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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...