This French paper looks at the paradoxical nature of modern progress in the 19th and 20th centuries. It deals with the works of Charles Baudelaire and those of Céline, especially focusing on Voyage to the end of the night ...
The Regency period of early modern France (1715-1723) represents an eight-year overture between the absolute monarchy of Louis XIV's reign and the development of the Enlightenment movement over the course of the century. ...
I examine the intersection of childhood and death in four works of modern French literature and film: La Maison de Claudine (Colette), W… (Perec), Les Mots ( Sartre), and Jeux interdits (Clément). Drawing on the French ...
Elisabeth‐Céleste Vénard née le 27 Décembre 1824 à Paris, fût la grande et fameuse courtisane Parisienne du XIXème. Ce siècle ne connut aucune autre courtisane aussi audacieuse que Céleste Mogador—nom dont la notoriété la ...
In my essay I explore the relationship between Mongo Beti's polemical essay Afrique Noire, Littérature Rose and his book Mission Terminée. In the essay Beti assumes a strictly anticolonial stance and insists, perhaps ...
The Breton lay is a form of oral poetry from the medieval period. In this essay I compare the functions of ʺle merveilleuxʺ and ʺle réelʺ in the Lais of Marie de France, a group of lays written in anglo‐normand for King ...
Au XVIe siècle, François Rabelais publie les livres Gargantua et Pantagruel, dont les héros éponymes sont des géants. Or ces géants sont de taille fluctuante : Pantagruel, par exemple, voyage de Valence à Angiers en "troys ...
This thesis is a study of the sociological approach to the notion of artistic success and the complication of that vision of success in Émile Zola’s L'Œuvre (1886), a roman à clef that reproduces the development of ...
For my thesis, I researched the history and development of Yves Reynaud’s monologue, Apnée ou le Dernier des militants, translated the script French to English, and performed the play in the original French, with English ...
L’histoire violente de l’Algérie a toujours été une source de traumatisme chez les générations qui ont vu le jour après l’indépendance du pays en 1962. On peut en trouver l'évidence dans les textes publiés après cette date ...
My thesis explores the way Pablo Picasso and Aimé Césaire claim Africa as a source of inspiration in their jointly-published book Corps perdu , an illustrated volume of poetry released in Paris in 1950. I look at the way ...