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MADE IN FRANCE: THE WORLD WARS AND THE ‘OTHER’ AVANT-GARDE
TRADITION
by
M. Marie Smart
____________________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(ENGLISH)
August 2013
Copyright 2013 M. Marie Smart
Object Description
| Title | Made in France: the World Wars and the 'other' avant-garde tradition |
| Author | Smart, M. Marie |
| Author email | mariesmart@rocketmail.com;ricesripps@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | English |
| School | College of Letters, Arts And Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2013-05-29 |
| Date submitted | 2013-07-30 |
| Date approved | 2013-07-30 |
| Restricted until | 2015-07-30 |
| Date published | 2015-07-30 |
| Advisor (committee chair) |
Mccabe, Susan Perloff, Marjorie |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Kemp, Anthony Flick, Robbert |
| Abstract | Made in France is a comparative study of the war aesthetics of Marcel Duchamp, Samuel Beckett, and Gertrude Stein. These artists are seminal figures of what Marjorie Perloff (using a phrase coined by John Ashbery) calls the ‘other tradition’ of the avant-garde: a tradition which rejects figurative and symbolic meaning, giving way to minimalistic, experimental aesthetics which often transgress the boundaries of visual, textual, and sound-based art. All three of these artists lived in Paris in the decades following World War I, and they were in France to witness the beginning of the Nazi Occupation during World War II. This is the first study which brings these important figures of the avant-garde together through their shared French contexts. This dissertation illustrates that Beckett, Stein, and Duchamp—despite their antithetical political and national identities—developed 'other' war aesthetics which pitted their conceptual sensibilities against the political mobilizations of the avant-garde in Europe. |
| Keyword | World War I; World War II; avant-garde; modernism; Marcel Duchamp; Samuel Beckett; Gertrude Stein |
| Language | English |
| Format (imt) | application/pdf |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Smart, M. Marie |
| Physical access | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-SmartMMari-1892.pdf |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume7/etd-SmartMMari-1892.pdf |
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| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | MADE IN FRANCE: THE WORLD WARS AND THE ‘OTHER’ AVANT-GARDE TRADITION by M. Marie Smart ____________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ENGLISH) August 2013 Copyright 2013 M. Marie Smart |
