Browsing by Department "French"
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(2022-08-18)Department: FrenchIn French and Francophone Studies, studies on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Francophone experiences in Asia have tended to focus primarily on Indochina, leaving noteworthy interactions elsewhere much less thoroughly ...
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(2012-07-31)Department: FrenchThis dissertation examines a large corpus of auto/biographical literature, films, and performances by the last generation of Jews who grew up in Morocco and Tunisia before decolonization and subsequent migrations to France ...
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(2017-08-24)Department: FrenchThis study explores the depiction of female bodies in three works of francophone literature in the late 20th and 21st centuries: Standard (2014) by Nina Bouraoui, Sitt Marie Rose (1977) by Etel Adnan, and La répudiée (2000) ...
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(2013-04-17)Department: FrenchThis dissertation focuses on the representations of the human body in versions of the Histoires tragiques written between 1559 and 1648 by Pierre Boaistuau, François de Rosset, and Jean-Pierre Camus. Within the framework ...
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(2013-11-27)Department: FrenchThis dissertation investigates the relationship between language and space in the work of the French poet Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898) and in the work of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889-1976). The methodology ...
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(2011-07-15)Department: FrenchSince the publication of The Elementary Particles in 1998, the work of Michel Houellebecq has continued to be the subject of intellectual, artistic, and legal controversy. Houellebecq has flouted twentieth-century French ...
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(2018-04-13)Department: FrenchThis dissertation examines topic of taboo social and psychological issues in Caribbean literature and culture and how they inform the relationship between France and its former colonies in the region. It argues that the ...
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(2020-11-18)Department: FrenchNo Abstract
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(2019-03-20)Department: FrenchThis study shows how the romance plots in Marie Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne de Lafayette’s three novellas, La Comtesse de Tende (1724), La Princesse de Montpensier (1662), and La Princesse de Clèves (1678), subtly engage ...
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Learner identity construction in multilingual contexts: A case study of the study abroad experience. (2012-12-17)Department: FrenchIt is generally assumed that the study abroad experience leads to increased proficiency in the target language. However, research on students’ linguistic gains during and after studying abroad is inconclusive. This ...
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(2014-12-01)Department: FrenchModes through which human persons may be present to one another in the twenty-first century include presence through bodies, presence through email, and presence over the telephone. Analogously, this project explores four ...
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(2014-12-04)Department: FrenchThis dissertation aims to study the effect that poetics of voice—as relative to vocal performance within the realm of opera—have on the reception of novelistic discourse. Inspired by research done on plurivocality, ...
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(2012-04-23)Department: FrenchThis study provides a sociological and material reading of the early life and work of the French poet and novelist Pierre Louÿs (1870-1925). As a “jeune homme de lettres” coming of age in the early 1890s, Louÿs is a member ...
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(2012-12-14)Department: FrenchWhile the tradition of 18th-century French travel literature includes many texts that “supplement” another travel text, there are only a handful of titles that specifically identify themselves as such. Through an original ...
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(2010-08-11)Department: FrenchFRENCH REMEMBERING THE FUTURE: FRANCOPHONE PERSPECTIVES ON THE ISRAEL-PALESTINE CONFLICT RACHEL NISSELSON Dissertation under the direction of Professor Nathalie Debrauwere-Miller This dissertation takes as its focus ...
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(2020-03-20)Department: FrenchSocial reading, the process of reading a text with others in an online format, allows readers to interact through comments, replies, and the integration of media. The present, qualitative study explores the ways students ...
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(2014-04-15)Department: FrenchThis dissertation compares French plays about the Americas and the French colonies with plays produced in the French colonies in order to better understand the dynamics of the complicated colonial relationship between ...
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(2015-03-03)Department: FrenchThis study examines the anti-colonial political practices of African and Antillean women instrumental in decolonization movements in the 1940s and 50s. The timeframe is critical because it situates Francophone women at the ...
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(2021-08-09)Department: FrenchTant ai fet mal: Reflections on Violence in the Old French Cycle of Guillaume d'Orange Anthony Gerardo Contreras Dissertation under the direction of Professor Lynn Ramey This dissertation investigates the complex role ...
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(2021-06-16)Department: FrenchThis dissertation examines how Haitian writers record memories of deceased family members, friends, and public figures in literature. In the years following the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804), memoirs, poetry, and historical ...