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Title: Le mariage et la maternitâe chez Marie de France.
Creator: Firmino Palazzolo, Danielle., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
Abstract/Description: Twelfth century French feudal culture witnesses the codification of new marriage laws and a rapid rise in popularity of the Cult of the Virgin Mary, with correspondingly renewed attention being paid to women by ecclesiastical intellectuals of all sects. Of particular interest to these churchmen was the duty of the medieval wife to bear children. The Lais of Marie de France, a late twelfth-century text, often focus explicitly on motherhood (both biological and symbolic) and therefore allow a...
Show moreTwelfth century French feudal culture witnesses the codification of new marriage laws and a rapid rise in popularity of the Cult of the Virgin Mary, with correspondingly renewed attention being paid to women by ecclesiastical intellectuals of all sects. Of particular interest to these churchmen was the duty of the medieval wife to bear children. The Lais of Marie de France, a late twelfth-century text, often focus explicitly on motherhood (both biological and symbolic) and therefore allow a deeper examination of the new cultural representations of women in the dual role of spouse and mother. The Lais further highlight the symbolic role of the child as guarantor both of a woman's social value and of the validity of the love relationship based on the tenets of fin'amors instead of formal marriage.
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Date Issued: 2009
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2182086
Subject Headings: Cult, History, History and criticism, Women, Women in Christianity, Social conditions, History
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The role of the writers in the Ballets Russes.
Creator: Pionzio, Martine Francoise., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
Abstract/Description: 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.
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Date Issued: 2000
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12722
Subject Headings: Ballets russes--History, French literature--20th century
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Title: La decheance matriarcale chez Zola: "L'assommoir" et "Germinal".
Creator: Alaoui, Sanaa Ismaili, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: Critical studies of Zola's Rougon-Macquart novels, while explicating in detail the characterological functions of the women characters, including Gervaise in L'Assommoir and la Maheude in Germinal, have neglected the thematic functions of matriarchy in those texts as in the cycle as a whole. The decline of the matriarch is a prominent component of Zola's naturalistic scheme for the Rougon-Macquart , manifests not only in the increasing corruption of the progeny across the cycle, but primarily...
Show moreCritical studies of Zola's Rougon-Macquart novels, while explicating in detail the characterological functions of the women characters, including Gervaise in L'Assommoir and la Maheude in Germinal, have neglected the thematic functions of matriarchy in those texts as in the cycle as a whole. The decline of the matriarch is a prominent component of Zola's naturalistic scheme for the Rougon-Macquart , manifests not only in the increasing corruption of the progeny across the cycle, but primarily in the monographic depictions of the matriarchs themselves. Working-class mothers in particular embody the conflictual tensions of gender inequities and socio-economic deprivations that lead them to produce child-workers to support the family, typically becoming ever more negligent, on the model of Gervaise. Specifically in Germinal, Zola's largely negative conception of the fictive matriarch begins to change. This shift is sustained in subsequent texts of the cycle: the matriarch still suffers almost total loss (of husband, children, position), but she attains a new insight into the socio-economic system that so devours her offspring, and a new lucidity about her position within it.
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Date Issued: 2002
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12970
Subject Headings: Literature, Romance
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Title: 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: 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.
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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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Title: La representation narrative des classes subalternes chez Zola et Dickens.
Creator: Philome, Dieufene R., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
Abstract/Description: 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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Date Issued: 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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Title: La metamorphose de l'amour dans l'oeuvre de colette.
Creator: de Lima, Edwige Verdier., Florida Atlantic University, Munson, Marcella L.
Abstract/Description: Many critical studies of Colette, drawing heavily on psychoanalytic theory in order to explicate the biographical particulars of her life which are present in her works, have sought to brand the writer as feminine archetype of the free-spirited and inconstant libertine of the early twentieth century. But while such studies often note the general importance of the theme of love in Colette's works, they have tended to ignore both the larger literary metamorphosis which the theme of love...
Show moreMany critical studies of Colette, drawing heavily on psychoanalytic theory in order to explicate the biographical particulars of her life which are present in her works, have sought to brand the writer as feminine archetype of the free-spirited and inconstant libertine of the early twentieth century. But while such studies often note the general importance of the theme of love in Colette's works, they have tended to ignore both the larger literary metamorphosis which the theme of love undergoes and its metonymic links to the act of writing itself. Indeed, in Colette's works the letter and the mirror become privileged symbols through which the love felt by the narrator is channeled and ultimately displaced towards the act of writing and self-apprehension. Paradoxically, the act of writing is what enables Colette's narrator to enact her own liberation, it is also the act of writing in which she encounters isolation.
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Date Issued: 2003
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13058
Subject Headings: Colette,--1873-1954--Criticism and interpretation, Love in literature
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Title: Le moi et l'autre dans Robinson Crusoe de Daniel Defoe et Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique de Michel Tournier.
Creator: Peric, Milica., Florida Atlantic University, Munson, Marcella L.
Abstract/Description: Daniel Defoe's seminal novel Robinson Crusoe reflects major philosophical currents of the Enlightenment and brings them to bear on diverse issues: scientific advances, new economic models, British colonialization, the relation of the Other to the self. But if Robinson Crusoe presents Friday as Other who fulfills a crucial role by helping Robinson as narrating subject successfully complete the journey of self-knowledge, Michel Tournier's postmodern revision, Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique...
Show moreDaniel Defoe's seminal novel Robinson Crusoe reflects major philosophical currents of the Enlightenment and brings them to bear on diverse issues: scientific advances, new economic models, British colonialization, the relation of the Other to the self. But if Robinson Crusoe presents Friday as Other who fulfills a crucial role by helping Robinson as narrating subject successfully complete the journey of self-knowledge, Michel Tournier's postmodern revision, Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique , has a quite different teleological aim. Through constantly shifting narrative and theoretical perspectives Vendredi undertakes a forceful critique of key aspects of the Western tradition which Robinson Crusoe confidently hailed: Lockean and Cartesian reasoning, traditional framing dichotomies central to the Western tradition (Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel), modern conceptions of the thinking subject. Vendredi ultimately suggests the inability of the postmodern subject to know itself while simultaneously critiquing those Western traditions whose perspectives are founded on hegemonic globalization.
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Date Issued: 2003
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13097
Subject Headings: Defoe, Daniel,--1661?-1731--Robinson Crusoe, Tournier, Michel--Vendredi, ou, Les limbes du Pacifique, Self (Philosophy) in literature
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Title: L' idee de l'amour dans le couple chez Beauvoir.
Creator: Grosjean, Marie-Pierre., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
Abstract/Description: 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.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Courtisanes et modeles: Representations de la femme juive dans la litterature francaise du dix-neuvieme siecle.
Creator: Silverstein, David., Florida Atlantic University, Munson, Marcella L.
Abstract/Description: The realist authors of nineteenth-century France consistently represent the Jewish woman as the epitome of beauty and intelligence. While glorifying her image, this representation betrays a complex system of social and gender bias. By examining selected works of Balzac, the freres Goncourt, and Maupassant, a nuanced transformation can be traced in the representation of the Jewish woman. As a literary figure negotiating a social system that emphasizes her religious identity, she is celebrated,...
Show moreThe realist authors of nineteenth-century France consistently represent the Jewish woman as the epitome of beauty and intelligence. While glorifying her image, this representation betrays a complex system of social and gender bias. By examining selected works of Balzac, the freres Goncourt, and Maupassant, a nuanced transformation can be traced in the representation of the Jewish woman. As a literary figure negotiating a social system that emphasizes her religious identity, she is celebrated, vilified, and ultimately transformed into a heroine by virtue of her courage rather than her physical attributes.
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Date Issued: 2004
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13157
Subject Headings: Jewish women--France--History--19th century, France--Ethnic relations, French literature--19th century--History and criticism, Jewish women in literature, Antisemitism--France--19th century, Artists' models in literature
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Title: Exotisme et alterite dans les oeuvres de Pierre Loti et de Victor Segalen.
Creator: Montonen, Jane M., Florida Atlantic University, Munson, Marcella L.
Abstract/Description: At the turn of the twentieth century when French imperialism is on the rise, the writers and naval officers Pierre Loti and Victor Segalen represent otherness in their literary work in different and even antagonistic ways. Loti, who became famous early in his lifetime, depicts exotic lands and his vision of the Other in an impressionist, sentimentalist, and sometimes-ethnocentric way while Segalen proposes to redefine exoticism polluted by colonial discourse. Segalen recognizes the uniqueness...
Show moreAt the turn of the twentieth century when French imperialism is on the rise, the writers and naval officers Pierre Loti and Victor Segalen represent otherness in their literary work in different and even antagonistic ways. Loti, who became famous early in his lifetime, depicts exotic lands and his vision of the Other in an impressionist, sentimentalist, and sometimes-ethnocentric way while Segalen proposes to redefine exoticism polluted by colonial discourse. Segalen recognizes the uniqueness of foreign cultures and innovate in giving a voice to the Other. In spite of the differences between the two authors, it has not been emphasized enough their mutual attraction for the past and imaginary civilizations, their opposition to the assimilation of foreign cultures into European culture, and their blindness toward colonial ideology.
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Date Issued: 2005
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13295
Subject Headings: Exoticism in literature., Difference (Psychology) in literature., Loti, Pierre,--1850-1923--Criticism and interpretation., Segalen, Victor,--1878-1919--Criticism and interpretation.
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Title: LA RELATION MERE-ENFANT CHEZ DURAS. (FRENCH TEXT).
Creator: DIAFERIA, MICHAELA., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
Abstract/Description: 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.
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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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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: 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.
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Date Issued: 1986
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14293
Subject Headings: Beckett, Samuel,--1906---Criticism and interpretation
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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: 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.
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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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Title: L' Epouse adultere dans les "Lais" de Marie de France.
Creator: Piguet, Therese E., Florida Atlantic University, Durling, Nancy Vine
Abstract/Description: L'analyse du comportement de la femme adultere et l'etude des consequences de sa conduite permettent une interpretation en coherence avec les idees du prologue general de l'oeuvre. La dame, dans les poemes, appartient bien au monde reel de la societe aristocratique du XIIe siecle. Malgre la presence de signes de compassion pour les epouses "mal mariees," Marie condamne l'adultere feminin, la conduite deraisonnable de l'epouse et son manque de "mesure." Elle signale les dangers de certains...
Show moreL'analyse du comportement de la femme adultere et l'etude des consequences de sa conduite permettent une interpretation en coherence avec les idees du prologue general de l'oeuvre. La dame, dans les poemes, appartient bien au monde reel de la societe aristocratique du XIIe siecle. Malgre la presence de signes de compassion pour les epouses "mal mariees," Marie condamne l'adultere feminin, la conduite deraisonnable de l'epouse et son manque de "mesure." Elle signale les dangers de certains usages de la fin'amors et rappelle discretement aux epouses infideles les risques de peine de mort qu'elles encourent. La poetesse reste fidele a une ethique religieuse vis-a-vis du mariage, de la fin'amors et de l'adultere. Elle idealise l'epouse du XIIe siecle en la personne de Guideluec, qu'elle presente a bon escient dans le lai final de son oeuvre.
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Date Issued: 1994
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15005
Subject Headings: Marie,--de France,--12th cent--Lais, Lays--History and criticism, Courtly love in literature, Marie,--de France,--12th cent--Criticism and interpretation
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Title: La dualite et la bipartition dans "Le Chevalier au Lion" et "Le Bel Inconnu".
Creator: Henderson, Camille., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
Abstract/Description: 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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Date Issued: 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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Title: La relation enigmatique du texte et des images dans "Nadja".
Creator: Sutton, Anne Claude., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
Abstract/Description: 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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Date Issued: 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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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: 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.
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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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Title: Le naturalisme fantastique chez Maupassant: Stylistique du "Horla".
Creator: Fois Assuied, Veronique C., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
Abstract/Description: Like most nineteenth-century French realists, Maupassant's interest in positivistic models of the human being, from Darwinian evolution to the new psychologies, led him to scientific readings, detailed documentations of "milieu," and contemporary subjects which he then treated with literary techniques drawn from both the realist Flaubert and the naturalist Zola. It is in extending these techniques to the fantastic, however, that Maupassant achieves an original and highly effective amalgam...
Show moreLike most nineteenth-century French realists, Maupassant's interest in positivistic models of the human being, from Darwinian evolution to the new psychologies, led him to scientific readings, detailed documentations of "milieu," and contemporary subjects which he then treated with literary techniques drawn from both the realist Flaubert and the naturalist Zola. It is in extending these techniques to the fantastic, however, that Maupassant achieves an original and highly effective amalgam best characterized as "Le Naturalisme fantastique."
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Date Issued: 2001
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12743
Subject Headings: Literature, Romance
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Title: L'Evolution des Femmes dans les Rougon-Macquart D'Emile Zola.
Creator: Konrad, Carolyn L., Munson, Marcella L., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Lingustics and Comparative Literature
Abstract/Description: This study examines the representation of women in Emile Zola’s famous series Les Rougon-Macquart. Critics have described Zola’s novels and their presentation of women as misogynist, yet this judgment obscures many of the textual details establishing the female protagonists’ relationships to industrial capitalism and the rapidly changing social landscape in late nineteenth century France. This study reexamines the narrative synthesis between Zola’s naturalist “objective” narrator and his...
Show moreThis study examines the representation of women in Emile Zola’s famous series Les Rougon-Macquart. Critics have described Zola’s novels and their presentation of women as misogynist, yet this judgment obscures many of the textual details establishing the female protagonists’ relationships to industrial capitalism and the rapidly changing social landscape in late nineteenth century France. This study reexamines the narrative synthesis between Zola’s naturalist “objective” narrator and his female protagonists. It also highlights one particular pairing that of Adelaide Fouque and her opportunist daughter-in-law, Felicité Puch: Whereas Adelaide, the biological matriarch of the family who figures in each of the twenty novels, does not have an active voice, Felicité as maternal protectrice of the family speaks frankly, even aggressively. Zola uses this pairing to link one generation to the next, a key structural element of his naturalist project. Ultimately, Zola’s representation of women is more complex than might otherwise be understood.
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Date Issued: 2016
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004726
Subject Headings: Zola, Émile, -- 1840-1902. -- Rougon-Macquart., Zola, Émile, -- 1840-1902 -- Criticism and interpretation., Zola, Émile, -- 1840-1902 -- Characters -- Women.
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Title: La Satire Comme Critique Sociale Chez Balzac.
Creator: Paramonova, Galina, Hokenson, Jan W., Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: 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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Date Issued: 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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