In the footsteps of Simone de Beauvoir and André Malraux, Christiane Rochefort develops a social critique on the alienation of the individual in society. The study of two of her novels, Les Petits Enfants du siècle (1961) and Les Stances à Sophie (1963), reveals that this critique is first a denunciation of the system and its mechanics. Thanks to the prevailing ideology of consumption, which permits the standardization of individuals by standardizing their needs, the state machinery can exercise a closer monitoring on the human masses. Personal freedom is also denied on the social and family levels: everyone's own image is sold as a merchandise; there is no real contact anymore (transcendence) between the individuals themselves, and individuals and objects; at the family level, alienation is linked to verbal compliance and to the absence of all authentic speech, free of clichés. Thus, relationships are altered. Just as for their individual happiness, now they are filtered through objects and have lost their humanness. The other side of this social criticism, the critique of the social classes, touches the questions of valorization and status linked to the individual's possessions and not to his heridity. In the first novel the valorization of the proletarian woman depends on her fecundity while the upper middle-class woman (la bourgeoise), in Les Stances is valorized according to aesthetic criterions. Emphasized also is the importance of the woman's fight to maintain her identity and her freedom: a rebellion which deals with her sexuality and brings the end of reciprocal relationships in the couple's dynamics. / Arts, Faculty of / French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies, Department of / Graduate

Lion in Summer & Other Beasts is an investigation into point of view, place and the fragment. Many of the characters are searching for a sense of home outside of their birthplace, in cities such as New York City, Charleston, Portland and Tel Aviv. Major themes include alienation, love and trauma.

This collection of poems is representative of the creative writing and literary studies completed during my time in Portland State University's Master of Fine Arts Program. Poetry workshops, seminars in prosody, syntax, and translation, and forays into the magic of rhetoric and defamiliarization in the novel have all contributed to the thinking and feeling shown in this work. Some themes that the collection circles around are: the alienating and sometimes ecstatic relationship between the identities of civilized human and human-as-animal, the processes of falling in and out of faith in a greater power and with belonging to a human community, non-binary and unconventional performances of gender and sexuality, psychological inquiry about the nature of the self, the cleaving of mind and body, and meditations on 21st Century youth.

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Loneliness – the feeling that manifests when one perceives one’s social needs are not being met by the quantity or especially the quality of one’s social relationships – is a common but typically short-lived and fairly harmless experience. However, recent research continues to uncover a variety of alarming health effects associated with longterm loneliness. The present study examines the psychological mechanisms underlying how persons scoring high in trait loneliness perceive their social environments. Evaluations of transient facial expression morphs are analyzed in R using dynamical systems methods. We hypothesize that, consistent with Cacioppo and Hawkley’s sociocognitive model, subjects scoring high in loneliness will exhibit hypervigilance in their evaluations of cold and neutral emotions and hypovigilance in their evaluations of warm emotions. Results partially support the socio-cognitive model but point to a relationship between loneliness and a global dampening in evaluations of emotions. Keywords: loneliness, perceived social isolation, social dynamics, emotion recognition. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2017. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection