Browsing French Language and Literature Senior Integrated Projects by Issue Date
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Collette: A Woman's Reputation and Style
(1963)The purpose of this paper is to examine the "image" of Colette and how it came to be created. -
Françoise Sagan and Her American Critics
(1963)The purpose of th1s study is to present a view of the works of Francoise Sagan as seen through the eyes of her Amer1can critics and to give an idea of the general feelings about the present and future success of her works. -
Observations on the French of Ste.-Famille, Ile D'Orleans Quebec, Canada
(Kalamazoo College., 1963-02-01)The paper studies the dialectical peculiarities of an area of the Canadian province of Québec. -
A Comparison of Mme de Lafayette and Stendhal in Relation to Their Literary Periods
(1964)The nature of this paper was determined by the awareness of my decided lack of knowledge in the area of the French novel. In order to reduce this deficiency, it was necessary to select a topic that would encompass the ... -
Racine et Mauriac
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An Antique Dealer's Diary: A Strange Little Theatre by Yvonne de Bremond d'Ars -- A Translation
(1965)Many people are under the impression that to translate a book is to "take the easy way out," in this case meaning out of the Senior Thesis requirement. I would like to challenge anyone to go through the experience and ... -
Some Aspects of the heroine in Nineteenth Century French Literature
(1965)I propose to study briefly a few aspects of the role of the N1neteenth century women in France as seen in the novels of certain important authors. Their heroines must necessarily be composed of two parts: the woman as ... -
The Concepts of the Desert in Five Works by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(1965-02)This paper attempts to depict Saint-Exupery's image of the desert as it is seen in reference to five of his major works: Courrier Sud (1929), Vol de Huit (1931), Terre des Hommes (1939), La Petit Prince (1943), and ... -
Collage: French Painters and Writers of the Nineteenth Century
(1966)In this paper the writer has attempted to bring together the study art and literature. Obviously the subject is nearly infinite--men even at the dawn of life expressed themselves in paintings on their walls and in ... -
The Dreyfus Affair as Contained in "Vérité" by Emile Zola, "L'ile des Pingouns" by Anatole France and "Jean Barois" by Roger Martin du Gard
(1966)Few causes celebres have had more profound and far reaching repercussions than the famous case of Alfred Dreyfus. During twelve years of active litigation from 1894 to 1906 and for many years thereafter the issues raised ... -
Strasburg from the Past to the Present
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A Comparison of Three Political Works by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(1966-04)This paper is an attempt to delineate and to compare the central ideas of the three works. It is not an attempt to compare Rousseau with his contemporaries in the field of political philosophy. Rather, I try to test the ... -
A Comparison of Five Historical Novels of the French Revolution
(1966-05)What is it that drives a writer to the French Revolut1on? Is it the excitement, the novelty, the horror of it that he feels compelled to capture? Or do the liv1ng personages themselves fascinate him and force him ... -
Diderot, Leader of the Philosophic Group of Eighteenth Century France: A Translation of Selected Letters from the Years 1764 and 1765
(1967)Shar1ng the belief that D1derot is too much neglected in America and particularly by historians, I hoped to share some part of Mr. Roth's masterpiece with those who read only English. I further hoped to draw from certain ... -
The Major Literary Activity in France During the Occupation
(1967)The purpose of this paper is to show how literary men responded to the Occupation, both the writers who opposed the Nazis and those who collaborated with them. I shall discuss the various literary forms that appeared ... -
The Theatre of the Absurd as Illustrated in Plays by Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, and Jean Genet
(1967)Although all three playwrights write in French and for the most part are based in Paris, all are aliens; two by birth, the third by condition. Samuel Beckett is Irish and Eugene Ionesco is Rumanian; Jean Genet feels ... -