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Redefining French Women’S Identity Through Challenging And Eroding The Napoleonic Code, Victoria Bauer, James Matthews, Faculty Advisor

John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

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Voice And Resistance In Maryse Condé'S Le Cœur À Rire Et À Pleurer: Dynamics Of Race, Gender, And Écriture Féminine, Maria M. Klingele

Honors Projects

As a collection of autobiographical short stories or vignettes, Le cœur à rire et à pleurer (Tales From the Heart: True Stories From my Childhood, 1999) represents Guadeloupean author Maryse Condé's (1937 - ) interaction with and dismissal of multiple forms of oppression. As Condé makes use of storytelling and her childhood memories to explore issues of her identity and societal role, her writing transforms into a self-declaration of social change and equality. This paper aims to identify and examine Conde's denial of constructs of Otherness, in her persistent effort to resist the cycle of oppression and to dismiss …

Memory, Deconstructed And Reconstructed An Ontward Expression Of An Inward Reality, Jessica Rochford

Honors Projects

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Lieux de Memoire, or "places of memory," are symbolic sites of national identity. Defined in Le Grand Robert de la langue franfaise, the term is attributed to French historian Pierre Nora. Nora has compiled two large project anthologies and several individual books of essays by various authors that identify and reflect upon symbolic sites of great national importance throughout France. Nora's various collections of work, span over "seven volumes, six thousand pages") and "more than one hundred and thirty authors" (Le Goff 118). The particular project of Nora's that I will focus on, titled Realms of Memory: The …

The French Identity Crisis: Fending Off The Franglais Invasion, Laura Cohen

Honors Projects

In a nation that derives so much of its identity from a longstanding cultural heritage, rather than from an economic or political tradition, France finds itself facing an identity crisis. In recent decades, France has been unable to avoid the ever-expanding reach of globalization, and perhaps even more threatening, the grasp of Americanization. Consequently, as English has begun to permeate seemingly every aspect of French society, France's first line of defense against such a cultural intrusion is its language policy. This paper first examines the longstanding history between the creation of a French nation and the promotion of the French …

Troubadour Songs In Trouvére Codices: Mouvance In The Transmission Of Courtly Lyric, Christopher Callahan

Scholarship

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Reality And Representation Of Algerian Women: The Complex Dynamic Of Heroines And Repressed Women, Caroline Rohloff

Honors Projects

Since the Algerian war for independence against the French in the 1950s, the roles of Algerian women have been shifting over the past five decades. During the war for independence, women found themselves in positions of power, where their military assistance was necessary to win the war. However, once independence was gained in 1962, women were once again forced into the predetermined roles of wives and mothers. Over the next four decades, the situation in Algeria began to improve as the educational and work opportunities for women increased. After a setback in the 1990s, during Algeria's civil war, Algerian women …

Thibaut De Champagne And Disputed Attributions: The Case Of Mss Bern, Burgerbibliothek 389 (C) And Paris, Bnf Fr. 1591(R), Christopher Callahan

Scholarship

This essay examines the manuscript context of the songs of Thibaut de Champagne that were either marginalized in or excluded from A. Wallensköld’s 1925 edition. An evaluation of the placement and ordering of Thibaut’s songs in the codices, as well as their rubrics and melodies, affords an understanding of the construction of these chansonniers, obscured through decades of reliance on print editions. A rapid scrutiny of these linguistically (C) and musically (R) marginal manuscripts both reveals how little we know about the transmission of trouvère lyric and underscores the importance of a material-philological approach for all future editions of the …

Trade Liberalization And Environmental Justice In The Ivorian Cocoa Industry, Anne M. Fell '07

Honors Projects

This paper explores the relationship between neoliberal economic policy and environmental justice in the Ivorian cocoa industry by examining the precedents set forth during the French colonial era, the economic principles behind trade liberalization, and trade liberalization's effects on poverty and child labor, environmental degradation, and ethnic violence.

Christine De Pizan's Dit De La Pastoure: Pastoral Poetry, And The Poetics Of Loss, Christopher Callahan

Scholarship

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Entre Etre Et Devenir La Recherche De L'Identité Dans Trois Romans Maghrébins, Ariana Giles '05

Honors Projects

Les Maghrébins sont toujours en train de négocier leur identité à cause des lésions laissées par l'ère coloniale. Pour les occidentaux, l'expérience d'un choc culturel et d'une crise d'identité sont amenés par un voyage. La plupart les occidentaux ont le choix (c'est-à-dire ils peuvent voyager ou non) et risquer le choc culturel et la crise d'identité qui les accompagnent. Par contre, le choc culturel et la crise d'identité sont imposées aux maghrébins. La colonialisation et la pression de l'assimilation produisent un choc culturel et une crise d'identité impossibles à éviter. Au moins pour les maghrébins qui avait plus de contact …

Canon Law, Primogeniture, And The Marriage Of Ebain And Silence, Christopher Callahan

Scholarship

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Hybrid Discourse And Performance In The Old French Pastourelle, Christopher Callahan

Scholarship

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Lyric Discourse And Female Vocality: On The Unsilencing Of Silence, Christopher Callahan

Scholarship

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Second Language Acquisition And Its Practical Application: Evaluating French Textbooks At The Secondary School Level, Jacelyn O'Roark '01

Honors Projects

A textbook is an essential starting point for education in a foreign language classroom. That is why it is so crucial that teachers take the time to consider a text extensively. There are multiple textbooks on the market for secondary French teachers from which to choose. What makes a textbook more appropriate for one teacher or one class of students than another? I believe that we must start by looking at some of the information that is available that explains how students learn a second language. Then, it is important to consider some of the ways that the teaching of …

L'Intertextualité Dans Les Œuvres D'Anne Hébert: Le Lien Entre La Voix Poetiqué, La Voix Narrative, Et La Voix Féminine, Karla Stoesser '01

Honors Projects

Née en 1916 en Québec, Anne Hébert était consommée par la passion de la littérature jusqu'à sa mort le 22 janvier 2000. Elle est devenue connue d'abord pour sa poésie pendant les années quarantes et cinquantes, et plus tard pour ses romans. Elle est l'une des écrivaines québécoises les plus célèbres. Ses œuvres les plus connues comprennent: Le Torrent, Le Tombeau des Rois, Les Chambres de Bois, Le Temps Sauvage, Kamouraska, Les En/ants du Sabbat, et Les Fous de Bassan, parmi d'autres. Elle est venue d'une famille ayant une grande tradition littéraire et comprenant, entre autre, son cousin, Hector de …

Music In Medieval Medical Practice: Speculations And Certainties, Christopher Callahan

Scholarship

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Direct And Indirect Effects Of Feminist Actions On Women's Rights In France, Kirsten Keeley '97

Honors Projects

This study is divided into several parts, the first of which deals with the successes and weaknesses of the French women's movement. The second part will focus on the progress and shortcomings of governmental policies which concern women's rights. This will be followed by an analysis of women's participation in national government. Finally I will show that, overall, the advances in women's rights in France since the 1960s outweigh the setbacks. If we consider their achievements within their cultural context, French women have been successful in overcoming enormous social, legal and political obstacles

L'Industie Du Vin Français Et Ses Concurrents, Lecia Gordner '97

Honors Projects

D'où vient le meilleur Yin du monde? La plupart des connaisseurs répondraient "de France, bien sûr!" Cette association du bon Yin avec la France n'est qu'un simple stéréotype? La France produit du Yin depuis des siècles, mais son Yin est-elle vraiment Ie meilleur du monde? Un certain nombre d'autres pays ont récemment commencé à produire du Yin. Ces pays n'ont pas l'expérience de la France, mais ils ont cependant séduit de nombreux consommateurs. Comment sait-on qu 'un bon Yin fait réellement partie des meilleurs vins? Il n'y a pas de réponse exacte parce que chaque individu a son goût personnel. …

What's The Difference? (Text And Audio), James D. Matthews

Honorees for Teaching Excellence

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Interpolating The Musical Text Of The Lyric Interpolations: Guillaume De Dole The Trouvere Manuscript Tradition, Christopher Callahan

Scholarship

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Aspects De La Scriptologie Des Chansonniers Français Des Xine Et Xive Siècles, Christopher Callahan

Scholarship

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The Evolution Of The Lyric Insertion In Thirteenth-Century Narrative, Christopher Callahan

Scholarship

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Under The Lids Of The Newborn Child, Or In Partial Defense Of The Humanities (Text And Audio), Sue A. Huseman

Honorees for Teaching Excellence

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