernova, and Serafima Riangina Women Artists and the Leningrad School of Painting: Nadezhda Steinmiller, Evgenia Antipova, Vera Nazina, and others Women Socialist Realist painters from the Soviet Republics: Tetiana Iablonska, Vaiiha Samadova, the Sisters Aslamazian, Elene Akhvlediani, and others Women Artists as Soviet Sculptors Women as Sculptors before the Soviet Union: Elena Luksch-Makovskii, Maria Dillon, Teresa Ries, and Anna Golubkina A Case Study: Vera Mukhina the Soviet Sculptor – Between the Street and the Household Women Artists in Unofficial Art Some Aspects of Canonization of Women Artists of the Bulldozer Exhibit: Nadezhda Elskaia and Lydia Masterkova Artistic Couples in Soviet Unofficial Art and Their Visions of Eden Chapter 4: Women Artists in the Late Soviet Union and after Its Dissolution The Emergence of Women-Only Groups in the Post-Soviet Space: the Factory of Found Clothes (FFC), Cyber-Femin Club, the Fourth Height The Factory of Found Clothes (FFC): Ol’ga Tsaplia-Egorova and Natalia Gluklia-Pershina-Yakimanskaia The Cyber-Femin-Club: Alla Mitrofanova, Irina Aktuganova, Lena Ivanova, and Ol’ga Levina Chetvertaia Vysota [The Fourth Height]: Ekaterina Kameneva, Dina Kim, and Galina Smirnskaia Resisting Erasure: Women Artists from the 1990’s The Mirror Game or the Flip-Floppers: Anna Alchuk and Tania Antoshina The Radicals: Alena Martynova and Elena Kovylina The Quietists: Marina Perchikhina and Liza Morozova Curating the “Gender Turn” in the post-Soviet art: Natalia Kamenetskaia and others Chapter 5: Creating Parallel Histories Unacceptable Bodies: Trials against Natalia Goncharova in 1910 and Iuliia Tsvetkova in 2019 Bogoroditsa stan’ Feministkoi? Comparing the Leningrad Feminists and Pussy Riot Conclusion Illustrations Bibliography Additional Materials. Interviews.