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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 ... -
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 ... -
Subjects not-at-home : the uncanny in Marie NDiaye, Emmanuel Carrère and Eugène Savitzkaya
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2008)This thesis is a study of the ways in which contemporary French writers exploit the themes, imagery and dynamics of the uncanny (das Unheimliche) to generate a repertoire of narrative tactics for the portrayal of the chez ... -
Intellectual life in the Academie of Saumur (1633-1685): a study of the Bouherau Collection
Protestant thought in France, in the seventeenth century, has long been a neglected subject. In an article published in 1955, Walter Rex whose study on Pierre Bayle and religious controversy has been one of the primary ...
