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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"PQ Romance literatures"”.
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Worlds elsewhere: studies in some late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century romance
Romance as a literary genre, although dominant in medieval Europe, has often been marginalized in later ages. Even when it saw a marked revival in Britain in the later nineteenth century, it still found itself embattled; its practitioners and advocates had to justify their position in an era which …
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Proust and Ruskin: a study in influence
The following thesis is a comparative study of Ruskin and Proust. The six years which Proust spent studying the Englishman's works have prompted several full-length studies and many articles devoted to tracing the nature and extent of Ruskin's influence on the creation of A la recherche du temps …
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Picturing women in Urania by Mary Wroth and Clelie by Madeleine de Scudery
My parallel reading of two seventeenth-century romances by two women, one English, one French, aims to illumine the early modern mapping of womanhood from a female perspective. Part one examines the discourse of virtuous women in the patriarchal societies of Urania and Clélie. Adopting an approach …
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A contrapuntal examination of selected works by Roger Vailland and Ousmane Sembène, 1950-1960
Abstract available: p.2
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From Autoroute to AutoBioBD: The minority voice in Bande Dessinée
The world of the graphic novel has become a popular topic for academic discussion in recent decades and this wide range of work is discussed and built upon here in order to explore the theme of minority voice in the Francophone arena of bande dessinée. This exploration is centred on discovering how …
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Teatro galego e construción nacional: os Cadernos da Escola Dramática Galega (1978-1994)
Taking Itamar Even-Zohar’s ‘polisystem theory’ and Pierre Bourdieu’s ‘theory of the field of cultural production’ as a starting point, the objective of this research is to analyse the development of Galician theatre and the re-configuration of the literary system during the period of …
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Desiring myth: history, mythos and art in the work of Flaubert and Proust
Previous comparative and parallel ‘genetic criticisms’ of Flaubert and Proust have ignored the different historical underpinnings that circumscribe the act of writing. This work examines the logos of Flaubert and Proust’s work. I examine the historical specificity of A la recherche du temps perdu, …
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The Parisian Stage during the Occupation, 1940-1944: A Theatre of Resistance?
This study aims to establish whether the performance or reception of a ‘theatre of resistance’ was possible amid the abundant and popular literary theatre seen during the Occupation of France (1940-1944). Playwrights and critics have made bold claims for five plays that allegedly conveyed hostility …
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The life and works of André-François Boureau-Deslandes
Extract available: p. 3.
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Order in a world of chaos: a comparative study of a central dialectic in works of Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka and Luis Cernuda
This thesis is a comparative study of three overtly unrelated authors. Thomas Mann, Kafka and Cernuda, setting them in a European context of a 'crisis of faith' where doubt in the existence of an ordered universe ultimately governed by God is becoming widespread. Rather than a philosophical or …
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"Unpredictable symmetries": the discursive functions of early seventeenth-century Scottish romance
… critical neglect of seventeenth-century Scottish romance. In order to do so, it analyses four texts, namely Patrick Gordon’s Penardo and Laissa (1615), Patrick Hannay’s Sheretine and Mariana (1622), John Kennedy’s Calanthrop and Lucilla (1626) and George Mackenzie’s Aretina; or, the Serious …
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Masochism and Decadent literature: Jean Lorrain and Joséphin Péladan
This study explores the masochistic aspects of Decadent literature, which to date have been relatively neglected, or have received only sporadic attention as merely the passive forms of sadism, or sadomasochism (Mario Praz). As Jennifer Birkett suggests, Decadent sensibility and sexuality have …
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‘Alma diva leggiadra Simonetta’: culture and politics in literary representations of Simonetta Cattaneo Vespucci
This thesis examines literary representations of the noblewoman Simonetta Cattaneo Vespucci (c. 1453- 1476) written in the Florentine vernacular in the mid- 1470s and 1480s. Composed during the reign of Lorenzo de’ Medici, de facto ruler of Florence from 1469- 1492, these portrayals of Simonetta, …
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The Spanish Civil war in contemporary Spanish fiction: Soldados de Salamina, La Mula and Los Girasoles Ciegos
This dissertation is looking at the representation of the Civil War in three significant texts: Soldados de Salamina, La mula and Los girasoles ciegos. Approaching this representation is important since it is part of a controversial contemporary revival of the interest in the Civil War. Politics …
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Guillaume de Machaut and the mise en page of medieval French sung verse
The aim of this thesis is to examine what a study of the visual presentation of the fourteenth-century poet-composer Guilluame de Machaut's songs can tell us that studying them simply as pre-defined works cannot. This has involved two distinct, but related fields of enquiry. Firstly, I have …
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Women's actions, women’s words: female political and cultural responses to the Argentine state
This thesis explores the interaction of gender and the construction of the Argentine state. It pays particular attention to the emergence of women’s movements as well as women’s writing and the way in which both reflect and express the history of the Argentine state after independence. Beginning …
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