Autobiography, adaptation, and agency: Interpreting women's performance and writing strategies through a feminist lens

Lee-Brown, Elizabeth The University of Texas at Austin 2004 해외박사(DDOD)

This dissertation is an investigation of interpretive strategies of twentieth century women adapter/playwrights. Several are also performers: Wakako Yamauchi, Elizabeth Wong, Sheri Bailey, Anne Sexton, Pam Christian, Terry Galloway and Donna Nudd. The life experiences of these artists encompass a diversity of economic, social, ethnic, cultural and political backgrounds; their artistic work responds to and challenges a wide variety of cultural and psychological identity constructions that continue to prevail in our culture. In an effort to determine how their artistic processes impact their writing and performance practices, Lee-Brown investigates the ways in which these artists read and respond to their own art. In this study, Lee-Brown maps out a relationship among feminist theorizations of autobiography, adaptation, audience and agency. Autobiography is defined as the synthesis of lived and imagined experience, and adaptation is configured as an evolving process in which meanings are interpreted, reinterpreted, invented and re/membered. In this way, adaptation functions as a lens for viewing performance and performance texts as an unending exchange of meanings. Identifying re/membering as an act of reclamation, Lee-Brown argues that re/membering functions as an inherently political and feminist strategy by linking the personal and the collective. She explores the ways in which the personal histories of these artists resonate with broader cultural and social histories, creating a dynamic and often antagonistic relationship between personal and private experience and cultural and historical meaning systems. Feminist agency is configured in relation to individuality and collectivity. Lee-Brown locates the political impetus of the artists in this study around a search for affinity among women, rather than around a desire to group women according to a single, unified identity or struggle. Theorizations of difference, particularly theorizations by women of color, play an important role in defining the temporary yet critical role of these alliances. Situating the experiences and feminist theorizations of white women in conjunction with those of women of color, difference is articulated as a strategy not only for finding possible connections among women, but also as a method for critiquing the ways in which cultural and historical formulations of whiteness impact these alliances. In an effort to tease out the relationships among autobiography, adaptation, and agency, Lee-Brown considers the ways in which these artists configure their relationships with readers/audiences. She asks the question: what responses do these playwrights and performers intend to evoke from their audience members? Using feminist theorizations of agency as a lens for interpreting their artistic intentions, Lee-Brown identifies a number of strategies and tactics that are used by these artists and the common motifs that connect them. She argues that through their work as playwrights and performers, these artists generate political agency by promoting identity constructions that foster autonomy, self-reflexivity and political consciousness.

(A)study of characters in Browning's dramatic monologues

Lee, Hye-ja Hankuk University of Foreign Studies 1973 국내석사

THE ILLUSTRATION OF CHRISTOPHER PLANTIN'S BOOKS OF HOURS : TRADITIONS AND INNOVATIONS BEFORE AND AFTER THE COUNCIL OF TRENT

BOWEN, KAREN LEE Brown University 1995 해외박사

Making war: Metaphors of reconstruction and reconstruction of memory in the literature of the Great War

Rentfrow, Daphnee Michelle Lee Brown University 2001 해외박사(DDOD)

In <italic>Making War</italic> I argue that standard approaches to the literature of war problematically reify the very logic of war. Through the rhetoric of experience, the separation of literature into the categories combatant/non-combatant, the opposition between the Front and the Home Front, and the confusions posed by memoirs, autobiographies, propaganda and other non-canonical works, approaches to war literature insistently rely on a question of ‘the Real,’ offering texts as either “accurate” or not, gauging their ability to represent war or instead to display an “aesthetics of failure.” By arguing that war itself is a fiction, a cultural artifact susceptible to the vagaries of cultural production, I am able to examine the processes by which war is specifically <italic>made</italic>—chapters trace these processes as follows: “Making Men,” “Making Lies” “Making Memory,” “Making History.” Using a Derridean model of hauntological history, I am able to interrogate war as always already a figure of the past returned to the present, gesturing toward the future and back, both memory and history together. My study is divided into two sections, Bodies and Spaces. The first chapter examines the literal and figurative images of wounded and prostheticized soldiers (those who were technologically supplemented) and their role in a rhetoric of national reconstruction and literature and visual art's refusal of that reconstruction. Authors and artists examined here include Henri Barbusse, Erich Maria Remarque, Mary Borden, Ellen LaMotte, Evadne Price, Georges Duhamel, Dalton Trumbo, Otto Dix, and Max Beckmann. The second chapter studies the interpenetration of propaganda and the rhetoric of shell-shock in texts by Rebecca West, HD, and Ford Madox Ford. The next section includes a chapter on architectural commemoration with special attention to Käthe Kollwitz and Sir Edwin Lutyens, while the last chapter focuses on the figure of the ghost in post-armistice texts by Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf, and Siegfried Sassoon. The conclusion considers how this approach to Great War literature and culture offers insights into how the United States has narrated the Second World War and the Vietnam War to itself.

Teaching the nation: Pedagogical strategies of postcolonial francophone women writers and filmmakers (Assia Djebar, Malika Mokeddem, Algeria, Yamina Benguigui)

Walters, Lisa Lee Brown University 2003 해외박사(DDOD)

This dissertation began with the question, “What do we learn about the status of national identity from our analysis of the works of postcolonial francophone women writers and filmmakers?” As I began reading the novels and seeing the films of Assia Djebar, Malika Mokeddem and Yamina Benguigui, I became cognizant of the artists' need to react to the ideologies, literary movements and events that have served to colonize and influence them throughout history, keeping them in subservient roles. At the same time, I noticed their desire to create tactics to help them redefine their subject position. In other words, I became aware of what I will call the writers' pedagogy of the nation—a body of strategies designed to teach their readers about the struggles involved in negotiating one's identity, even as they tried to define them for themselves. In this dissertation, I do not deal with ‘curriculum, instruction and evaluation’ traditionally considered under the rubric of pedagogical goals. Rather, in my research, I highlight the ways in which pedagogical strategies are over-determined by political, historical, and economic concerns, especially when such tactics are designed to teach, authorize, or control others. I have chosen feminine postcolonial writers and filmmakers such as Assia Djebar, Malika Mokeddem and Yamina Benguigui because their works offer a unique approach to the question of pedagogy and identity in the postcolonial context. In my analysis, I tap into a long tradition of pedagogical theory (extending from Paulo Freire and Homi K. Bhabha to Henry Giroux and Chandra Talpade Mohanty) that examines the nature of pedagogical strategizing and the ways in which it has been mobilized, according to Henry Giroux (<italic>Between Borders, Impure Acts</italic>), to identify the race-, gender-, and class specific rationale of government and educational systems. Accordingly, I ask the following questions: how are language, style, and narration mobilized to deal with the status of national identity in works of fiction? How is meaning produced through cinematic techniques that narrate identity through means that appear objective? What are the belief systems and political biases which affect the choice of poetic strategies available to postcolonial artists? Whose interests do these systems and influences serve?.

FROM ROYAL TO PUBLIC ASSEMBLY SPACE : THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE "GREAT TEMPLE" COMPLEX AT PETRA, JORDAN (PALACE)

SCHLUNTZ, ERIKA LEE BROWN UNIVERSITY 1999 해외박사

Art-based modeling and rendering for computer graphics

Markosian, Lee Brown University 2000 해외박사(DDOD)

Over the centuries artists and illustrators have developed techniques to effectively convey visual information. In this dissertation we develop the idea that we can apply these techniques to increase the expressive power of 3D computer graphics. This leads us to seek to build a unified free-form modeling system with which a designer can amplify her skills with pencil and paper to model both the geometry and stylized look of virtual scenes. In part I we first develop algorithms for rendering finely tessellated smooth surfaces in the style of simple line drawings, and at interactive rates. We next develop a procedural texture framework that lets us divide a model into distinct regions, with each rendered according to what it represents (bricks on the walls of a castle, say, but wood planks on the drawbridge). We then use this framework to develop two new classes of rendering algorithms—one class performs simple hatched shading, the other adopts techniques of the children's book illustrator Dr. Seuss (and others) to render fur, grass and trees in a stylized manner. In part II we focus on the problem of modeling a scene's geometry through an interface that leverages an artist's 2D drawing skills. We begin with a new technique for constructing 3D curves from 2D input: The user draws a curve and its shadow as both would appear from given viewpoint, and the system computes the corresponding 3D curve. We next describe new algorithm for computing a free-form surface that smoothly fits over a collection of “primitives” such as generalized cylinders or other “swept” objects. Our intention is to integrate the two techniques so that an artist can quickly sketch such primitives with the help of the first technique, then oversketch them with the second technique to produce the desired free-form surface. The natural next step is to integrate the various parts into a single system for sketching both 3D shapes and the stylized rendering algorithms used to depict them.

High Pressure Hugoniot Measurements in Solids Using Mach Reflections

Brown, Justin Lee California Institute of Technology 2011 해외박사(DDOD)

Shock compression experiments provide access to high pressures in a laboratory setting. Matter at extreme pressures is often studied by utilizing a well controlled planar impact between two flat plates to generate a one dimensional shock wave. While these experiments are a powerful tool in equation of state (EOS) development, they are inherently limited by the velocity of the impacting plate. In an effort to dramatically increase the range of pressures which can be studied with available impact velocities, a new experimental technique is examined. The target plate is replaced by a composite assembly consisting of two concentric cylinders and is designed such that the initial shock velocity in a well characterized outer cylinder is higher than in the inner cylinder material of interest. After impact, conically converging shocks are generated at the interface due to the impedance mismatch between the two materials and the axisymmetric geometry. Upon convergence, an irregular reflection occurs and the conical analog of a Mach reflection develops. This Mach reflection grows until it reaches a steady state, for which an extremely high pressure state is concentrated behind the Mach stem. The reflection is studied using a combination of analytical, numerical, and experimental techniques. Ideas from gas dynamics, such as shock polars, are connected to the classic treatment of one-dimensional shocks in solids to form a simple method for treating the oblique reflections in the Mach lens configuration. Numerical simulations provide detailed full-field solutions and illustrate a methodology for extracting EOS information. The technique is validated experimentally by studying the shock response of copper and iron. Two different confining materials, 6061-T6 aluminum and molybdenum, are used to drive the converging shock waves for which the high pressure state is measured through a combination of velocity interferometry and impedance matching techniques.

Promoting resiliency in adolescent offenders through case stories and narrative construction

Brown, Victoria Lee University of Minnesota 2002 해외박사(DDOD)

Classrooms remain an underutilized component of residential treatment for adolescent offenders. To maximize treatment effectiveness, all program areas including the classroom should complement efforts to engage juvenile offenders in the process of change and transition. The intervention under study investigated the efficacy of using case stories and narrative construction to increase the accuracy of participant's attributions and increase their ability to apply personal strengths in problem solving. Participants were also trained to develop specific goals and implementation plans for transition into aftercare. This research study investigated the effectiveness of a class-based intervention on: (1) attribution bias, (2) solution generation, and (3) goal setting. Two juvenile offenders, ages 14 and 15, currently living at Boys Totem Town, a correctional facility in Ramsey County, Minnesota, and ten weeks from release into aftercare, were repeatedly assessed for changes in each variable. Results indicated that both participants held maladaptive attributions, but effect of treatment revealed ambiguous results. Implications and suggestions for future study are included.

The Relationship Between Resilience and Innovation in the Microeconomics Business Market

Brown, Eric Lee Grand Canyon University ProQuest Dissertations & T 2020 해외박사(DDOD)

There is a strong need for microbusinesses to survive and grow to help boost the economy in Detroit. The City of Detroit still has not fully recovered from the largest municipal bankruptcy filing of close to approximately twenty billion a few years ago in the United States. Microbusiness owners are one of the major keys to turn around cities and states from economic ruin. However, microbusiness owners have a difficult task of coping with operating their companies while striving to become more innovative to survive and grow with a lack of resources. The purpose of this quantitative correlational study is to determine if and to what extent there is a relationship between resilience and innovation in the microeconomics business market in the state of Michigan in the United States. The research design is a correlational analysis. The researcher used the Connor and Davidson Resilience Framework as the theoretical outline which led the research question for this study. The researcher collected primary data via an electronic survey administered to a convenience sample from 84 entrepreneurs in Detroit. The researcher used the nonparametric Spearman’s rho correlation to analyze the relationship between resilience and innovation. The results of this study showed there was no significant relationship between resilience and innovation (p >.008). Microbusiness owners will benefit from the insight gained from this study to make more informed decisions to become more innovative. Future research should examine the specific problematic areas, which would include larger sample sizes that could give more insight into the relationship between resilience and innovation.