Browsing French by Subject "French Language and Literature, Ph.D."
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 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 ...