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Marriage And The City: Fatal Displacement In La Maison Du Chat-Qui-Pelote, Laurel Cummins
Marriage And The City: Fatal Displacement In La Maison Du Chat-Qui-Pelote, Laurel Cummins
Theses and Dissertations
The following is a meta-commentary of the article, “Marriage and the City: Fatal Displacement in La Maison du chat-qui-pelote,” co-authored by Dr. Anca Mitroi Sprenger and myself, Laurel Cummins. The article will soon be submitted for publication, and this commentary contains an annotated bibliography of all our primary and secondary sources as well as an account of the origin of the argument and the process of writing the article. Our article is based upon an analysis of La Maison du chat-qui-pelote, a story authored by Honoré de Balzac within his seminal collection La Comédie humaine. In the …
Images Of Corsica In France: Travel Memoirs And 19th Century Writers, James Oliver Mayo
Images Of Corsica In France: Travel Memoirs And 19th Century Writers, James Oliver Mayo
Theses and Dissertations
Considered an integral part of Metropolitan France, the island of Corsica is situated nonetheless on the very periphery of the modern state that claims it. Actually situated geographically closer to Italy than to any part of France, its culture and its people are likewise more closely related to their Italians neighbors than to the rest of what Corsicans term "Continental France." Following the acquisition of Corsica, both government officials and bourgeois travelers would seek to visit the island, often recording their findings and publishing these memoirs for others to know of their travels. This concept of travel memoirs, specifically those …