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L'Evolution Du PèRe Dans Le Drame Bourgeois RéAliste : Diderot, Sedaine, Augier, Cecile Etiennette Noble Jun 1968

L'Evolution Du PèRe Dans Le Drame Bourgeois RéAliste : Diderot, Sedaine, Augier, Cecile Etiennette Noble

Master's Theses

Dane les pieces classiques du XVIIe siecle les acteurs ne sont pas inscrits a l'affiche dans leur ordre d'entree en scene mais par le role hierarchique dont ils etaient l'interprete. En d'autres termes, les rois, les empereurs et les grands personnages occupent la premiere place dans la distribution; puis viennent les heros, les parents et les confidents. Ainsi nous sommes temoins de l'infiltration des us dans les moindres gestes de la societe.

Suivant la tradition antique, le heres etait presque toujours jeune, beau, malheureux et devait se heurter a des obstacles sans quoi l'intrigue aurait peri. Cet obstacle prenait bien …


Realism, Heroines, Flaubert, George Gouldin Apr 1961

Realism, Heroines, Flaubert, George Gouldin

Master's Theses

Since Flaubert has been called "le chef de l'ecole realiste", an attempt will be made in this thesis to show how he used realism in the treatment of heroines in his novels. The first chapter will be dedicated to realism itself, showing first how the movement began in France in the mid-nineteenth century before Flaubert and Balzac were considered realists, followed by a modern definition and characteristics, such as: truth, materialism, scientific approach, document­ary method, tediousness, mediocrity, sympathy with ordinary life and sociological features.

The other four chapters will be dedicated to Flaubert' s main heroines. Each chapter will have …


Amoral Characters Beyond Good And Evil In The Nineteenth Century French Novel, Basil Mcvoy Duncan Jul 1955

Amoral Characters Beyond Good And Evil In The Nineteenth Century French Novel, Basil Mcvoy Duncan

Master's Theses

Although Franch literature is unique in that every period presents interesting material for research, perhaps the most fascinating is that period which involves the Revolution, Empire, and Restoration. The very proximity of these political developments has had a profound effect on the novelists who lived and wrote at this time, and they have not failed to bequeath their observations on the resulting society. These observations naturally include many consequences not recorded by the historians, consequences which they also as individuals have experienced.

Important among these novelists are Benjamin Constant Stendhal Honore de Balzac, and Paul Bourget who not only reveal …