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Literary selfhood : autofiction and the construction of personal identity in the work of Nina Bouraoui
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2014)The problem of "identity" forms a central theme of much contemporary French life- writing, and within recent work by women writers, and writers from other minority backgrounds, the autobiographical enterprise is often ... -
Parisian urban green spaces as palimpsest : memory, codificationa and aesthetics in Monceau, Bagatelle and the Buttes-Chaumont
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2015)This thesis contributes to the existing corpus on Parisian garden history through its transcultural and intertextual reading of Monceau, Bagatelle and the Buttes- Chaumont. In terms of its methodological framework this ... -
The poetics of prose : urban utopia and prose by poets in nineteenth-century France
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2009)This thesis asserts the congruence of the complex of orientations mobilized by utopia with the indeterminate discursive status of the prose poem in nineteenth-century France. In this study, the complex spatial metaphor of ... -
A feminist reading of the mother-daughter relationship in Gabrielle Roy and Francine Noël
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2008)This thesis proposes a feminist reading of the mother-daughter relationship in the writings of Gabrielle Roy and Francine Noel. The texts discussed have been selected due to their feminist nature and to the importance that ... -
From the mirror to the mask : techniques of self-representation in Charles Baudelaire, Odilon Redon and James Ensor
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2004)This thesis considers the question of self-representation in the art and literature of nineteenth-century France and Belgium. The evolution from the mirror to the mask as a means of representing self is discussed through ...
