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- Title
- De Freud a Cixous: Une autre perspective sur Dora l'hysterique. (French text).
- Creator
- Feldman, Marie., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
- Abstract/Description
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Cixous rejects the conclusions reached by Freud in the "Dora case" and rewrites the analysis without changing the sequence of events. In her play Portrait de Dora (published in Paris in 1976) Dora incarnates the injustices suffered by women within the family. The importance of the play is that it shifts responsibility from Dora to the entire society to which she belongs. Cixous's Dora becomes the symbol of woman who has overcome anguish and shattered the traditional "jougs et censures"...
Show moreCixous rejects the conclusions reached by Freud in the "Dora case" and rewrites the analysis without changing the sequence of events. In her play Portrait de Dora (published in Paris in 1976) Dora incarnates the injustices suffered by women within the family. The importance of the play is that it shifts responsibility from Dora to the entire society to which she belongs. Cixous's Dora becomes the symbol of woman who has overcome anguish and shattered the traditional "jougs et censures" opening the way to freedom.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1991
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14685
- Subject Headings
- Freud, Sigmund,--1856-1939.--Dora., Cixous, Hélène,--1937---Portrait de Dora.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- De la conception de l'Europe dans "La Condition Humaine" d'Andre Malraux.
- Creator
- Giner, Raymond., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
- Abstract/Description
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Although China provides the stage for most of the action of La Condition Humaine, the presence of Europe is felt throughout the text. In this ostensibly historical novel, Malraux dramatizes the tragic events that took place in Shanghai in March and April 1927: a failed coup attempt by marxist revolutionaries and the bloody scission between general Tchang-Kai-Shek's Kuomintang and the communist party. Europe is thus present in the very premises of the story, through marxism. The influence of...
Show moreAlthough China provides the stage for most of the action of La Condition Humaine, the presence of Europe is felt throughout the text. In this ostensibly historical novel, Malraux dramatizes the tragic events that took place in Shanghai in March and April 1927: a failed coup attempt by marxist revolutionaries and the bloody scission between general Tchang-Kai-Shek's Kuomintang and the communist party. Europe is thus present in the very premises of the story, through marxism. The influence of the Old Continent permeates all the characters in one way or another, even those from Asia, mainly China, who display this influence in their political, social, religious and artistic outlook or behavior. Malraux uses the characters of the story to deliver a subtle though scathing critique of Europe, in sharp contrast to the traditional, pre-World War One depiction of the continent as the center and provider of culture for the whole world. Europe was the center of the universe, the source of all solutions and explanations in all fields of endeavor, solidly established on the concepts developed since the Renaissance: rationalism, materialism, and individualism. These concepts, which also gave birth to capitalism, were all present in the European colonial system imposed on the new territories and are the object of Malraux's critique.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1999
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15729
- Subject Headings
- Malraux, André,--1901-1976--Criticism and interpretation., Malraux, André,--1901-1976.--Condition humaine., Europe--In literature.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- La dualite et la bipartition dans "Le Chevalier au Lion" et "Le Bel Inconnu".
- Creator
- Henderson, Camille., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
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Well anchored in the romance tradition, the binary nature of the medieval text seems to lend itself to a bipartite structure. Chretien de Troyes is a master of duality. The reader has no sooner established a premise than suddenly Chretien implies its opposite. Likewise, Renaut de Beaujeu gives to his text a perpetually changing dual perspective. In both texts the hero's quest is embodied in two female characters who appear to be each other's counterpart. Like all the other characters, they...
Show moreWell anchored in the romance tradition, the binary nature of the medieval text seems to lend itself to a bipartite structure. Chretien de Troyes is a master of duality. The reader has no sooner established a premise than suddenly Chretien implies its opposite. Likewise, Renaut de Beaujeu gives to his text a perpetually changing dual perspective. In both texts the hero's quest is embodied in two female characters who appear to be each other's counterpart. Like all the other characters, they participate in the overall pattern or play of opposites in the two romances. Like the structure of the text, they can be seen as their own mirrored reflections. In these two works, the duality that characterizes the medieval text leads not only to bipartition but to the reversibility of characters and narrative plot.
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- 1995
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15193
- Subject Headings
- Chrétien,--de Troyes,--active 12th century--Criticism and interpretation, Chrétien,--de Troyes,--active 12th century--Chevalier au lyon, Renaud,--de Beaujeu,--active 12th/13th century--Criticism and interpretation, Renaud,--de Beaujeu,--active 12th/13th century--Bel inconnu, Arthurian romances
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- Document (PDF)
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- L' idee de l'amour dans le couple chez Beauvoir.
- Creator
- Grosjean, Marie-Pierre., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
- Abstract/Description
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One of the constants in Beauvoir's work is her lifelong attention to the phenomenon of love and the idea of the couple. In her philosophy as well as in her fiction, she develops a binary concept of love. On the one hand is "authentic love," connoting respect and reciprocity; on the other is "inauthentic love," a function of conquest and annexation. Because of her adherence to the tenets of Existentialism, Beauvoir, the feminist, skillfully negotiates between the notions of love and freedom.
- Date Issued
- 2004
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13137
- Subject Headings
- Beauvoir, Simone de,--1908---Criticism and interpretation., Couples in literature., Love in literature.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- LA RELATION MERE-ENFANT CHEZ DURAS. (FRENCH TEXT).
- Creator
- DIAFERIA, MICHAELA., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
- Abstract/Description
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The relationship between the mother and the child in Duras is most fully developed in the novels La Vie Tranquille (1944), Un Barrage contre le Pacifique (1950), Les Petits Chevaux de Tarquinia (1953), Moderato cantabile (1958), and L' Amant (1984). The relationship is intense, initially joyful but ultimately alienated. It dramatizes the feminine needs of the mother and the filial needs of the child, always in conflict. It weakens, as the mother undergoes personal trials, and, as the child...
Show moreThe relationship between the mother and the child in Duras is most fully developed in the novels La Vie Tranquille (1944), Un Barrage contre le Pacifique (1950), Les Petits Chevaux de Tarquinia (1953), Moderato cantabile (1958), and L' Amant (1984). The relationship is intense, initially joyful but ultimately alienated. It dramatizes the feminine needs of the mother and the filial needs of the child, always in conflict. It weakens, as the mother undergoes personal trials, and, as the child grows older, love turns to hate and despair. This study of the novels reveals a consistent structure: the mother-child relationship in Duras is repeatedly depicted as an enslaving experience, comparable in its passionate development to a foredoomed love affair.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1986
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14292
- Subject Headings
- Duras, Marguerite--Criticism and interpretation, Mother and child
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- La Satire Comme Critique Sociale Chez Balzac.
- Creator
- Paramonova, Galina, Hokenson, Jan W., Florida Atlantic University
- Abstract/Description
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As one of the founders of the realist novel, Balzac is praised for having invented returning characters and interwoven chronologies that serve to challenge the decadent social mores of his time, but critical discussions of Balzacs's work continue to neglect his use of satire in social criticism. Different modes of satire occure in his LePere Goriot (1835), Le Bat de Sceaux (1829), Gobseck (1830), La Maison Nucingen (1837), Le Depute dArcis (1847), and La Femme abandonnee (1822), which...
Show moreAs one of the founders of the realist novel, Balzac is praised for having invented returning characters and interwoven chronologies that serve to challenge the decadent social mores of his time, but critical discussions of Balzacs's work continue to neglect his use of satire in social criticism. Different modes of satire occure in his LePere Goriot (1835), Le Bat de Sceaux (1829), Gobseck (1830), La Maison Nucingen (1837), Le Depute dArcis (1847), and La Femme abandonnee (1822), which together attest that Balzac achieves his ambition to become both the Rabelais and the Moliere of his era.
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- 2008
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000947
- Subject Headings
- Balzac, Honoré de,--1799-1850--Criticism and interpretation, Social history in literature, Satire, French--History and criticism, Criticism--France--19th century
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- LES TRIPEDES DE LA TRILOGIE: ETUDE DE L'HOMME AU BATON CHEZ BECKETT. (FRENCH TEXT).
- Creator
- PERRU, JEAN-PHILIPPE., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
- Abstract/Description
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Critics of Beckett's trilogy (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable) have long puzzled over the profusion of bilabials in the characters' names: Molloy, Moran, Malone, Macmann. They all share a common initial. "Les Tripedes de la Trilogie" attempts to offer yet another interpretation: with its three bases, the letter M suggests in the context of the trilogy a man and his stick, reminiscent to Beckett of the three-legged "animal" in the riddle of the Sphinx. The omnipresent stick, in both its...
Show moreCritics of Beckett's trilogy (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable) have long puzzled over the profusion of bilabials in the characters' names: Molloy, Moran, Malone, Macmann. They all share a common initial. "Les Tripedes de la Trilogie" attempts to offer yet another interpretation: with its three bases, the letter M suggests in the context of the trilogy a man and his stick, reminiscent to Beckett of the three-legged "animal" in the riddle of the Sphinx. The omnipresent stick, in both its physical and symbolic functions, is shown to be the crucial instrument keeping the unstable Beckettian creatures briefly upright in their "struggle for life." As an extension of the body, it allows them to fight and to survive. As a cylindrical rod, it acquires metaphysical associations with divine or supernatural power.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1986
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14293
- Subject Headings
- Beckett, Samuel,--1906---Criticism and interpretation
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- La relation enigmatique du texte et des images dans "Nadja".
- Creator
- Sutton, Anne Claude., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
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The reading of Nadja may seem effortless at first, given that the novel's two hundred pages include fifty pages of illustrations. These pictures are of two kinds, photographs and drawings. Breton's different expressive modes, verbal and graphic, combine two opposite worlds, the written reference to the real Parisian places and the surreal sphere depicted in the avant-garde portraits and drawings. One of the primary surrealist technique is to mix different elements, such as illusion, the...
Show moreThe reading of Nadja may seem effortless at first, given that the novel's two hundred pages include fifty pages of illustrations. These pictures are of two kinds, photographs and drawings. Breton's different expressive modes, verbal and graphic, combine two opposite worlds, the written reference to the real Parisian places and the surreal sphere depicted in the avant-garde portraits and drawings. One of the primary surrealist technique is to mix different elements, such as illusion, the fantastic, and the dream in order to create a new world, free of any banal reality or logic to transport the reader out of mundane time-space. Therefore, the readers' problem is to determine whether these pictures are a graphic enhancement supplementing the verbal text, or on the contrary, a disjunctive element added to disturb the reader and to confuse the understanding of the verbal text with graphic enigmas.
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- 1998
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15604
- Subject Headings
- Breton, André,--1896-1966--Nadja--Illustrations, Breton, André,--1896-1966--Criticism and interpretation
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- La representation narrative des classes subalternes chez Zola et Dickens.
- Creator
- Philome, Dieufene R., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
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Although both Zola and Dickens represent the precarious situation of the lower classes of society (workers, miners, and peasants), and that representation is similarly constructed at the level of both characters and narrative, Zola's characters engage in an active endeavor to change their social conditions while those of Dickens are more resigned to their circumstances, and are rather oriented toward individual moral accomplishment. The tones of the discourse of the characters, closely...
Show moreAlthough both Zola and Dickens represent the precarious situation of the lower classes of society (workers, miners, and peasants), and that representation is similarly constructed at the level of both characters and narrative, Zola's characters engage in an active endeavor to change their social conditions while those of Dickens are more resigned to their circumstances, and are rather oriented toward individual moral accomplishment. The tones of the discourse of the characters, closely reflects the implicit political posture of the narrators, in Zola's Germinal and La Terre, and in Dickens's Hard Times and Our Mutual Friend . Both writers oppose social injustice, while leaving the reader toward differential solutions, politico-economic in Zola and socio-moralistic in Dickens.
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- 2003
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13009
- Subject Headings
- Zola, Emile,--1840-1902--Criticism and interpretation, Dickens, Charles,--1812-1870--Criticism and interpretation, Social classes in literature
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- Document (PDF)
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- The representation of the courtesan in Balzac's "La Cousine Bette", Flaubert's "L'education Sentimentale" and Zola's "Nana".
- Creator
- Monawar, Christelle M., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
- Abstract/Description
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Unlike the courtesan of romantic fiction, depicted as a sentimental and pitiful victim of social mores, the courtesan of French realism is rendered through the eyes of the nineteenth-century male bourgeois as a commodity to be consumed. Her body is objectified and fetishized, just as is her milieu of pleasure designed as legitimate compensation for the social delimitation of sexuality to reproduction. Through different direct and indirect narrative modes, Balzac as well as Flaubert and Zola...
Show moreUnlike the courtesan of romantic fiction, depicted as a sentimental and pitiful victim of social mores, the courtesan of French realism is rendered through the eyes of the nineteenth-century male bourgeois as a commodity to be consumed. Her body is objectified and fetishized, just as is her milieu of pleasure designed as legitimate compensation for the social delimitation of sexuality to reproduction. Through different direct and indirect narrative modes, Balzac as well as Flaubert and Zola often dehumanize, even demonize the courtesan for her power over male senses, overtly rendering her a scapegoat for society's decaying values and an open threat to patriarchal control over financial patrimony, the family, and the church.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2003
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12984
- Subject Headings
- Balzac, Honoré de,--1799-1850--Cousine Bette, Flaubert, Gustave,--1821-1880--Education sentimentale, Zola, Emile,--1840-1902--Nana, Courtesans in literature
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- Document (PDF)
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- The role of the writers in the Ballets Russes.
- Creator
- Pionzio, Martine Francoise., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
- Abstract/Description
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In histories of European Modernism, it is almost axiomatic that the first performance of Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Paris in 1910 was an aesthetic watershed, culminating earlier experiments by Symbolists and Cubists and forecasting later Modernists' radical syntheses of French arts and literature. Yet the role of French writers in the productions of the Ballets Russes has been neglected by literary critics and historians. Nijinski's choreography of L'Apres-midi d'un Faune stands as...
Show moreIn histories of European Modernism, it is almost axiomatic that the first performance of Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Paris in 1910 was an aesthetic watershed, culminating earlier experiments by Symbolists and Cubists and forecasting later Modernists' radical syntheses of French arts and literature. Yet the role of French writers in the productions of the Ballets Russes has been neglected by literary critics and historians. Nijinski's choreography of L'Apres-midi d'un Faune stands as the theatrical culmination of Mallarme's poetic. The ballets Sheherazade and The Rite of Spring find a counterpart in the literary work of their admirer Proust, and Cocteau's achievement with the Ballets Russes in Parade serves as apprenticeship for his own later literary work while pointing the way to Surrealism and other avant-garde movements in France.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2000
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12722
- Subject Headings
- Ballets russes--History, French literature--20th century
- Format
- Document (PDF)