French (Theses and Dissertations)
Recent Submissions
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The Political Influence of Translation in a time of Revolution and War in France: a Microhistory of two Irish translators Nicholas Madgett (1738-1813) and John Sullivan (1767-1802)
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of French, 2024)This thesis is an interdisciplinary study of two Irish translators, Nicholas Madgett and John Sullivan, incorporating approaches from translation studies and history. Drawing principally on French archival sources, the ... -
Hollow vessels : a study of some attitudinal, motivational and affective variables and their impact on L2 proficiency of English-speaking learners of French in the French Foreign Legion
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2005)The present investigation sets out - within a particular instructional setting - to establish empirical evidence to support the thesis that attitudinal, motivational and affective variables are related to proficiency in ... -
Emmanuel-Philibert de Pingon (1525-1582): A Biography and a Critical Edition
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of French, 2023)This thesis presents the first detailed biography of the Savoyard poet, diplomat, and historiographer, Emmanuel-Philibert de Pingon (1525-1582) and the first critical edition of a selection of his works. Pingon wrote ... -
LE CYNISME DANS LES ROMANS DE FREDERIC BEIGBEDER ET VIRGINIE DESPENTES (1990-2010)
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of French, 2021)This thesis presents the first comparative study of cynicism in Beigbeder and Despentes' literary production between 1990-2010, highlighting the different meanings of cynicism in their work and addressing their vision of ... -
Les Manuscrits vaudois de Trinity College Dublin
This doctoral thesis focuses on the Waldensians, members of a Christian movement which originated in France in the twelfth century, and more specifically on their religious literature in the Occitan language. Many of these ... -
Deconstructing Hegel's sign-making imagination : Derrida and the textual imagination
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2012)Following the identification of ways in which deconstruction and imagination suggest the possibility of shedding light upon one another, I seek to overcome certain objections to the notion of a textual or deconstructive ... -
Mediated desire. Third-party involvements in the love relationships of Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2011)Exerpt from introduction: When it comes to desire and love in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu, the traditional critical emphasis has been on the interiority, verging on solipsism, which seems to characterize these ... -
Anamorphic texts : Stendhal, Baudelaire, Lacan, Derrida
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2000)This thesis proposes that a textual equivalent of pictorial anamorphosis exists. Just as a painting or element within a painting may become suddenly visible when it is viewed at an angle, a written text may need to be read ... -
Roger Caillois : searches for wholeness
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2000)This thesis argues that the primordial concern in Roger Caillois's oeuvre is his search for wholeness. It follows this search through Caillois's often controversial and always challenging involvement in a wide range of ... -
La versification Verlainienne ou la prosodie de l'indécidabilité
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2000)This thesis is divided into three main sections: an introduction, a study of Verlaine's use of metres and a study of a number of specific poems from Verlaine's complete works. The introduction has two parts. The first ... -
Points of passage : an exploration of the theme of the threshold in the poetry of Jacques Réda, Jean-Claude Renard, Pierre Oster, Philippe Jaccottet and Alain Bosquet
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2003)This thesis proposes an investigation of contemporary and near-contemporary French poetry and an exploration of the poetic imagination, using a thematic approach based on a Jungian/Bachelardian concept of imaginary symbolism ... -
Representations of ambiguity in selected writings by women from Guadeloupe and Martinique
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2003)This thesis looks at selected writings of women from Martinique and Guadeloupe through the complex theme of ambiguity. The novels and short stories of authors such as Mayotte Capécia, Myriam Warner-Vieyra and Maryse Condé ... -
Unfettering constraint : deconstruction and the question of interpretation in the work of Georges Perec
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2002)The prolific body of work which Georges Perec produced in a remarkably short period of time is notoriously heterogeneous (from 1965, the date of publication of his first novel, Les Choses, until his death in 1982, his published ... -
La verve Rabelaisienne dans un corpus de romans Québecois et Antillais contemporains
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2004)This thesis investigates a corpus of contemporary Quebec and French West Indian novels using a mainly formal approach, based on the concepts of stylistics as a deviation from the norm, and to a lesser extent, of magical ... -
Metropolitan motion : French travel writing in London and New York, 1851-2000
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2008)My thesis examines the development of an imaginative geography of urban space through the analysis of travel writing. By imaginative geography I refer to the epistemological categorisation through which French culture has ... -
San-Antonio Ltd. : competition and domination in the field of crime literature and film noir in post 1950s France
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2007)The modernity of the detective novel, associated with its narratological and formal innovations, entails a reversal of the relationship between the text and its author. The situation of the detective fiction writer, with ... -
Photographic motifs in Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2007)This thesis addresses the question of the assimilation of photography into French literary culture in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century, specifically in relation to Marcel's Proust's A la recherche du temps ... -
Elucidating the relationship between linguistic from and literary function in a corpus of French literary texts from the second half of the nineteenth century using text analysis software
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2007)The intention was to compile a collection of texts, which was representative of both 'standard French' and argot from 1865 to 1895. It was decided at the outset that the corpus would contain only written texts. The ... -
God's warriors : Port-Royal - the construction of a powerful sisterhood (1609-1709)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2005)This thesis offers a new interpretation of the community of Port-Royal from its reform in 1609 to its destruction in 1709, focusing on the active development by its members of a distinctive religious space, rather than on ... -
Écritures africaines de l'exil parisien
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2001)This thesis is an analysis of the representation of Parisian exile in seven African novels in French. The novels are studied in chronological order, thus illustrating the social and psychological evolution of the theme ...