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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"French and Francophone Literature"”.
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Reading the Restaurant: Social Class, Identity, and the Culture of Consumption in the Nineteenth Century French Novel
… restaurant, like so many of the institutions of French modern society, developed at a very particular moment in history. In this project, I tell the story of the maturation of the restaurant and study its unique role in the social history of Paris during the nineteenth century. By examining the …
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Warrior Women and the Shaping of Narrative in Medieval French Literature
<p><em>Warrior 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 …
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Unidentified Verbal Objects: Contemporary French Poetry, Intermedia, and Narrative
… dissertation examines the vital experimental French poetry of the 1980s to the present. Whereas earlier twentieth century poets often shunned common speech, poets today seek instead to appropriate, adapt, and reorganize a wide variety of contemporary discourses. Narrative also reemerges both …
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Seeking Holiness: The Contribution of Nine Vernacular Narrative Texts from the Twelfth to the Fourteenth Centuries
… history in the Middle Ages. However, secular literature is often overlooked as a source of understanding lay spirituality, even though it is a crucial aspect of cultural and social history. I fill this gap by analyzing nine important vernacular texts to uncover several distinctive definitions …
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Partir marron: Un parcours sémantique à travers les trous de la mémoire collective haïtienne
… "<em>marron</em> " represents both a totality, and a specificity. Totalizing, the term refers to the slave who fled from the plantation, against the colonial order, that is, the fugitive slave. Specific, in the Haitian lexicography, it stands for a shifty and cunning individual, particularily a …
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Transatlantic Surrealisms, Imagined Homelands, and the Poetry of Paul Laraque
<p>Many theoretical treatments of Caribbean and Latin American surrealism(s), most notably Fredric Jameson and Alejo Carpentier’s foundational essays on magical realism, argue that the surrealism of the European metropole is a sophisticated avant-garde movement, in contrast to the blunt tool of …
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Region, Nation and Gastronomy: Regionalism in Gastronomic Texts of the Early 20th Century (1900-1939)
<p>France is far from being a uniform culture and yet the food of French provinces is often subsumed into one universally known “French cuisine.” While 19<sup>th</sup>-century <em>haute cuisine</em> ignored regional differences, gastronomes of the early 20<sup>th</sup>-century, such as Curnonsky, …
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An Escape from Language into Language: The Internal Exile of Louis Wolfson
<p>This paper aims to show how the life and work of American francophone author Louis Wolfson - who suffered from schizophrenia and underwent a self-imposed exile from his own mother tongue - might serve to illuminate European émigré writers' relationships to multilingualism.</p>
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Rewriting the Oeuvre: Raymond Queneau and the Art of Translation
<p>While the literary oeuvre of French author Raymond Queneau (1903-1976) has been extensively studied, his work as a literary translator has been largely overlooked. Queneau was a prominent member of the French literary avant-garde, but also a literary translator for two decades (1934-1953), and …
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Claiming Primordial Landscapes: Science and Imperialism in Turn-of-the-Century Science Fiction Novels
… relationship between nineteenth-century geology and paleontology play a role in imperial ambitions of countries and characters in science fiction novels. Two novels are analyzed—<em> Journey to the Centre of the Earth </em>by Jules Verne and <em>The Lost World </em>by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle—using …
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Community Unclaimed: Plurality and the Problem of Sovereignty in Bataille, Nancy, and Blanchot
… takes up the exchange between three prominent French thinkers on the question of “community”: Georges Bataille, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Maurice Blanchot. Taken together, and starting with Bataille’s prewar writings and communitarian activism in the 1930s, the exchange between them now spans nearly …
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The Literature of Verbal Nonsense in Lewis Carroll, Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco
<p>Nonsense literature and nonsense poetry have provided release from the shackles of logic for centuries. But the greatest masters of English nonsense are Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear. Carroll gives, in <em>Alice in Wonderland</em> and <em>Through the Looking-glass,</em> the principles underlying …
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Desire, Curiosity, and the Search for Truth in Proust, Moreno, and Bechdel
<p>Marcel Proust’s influence on twentieth century literature is broad and has been well documented. This dissertation attempts a comparative reading of <em>À la recherche du temps perdu</em> that places it in contrast with Colombian writer Marvel Moreno’s 1987 novel, <em>En diciembre llegaban las …
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Iranian (Persian)-Francophone Women in Diaspora and the Literature of Exile Reconstructing Self Through Writing
… study aims to contribute to the broader understanding of Persian literature in exile by focusing on the narratives of Persian Francophone immigrant women. By positioning these writers as influential voices in the transforming landscape of Francophone literature, this research seeks to illuminate …
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Questing the Beast: From Malory to Milton
… her labile nature, she is difficult to identify and therefore challenging to study. When previously analyzed, she has been considered only in her Medieval context. By comparing the Questing Beast from <em>Perlesvaus</em>, the Post-Vulgate Cycle, and the <em>Prose Tristan</em>, four identifying …
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