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Recent Submissions
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Genres instables : ludic performances of autofiction in the works of Catherine Cusset, Philippe Vilain, Chloé Delaume and Éric Chevillard
(University of St Andrews, 2015-11-30) - ThesisAutofiction has been the subject of much critical investigation in France, yet little of this theory extends to contemporary texts. Furthermore, autofictional theory has, until now, neglected the study of ludic performance ... -
Charles Baudelaire's translations of Edgar Allan Poe
(University of St Andrews, 2003) - ThesisAlthough one of the best-known cases of intercultural literary partnership, Charles Baudelaire’s translations of Edgar Allan Poe’s works have been little analysed with a methodology appropriate to Translation Studies. ... -
Marriage and desire in seventeenth-century French comedy
(2015-06-25) - ThesisThis thesis re-examines the role of marriage in the golden age of seventeenth-century French comedy. It reconsiders received wisdom on the subject to challenge acceptance of the final promise of marriage as a dénouement ... -
The German Occupation in recent French fiction : an analysis of the literary “mode retro”
(University of St Andrews, 1985-07) - ThesisThis thesis attempts to analyse and characterise the mode rétro, the remarkable renewal of interest in the German Occupation of France, which is coloured by an extensive re-evaluation of the period's significance. An ... -
Literacy and the vernacular : a case study based on the post-colonial history of Mauritius, with particular reference to Mauritian Creole
(University of St Andrews, 2001) - ThesisThis thesis examines the process of the literization of the vernacular, and seeks to establish the island of Mauritius as a case study of this process. The concept of literization equates standardization of the vernacular ...
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