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Snapshots Of A Fictional Past: Photographic Nostalgia In The Early 20th Century Art Novel., Harry A. Jones IV 2022 VCU Student

Snapshots Of A Fictional Past: Photographic Nostalgia In The Early 20th Century Art Novel., Harry A. Jones Iv

Theses and Dissertations

In this dissertation I argue that the proliferation of a mass codependent relationship with nostalgia in the twentieth century shares a parallel history with the widespread adoption of the reproducible image being used by collective audiences as a supplement for natural memory, or what Proust names “voluntary memory.” This conflict between nostalgia-hungry consumers and artists inspired groups such as Alfred Stieglitz’s Photo-Secessionists and artistically minded authors like Henry James, who employed increasingly complex photographic and literary practices to resist the images’ tendency to debase the aesthetic quality of their own work. Authors such as Marcel Proust and William Faulkner used …


The Blue Girandole & The Grand Hotel: Reconsiderations Of Sodom And Gomorrah In Proust's À La Recherche Du Temps Perdu, Emma West Alcorn 2022 Bard College

The Blue Girandole & The Grand Hotel: Reconsiderations Of Sodom And Gomorrah In Proust's À La Recherche Du Temps Perdu, Emma West Alcorn

Senior Projects Fall 2022

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


Engagement Et Jeunes De Banlieue : Quand Le Roman Policier Rejoint Le Rap Pour Dire ¨Je Suis Français¨, Iziar De Miguel 2022 CUNY Graduate Center

Engagement Et Jeunes De Banlieue : Quand Le Roman Policier Rejoint Le Rap Pour Dire ¨Je Suis Français¨, Iziar De Miguel

Publications and Research

Avec la grande ville au cœur des romans noirs, les activités illégales, les portraits de délinquants, ainsi que de détectives et de flics qui naviguent entre des valeurs morales et amorales prennent place au sein du roman policier. Proposant une image mitigée de la banlieue nord, montrant une culture et des valeurs qui lui sont propres mais aussi ses contradictions et ses malaises, les romans de Rachid Santaki se démarquent du reste de la littérature policière par leur mise en scène de héros issus de l’immigration. Si l’intrigue policière se concentre sur la description de milieux criminels liés au trafic …


Deux Histoires De Meurtres Et D’Intrigues : L’Étude Et L’Application Pratique Des Techniques Courantes De La Traduction Française, Joseph Kalmar 2022 The College of Wooster

Deux Histoires De Meurtres Et D’Intrigues : L’Étude Et L’Application Pratique Des Techniques Courantes De La Traduction Française, Joseph Kalmar

Senior Independent Study Theses

Cette thèse vise à examiner les techniques courantes de la traduction littéraire et leur application pratique dans les contextes du thème et de la version. Le chapitre méthodologique explique d’abord les concepts qui sous-tendent les cinq techniques principales que j’ai utilisées pendant mon travail : les unités de traduction, la modulation, la transposition, l’équivalence, et l’adaptation. Chaque partie de ce chapitre comprend des exemples concrets tirés de mes traductions afin de démontrer comment et pourquoi un traducteur choisirait de profiter de ces procédés dans certains contextes. Pour la version, j’ai traduit une vingtaine de pages de Seule en sa Demeure, …


Women’S Acts Of Childbirth And Conquest In English Historical Writing, Emma O. Bérat 2021 University of Bonn/Independent Scholar

Women’S Acts Of Childbirth And Conquest In English Historical Writing, Emma O. Bérat

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

This essay explores how female characters in historical literature written in high to late medieval England shape land claims, political history, and genealogy through their acts of childbirth. Recent scholarship has shown how medieval writers frequently imagined virginal female bodies – religious and secular – in relation to land claim, but less work exists on how they also used the non-virginal bodies of mothers and vivid descriptions of childbirth to assert rights to land and lineage. This essay examines three birth stories associated with conquest or claims to contested lands from Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae, William of …


Opposing Strands: The Mediterranean As Site Of Cultural Conflict Around 1900, Neil F. McWilliam 2021 Duke University

Opposing Strands: The Mediterranean As Site Of Cultural Conflict Around 1900, Neil F. Mcwilliam

Artl@s Bulletin

From antiquity to the Third Republic, this article follows visual and literary representations that measured space, time and ideological oppositions that spawned an image of the Mediterranean as an area of transmission and cultural tension. It focuses on three theorists: the head of Action Française, Charles Maurras; the novelist Louis Bertrand; and critic and cultural impresario Joachim Gasquet. Each contributed to the formation of an image of the Mediterranean basin as the birthplace of European heritage and a battlefield in a struggle against the forces of democracy and cultural hybridization.


Le Lyrisme Chrétien Chez Anne De Marquets : Étude Et Édition De Ses Divines Poesies De Marc Antoine Flaminius (Paris, Chez Nicholas Chesneau, 1568/1569), Annick MacAskill 2021 The University of Western Ontario

Le Lyrisme Chrétien Chez Anne De Marquets : Étude Et Édition De Ses Divines Poesies De Marc Antoine Flaminius (Paris, Chez Nicholas Chesneau, 1568/1569), Annick Macaskill

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

This thesis proposes an analysis of the theorization and practice of “Christian lyricism” in Les Divines Poesies de Marc Antoine Flaminius, the second independently published collection by (and clearly attributed to) Anne de Marquets (1533?-1588), a French Dominican nun. Published in 1568 (Paris, Nicolas Chesneau) and reissued in a second edition in 1569 (Paris, Nicolas Chesneau), this volume includes not only translations of the Italian Neo-Latin poet Marcantonio Flaminio (1497/8-1550), some of whose works had already, by 1568, been put on the Vatican Index, but other translations by the Dominican nun, as well as original spiritual songs and sonnets. …


Morgane Cadieu. Marcher Au Hasard : Clinamen Et Création Dans La Prose Du Xxe Siècle. Classiques Garnier, 2019., Jason C. Grant 2021 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Morgane Cadieu. Marcher Au Hasard : Clinamen Et Création Dans La Prose Du Xxe Siècle. Classiques Garnier, 2019., Jason C. Grant

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Review of Morgane Cadieu. Marcher au hasard : Clinamen et création dans la prose du XXe siècle. Classiques Garnier, 2019. 214 pp.


Learning To Eat French, John Westbrook 2021 Bucknell University

Learning To Eat French, John Westbrook

Faculty Journal Articles

Ferguson’s Accounting for Taste reveals a gap in our understanding: How did French culinary discourse move beyond the bourgeois sphere in which it emerged in the nineteenth century? Picking up on her comparison of the Proustian synthesis of regional and national culinary culture in the Recherche to the project of national identity creation in the Third Republic’s best-selling textbook, Le Tour de la France par deux enfants, this essay argues that the culinary model Ferguson describes was in fact widely disseminated through mass primary education under the Third Republic. Examining an overlooked corpus of primary school readers and textbooks, I …


Aoife Connolly. Performing The Pied-Noir Family: Constructing Narratives Of Settler Memory And Identity In Literature And On-Screen. Lexington Books, 2020., Tessa Nunn 2021 IHRIM

Aoife Connolly. Performing The Pied-Noir Family: Constructing Narratives Of Settler Memory And Identity In Literature And On-Screen. Lexington Books, 2020., Tessa Nunn

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Review of Aoife Connolly. Performing the Pied-Noir Family: Constructing Narratives of Settler Memory and Identity in Literature and On-Screen. Lexington Books, 2020. ix, 223 pp.


Pour Une Littérature Critique, Warren Motte 2021 University of Colorado, Boulder

Pour Une Littérature Critique, Warren Motte

Zea E-Books Collection

Ce livre prend comme objet la littérature critique, c'est-à-dire, des ouvrages conçus dans un esprit critique, qui invitent leurs lectrices et lecteurs—soit de façon ouverte, soit de façon couverte, subtile et nuancée—à s'engager avec la textualité de manière critique. Cette dynamique, suspendue entre production et réception, est hypothétique et fragile; elle est difficile à théoriser de façon satisfaisante; elle est ardue à tracer en se servant d'une stratégie lectorale conventionnelle. Pourtant, c'est précisément ce phénomène articulé et réciproque qui fournit à cette sorte de textualité une mobilité tout à fait rafraîchissante, mobilité qui rend possible la signification littéraire sur un …


Olga Beloborodova, Editor. The Making Of Samuel Beckett’S Play/Comédie And Film. Bloomsbury, 2019., S. E. Gontarski 2021 Florida State University

Olga Beloborodova, Editor. The Making Of Samuel Beckett’S Play/Comédie And Film. Bloomsbury, 2019., S. E. Gontarski

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Review of Olga Beloborodova, editor. The Making of Samuel Beckett’s Play/Comédie and Film. Bloomsbury, 2019. 352 pp.


Stitching The Fragmented: 360° Videos For Language And Culture Learning, Melanie Peron, Victoria Karasic 2021 University of Pennsylvania

Stitching The Fragmented: 360° Videos For Language And Culture Learning, Melanie Peron, Victoria Karasic

Frameless

Emerging technologies present new opportunities for students to bridge the distance of space and time, allowing them to relate to a difficult period in history: the Shoah. Over the last few years, students in a French history and culture course have participated in a series of digital projects ranging in nature from mapping to 3D modeling, with the latest being student-created 360° videos in order to fill in the blanks left by time in memory. These digital humanities projects allow students to walk the footsteps of survivors, vanished victims, and period writers in modern-day Paris by visiting physical places studied …


L’Importance De La Compréhension Du Texte Ecrit En Classe De Français Langue Etrangère, Samer Hamouri 2021 Yarmouk University

L’Importance De La Compréhension Du Texte Ecrit En Classe De Français Langue Etrangère, Samer Hamouri

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

La lecture reste toujours une façon de se faire plaisir et de se cultiver mais aussi une compétence nécessaire et fondamentale pour apprendre une langue étrangère. Les textes écrits sont par ailleurs un moyen de communication dans la langue cible.

Nous essayons de définir les notions de base comme la lecture, les principes didactiques de la compréhension des langues et la compréhension écrite. Nous montrons dans notre article les objectifs à atteindre pour enseigner la compréhension des textes; en définir les objectifs linguistiques, formatifs, culturels et interculturels.

Notre article s’articule autour de l’importance de la compréhension des textes écrits dans …


Écrire À Partir (Des Traces) Du Passé. Annie Ernaux, Anny Duperey, Camille Laurens, Jia Bao Huang 2021 The University of Western Ontario

Écrire À Partir (Des Traces) Du Passé. Annie Ernaux, Anny Duperey, Camille Laurens, Jia Bao Huang

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Cette thèse examine la façon dont Annie Ernaux, Anny Duperey et Camille Laurens exploitent des papiers privés, des documents publics ou des rapports officiels pour écrire à partir de leur vécu de femme ou de fille. Le postulat qui se trouve au cœur de notre étude est le suivant. Les écrits de femmes qui nous préoccupent ici — et notamment les trois récits qui forment notre corpus principal (parce qu’ils se font dans l’absence de souvenirs ou ont comme point de départ une insuffisance d’informations) — croisent nécessairement la littérature et d’autres disciplines. Ce sont des écrits nés, du point …


Intolerable Histories And Imperfect Narratives: Nationhood, Identity, And The Integrity Of Law In Post-Vichy France And Beyond, Kaela S. Holmen 2021 University of New Mexico

Intolerable Histories And Imperfect Narratives: Nationhood, Identity, And The Integrity Of Law In Post-Vichy France And Beyond, Kaela S. Holmen

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

The principal aim of this thesis project is to examine the socio-legal context of the Vichy regime in World War II France, and to provide an understanding of how that context informed, and continues to inform, the integrity of French nationhood. With Ernest Renan’s oubli serving as a framework for the solidification of nationhood, I will demonstrate that the betrayals to French law and custom that were committed in an attempt to right the wrongs of the Vichy resulted in an imperfect forgetting, and ultimately, a more fragmented national sense of self. I contend that this imperfect oubli resulting from …


Perspectives Religieuses Et Séculaires De La Nature Dans Les Pensées Philosophiques De Denis Diderot, Aleksandra Gieralt 2021 The University of Western Ontario

Perspectives Religieuses Et Séculaires De La Nature Dans Les Pensées Philosophiques De Denis Diderot, Aleksandra Gieralt

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Diderot écrit sa première œuvre, les Pensées philosophiques, pour déclencher une conversation à propos de la manière dont Dieu – ou l’idée de Dieu – peut servir aux êtres humains. À cause de la déclaration avec laquelle il commence ce texte – « J’écris de Dieu » – et à cause de la forme dialogique qui présente un discours entre un déiste, un athée et un sceptique, plusieurs chercheurs se demandent quel est l’avis de Diderot à propos de l’existence (ou la non-existence) de Dieu. Cependant, nous proposons que Dieu n’est qu’un point de départ pour commencer une conversation …


Translatio Materiae: Spenser, The Humanists, And A Poetics Of Matter, Victoria Florio Pipas 2021 Dartmouth College

Translatio Materiae: Spenser, The Humanists, And A Poetics Of Matter, Victoria Florio Pipas

Dartmouth College Master’s Theses

In this paper, I propose that sixteenth-century humanist descriptions of Rome’s decay, together with paradigms of translatio imperii and studii, shaped Edmund Spenser’s poetic conceptualization of matter. I identify a new translatio in Spenser’s corpus, translatio materiae—matter’s movement or change—born from Spenser’s contact with Joachim du Bellay’s sonnet sequence, Les Antiquitez de Rome (1553). Translatio materiae runs through Spenser’s corpus as depicted matter’s resurrection from states of decay into material afterlives as narrative object or poetic device. Where early humanists, with recourse to the division between earthly mutability and heavenly permanence, lament Rome, Spenser favors matter’s potential for …


Maria Stehle And Beverly Weber. Precarious Intimacies: The Politics Of Touch In Contemporary Western European Cinema. Northwestern Up, 2020., Paul Ardoin 2021 University of Texas at San Antonio

Maria Stehle And Beverly Weber. Precarious Intimacies: The Politics Of Touch In Contemporary Western European Cinema. Northwestern Up, 2020., Paul Ardoin

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Review of Maria Stehle and Beverly Weber. Precarious Intimacies: The Politics of Touch in Contemporary Western European Cinema. Northwestern UP, 2020. 197 pp.


A Translation Of Some Works Of Louise Michel, Early French Feminist, Militant Anarchist, And Socialist Visionary, Julianna Kramer 2021 Union College - Schenectady, NY

A Translation Of Some Works Of Louise Michel, Early French Feminist, Militant Anarchist, And Socialist Visionary, Julianna Kramer

Honors Theses

The socialist progressive Louise Michel infused her beliefs of equality and liberty from repressive governments into her daily life and career. Michel was a major leader of the Paris Commune, a revolutionary socialist government that controlled the city of Paris for roughly two months in 1871. She deployed militant tactics to defend the poor and demand legal and economic equality of the sexes.

She was a prolific writer, using writing as a revolutionary tool to disseminate socialist ideas to children and adults alike. A short story for children, titled Les dix sous de Marthe (Marthe’s Ten Coins), shows the ripple …


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