Dissertation Index
Author: Bhogal, Gurminder Title: Maurice Ravel, Metric Dissonance, Art Nouveau, Ornament, French Aesthetics, Symbolism, Arabesque Institution: University of Chicago Begun: unspecified Completed: August 2004 TOC: CHAPTER 1. RHYTHM AS ORNAMENT CHAPTER 2. HISTORIES OF ARABESQUE CHAPTER 3. ORNAMENT, TRAGEDY, AND THE 'FEMME FATALE' IN RAVEL'S 'ONDINE' (1908) CHAPTER 4. "D'UNE FAIBLESSE EXTREME": ARABESQUE AND METRIC DISSONANCE IN 'DAPHNIS ET CHLOE' (1912) CHAPTER 5. THE DISENCHANTMENT OF ORNAMENT IN THE 'TRIO' (1914) EPILOGUE: THE DECLINE OF ORNAMENT Contact: Gurminder Bhogal gkbhogal@uchicago.edu |