Browsing French by Subject "French, Ph.D."
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...