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- 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
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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.
Show less - 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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- Document (PDF)
- 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
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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.
Show less - 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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- 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
- 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
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- 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.
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- L' Epouse adultere dans les "Lais" de Marie de France.
- Creator
- Piguet, Therese E., Florida Atlantic University, Durling, Nancy Vine
- Abstract/Description
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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.
Show less - 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
- Format
- 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.
- Abstract/Description
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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.
Show less - 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
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- La relation enigmatique du texte et des images dans "Nadja".
- Creator
- Sutton, Anne Claude., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
- Abstract/Description
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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.
Show less - 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
- Format
- 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.
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- 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
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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."
Show less - Date Issued
- 2001
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12743
- Subject Headings
- Literature, Romance
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Des enfants-proscrits ont faim ! Secourez-Les!.
- Creator
- Vildrac, Pref. du Charles
- Abstract/Description
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This item is part of the Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements (PRISM) digital collection, a collaborative initiative between Florida Atlantic University and University of Central Florida in the Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials (PALMM).
- Date Issued
- 1933
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00002546
- Subject Headings
- Opposition a l’etranger
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- La guerre ou la paix.
- Creator
- Cot, Pierre, Lozeray, Henri, Guillion, Jean, Duclos, Jacques, Houphouet, Felix
- Abstract/Description
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This item is part of the Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements (PRISM) digital collection, a collaborative initiative between Florida Atlantic University and University of Central Florida in the Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials (PALMM).
- Date Issued
- 1947
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00002544
- Subject Headings
- Communism
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- La terre aux paysans: Project de loi pour la defense de la propriete paysanne.
- Creator
- Urvoy, Jacques, Parti Socialiste
- Abstract/Description
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This item is part of the Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements (PRISM) digital collection, a collaborative initiative between Florida Atlantic University and University of Central Florida in the Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials (PALMM).
- Date Issued
- 1946
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00002543
- Subject Headings
- France
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Si les femmes le veulent: Discoursa pronounce a la journee international des femmes (15 mars 1947).
- Creator
- Blum, Leon
- Abstract/Description
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This item is part of the Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements (PRISM) digital collection, a collaborative initiative between Florida Atlantic University and University of Central Florida in the Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials (PALMM).
- Date Issued
- 1947
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00002547
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Pourquoi M. David Rousset a-t-il invente les camps sovietiques? Une champagne de preparation a la guerre.
- Creator
- Daix, Pierre
- Abstract/Description
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This item is part of the Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements (PRISM) digital collection, a collaborative initiative between Florida Atlantic University and University of Central Florida in the Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials (PALMM).
- Date Issued
- 1949
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00002545
- Subject Headings
- France
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Programme du conseil national de la resistance (C.N.R.).
- Creator
- Conseil national de la Resistance
- Abstract/Description
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This item is part of the Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements (PRISM) digital collection, a collaborative initiative between Florida Atlantic University and University of Central Florida in the Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials (PALMM).
- Date Issued
- 1944
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00002542
- Subject Headings
- World war, 1939-1945
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- De Lenine a Staline.
- Creator
- Serge, Victor
- Abstract/Description
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This item is part of the Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements (PRISM) digital collection, a collaborative initiative between Florida Atlantic University and University of Central Florida in the Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials (PALMM).
- Date Issued
- 1937
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00002708
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Il faut que ça change!.
- Creator
- Thorez, Maurice
- Abstract/Description
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This item is part of the Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements (PRISM) digital collection, a collaborative initiative between Florida Atlantic University and University of Central Florida in the Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials (PALMM).
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00002437
- Subject Headings
- Parti communiste
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- La Yougoslavie sous la terreur de la clique tito.
- Creator
- Organe du bureau d'information des partis communistes et ouvriers
- Abstract/Description
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This item is part of the Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements (PRISM) digital collection, a collaborative initiative between Florida Atlantic University and University of Central Florida in the Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials (PALMM).
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00002419
- Subject Headings
- Yugoslavia
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Soma-esthethique et Philosophie.
- Creator
- Shusterman, Richard, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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This video is a lecture which took place at the School of Fine Art in Annecy, France.
- Date Issued
- 2010
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005246
- Subject Headings
- Human body (Philosophy), Aesthetics--Physiological aspects.
- Format
- Video file