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Sex Education In France: An Imbalanced History, Marisa Peters
Sex Education In France: An Imbalanced History, Marisa Peters
Honors Theses
Although the history of sex education is relatively new, it is very complex. Enlightenment philosophers from Rousseau to de Sade had ideas on what the sex education of girls and of boys should entail, with Rousseau preparing her for marriage, and the latter preparing her to be a libertine! In the late 19th and early 20th centuries there were stereotypes too, of girls in the countryside learning about sex as a result of cramped living and proximity to farm animals. For young bourgeois women in the city, there were manuals on marriage and how to perform their wifely …
The Translator-Function: Translating Bande-Dessinée For The Anglophone Reader, Ryan C. Gomez
The Translator-Function: Translating Bande-Dessinée For The Anglophone Reader, Ryan C. Gomez
Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs
This thesis focuses on the question of translator roles in literary theory. I characterize these roles between positions that have traditionally been described by literary and philosophical theorists such as Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault. By examining the products of translation (French-language bandes-dessinées and their English translations), and considering critical literary and translation theories, I demonstrate the unique position held by translators and their work through the proposal of what I call the translator-function (modeled after Foucault’s author-function). The principal aim of this thesis is to problematize preconceived ideas about translators and to examine the unique position of the …