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French Literature and Peace: 1919-1939
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Conspiracies and Secret Societies in Interwar French Literature
… of secret societies and conspiracies occupied in literature in France in between the two World Wars, reappearing in various guises in works by authors across aesthetic and ideological traditions. My examination situates these literary representations within their political and social context, …
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Specularity in Late Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Art
<p>In the mid-to-late 1800s, French writers and artists resolved to shed their Romantic skins in favor of new self-conscious "husks"--to borrow Baudelaire's poetic term--that is to say: Naturalism, Realism, Impressionism and Symbolism. Some of the older reformers found themselves in an awkward, …
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“Revolution” in the Epic Form in Contemporary French Literature
… challenges how this form has been formulated in French literary theory in the 1960s and 1970s, most notably intertextual theory. Contrary to the critical view proposed by Julia Kristeva and, later, Franco Moretti that the epic form is monological, that is, reducible to a single perspective, …
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The Representation of Jewelry in 19th-Century French Literature
Often overlooked, yet still a significant and visible social code, jewelry and its symbolic power are barely analyzed in literary criticism. In this thesis, by tracing jewelry's various functions and representations throughout the 19th century, one discovers its ability to also blur and reinforce …
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Collecting as Self-Exploration in Late 19th-Century French Literature
… study examines how this meaning was developed in French literature at the end of the 19th century. I consider how collecting investigates the self, exercises the powers of the mind, inquires into the individual's relationship to society and to texts. The study takes, as its point of departure, …
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Warrior Women and the Shaping of Narrative in Medieval French Literature
… Women and the Shaping of Narrative in Medieval French Literature</em> focuses on the representation of women warriors in medieval French literature, but it is also concerned with contemporaneous historical accounts and texts. Additionally, it examines representations of the woman as warrior in a …
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“A French 9/11”? French literature in the wake of terrorism
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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Women’s queer identities in French literature at the turn of the nineteenth century
This thesis will analyse, for the first time, the literary lives and creative output of four queer women living and writing in France at the fin de siècle – Rachilde, Liane de Pougy, Natalie Clifford Barney and Armen Ohanian. Spanning the period from 1884 through to 1931, this thesis will examine …
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Against the grain: the poetics of non-normative masculinity in decadent french literature
… of masculinity as a literary concept in Decadent literature by Jean Lorrain (Monsieur de Phocas), Rachilde (Monsieur Vénus and La Tour d’amour), and Octave Mirbeau (Le Calvaire), in order to demonstrate how the Decadent movement both appropriated and subverted patriarchal assumptions surrounding …
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L'Auguste Autrichienne : representations of Marie-Antoinette in 19th century French literature and history
… king of France. From the onset of her arrival, French writers made attempts to capture what they observed. However, personal bias, political leanings, and accepted rumor led them to do more than record what they saw. Rather than simply narrate a scene, these early witnesses of Marie-Antoinette …
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Laurent Binet's HHhH: Historiographic Metafiction in Contemporary French Literature about World War II
… decades, a considerable number of contemporary French authors have employed metafiction—a narrative mode in which texts themselves purposefully call attention to the fact that they are fiction—when writing novels which attempt to grapple with traumatic events, namely World War II and the …
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Shades of Gay: Representations of Male Same-Sex Desire in French Literature, Culture, and Ideology from 1789-1926
… Gay: Representations of Male Same-Sex Desire in French Literature, Culture, and Ideology from 1789-1926," provides a critical overview of ways of representing homosexuality in France from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. More specifically, I contend that the emergent …
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The Politics of the Grotesque: Goya's 'Caprichos' and French Literature and Graphic Art in the Nineteenth Century (c.1799-1868).
… first examines the spread of Goya’s work in the French market, which became the main receptor of the Spanish artist. The discovery of Goya in France goes in parallel with the general trend towards Spanish culture, peaking in the 1830s and again in the 1860s, highlighting the creation of …
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Expanded Universes: Reading French Literature of the Long Thirteenth Century with Twentieth and Twenty-First Century American Comics and Fandom Practices
… it. The second part reads vernacular devotional literature alongside fandom theory and practice. This part shows how affective agents cannibalise and appropriate the material of an expanded universe, through a reading of a sequence of saints’ lives and miracles in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de …
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La littérature française du vingtième siècle entre la mémoire et l’oubli: Proust, Beckett, Perec, et Blanchot; Twentieth Century French Literature between memory and forgetting: Proust, Beckett, Perec, and Blanchot
… between time, narrative, and memory in French literature undergoes a change. Proust's <i>A la recherche du temps perdu</i> evidences the power of memory to synthesize separate moments through a work of art and embodies the thesis of Paul Ricoeur on the interdependency of time and …
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