This thesis considers the interplay between real and imaginary travel in the works of Andre Gidé and Henri Michaux, whilst also positing that this interplay can manifest itself in an intermediate form, anticipated travel. ...

This thesis explores the Janus-like dynamic of the prose and verse writings of Nerval and Baudelaire, by analysing the ways in which they 'stretch' the boundaries of existing forms and subgenres as part of a mid-century ...

This thesis is an interdisciplinary study of two Irish translators, Nicholas Madgett and John Sullivan, incorporating approaches from translation studies and history. Drawing principally on French archival sources, the ...

This thesis presents the first detailed biography of the Savoyard poet, diplomat, and historiographer, Emmanuel-Philibert de Pingon (1525-1582) and the first critical edition of a selection of his works. Pingon wrote ...

This doctoral thesis focuses on the Waldensians, members of a Christian movement which originated in France in the twelfth century, and more specifically on their religious literature in the Occitan language. Many of these ...

Exerpt from introduction: When it comes to desire and love in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu, the traditional critical emphasis has been on the interiority, verging on solipsism, which seems to characterize these ...

This thesis argues that the primordial concern in Roger Caillois's oeuvre is his search for wholeness. It follows this search through Caillois's often controversial and always challenging involvement in a wide range of ...

This thesis proposes an investigation of contemporary and near-contemporary French poetry and an exploration of the poetic imagination, using a thematic approach based on a Jungian/Bachelardian concept of imaginary symbolism ...

The prolific body of work which Georges Perec produced in a remarkably short period of time is notoriously heterogeneous (from 1965, the date of publication of his first novel, Les Choses, until his death in 1982, his published ...

My thesis examines the development of an imaginative geography of urban space through the analysis of travel writing. By imaginative geography I refer to the epistemological categorisation through which French culture has ...