French

Completed Dissertations and Thesis

French at Kent has come 7th in the country in the most recent research assessment exercise (2008). This is a reflection of the outstanding international reputation of the Department’s research profile.

All successfuly completed thesis and dissertations are held by the Templeman Library and include:

Dr. Claire Lozier: De L'abject et du sublime. Georges Bataille, Jean Genet, Samuel Beckett (PhD, 2010)

Patricia Hodges: Images of Power; Questioning Feminism and Femininity in the Work of Marguerite Duras (MA, 2010)

Dr Véronique Govet: Le métissage chez Marguerite Duras et Hanif Kureishi: Réhabilitation du concept de différence (PhD and Doctorat, 2009)

Louisa Mellor : Disordered Identities and Multiplicity: Assia Djebar’s Paths Through the Postcolonial in ‘L’Amour, la Fantasia’, ‘Vaste est la Prison’, and ‘Oran, Langue Morte’ (MA, 2007)

Carine Fréville: A contre-courant: Exploration de l’identité, de la voix et du désir dans l’autobiographie de Violette Leduc (MA, 2007)

Dr Linda Barnes: Through the Filter of Ageing: Elsa Triolet, Mariama Bâ and Maryse Condé (PhD, 2006)

Dr Verity Irvine: The ‘Oriental’ Ambassador in 17th Century French Comedy (PhD, 2005)

Dr Michael Jamin: Sociolinguistic Variation in the Paris Suburbs (PhD, 2005)

Dr Stéphanie Boibessot: Portraits d’écrivaines en métissage de soi: la quête de l’identité chez Colette, Leduc et Djebar (PhD and Doctorat, 2004)

Suzie Taylor: Conflicting Identities: An Exploration of Family, Collective and Narratorial Identity in the Novels of Patrick Modiano (MA, 2004)

Dr Loïc Guyon: Les martyrs de la veuve. Romantisme et peine de mort, 1820-1848 (PhD and Doctorat, 2002)

Linda Barnes: Colette’s Rite of Passage (MA, 2002)

Dr Mark Darlow: ‘Le progrès des arts’: Nicolas-Etienne Framery’s Contribution to Late Eighteenth-century Musical and Theatrical Life in France (PhD, 2001)

Verity Irvine: Molière and the Turks (MA, 2001)

Alexander Honey: L’éclipse: approche herméneutique du ‘Horla’ de Guy de Maupassant (MA, 2000)

Dr Fabiennne Reymondet: Le Prosaïsme dans l’œuvre poétique de Jacques Réda (PhD, 1999)

Mark Darlow: Les versions infidèles du ‘Devin du Village’: Lumières sur les théories musicales de Jean-Jacques Rousseau (MA, 1998)

Dr Jill Fell: Alfred Jarry, An Imagination in Revolt (PhD, 1997)

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