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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
"The Future of the Front National in France"
(2009)The Future of the Front National in France The movement is not a spent force which will disappear with the demise of J-M Le Pen despite poor electoral results since 2007. Sarkozy appears to have occupied the political ... -
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 ... -
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 ...