Browsing by Author "Allen, Elizabeth"

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    A Comparative Study of the Effects of Gender on Travel Writing in Pierre Loti's Madame Chrysanthème and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Turkish Embassy Letters
    (2007) Zackey, Meredith; Allen, Elizabeth; Roberts, Deborah H.
    My thesis is a comparison of two texts: Madame Chrysanthème, by Pierre Loti, and Turkish Embassy Letters, by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Loti was a French author and sailor writing in the late 19th century and Montagu was an English noblewoman writing in the early 18th century. In my thesis, I argue that Montagu, as the first female travel writer, must undergo several transitions; these transitions are from passive observed to active participant, from occupying a role in society which limits her to fixed interactions with a select group of people to occupying a role in society which allows her to engage with various groups, and from proper, formal actions to adventurous and informal actions. By undergoing these transitions, Montagu is able to embrace her role as female travel writer and define this role for women to follow. Montagu must undergo changes to her social role and her gender role in order to embrace this role, however. A female travel writer must be an active participant, capable of accessing society at various levels and not afraid to be adventurous and informal, and Montagu's confining English social and gender role do not allow for these qualities. Loti's role as an established male travel writer, on the other hand, precludes changes to his social or gender role. Loti exists in a strong tradition of male travel writers, and it is because he is so rooted in this imperialist tradition of dominance over the Other that he cannot undergo changes to his social or gender role.
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    Borrowed tongues: Djebar and Roy and the colonizer's language
    (2001) Talcott, L. Christina; Anyinefa, Koffi, 1959-; Allen, Elizabeth
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    Correspondence with the Dead; Poetic Identity and Translation in Lorca’s 'Poeta en Nueva York' and Spicer’s 'After Lorca'
    (2012) Swomley, Olivia; Burshatin, Israel; Allen, Elizabeth
    My thesis analyzes poetic identity and correspondence in two works: Federico García Lorca’s Poeta en Nueva York and Jack Spicer’s After Lorca. Poeta describes New York City as a metropolitan monster. By denying his own poetic voice and using violent images of voids and victimization, Lorca depicts the city’s desolation as contributing to his own fragmented poetic identity. For Lorca, paradox is essential to poetry, and he uses contradictory images to construct a fractured poetic identity for himself and the city. After Lorca draws on the ambiguities of Lorca’s identity, as embodied in Poeta, through the conflation of Spicer’s poetic identity with Lorca’s. The flirtatious dialogue between the two poets in After Lorca emphasizes a correspondence theory of translation, with each poet speaking through time to contribute and respond to the poetic tradition. In addition to translating Lorca’s work, Spicer is also translating Lorca himself, for through their correspondence, Spicer helps to construct a poetic afterlife for himself and Lorca.
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    La Vie Bohème: Problems of Representation in Murger and Larson
    (2007) Zukaitis, Kat; Schönherr, Ulrich; Allen, Elizabeth
    Bohemia is characterized by impermanence. The economic situations, love affairs, living arrangements, employment, and tastes of its inhabitants are deliberately short-lived, a feature that they encourage in order to differentiate themselves from the bourgeoisie. The art of the Bohemians, however, manifests a desire for stability and permanence that is rarely found elsewhere in their lives. The contradiction between the orientation of life and art contributes to the disillusionment and abandonment of Bohemia in Murger; Larson, however, attempts to reconcile the contradiction by insisting on a celebration of the ephemeral, that is, living only in the present.
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