Columbia University Dissertations: Dissertations

French and Romance Philology: Dissertations

2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003 - 2002 - 2001 - 2000 - 1999 - 1998 - 1997 - 1996 - 1995 - 1993

2007 DISSERTATIONS

Leonard, Daniel Harrison (2007) Painted chimeras, animated grottoes and the feigned world : fable and tableau in Descartes' philosophy and physics

2006 DISSERTATIONS

Allen, Leigh (2006) Valère Novarina's ""Lession in Obscurity"

Balasingham, Anjali (2006) The representation of pregnancy in eighteenth-century French literature

Mac Adam, Geoffrey (2006) The pursuit of presence : speed and the transformation of early-nineteenth-century French culture

Muresan, Maria (2006) Time and private languages : Jacques Roubaud and his interlocutors

Thom, Lisa (2006) Proust's layers of art : the framed description in the structure of a la recherche du temps perdu

Uhden, Raina (2006) Décomposer, c'est créer : alchemy and art in selected works of Honoré de Balzac

2005 DISSERTATIONS

Adam, Tracy (2005) Julien Gracq and the art of anachronism : thematic, intertextual and aesthetic parallels with the Fin de siécle

Curren, Erin (2005) A novel reading of gesture : Nathalie Sarraute's unspoken understanding/

Hakim, Zeina (2005) Faire vrai : memoires et roman de Courtilz de Sandras a Marivaux

He, Yongyan (2005) Writing the labyrinth of the self : Marguerite Duras and autobiography

James, Alison (2005) "Le Hasard Fait Aussi Partie De La Régle" : chance, constraints and narrative in the works of Georges Perec

Parker, Thomas (2005) Pascal and the divided will : rhetoric, volition, and emotions in the work of Pascal

Roustang-Stoller, Eve-Alice (2005) Love hangues in sicteenth-century French fictions

Wadhera Priya (2005) Copy play : the discourse on art in Georges Perec's Un Cabinat d'mateur and its intertexts

2004 DISSERTATIONS

Amara, Nadia (2004) Maurice Blanchot, 1931-1941 : a plural dissidence

Blix, Göran (2004) The discourse of resurection in French romanticism : Pompeii, archeology, and the reconstructive gaze

Popplewell, Daniel (2004) French AIDS writing and the culture of redemption : a study of the literary response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in France

2003 DISSERTATIONS

Augustyn, Joanna (2003) Defining the fictional ruin : Victor Hugo's Le Rhin and the literary evolution of a pictorial theme

Redien-Collot, Renaud (2003) "Authorship and private correspondence : the letters of Mme de Graffigny, Mlle de Lespinasse, and Mme Roland"

Silberstein, Karen (2003) "Live Currency" : prostitution and parody in the works of Pierre Klossowski

2002 DISSERTATIONS

Azagury, Yaëlle (2002) In the "I" of the beholder : literary portraiture and the paradoxes of identity in Marcel Proust's A la Recherche du Temps Perdu

Belenky, Masha (2002) The poetics of jealousy in nineteenth-century French texts

Cornette, Jérôme (2002) Proust and the uses of classicism

Dogramaci, Ihsan (2002) Two Arguments for global anti-realism

GLover, Kaiama (2002) Spiralisme and Antillanité : construction of the real and the ideal in later twentieth century fiction of the French-speaking Caribbean

Gupton Akhavein, Karena (2002) "Reman say in aquesta terra." The function of translatio in the Occitan vita of Saint Enimie

Rosser, Miriam (2002) Feminine textualities of loss, morning, and compensation : locating the gendered postcolonial subject at "home" and in relation to the "nation" ; a study of five Francophone novels by Simone Schwarz-Bart, Maryse Condé, Werewere Liking, Assia Djebar and Ca

Sullivan, Karen (2002) Rousseau's aesthetics of feeling : time, place, and the arts "Julie ou La Nouvelle Héloïse"

Taormina, Michael (2002) A poetics of eloquence : the rhetoric of French Baroque poetry, 1600-1635

2001 DISSERTATIONS

Chase, Dana (2001) Mother nature and the nature of woman : Rousseau's Nouvelle Héloïse and the novels of Sophie Cottin and Adélaïde de Souza

Deimling, Katherine (2001) Teaching vice : mentors and students in the eighteen-century French nove Katherine Elliott Deimling.

Duke, Polly (2001) Sacred fire : the paradoc within Balzac's poiēsis

Gaultier, Véronique (2001) Ekphrasis in the novels of Claude Simon

Han, Patricia (2001) Reading irony in literature : Baudelaire's Petits poèmes en prose

Holst-Knudsen, Heidi (2001) Eschewing ending : Gérard de Nerval and the poetics of nonclosure

McNeill, Lydia (2001) The best lack all conviction : indecision as resistance to novelistic convention

Norgaisse, Jean (2001) "Time and space in prévost's literary universe"

Turnovsky, Geoffrey (2001) Modern authorship and the rise of the "Literary Market" : evolution of the literary field in Fance 12750-1789

2000 DISSERTATIONS

Abrams, Barbara (2000) Enlightened insanity in the age of reason : study of marginality in selected works of Denis Diderot

Almquist, Katherine (2000) The concept of probable opinion in rhetoric and the law from Montaigne to Pascal

Bloom, Sam W. (2000) Popular myths and Proustian models : Jews in French literature of the Belle Epoque

Desroches, Vincent (2000) L'espace repaille'

Gordon, Terri J. (2000) The aestetics of the Demi-Nu : modernist representations of the dancer in Paris and Berlin for the Fin de Siècle to the Nazi period

Kelly, Christine (2000) Political face-à-face in the interwar novel : the case of Louis Aragon and Robert Brasillach

Lindenman, Catherine (2000) The origins of Flaubert's aesthetics : a psychoanalytic perspective

Morrissey, Jennifer (2000) Marguerite de Navarre and the notion of selfhood

Sarshar, Houman (2000) The anxiety of remenbrance : the shift from allegory to symbol in the poetry of Coleridge, Baudelaire, and Nima Yushij

Sasson, Sarah (2000) Literary bias : the Jewish Parvenu in nineteenth-century texts

Van Belle, Greet (2000) The virile fallacy : Proustian readers caught in the act--of reading

1999 DISSERTATIONS

Kelley, Paul (1999) Stories for nothing : Samuel Beckett's narrative poetics

Milne, Anna-Louise (1999) Jean Paulhan's commonplace the genealogy of a concept

Pilgrim, Charlotte (1999) Revisionist writing of courtly discourse in the lyric works of Christine de Pizan, with a special focus on Cent Balades d'Amant et de Dame

Raynard, Sophie (1999) Preciosity and representation of the feminine in fairy tales from Charles Perrault to Mmme Leprince de Beaumont

1998 DISSERTATIONS

Aurora, Vincent (1998) Michel Leiris' Failles : immobile in mobili

Ippolito, Christophe (1998) Reading the implicit : narrative memory in Flaubert's works

Johnson, Daniel Clarence (1998) Theories on music and writing : the lagacy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in French letters in the late eighteenth century

Wiener, Chester (1998) Montaigne writing the limits of literature

1997 DISSERTATIONS

Cohen, Mark Andrew (1997) La Bruyere and humanism : classicism as critique

Hamon, Lana Elizabeth (1997) Romancing the land : America in contemporary French literature

Jaron, Steven (1997) French modernism and the emergence of Jewish consciousness in the writing of Edmond Jabés

Kittredge, Annette (1997) Proust de la description à l'allégorie : en appendice la transcription du Récit de Cricquebec

Rubino, Nancy Ignazia (1997) Androgyny and modernity in nineteenth-century French literature

Schulman, Peter Lawrence (1997) The sunday of fiction : the modern French eccentric from Raymond Queneau to Jean Echenoz

1996 DISSERTATIONS

Hiner, Susan Elizabeth (1996) Seduction and resitance in the novels of Flaubert

1995 DISSERTATIONS

Chabert, Elizabeth Allen (1995) Transforming impact : the shock experience in Dada and surrealist poetry

1993 DISSERTATIONS

Morgan Cheryl Ainley (1993) Writing women in(to) the July Monarchy press : fashion, feminism, and the feuilleton

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