Thesis (Ph. D.)--Lehigh University, 1998. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 256-271).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 1996. / Title from the title screen (viewed September 8, 2009) Degree awarded 1996; thesis submitted 1995. Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Faculty of Arts, University of Sydney. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.

Berlin, Techn. Universiẗat, Diss., 2008.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 1999. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 237-258). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users. Address: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9955910.

Thesis (M.A.)--Mississippi State University. Department of English. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1972. / Vita. Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2006. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 238-248). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

This thesis explores the relationships between music, literature, aesthetics and politics in the novels of James Joyce, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and the poetry of Ezra Pound, to show the political relevance of how discourses of musical transcendence appear in these texts. These authors were notably political: Pound was involved with Italian fascism, Warner a Communist Marxist, while Joyce critics have been invested in claiming for him a liberal, humanist political position that is reflected in his writing. This allows me to analyse their engagement with music in light of their politics in order to make connections between aesthetics and politics through music in modernist literature. The texts analysed in this thesis are Joyce’s Chamber Music and Ulysses, Pound’s Cantos, his early essays and articles, and his musical theories ‘absolute rhythm’ and ‘Great Bass’, and finally Warner’s Mr Fortune’s Maggot, ‘The Music at Long Verney’, and The Corner That Held Them. I use a methodology, informed by the musicology and philosophy of T.W. Adorno, that moves between aesthetic and social approaches to music. I analyse the political significance of Joyce’s and Pound’s appropriation of musical forms as part of a radical departure from traditional aesthetic practices to articulate a newly modern subjectivity, and arrive at an analysis of Warner’s exploration of the tension between music as both transcendent aesthetic paradigm and material object with political meanings and functions. I argue that the extent to which writers and scholars continue to refer to discourses of musical transcendence as a way of exploring and representing humanity’s relationship with the world means that analyses of music’s social grounding, which can reject problems of signification and meaning, are not sufficient to explain the variety of functions music can fulfil in writing and in thought.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:25:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2008-03-03Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:32:26Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 francoso_mel_me_arafcl.pdf: 570173 bytes, checksum: 6cb7d11ca7ae8fd70bca0b935a49e9d3 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / O objetivo desta dissertação é analisar a imagética do corpo e da morte na escritura de Ariel, a coletânea que contém alguns dos últimos poemas escritos por Sylvia Plath antes de seu suicídio, em fevereiro de 1963, e que tem sido alvo de polêmicas discussões devido ao fato de que foi publicada postumamente por seu marido, o também poeta Ted Hughes, e apresenta uma seqüência diversa daquela que a autora havia deixado em seus manuscritos. Nossa análise vale-se da seqüência em que Ariel foi organizado pela poeta, bem como de textos que representam os caminhos percorridos pela crítica da poesia plathiana, e considera tanto o caráter autobiográfico dessa poesia como a influência que a tradição literária e cultural exerce sobre ela. Acreditamos que desse modo pode-se visualizar o cenário em que se dá o posicionamento da persona no seu discurso e, a partir de então, considerar o espaço poético como palco da morte. A escolha dessa via de acesso mostra não somente o uso que a poeta faz do material autobiográfico em confluência com retomadas da tradição literária e de episódios históricos, religiosos e mitológicos, mas também o modo como a trajetória da voz lírica tipicamente feminina de seus poemas é dramatizada no cenário composto por essa teia dialógica, sugerindo uma releitura da figura tradicionalista da mulher. Por conta do parentesco entre morte e escritura na poética plathiana, sugerimos que a trajetória de sua voz lírica representa a própria relação do poeta com sua escrita, uma relação marcada pela morte e que constitui uma instância de criação, por meio de uma experiência que se assemelha ao impossível. / The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze the imagery of body and death in the writing of Ariel. This collection contains some of the late poems written by Sylvia Plath before her suicide, in February 1963, and has been the target of polemic discussions due to the fact that it was posthumously published by her husband, the poet Ted Hughes, and it presents a sequence which diverges from the one proposed by the author in her manuscripts. Our analyses uses the sequence in which Ariel was organized by Sylvia Plath, as well as texts that represent the roads traveled by the criticism of the plathian poetry, and considers both its autobiographical character and the influence that the literary and cultural tradition exerts over it. We believe that this way, the scenery that holds the positioning of this persona in the speech can be visualized, and then we can consider the poetic space as the stage of death. The choice of this via of access shows not only the use which the poet makes from the autobiographical material in confluence with the recalling of the literary tradition and of historic, religious and mythological episodes, but also the way the trajectory of the typically feminine voice of her poems is dramatized in the scenery composed by this dialogic weave, suggesting a rereading of the traditionalist figure of the woman. Because of the relationship that connects death with writing in the plathian poetics, we suggest that the trajectory of this lyrical voice represents the proper relationship of the poet towards his writing, which is marked by death and constitutes an instance of creation, through an experience that resembles the impossible.

The definition of one's femininity and its reflection in poetic language are two recurring issues examined by contemporary feminist critics. In their works, they consistently challenge the opinion that true poetry is essentially masculine, and that a woman poet is inevitably an inferior poet. Sylvia Plath, whose poetry represents the central subject of this thesis, could hardly be considered an inferior poet. Despite her early death, Plath's poetry continues to be immensely influential, and it tends to be adopted as an example by feminist critics who attempt to define the branch American women's poetry, reaching back to poets such as Anne Bradstreet and Emily Dickinson. From their point of view, Plath's works illustrate the fact that women's poetry has not only its history, but also its language. One may thus discover interesting parallels between the French-based concept of l'écriture féminine and Plath's poetic language. For the representatives of the l'écriture féminine movement Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva, Western discourse is phallogocentric, i.e. based on the centrality of the phallus as a primary signifier. To disrupt the traditional (masculine) discourse, they neither propose a total split between the "male" and the "female" signifiers nor do they encourage women to...