French Theses: Recent submissions
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Women and nature in the works of French female novelists, 1789-1815
(University of St Andrews, 2015-06-25) - ThesisOn account of their supposed link to nature, women in post-revolutionary France were pigeonholed into a very restrictive sphere that centred around domesticity and submission to their male counterparts. Yet this thesis ... -
A corpus linguistic analysis of phraseology and collocation in the register of current European Union administrative French
(University of St Andrews, 2003) - ThesisThe French administrative language of the European Union is an emerging discourse: it is less than fifty years old, and has its origins in the French administrative register of the middle of the twentieth century. This ... -
The 'internal exotic' : a postcolonial re-reading of nineteenth-century Alsatian and Corsican literature in French
(University of St Andrews, 2013) - ThesisThis thesis examines nineteenth-century French literature about the peripheral regions of Alsace and Corsica, observing the discursive process of their incorporation into the imagined French landscape. Firstly, approaching ... -
Pierre Reverdy : lyrisme de la réalité. Poétique du visuel
(University of St Andrews, 2013-06) - ThesisThis thesis aims to provide the first complete study of the poetics of Pierre Reverdy, who, although famous and influential during his lifetime, has not been widely published or researched. This thesis hopes to change this, ... -
'Pour garder l'impossible intact' : the poetry of Heather Dohollau
(University of St Andrews, 2009-11-30) - ThesisThis dissertation offers the first extended study of the work of the Welsh-French poet Heather Dohollau, whose substantial œuvre in French, published since 1974, has recently received international critical recognition. ...