French Theses: Recent submissions
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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
(2018-12-07) - 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 ... -
Images of adultery in twelfth and thirteenth-century Old French literature
(University of St Andrews, 2003) - ThesisThis thesis examines literary images of masculinity and femininity, their function and depiction in marriage roles and homo-social relationships in the context of crisis: wifely adultery. The study is heavily reliant upon ...