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Me and My Shadow: An Exploration of Doppelganger as Found in the Music and Text of Susan Glaspell's The Verge
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Brown, Terri L.
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1208826442
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2008, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, Theatre and Film.
Abstract
This study explores the use of, and reaction to, the music used in Susan Glaspell's The Verge. Through close textual and musical analysis, and by extension, historical investigation, the argument is made that Glaspell's The Verge is a virtual "shadow" play, or doppelganger, of Jacques Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffman, from which some of the music is taken. The exploration further contends that through the use of the hymn, Nearer, My God, To Thee, by Lowell Mason and Sarah Flower Adams, Glaspell also extends a vision of gender relations that reaches far beyond Hoffman's misogynistic, patriarchal space insofar as it creates a compellingly powerful religious viewpoint: an embodiment of the Christian Godhead, as a precursor to the late twentieth century social and existential feminist perspective.
Committee
Jonathan Chambers, PhD (Committee Chair)
James Forse, PhD (Committee Member)
Ronald Shields, PhD (Committee Member)
Margaret McCubbin, MFA (Committee Member)
Pages
269 p.
Subject Headings
Theater
Keywords
Susan Glaspell
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Doppelganger
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The Verge
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Tales of Hoffman
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First Wave Feminist Movement
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Brown, T. L. (2008).
Me and My Shadow: An Exploration of Doppelganger as Found in the Music and Text of Susan Glaspell's The Verge
[Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1208826442
APA Style (7th edition)
Brown, Terri.
Me and My Shadow: An Exploration of Doppelganger as Found in the Music and Text of Susan Glaspell's The Verge.
2008. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1208826442.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Brown, Terri. "Me and My Shadow: An Exploration of Doppelganger as Found in the Music and Text of Susan Glaspell's The Verge." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1208826442
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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