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Carrying The Cross : Jean Sulivan's Mais Il Y A La Mer, Eamon Maher Apr 2007

Carrying The Cross : Jean Sulivan's Mais Il Y A La Mer, Eamon Maher

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Ernaux's Ce Qu'ils Disent Ou Rien: Anne Makes A Spectacle(S) Of Herself, Elizabeth Richardson Viti Apr 2007

Ernaux's Ce Qu'ils Disent Ou Rien: Anne Makes A Spectacle(S) Of Herself, Elizabeth Richardson Viti

French Faculty Publications

Ce qu'ils disent ou rien is arguably Annie Ernaux's most comical text, untainted by such serious themes like abortion, as is the case for Les armoires vides. Narrated from the perspective of the fifteen-you-old Anne - although she would describe herself as having "bientot seize ans" (19) - the language of this "monologue interieur accusateur" (Tondeur 176) is adolescent argot that ranges from the colloquial to the outright vulgar. Furthermore, it captures a period in a teenaged girl's life that many females recognize and rememver with their own wry smile: the discovery of and sexual experimentation with the opposite …


Moi Et 'Autre: Identití Et Diversité Dans Un Cours Sur Le Film Francophone, Sylvie Vanbaelen, Corienne Etienne Apr 2007

Moi Et 'Autre: Identití Et Diversité Dans Un Cours Sur Le Film Francophone, Sylvie Vanbaelen, Corienne Etienne

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

A l'époque de la mondialisation, l'individu a de plus en plus de mal à se définir et vit un constant face-à-face avec l'Autre. L'identité, qui n'a jamais été une notion simple, est à l'image du monde de plus en plus complexe et plurielle. Nationalité, ethnie, langue, sexe, religion, famille, profession, mileiu socio-économique, passions, préférences sexuelles, handicaps... ce ne sont là que quelques-unes des composantes identitaires. La liste des "appartenances" de chaque individu est, selon Maalouf, "virtuellement illimitée" (19). En outre, loin d'être statique, l'identité "se construit et se transforme tout au long de l'existence" (33), au fil des expériences et …


Babelian Cosmopolitanism Or Tuning In To “Sublime Frequencies”, Puspa Damai Apr 2007

Babelian Cosmopolitanism Or Tuning In To “Sublime Frequencies”, Puspa Damai

English Faculty Research

Jacques Attali, in his critically acclaimed book, Noise: The Political Economy of Music, cites one of Leibniz’s little known but “extraordinary” texts, “Drôle de pensée touchant nouvelle sorte de représentation,” in which the philosopher describes the “Palace of Marvels.” The Palace of Marvels is Leibniz’s idealization of a perfect political organization, which is built in such a way that the master of the house is able to hear and see everything that is being said and done in the premises without himself being perceived by his subjects. Leibniz’s vision of disciplinary society not only predates Bentham’s or Foucault’s subsequent versions …


Introduction To A Poetics Of Diversity: English Translation Of Édouard Glissant’S Introduction À Une Poétique Du Divers, Julee Rebecca Laporte Apr 2007

Introduction To A Poetics Of Diversity: English Translation Of Édouard Glissant’S Introduction À Une Poétique Du Divers, Julee Rebecca Laporte

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.


Je Vis, Donc Je Vois, Donc Je Dis: Banlieue Violence In French Rap, Schyler B. Chennault Mar 2007

Je Vis, Donc Je Vois, Donc Je Dis: Banlieue Violence In French Rap, Schyler B. Chennault

Theses and Dissertations

Since its creation over two decades ago, French rap music has evolved to become both wildly popular and highly controversial. It has been the subject of legal debate because of its violent content, and accused of encouraging violent behavior. This thesis explores the French M.C.'s role as representative and reporter of the France's suburbs, la Banlieue, and contains analyses of French rap lyrics to determine the rappers' perception of Banlieue violence. Using the song lyrics, this work examines the conditions and causes of that violence as seen by the Banlieusard, and answers the critics' accusations that French rap is a …


The Struggle To Be Christian : Julian Green's ''Each Man In His Darkness'', Eamon Maher Mar 2007

The Struggle To Be Christian : Julian Green's ''Each Man In His Darkness'', Eamon Maher

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L’Appel Des Arènes: A Postcolonial Development Of The Buildungsroman, Médoune Guèye Mar 2007

L’Appel Des Arènes: A Postcolonial Development Of The Buildungsroman, Médoune Guèye

The Coastal Review

Despite the fact that many critics consider the Buildungsroman obsolete, the genre is still alive. Many African writers have revised the classical Buildungsroman in order to underscore the conflict of cultures and the complex subjectivities of their characters. By analyzing the discourse on identity in L’Appel des arènes, we understand how Aminata Sow Fall recreates the modalities of enunciation found in African traditional literature while structuringL’Appel des arènes with generic patterns from the Buildungsroman.


Being Ghetto: The Hara As Heterotopia In Judeo-Tunisian Literature, Deborah Barnard Mar 2007

Being Ghetto: The Hara As Heterotopia In Judeo-Tunisian Literature, Deborah Barnard

The Coastal Review

The Hara, or ghetto, is a place that distinguishes its inhabitants from other religious and cultural groups, acting as a spatial indicator of their difference. When Foucault’s theory of heterotopia is applied, the Hara becomes a hybrid, a place simultaneously of crisis and of deviation. In Albert Memmi’s La statue de sel, the protagonist experiences the Hara as antagonistic, or as a dystopia. In Nine Moati’s Les belles de Tunis, the protagonist experiences the Hara as a utopia.


Histoire(S) De Catherine M.: Echoes Of “O” And The Difference Of “I” In La Vie Sexuelle De Catherine M., Adrienne Angelo Mar 2007

Histoire(S) De Catherine M.: Echoes Of “O” And The Difference Of “I” In La Vie Sexuelle De Catherine M., Adrienne Angelo

The Coastal Review

This article compares Catherine Millet’s La vie sexuelle de Catherine M. (2001) to another work of erotic “fiction:” Pauline Réage’s Histoire d’O (1954). The scandal surrounding the publication of both works focused on the taboo subject of sexuality, and more significantly, on the role of the female author in writing such a graphic work. While Réage’s fictional account of one woman’s sexual experiences is told through a third-person narrator, Millet describes her own experiences in the first-person. However, the continual multiplication of this first-person narrator complicates a reading of her work that would presuppose that one is reading an autobiographical …


Hidden Doublings: A Context For Understanding Jean D'Arras's Mélusine Ou La Noble Histoire De Lusignan, Kathryn Rimmasch Feb 2007

Hidden Doublings: A Context For Understanding Jean D'Arras's Mélusine Ou La Noble Histoire De Lusignan, Kathryn Rimmasch

Theses and Dissertations

At the end of the fourteenth century Jean d’Arras rewrote a popular folktale. The tale told how Mélusine, a fairy who was serpent from the navel down every Saturday, married a knight and founded the fortress of Lusignan. In his introduction to the tale Jean d’Arras presents the ideas of four authority figures to convince the reader that fantastical things are possible and that his work should be taken seriously. These authority figures are David, Aristotle, Paul and Gervaise de Tilbury. It is the contention of this thesis that Jean d’Arras presents these figures in his introduction to provide context …


Contemporary French Cinema And Its Background: A Reading List, Dewi J. Wilson Jan 2007

Contemporary French Cinema And Its Background: A Reading List, Dewi J. Wilson

Research Guides & Subject Bibliographies

Reading list for researching french cinema using the resources of the Sturgis Library.


Henri Ii As A Rex-Imperator In The Entry Into Rouen (1550), Hélène Visentin Jan 2007

Henri Ii As A Rex-Imperator In The Entry Into Rouen (1550), Hélène Visentin

French Studies: Faculty Books

No abstract provided.


Rousseau Et Voltaire: Une Comparaison, Rita Howard Jan 2007

Rousseau Et Voltaire: Une Comparaison, Rita Howard

The Corinthian

Le XVIIIe siecle est avant tout l'age de la raison marque par un mouvement intellectuel reformateur en Europe a la recherche du bonheur. C'est le siecle des Lumieres et de l'Encyclopedie. Les philosophes s'unissent pour liberer le public des traditions, superstitions et des idees medievales fausses. Ils defendent entre autres la liberte, la raison, la tolerance, la justice, l'egalite, le progres, et denoncent les abus de pouvoir. C'est le siecle de la critique religieuse, sociale et politique avec Voltaire et Rousseau qui contestent la societe de privilegies issus du Moyen Age. Meme si Voltaire et Rousseau sont consideres comme des …


Cendrillon: Portrait De La Jeune Fille En Vestale, Rudy Le Menthéour Jan 2007

Cendrillon: Portrait De La Jeune Fille En Vestale, Rudy Le Menthéour

French and Francophone Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Review Of Jules Verne: Journeys In Writing, Arthur B. Evans Jan 2007

Review Of Jules Verne: Journeys In Writing, Arthur B. Evans

Global Language Studies Faculty publications

No abstract provided.


Reading Differently, Rereading For Difference In Versions Of Rimbaud's "Mouvement", Brian G. Kennelly Jan 2007

Reading Differently, Rereading For Difference In Versions Of Rimbaud's "Mouvement", Brian G. Kennelly

World Languages and Cultures

How to engage students to reread Arthur Rimbaud’s 1886 poem “Mouvement” differently? What can they learn about the poem and in the process about themselves as readers of literature through its various versions and English language translations? Might rereading for difference hold pedagogical promise? How might a comparative study of the poem’s various versions in French and in English translation favor active reading and help students embrace the poem as differently meaningful because of its modernity?


Missing Topics In Malagasy Headlines, Ileana Paul Jan 2007

Missing Topics In Malagasy Headlines, Ileana Paul

French Studies Publications

No abstract provided.


The Disengaged Immigrant: Mapping The Francophone Caribbean Metropolis, Dawn Fulton Jan 2007

The Disengaged Immigrant: Mapping The Francophone Caribbean Metropolis, Dawn Fulton

French Studies: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Review Of 'Celle Qui Ne Parle Pas' By Capucine Ruat, Véronique Olivier Jan 2007

Review Of 'Celle Qui Ne Parle Pas' By Capucine Ruat, Véronique Olivier

World Languages and Cultures Faculty Articles and Research

A review of Celle qui ne parle pas by Capucine Ruat, published by Stock in 2006. In French.


Coal Miners' Daughters: Representations Of Women In Germinal, Matewan And Harlan County, Usa, Juliana Starr Jan 2007

Coal Miners' Daughters: Representations Of Women In Germinal, Matewan And Harlan County, Usa, Juliana Starr

Foreign Languages Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Alain De Roucy Et La Voix Anonyme De La Chanson De La Croisade Albigeoise, Paul Linden Jan 2007

Alain De Roucy Et La Voix Anonyme De La Chanson De La Croisade Albigeoise, Paul Linden

Scholarship and Professional Work - Communication

La Chanson de la Croisade Albigeoise, écrite entre 1212 et 1219, est le produit de deux auteurs successifs: Guillaume de Tudèle et un autre écrivain resté anonyme. Ces deux auteurs écrivent non seulement à chaud, mais ils sont partisans de factions opposées: Guillaume de Tudèle soutient la position des croisés français alors que l'auteur anonyme montre la perspective méridionale. Loin d'amoindrir la différence entre les deux perspectives comme l'a fait Michel Zink, cette étude considère au contraire l'anonymat comme une stratégie qui souligne les rapports entre la Chanson et un champ de bataille.2 Notons comment l'Anonyme s'attaque aux …


John Broderick (1924-89) And The French 'Roman Catholique'., Eamon Maher Jan 2007

John Broderick (1924-89) And The French 'Roman Catholique'., Eamon Maher

Books/Chapters

No abstract provided.


La Representation Litteraire Du Paysan FrançAis Par Balzac, Sand Et Zola, Morad Mitta Jan 2007

La Representation Litteraire Du Paysan FrançAis Par Balzac, Sand Et Zola, Morad Mitta

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

L’histoire et la littérature nous ont légué des représentations contradictoires du paysan. Au-delà de cette dualité dans la représentation, il a existé, à même la littérature du 19eme siècle, une variation importante de son portrait. Des auteurs comme Honoré de Balzac, George Sand et plus tard Emile Zola ont participé chacun à sa manière au développement d’une image particulière de ce personnage. Le paysan de Balzac est ce sauvage de la campagne qui s’apparente au petit escroc ; celui de Sand cet être particulièrement moral et bon par nature ; et celui de Zola cet animal dans l’expression de tous …


From The Cloister To The World: Mainstreaming Early Modern French Convent Writing: An État Présent, Thomas M. Carr Jan 2007

From The Cloister To The World: Mainstreaming Early Modern French Convent Writing: An État Présent, Thomas M. Carr

French Language and Literature Papers

The article is an overview on recent scholarship dealing Ancien Régime convent writing. Although nuns constitute a large percentage of the seventeenth-century women authors whose writings were published, except for a few figures like Marie de l’Incarnation Guyart or the Port-Royal nuns, their texts have been largely ignored, even by scholars engaged in the retrieval of women’s writing during the period. This is in contrast to Italian and Hispanic studies, where the contribution of convent writing is acknowledged as central. The état present discusses reasons for this neglect, the methodological challenges and perspectives for further research, along with a 120 …


Franc̦Ais Acadien, Franc̦Ais Cadien: Variation Stylistique Et Maintenance De Formes Phonetiques Dans Le Parler De Quatre Generations De Femmes Cadiennes, Carole Lucienne Salmon Jan 2007

Franc̦Ais Acadien, Franc̦Ais Cadien: Variation Stylistique Et Maintenance De Formes Phonetiques Dans Le Parler De Quatre Generations De Femmes Cadiennes, Carole Lucienne Salmon

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation is a sociolinguistic study examining the phonetic variation in the speech of four generations of Cajun French women, living in four Louisiana parishes: Avoyelles, Lafourche, St Landry and Vermillon. Based on the Gold 1975 corpus and the Dubois 1997 Cajun French corpus available at LSU, a sample of 29 speakers was chosen for the analysis of five traditional phonetic variables: O in front of nasals MM/NN and liquids R and L, Œ in front of R, E in front of R and at the third person ending of the imparfait, J in lexical words, personal pronoun JE, and …


Les Cuisines Mères: Une Analyse Historique Des Racines Francophones De La Gastronomie De La Nouvelle Orléans, Mark Huntsman Jan 2007

Les Cuisines Mères: Une Analyse Historique Des Racines Francophones De La Gastronomie De La Nouvelle Orléans, Mark Huntsman

LSU Master's Theses

New Orleans’ culinary history is amongst the most rich and storied of any American city, yet very few academic works have addressed this subject. While texts ranging from cookbooks to explorer’s journals offer glimpses into the evolution of the gastronomy of the city, the stories they present are often rife with myth, legend, and misinterpretation. Contemporary and historic authors also paint a misleading picture of the evolutionary processes involved in the creation of the cuisine and gastronomy of New Orleans, presenting a “melting-pot” model that portrays the culinary landscape of the city as a homogenous and over-simplified product of a …


Claude Simon Et Paul Ricoeur: Identification Et Identité, Guy-Marcel Mbira Jan 2007

Claude Simon Et Paul Ricoeur: Identification Et Identité, Guy-Marcel Mbira

LSU Master's Theses

Narrative identity is one of the very controversial concepts in literature. Since the mid-nineteenth century, the question is still the same as it has been since it was discovered or since its invention in literature and philosophy: What is a narrative? What’s the basis of a self identity? The authors selected in this essay have each in his own manner, first Paul Ricœur, by means of a philosophical discourse, and then Claude Simon, in terms of a fictional discourse, have explored the notion of narrative identity in both practical and theoretical terms. Some may say that the narrative identity is …


Exceptions To The Rule Of Gender: Ambition, Writing, And Subjectivity In Christine De Pizan, Jeanne D'Albret And Marie-Catherine Desjardins De Villedieu, Lori Anne Knox Jan 2007

Exceptions To The Rule Of Gender: Ambition, Writing, And Subjectivity In Christine De Pizan, Jeanne D'Albret And Marie-Catherine Desjardins De Villedieu, Lori Anne Knox

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Critics often focus on how ambitious French women who were “exceptions to the rule of gender” disrupted egalitarian political structures that appeared after 1789. Geneviève Fraisse, for instance, theorizes that exceptional women in egalitarian systems such as democracies/republics pose a threat to patriarchal social order. In theory, all women in political circumstances such as these have the “right” to imitate the exceptional woman. The fear in “egalitarian” patriarchal societies is that all women might emulate the ambitious women who aspire to cultural echelons usually reserved for men. In a hierarchical regime, such as the ancien régime, exceptions are a normal, …


A Checklist Of Published Writings In French By Early Modern Nuns, Thomas M. Carr Jan 2007

A Checklist Of Published Writings In French By Early Modern Nuns, Thomas M. Carr

French Language and Literature Papers

The great amount of writing by early modern nuns that was published during the Ancien Régime is underexploited because no master list of it exists. For example, at least ninety books by some sixty different nuns were published between 1600 and 1700, and many more that have been published since. The Checklist of over 300 items is an effort to fill this gap. Besides books authored by nuns, it includes many biographies that contain samples of their writings. Short occasional texts, such as death notices, lettres circulaires, and legal factums have generally been excluded, however. Unless another location is noted, …