Thesis (doctoral)--Université de Nancy 2, 1999. / Cover title. Includes bibliographical references (p. [294]-306).

Thesis (doctoral)--Université de Nancy 2, 1999. / Cover title. Includes bibliographical references (p. [294]-306).

Thesis (Ph.D.). / Written for the Département de langue et littérature françaises. Title from title page of PDF (viewed 2008/08/04). Includes bibliographical references.

Thèses (Ph.D.)--Université de Sherbrooke (Canada), 1997. / Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 19 juillet 2006). Publié aussi en version papier.

Texte remanié de: Thèse de doctorat--Göteborgs--Göteborgs Universitet, 2002.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1969. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thèse de doctorat : Langue et littérature françaises : Nancy 2 : 2002. / Bibliographie.

This master's thesis deals with the reification, or transformation into objects, of the female characters in Michel Butor's La Modification. It is our contention that the two female characters, Henriette and Cecile, function not as characters, but as objects: they are unable to take up subject positions, and they have the same roles as the other inanimate objects in Butor's work. The critical analysis is based in part on existentialist, psychoanalytic, and poststructuralist theories of subjectivity, as well as feminist rereadings of these theories. We have also used several critical and theoretical works on the object in the "Nouveau Roman", in the novels of Michel Butor, and, specifically, in La Modification. / The first chapter deals with the work of several feminist theoreticians, who claim that woman is objectified in patriarchal society because she has no access to subjectivity, be it through the means of action, of vision, or of language. In the second chapter we discuss critical writings on the treatment and role of the object in Butor's work, writings which claim that these objects have a specific role to contribute to the characterisation of the main character, and to allow this main character to take up a position as subject. In the third chapter we examine the link between these two critical fields. The female characters in La Modification are objectified because they are not able to assume subject positions, they have no access to subjectivity through action, vision, or language. In addition, the female characters have the same narrative role as the other objects in the novel.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1971. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

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