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
Mac Adam, Geoffrey (2006) The pursuit of presence : speed and the transformation of early-nineteenth-century French culture
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
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
Wadhera Priya (2005) Copy play : the discourse on art in Georges Perec's Un Cabinat d'mateur and its intertexts
2004 DISSERTATIONS
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
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
Sullivan, Karen (2002) Rousseau's aesthetics of feeling : time, place, and the arts "Julie ou La Nouvelle Héloïse"
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.
McNeill, Lydia (2001) The best lack all conviction : indecision as resistance to novelistic convention
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
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
Sarshar, Houman (2000) The anxiety of remenbrance : the shift from allegory to symbol in the poetry of Coleridge, Baudelaire, and Nima Yushij
1999 DISSERTATIONS
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
Johnson, Daniel Clarence (1998) Theories on music and writing : the lagacy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in French letters in the late eighteenth century
1997 DISSERTATIONS
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
Schulman, Peter Lawrence (1997) The sunday of fiction : the modern French eccentric from Raymond Queneau to Jean Echenoz
1996 DISSERTATIONS
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
