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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Marguerite Duras"”.
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Representações de si e arquivamento nos textos derradeiros de Marguerite Duras
… reconhecido como autobiográfico na obra de Marguerite Duras, presentes nos seus textos através de memórias e confissões íntimas, são facilmente reconhecidas pelos leitores familiarizados com a sua escrita. O objetivo deste trabalho consiste em analisar os sentidos que permeiam uma escrita …
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Marguerite Duras and Claire Denis: Cinema at the Edge of the Political
This thesis examines the films of Marguerite Duras and Claire Denis, two celebrated French filmmakers who exhibit a profound and sustained engagement with questions of the political through their cinematic work. In particular, both Duras and Denis are attentive to subjects who exist at the edge of …
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The expanding significance of the shrinking hero in the novels of Marguerite Duras.
For Marguerite Duras, life is an annihilating passion that is most appropriately expressed by an antithetical and irrational apprehension of reality. There is a progressive feminacy in the characters, be they men or women. The early novels, harmonious and cerebrally conceived, show a masculine, …
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Marguerite Duras et la représentation du colonialisme européenne: lecture d'Un barrage contre le Pacifique
En nous appuyant sur les oeuvres de Marguerite Duras en général et sur "Un barrage contre le Pacifique" en particulier, notre thèse se présente en trois chapitres dont le contenu et le déroulement vont nous permettre d'interroger la représentation littéraire dans le monde colonial. Intitulé "Le …
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Shifting selves : identity quests and innovation in the novels of Marguerite Duras, Patrick Modiano, and Marie Darrieussecq
… through detailed analysis of the novels of Marguerite Duras, Patrick Modiano and Marie Darrieussecq. I establish how, for these three writers from successive generations, the preoccupation with selthood entails a retreat to the margins, where the shifting nature of identity can be better …
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Jean-Paul Sartre's Les Mots and the Nouvelles autobiographies of Alain Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraute, and Marguerite Duras: a comparison
… Nathalie Sarraute's L'Enfance (1983), and Marguerite Duras's L'Amant (1984). The autobiographies of the Nouveaux Romanciers are used as illustrations of Robbe-Grillet's notion of l'art pour l'art. Although Sarraute and Duras do not claim allegiance to Robbe-Grillet's view of literature, nor …
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Cet Autre Qui N'en Est Pas Un. Figuring the East in the Works of Victor Segalen, Andre Malraux, Marguerite Duras and Roland Barthes
… writers: Victor Segalen, Andre Malraux, Marguerite Duras and Roland Barthes. The emphasis of the readings is the formation of the East as the Other in these works so as to bring out their relation to the (post-) colonial qua Orientalist subtext. These figures of the Other are captured by …
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La transposition de l'ecrit a l'image: Une étude comparative entre deux romans L'Amant et L'Amant de la Chine du Nord de Marguerite Duras et le film L'Amant de Jean-Jacques Annaud
… le texte et l’image dans les deux ouvrages de Marguerite Duras L’Amant (1984) et L’Amant de la Chine du Nord (1991) afin de les comparer au film L’Amant de Jean-Jacques Annaud (1992). L’étude consiste à examiner la relation entre l’écrit et l’image pour déterminer si le style littéraire de …
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Searching For the Impossible Dream, Staging the Impossible Script
… of the novella The Malady of Death by Marguerite Duras and my subsequent production of this book. It covers Duras' history and influences in writing this book while at the same time gives an account of all my directorial attempts with this piece. With regards to Duras, the influence of …
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The Restinga
… <p><em>The Lover</em>, a novel by Marguerite Duras, influenced the author in her writing of <em>The Restinga</em>. This ex-pat novel maps the sexual affair of a very young girl and a much older Chinese man in colonial Vietnam of the late 1920s. Both works look into the sexuality of …
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New Orientations: Touch in Women's Experimental Writing
… experimental works of Audre Lorde, Anaïs Nin, Marguerite Duras, Monique Wittig, and Kathy Acker, arguing that experimental writing facilitates an affective language of touch and sensation that resists and moves beyond societally gendered, racialised, and compulsory heterosexualised constructs …
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Everyday Life and Experimental Fiction in France, 1957–1966: A Literary-Conceptual History
… Butor, Georges Perec, Nathalie Sarraute, and Marguerite Duras open the everyday lifeworld as a site where ethical questioning encounters the historical process. Each chapter pursues a close reading of a novel in relation to developments in twentieth-century history and contemporaneous …
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Reading art otherwise
… and not only documented by its script writer, Marguerite Duras at the time, but subject to critical readings within film theory and testimony studies in the 1990s, drawing upon particularly modem French philosophical thought. I examine how these exemplars present the relationship between …