Modern Languages Theses: Recent submissions
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Illustration, interpretation, and innovation : 151 years of visual-arts adaptations of the poetic works of Charles Baudelaire
(2020-07-30) - ThesisAt least 125 artists have adapted the poetic works of Charles Baudelaire using a visual medium. This corpus of over 1000 images dates from 1866 to 2017, and includes illustrations, paintings, photography, comic books, and ... -
Arrivals in Rome : entangling and disorientating the city in contemporary art and text
(2020-07-30) - ThesisThis thesis explores heterogeneous forms of trans-national arrival in Rome as they are encapsulated by contemporary creative practices. The arrivals include those of ‘first’ and ‘second’ generation migrant writers (Methnani, ... -
Truth and knowledge in Rabelais's 'Pantagruel' and 'Gargantua'
(1978) - ThesisThe basic contentions of Truth and knowledge in Rabelais's "Pantagruel" and "Gargantua” are, first, that the theme of truth and knowledge underlies, unifies and gives meaning to all the disparate episodes of Books I and ... -
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Forging diplomacy abroad and at home : French festival culture in a European context, 1572-1615
(2019-06-27) - ThesisThis doctoral thesis is the first to examine the attempts of the late Valois and early Bourbon rulers of France to make strategic use of festival culture for maintaining national and international relat ...