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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 ... -
Vanguards of the Counter-revolution: The Far-right and the French Army's Guerre Révolutionnaire Doctrine
(2023)Guerre révolutionnaire doctrine was conceived of as a riposte to the new form of warfare which the French Army encountered and fell victim to in Indochina. Taking inspiration from both the Indochina experience and communist ... -
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 ... -
'VISUAL CULTURES OF THE BANLIEUES: PRECARIOUS PERIPHERIES OR CREATIVE CENTRES?
(2023)The Parisian banlieues have long been depicted through harmful stereotypes in political speeches, the press and mainstream film as places of violence, crime and poverty, and of social, racial and religious divisions. In ... -
Voltaire: Précis du siècle de Louis XV
(The Literary Dictionary Company Limited, 2022)Voltaire’s Précis du siècle de Louis XV is not as well known as it should be for a number of reasons. First, in historiographical terms, Enlightenment history has never recovered from the rise of historicism and its critique ... -
Jean-Philippe Beaulieu (ed.), Hélisenne de Crenne : les angoisses douloureuses qui procèdent d amour, Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne University Press, 2005
(2006)The first work of Marguerite Briet, known as Helisenne de Crenne, was the moralizing prose narrative Les Angoisses douloureuses qui procedent d'amour, and it is, with good reason, recognized as one of the most significant ... -
Jane Conroy (ed.) "Franco-Irish Connections: Essays, Memoirs and Poems in Honour of Pierre Joannon" Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2009
(2010)It is with some circumspection that this particular reviewer approaches a collection of articles ?in honour ? of someone. The danger of finding between the covers a disparate collection of articles aimed at eulogy and ... -
Les Rencontres des Muses: italianisme et anti-italianisme dans les lettres françaises de la fin du XVIe siècle (Geneva, Slatkine, 1992)
(1995)In this enlightening and comprehensive study, Jean Balsamo questions several traditional notions concerning Italy's influence on French Renaissance literature, notably the view that although it was at first positive, towards ...
