French Theses: Recent submissions
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A critical translation of Charles Collé's 'Le Galant escroc'
(University of St Andrews, 1999-01) - ThesisCharles Collé (1709-1783) enjoyed the reputation amongst his contemporaries of an accomplished writer of popular songs and of comédies de société. Although three of his plays were performed at the Comédie-francaise during ... -
France, man and language in French Resistance poetry.
(University of St Andrews, 1989-07) - ThesisThe Second World War witnessed what was recognised at the time as a poetic revival in France. The phenomenon of Resistance poetry in particular commanded literary attention throughout the war. Immediately afterwards, ... -
Example and authority in the narrative representation of women, as illustrated in selected writings of Christine de Pizan and Marguerite de Navarre
(University of St Andrews, 1999-09) - ThesisThis thesis examines the use of authority and example in the narrative representation of women in selected writings of Christine de Pizan and Marguerite de Navarre. In this thesis, it is shown that these two women writers ... -
French Renaissance comedy, 1552-1630
(University of St Andrews, 1967) - Thesis -
Popular fiction in France and England, 1860-1875 : convention, irony and ambivalence in the novels of Paul Féval and Wilkie Collins
(2000) - ThesisThis thesis is a comparative study of two popular nineteenth-century writers, Paul Feval and Wilkie Collins, and by extension, of their respective traditions, the Roman-Feuilleton and the Sensation novel. At the same time, ...