French Theses: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Madame de Genlis : environment, citizenship, and the nation in post-revolutionary France
(University of St Andrews, 2016-06-23) - ThesisThrough an ecocritical lens, this thesis investigates the interrelatedness of the themes of environment, citizenship, and nation in Madame de Genlis’s depiction of post-Revolutionary France. At the heart of the ecocritical ... -
Notions of time and epoch in contemporary French fiction : Montalbetti, Lenoir & Pireyre
(University of St Andrews, 2018-12-07) - ThesisThis thesis examines the notions of time and epoch through the works of three contemporary French authors: Christine Montalbetti, Hélène Lenoir and Emmanuelle Pireyre. The theoretical framework for this study draws upon ... -
Mourning, writing, (self-)transformation: the autofiction of Serge Doubrovsky
(2018) - ThesisThis thesis investigates the capacity of mourning to transform one’s life into writing. Since mourning impacts each individual in a very unique way, its effect in the field of life-writing is incommensurable. In this ... -
Rhetoric and the art of the French tragic actor (1620-1750) : the place of 'pronuntiatio' in the stage tradition
(University of St Andrews, 1982-06) - ThesisIn seventeenth-century France a new type of theatre was established to correspond to the ideals and taste of the dominant social group. As part of the process a particular ideal was forged for the new-style actor. Moulded ...