Browsing University of Galway Theses by Subject "French"
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Exploring temporality in first-person illness narratives (France, 1910-2017)
(NUI Galway, 2023-06-21)This thesis considers how first-person written accounts might provide an understanding of the lived experience of illness in France by exploring how temporality is evoked and expressed in texts drawn from a French ... -
Framing open space-time in the films of Jean Renoir: society, ideology, technology
(2016-02-01)In the films of Jean Renoir (1894-1979), class strata clash in public and private spheres, alternately eroding and bolstering ideological values, and implementing traumatic social upheaval on a local, national, or even ... -
From phantasmagoria to mundanity: the fetishization of the automobile in 20th-century French representations
(2015-01-30)The automobile is an object that has been systematically consumed to become part of the fabric of society, hence its impact and its perception make the car a particularly precise means of studying cultural values. As it ... -
(Im)Possibility of Utopia: Aldous Huxley and Michel Houellebecq
(NUI Galway, 2023-08-17)This thesis examines the connections between ambivalence and Utopianism through the writings of Aldous Huxley and Michel Houellebecq. By conducting a comprehensive analysis of the authors’ seminal works, this study ... -
Performing the Pied-Noir family: Weaving narratives of memory and identity
(2014-03-10)Although the Algerian war (1954-1962) is now fifty years past, it remains a contentious issue in France. In the aftermath of this particularly violent conflict, the French public was encouraged to forget the hostilities ... -
Pragmatic utopia and Romantic science: Colonial identities and Saint-Simonian influences in the writings of Thomas Ismaÿl Urbain (1812-1884) and Henri Duveyrier (1840-1892)
(2013-12-18)In the nineteenth century, the Southern Mediterranean was a region of special significance for the Western imagination. This was particularly true for the French following the Napoleonic expedition to Egypt of 1798-1801 ... -
Reconstructive performances of memory and trauma in life writing by daughters of Harkis
(NUI Galway, 2018-12-14)This study presents a close reading and comparative analysis of a corpus of texts by daughters of harkis – Algerian men who served as auxiliary soldiers in the French army during the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962) ... -
Roddy Doyle en version française: que devient l'identité irlandaise en traduction?
(NUI Galway, 2019-01-25)La notion de l’identité en traduction est incontestablement épineuse : la langue étant le premier véhicule identitaire en littérature, comment ne rien perdre avec la disparition de la langue source et est-il possible de ...