As the central figures in a booming theater industry, actresses in nineteenth-century France were granted the resources and freedoms to forge a powerful if unsuspectingly subversive voice. Comediennes were adulated as ...

Born in North African countries and brought up in transcultural environments, Algerian painter Baya Mahiddine, Francophone author Helene Cixous, and Tunisian writer Hele Beji produce works that challenge national, cultural, ...

Aucune oeuvre n'a ete plus intimement motivee que la mienne---et l'on n'y voit pas loin si l'on n'y distingue pas cela. Le but de cette etude est de presenter, grace a des documents nouveaux, le role qu'a joue dans la vie ...

Il me semble que les premieres remarques qui viennent a l'esprit de beaucoup de ceux qui discutent ou etudient l'oeuvre de Jean Giraudoux sont des observations sur le style, des expressions rabachees par tous les critiques ...

French Caribbean along with other Third World intellectuals have examined from different perspectives not only the oppositions, but also the interconnections between the colonial subject and the colonized other. In their ...

Puisque notre premier chapitre qui porte sur l'esthetique romanesque de Giraudoux sert de veritable introduction a l'investigation de sa technique psychologique, nous nous bornerons ici a signaler la raison d'etre et, dans ...

"Divagation", which can be translated into English as wandering, rambling, ranting or even trespassing, is a literary "intergenre", closely tied to a norm and an interdiction. As an "intergenre", divagation appears in a ...

Benjamin Constant's Adolphe chronicles the unhappy love affair between the title character and his mistress, Ell enore. The aspect of the liaison which receives most of the narrator's attention is the conversations and ...

The subject of the investigation is the controversial figure of the legislator. The dissertation concerns two defining directions of political modernity: the project of autonomy and the emergence of economic freedom; and ...