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AN UNINVITED PARTY: POWER, GAZE, AND WEDEKIND’S LULU
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Chon, ChuYoung
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Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2003, Master of Arts, Miami University, Theatre.
Abstract
This thesis consists of three sections, each looking at various receptions of Frank Wedekind’s Lulu plays. By summarizing a brief reception history of the plays, contradictory readings of the figure Lulu will be presented. I will argue that being a subject in the modern time, Lulu can be seen as a tragic victim who is cast into a network of power and gaze. What becomes evident is that the figure Lulu embodies a character much in advance of the era. In this, she is a postmodern phenomenon that has contradictory natures to the modern ideas of totality, rationality, centrality, and ‘the one.’ Though caught as an object in the “Panopticon,” she announces the destiny of modernity by showing its result of excessive exercise of power, a persisting projection in a disciplined society.
Committee
William Doan (Advisor)
Pages
72 p.
Subject Headings
Theater
Keywords
Frank Wedekind
;
Femme Fatale
;
Panopticism
;
Power
;
Gaze
;
postmodernity
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Chon, C. (2003).
AN UNINVITED PARTY: POWER, GAZE, AND WEDEKIND’S LULU
[Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1070577246
APA Style (7th edition)
Chon, ChuYoung.
AN UNINVITED PARTY: POWER, GAZE, AND WEDEKIND’S LULU.
2003. Miami University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1070577246.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Chon, ChuYoung. "AN UNINVITED PARTY: POWER, GAZE, AND WEDEKIND’S LULU." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1070577246
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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This open access ETD is published by Miami University and OhioLINK.