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La guerre dans l'espace littéraire français de 1935 à 1945

Haderbache, Anne (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2008)

In this Master Thesis, my goal was to analyze a few war representations in 20th Century French literature and its complex functions. Therefore I have chosen three different genres, i.e. the historical novel, poetry and the ...
Fatality in Cocteau's La machine infernale

Davies, Ellen (Dissertation, Bachelor of Arts with Honours, 1998)

Cocteau personifies the gods, "les dieux infernaux", implying they are capricious beings with no feeling whatsoever of humanity and compassion. The importance of this concept to an understanding of the play is emphasised ...
'Je pense, donc je suis les traces' : a literary and historical analysis of the enlightenment, modernity and detective fiction in French

Caswell, Erin Hubbard (Dissertation, Bachelor of Arts with Honours, 2006)
Indochine, L’Autre : De L’Identité Culturelle Dans L’Oeuvre Littéraire De Marguerite Duras

Parvaiz, Sarah (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)

Marguerite Duras was born in Indochina in 1914 and died in Paris in 1996. Between these two polarities of her life all the major themes of her work find their place. Duras inscribed the condition of one who could never ...
Fathoming the depths: a critical examination of the characters and their world in Henri Bosco's L'Ane Culotte

Rendall, Rosamund Mary (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2010)

My thesis explores the nature of the fictional world of L’Ane Culotte and examines how the two main characters, Constantin and Cyprien, succeed or fail in their endeavours as a result of their decisions, and their actions. ...