French (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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Photographic motifs in Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2007)This thesis addresses the question of the assimilation of photography into French literary culture in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century, specifically in relation to Marcel's Proust's A la recherche du temps ... -
Elucidating the relationship between linguistic from and literary function in a corpus of French literary texts from the second half of the nineteenth century using text analysis software
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2007)The intention was to compile a collection of texts, which was representative of both 'standard French' and argot from 1865 to 1895. It was decided at the outset that the corpus would contain only written texts. The ... -
God's warriors : Port-Royal - the construction of a powerful sisterhood (1609-1709)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2005)This thesis offers a new interpretation of the community of Port-Royal from its reform in 1609 to its destruction in 1709, focusing on the active development by its members of a distinctive religious space, rather than on ... -
Écritures africaines de l'exil parisien
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2001)This thesis is an analysis of the representation of Parisian exile in seven African novels in French. The novels are studied in chronological order, thus illustrating the social and psychological evolution of the theme ... -
Literary selfhood : autofiction and the construction of personal identity in the work of Nina Bouraoui
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2014)The problem of "identity" forms a central theme of much contemporary French life- writing, and within recent work by women writers, and writers from other minority backgrounds, the autobiographical enterprise is often ... -
A feminist reading of the mother-daughter relationship in Gabrielle Roy and Francine Noël
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2008)This thesis proposes a feminist reading of the mother-daughter relationship in the writings of Gabrielle Roy and Francine Noel. The texts discussed have been selected due to their feminist nature and to the importance that ... -
From the mirror to the mask : techniques of self-representation in Charles Baudelaire, Odilon Redon and James Ensor
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2004)This thesis considers the question of self-representation in the art and literature of nineteenth-century France and Belgium. The evolution from the mirror to the mask as a means of representing self is discussed through ... -
Subjects not-at-home : the uncanny in Marie NDiaye, Emmanuel Carrère and Eugène Savitzkaya
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2008)This thesis is a study of the ways in which contemporary French writers exploit the themes, imagery and dynamics of the uncanny (das Unheimliche) to generate a repertoire of narrative tactics for the portrayal of the chez ...
