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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Rachilde"”.
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Women’s queer identities in French literature at the turn of the nineteenth century
… and writing in France at the fin de siècle – Rachilde, Liane de Pougy, Natalie Clifford Barney and Armen Ohanian. Spanning the period from 1884 through to 1931, this thesis will examine distinct expressions of queerness in the work of four women writers whose texts have never been studied in …
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Against the grain: the poetics of non-normative masculinity in decadent french literature
… literature by Jean Lorrain (Monsieur de Phocas), Rachilde (Monsieur Vénus and La Tour d’amour), and Octave Mirbeau (Le Calvaire), in order to demonstrate how the Decadent movement both appropriated and subverted patriarchal assumptions surrounding reading and writing. By positioning the study …
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UNE ÉTUDE FOUCALDIENNE DE LA « FEMME EXOTIQUE » COMME FIGURE PÉDAGOGIQUE DU DÉSIR FÉMININ ALTERNATIF DANS LE ROMAN FRANÇAIS DE 1747 À 1997
… by Claire de Duras, La jongleuse (1900) by Rachilde and Poisson d'or (1997) by J-M.G. Le Clézio. Its principal argument is to show how these novels have been able to escape the interpretative constraint which sees in the figure of the exotic woman a space of Western colonization and …
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Synesthetic Landscapes in Harold Pinter’s Theatre: A Symbolist Legacy
… (Mallarmé, Rilke, Briusov, Maeterlinck, Rachilde, Patricio, Yeats, Munch, Sacher-Masoch, and Kafka.). Adopting phenomenological views of subjectivity (suggested by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Gaston Bachelard, and Stanton Garner, among others), I invoke Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's …
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The Representation of Jewelry in 19th-Century French Literature
Often overlooked, yet still a significant and visible social code, jewelry and its symbolic power are barely analyzed in literary criticism. In this thesis, by tracing jewelry's various functions and representations throughout the 19th century, one discovers its ability to also blur and reinforce …