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The Verne School In France: Paul D'Ivoi's Voyages Excentriques, Arthur B. Evans

Global Language Studies Faculty publications

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Don, Obligation Et Reconnaissance Dans Les Lettres D’Une Péruvienne De Graffigny, Olivier M. Delers

Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications

La critique, des deux cotés de l’Atlantique, est restée étrangement silencieuse sur le rôle central que joue le don – ainsi que la dette de gratitude qu’il instaure – dans la progression narrative du roman et le développement émotionnel de l’héroïne. Le thème du don, quand il est mentionné, reste souvent cantonné à un rôle mineur, sans qu’on ne tienne compte de son importance systémique. Anne Dugan, par exemple, remarque que Zilia décrit une société où le lien qui régit les relations interpersonnelles n’est plus lié à des principes éthiques, ce qui encourage des formes d’échange basées, plus ou moins …

From Villain To Superhero: Evolution Of The Novel’S Lawyer Stereotype From The Nineteenth Through The Twenty-First Century, Carolyn A. Morway

Honors Scholar Theses

This thesis analyzes the evolution of the lawyer character from the novels of the early 19th century through those of the modern day. The representation of the lawyer character illustrates the contemporary view of lawyers in society and also provides a framework of the relationship between the lawyer and the common man.

Generational Differences Between North African Francophone Literatures: The New Stories Of Immigrants In France, Christen M. Allen

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

This study seeks to establish the generational difference between Beur and Francophone literatures using Kiffe Kiffe Demain by Faïza Guène contrasted with Le Siècle des Sauterelles by Malika Mokeddem. The struggle underlying both narratives is the protagonists’ attempts to negotiate their own identities while being torn between two very differing cultures. Le Siècle des Sauterelles explores the role that the French colonization had on Algerians as individuals. The characters are Algerian nomads who cling to western ideals of literacy and personal choice and in so doing, reject Algerian social hierarchy. The characters in Kiffe Kiffe Demain are from two cultures: …

Foucault, Secularization Theory, And The Theological Origins Of Totalitarianism, Michael Lackey

English Publications

No abstract provided.

After Utopia: Three Post-Personal Subjects Consider The Possibilities, Jeffrey P. Cain

English Faculty Publications

Review essay.

The task for those exploring the relationship of Deleuze to cultural issues is not to extend his thought in a straight line, but to swerve or veer into thinking a productive approach to the cultural events that actualise themselves in our time. Cain states that the virtue of these three books is that they do not simply go back to the same old questions; all of them represent departures in thinking in the best sense of the word.

William E. Connolly (2008). Capitalism and Christianity, American Style. Durham and London: Duke University Press.

Alexander García Düttmann (2007). …

Baudelaire, Melmoth And Laughter, David Rutledge

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Dancing Into The Spotlight: Louise Bertin And La Esmeralda, Juliana Starr

Foreign Languages Faculty Publications

The field of musicology lags far behind literature and the visual arts in the study of its women practitioners. Indeed, it has been nearly forty years since art historian Linda Nochlin published her ground-breaking study, "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" with its remarkable parallel implications for women composers. This essay attempts to address this question by studying the life and work of Louise-Angelique Bertin--the only composer to collaborate directly with Victor Hugo on an opera, the earliest French composer to write an opera based on Goethe's Faust, an artist in the middle of the biggest political and …

De La Ruche Au Polype: Figures De L’Organisation Sociale, Rudy Le Menthéour

French and Francophone Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.

La Socialité En Chaîne Et En Réseau Dans Les Egarements Du Cœur Et De L’Esprit De Crébillon Fils, Olivier M. Delers

Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications

L’importance politique de l’oeuvre de Sade n’est plus à démontrer – on peut citer en exemple les analyses d’Adorno et Horkheimer sur Justine ou plus récemment le travail de Frances Ferguson sur la nature de l’action chez Sade. Colette Cazenobe a quant à elle ouvert la voie d’une lecture politique de Crébillon dans son Crébillon fils ou la politique dans le boudoir. J’aimerai ici ouvrir un autre filon dans l’interprétation des textes de Crébillon en m’appuyant sur le travail critique effectué par Roland Barthes dans son Sade, Fourrier, Loyola. En fin lecteur des implications théoriques de la fiction …

Représentations De La Mort Dans La Chine De Claudel Et De Verne, Peter Schulman

World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.