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Development of French Pronouns
Owens, Alpha Loretta
2011-10-18T20:27:57Z
2011-10-18T20:27:57Z
2011-10-18T20:27:57Z
1903
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8248
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A Study of George Mason’s “Grammaire Angloise” (1622)
Cotter, Georgia Jane
2011-11-23T16:31:50Z
2011-11-23T16:31:50Z
2011-11-23T16:31:50Z
1913-06
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8511
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Balzac, Financial Adviser: Society and the Birth of Modern Finance
Roney, Kristina M.
Pasco, Allan H.
Jewers, Caroline
Kelly, Van
Hayes, Bruce
Juhl, Ted
French literature
Economic history
Finance
Balzac
Credit
Industrial Revolution
Neoliberalism
Rente
Speculation
Honoré de Balzac, through his monumental cycle of novels and short stories that constitute La Comédie humaine, bears witness to early nineteenth-century, post-revolutionary, French society. This analysis will situate six of his key works within the more subtle yet equally powerful revolution also taking place, that of industrialization. His belief that things (les choses) represent the physical manifestation (la représentation matérielle) of thought required that he place a particular emphasis on society’s economic environment and each individual’s socio-economic status since the acquisition of such objects necessitates financial means (1, 9). “Gobseck” (1830), La Maison Nucingen (1838), Eugénie Grandet (1833), La Cousine Bette (1846), Histoire de la grandeur et de la décadence de César Birotteau (1837), and “L’Illustre Gaudissart” (1833) depict the transformation of the French economy from an agricultural base to one underpinned by industrial products. The diminished importance of agriculture, which prior to the nineteenth century constituted the primary store of financial value, gives birth to a new source of wealth found in modern financial instruments that remain the essential investment vehicle in today’s society. This study traces the establishment of the necessary institutional structures to support this burgeoning economy alongside the evolution of financial products from credit, to bonds, to commercial diversification, before reaching pure spéculation. It reveals a trend toward investments of increasing levels of intangibility that Balzac begins to ridicule in preference to a conservative investment strategy that favors bonds. Whereas Thomas Piketty in Le Capital au XXIe siècle (Seuil, 2013) supplements his economic study with literary depiction, the current project inverts that approach with literary analysis supported by economic evidence. It extends upon the critical work of Jean-Hervé Donnard’s Les Réalités économiques et sociales dans La Comédie humaine (Armand Colin, 1961), which asserts that the central purpose of Balzac’s work is to examine the message conveyed in the financial details Balzac deemed indispensable to his story of manners in nineteenth-century French society. Despite his well-known personal financial difficulties and an extensive bibliography of scholars approaching his work from a Marxist perspective, I present Balzac as an astute financial adviser and proponent of capitalist ideals.
2019-06-12T02:48:50Z
2019-06-12T02:48:50Z
2019-06-12T02:48:50Z
2018-05-31
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Aspects du roman d'apprentissage dans les romans d'Alexandre Dumas pere: Les trois mousquataires, Sylvandire et Joseph Balsamo
Sevet, Frederique Marie
Booker, John T.
Jewers, Caroline
Kelly, Van
Hayes, Bruce
Versteeg, Margot
Romance literature
Apprentissage
Dumas, Alexandre
Balsamo, Joseph
Les trois mousquetaires
Roman
Sylvandire
Le but de cette dissertation est de démontrer qu’Alexandre Dumas est un
écrivain de son époque et qu’il a su bien exploiter les modes romanesques de son
siècle, comme le Bildungsroman, le roman historique, le roman-feuilleton, le roman
d’aventures, le roman de cape et d’épée, parmi d’autres. Il emprunte à tous et s’en
inspire, mais pour former son style vif qui lui est propre. Hélas, il a souvent été
considéré comme un auteur mineur car son succès était immense auprès du peuple et
sa lecture plaisante aux yeux de tous, trop agréable pour les critiques sévères. Un
auteur dit populaire n’avait pas sa place parmi les auteurs sérieux. Dumas écrivait vite
et il était publié dans des journaux, sous forme de romans-feuilletons, mais ils étaient
perçus comme de la littérature facile par les critiques. Ceux-ci lui reprochaient aussi
d’utiliser parfois des collaborateurs. Il ne méritait donc, pas, selon eux, une réputation
d’auteur sérieux et digne d’être étudié à l’école.
Faire un choix d’oeuvres à étudier se révèle difficile tant elles sont
passionnantes. Dans les limites de la dissertation, j’ai opté pour trois de ses romans.
Les trois mousquetaires (1844) est l’un des plus connus ; Sylvandire (1844) est ce que
l’on pourrait appeler le brouillon de ce dernier tant il possède de similitudes (pourtant,
il est quasiment inconnu du public) ; Joseph Balsamo (1846-48)1 présente une autre
approche au roman d’apprentissage (le héros ne réussit pas). De plus, Les trios mousquetaires et Joseph Balsamo font partie d’une série de romans qui garde certains
nombres de personnages au fil du récit : Les trois mousquetaires est suivi de Vingt
ans après (1845) et du Vicomte de Bragelonne (1847-50). La suite des aventures de
Joseph Balsamo se trouve dans Le collier de la reine (1849-50), Ange Pitou (1851) et
La comtesse de Charny (1852-55). J’ai choisi de traiter des premiers tomes de chacun
de leur série, dans lesquels le récit de la vie de leur jeune protagoniste dévoile un
aspect de sa personnalité d’homme qui mûrit en vivant sa vie d’adulte tout en suivant
un parcours initiatique fait d’aventures divertissantes pour les lecteurs.
Mon idée centrale est de démontrer que les trois romans que j’ai sélectionnés
exposent divers aspects du roman d’apprentissage, mais développés dans une forme
caractéristique à Dumas : d’Artagnan (dans Les trois mousquetaires) excelle dans
tous ses tests ; Roger, le chevalier d’Anguilhem (le protagoniste de Sylvandire)
réussit son apprentissage en passant par des épreuves comiques ; Gilbert (dans Joseph Balsamo), au contraire, tend vers le mal et ne prouve pas sa valeur à la fin du roman. Comme nous allons le montrer, Dumas se distingue par le fait qu’il mélange les
styles. Ses romans qui traitent d’apprentissage sont également essentiellement des
romans d’aventures qui se déroulent dans un temps historique particulier.
J’ai choisi à dessein un roman extrêmement connu (Les trois mousquetaires), un moins connu (Joseph Balsamo) et l’autre pratiquement inconnu (Sylvandire) pour prouver que malgré leur renom ou leur manque de renom auprès du public, ils sont tous les trois très appréciables et ils illustrent chacun un côté différent et particulier du Bildungsroman dumasien.
Trois chapitres, lesquels traitent de théorie mais aussi de ces trois romans,
composent cette dissertation ; ils sont organisés de façon presque chronologique : le
premier roman est Les trois mousquetaires (1844), suivi de Sylvandire (écrit la même
année, juste avant Les trois mousquetaires)2 et de Joseph Balsamo (1846-49) ; tous les
trois montrent l’évolution de l’écriture et de la pensée de Dumas. Ces chapitres
expliqueront comment l’auteur perçoit et décrit l’apprentissage dans ces oeuvres.
Les trois romans que j’ai choisis illustrent chacun un aspect différent de ce
genre de roman : dans son roman presque inconnu de Sylvandire, il utilise l’humour
en décrivant son personnage principal, le chevalier d’Anguilhem, qui arrive tant bien
que mal à se faire une place dans la société parisienne. Le roman des Trois
mousquetaires présente un apprentissage classique d’un jeune homme, d’Artagnan
qui réussit sa formation. Joseph Balsamo contient un personnage secondaire très
intéressant, Gilbert, qui révèle une éducation non réussie. Dumas n’est pas un
écrivain banal parce qu’il est unique en son genre et qu’aucun écrivain n’a suivi le
même parcours littéraire que lui.
2011-04-25T19:58:23Z
2011-04-25T19:58:23Z
2011-04-25T19:58:23Z
2009-12-14
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:10566
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/7392
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Paul Verlaine and Arthur Symons. A comparative study of their verse
Cornell, William Kenneth
2017-12-22T18:09:33Z
2017-12-22T18:09:33Z
2017-12-22T18:09:33Z
1931
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/25683
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A study of the middle Dutch poem, Van den vos Reynaerde and its sources in the branches of the old French Roman de Renard
Appelboom, Peter Anton Frederik
2015-07-31T21:41:13Z
2015-07-31T21:41:13Z
2015-07-31T21:41:13Z
1917
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18291
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Jeanne d’Arc in literature
Rickard, Marjorie Adeline
2015-11-03T14:49:13Z
2015-11-03T14:49:13Z
2015-11-03T14:49:13Z
1919
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18817
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Angel Guimerá, dramas históricos y pasionales
McElhiney, Jeannette
2016-09-07T13:17:23Z
2016-09-07T13:17:23Z
2016-09-07T13:17:23Z
1927
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21449
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Adaptations and Translations of Shakespeare’s “Othello,” in France, during the Eighteenth Century. A comparative Study
Stanton, Amida
2012-01-11T20:51:16Z
2012-01-11T20:51:16Z
2012-01-11T20:51:16Z
1910-06
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8670
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Lecture a contre-fil de la captivite, litterature marocaine feminine des annees 1990
Alaoui, Malika
Sayeh, Samira
Fourny, Diane
Jewers, Caroline
Booker, Tom
Ukpokodu, Peter
Foreign language instruction
Comparative literature
African literature
Captivity
Femininity
Literature
Moroccan
ABSTRACT Re-Reading Captivity in the Works of Three Moroccan Women Novelists of the 90s The key objective of this research is to explore new ways of reading the central theme of captivity in the novels of three Moroccan women writers of the 90s: Fatiha Boucetta's Anissa captive (1991), Sebti Fadéla's Moi Mireille lorsque j'étais Yasmina (1995), and Rachida Yacoubi's Ma vie mon cri (1995). This thesis argues that patriarchal Moroccan society can not be taken as the sole signifier of captivity in the writings of Moroccan women of the 90s. A close analysis of Anissa captive reveals that space is very important in providing another signifier of the protagonist's captivity. The heroine in this novel lived in different geographic and social spaces; therefore the theme of captivity can not refer to one space only, Morocco, as analyzed by critics. In Moi Mireille, lorsque j'étais Yasmina, lawyer Fadela Sebti fictionalizes the story of a French woman who marries a Moroccan man and moves to his hometown of Casablanca. The French woman is portrayed as the victim of a traditional Moroccan family and repudiated by her husband. Behind the story of the humiliation of repudiation there is another narrative that traces the close relation between France and Morocco through the history of colonialism. This second story talks about two different spaces, two different captives, a woman named Mireille and a man named Nadir. Ma vie, mon cri, is an autobiographical novel about a bourgeois woman who puts an end to her captivity in domestic space, and chooses poverty and freedom. Soon, she dominates public space and becomes a business woman and a writer. My research findings based on the analysis of space and captivity provide a significant addition to existing knowledge in the new field of literature written by women in Morocco.
2012-11-26T20:45:33Z
2012-11-26T20:45:33Z
2012-11-26T20:45:33Z
2010-05-31
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:11143
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10423
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Adrienne Lecouvreur in drama
Gustafson, Margaret Alice
2017-01-03T15:08:10Z
2017-01-03T15:08:10Z
2017-01-03T15:08:10Z
1929
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22409
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Assigning Rhythms to Troubadour Poems
Pifer, Mary Gayle
2017-03-16T12:42:42Z
2017-03-16T12:42:42Z
2017-03-16T12:42:42Z
1973
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/23423
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Jean Froissart, Eustache Deschamps, and their views of France under Charles VI
Carman, Justice Neale
2015-09-21T18:30:58Z
2015-09-21T18:30:58Z
2015-09-21T18:30:58Z
1921
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18481
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Daudet's treatment of the family
Mathews, Velma E.
2016-04-22T14:41:09Z
2016-04-22T14:41:09Z
2016-04-22T14:41:09Z
1923
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/20693
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Comparison of 'Le Joueur' by Regnard, and 'The Gamester,' by Mrs. Centlivre
Hunt, Ruth E.
2012-02-27T17:01:16Z
2012-02-27T17:01:16Z
2012-02-27T17:01:16Z
1911-06
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8768
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The syntax of the imperfect subjunctive in early Spanish
Davis, Ruth
2016-08-23T17:11:16Z
2016-08-23T17:11:16Z
2016-08-23T17:11:16Z
1923
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21405
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The Development, Characteristics, Similarity and Dissimilarity of the Stories of Robin Hood in England and Robin and Marion in France
Bell, Bonnie Mae
2011-10-27T19:51:44Z
2011-10-27T19:51:44Z
2011-10-27T19:51:44Z
1907
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8295
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Modern use of the enclitic pronoun
Harms, Minnie M.
2016-09-07T13:17:38Z
2016-09-07T13:17:38Z
2016-09-07T13:17:38Z
1928
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21466
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Avatars of Gendered Societal Constructs in Seventeenth-Century Contes de fées
Weatherley, Gillian Avril
Scott, Paul A
Booker, John T
Jewers, Caroline A
Pasco, Allan
Childs, Maggie
Literature
conte de fées
fairy tales
France
gender constructs
seventeenth-century
society
This dissertation considers the contes de fées written towards the end of the seventeenth century. These tales have been the focus of research and interest for the last thirty years, but much of the research has been concentrated on the work on Madame d'&rsquo Aulnoy. By widening the selection of works considered, the writer argues that the attitudes expressed about the roles assigned to women and men find an echo in many other fairy tales written during this period. By using close textual analysis, the study considers the depiction of women and their lives in a patriarchal society. It further shows that the tales'&rsquo challenge to the hierarchical society was broader, and a concern not only of women writers, but also of the males. The world that the authors depict is sumptuous, a regal world in which aristocrats rule and govern. However, although the stories usually end in a &rsquo `happy ever after&rsquothe princes and princesses, and their parents, often go through life-changing experiences. The authors use metamorphosis and cross-dressing, to move their heroes and heroines into situations that challenge them. Shape-shifting becomes a didactic tool, and the story-tellers use an amazing variety of symbols to reflect the changes and discoveries that were being made at the end of the century. The adoption of the persona of the opposite gender, a trope in seventeenth-century literature, questions the assumptions of what gender implies in society. The depiction of women who can fight and be brave is unsurprising, particularly since there is the historical example of the frondeuses, but women are often shown as being necessary for the functioning of good government and are not confined to the purely domestic sphere. Man dressed as woman sets different parameters. Such disguise may be used as a means to access a woman in her private space and attempt seduction or suggest emasculation, or a desire for egalitarianism. Both male and female authors contend that equal status provides better governance, and argue for freedom from a paternalistic and authoritarian society.
2017-01-08T19:15:38Z
2017-01-08T19:15:38Z
2017-01-08T19:15:38Z
2014-05-31
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:13274
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22531
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Le ridicule chez Alfred de Musset
Knotter, Geraldine
2016-04-22T14:41:15Z
2016-04-22T14:41:15Z
2016-04-22T14:41:15Z
1923
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/20703
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The historical basis of Hennique's La Mort du Duc d'Enghien
Smith, Opal M.
2017-08-11T18:53:43Z
2017-08-11T18:53:43Z
2017-08-11T18:53:43Z
1931
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24782
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La quête du bonheur en France au 18e siècle : le bonheur individuel et le bonheur collectif dans le roman utopique, libertin et sentimental
Fernandez-Nurdin, Delphine Isabelle
Fourny, Diane
Jewers, Caroline
Booker, Tom
Swanson, Kim
Leon, Mechele
Romance literature
18e siecle
Bonheur collectif
Bonheur individuel
France
Literature
Cette thèse se propose d'examiner le concept du bonheur qui semble être devenu une préoccupation majeure au XVIIIe siècle en France. Or, si le bonheur individuel et le bonheur collectif sont tous deux recherchés, ils ne sont pas forcément compatibles voire souvent conflictuels. Je m'efforce d'étudier cette tension constante qui se manifeste lorsque l'on tente de rechercher la réalisation de ces deux objectifs à travers la représentation fictive du bonheur dans les romans suivants : Les Egarements du coeur et de l'esprit de Crébillon Fils, L'An 2440 de Louis-Sébastien Mercier, La Nouvelle Héloïse de Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Cette notion de bonheur qui a été une des grandes préoccupations de l'Antiquité se trouve réactualisée au XVIIIe siècle, remise à l'ordre du jour tout d'abord par les « libre-penseurs » ou libertins érudits dès le XVIIe siècle qui s'affranchissaient de plus en plus du joug de la religion qui ne prêchait qu'un bonheur éternel dans l'au-delà. Les libertins du XVIIIe siècle se sont efforcés de remettre en cause cette croyance communément acceptée et revendiquaient un bonheur ici-bas. Ainsi, cette volonté d'atteindre un bonheur terrestre s'impose de plus en plus. Les Lumières qui croyait dans le progrès ont repris et ont consolidé cette volonté de réalisation d'un bien-être pour tous. Ceci se reflète dans les trois romans que nous avons sélectionnés. Or, dans nos trois romans nous constatons que le bonheur individuel et le bonheur collectif sont souvent en conflit. Dans Les Egarements, nous constatons que le libertin réalise son bonheur mais d'une manière très égoïste et aux dépens du bonheur collectif, d'une part. D'autre part, ce bonheur demeure relatif car particulièrement solitaire. Dans L'An 2440, notre roman utopique, est une des conséquences de la pensée libertine dans le sens où l'auteur cherche à créer un monde idéal où le bonheur général serait atteint. Or, une fois de plus, nous sommes mis devant l'évidence que l'un prime sur l'autre. Dans ce cas-ci, le bonheur collectif prédomine. L'individu voit son bonheur individuel limité dû principalement à un manque d'autonomie et de liberté. Enfin, La Nouvelle Héloïse est une sorte de roman-laboratoire quant à cette quête du bonheur puisque Jean-Jacques Rousseau nous montre qu'un bonheur individuel maximal à travers la passion n'apporte pas le bonheur, pas plus qu'un bonheur collectif maximal à travers un bonheur de raison, qui ne tient compte que de la collectivité. Cependant les deux en théorie sont susceptibles d'apporter un certain bonheur. Il nous propose enfin une solution : l'amour tendre ou l'amitié qui concilie bonheur individuel et collectif. Or, cette solution ne dure qu'un temps car l'individu est toujours en quête d'un absolu pour atteindre un bonheur total. Cette comptabilité entre bonheur individuel et bonheur collectif reste à résoudre.
2011-07-04T23:08:14Z
2011-07-04T23:08:14Z
2011-07-04T23:08:14Z
2009-06-15
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:10430
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/7772
FR
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La naturaleza en las poesías de los místicos Fray Luis de León y San Juan de la Cruz
Avilés, Luis
2016-11-01T14:38:46Z
2016-11-01T14:38:46Z
2016-11-01T14:38:46Z
1929
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21779
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Reimagining the Human in Modern French Science Fiction
Lord, Christina Alexis
Kelly, Van
Scott, Paul
Fourny, Diane
Johnson, Kij
Ziethen, Antje
French literature
Film studies
Modern literature
Anthropocene
French film
French literature
posthumanism
science fiction
transhumanism
Due to human activity and technology, such as deforestation, nuclear testing, and the burning of fossil fuels, many geologists and environmentalists agree that we have entered a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. The dangers posed by the Anthropocene – that is, the risk that the planet will potentially become an uninhabitable environment for humans and nonhumans – require a reworking of human imagination and knowledge. There is an impetus to reconfigure the human as previously the center of all things, completely independent of other complex systems of life on Earth and throughout the cosmos. While the posthumanist response calls attention to the interdependence and co-evolution of humans and nonhumans within a complex ecosystem of life, the transhumanist perspective to coping with the Anthropocene offers more pragmatic, tool-based solutions, rather than a reworking of the human imagination. Science fiction has always been a representational tool for examining these questions surrounding human identity and the human species encountering technological and environmental change. Given the French tradition of interrelations between philosophical thought and literature, French science fiction is even more predisposed to philosophical, ethical, and metaphysical inquiries surrounding reimaginings of the human. This study examines works by Franco-Belgian author J.H. Rosny aîné (Les Xipéhuz; Les Navigateurs de l’infini), French writers Ayerdhal and Jean-Claude Dunyach (Étoiles mourantes), Éric Chevillard (Sans l’orang-outan), and French filmmaker Luc Besson (La Femme Nikita; The Fifth Element; Lucy). I argue that their works engage in a posthumanist challenge to the centrality of the “human,” posit the co-evolution and necessary interdependence of humans and nonhumans, and engage in an ethical examination of the transhumanist agenda of technologically modifying our minds and bodies. By examining tropes of Otherness in French science fiction (alien, machine, woman, animal), this study demonstrates how the works of Rosny aîné, Dunyach and Ayerdhal, Besson, and Chevillard reveal a dialectic between transhumanism and posthumanism.
2020-03-29T17:05:06Z
2020-03-29T17:05:06Z
2020-03-29T17:05:06Z
2019-05-31
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http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30219
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The historical basis of Romain Rolland's Le Jeu de L'Amour et de la Mort
Jackson, Dorothy Louise
2017-08-11T18:53:50Z
2017-08-11T18:53:50Z
2017-08-11T18:53:50Z
1932
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24796
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Le Médecin Malgré Lui de Moliére, et El Médico a Palos, de Moratín
Wilkins, Cleda Catherine
2016-08-23T17:11:14Z
2016-08-23T17:11:14Z
2016-08-23T17:11:14Z
1924
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21400
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Marcel Proust and Reynaldo Hahn
Bales, Richard M.
Marcel Proust
Reynaldo Hahn
2021-01-14T14:49:51Z
2021-01-14T14:49:51Z
2021-01-14T14:49:51Z
1970-05-31
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/31130
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Racine's Esther and Masefield's Adaptation
McGrath, Mary Charles
2016-03-18T16:18:10Z
2016-03-18T16:18:10Z
2016-03-18T16:18:10Z
1924
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/20531
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/237862017-12-08T21:42:11Zcom_1808_12365com_1808_1260col_1808_14262col_1808_1951
Les rapports des Héritiérs Rabourdin d'Émile Zola au Volpone de Ben Jonson et au théâtre de Molière
Kvistberg, Harry Roland
2017-04-26T16:30:44Z
2017-04-26T16:30:44Z
2017-04-26T16:30:44Z
1930
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/23786
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Picard's Encore des Ménechmes and its sources in Plautus, Rotrou, and Regnard
Crumrine, Mattie Estella
2016-05-03T17:00:29Z
2016-05-03T17:00:29Z
2016-05-03T17:00:29Z
1926
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/20753
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/244442017-12-08T21:42:11Zcom_1808_12365com_1808_1260col_1808_14262col_1808_1951
Fabre's Timon d'Athènes : Sources and relation to Shakespeare's Timon of Athens
Osma, Helen Pitts
2017-06-08T17:54:41Z
2017-06-08T17:54:41Z
2017-06-08T17:54:41Z
1930
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24444
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/247972017-12-08T21:42:12Zcom_1808_12365com_1808_1260col_1808_14262col_1808_1951
Estienne Jodelle's Cleopatre Captive and Samuel Daniel's Cleopatra ; a comparison
Kruse, Virginia
2017-08-11T18:53:50Z
2017-08-11T18:53:50Z
2017-08-11T18:53:50Z
1930
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24797
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/226492020-06-23T19:15:35Zcom_1808_12365com_1808_1260col_1808_14262col_1808_1951
Alfred de Vigny's treatment of Thomas Chatterton
McKinney, Helen Julia
2017-01-19T14:56:17Z
2017-01-19T14:56:17Z
2017-01-19T14:56:17Z
1926
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22649
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/84862020-08-27T13:41:00Zcom_1808_12365com_1808_1260col_1808_14262col_1808_7158
An Inquiry as to the Influence of Moliere’s “Avare” on English Comedy of the Eighteenth Century
Brooks, Martin Kahao
2011-11-22T21:26:39Z
2011-11-22T21:26:39Z
2011-11-22T21:26:39Z
1912
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8486
en_US
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‘Ung Espace de Temps’ – The Role of Time in Le Roman de Gillion de Trazegnies
Cooper, Olivia Rose
Jewers, Caroline
Bourgeois, Christine
Booker, Tom
French literature
European history
Gillion de Trazegnies
Louis de Gruuthuuse
Philippe le Bon
Between 1450 and 1529, five Middle French versions of a manuscript recounting the tale of Gillion de Trazegnies were produced in the ducal courts of Burgundy. The objective of this thesis is to explore representations of time in the Roman de Gillion de Trazegnies in order to offer some potential conclusions about the ways in which time is addressed and rendered within this text – and, by extension, possible trends in literary representations of time during this period. Although it was not adapted from any work of verse itself, Gillion was likely influenced by its context – a period of abundant mises-en-proses – as reflected in the text’s penchant for conventional motifs and frequent repetitions. In addition to the potential role of its context in the work’s portrayal and use of time, this thesis will address time in Gillion at both the lexical and structural levels. By way of conclusion, remarks on the implications of these observations in the context of medieval French and Burgundian literature as well as the history of the novel will be followed by a brief exploration of the relationship between the text and Lieven van Lathem’s (ca. 1438-1493) program of illustration in one of the two illuminated manuscript versions of this text, Ms. 111, housed at the J. Paul Getty Museum.
2020-03-16T20:49:40Z
2020-03-16T20:49:40Z
2020-03-16T20:49:40Z
2019-05-31
Thesis
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:16608
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30079
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5602-7136
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SAVED BY MADNESS: RESPONSES AND REACTIONS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN FRANCOPHONE AFRICAN NOVELS.
Mba, Mary Orieji
Sayeh, Samira
Jewers, Caroline
Jewers, Caroline
Fourny, Diane
Booker, Tom
Ajayi-Soyinka, Omofolabo
Gender studies
African studies
Women's studies
Domestic violence
Madness
Mythology
Response and Reaction
Spirit exorcism
Superstition
This dissertation studies responses and reactions to domestic violence with special emphasis on madness in three major sub-Saharan francophone novels from West and Central Africa. These novels include Mariama Bâ's Un Chant écarlate (1981) (Scarlet Song), Myriam Warner-Vieyra's Juletane (1982), and Sony Labou Tansi's Les yeux du volcan (1988). It studies the concept of madness as a myth and a cultural construction, as well as how women, to serve their own ends, can appropriate madness and inflict violence on others. It not only studies the violence done to women by men, but all forms of domestic violence, which include those done by women to men, by parents to their children, by in-laws and extended family members to wives of the family, and among co-wives. It also studies the role of the community as perpetrator of domestic violence as presented in the novels that studied.
2017-01-08T19:17:03Z
2017-01-08T19:17:03Z
2017-01-08T19:17:03Z
2014-05-31
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:13432
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22532
en
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/235382017-12-08T21:40:50Zcom_1808_12365com_1808_1260col_1808_14262col_1808_1951
The historical background of Sardou's Thermidor
Riley, Noma
2017-03-31T19:33:02Z
2017-03-31T19:33:02Z
2017-03-31T19:33:02Z
1929
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/23538
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Four devices used by Maeterlinck in creating the atmosphere of his early plays
Hall, Mary Alexandra
2017-06-08T17:54:03Z
2017-06-08T17:54:03Z
2017-06-08T17:54:03Z
1929
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24423
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/207392017-12-08T21:38:01Zcom_1808_12365com_1808_1260col_1808_14262col_1808_1951
The Sophonisba story in French and English drama
Perkins, Ruth Elizabeth
2016-05-03T17:00:23Z
2016-05-03T17:00:23Z
2016-05-03T17:00:23Z
1926
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/20739
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/211582017-12-08T21:38:01Zcom_1808_12365com_1808_1260col_1808_14262col_1808_1951
An inquiry into the vocabulary which students may be expected to have after one unit of work in French
Ericsson, Emily Alice
2016-07-21T15:09:01Z
2016-07-21T15:09:01Z
2016-07-21T15:09:01Z
1926
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21158
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A Critical Study of the Chorus in the Plays of Robert Garnier
Dinneen, David A.
Conventions in Art are born rather than made: like most conventions the Greek Chorus is a beautiful accident, and like most accidents, it is not perfect. Superbly as its great dramatists adapt and modify this relic of primitive religion to serve their art, just
as Greek sculptors adapt their groups with an added beauty to the arbitrary triangle of the temple-pediment, there are times when we feel the Chorus an encumbrance and wish it away. On the other hand, the dramatists early realized how many important uses this standing stage-army could be made to serve. It can expound the past, comment on the present, forebode the future. It provides the past with a mouthpiece and the spectator with a counterpart of himself. It forms a living foreground of common humanity above which the heroes tower: a living background of pure poetry which turns lamentation into music and horror into peace. It provides both a wall, as Schiller held, severing drama like a magic circle from the real world, and a bridge between the heroic figures of legend and the average humanity of the audience.*
2018-03-23T16:15:43Z
2018-03-23T16:15:43Z
2018-03-23T16:15:43Z
1954-05
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/26245
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ÉDOUARD GLISSANT : DU TOUT-MONDE AU TRAITÉ DU TOUT-MONDE. INTERTEXTUALITÉ, IDENTITÉ ET ESPACE : POUR UNE ÉTUDE COMPARATIVE
Mercier, Jean-Bénito
Sayeh, Samira
Pasco, Allan
Fourny, Diane
Hayes, Bruce
Ukpokodu, Peter
Caribbean literature
Literature
Modern literature
Atavic culture / composite culture
Creolization
Rhizomatic identity
The dissertation captures the pluralistic intertextuality that underlines the question of Creolization in Glissant's Tout-monde and Traité du Tout-monde. Respectively a novel and an essay, both works are complementary of one another. The novel exposes the creativeness of the process of Creolization at work while the essay strives to theoretically rephrase its emphatic expressiveness. Therefore, themes such as atavic and composite identity, rhizome, space experienced in the Tout-monde world are reframed and revisited in the essay Traité du Tout-monde. The dissertation depicts as well the evolution of the thematic of Creolization through a process of constant implementation and reappropriation. In effect, the glissantian concept of Creolization can be explained by the refusal of a limited / delimited cultural identity portrayed in Creolity, Négritude, or Francophonie for a more suitable one captured in the Deleuzian rhizomatic poetics, the Segalenian exotism, and finally the Faulknerian vision of filiation. It puts forth and analyses the constant homogeneous and heterogeneous interplay between the novel Tout-monde and the essay Traité du Tout-monde.
2014-07-28T02:26:49Z
2014-07-28T02:26:49Z
2014-07-28T02:26:49Z
2012-12-31
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:12450
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/14840
fr
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Cervantes and Mark Twain
Roades, Mary Teresa
2016-11-30T14:14:42Z
2016-11-30T14:14:42Z
2016-11-30T14:14:42Z
1926
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22078
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A Study of Some of the 17th and 18th Century Dramatic Versions of the Oedipus Legend in French and English with some Reference to Spanish
Malott, Anne C.
2014-08-22T16:10:30Z
2014-08-22T16:10:30Z
2014-08-22T16:10:30Z
1914-01-01
Thesis
Malott, Anne C. "A Study of Some of the 17th and 18th Century Dramatic Versions of the Oedipus Legend in French and English with some Reference to Spanish." University of Kansas. 1914.
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/14937
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Don Juan’s Valet : A Comparative Study of this Character in Six Early Spanish, Italian and French Versions of the Legend of Don Juan
Campbell, Jean Neville
2011-11-22T17:15:47Z
2011-11-22T17:15:47Z
2011-11-22T17:15:47Z
1910
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8443
en_US
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Metaphorical Effects in the Works of Annie Ernaux
Peszat, Regina Lisa
Booker, John T.
Kelly, Van
Jewers, Caroline
Hayes, Bruce
Elliott, Dorice
Literature
Women's studies
Metaphor
Social class
Style
While writing her fourth book, La Place (1984), Ernaux abandoned the genre of the novel and adopted a new prose style that was devoid of metaphor, and other hallmarks of literary writing in favor of a "flat" style. In this study, I show that Ernaux's writing is not as "flat" as it appears to be, and that the author has been maneuvering around her ambivalence to metaphor--and its strong association with literary style--for a long time. An attentive reading, as I have illustrated, reveals new dimensions in her writing and opens up her works to fresh interpretations. An appreciation for the evolution of her style, and the artistic effects hidden below her écriture plate, requires, however, a familiarity with her oeuvre as a whole and active reflection on the reader's part. This dissertation emphasizes Ernaux's approaches to metaphor throughout a body of work that now spans four decades.
2013-09-29T15:37:05Z
2013-09-29T15:37:05Z
2013-09-29T15:37:05Z
2013-08-31
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:12924
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/12234
en
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/210802017-12-08T21:38:01Zcom_1808_12365com_1808_1260col_1808_14262col_1808_1951
The historical background of Victor Hugo's Quatre-Vingt-Treize
Howe, Nina Catherine
2016-07-13T13:36:16Z
2016-07-13T13:36:16Z
2016-07-13T13:36:16Z
1926
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21080
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The plays of Linares Rivas
Harrison, Mary Wallingford
2016-11-30T14:14:41Z
2016-11-30T14:14:41Z
2016-11-30T14:14:41Z
1929
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22073
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Perceptions of Syncope in Medieval French Literature of the High Middle Ages: the Function and Cultural History of Fainting
Moots, Angela
Jewers, Caroline
Kelly, Van
Booker, John T.
Schieberle, Misty
Hedeman, Anne D.
Literature
Fainting
Old French Literature
Syncope
This dissertation analyzes the diverse instances of syncope in Old French Literature from the first appearance of the verb to faint, “pasmer,” in the eleventh-century hagiographical text La Vie de saint Alexis, to the epics, the romances based on classical antiquity, the works of Chrétien de Troyes, and the thirteenth-century romances of the Arthurian Lancelot en prose. In literature, syncope ranges from a simple collapse or swooning to an extended period of unconsciousness or trance-like paralysis, and results from factors such as distress, injury, illness, love, joy, fear, or indecision. In addition to being physical, psychological, or emotional, fainting can be gendered in unexpected ways, as the male characters lose consciousness most frequently. In this study, I show that syncope highlights certain events and characteristics, externalizes emotions, dramatizes illnesses, unveils hidden love, shows the effects of broken relationships, and depicts the consequences of actions. Moreover, it can have a deeper signification, symbolizing an outer manifestation of sin or a loss of power. Interestingly, the increasing role of syncope in literature coincides with the increasing popularity of medical learning, treatments, and herbals during the High Middle Ages. The first chapter shows that hagiography uses fainting to emphasize overwhelming emotions after the loss of a loved one, while the masculine world of epic poetry illustrates that a loss of consciousness can be ideological, showing the knights’ unwavering devotion despite suffering. Transitioning to the romans d’antiquité of chapter two, the paradigm of syncope extends, and the poets emphasize love’s emotional toll with fainting as a symptom of lovesickness in both men and women. In the third chapter, fainting and trances are visible in the protagonists of Chrétien de Troyes’s romances, as characters struggle to restore relationships, escape to be with a lover, hide emotions, obey a courtly lady, and understand God’s love. In the concluding chapter, syncope aids in characterization in the Lancelot en prose, and the greater psychological focus on the characters is evident in instances of trance-like unconsciousness. Syncope is much more than a dramatic spectacle, and authors use the motif to redirect attention to important characters, themes, or events.
2015-12-03T04:29:12Z
2015-12-03T04:29:12Z
2015-12-03T04:29:12Z
2015-05-31
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:14006
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/19065
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La crise de la postmodernité et de la masculinité dans les romans de Michel Houellebecq
Viennot, Gilles André Fernand
Kelly, Van
Pasco, Allan H
Jewers, Caroline
Booker, John T
Barnard, Philip
Literature
crisis
Houellebecq
masculinity
postmodernity
In the last twenty years, Michel Houellebecq has become one of the most prominent French writers, whose international renown is still growing. The author, however, is still misunderstood by some critics, for whom he is a vile masculinist, a sterile polemist, or an agitator as well as a media wizard whose texts lack content and significance. For others, he is discredited by his excessive pessimism and by the strange paradoxes and undecidable or shocking aspects that lie in his writings. In this dissertation, we argue that Houellebecq's message is as strong as coherent, by analyzing his complex argumentation. Firstly, Houellebecq deplores the disaggregation of familial bonds. According to him, this lack of affective education leads to the disappearance of love. Rightfully deemed anticapitalistic, Houellebecq regards the professional world with severity. In the disenchanted and alarmist portrait he renders of the western civilization, by adapting each of his novels to the rapid changes that the world went through, Houellebecq contends that the contamination of meaning by absurdity and suffering, in relation to the impossibility of love, leads to the complete decomposition of reality, and sinks the world into a dark and inextricable simulacrum. An anticapitalistic manifesto as well as a portrait of damaged masculinity, Houellebecq's message revolves around the destructive effects of the overwhelming economic axis which, according to him, rules the western world. This dissertation is informed by the theoretical arsenal and speculative thinking of metaphysician Jean Baudrillard, and philosophers and sociologists Zygmunt Bauman and Gilles Lipovetsky. It mostly refers to three novels by Houellebecq: Whatever (1994), The Elementary Particles (1998), and The Map and the Territory (2010). It describes one of the most important influences of Michel Houellebecq: Oswald Spengler. This work situates Houellebecq in relation to precursors and contemporary writers whose vision of the world and pessimism are in line with his views in several respects: Philippe Djian, Hervé Guibert, Vincent Ravalec, Régis Jauffret and Emmanuel Carrère. Houellebecq's oeuvre is also compared to the feminist vision of writer Marie Desplechin, with the intention of balancing his harshly masculinist vision. Au fil des vingt dernières années, Michel Houellebecq est devenu un auteur français crucial, dont la renommée internationale s'est accrue. Il reste pourtant incompris par une partie de la critique qui voit en lui un vil masculiniste, un polémiste stérile, ou un agitateur médiatique dénué de message substantiel. Pour d'autres, il est discrédité par son pessimisme excessif, et par les paradoxes étranges et le caractère indécidable que ses textes recèlent. Dans cette thèse, nous montrons que Michel Houellebecq délivre un message puissant et cohérent, dont nous nous attachons à détailler l'argumentation complexe. Michel Houellebecq déplore la désagrégation des liens familiaux. Selon lui, ce défaut d'éducation affective et sentimentale débouche sur la disparition du sentiment amoureux. Jugé à raison anticapitaliste, Michel Houellebecq décrit le monde du travail avec une grande sévérité. Dans le portrait désenchanté et alarmiste qu'il dresse de la société occidentale, en s'adaptant avec chaque nouveau roman aux changements rapides que celle-ci a connu entre-temps, l'auteur soutient que cette annexion du sens par l'absurde, conjuguée à l'impossibilité de l'amour, entraîne la déréalisation du monde, et sa plongée dans un simulacre morbide et inextricable. A mi-chemin entre une critique du capitalisme et un manifeste de la masculinité en souffrance, le message de Houellebecq s'axe sur les méfaits du tout économique qui régit la société. Pour cette raison, nous utilisons largement l'arsenal théorique et les pistes spéculatives développés par le métaphysicien Jean Baudrillard, et les sociologues Zygmunt Bauman et Gilles Lipovetsky. Cette thèse s'appuie essentiellement sur trois romans de Michel Houellebecq : Extension du domaine de la lutte (1994), Les particules élémentaires (1998), et La carte et le territoire (2010). Nous offrons également un aperçu théorique de l'oeuvre de l'un des penseurs qui ont fortement influencé Michel Houellebecq, et qui imprègne ses textes : celle d'Oswald Spengler. Cette thèse s'ouvre enfin à quelques précurseurs et contemporains de Michel Houellebecq, qui, sur certains points, partagent la même vision du monde : Philippe Djian, Hervé Guibert, Vincent Ravalec, Régis Jauffret et Emmanuel Carrère. Ce travail présente enfin la vision féministe et féconde de Marie Desplechin, avec l'intention d'équilibrer la vision masculine de Michel Houellebecq.
2017-05-08T01:21:13Z
2017-05-08T01:21:13Z
2017-05-08T01:21:13Z
2014-08-31
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:13511
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/23970
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Manon Lescaut in fiction and drama
Downing, Jacquetta Mae
2016-01-06T17:16:07Z
2016-01-06T17:16:07Z
2016-01-06T17:16:07Z
1922
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/19704
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François Villon in French and English drama and fiction since 1877
Sillers, Rose Matthew
2017-02-14T19:30:00Z
2017-02-14T19:30:00Z
2017-02-14T19:30:00Z
1931
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/23162
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Engendering Vice: The Exemplarity of the Old French Fabliaux
Horton, Ingrid Diane
Jewers, Caroline A
Hayes, Bruce
Scott, Paul
Clark, Robert
Brown, James H
Medieval literature
Through close examination of thirteen representative fabliaux (L'anel qui faisoit les vis grans et roides, Connebert, La dame escoillee, Le foteor, Le moigne, Les perdris, Le pescheor de Pont seur Saine, Richeut, Les quatre sohais saint Martin, La saineresse, Les tresces, Les trois dames de Paris and Les trois dames qui troverent un vit),I show that their comedy and textual and bodily distortion represent real social concerns,making the fabliaux vehicles of social commentary. By examining the liturgical, literary and artistic trends at the time of fabliaux production and comparing them to these thirteen texts, I demonstrate that the fabliaux are, in fact,reflections of these trends and should be considered alongside them as their counterparts in popular culture. I also look at how the manipulation of language and register becomes an accomplice to the humor in these tales. And finally, I illustrate that vice, gender and the body combine to produce comic exempla; thus, like the exempla, fabliaux teach by example.
2008-08-05T02:37:18Z
2008-08-05T02:37:18Z
2008-08-05T02:37:18Z
2008-01-25
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:2330
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/4017
EN
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Charlotte Corday in literature
McCluney, Clara Isabelle
2017-01-19T14:56:17Z
2017-01-19T14:56:17Z
2017-01-19T14:56:17Z
1929
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22648
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/225242018-01-31T20:07:50Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_12365col_1808_1952col_1808_14262
Lutte pour la connaissance et la compréhension dans l'écriture concentrationnaire de Charlotte Delbo,Jorge Semprun et Germaine Tillion.
Prouvost-Allen, Olivia
Kelly, Van
Jewers, Caroline
Hayes, Bruce
Booker, John T
Tuttle, Leslie
Literature
History
Charlotte Delbo
concentration camp
Germaine Tillion
Jorge Semprun
knowledge
political deportees
Deported for acts of resistance in Nazi concentration camps, Charlotte Delbo, Jorge Semprun and Germaine Tillion testify about this horrific experience through their works. Their autobiographical, fictional or historical writings convey the uncertainty and anxiety that deportees felt as they arrived at the camp, immersed in an unknown and incomprehensible world. This study explores the various lacks of knowledge and understanding, and their consequences, expressed in their works. To resist the dehumanization and the destruction of the self, some detainees fought actively for information. This was especially true for Tillion. Her training as an ethnologist gave her the tools to gather information and to analyze the concentration camp system. This dissertation examines the methods used by Tillion for the collection, analysis and dissemination of information. It focuses particularly on the role of Le Verfügbar aux Enfers, her humorous operetta written while detained in Ravensbrück, in the propagation of concentration camp knowledge to the other inmates in the camp. The works of the three writers also mention the problems of knowledge and understanding that survivors faced after returning from concentration camps. However, the authors express the need both to understand this experience and to be understood. To do so, Tillion published three editions of her historical work Ravensbrück before authorizing the publication of the play Le Verfügbar aux Enfers at the end of her life. Delbo chose a mixture of prose and poetry in the trilogy Auschwitz et après, and also turned to theater. As for Semprun, he prefered the novel and the autobiography, incorporating fiction into reality. This research investigates the role of writing, and more specifically literature, in the transmission of the experience and the knowledge that ensues from it.
2017-01-08T19:04:54Z
2017-01-08T19:04:54Z
2017-01-08T19:04:54Z
2014-05-31
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:13433
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22524
fr
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The sources and influence of Moreto's El Desdén con el Desdén and El Lindo Don Diego
Watkins, Mary Elizabeth
2016-09-30T14:39:16Z
2016-09-30T14:39:16Z
2016-09-30T14:39:16Z
1924
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21583
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Breaking Dramatic Illusion and Extending the Dramatic World: French Civil-War Tragedy (1550-1643)
Moots, Brian
Hayes, Bruce
Jewers, Caroline
Scott, Paul
Fourny, Diane
De Sousa, Geraldo
Literature
Theater
Civil War
France
Renaissance
Tragedy
This research project combines history, cultural studies, and performance theories to explore the threats posed by tragedy during the civil and religious crisis in France. French plays challenge civil and religious authority and justify revolt by the literal and figurative reenactment of sedition. In the sub-genre of civil-war tragedy, David rebels against the anointed king Saul, Caesar contends against Pompey, Roman senators slay the victorious Caesar, and Antigone disobeys her uncle and king, Creon. Adopting these famous examples of revolt enables playwrights to break the dramatic illusion of the play, creating crucial parallels with contemporary France. Historical examples give concrete support for the propaganda clothed by the tragedy, while staging revolt elicits violence from spectators because it dangerously encourages them to think independently, to investigate through reading and interpretation, and to lose control in riots and other acts of violence. The first chapter will identify threats in theater by exploring elements of tragedy, in the sub-genre of civil-war tragedies, where the author is most visible (in liminary material, prologues, and opening monologues) all of which break the play's stage illusion, forming a dangerous complicity between audience and author. In the next chapter, an analysis of the chorus suggests its role produces an effect similar to the paratext; the chorus interrupts the on-stage action and establishes historical precedence for the propaganda in the tragedy. These playwrights expanded and emphasized the role of the chorus, a stronger reliance on this role not reflected in most Ancient Greek or Roman tragedies, sources the French playwrights imitated. The third chapter explores the compelling roles of leading women to gain crucial insights into family, gender roles, and the threat perceived to social order by these female tragic heroes. The final chapter will examine the dialogue between loyalty and revolt in the sub-genre of civil-war tragedy, a dialogue that is connected intimately to contemporary events and to the author's political or religious confession. I hope this inquiry will provide new perspective for the French civil and religious wars, including the Saint Bartholomew Day massacres, and deepen our understanding of the often-overlooked genre of sixteenth-century tragedy.
2015-02-25T04:58:04Z
2015-02-25T04:58:04Z
2015-02-25T04:58:04Z
2014-08-31
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:13533
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/16823
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The historical basis of Hervieu's Theroigne de Mericourt
Shannon, Winifred
2015-09-21T18:31:43Z
2015-09-21T18:31:43Z
2015-09-21T18:31:43Z
1922
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18498
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The influence of Moliere on the satire of affectation in Thomas Shadwell’s comedy
Haury, Irvin
2016-01-06T17:16:23Z
2016-01-06T17:16:23Z
2016-01-06T17:16:23Z
1917
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/19721
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A modern treatment of Esther
Schmidt, Mariam Penner
2017-02-28T19:57:44Z
2017-02-28T19:57:44Z
2017-02-28T19:57:44Z
1931
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/23291
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/300692020-03-12T08:00:23Zcom_1808_12365com_1808_1260col_1808_14262col_1808_1951
The Earl of Essex in La Calprenède, Thomas Corneille, and Henry Jones
Hamilton, Helen Mary
2020-03-11T21:26:03Z
2020-03-11T21:26:03Z
2020-03-11T21:26:03Z
1933-08-31
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30069
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Alfred De Vigny's treatment of Richelieu in the novel Cinq-Mars
Kibbe, Edith L.
2016-09-07T13:17:19Z
2016-09-07T13:17:19Z
2016-09-07T13:17:19Z
1927
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21444
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The Music of Mary and Martha: Tension and Dissonance in Marguerite de Navarre's Chansons spirituelles
Kendrick, Jeff
Hayes, Bruce
Ferguson, Gary
Pasco, Allan
Scott, Paul
Manning, Patricia
Literature
Chansons spirituelles
Individual
Navarre, Marguerite de
Poetry
Self
Sixteenth century
This study examines Marguerite de Navarre's Chansons spirituelles in the context of sixteenth-century ideas concerning the self and self-expression. In essence, I find that Marguerite conceptualizes the self as a series of relationships between the interior and the exterior, who one is on the inside and the image or projection of that entity on the outside. To help establish a framework within which to develop these ideas, I focus on theological, gender, and poetic tensions at play throughout the compilation of songs. These tensions provide opportunities to examine what Marguerite desired to communicate about her understanding of the emerging concept of the individual in Renaissance France. Additionally, these poems demonstrate how the author's portrayal and valuation of violence both clarifies and obscures the relationship between internal and external that is fundamental to proper interpretation of the songs and much of early modern French literature.
2012-11-26T22:33:11Z
2012-11-26T22:33:11Z
2012-11-26T22:33:11Z
2012-05-31
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:12118
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10464
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