My dissertation investigates the role of aesthetic experimentation in the creation of a Caribbean idiom. This comparative study draws on contemporary narrative texts from Martinique, …
This dissertation presents and analyzes the letters that Françoise de Graffigny wrote to her long-time correspondent François-Antoine Devaux, concerning the highly successful production of her …
This dissertation explores literary representations of the Francophone Atlantic world between the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) and the first U.S. occupation of Haiti (1915-1934). The struggle …
Démasquer la femme au XVIIème siècle: remise en cause de la personne féminine dans les nouvelles historiques examines the unexpected reconceptualization of personhood in feminine …
"Errance: Wandering and Straying in 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Literature" examines the poetics and politics of errancy in six texts by writers …
This dissertation examines the femme fatale and her relation to the breakdown of masculine discourses in the Decadent novel. In considering texts by Octave Mirbeau, …
This dissertation explores the aesthetic and ethical treatment of nonhuman animals within a diverse range of nineteenth-century novelists. Drawing from contemporary work in Animal Studies …
This dissertation considers literature’s singular mode of bearing witness to – and struggle to come to terms with – historical violence by analyzing representations of …
L'école de la maladresse questions the concept of clumsiness as it emerged in eighteenth-century France and as it evolved from constituting the utmost social disgrace …
This dissertation investigates the relationship between learning how to speak and learning how to die, between the discovery of eloquence and the experience of death. …
My doctoral dissertation focuses on representations of the family as a patriarchal institution in the works of two female writers: French author Marie NDiaye and …
My dissertation entitled « Narcisse dis-joint: la création de moi(s) postmoderne(s) dans le roman contemporain français et francophone » builds on those previous discoveries about …
This dissertation interrogates the relationship between Enlightenment attitudes toward system in knowledge and the rise of the encyclopedic dictionary as a privileged material form for …
In Spectral Preoccupations: Reading through Post-War French Fiction I argue for considering the figure of the ghost beyond its thematic presence, and rather as a …
This dissertation studies global movements that occur structurally, thematically, syntactically, and semantically in postwar poetry through reading poets Jacqueline Risset (France), Anne Teyssiéras (France), Edouard …
This dissertation addresses the changing signification of the concept of nostalgia in the late nineteenth century, a period when it shifted from being a largely …
Abstract of “The Unruly Body or ‘the New Normal’: Renaissance Pathology and the Literary Imagination,” by Yuri Kondratiev, Ph.D, Brown University, May 2014 Conceived at …
Through a Glass Darkly: Secrecy in the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century French Novella explores secrecy's role in the development of the literary genre of the French …
In “Within Limits: Seeking Interiority in Seventeenth-Century French Fiction,” I argue for broadening critical understanding of the ways in which a character’s interiority can be …
