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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"French and Francophone Language and Literature"”.
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L'Ummah islamique: miroir à trois faces chez Nadia Ghalem et Mustapha Tlili
… le rôle de l'informateur apparaît très grand et conduit à des interrogations en sachant que la tendance à la simplification des faits sociaux est plus que jamais une triste réalité. À la lumière de ces questions, nous tenterons de dégager quelques pistes de recherche et de suggérer une …
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AN EXAMINATION OF THE ROLE OF THE VALET DE COMEDIE AND HIS EMANCIPATION IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
A study of the role of valet de comédie from its origins in Middle Greek Comedy to the emergence of genuine character rather than the traditional mask, with particular emphasis on changes in the role in the eighteenth century.
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"La Duchesse d'Estramene" du Sieur Du Plaisir
… a critical edition of a late seventeenth-century French novel whose contemporary popularity ended in virtual obscurity for two and a half centuries. It has recently received some attention in the context of the development of French literature and the novel genre. This for the most part has been …
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Voyage and Discovery: Myth and Memory of the Canadian New World
The New World, the unknown lands of the west, for the French explorers of the early 16th century, are filled with strange and new peoples, unknown customs and seemingly incomprehensible savagery. When Jacques Cartier, André Thevet and François Rabelais' Pantagruel set sail from France towards the …
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Global Wreckage and Consumer Illusions: Responses to the Human Effects of Economic Globalization in Sub-Saharan African Francophone Novels and Films, 1973-2006
<p>My study examines a group of nine novels and films set in Ivory Coast, Mali, Senegal, Cameroon and Gabon written and produced between 1973 and 2006 in which "the West" and its international finance network are depicted as the fundamental contemporary world power that wields a destructive …
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Le chemin mystique de Samba Diallo
<p>Notre étude se propose d' examiner le mysticisme exprimé dans L 'aventure ambiguë, et de montrer que les valeurs spirituelles proclamées dans Ie roman ne sont pas seulernent propres au mysticisme islamique, mais qu'elles ont ete aussi preconisées par les mystiques chrétiens.</p>
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Quant Se Depart Li Jolis Tans: Betrayal In The Songs Of Medieval French Women
… betrayal by the family, betrayal by the lover, and betrayal by the lauzengiers and the mesdixants. Family betrayal included being sent to a nunnery against her will as either punishment for having a lover or as a means of marrying the woman to God when an appropriate suitor could not be …
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Voltaire: From Sacrificial to Judicial System in the Play The Orphan of China
Voltaire began his career in literature by writing for the theater. One of his plays, The Orphan of China, was an adaptation of a Chinese play, The Orphan of the Mansion Tchao. Many critics contend that in this play Voltaire is: 1. Propagating the spirit of the Enlightenment to the Europeans via …
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Bodies in Transgression: Exploring Same-Sex Relations in Contemporary Francophone Caribbean Literature
… is fraught with complexities, often hidden, and treated as a threat to cultural and moral values. In a region known for prolific literary production, few authors have portrayed same-sex relations, and when they do, discourses of silence, discrimination, and violence dominate. Bodies in …
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A Translation and Analysis of Spring's Bride by Mohammed Dib: Creating a Space for Indigenous North African Drama
… University, contains numerous manuscripts in the French language from dramatists all over the world. One of those manuscripts, <em>La fiancée du printemps </em>by Mohammed Dib, is my own translation of the text from French into English, now titled <em>Spring’s Bride</em>. The text operates as a …
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Les pas perdus: Images of Feet and Shoes in Surrealist Art
<p>Although feet and shoes appear throughout surrealist visual art, their significance within surrealist theory has not been studied as thoroughly as other familiar themes of surrealist art, such as the eye or the hat. The purpose of this project is to recover feet and shoes from their lowly …
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29 MAI 2005 : Le "NON" Franais au traite Etablissant une Constitution pour l'Europe: analyse d'un Evenement historique, symbole d'un malaise
<p>Le but de cette thèse est de présenter une vue d’ensemble du Traité constitutionnel européen, et d’apporter une explication quant à son rejet par une majorité d’électeurs français lors du référendum tenu le 29 mai 2005. Dans un premier temps, nous présenterons les fondements et principes de …
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La Guérison par le Récit chez Gabrielle Roy
… to a specific definition of elusive happiness and after discovering that they also are plagued by a fixation to some type of Freudian trauma, the readers can recognize similar behavior in themselves. Though likely they were unconscious of their ongoing distress before, now it becomes clear that …
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VERS UNE ECOCRITIQUE POSTCOLONIALE AFRICAINE: L’ENVIRONNEMENT DANS LES LITTERATURES AFRICAINES DE LANGUE FRANÇAISE
… relationships with colonialism, neocolonialism and globalization; but there is not enough literary emphasis on this environmental centrality. This work contributes in bridging the gap between African Francophone Literatures and the environmental discourses. This dissertation is the literary …
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