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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"French Writers"”.
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Alain Mabanckou et la pigmentation de l'edition francaise
In 2006 for the first time in the history of French literature, five out of the seven most prestigious French literary prizes were attributed to foreign writers. To the signatories of a manifesto published a few months later, this meant that francophone writers no longer belonged to the margins of …
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From Aesthetics to Politics in the Dreyfus Affair
… interpretation for the political engagement of French writers in the Dreyfus Affair between 1897 and 1900. I argue that aesthetics has been undervalued by past scholarship on this question, and analyze the engagement of four very different writers - Emile Zola, Ferdinand Brunetière, Henry Céard …
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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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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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Religious imagery in nineteenth-century French slavery narratives
… of slavery by early nineteenth-century French writers. The authors studied are both canonical and non-canonical, male and female, and the integration of archival sources into my study constitutes a distinct methodological trait of the thesis. Close textual analysis of my corpus is …
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French provincial life as portrayed by the chief French novelists of the nineteenth century.
The portrayal of provincial life by French writers has suffered by the fact French literature is essentially urban. Unfortunately, the majority of Frenchmen who have written of life in the field and villages of their native land have done so from Parisian Boulevards and with an unsympathetic pen. …
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Frederick the Great and the Meanings of War, 1730-1755
… warfare (at least in his youth) was culturally French, and reflected the towering influence of King Louis XIV, with Frederick following the flamboyant masculinity of the French baroque court. Frederick was a backward-looking military thinker, who situated his war-making in two temporal …