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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

Brown, Terri L.

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2008, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, Theatre and Film.
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.
Jonathan Chambers, PhD (Committee Chair)
James Forse, PhD (Committee Member)
Ronald Shields, PhD (Committee Member)
Margaret McCubbin, MFA (Committee Member)
269 p.

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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)