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Identifier |
000390557 |
Title |
Γοτθική αισθητική και νεωτερική αστική κουλτούρα στο Παρίσι των αρχών του 20ου αιώνα : Εικονογραφία της πόλης και κατασκευή της ετερότητας στο φάντασμα της όπερας |
Author
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Παλόγου, Ιωάννα
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Thesis advisor
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Β. Αράπογλου
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Reviewer
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Χ. Κωνσταντινίδου
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Reviewer
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Β. Ρωμανός
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Abstract |
The dissertation explores the contested and ambiguous aspects of urban identities and
culture of the ‘modern Paris’ by comparing the images of the monumental architecture
of the Opera Garnier to its representation in a Gothic novel telling how a ghost helped in
the construction and then inhabited the opera building. The theoretical framework
draws on the iconographic approach, especially as employed in ‘new cultural
geography’, viewing urban landscapes as encoded texts, whose meaning can be
deciphered from their historical context, and therefore establishing a common ground
between disciplines like sociology, geography, literature and history. The review refers
specifically to Walter Benjamin and his critique of the phantasmagorias of urban life
through the study of Paris in the Arcades Project. Το consider how modern identities can
be shaped in urban spaces, I revert to the work of Sennett and Sibley and their emphasis
on the role of urban spectacles and urban planning in the construction of gendered
identities and forms of otherness. Crucial to the understanding of modern culture and
modern identities is critical literary theory, considering gothic literature as a means of
criticizing the values and norms of white male middle‐class culture, that were rooted in
Enlightment, while, at the same time, treating gothic landscapes as symbolic sites of
otherness and ‘abjection’ of white male middle‐class anxieties. My analysis focuses on
the Opera Garnier, one of the most important cultural monuments of modernity and
part of the ambitious plan of Baron Haussmann for the urban transformation of Paris in
19th century. First, I analyze the Opera through a series of symbolic images that were
connected to the memory of the Second Empire, the myth of Paris and the
phantasmagoria of the urban culture. Then I juxtapose these images to the ones of a
haunted Opera House, to its underground and ill‐lit labyrinth passages, as they were
represented in a gothic novel of the early 20th century, The Phantom of the Opera. The
symbolic meanings of the gothic novel expose the class basis of the modernization of
Paris and, more broadly, facilitate the critique of the myth of modernity, i.e. the belief
that social progress entails a radical break from the past, undertaken by rational
knowing subjects.
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Language |
Greek |
Subject |
Gothic |
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Modernity |
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Opera |
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Γοτθική αισθητική |
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Νεωτερικότητα |
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Οπερα |
Issue date |
2014 |
Collection
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School/Department--School of Social Sciences--Department of Sociology--Post-graduate theses
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Type of Work--Post-graduate theses
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Permanent Link |
https://elocus.lib.uoc.gr//dlib/6/0/d/metadata-dlib-1424954246-504112-32163.tkl
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