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Armed With A Smile Or A Dagger: Women In The French Resistance, Barbara Opar Apr 2012

Armed With A Smile Or A Dagger: Women In The French Resistance, Barbara Opar

Syracuse University French Colloquium

No abstract provided.


Manon Lescaut And Moral Relativism In 18th Century France, Nicole Harrison Apr 2012

Manon Lescaut And Moral Relativism In 18th Century France, Nicole Harrison

Syracuse University French Colloquium

No abstract provided.


15th Syracuse University French Colloquium Flyer, Department Of Languages, Literatures, And Linguistics, Syracuse University Apr 2012

15th Syracuse University French Colloquium Flyer, Department Of Languages, Literatures, And Linguistics, Syracuse University

Syracuse University French Colloquium

Quinzième colloque par les étudiants dans le programme de maîtrise en langue et littérature


Giraudoux At The Gates, Samantha Walker Apr 2012

Giraudoux At The Gates, Samantha Walker

Undergraduate Research Conference

An in-depth look at the original production of Jean Giraudoux's play Tiger at the Gates, how it had become such a famous performance, and how some of the intents of the playwright were not easily translated from French to English.


L’Écriture Migrante Comme Pratique Signifiante: L’Exemple De L’Hétérolinguisme Et De L’Écriture Fragmentaire Chez Abla Farhoud Et Ying Chen, Simona Pruteanu Apr 2012

L’Écriture Migrante Comme Pratique Signifiante: L’Exemple De L’Hétérolinguisme Et De L’Écriture Fragmentaire Chez Abla Farhoud Et Ying Chen, Simona Pruteanu

Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications

Cet article récupère le concept d’écriture en tant que pratique signifi ante (Kristeva) en parlant de deux romans migrants québécois, L’Ingratitude de Ying Chen et Le Bonheur a la queue glissante d’Abla Farhoud, afi n de montrer comment les indices d’hétérolinguisme dans ces deux textes, en conjonction avec une poétique du fragment, créent une esthétique propre à l’expression de l’identité migrante, ou ce que nous appelons une signifi ance migrante. Nous espérons confi rmer que refuser l’ancrage dans une appartenance culturelle ou langagière unique joue un rôle capital dans l’esthétique de l’écriture migrante, car la fragilité identitaire créée par la …


Is The Plague An Existential Novel?, Ethan Jacobs '12 Apr 2012

Is The Plague An Existential Novel?, Ethan Jacobs '12

2012 Spring Semester

Existentialism refers to a broad range of philosophical beliefs and related cultural phenomena. While its origins can be traced to the latter half of the 19th century, existentialism as a unified movement only gained serious traction, especially among literary circles, by the close of World Wars I and II, as writers contemplated the sheer man-made destruction and loss of life of these two wars. Though often confused with nihilism and absurdism, existentialism is a distinct philosophical movement that presents man as fundamentally unknowable through science, logic, or morality. Albert Camus, a French Algerian “Pied-Noir” settler, epitomized the sudden turn toward …


The Spinning Plague, Sean Yamakawa '13 Apr 2012

The Spinning Plague, Sean Yamakawa '13

2012 Spring Semester

In her piece, “The Centripetal Structure of Camus’s La Peste,” Jennifer Waelti-Walters explains her idea that the narrative and plot of The Plague form a circular movement. There is a centripetal force that pulls all predominant characters and images to the center. Waelti-Walters determines that Rieux, the protagonist doctor, is this central figure. Though an apt analysis, her argument has a single flaw: her placement of Cottard within this circle does not accurately reflect his place in the novel. Though Waelti-Walters acknowledges Cottard as Rieux’s counterpart, she places Cottard next to other characters such as Tarrou, Rambert, and …


The French Identity Crisis: Fending Off The Franglais Invasion, Laura Cohen Apr 2012

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 …


A Diachronic Analysis Of Schwa In French, Joshua M. Griffiths Apr 2012

A Diachronic Analysis Of Schwa In French, Joshua M. Griffiths

Student Publications

Since the beginning of the formal study of language, linguists have struggled with the phonological problems posed by the mid-central vowel sound schwa. Schwa poses a series of challenges for linguists who study many languages, and this is particularly true for phonologists and phoneticians who specialize in French. Most of the challenges that come from analyzing the articulations of schwa in French arise from the overlap it has with mid- and open-mid-front-rounded vowels in French such as in the second vowel in the word “atelier” (workshop) and the second vowel in the word “appeler” (to call.) In this study a …


La Comercialización Del Turismo Étnico En Guatemala Y Marruecos, Michelle Diana Gloster Apr 2012

La Comercialización Del Turismo Étnico En Guatemala Y Marruecos, Michelle Diana Gloster

Scripps Senior Theses

This thesis examines the commercialization of ethnic tourism in Guatemala and Morocco in a postcolonial world. Addressing notions of authenticity, Western expectations of the ethnic tourism experience, and colonial portrayals of the Mayas and the Berbers, the thesis argues that the Guatemalan and Moroccan governments reduce their indigenous populations to ‘authentic’ living museums in their touristic promotions targeting Western tourists. Catering to Western tourists’ expectations, the Guatemalan and Moroccan governments perpetuate the stereotypes of their indigenous populations that were established during colonialism. Despite Guatemalan and Moroccan cultural repression of the Maya and the Berber populations, respectively, the governments exploit their …


C'Est Ouf : L'ÉVolution De La Langue FrançAise Et Les ConséQuences Sociales, Hannah Kelley Apr 2012

C'Est Ouf : L'ÉVolution De La Langue FrançAise Et Les ConséQuences Sociales, Hannah Kelley

Honors Theses

Cette dissertation vise à explorer le raisonnement complexe linguistique derrière la langue française officielle et le verlan, pour qu’on puisse mieux comprendre ce que le verlan est en train de faire socialement pour la communauté beur duquel il est venu. Pour nous situer d’abord un peu, on commence avec une histoire brève de l’immigration maghrébine (ou l’Afrique de Nord : l’Algérie, la Tunisie, et le Maroc) ainsi que les idéaux républicains de la France qui ont apporté la fierté légendaire en une langue française pure. Après, on examine la façon dont ses histoires interagissent aujourd’hui, ce qui laissent les identités …


Henry Miller À Dijon : L’Écrivain En Souffrance, Kayla O'Meara Apr 2012

Henry Miller À Dijon : L’Écrivain En Souffrance, Kayla O'Meara

Honors Theses and Capstones

No abstract provided.


Urban Silhouettes: Mohand Mounsi's Creolized Paris, Dawn Fulton Apr 2012

Urban Silhouettes: Mohand Mounsi's Creolized Paris, Dawn Fulton

French Studies: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Mouvances Francophones, Servanne Woodward Mar 2012

Mouvances Francophones, Servanne Woodward

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

No abstract provided.


Knightly Bird Vows: A Case Study In Late Medieval Courtly Culture, Liel Y. Boyce Mar 2012

Knightly Bird Vows: A Case Study In Late Medieval Courtly Culture, Liel Y. Boyce

Theses and Dissertations

In the late Middle Ages, there was a series of instances wherein knights vowed upon birds. Two of these, the first and the last, are historical events: The Feast of the Swans with Edward I in England on 22 May 1306 and the Feast of the Pheasant with Philip the Good in the duchy of Burgundy on 17 February 1454. Edward I held the Feast of the Swans as part of his son's dubbing ceremony, including the entire court taking vows on two swans. The Feast of the Pheasant was an elaborate banquet that Philip the Good used to gather …


Redemption In The Life And Work Of Camille Claudel, Haleigh Heaps Burgon Mar 2012

Redemption In The Life And Work Of Camille Claudel, Haleigh Heaps Burgon

Theses and Dissertations

Camille Claudel is a sculptor who has traditionally been approached in terms of her relationship to Rodin and his influence on her work. Indeed, the two shared a passionate relationship and there are certainly similarities between the two sculptors' work which provide for fascinating analyses. However, one of the acknowledged but previously unexplored speculations on Claudel's art suggests that it involves a measure of veiled spirituality sealed within its stone. It is precisely this sacred element within her sculptures that offers viewers an opportunity to experience transcendence while identifying with fundamental themes. Furthermore, Claudel created her figures as a method …


A Comparative Analysis Of Text Usage And Composition In Goscinny's Le Petit Nicolas, Goscinny's Astérix, And Albert Uderzo's Astérix, Dennis Scott Meyer Mar 2012

A Comparative Analysis Of Text Usage And Composition In Goscinny's Le Petit Nicolas, Goscinny's Astérix, And Albert Uderzo's Astérix, Dennis Scott Meyer

Theses and Dissertations

The goal of this thesis is to analyze the textual composition of René Goscinny’s Astérix and Le petit Nicolas, demonstrating how they differ and why. Taking a statistical look at the comparative qualities of each series of works, the structural differences and similarities in language use in these two series and their respective media are highlighted and compared. Though one might expect more complicated language use in traditional text by virtue of its format, analysis of average word length, average sentence length, lexical diversity, the prevalence of specific forms (the passé composé, possessive pronouns, etc.), and preferred collocations …


Review Of "La Blessure La Vraie" By F. Bégaudeau, Véronique Olivier Mar 2012

Review Of "La Blessure La Vraie" By F. Bégaudeau, Véronique Olivier

World Languages and Cultures Faculty Articles and Research

A review of François Bégaudeau's La blessure la vraie, published by Verticales in 2011. In French.


Translation Into English: Poems By Marie-Léontine Tsibinda, Catherine Macgillivray Mar 2012

Translation Into English: Poems By Marie-Léontine Tsibinda, Catherine Macgillivray

UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

Marie Léontine Tsibinda was born in French Congo in the village of Girard. She later attended school in the capital of Brazzaville, where she went on to university and ultimately received a Master’s degree in English in 1983. In response to the burning down of her house in the context of Congo's civil war in 1997, Tsibinda fled her homeland in 1999; she then spent time in Niger and Benin, eventually settling in Canada in 2001, where she continues to reside.


The Burden Of Knowing: Camus, Qohelet, And The Limitations Of Human Reason, Justin K. Morgan Feb 2012

The Burden Of Knowing: Camus, Qohelet, And The Limitations Of Human Reason, Justin K. Morgan

Liberty Theological Review

In one of the most influential works of the twentieth century, The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus writes this: “This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction.” Here, Camus addresses what he believes to be one of the main sources of the absurd: the limitations of human reason. He claims that his inability to fully understand human reality creates a gap between his existence and its meaning, and, in effect, renders the …


Paratexts To Frida Kahlo's Oeuvre: The Relationship Between The Visual And The Textual, The Self And The Other, From The Self-Portraits To The Diary Entries, Levilson C. Reis Jan 2012

Paratexts To Frida Kahlo's Oeuvre: The Relationship Between The Visual And The Textual, The Self And The Other, From The Self-Portraits To The Diary Entries, Levilson C. Reis

Modern Languages & Cultures Faculty Scholarship

This article examines the relationship between the visual and the textual in Frida Kahlo’s paintings and writings. It argues that an understanding of this relationship would offer a better picture of Kahlo’s oeuvre. The article begins with an examination of the dedicatory inscriptions in the self-portraits, engaging with Gérard Genette’s concept of paratext and Philippe Lejeune’s autobiographical pact, as a prelude to the study of the relationship between text and drawings in the diary. In a close reading of the diary, informed by Jacques Lacan’s theories of subject formation and object relations, the article goes on to show that the …


Contemporary Francophone African Writers And The Burden Of Commitment, Cécile Accilien Jan 2012

Contemporary Francophone African Writers And The Burden Of Commitment, Cécile Accilien

Faculty Bibliography

No abstract provided.


Women In Corneille’S Le Cid And Diderot’S Le Fils Naturel, Kelsey Brennan Jan 2012

Women In Corneille’S Le Cid And Diderot’S Le Fils Naturel, Kelsey Brennan

The Corinthian

The role of women in literature and society has been ever evolving and has also varied between writers and even individual works. In both society and literature, women have often been either marginalized or idealized. In this essay, I will focus on the works of French writers Pierre Corneille and Denis Diderot, specifically their plays, Le Cid (The Cid, 1636) and Le Fils naturel (The Natural Son, 1757). In terms of the role of women in these two plays, there are marked differences regarding their significance as characters and their expected feminine roles as well as how they interact with …


Re-Viewing Verne's Invisible Man, Arthur B. Evans Jan 2012

Re-Viewing Verne's Invisible Man, Arthur B. Evans

Global Language Studies Faculty publications

No abstract provided.


Rachilde, Marguerite Eymery Vallette (1860-1953), Ria Banerjee Jan 2012

Rachilde, Marguerite Eymery Vallette (1860-1953), Ria Banerjee

Publications and Research

This is a biographical overview of the life and principle works of the French author Rachilde, a.k.a. Marguerite Eymery Vallette (1860-1953), one of the few women writers working in the masculinist field of fin-de-siecle or decadent fiction.


Entrevue Avec Philippe Zeller, Servanne Woodward Jan 2012

Entrevue Avec Philippe Zeller, Servanne Woodward

French Studies Publications

Philippe Zeller parle au sujet de la francophonie


Telling Stories From Haiti: Dany Laferriere And Authenticity And Authority In Autobiography, Lee Skallerup Bessette Jan 2012

Telling Stories From Haiti: Dany Laferriere And Authenticity And Authority In Autobiography, Lee Skallerup Bessette

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

No abstract provided.


Simone De Beauvoir: Cuisine, Nourriture, Existentialisme, Véronique Olivier Jan 2012

Simone De Beauvoir: Cuisine, Nourriture, Existentialisme, Véronique Olivier

World Languages and Cultures Faculty Articles and Research

"En 1949, quand Simone de Beauvoir publie Le Deuxieme Sexe, elle y raconte l'histoire des femmes - son histoire des femmes. Avec regret, la jeune intellectuelle observe a quel point le monde appartient aux hommes, combien la societe a lentement contribue a modeler la femme comme un objet, comme 'l'inessentiel', 'l'autre' (DS 1: 17). Contre une societe dominee par les hommes, Beauvoir croit pourtant que les choses peuvent evoluer, puisque, loin d'etre naturels, notre identite, notre moi, resultent davantage du temps, de l'histoire, et de conditions variables. II n'est done pas surprenant que l'un des espaces explores et condamnes …


De L'Autre Coté Du Periph': Les Lieux De L'Identité Dans Le Roman Feminin De Banlieue En France, Mame Fatou Niang Jan 2012

De L'Autre Coté Du Periph': Les Lieux De L'Identité Dans Le Roman Feminin De Banlieue En France, Mame Fatou Niang

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

My dissertation “ De l’Autre Coté du Periph’: Les Lieux de l’Identité dans le Roman Féminin de Banlieue en France” examines the writings of young female authors from the French suburbs, known as the banlieues. Not to be confused with their American counterparts, French suburbs have recently emerged as spatialized emblems of violence, poverty and social unrest. Their perception as sites of massive immigration furthermore fueled fears of national identity loss. The riots of fall 2005 violently brought to the foreground tensions that had been simmering and illustrated the increasing division between the banlieues and the rest of French society. …


Review Of Chrétien De Troyes And The Dawn Of Arthurian Romance, By William Farina, Grace M. Armstrong Jan 2012

Review Of Chrétien De Troyes And The Dawn Of Arthurian Romance, By William Farina, Grace M. Armstrong

French and Francophone Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.