French Theses
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Recent Submissions
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Imagining children's rights in Central Africa : francophone fiction and international children's rights law
(2024-12-04) - ThesisIn recent decades, questions around the nature of childhood and children’s place in society have gained new attention, notably through the enunciation of children’s rights. At the same time, humanitarian and wider public ... -
Re-telling the stories of artists who are women : lessons from the multimedial fictions of George Sand
(2024-06-12) - ThesisThis study analyses George Sand’s depictions of artists as women creating in multiple art forms (as writers, actresses, musicians, and painters) to disclose Sand’s innovative narrative strategies that allow alternative ... -
Heroes of the natural world in selected works of Jean Giono and D.H. Lawrence
(University of St Andrews, 1986) - ThesisThe purpose of this thesis is to identify and to define the heroes of the natural world in selected works of Jean Giono and D. H. Lawrence. The natural characters, personages whose literary representation is partially ... -
Forging diplomacy abroad and at home : French festival culture in a European context, 1572-1615
(2019-06-27) - ThesisThis doctoral thesis is the first to examine the attempts of the late Valois and early Bourbon rulers of France to make strategic use of festival culture for maintaining national and international relat ...