French: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Irish Neutrality between Vichy France and de Gaulle
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The International Linguistic Association 59th Annual Conference
(2014)L?election presidentielle francaise se deroule en deux scrutins. Le second tour oppose les deux candidats arrives en tete au premier. Entre les deux tours, depuis 1974, un debat televise oppose les deux finalistes sur le ... -
Simultaneity of time and weather in 'exotic' climates: the experience of French writers in Africa and the Americas
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Les Rencontres des Muses: italianisme et anti-italianisme dans les lettres françaises de la fin du XVIe siècle (Geneva, Slatkine, 1992)
(1995)In this enlightening and comprehensive study, Jean Balsamo questions several traditional notions concerning Italy's influence on French Renaissance literature, notably the view that although it was at first positive, towards ... -
Jane Conroy (ed.) "Franco-Irish Connections: Essays, Memoirs and Poems in Honour of Pierre Joannon" Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2009
(2010)It is with some circumspection that this particular reviewer approaches a collection of articles ?in honour ? of someone. The danger of finding between the covers a disparate collection of articles aimed at eulogy and ... -
Jean-Philippe Beaulieu (ed.), Hélisenne de Crenne : les angoisses douloureuses qui procèdent d amour, Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne University Press, 2005
(2006)The first work of Marguerite Briet, known as Helisenne de Crenne, was the moralizing prose narrative Les Angoisses douloureuses qui procedent d'amour, and it is, with good reason, recognized as one of the most significant ... -
Only connect
(Portland Press, 2010)Synthesize and conclude: this is the brief which I was given in relation to the foregoing proceedings. A fascinating, though daunting, task. To synthesize inevitably involves a degree of subjectivity and, as Flaubert ... -
"The Future of the Front National in France"
(2009)The Future of the Front National in France The movement is not a spent force which will disappear with the demise of J-M Le Pen despite poor electoral results since 2007. Sarkozy appears to have occupied the political ...
