Browsing French (Scholarly Publications) by Title
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On the Return of the (Media) Author: Michel Houellebecq, écrivain médiatique
(2020)This article argues that Michel Houellebecq is an écrivain médiatique, a media author, and examines how and why he engages in a type of authorial strategy that relies on more than the text and presents the author as a ... -
Only connect
(Portland Press, 2010)Synthesize and conclude: this is the brief which I was given in relation to the foregoing proceedings. A fascinating, though daunting, task. To synthesize inevitably involves a degree of subjectivity and, as Flaubert ... -
Parler pour gouverner: Trois études sur le discours présidentiel français
(Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, 2016)Three statistical studies applied to presidential discourse (vocabulary, themes and style).The campaigns for the presidential elections of 2002, 2007 and 2012 reveal personalisation, tension and a growing level of ... -
Power and agency: a critical analysis of the role of mistresses in francophone African literature
(2024)In the context of postcolonial literature, mistresses are often portrayed as subjugated concubines seeking job opportunities, career advancement, and income security in societies that are characterised by stark social ... -
The Quest for Solidarity in a Failed Prescriptive and Aspirational Cosmopolitanism: African Travel Narratives and Duality of Cross-Cultural Encounters
(2023)The theme of travel has occupied a central position in African literature, as it serves as a conduit for exploring the complexities of cross-cultural interactions and the pursuit of solidarity. Travel narratives have ... -
Representation of Educational Elitism and Entrepreneurship Merit in Contemporary Africa: A Cultural Shift to Self-Fulfilment
(2023)This paper explores and acknowledges the recurring theme of education in African literature, which is often depicted as both a means to reclaim African identity and culture and a tool for social mobility and economic ... -
Simultaneity of time and weather in 'exotic' climates: the experience of French writers in Africa and the Americas
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Socio-cultural shifts in the representation of gender (in)equality in Africa
(2023)Like anywhere else, many African societies were historically characterised by traditional gender roles and patriarchal structures, where men held dominant positions. Over time, social and political discourse on gender ... -
Sociological reading of the impact of nepotistic tribalism on political and socio-economic sustainable development in Africa
(2024)This study examines the portrayal of the manifestation and impact of nepotistic tribalism on political and socio-economic sustainable development in Africa. It is argued that tribal affiliation is an enriching cultural ... -
Sustaining learner engagement and achievement through the study abroad experience
(2021)The study abroad, also known as Year Abroad or Period Abroad, has always been and remains a very important part of any language degree programme. Whilst abroad, students are expected to develop language, academic, cultural, ... -
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 ... -
'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 ... -
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 ...
