Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Ponge, Francis Criticism and interpretation'

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O presente trabalho tem por objetivo observar como opera a pendularidade entre poesia e crítica da poesia na obra de Murilo Mendes (1901-1975) e Francis Ponge (1899-1988). O brasileiro e o francês procedem à fusão de discurso da obra e discurso sobre a obra num movimento em que sujeito lírico e crítico (eles mesmos ficcionais) se encontram em permanente tensão. Entendendo poesia e crítica como atividades reflexivas fundamentadas na linguagem, as questões principais às quais pretendemos nos lançar são: a) Como se configura e opera pendularidade e indistinção entre discurso poético e crítico em Murilo Mendes e Francis Ponge? b) Como se configura a voz poético-crítica para se adequar a um ato de dupla face como esse? c) O que se depreende da aproximação ou do distanciamento da conduta lírico-crítica, levando-se em consideração subjetividade e objetividade? Nesse sentido, esta Tese busca ler comparativamente os dois poetas tendo por horizonte poesia e crítica enquanto atos indistintos, de caráter inacabado, em que autor e leitor participam ativamente. Assim, os poemas aparecem como atos que configuram uma prática literária, que é lírica, crítica e criativa, a um só tempo. No centro dessa prática, os sujeitos lírico-críticos manipulam a criação partindo de um corpo-a-corpo com o texto, como fica claro com as obras que selecionamos para este estudo: de Murilo Mendes, O discípulo de Emaús (1945), Convergência (1970), Poliedro (1972) e Retratos-relâmpago (1973); de Francis Ponge, Proêmes (1948), Méthodes (1961), Pour un Malherbe (1965) e La table (1981). Poesia e crítica, então, podem ser compreendidas no sentido da poiesis, de uma construção que coloca em crise (cuja raiz etimológica é a mesma que a da palavra crítica) o lírico, o crítico, a prosa, a poesia, bem como uma ideia fechada de literatura e de gêneros literários.
This study aims at observing how the pendularity between poetry and poetry criticism operates in the work of Murilo Mendes (1901-1975) and Francis Ponge (1899-1988). The Brazilian and the French merge the work’s speech and the speech about the work into a movement in which the lyrical and the critical subject (fictional themselves) find each other in constant tension. Having the understanding of poetry and criticism as reflective activities based in language, the main questions we intend to present are: a) How is the pendularity and indistinctness between poetic and critical speech designed and operated for Murilo Mendes and Francis Ponge? b) How is the poetical and critical voice designed to fit a double-sided act as this one? c) What is interpreted from the approach and distancing from the critical and lyrical behavior, taking into consideration subjectivity and objectivity? On this regard, this Thesis seeks a comparative reading of both poets, having as an outlook, poetry and criticism as indistinct acts of unfinished character in which author and reader are active participants. Thus, the poems are shown as acts that design a literary practice which is lyrical, critical and creative, all at the same time. At the center of this practice, the lyrical and critical subjects manipulate the creation by jostling with the text, as seen in the pieces we have selected for this study: Murilo Mendes’ O discípulo de Emaús (1945), Convergência (1970), Poliedro (1972) and Retratos-relâmpago (1973); and Francis Ponge’s Proêmes (1948), Méthodes (1961), Pour un Malherbe (1965) and La table (1981). Therefore, poetry and criticism can be understood in the same meaning as poiesis, a construction that sets into crisis (whose etymological root is the same as the critical word) the lyrical, the critical, the prose, the poetry as well as an idea of closed literature and literary genders.
Ce travail a pour objectif d’observer comment opère le pendule entre poésie et critique de poésie dans l’œuvre de Murilo Mendes (1901-1975) et Francis Ponge (1899-1988). Le Brésilien et le Français procèdent à la fusion de discours de l’œuvre et discours sur l’œuvre dans un mouvement dans lequel le sujet lyrique et le critique (eux-mêmes fictionnels) se trouvent en une permanente tension. En comprenant poésie et critique comme des activités réflexives fondées sur le langage, voici les questions principales auxquelles nous prétendons nous lancer : a) Comment se configure et opère le pendule et l’indistinction entre discours poétique et critique chez Murilo Mendes et Francis Ponge ? b) Comment se configure la voix poétique-critique pour s’adapter à cet acte à double-face ? c) Qu’est-ce qu’on peut conclure de l’approximation ou du recul de la démarche lyrico-critique, quand on considère subjectivité et objectivité ? À cet égard, cette Thèse cherche une lecture comparative de poètes, en ayant pour horizon la poésie et la critique comme des actes indistincts, de nature inachevée, dans lesquels auteur et lecteur participent activement. Ainsi, les poèmes apparaissent comme des actes qui configurent une pratique littéraire critique, lyrique et créative en même temps. Au centre de cette pratique, les sujets lyrico-critiques manipulent la création par un corps à corps avec le texte, comme nous pouvons le voir nettement dans le corpus de ce travail : de Murilo Mendes, O discípulo de Emaús (1945), Convergência (1970), Poliedro (1972) et Retratos-relâmpago (1973) ; de Francis Ponge, Proêmes (1948), Méthodes (1961), Pour un Malherbe (1965) et La table (1981). De cette manière, la poésie et la critique peuvent être comprises au sens de la poiesis, d’une construction qui porte la crise (dont la racine étymologique est la même que celle de critique) du lyrique, du critique, de la prose, de la poésie, aussi bien qu’une idée fermée de la littérature et des genres littéraires.

Le texte poétique devient, au XXe siècle, de plus en plus difficile à définir. Il a perdu plusieurs attributs qui aidaient autrefois à le caractériser (vers, rimes, parallélismes), et ne se laisse pas non plus circonscrire par le biais du lyrisme :bon nombre de poètes, en effet, ont abandonné le programme de la "poésie pure" pour renouer avec un art descriptif, narratif ou argumentatif. Dès lors, faut-il considérer que l'organisation poétique n'est qu'une structure de surface qui se surajoute à un type de texte de base, en entraînant certaines conséquences sur le plan sémantique et grammatical ?N'existe-t-il pas malgré tout des propriétés typiques de l'oeuvre poétique, qui permettent d'instaurer un rapport tout à fait particulier entre le lecteur, le langage et le monde ?

Nous avons voulu nous pencher sur ces questions en explorant le phénomène de l'hétérogénéité discursive chez quelques poètes francophones du XXe siècle. Nous constaterons que ceux-ci n'hésitent pas à décrire, à raconter ou à argumenter, mais nous verrons aussi que la poésie tend à transfigurer les schémas de base auxquels elle s'allie, si bien qu'un récit en vers n'est pas du tout semblable à son homologue en prose. C'est par cet angle d'approche que nous espérons contribuer à faire mieux comprendre le mystère poétique, qui déroute terriblement les jeunes lecteurs.
Doctorat en philosophie et lettres, Orientation langue et littérature
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xiv, 141 p. : ill. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.
Twentieth-century British figurative painter Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is perhaps best known for his near-obsessive series of papal paintings inspired by Diego Velazquez' renowned portrait Pope Innocent X (1650) and created over the course of Bacon's entire artistic career. The artist's working process plays a crucial role in understanding this celebrated and varied series. Bacon deliberately avoided Velazquez' "original" portrait, preferring instead to work with photographic reproductions of the piece alongside a large collection of seemingly disparate visual material in his chaotic studio at 7 Reece Mews (South Kensington, London, England). This thesis proposes that Bacon explored issues of mechanization, fragmentation, and repetition through these visual juxtapositions in order to offer a critique of artistic and religious institutions.
Committee in Charge: Dr. Kate Mondloch, Chair; Dr. Lauren G. Kilroy; Dr. Ellen Rees

In spite of the enormous resurgence of critical interest in minor figures of the Victorian era over the last twenty years, almost no attention has been paid to Francis Turner Palgrave (1824-1897). In his own age, he was respected as a man of letters, educator, art critic, poet, friend of Alfred Tennyson, and editor of The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language, first published in 1861. This dissertation attempts to make good that neglect in two ways: firstly, through an analysis of his life and times, an assessment of his writings as an art and literary critic, an examination of his considerable corpus of original poetry, and the compilation of the first comprehensive bibliography of his own publications. This bibliography is accompanied by a checklist of manuscript sources and a listing of secondary materials about Palgrave himself. Secondly, the dissertation makes the first systematic examination of the Golden Treasury, its genesis and editing principles, its critical reception, and its publication history. This detailed study is accompanied by eight appendices giving bibliographical information about the form and contents of the four major editions of the Treasury published in Palgrave's lifetime, along with a listing of sources and a checklist of contemporary reviews. Throughout the dissertation, the intellectual concerns that led Palgrave to develop a set of fixed principles for judging all art and literature are examined in order to establish that, like his friend Matthew Arnold, he was a committed Hellenist, who insisted that all poetry conform to what he perceived as the "Homeric" ideals of simplicity and unadorned language. The Golden Treasury, in particular, is based on an ideal of "unity" which Palgrave used to justify the many editorial excisions and variant readings which are such a feature of the volume's texts. It is impossible to account fully for the unprecedented success of the Golden Treasury, which has continued to be reprinted in a variety of editions from the time of its first publication until the present, but one of its most important features is that it is the first anthology of English lyric poetry to declare itself complete: Palgrave insisted that the book contained all the best lyrics in the English language. Just as significant is the fact that it is the first anthology by a professional educator who refused to make his selections on the basis of their morally improving qualities, but relied instead on poetic excellence alone. "Francis Turner Palgrave and The Golden Treasury," therefore, attempts to account for the extraordinary success of the Golden Treasury and to examine one of the nineteenth-century's more interesting minor figures, one who was a friend of some of the most brilliant men of his day, including Jowett, Browning, Arnold, Clough, and Gladstone; a recognised minor poet of the "contemplative" school which included Arnold and Clough; and a well-known champion of the Pre-Raphaelite painters.
Arts, Faculty of
English, Department of
Graduate

Preface: An awareness of certain contradictory perceptions and assumptions regarding religious beliefs today and their relevance to art prompted a question which led to the research undertaken in this minithesis. The question was: how significant is the absence or presence of religious beliefs to the modern creative process? The writings of some theologians, sociologists, psychologists, and anthropologists seem to indicate that religious beliefs are fundamental to the functioning of society and the individuals who are part of it. Furthermore, even a cursory study of the history of art will demonstrate the strong bond between pre-nineteenth century image making and organised religion. Today, however, this relationship appears uncertain or even non-cxistant. This is a result of processes which began to gain strength in the nineteenth century: these include the industrial revolution, scientism and materialism. Peter Fuller, stated that among the most central questions affecting art is, "the severance of the arts from religious tradition and their existence within an increasingly secular culture." (Fuller, 1990, p. 189). This statement appears to bring the issues together very neatly. Firstly there is the assertion that religion has nourished and been a vital force behind art through the ages, and that, modern art has lost this source of vitality. Secondly, there is the contention tbat society, since the nineteenth century, has become increasingly secular, and that this has had (and is having) a radical effect on modern art. That art has been divorced from religion and that religion is disappearing, or will do so, is the logical conclusion, according to theorists who insist on institutional religion as the only true form. Some artists, for whom the absence or presence or loss of religious beliefs are important issues, may in this situation experience a creative crisis. In order to address these issues it was necessary to investigate whether religious beliefs are important to artistic endeavour and, if so, what the consequences of the absence of beliefs might be. For this reason, research into the nature of religion and the modem religious situation was initiated. The purpose of the extensive discussion on the nature of religion was to establish definitions of, or a view of, religion which could provide a sound basis for this investigation of the issues that have been outlined. In order to demonstrate whether religious beliefs are important to the creative process, Francis Bacon was chosen for discussion because he appeared to be a modern artist who had no religious beliefs and was thus an ideal example by which the consequences of this could be gauged.

In this thesis I investigate the nature of noir subjectivity, and the degree to which it can be described as heroic. To investigate these issues, I have chosen to illustrate my argument by analysing my novel, Viper, and two films that renew the noir cycle at different socio-political crossroads in America: in 1958, Alfred Hitchcock???s late noir, Vertigo, and in 1974, Frances Ford Coppola???s neo-noir, The Conversation. Because these texts present an extreme theorisation of deception in terms of the assembling and erasure of subjective identity, they will serve as a basis to explore the question of noir subjectivity. In proceeding thus, I argue in the dissertation that film noir???s most innovative borrowing can be described as a monstrous stitching together of incompatible parts???the real and the imaginary, the past and the present, the living and the dead???which accounts for a cut both between, and within, the image. It is this prosthetic approach to representation that takes the noir mode beyond its existential, individualist limits, and accounts for the subjective wound in noir: the heroic conflict between the singular and the multiple. In my analytic procedure then, I extend the idea of monstrosity beyond its current boundaries in contemporary theory. I do this by fusing Marie H??l??ne Huet???s conception of the monstrous imagination, which is a theory of art, with Gilles Deleuze???s powers of the false, which belongs to a philosophy of time. I posit a dialogic exchange across these analyses and my novel to suggest that the cinematic cut not only accounts for what Deleuze has termed the time-image but also is symptomatic of the chronic wounding of the riven noir hero. These analyses suggest that, while sustaining the aura of authorship through technical innovation and stylistic mastery, film noir serves paradoxically to challenge the mastery of the model designated as masculine. In my novel I continue to deal with the issues raised in the dissertation, through a rearticulation of a subjectivity that irrevocably alters its relation to representation in its affinity with the image, its serial movement through interstitial space, and its novel powers of falsification.

The primary purpose of this study is to examine the effects of the social and cultural revolution in post-World War One American society on gender relationships in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novels and a selection of his short stories. In his fictional works, Fitzgerald becomes a kind of social and cultural historian, reflecting the fundamental changes that began to occur in the 1920s. There were many factors that contributed to this Jazz-Age revolution in "manners and morals": the emancipation of women, giving rise to the American New Woman; the influence of Freud and his psychoanalytic theories on the already blossoming sexual revolution; and the mechanization and commercialization of all aspects of life in the machine age, drastically altering the way men and women had traditionally thought, behaved, and, communicated with one another.

During the 1910s, there was an increasing concerted effort on the part of Canadian artists to create art and literature which would affirm Canada's sense of nationhood and modernity. Although in agreement that Canada desperately required its own culture, the Canadian artistic community was divided on what Canadian culture ought to be. For the majority of Canadian painters, writers, critics and readers, the future of the Canadian arts, especially poetry and painting, lay in Canada's past. These cultural conservatives championed art which mirrored its European and Canadian predecessors. Their domination of the arts left little room for the progressive minority, who rebelled against prevailing artistic standards. In painting, the Group of Seven was one of the first groups to challenge this stranglehold on Canadian culture. The Group waged a protracted and vocal campaign for the advancement of Canadian approaches and subjects. In literature, A. J. M. Smith and F. R. Scott began a similar movement to modernize Canadian poetry and reform critical standards. By examining the poetry, essays, criticism and archival material of these poets and painters, the thesis establishes strong parallels between the modernist campaigns of these two groups and investigates this cross-fertilization between the modern Canadian arts.

This thesis explores issues surrounding the question of using a literature-based assignment to teach composition at the college freshman level. Following a review of the critical debate on the use of literature in the composition classroom, spanning the last five decades, a specific work of literature is used as the basis for a writing assignment to be given to a freshman composition class.

This thesis is an analysis of the manner in which the persona and works of Ben Jonson were appropriated – between the Restoration, in 1660, and the retirement of David Garrick, in 1776 – to reflect the political and social concerns of the age. Unlike previous studies, rather than primarily focusing on the stage history of Jonson, I analyse a wide range of sources – produced both within and outwith the theatre – in order to explore, across a variety of media, a breadth of material which appropriates the playwright and his works. I shall consider in my first main chapter the appropriations of Jonson within the Restoration court, in particular noting the assimilation of the playwright's work to what might be styled a proto-Tory ideology, as well as the way in which his plays could mirror the destabilising effects of the king's romantic liaisons. In my second chapter, I explore the moral reformation at the turn of the eighteenth century, in which we can see appropriations of Jonson which cast his works as being primarily didactic. The third chapter moves the narrative of the thesis into the years of the premiership of Sir Robert Walpole. I shall consider the way in which the playwright's works – especially The Alchemist and Eastward Ho! – were seen as being especially relevant to an age of speculation and mercantile endeavour, as well as examining the manner in which the figures of Sejanus and Volpone were appropriated to mock the increasingly unpopular premier. In the final chapter, I shall offer an analysis of Garrick's seminal portrayal of Drugger in the contexts of the political philosophy of the mid-eighteenth century, considering the manner in which it was interpreted alongside the character's further appropriations by Francis Gentleman. The thesis concludes by exploring political appropriations of Jonson up to the present day.

L’Atelier contemporain recueille la plupart des textes sur l’art de Francis Ponge. Malgré sa réputation de « poète des choses », celui-ci n’y écrit pourtant pas avant tout sur les œuvres finies (les tableaux), mais plutôt sur les artistes mêmes. S’appuyant sur un approfondissement de la conceptualisation de la poétique pongienne comme érotique entre le sujet et l’objet, ce mémoire cherche à découvrir, à travers les questions particulières que la peinture pose à l’écriture de Ponge, les raisons du déplacement du regard de l’écriture de la chose muette à la personne parlante. Il semble que Ponge, face à des œuvres artistiques non verbales, soit à la recherche d’une signifiance qu’il ne peut trouver, ce qui l’oblige à se tourner vers les personnes. Mais ces personnes finissent toujours par céder la première place, dans L’Atelier contemporain, au « je » du poète.
Francis Ponge’s L’Atelier contemporain is a collection of most of his texts on art. In those texts, despite Ponge’s reputation of “poet of things”, his primary focus is not put on the finished works (the paintings), but rather on the artists themselves. Supported on a deepening of the conception of Ponge’s poetic as an erotic relation between the subject and the object, this master’s thesis aims at discovering, through the specific questions that painting asks to writing, the reasons of the shifting of the look from the mute things to the talking persons. It seems that Ponge, facing non-verbal artistic works, is seeking a power of significance that he cannot find, which forces him to turn towards the persons. However, these persons always yield, in L’Atelier contemporain, to the poetic subject.

Bibliography: p. 313-324.
xii, 324 p., [31] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, School of Humanities, 2005