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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 ... -
The impact of (un)ethical survival mode duality and choices of the educational elite on the African renaissance
(2024)In postcolonial Africa, education has always been perceived as pivotal for national and continental progress. For many Africans pursuing education abroad, the intent was to contribute to their countries’ development upon ... -
The International Linguistic Association 59th Annual Conference
(2014)L?election presidentielle francaise se deroule en deux scrutins. Le second tour oppose les deux candidats arrives en tete au premier. Entre les deux tours, depuis 1974, un debat televise oppose les deux finalistes sur le ... -
Irish Neutrality between Vichy France and de Gaulle
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Is The Map More Interesting Than The Territory? A Post-Representational Approach to Michel Houellebecq’s The Map and the Territory
(2018)This collaborative, interdisciplinary article analyses Houllebecq’s use of crime fiction and autofiction in The Map and the Territory (2010). The novel’s intra- inter- and extra-textual geographies, including its depiction ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
On the Return of the (Media) Author: Michel Houellebecq, écrivain médiatique
(2020)This article argues that Michel Houellebecq is an écrivain médiatique, a media author, and examines how and why he engages in a type of authorial strategy that relies on more than the text and presents the author as a ... -
Only connect
(Portland Press, 2010)Synthesize and conclude: this is the brief which I was given in relation to the foregoing proceedings. A fascinating, though daunting, task. To synthesize inevitably involves a degree of subjectivity and, as Flaubert ... -
Parler pour gouverner: Trois études sur le discours présidentiel français
(Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, 2016)Three statistical studies applied to presidential discourse (vocabulary, themes and style).The campaigns for the presidential elections of 2002, 2007 and 2012 reveal personalisation, tension and a growing level of ... -
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 ... -
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 ...