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Richerson, William Robert (Rob) III. "Evolutionary Motives and Consumer Food Choice in Romantic Relationships." UKnowledge, 2014. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/marketing_etds/3.
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This research examines the evolutionary eating patterns of consumers when eating with those they are in relationships with, moving beyond eating decisions made in isolation or in the presence of strangers. Across three studies, unique patterns of consumption emerge when males and females are in different stages of romantic relationships. I demonstrate that the evolutionary motives of mate acquisition and mate retention drive eating patterns for relationship partners relative to their gender. I show that females match the eating habits of males at early stages in the relationship but are more independent later in the relationship, while males match eating habits of females in later stages in the relationships but are more independent early in relationships. I discuss how evolutionary eating patterns contribute to high obesity rates, provide recommendations for avoiding unhealthy eating among couples, and shed light on common cultural beliefs about weight gain in social relationships.
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de, la Pava Velez Benjamin. "Celluloid love : audiences and representations of romantic love in late capitalism." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2017. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3602/.
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My doctoral research analyses contemporary North American romantic films and the meanings brought to and made from them by socially and economically diverse audiences in London. It does so in the context of a historicised and ideologically alert account of connections between biological, psychoanalytic, anthropological and sociological theorisations of romantic love and its screen depictions. In particular, my audience-led textual analysis of discourses of Euro-American romantic love is driven by an engagement with three claims: First, that neoliberal or late-capitalist individualism has engendered a ‘crisis of romantic love’ which has reshaped the social and personal promises of coupledom and intimacy. Second, that popular film, the prime contemporary medium of representation for romance, cynically portrays this supposed crisis in an effort to capitalise on audience fears; and third, that audiences of these films experience the ‘crisis’, fashioning their romantic identities and practices in its shadow. Methodologically, the study involved a reflexive and recursive textual analysis of five North American films: Blue Valentine, (500) Days of Summer, Don Jon, Her, and Once. Using these films, I carried out 36 group interviews with (87) inhabitants of the multicultural Borough of Hackney, in East London, the results of which then fed into and informed my readings of the films. Subsequent thematic coding of group interviews revealed overlapping areas pertinent to the project: Technology, class, gender and coupledom. Findings include the suggestion that both romantic films and their audiences in Western Europe are currently adapting strategies, practices and ideas of romantic love and relationships to a new environment of precarious intimacy, technological mediation, and anxiety over economic, professional and personal stability. My analysis concludes that while intersections of class, race and gender continue to inflect audience experience and meaning-making, the current romantic environment that audiences are navigating - and that romantic films purportedly represent - is indeed markedly different from that of the last century. However, claims about the crisis of romantic love are not only greatly exaggerated, but usually also erroneously conflate the pain, anxiety and frailty of contemporary relationships and intimacy with a narcissistic, ego-centric definition of love as a form of consumption.
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Khalaf, Abd Al Jaleel Zeena. "La ville romanesque dans Salammbô de Gustave Flaubert et L'Amante du pharaon de Naguib Mahfouz." Thesis, Paris 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA030153.
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Lieux d'ouverture et de brassage culturel, les villes alimentent fantasmes et utopies. Elles grouillent, gagnent sur la campagne. L’enquête porte ici sur la ville antique, Carthage dans Salammbô de Gustave Flaubert et Abou de l’Égypte pharaonique dans L’Amante du pharaon de Naguib Mahfouz. La thèse interroge la représentation de la ville dans l’oeuvre romanesque de Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), et de Naguib Mahfouz, maître de la littérature arabe (1911-2006). Notre point de départ est la question suivante : "Quelle est l’importance de la ville chez nos deux romanciers ?". L’analyse combine une perspective comparative, historique, et thématique. Elle met en valeur la réception créatrice par Mahfouz du roman français du XIXe sièclePlaces of openness and cultural mixing, cities feed fantasies and utopias. They swarm, taking over the countryside. The subject of investigation here is the city in antiquity, Carthage in Gustave Flaubert's Salammbo, and the Egyptian city of Abou during the times of the Pharaohs in Naguib Mahfouz' Pharaoh's Lover. The thesis examines the representation of the city in the novels of Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), and Naguib Mahfouz, the master of Arabic literature (1911-2006). Our starting point is the following question, "What is the importance of the city for the two novelists?" The analysis brings together comparative, historic and thematic perspectives. It show cases the creative manner in which Mahfouz received French 19th century novels
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Higgins, David. "Romantic genius and the literary magazine : biography, celebrity and politics /." London [u.a.] : Routledge, 2007. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=016719938&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Abu-Jamouse, Khalid. "'Lurid figures' : anxieties of motion, disfiguration and death in romantic biographical writings." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322889.
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Aidoudi, Wejdene. "Figures féminines dans l’œuvre de Zola : des romans aux films : lecture sémiologique." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LORR0275/document.
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Cette thèse de doctorat s’articule autour de trois axes. Elle a trait d’abord à la configuration de la sexualité féminine dans l’œuvre des Rougon-Macquart et dans son adaptation cinématographique. La recherche est ainsi centrée sur la représentation du corps féminin et de sa métamorphose dans l’œuvre romanesque zolienne ainsi que dans l’œuvre filmique correspondante. Quant au deuxième axe de recherche, il se rapporte à l’étude des photogrammes, des lexies au niveau de l’incipit et de l’excipit des romans zoliens et à partir de l’ouverture et du dénouement des adaptations qui en ont été faites. Les divergences entre les romans et leur mise en scène interrogent par ailleurs la question de la fidélité du cinéma à la littérature dont il s’inspire, qui reste jusqu’au jour d’aujourd’hui une question assez problématique. Une analyse des seuils filmiques et romanesques a été jugée ainsi fort utiles. Ces seuils s’avèrent un espace où le sens de la créativité et le don artistique du concepteur de l’œuvre filmique ou romanesque voient le jour. Au terme de notre recherche, nous avons constaté que la femme zolienne évolue dans un milieu où interfèrent le réel, l’imaginaire et le symbolique. Et c’est à à travers son rapport avec les lieux et les objets que cette femme accède au rang de figure. La métaphore animalière constitue ainsi l’essence même de la figuralité zolienne qui met en relief ces corps féminins et les dotent d’une présence mythologique. Finalement le naturalisme zolien est-il d’une veine expressionnisteThis doctoral thesis is structered around three axes. It deals with the configuration Of the female sexuality in the work of Rougon-Maquart and it its film adaptation. The research is centered on the representation of the female body and its metamorphosis in Zola’s novel works as well as in the corresponding film works. As for the second axis of research, it relates to the study of photograms in the incipit and excipit of Zola’s novels and from the opening and settlements that have been made. The divergences between the novels and their staging also question the question of the film’s fidelity to the literature on which it is based , which remains a rather problematic issue until today. An analysis of filmic and novel thresholds was found to be very useful. These thresholds turn out to be a space where the creativitity and artistic gift of the designer of the filmic or romantic work are born . At the end of our research, we have noticed that Zola’s female evolves in a background where the real , imaginary and symbolic interfere. And it is through her contact with the settings and objects that she reaches the rank of a figure. The animal metaphor thus constitutes the very essence of Zola’s figurality which hilghlights these female bodies and endows them with a mythological presence. Finally is Zolian naturalism an expressionist vein ?
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Spinelli, Valeska. "Violenza e malattia nei romanzi di Carmelo Samonà." Bern : [s.n.], 2005. http://www.zb.unibe.ch/download/eldiss/05spinelli_v.pdf.
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Decourt, Laetitia. "La mosaïque, le miroir et la bibliothèque. L’ironie romantique dans la prose littéraire des écrivains « mineurs » en Russie : les années 1820-1830." Thesis, Paris 4, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA040235.
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Au cours des années 1820-1830, l’ironie romantique a contribué à élargir le champ de la prose et de la langue littéraires, en se modelant sur une situation de communication orale puis en adoptant le ton de la lettre intime. Les figures de l’ironie romantique telles que la métalepse, l’auteur-narrateur tout-puissant ont servi à la fois de laboratoire pour la formation d’une langue littéraire et de schémas narratifs adaptés aux exigences de l’époque, de tribune aux réflexions sur le destin et le contenu de la prose littéraire russe, et d’« incubateur » pour le nouveau lecteur, en créant des lecteurs-interlocuteurs fictifs. Le corpus comprend : Gajdamak (1826-1827) d’O.M. Somov ; Rukopis’ […] Xabarova (1828) de P.L. Jakovlev ; Ispytanije (1830), Večer na kavkazskix vodax v 1824 godu (1830) et Strašnoe gadanie (1831) d’A.A. Bestužev-Marlinskij ; Strannik (1831-1832) d‘A.F. Vel’tman ; Pestrye skazki (1833) de V.F. Odoevskij ; Fantastičeskie putešestvija barona Brambeusa (1833), Bol’šoj vyxod u Satany (1834) et Teorija obrazovannoj besedy (1835) d’O.I. Senkovskij. La haute conscience intertextuelle des œuvres, leur poétique du jeu métaleptique, leur ambition encyclopédique et métalittéraire ont exprimé les processus qui transformaient la littérature russe de l’intérieur (références à Karamzin, Žukovskij, Puškin, Gogol’) et de l’extérieur (la littérature européenne). L’ironie romantique a donc permis l’évolution consciente et accélérée de la littérature russe vers le roman en prose et le réalisme du second XIXe siècle. Elle apparaît comme un phénomène de mode, mais aussi comme une source d’inspiration pour les théories formaliste et bakhtinienne, et pour le postmodernisme russeBetween 1820 and 1840, Romantic irony has contributed to widen the spectrum of Russian literary prose and language, fashioning itself after a situation of oral communication, then adopting the tone and structure of the intimate letter. Figures of Romantic irony such as the reader-conversationalist, the author as sole master, the metalepsis, served not only as a laboratory for the formation of a literary language and narrative plots adapted to contemporary demands, but also as a tribune for debates on the fate and content of Russian literary prose, and as an incubator for the new reader. Works such as Gajdamak (1826-1827) by O.M. Somov, Rukopis’ […] Xabarova (1828) by P.L. Jakovlev, Ispytanije (1830), Večer na kavkazskix vodax v 1824 godu (1830) and Strašnoje gadanije (1831) by A.A. Bestužev-Marlinskij , Strannik (1831-1832) by A.F. Vel’tman, Pestryje skazki (1833) by V.F. Odojevskij, Fantastičeskije putešestvija barona Brambeusa (1833), Bol’šoj vyxod u Satany (1834) and Teorija obrazovannoj besedy (1835) by O.I. Senkovskij, show a vivid self-consciousness, a widely shared concern for intertextuality and common poetics involving metaleptic games, encyclopaedic ambition. These reveal the transformation of Russian literary prose, working simultaneously from within (Karamzin, Žukovskij, Puškin, Gogol’) and from outside. Romantic irony in Russian literary prose therefore allowed a conscious and rapid evolution of Russian literature toward the novel in prose and the realism of the second XIXth century. Thus, Romantic irony appears not only as a fashion, but also as a distant source of inspiration for Formalist and Bakhtinian theories, and for postmodernist literature
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Zhang, Shuangyue. "Is honesty the best policy? Honest but hurtful evaluative messages in romantic relationships." Connect to resource, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1123853679.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005.Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains iii, v, 138 p.; also includes graphics. Includes bibliographical references (p. 128-138). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center
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Kupfer, Alexander. "Die künstlichen Paradiese : Rausch und Realität seit der Romantik ; ein Handbuch /." Stuttgart : Metzler, 2006. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2807261&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Stull, Gretchen Brinson Susan L. "It's a man's world representations of gender and competing ideologies in ""Shaun of the Dead /." Auburn, Ala., 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10415/1542.
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Müller, Urs. "Ist das Trinken von Wein "romantischer" als das Trinken von Champagner, Bier oder Whisky? : emotionale Grundlagen beim Genuss und Einsatz von alkoholischen Getränken /." Zürich : Hochschule für Angewandte Psychologie, 2005. http://www.hapzh.ch/pdf/2s/2s0847.pdf.
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Kaplinska, Yuliya. "PREDICTING VERBAL SEXUAL COERCION VICTIMIZATION IN COLLEGE WOMEN: THE ROLE OF ADULT ROMANTIC ATTACHMENT, SEX MOTIVES, AND EMOTION DYSREGULATION." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1469211782.
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Clark, Isabel Stirling. "The challenge of being yourself adaptation, adolescence, and disguise in teenage romantic comedy films of the late 1990s and early 2000s /." Diss., Connect to the thesis Connect to the thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/3614.
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LaBuda, Jessica E. "Accuracy in Perceptions of Partner Sacrifice Motives: An Examination of Individual Differences and Daily Outcomes." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent155609593349748.
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Lin, Ching-Chung. "Der Künstler am Scheideweg : das Bild des Künstlers in der deutschen Erzählkunst seit der Romantik /." München : Iudicium, 2008. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=3138617&prov=M&dokv̲ar=1&doke̲xt=htm.
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Griffin, Stephanie A. "A qualitative inquiry into how romantic love has been portrayed by contemporary media and researchers." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1149001149.
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Bouxsein, Benjamin D. "An Analysis of the Depiction of Romantic Relationships in Western Cinema Compared to Cultural Perceptions of Relationships." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1556721347157763.
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Taggart, Molly B. "“What’s Love Got to Do with It?” The Effect of Love Styles on the Motives for and Perceptions of Online Romantic Relationships." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1322468283.
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Artenie, Cristina. "Transylvania and romania in scholarly editions of Bram Stoker's Dracula." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/26404.
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À partir des années 1970, le roman Dracula de Bram Stoker (1897) a connu une série inattendue d’éditions critiques, qui ont contribué en même temps à la canonisation d’une œuvre de fiction considérée auparavant comme dédaignable et à la perpétuation des points de vue du roman sur la Transylvanie et la Roumanie. En général, les éditeurs suivent le principe selon lequel les annotations doivent permettre au public d’aujourd’hui d’avoir une expérience de lecture similaire à celle des premiers lecteurs et aussi proche de l’intention de l’auteur que possible. Dans le cas de Dracula, cela présuppose que beaucoup des choix idéologiques de Stoker restent inexpliqués et indisputés, tandis que ses représentations des peuples et des lieux “lointains” sont soutenues par l’usage que font les éditeurs des notes de travail du romancier. Stoker a pris note, en les modifiant, des centaines de citations de différentes sources qu’il a ensuite incorporées dans le texte du roman. Les éditeurs de Dracula se fient à ces notes, sans prendre en compte les changements opérés par le romancier, les passages qu’il a utilisés mais qui n’apparaissent pas dans les notes, ou le fait que les sources sont souvent biaisées ou simplement érronées. Ainsi, les éditions critiques du roman de Stoker préservent et même contribuent au processus d’altérisation commencé par l’auteur de Dracula. L’analyse du discours d’altérisation est directement liée à la discussion du contexte historique du roman, c’est-à-dire le statut néo-colonial de la Roumanie, abordé dans la deuxième partie de cette étude. Les faits qui y sont mis en valeur montrent que ce que Stoker savait et ceux qu’il connaissait ont influencé ses choix d’endroits, de personnages et d’intrigue. L’implication de la Grande Bretagne dans l’économie et la politique de la region, avant et après la Guerre de Crimée, attestée par la présence des aventuriers coloniaux britaniques et par celle de la marine militaire anglaise sur le Danube, n’a guère était étudiée par les historiens. Le même peut être dit de l’implication de Londres au sein de la Commission Européenne du Danube. La présente étude pourrait aussi être utile aux spécialistes du postcolonialisme, de la mondialisation ou à ceux qui s’intéressent aux transformations apportées par le capitalisme dans le Bas Danube et à l’intégration des principautés roumains dans le marché économique mondial. Stoker a trouvé ses sources parmi les écrits des voyageurs en Transylvanie et Roumanie qui se préoccupaient des avantages économiques offerts par ces pays. Leurs écrits ont d’abord stimulé et ensuite soutenu l’implication de la Grande Bretagne dans l’économie de la région. La présente thèse va au-delà d’une autre frontière, en passant des études littéraires à l’anthropologie. Les anthropologues culturels peuvent trouver utile la discussion du temps et de la différence dans le roman de Stoker et dans les annotations des éditeurs. Dans les deux cas, il s’agit de la collection et de la manipulation des données concernant une région européenne « lointaine ». La (non)existence des croyances aux vampires est une situation qui peut fournir un aperçu des pratiques traditionnelles mais aussi, ce qui est plus important, des conséquences profondes du travail anthropologique du dix-neuvième siècle. Bien qu’elle soit un examen des éditions les plus richement annotées du roman de Bram Stoker, la présente étude est interdisciplinaire. Elle utilise des théories et des conceptes de plusieurs domaines, tout en attirant l’attention sur les liens complexes entre la culture, l’histoire, la politique et l’économie. Ce que cette étude montre surtout, c’est le lien étroit entre l’objet littéraire et le contexte dans lequel il a été produit.Since the 1970s, Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) has gone through an unexpectedly long series of scholarly editions, which has contributed both to the canonisation of a work of fiction previously considered undeserving and to the perpetuation of the novel’s views on Transylvania and Romania. As a rule, editors follow the principle according to which their annotations should allow today’s audience a reading experience similar to that of the original reader and as close to the author’s intention as possible. In Dracula’s case, this means that much of Stoker’s ideological choices remain unexplained and unchallenged, while his representations of “remote” people and places are supported by the editors’ use of the writer’s working notes. Stoker took down, in altered form, hundreds of quotes from several sources that he incorporated into the text of the novel. The editors of Dracula rely heavily on these notes, without taking into account the changes brought by the novelist, the passages that he used but do not appear in the notes, and the fact that the sources were often biased or simply wrong. Thus, the many scholarly editions of Stoker’s novel preserve and even enhance its original process of othering. The analysis of the othering discourse is closely linked to the discussion of the historical context of the novel, that is, to the neo-colonial status of Romania, examined in the second part of this study. The information unearthed here shows that who and what Stoker knew influenced his choice of place, plot and character, which can provide a new line of inquiry for both literary critics and historians. The involvement of Great Britain in the economy and politics of the region, before and after the Crimean War, attested by the presence of British colonial adventurers and by that of the British navy on the river Danube, has only been marginally studied by historians, and the same is true about the study of the British involvement in the European Commission of the Danube. The present study can be equally useful to scholars engaged with postcolonialism, globalisation, and the transformations brought about by capitalism in the Lower Danube region and by the integration of the Romanian principalities into the world market economy. Stoker’s sources were travellers to Transylvania and Romania who were preoccupied with the economic advantages those countries had to offer. Their writings both stimulated and, later, supported the British involvement in the economy of the region. This dissertation crosses yet another boundary, from literary studies into anthropology. Cultural anthropologists can find useful the discussion of time and difference in Stoker’s novel and in the annotations of the editors, both of which involve the collection and manipulation of data from a “remote” European region. In the case of Dracula, the (non)existence of vampire beliefs is an interesting case study which provides insight into the practice but, more importantly, into the far-reaching consequences of nineteenth-century anthropological work. Although an examination of the most heavily annotated scholarly editions of Bram Stoker’s vampire novel, the present study is interdisciplinary. It employs theories and concepts from several fields, thus bringing to the fore the intricate links between culture, history, politics and economy. What this study shows, more importantly, is the close link between the literary object and the context in which it was produced.
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Saller, Reinhard. "Schöne Ökonomie : die poetische Reflexion der Ökonomie in frühromantischer Literatur /." Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann, 2007. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=3028568&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Einman, Maria. "Lector in drama. Les enjeux fictionnels et imaginaires du suicide dans le théâtre français du XIXe siècle." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCA048/document.
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Cette étude examine la lecture des textes de théâtre comme des textes de fiction, visant à faire sortir ce genre de lecture du cadre de l’analyse textuelle au sein duquel on a tendance à l’enfermer. L’examen s’effectue à la lumière de l’interrogation sur le suicide dans le drame français du XIXe siècle : son objectif est de cerner l’effet que le suicide d’un personnage exerce sur le lecteur. Pour ce faire, nous nous servons du concept de lecteur virtuel, destinataire implicite et atemporel des effets du texte selon Vincent Jouve ; ce lecteur immerge au sein du monde possible de fiction soutenu par le dispositif qui se fonde sur la tripartition Réel - Symbolique - Imaginaire de Lacan.La réflexion est structurée en cinq parties : l’introduction théorique est suivie des analyses qui portent, respectivement, sur le mélodrame, le drame romantique, le drame naturaliste et le drame symboliste. En nous penchant sur l’effet du suicide fictionnel sur le lecteur, qui est systématiquement relié au questionnement de la catharsis, nous traitons également de l’évolution des formes et genres théâtraux évoqués dans l’optique de la lecture « virtuelle ». Ainsi, lire le drame français du XIXe siècle, c’est voyager de la certitude optimiste du mélodrame à l’indétermination tragique du drame symboliste, du suicide effectif aux morts probablement volontaires, de la catharsis « larmoyante » à l’anticatharsisThis study examines the reading of drama texts as the reading of fictional texts, aiming to broaden the current approach according to which the reading of drama texts is mainly limited to text analysis. This question is examined in the light of the issue of suicide in 19th-century French drama. The principal aim of this study is therefore to understand the impact of the character’s suicide on the reader via the detailed analysis of the ins and outs of the suicidal act. The study applies Vincent Jouve’s concept of the virtual reader, who is defined as an implicit and atemporal recipient of the text effects. This reader emerges in a fictional world that is supported by an operative device (dispositif) based on the Lacanian triptych of the Real, the Symbolic and the Imaginary.The dissertation consists of five chapters. The theoretical discussion is followed by four chapters that deal, respectively, with melodrama, romantic drama, naturalist drama, and symbolist drama. In addition to the effect of the fictional suicide on the reader (which is systematically connected to the catharsis), the evolution of theatrical genres and forms is explored from the perspective of “virtual” reading. Thereby, the reading of 19th-century French drama could be viewed as a journey from the optimistic certainty of melodrama to the tragic indeterminacy of symbolist drama, from actual to probable suicides, from “sorrowful” catharsis to anticatharsis
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Murphy, Caryn E. "Teen ages: Youth market romance in Hollywood teen films of the 1980s and 1990s." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2001. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2749/.
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This thesis examines the differences between teen romantic comedy films marketed to Generation X teenagers in the 1980s and Generation Y teenagers in the 1990s, focusing on the presentation of gender roles, consumptive behavior, and family. The 1980s films are discussed within the social context of the Reagan era and the conservatism of the New Right. The 1990s films are examined as continuing a conservative sensibility, but they additionally posit consumption as instrumental to achieving an idealized romance. Romantic comedy is traditionally a conservative genre, but these films illustrate female liberation through consumption. The source of difference between the cycles of teen romantic comedy is attributed to the media's attempt to position Generation Y teenagers as ideal consumers.
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Cho, Seong-Woong. "La chambre de la "mère morte : Etude sur la solitude et la mort." Thesis, Grenoble, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012GRENL030.
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L'initiation d'Henri Beyle à la solitude et à la mort se passe essentiellement dans la chambre de la « mère morte, » dans une intimité à la tonalité érotique. La présente étude a le projet d’analyser l'univers de la représentation inconsciente de Stendhal à partir d'un thème unique : celui de la chambre de la « mère morte », remplie du sentiment de la solitude et de la mort. La spécificité de son expérience de la chambre poursuit Henri Beyle la vie durant, et se reflète dans son univers romanesque. Les images poétiques, résultant des situations symboliques de la chambre, de la solitude et de la mort, sont nombreuses et expriment un processus inconscient de l'écriture stendhalienne. Que l'on fasse de la mort un accomplissement de la solitude, de la solitude une approche de la mort, la mort est envisagée par Stendhal comme un retour. La chambre est à la fois le point de départ et le point d'arrivée. Dans le monde imaginaire recherché par les héros stendhaliens se trouve toujours la chambre de la « mère morte ». L'art devient un moyen de surmonter le complexe de la mort. C'est dans l'écriture romanesque qu'Henri Beyle retrouve la place vide de sa mère et une chambre à soiA seven-year-old child, not yet mature enough to comprehend the meaning of death, cannot mourn the loss of his mother, is cruelly punished by his aunt. That boy is Stendhal. Henri Beyle's realization of the images of solitude and death is mainly portrayed in his dead mother's bedroom, which has an erotic and incestuous atmosphere. This study explains the universe of Stendhal's unconscious representation, beginning with this unique theme: his dead mother's room which is filled with the feeling of solitude and death. The specific experience of the room continues to obsess Henri Beyle throughout his life, and his literary works are impelled by the memories or the images of his mother. The poetic images, resulting from the symbolic situation of the room, and obviously solitude and death, are numerous, and express an unconscious process of Stendhal's writing. Whether we consider death as a circumambulation around the theme of solitude, or whether we consider death as what lies inside solitude, death is regarded by Stendhal as a way to get back to his mother. His dead mother's room is both the starting and the ending point. At the heart of the imaginary work sought by Stendhal's protagonists, mother's room is easily found. Art then becomes a way to overcome the obsession with death. It's in the romantic writing that Stendhal found the empty space left by his mother, and his own room. This is the originality of Stendhal's piece
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Hubbard, Jackson Durain. "3D Cave and Ice Block Morphology from Integrated Geophysical Methods: A Case Study at Scărişoara Ice Cave, Romania." Scholar Commons, 2017. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6712.
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Scărişoara Ice Cave has been a catalyst of scientific intrigue and effort for over 150 years. These efforts have revealed and described countless natural phenomena – and in the process have made it one of the most studied caves in the world.
Of especial interest is the massive ice block located within its Great Hall and scientific reservations. The ice block, which is the oldest and largest known to exist in a cave, has been the focus of multiple surveying and mapping efforts, typically ones utilizing traditional equipment. In this study, the goals were to reconstruct the ice block/cave floor interface and to estimate the volume of the ice block. Once the models were constructed, we aimed to study the relationships between the cave and ice block morphologies.
In order to accomplish this goal, three (3) main datasets were collected, processed, and amalgamated. Ground penetrating radar data was used to discern the floor morphology below the ice block. Over 1,500 photographs were collected in the cave and used with Structure from Motion photogrammetry software to construct a texturized 3D model of the cave and ice surfaces. And a total station survey was performed to scale, georeference, and validate each model. Once georeferenced, the data was imported into an ArcGIS geodatabase for further analysis.
The methodology described within this study provides a powerful set of instructions for producing highly valuable scientific data, especially related to caves. Here, we describe in detail the novel tools and software used to validate, inspect, manipulate, and measure morphological information while immersed in a fully 3D experience.
With this methodology, it is possible to easily and inexpensively create digital elevation models of underground rooms and galleries, to measure the differences between surfaces, to create 3D models from the combination of surfaces, and to intimately inspect a subject area without actually being there.
At the culmination of these efforts, the partial ice block volume was estimated to be 118,000 m3 with an uncertainty of ± 9.5%. The volume computed herein is significantly larger than previously thought and the total volume is likely significantly larger, since certain portions were not modeled during this study. In addition, the morphology of ceiling enlargement was linked to areas of high elevation at the base of the ice block. A counterintuitive depression was recognized at the base of the Entrance Shaft. The thickest areas of the ice were identified for future coring projects. And combining all this a new informational allowed us to propose a new theory on the formation of the ice block and to decipher particular speleogenetic aspects.
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Roy, Adam. "Music in Motion: A Metaphoric Mapping of Forces in Piano Concertos by Mozart and Schumann." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/33009.
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In this thesis, I demonstrate the dynamic way in which musical processes can be described as metaphors. Using Steve Larson’s three main metaphors (gravity, inertia, and magnetism) as a starting point, I propose additional metaphors (friction, repulsion, momentum, wave, orbit, and oscillation) to analyze the first movements of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K 466 and Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 54. These metaphors provide a means to discuss points of convergence and divergence between the Classical style and the early-Romantic style. Additionally, most theorists of the energeticist tradition only discuss motion through prose; I introduce a way to represent these metaphors as musical examples. By focusing on the listener’s experience through musical motion, the model proposed in this thesis is useful, not only for the theorist, but for all who wish to communicate ideas about music in a dynamic way.
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Dobreva, Nikolina Ivantcheva. "The curse of the traveling dancer Romani representation from 19th-century European literature to Hollywood film and beyond /." Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3379952/.
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Oth, Adrien Pierre Henri. "Source Processes and Spectral Ground Motion Models of Intermediate-Depth Vrancea (Romania) Earthquakes Herdprozesse und spektrale Modelle der Bodenbewegung von mitteltiefen Vrancea (Rumänien) Erdbeben /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2007. http://digbib.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/volltexte/1000007362.
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Le, Denmat Loïc. "Gérard de Nerval et le platonisme." Thesis, Paris 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA030114.
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Cette étude prétend explorer les liens entretenus par l’œuvre et la pensée de Nerval d’une part, et le platonisme d’autre part. On s’attachera à envisager le platonisme autant dans la perspective des idées et représentations caractéristiques de la philosophie de Platon que dans la perspective du déploiement d’une tradition platonicienne protéiforme. L’œuvre de Nerval illustre sous de multiples aspects la continuité reliant le romantisme au platonisme, en matière d’imaginaire comme de conception du monde. La pensée de tradition platonicienne apparaît en effet constamment en filigrane de l’écriture de Nerval. Les paysages métaphysiques se succédant dans l’œuvre, ainsi que les grands champs de l’imaginaire de Nerval en portent le signe. L’auteur a constamment puisé dans l’ensemble du fonds de ce savoir érudit, tantôt philosophique, théologique ou ésotérique, pour nourrir sa propre pensée à la manière d’une immense architecture foisonnante mêlant lieux, temps, figures et motifs en une poésie intime. Cette étude se portera successivement sur des questions liées au rapport de Nerval à l’Histoire, à une série de motifs caractéristiques d’un imaginaire platonicien, et des interactions entre l’activité littéraire et la vie réelleThis study claims to explore the relationships between Nerval's work and thought on one hand, and Platonism on the other. We will consider Platonism both in terms of the distinctive ideas and representations in Plato's philosophy, and evenly so in terms of a platonic tradition that has unfolded in many forms. Nerval's work reveals in abounding ways the continuity linking romanticism to Platonism, both in the realms of the imaginary and in the understanding of the world. Indeed, a platonic mindset constantly appears between the lines of Nerval's writing. The metaphysical landscapes succeeding one another in the oeuvre, along with Nerval's fields of imagination carry its trace. The author has constantly drawn upon the sources of this erudite knowledge, be it philosophical, theological, or esoteric, to nourish his own thought, adding to it as to a rich and immense architecture where places, times, characters and patterns mingle into an intimate poetry. This study will successively address questions bearing to Nerval's relation to History, to a series of motifs characteristic of a platonic imagination, and to interactions between literary activity and life in its reality
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Mapangou, Dacharly. "La fiction romanesque de la postmodernité et ses labyrinthes : l’exemple des textes d’Alain Robbe-Grillet (France, 1922-2008), de Juan José Saer (Argentine, 1937-2005) et de Boubacar Boris (Sénégal, 1946-)." Thesis, Paris Est, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PEST0014/document.
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Cette étude répond à l’intitulé suivant : La fiction romanesque de la postmodernité et ses labyrinthes. L’exemple des textes d’Alain Robbe-Grillet (France, 1922-2008), de Juan José Saer (Argentine, 1937-2005) et de Boubacar Boris Diop (Sénégal, 1947-). Elle se propose de cerner, sous l’autorité méthodologique de la poétique textuelle, les diverses modalités par lesquelles le motif du labyrinthe s’impose comme substrat privilégié de la poétique du récit chez trois écrivains appartenant à des aires linguistiques et culturelles différentes. Le choix et l’examen des textes de ces trois écrivains reposent sur la volonté de montrer le déploiement de ce motif dans l’organisation interne de la fiction romanesque postmoderne. En effet, intégré dans la dynamique interne de l’oeuvre de manière très diversifiée, le motif du labyrinthe surgit dans toutes les problématiques qui traversent l’écriture romanesque postmoderne. Par commodité méthodologique et rigueur scientifique, cette étude se déploie suivant trois axes complémentaires. Tandis que le premier qui s’intitule « Le labyrinthe comme invariant obsessionnel de la fiction romanesque de la postmodernité » s’attache à faire ressortir les diverses facettes sous lesquelles ce motif se déploie dans la dynamique textuelle du récit fictionnel postmoderne ; le deuxième qui a pour titre « Le labyrinthe comme modalité constitutive de la narrativité du récit : la fiction romanesque de la postmodernité à l’épreuve de la discontinuité », s’attèle quant à lui, à examiner en quoi ce motif participe d’un projet d’écriture qui revendique la discontinuité comme principe narratif ; enfin, le troisième qui a pour intitulé « Le labyrinthe comme modalité caractéristique de l’interdiscursivité et de l’intergénéricité de la dynamique textuelle : la fiction romanesque de la postmodernité à l’épreuve de la polyphonie », entreprend pour sa part de démontrer en quoi ce motif est constitutif de la polyphonie qui gouverne la dynamique textuelle du récit fictionnel postmoderneThis study answers the following title: Romantic fiction of postmodernity and its mazes. The example of the texts of Alain Robbe-Grillet (France, 1922-2008), of Juan José Saer (Argentina, 1937-2005) and of Boubacar Boris Diop (Senegal, 1947-). It intends to identify, under authority methodological of poetic text the various modalities by which the pattern of the labyrinth becomes established as privileged substrate of the poetic narrative in three writers belonging to different linguistic and cultural areas. The choice and examination of the texts of these three writers rest on the will to show the deployment of this pattern in the internal organization of the postmodern romantic fiction. Indeed, integrated in the internal dynamic of writing in a very diversified way, the pattern of the maze appears in all the problems which cross the romantic writing. For methodological convenience and scientific rigour, this study deploys according to three complementary axes. While the first is entitled "The labyrinth as obsessive invariant of the romantic fiction of postmodernity" sets out to bring out the different aspects in which this pattern unfolds in dynamic textual postmodern fictional narrative, the second which is entitled "The labyrinth as constitutive modality of the narrativity of the story : romantic fiction of postmodernity to the test of discontinuity", gets down to examine how this pattern is part of a writing project that claims the discontinuity principle as narrative, and the third which is entitled "The labyrinth as a characteristic modality of interdiscursivity and intergenericity textual dynamic : romantic fiction of postmodernity to the test of polyphony" undertakes to show how this pattern is constitutive of polyphony which governs the dynamic of textual postmodern fictional narrative
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Popa, Emilia Diana. "The specificity of the aesthetics of slowness in contemporary Romanian cinema." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14124.
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Contemporary Romanian cinema, particularly in its internationally successful instances, displays formal characteristics that have often led to its being seen in terms of the so-called Slow Cinema trend in contemporary cinema. This thesis proposes that there is something distinctive about slowness in contemporary Romanian films, similar to and yet different from Slow Cinema. Through a detailed analysis of films made by Cristi Puiu and Cristian Mungiu, two of the most representative contemporary Romanian filmmakers, Romanian slow films emerge as a less stringent form of slowness characterised by tension. This thesis first looks at some of the ways in which slowness can be developed in film - through the use of the long take and the trope of waiting along with the use of stillness and silence. Within this slowness an attitude of contemplation emerges, a characteristic that is key to Slow Cinema. Through close textual analysis of a number of films with a reputation for slowness, both classic and more recent examples, this thesis looks at how the techniques used to develop slowness in film allow for variation and how they can be used not only to create this attitude of contemplation but also to create tension. While this aspect has been less discussed with the more prevalent focus on Slow Cinema and its themes of contemplation, tension can be identified in a variety of films, both those considered part of Slow Cinema and those considered slow films. The distinctiveness of slowness in contemporary Romanian cinema is partly to do with its being rooted in Romanian culture. This study looks at Romanian cinematic and cultural inheritance, specifically at how slowness figures in this history. This thesis contributes to the existing body of research on contemporary Romanian cinema addressing its most salient characteristic, its sense of slowness, by placing it in relation to wider discussions about slowness and Slow Cinema as well as by linking its distinctiveness to wider cultural notions and practices of temporal organisation as well as the social history of the nation.
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Wingler, Clément. "Un passeport pour le prince de Byzance : territoire, nom et appartenance ethnique du dignitaire grec dans la littérature de croisade française et allemande (fin du XIe - fin du XIIIe siècle)." Paris, EHESS, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013EHES0026.
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La période comprise entre 1095 et 1204 peut être considérée comme charnière pour la cristallisation des images de l’Autre, qu’il soit chrétien de la loi de Rome, musulman, ou chrétien oriental autant que du sud-est de l’Europe. Le présent travail se propose d’observer sous quelles formes ladite image de l’Autre, ramenée ici à la figure emblématique du prince de Byzance, du souverain des Grecs, s’est développée à ladite époque, et s’est répandue dans un des milieux de réception français et allemands de la littérature des croisades : celui de l’aristocratie princière et féodale. La démarche choisie se veut transversale : elle s’affranchit de la catégorisation des « genres » littéraires qui distinguent les œuvres de l’historiographie et les œuvres du divertissement assumé que sont les chansons de geste, les épopées, les romans… En effet, ces œuvres participent collectivement d’une prise de conscience de l’Autre qui est aussi et surtout une prise de conscience de soi-même et de ses attentes, traduites certes par des « faits d’histoire », mais aussi par un imaginaire tout autant significatif pour comprendre l’époque. L’image du dignitaire grec est ainsi examinée à travers les composantes essentielles de son « passeport » : nom, recensement de ses origines par la géographie – ce qui renvoie aux notions de territoire et de communauté —, et caractérisation ethnique. Les quatre parties constituant la thèse traitent tour à tour de la notion de Romanie dans les sources allemandes et françaises, des territoires et peuples d’Alexis 1er Comnène au temps de la Première Croisade, puis au XIIe siècle, et enfin du nom et de la personnification du prince grec aux XIIe et début du XIIIe sièclesThe period between 1095 and 1204 can be considered a pivotal point in time for understanding clearly the image of « Others », whether Christian (in accordance with the laws of Rome), Muslim, or Christian (in accordance with Oriental or South-East European traditions). The present work sets out to observe in what form this image of « Others », focused here around the emblematic figure of the Prince of Byzantium, ruler of the Greeks, came in to existence at the time, and spread throughout one of the areas reknowned for French and German literature on the Crusades: that of the aristocracy of princes and feudal chiefs. A transversal approach has been adopted, which is freed from the classification of literary « genres » which mark works of historiography and works of supposed entertainment such as “chansons de geste”, “epopees” and novels. In fact, these works participate collectively in an awareness of the « Other » that is also (and more particularly) an awareness of Onesself and one’s expectations, translated of course by «historical events», but also by an imaginary thread that is just as significant for understanding the period. The image of the Greek dignitary is thus examined by way of key « passport » details: his name, his origin(s) as determined by geographical clues – including ideas on territory and communities — and his ethnic roots. The four main sections of the thesis address in turn the notion of Romania found in German and French texts, the lands and people of Alexios Komnenós 1st at the time of the First Crusade, then in the 12th century, and finally the name and personification of the Greek prince in the 12th and beginning of the 13th centuries
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Escue, Jessica Margaret. "Margaret Dale, Adapting the Stage to the Screen: Aesthetic, Appropriation, and Intimacy in Ballet Programming for Post-War BBC Television." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2010. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc33148/.
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This thesis examines the aesthetic of ballets adapted for BBC Television by producer Margaret Dale, beginning with her entrance to the BBC's training program in 1955 and culminating with her commissioned work Houseparty, which aired in 1964. A historical and organizational framework is discussed regarding the BBC's cultural mission and view of arts programming, as well as general developmental milestones in programming contextualizing Dale's working conditions. Particular focus is placed upon the appropriation of Romantic narrative ballets and their significance in reinforcing an aristocratic and culturally divisive structure in the arts. Textual analyses consider issues of restaging, camera placement, and lighting, as well as television's intimacy and relationship to characterization in ballet narratives.
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Bento, Ribeiro Ana Carolina. "Bâtir un nouveau cinéma : figures et participations des femmes dans le cinéma roumain contemporain." Thesis, Paris 10, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA100039/document.
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Cette thèse porte sur la représentation des femmes dans le cinéma roumain en tant que lieu révélateur des enjeux sociaux, économiques et institutionnels qui façonnent le renouvellement de la filière cinématographique roumaine au XXIe siècle. Notre recherche est axée sur l'époque postcommuniste, moment où la production filmique du pays atteint son état le plus critique, avant de connaître une reconnaissance internationale inouïe. Notre analyse s'articule en trois temps, afin de comprendre les ruptures et les permanences sociohistoriques manifestes dans le traitement des personnages féminins à l'écran et dans la participation des femmes à l'industrie. A partir d'une analyse détaillée de la généalogie du « nouveau cinéma roumain », nous nous concentrons sur les figures des femmes dans les productions du cinéma d'auteur et du cinéma commercial du pays. Enfin, nous illustrons les principaux enjeux et contraintes pratiques de l'émergence - et de l'affirmation - de ce nouveau cinéma à travers l'examen des parcours des femmes cinéastesThis PhD dissertation centers on women's participation and representation in Romanian cinema, as a means of understanding the multiple social, economic and institutional stakes intervening in the renewal of the Romanian film industry in the early 21st century. Our research focuses on the post-communist era, when the Romanian film production falls into its most critical state, before achieving unprecedented international recognition. We articulate our analysis around three chronological moments, aiming to perceive how social and historical ruptures and continuities pervade the treatment of female characters on screen and the women's presence in the film industry. We aim our attention at the New Romanian cinema of the 2000's. By tracing the genealogy of this « new cinema », we concentrate on the shaping of female characters in both auteur and commercial Romanian cinema. We illustrate the primary grounds conducing to the rise and consolidation of this renewed film industry by observing the career paths of Romanian female filmmakers
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Maulden, Hannah Leah. "Heroes and Villains: Political Rhetoric in Post-9/11 Popular Media." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1431964700.
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Fischbach, Sophie. "L’humanisation dans l’œuvre de Jules Supervielle." Thesis, Paris 4, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA040125.
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Dans « En songeant à un art poétique », Jules Supervielle définit sa poésie comme une entreprise d’humanisation. Quelle acception convient-Il de donner à ce terme, et en quoi se révèle-T-Il pertinent pour aborder l’œuvre de l’écrivain ? C’est à cette question que tente de répondre cette thèse, en cherchant à déterminer le sens qu’il convient de donner à l’humanisation à partir du double héritage de l’humanisme de la Renaissance et de l’humanitarisme romantique, et en s’appuyant sur des manuscrits et des correspondances en partie inédits. Dans une première partie, l’étude de la théorisation de l’humanisation chez Supervielle nous amène à mener une réflexion ressortissant de l’histoire des idées et de l’histoire littéraire, en nous penchant sur l’idée de la littérature développée par l’écrivain, et en analysant le rôle joué par Jean Paulhan et par René Étiemble dans l’apparition de cette idée. La seconde partie analyse la genèse diachronique de l’humanisation, au sein d’un essai de géographie poétique qui se focalise sur le tournant que constituent les années 1920 et 1930. La troisième partie est consacrée à l’étude de la genèse synchronique, considérant l’apparition de l’humanisation dans les divers états d’un texte, en poésie, en prose et au théâtre. L’étude de l’humanisation dans l’œuvre de Jules Supervielle permet ainsi de préciser le paysage littéraire et l’interpénétration des idées de la littérature qui se développent dans la première moitié du XXe siècle, en marge du surréalismeIn « En songeant à un art poétique », Jules Supervielle defines his poetry as an attempt at humanization. How should this term be understood, and how does it enlighten Supervielle’s work ? In order to answer this question, this dissertation sets out to define the meaning of humanization through the lens of the double legacy of the humanism of the Renaissance and the humanitarianism of Romanticism, and in the light of partly unpublished manuscripts and letters. In the first part, this dissertation studies how Supervielle theorizes humanization. It leads to an analysis of a history of ideas and of literature, in order to define Supervielle’s conception of literature and in order to assess Jean Paulhan’s and René Étiemble’s roles in this theorization. The second part is a chronological study of humanization that takes the form of an essay of poetic geography. It focuses particularly on the work of the 1920’s and 1930’s. The third part is a genetic one : we study how humanization appears in the different states of a poem, a prose and a drama. The Study of humanization in Supervielle’s works enables us to have a better understanding of the literary landscape and of the entanglement of literary ideas in the first half of the twentieth century, in the margins of Surrealism
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Rubinfeld, Mark David. "Reel to real: Gender, genre, and the Hollywood romantic comedy." 1997. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9721489.
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This study examines the Hollywood romantic comedy in the context of gender and genre. Utilizing a variety of methodologies, it identifies the generic conventions, inventions, and interventions within Hollywood romantic comedy texts that: (1) affirm patriarchal ideology, (2) challenge patriarchal ideology, and (3) both affirm and challenge patriarchal ideology. Furthermore, through a content, textual, and historical analysis of the "top" 100 Hollywood romantic comedy texts produced between 1970-1995, it demonstrates how the Hollywood romantic comedy has cycled between progress and backlash in its depictions of, and attitudes toward, American women. During the 1970s, the Hollywood romantic comedy exploited its ideological contradictions in order to challenge traditional gender roles and sexual hierarchies. In the 1980s and 1990s, the Hollywood romantic comedy reversed course, containing its ideological contradictions in order to reinforce traditional gender roles and sexual hierarchies. In a final analysis, this study concludes that the Hollywood romantic comedy neither intrinsically affirms patriarchal ideology nor radically rejects it. Rather, it both affirms and rejects patriarchal ideology, and the key to decoding its practices of signification rests in deciphering how it manages to balance its ideological contradictions, and in exploring the specific historical conditions that can--and do--occasionally tip that balance.
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Vilímová, Sheila. "Baletní hudba 19. a 20. století na pohádkové motivy se zaměřením na P. I. Čajkovského a S. Prokofjeva." Master's thesis, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-388242.
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The title of the diploma thesis: Fairy Tale Themed Ballet Music in the 19th and 20th Century Focused on the Works of P. I. Tchaikovsky and S. Prokofiev This diploma thesis deals with fairy tale motifs in ballet music of the 19th and 20th century. It focuses mainly on fairy tale ballets of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Sergei Prokofiev. The first chapter deals with fairy tale themes in ballet on a more general level and advances to the concrete inclusion of these themes in the socio- historical context of the 19th and 20th century. The second chapter briefly deals with the development of ballet from its beginnings in the 15th century to the 18th century. This chapter chronologically describes important periods and events concerning ballet. The next chapter deals with ballet of the Romantic period and music of the 19th century in France and Denmark. Chapter four and five present the prominent ballets of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, namely Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker. Furthermore, this thesis focuses on ballet of the 20th century, those of Igor Stravinsky and mainly Sergei Prokofiev. Most of these ballets were created in cooperation with the patron of arts Sergei Diaghilev. The last part offers various activities that can be used in music lessons. KEYWORDS fairy tale motives, ballet...
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Greyvensteyn, Annette. "Hans Christian Andersen's romantic imagination : exploring eighteenth and nineteenth century romantic conceptualisations of the imagination in selected fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen." Diss., 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25146.
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There are certain influences from the eighteenth and nineteenth century English and German romantic Zeitgeist that can be discerned in Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales. The role of the imagination stands out as a particularly dominant notion of the romantic period as opposed to the emphasis on reason during the Enlightenment. It is this romantic influence that Andersen’s tales especially exemplify. For him the imagination is transcendent – one can overcome the mystery and hardship of an earthly existence by recasting situations imaginatively and one can even be elevated to a higher, spiritual realm by its power. The transcendent power of the imagination is best understood by viewing it through the lens of negative capability, a concept put forward by romantic poet, John Keats. The concept implies an “imaginative openness” to what is, which allows one to tolerate life’s uncertainties and the inexplicable suffering that forms part of one’s earthly existence by using the imagination to open up new potential within trying circumstances. In selected fairy tales, Andersen’s child protagonists transcend their circumstances by the power of their imagination. In other tales, nature is instrumental in this imaginative transcendence. The natural world conveys spiritual truths and has a moralising influence on the characters, bringing them closer to the Ultimate Creator. This follows the philosophy of German Naturphilosophie, as well as that of English romantics like Coleridge and Wordsworth, for whom nature functions as a portal to the spiritual world. The concept of the “sublime” underpins this philosophy. If nature is viewed through an imaginative, instead of an empirical lens, it becomes the means by which the temporal world can be transcended. It is a message of hope and as such is in keeping with Andersen’s self professed calling as visionary who uses his art to uplift mankind. In this he is the ultimate romantic hero or outsider who, while standing on the periphery of society, observes its shortcomings and feels called upon to show the way to a better world.
Sekere invloede van agtiende- en negentiende eeuse Engelse en Duitse romantisisme kan in Hans Christian Andersen se feëverhale bespeur word. Veral die rol van die verbeelding staan uit as ‘n dominante invloed van romantisisme, in teenstelling met die laat sewentien- en vroeë agtiende eeuse fokus op rasionaliteit. Dit is hierdie romantiese invloed wat Andersen se verhale veral versinnebeeld. Vir hom is die verbeelding transendentaal – ‘n mens kan die misterie en swaarkry van jou aardse bestaan oorkom deur situasies deur die oog van die verbeelding te bejeën en kan selfs deur die mag van die verbeelding opgehef word na ‘n hoër, meer spirituele vlak. Die transendentale mag van die verbeelding kan beter begryp word wanneer dit deur die lens van “negative capability” gesien word. Hierdie konsep is deur die romantiese digter, John Keats, voorgestel. Die konsep impliseer ‘n verbeeldingryke openheid in die aangesig van aardse onsekerheid en swaarkry, wat die mens uiteindelik in staat stel om nuwe potensiaal in moeilike omstandighede raak te sien. In uitgekose feëverhale, oorkom Andersen se kinderprotagoniste hul moeilike omstandighede deur die mag van die verbeelding. In ander verhale is die natuur deurslaggewend in dié transendentale verbeeldingsreis. Nie net dra die natuur geestelike waarhede oor nie, maar dit het ook ‘n moraliserende invloed op die karakters, wat hulle nader aan ‘n Opperwese bring. Dit herinner aan die Duitse Naturphilosophie, asook die sienswyse van Engelse romantikusse soos Coleridge en Wordsworth, vir wie die natuur ‘n deurgangsroete na die geestelike wêreld is. Die idee van die “sublime” is onderliggend aan hierdie filosofie. As die natuur deur middel van die verbeeldingslens, in plaas van deur ‘n empiriese lens bejeën word, kan dit ‘n manier word om die aardse te oorkom. Dit is dus ‘n boodskap van hoop wat in lyn is met Andersen se selfopgelegde taak as profeet wat sy kuns gebruik om die mensdom op te hef. In hierdie opsig is hy die absolute romantiese held of buitestaander, wat, ofskoon hy aan die buitewyke van die samelewing staan, tóg tekortkominge raaksien en geroepe voel om die weg na ‘n beter wêreld te wys.
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Pascoe, Gerald James. "A qualitative textual and comparative analysis of the representation of masculinity in the action and romantic comedy genres." Diss., 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/9027.
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This study is an exploration of the representation of masculinity in film, with particular focus on the way in which the leading male characters in a purposive sample of action genre and romantic comedy genre films represent masculinity. It is posited that masculinity is a construct, the meaning of which is dependent on the social context of the individual. Film being a social artefact could then possibly influence individuals understanding of the construct. Therefore an exploration of the kind of masculinity, the variations thereof across genres, and masculine characteristics of masculinity prevalent in each genre, is a first step in understanding possible influences of the definition of masculinity.
In order to accomplish this exploration, a combination of methods is used to analyse these fictional characters according to a set of codes and „real‟ world norms. The real world norms are based on seven theoretically derived norms of masculinity developed from previous research on masculinity conducted by Levant, Hirsch, Celentano, Cozza, Hill, MacEachern, Marty and Schnedekerl (1992).
The results of the findings from this study indicate that the way in which male characters are created for each genre are different, with male lead characters from the action genre having more characteristics that align with the „real‟ world norms of masculinity (Levant et al 1992). Alternatively, the male lead characters from the romantic comedy genre, have fewer characteristics that align with the seven theoretically derived norms of masculinity. The masculinity represented in the romantic comedy genre is more emotionally available and expressive, less aggressive, more compromising and reliant on others; while in the action genre masculinity is more independent, stoic, aggressive and more physically adventurous. The male lead characters in the romantic comedy genre are more about the emotional aspects of masculinity while the male lead characters in the action genre are more about the physical aspects of masculinity.Communication Science
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Balcarová, Markéta. "Had jako prostředek reflexe v textech o umělcích z období německého romantismu." Doctoral thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-353550.
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The submitted doctoral thesis examines the function and performance of the motive of a snake in four selected texts about artists of the German romantic period and perceives the snake as an attribute reflecting the problems of the artistic existence and a way to the artistic work, possibly of the artistic work at all. When interpreting the single motives of the snake, three-phase procedure as applied by Erwin Panofsky in description of the motives in the pictures has been chosen by analogy for literary texts. The interpretation is based on the structural position of the motive of the snake in the text and its performance in the text. Subsequently, the principal role is revelation of contexts which updates the given motive of the snake - in particular they are biblical snakes, mythical snakes and a serpentine line as a line of beauty which was the subject of the period aesthetic discourse. The meaning of the motive of the snake in the texts is given primarily by the mutual interaction of theme contexts which is in the single texts realized by various ways. The motive of the snake as formed in the single interpreted texts is a highly complex motive in all the cases. Thanks to the possibility of connotation with the snakes from the sphere of the Bible and mythology the literary motive of the snake becomes a...
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Oth, Adrien Pierre Henri [Verfasser]. "Source processes and spectral ground motion models of intermediate depth Vrancea (Romania) earthquakes = Herdprozesse und spektrale Modelle der Bodenbewegung von mitteltiefen Vrancea (Rumänien) Erdbeben / von Adrien Pierre Henri Oth." 2007. http://d-nb.info/986936901/34.
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