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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Twentieth Century French Literature"”.
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La littérature française du vingtième siècle entre la mémoire et l’oubli: Proust, Beckett, Perec, et Blanchot; Twentieth Century French Literature between memory and forgetting: Proust, Beckett, Perec, and Blanchot
In the course of the twentieth century, the representation of the relationship between time, narrative, and memory in French literature undergoes a change. Proust's <i>A la recherche du temps perdu</i> evidences the power of memory to synthesize separate moments through a work of art and embodies …
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Mobile limits and the limits of mobility in French representations of urban space
… proposes a new approach to conceptualizing the French city through a series of readings on twentieth- and twenty-first century literature, cinema and theory. This project uncovers liminal protagonists in French urban space, analyzes their Certelian practices, and considers what happens when they …
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Citizens of a Genre: Forms, Fields and Practices of Twentieth-Century French and Francophone Ethnographic Fiction
<p>This dissertation examines French and Francophone texts, contexts and thematic problems that comprise a genre I call "ethnographic fiction," whose development we can trace throughout the twentieth century in several geographic locations and in distinct historical moments. During the twentieth …
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Conspiracies and Secret Societies in Interwar French Literature
… of secret societies and conspiracies occupied in literature in France in between the two World Wars, reappearing in various guises in works by authors across aesthetic and ideological traditions. My examination situates these literary representations within their political and social context, …