Naturalism and Avant-Garde as Aspects of Modernity in John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi / Imene Chiboub 

Public ISBD Titre : Naturalism and Avant-Garde as Aspects of Modernity in John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Imene Chiboub, Auteur ; Moufida Zaidi, Directeur de thèse Editeur : CONSTANTINE [ALGERIE] : Université Frères Mentouri Constantine Année de publication : 2020 Importance : 85 f. Format : 30cm. Note générale : Une copie electronique PDF disponible au BUC. Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Lettres et Langues Etrangères:Langue Anglaise Tags : John Webster  The Duchess of Malfi  Jacobean Tragedy  Traditional conventions  Modernity  Naturalism. Experimentalism. Avant-garde. Index. décimale : 420 Langue anglaise Résumé : John Webster is a Jacobean dramatist and contemporary of Shakespeare. His play, The Duchess of Malfi, is a quite enticing piece of literature that created controversial views and reactions for more than four centuries. The play was perceived as secondary to Shakespeare's and was criticized vis-à-vis the traditional conventions of Jacobean tragedies. Different readings of the play provided either a conventional analysis considering the Jacobean conventions or a dismissive criticism that saw the play in terms of melodrama and shed light only on the use of violence, blood, and waxworks. However, recent reactions of the nineteenth and twentieth century suggest new interest from a distinctive perspective that centers Modernity traits in the play. The present dissertation aims to regard The Duchess of Malfi as a stand-alone script based on its own merit in terms of the playwright's use of Naturalism. It also focuses on the fact that Webster's work was met with initial unacceptance, which brings into attention the experimenting and unorthodox nature of the work that meets the criteria of the Avant-Garde movement. Constructing on the previous, this inquiry is divided into two chapters. The first one is a theoretical chapter that includes theories of Naturalism, Life Force, and an explanation of the Avant-Garde movement. The second chapter includes the analysis of the play in terms of the previously viewed theories. As a Jacobean dramatist, John Webster, with his unconventional writing of TheDuchess of Malfi, had constructed a precursor play that is ahead of its time Diplome : Master 2 Permalink : https://bu.umc.edu.dz/master/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=13839 Naturalism and Avant-Garde as Aspects of Modernity in John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi [texte imprimé] / Imene Chiboub, Auteur ; Moufida Zaidi, Directeur de thèse . - CONSTANTINE [ALGERIE] : Université Frères Mentouri Constantine, 2020 . - 85 f. ; 30cm. Une copie electronique PDF disponible au BUC. Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Lettres et Langues Etrangères:Langue Anglaise Tags : John Webster  The Duchess of Malfi  Jacobean Tragedy  Traditional conventions  Modernity  Naturalism. Experimentalism. Avant-garde. Index. décimale : 420 Langue anglaise Résumé : John Webster is a Jacobean dramatist and contemporary of Shakespeare. His play, The Duchess of Malfi, is a quite enticing piece of literature that created controversial views and reactions for more than four centuries. The play was perceived as secondary to Shakespeare's and was criticized vis-à-vis the traditional conventions of Jacobean tragedies. Different readings of the play provided either a conventional analysis considering the Jacobean conventions or a dismissive criticism that saw the play in terms of melodrama and shed light only on the use of violence, blood, and waxworks. However, recent reactions of the nineteenth and twentieth century suggest new interest from a distinctive perspective that centers Modernity traits in the play. The present dissertation aims to regard The Duchess of Malfi as a stand-alone script based on its own merit in terms of the playwright's use of Naturalism. It also focuses on the fact that Webster's work was met with initial unacceptance, which brings into attention the experimenting and unorthodox nature of the work that meets the criteria of the Avant-Garde movement. Constructing on the previous, this inquiry is divided into two chapters. The first one is a theoretical chapter that includes theories of Naturalism, Life Force, and an explanation of the Avant-Garde movement. The second chapter includes the analysis of the play in terms of the previously viewed theories. As a Jacobean dramatist, John Webster, with his unconventional writing of TheDuchess of Malfi, had constructed a precursor play that is ahead of its time Diplome : Master 2 Permalink : https://bu.umc.edu.dz/master/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=13839

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