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La Narration Transmédia : Nouveau Mode De Narration, Dalia Ahmed Metawe

Journal of the Faculty of Arts (JFA)

Transmedia storytelling, also known as transmedia storytelling, is a term that originated in the United States in the early 2000s, known as Transmedia Storytelling. It describes the combined use of several media (Internet, television, cinema, mobile phone, radio, publishers, tablets, events, video games, etc.) to develop coherent, immersive and participatory fictional universes, called franchises. Through the study of the transmedia narrative Le visiteur du futur by François Descraques, this work explores how the diversity of media can be exploited to present an enriched, immersive and participatory narrative universe, by highlighting the transmedia strategies that the producers of this universe develop …

Le Thriller Politique Et La Rhétorique Du Faux. L’Exemple De Kaboul Express Et Prémices De La Chute, Neveen Majed Abdulrahman

Journal of the Faculty of Arts (JFA)

AbstractThis argumentative study of two recent political thrillers, Cedric Bannel's Kaboul Express (2017) and Beginnings of Fall (2019) by Frederic Paulin focus on rhetorical strategies designed to convince us of the fraud and falsifications of the French intelligence services. While drawing in particular on Patrick Charaudeau's theories of Discourse analysis, so the aim of the research is to show how each writer deals with these wrong practices or policies related to the intelligence services either by defending or contesting them. The study will also endeavor to show how it is possible to understand current geopolitical issues by comparing the two …

Tuning Out: Intersections Of Music And Literature In The Contemporary French-Language Novel, Alexander James Claussen

Department of Modern Languages and Literatures: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The past thirty years have seen a shift in French-language novels as authors move from the self-reflexive formal experimentation of the nouveau roman and its successors toward a literature that is again concerned with plot, character, and above all, the problems of the contemporary world. This “retour au récit” is accompanied by a resurgence of interest in writing the self (through experiments in autofiction), the past (through explorations of collective memory and collective guilt), and the present (through novels that challenge existing social structures and seek to define and develop new collective or national identities).

This dissertation examines the (re)turn …

Interviews In Global Catholic Studies: Mary Dunn, Mathew N. Schmalz, Mary Dunn

Journal of Global Catholicism

No abstract provided.

The Double Bond Of Catholic Abolition: Christianity, Chattel Slavery, And Racial Capitalism, Elayne Oliphant

Journal of Global Catholicism

The reign of the first Pope to originate in the former colonies of the modern Euro-Christian empires calls us into awareness of the layers of interconnection between the Roman Catholic Church and the long “wake” (Sharpe 2016) of 1492. As anthropologists, I argue, our studies of Catholic practices must be informed by a detailed awareness of this history. I offer a broad historical view of how the Roman Catholic Church participated and, at times, led the way in initiating the trans-Atlantic system of Black chattel slavery and colonial expropriation in Euro-Christian Empires. As a scholar of Catholicism in France, I …

The Missionary And The Pea: An Anthropological Study Of The French Mep Economy, Michel Chambon

Journal of Global Catholicism

This paper discusses how the French missionaries of the Missions Etrangères de Paris (MEP) are linking humans and material objects to support their religious agenda. Revisiting the long history of this organization in Hong Kong and Thailand, but also its distinct recruitment and assignment policies, I highlight how these Catholic missionaries rely on their French cultural background to interconnect people and goods. While theological principles and political pragmatism shape their functioning, I argue that their economy is distinctively rooted in the French notion of terroir –the taste of place— an embodied relation to land that acts as a cultural mechanism …

Creating A Culture For Heritage Speakers In The Midwest: Promoting Spanish And French As Heritage Languages Among Undergraduate Students, Elise M. Dubord, Elizabeth Zwanziger

11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language

No abstract provided.

Doris Provencher-Faucher Research Library Bibliography, Usm Franco-American Collection

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Doris Provencher-Faucher Research Library Bibliography

Unnatural Issue: Gendered Adaptations Of “Peau D’Âne” In Contemporary French And English Texts, Amy M. Martin

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Unnatural Issue: Gendered Adaptations of “Peau d’Âne” in Contemporary French and English Texts explores trans-genre and transmedia adaptations of Charles Perrault’s seventeenth-century fairy tale using feminist and narratological theories to examine gendered aspects of storytelling and the treatment of father-daughter incest and blame in the work of selected French, British, and American creators. Texts are read comparatively, with analyses of the adaptations’ plots, motifs, characterizations, and modifications, both in relation to Perrault and to the other adaptations. This dissertation features prose and poetry texts by female authors—including Christine Angot, Catherine Cusset, and Emma Donoghue—in the first two chapters. Reading these …

Heroes, Victims, And Future Citizens: Representations Of French Children During World War I, Megan R. Outtrim

Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal

The effects of total war society in France during WWI dramatically altered the daily lives of both adults and children, witnessing increasing levels of patriotic rhetoric, wartime propaganda, and anti-German sentiment. Children were often made the focal point of this propaganda, as they represented the future of the nation. As such, three specific representations of children emerge from WWI propaganda in France: the heroic child, the victimized child, and the malleable future citizen. Some of these representations were depicted in propaganda meant for children specifically, while others were depicted in propaganda meant to mobilize adults in the name of children. …

Death, Dreaming, And Diaspora: Achieving Orientation Through Afro-Spirituality, Liz Johnston, Jaime Elizabeth Johnston

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Enslavement, colonization, and the systems that uphold racial injustice were and still are a series of new, unfathomable, and challenging experiences that prompt individuals within the diaspora to seek orientation. How does a human cope with centuries of attempts at the systematic destruction of their humanity, culture, and identity? How can they reclaim that identity, especially when so much of it seems lost? I address these questions by utilizing texts from the expansive body of work regarding ethnographic-historical-religious studies on Afro-spiritual practices to better analyze instances in literature in the ongoing practice of diasporic orientation. In this project, I argue …

A Semester Abroad Discussion Of The Film, Tatianna M. Rice

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

What does a French and Digital Media Production double major do when they study abroad in Paris, France? Create a film, of course. A Semester Abroad follows my various travels during the Fall 2023 semester. In this discussion of my film, I break down the process from my initial research on French cinema, which focused on filmmakers during the French New Wave film movement of the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, to the process of creating this film. Inspired by the vignettes of Dreams directed by Akira Kurosawa, a film I first watched in my Global Cinema course, I created …

Le Diable Au Coeur : Bonjour Tristesse Et La Valeur Littéraire Dans Les Années 1950, Lauren E. Mccouch

Senior Honors and Award-Winning Theses

No abstract provided.

La Liberté Face À L’Absurde : Comment Exister Dans Le Monde Moderne, Braiden Ellis

Undergraduate Research

French existentialist literature was born in response to the horrors of World War II and the destruction of the Nazi. People began to contemplate the meaning of life (or the lack thereof) and the role of God amidst these tragedies. The two most prominent representatives of French existentialist literature were Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. Both writers were once friends, but their differing approaches to existentialism drove them apart. Camus believed that people should value life in itself, rather than focus on the meaninglessness of a world without God, a philosophy that came to be known as Absurdism. Sartre believed …

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Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

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Collective, Collage, And Translative Authorship: Writing To And From Multilingual Europe, Jamie H. Trnka

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Letters to Europe (2011) is a collectively authored, transnational literary engagement with Europe as an idea, a place, and a set of socio-political relationships. A print publication and performance, the ambivalent generic status of the Brussels-based project raises productive questions about how collective translation, transnational authorship, and multimedial performance strategies combine to advance new modes of aesthetic and political representation for subjects in transit in twenty-first century Europe. I argue for attention to multilingual and multimedial translations as sites of creative self-documentation on the part of mobile subjects as a critical counterpoint to state-sanctioned forms of documentality (Favorini). To that …

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Sonja Stojanovic. Mind The Ghost. Thinking Memory And The Untimely Through Contemporary Fiction In French. Liverpool Up, 2023., Catherine Nesci

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Review of Sonja Stojanovic. Mind the Ghost. Thinking Memory and the Untimely through Contemporary Fiction in French. Liverpool UP, 2023. xi + 307 pp.

Special Focus Introduction: Translating Multilingualism, Yasemin Yildiz

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Special Focus Introduction: Translating Multilingualism

Allan Stoekl. The Three Sustainabilities: Energy, Economy, Time. U Of Minnesota P, 2021., Martin A. Hipsky

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Review of Allan Stoekl. The Three Sustainabilities: Energy, Economy, Time. U of Minnesota, 2021. 297 pp.

Dystopian Nomadism In Marie Darrieussecq's Notre Vie Dans Les Forêts, Deborah Gaensbauer

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

In this speculative eco-dystopian novel portraying the destruction of a cloned woman’s psychic and corporeal integrity in tandem with environmental despoliation, implied allusions to Deleuzian notions of nomadism, rhizomes, the body without organs and becoming-animal are ubiquitous. Noticeably, however, Deleuze is never explicitly mentioned by the narrator although she makes abundant, wry references to other key works and figures in Western cultural and literary history. These sustained, unarticulated references to Deleuze cue the reader to approach the novel as a respectful parody. I propose that the parody in Notre vie dans les forêts (Our Life in the Forest) …

Le Juif Caché : Analyse Filmique Du Personnage De Vinz Dans La Haine, Viviana Freyer

Senior Honors and Award-Winning Theses

No abstract provided.

Les Mots Mode D'Emploi : Invitation A La Re-Imagination Litteraire De Georges Perec, Hanqi Liu

Senior Projects Spring 2024

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

From Villain To Hero: Don Juan Through The Ages, Yilin Li

Senior Projects Spring 2024

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Collection And Recollection: A Critical Anthology Of Translated Francophone Texts, Claire Bartholomew

Senior Projects Spring 2024

This senior project explores questions of language, memory, testimony and identity through an anthology of translated French-language poetry and prose and a series of essays to situate the texts.

La Négociation De L’Altérité Aux Marges : L’Agentivité Des Aventuriers Dans Les Sauteurs Et The Land Between, Destiny Rosulme , '24

Senior Theses, Projects, and Awards

No abstract provided.

Les Stations De Vacances Des Années 1960-70 : Comment Leur Architecture Moderniste Incarne-T-Elle La France Des Trente Glorieuses ?, Lily V. Fournier , '24

Senior Theses, Projects, and Awards

No abstract provided.

Intégration, Identité Et Technologies Numériques : Une Étude De Cas Des Immigrés Marocains De Deuxième Génération Et La Question D’Identité Culturelle Dans L’Espace Numérique, Orlando Y. Azuara Hernandez , '24

Senior Theses, Projects, and Awards

No abstract provided.

Imaginer La Vie De La Fin De L'Anthropocène Dans La Mort De La Terre, Caroline Lucas , '24

Senior Theses, Projects, and Awards

No abstract provided.