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21	Claude Cahun: La Visibilite Comme Resistance stark, frankie 01 January 2019 (has links) Claude Cahun was an artist and a leader who subverted social binaries by employing a non-determinable style. This intentional ambiguity is omnipresent in all of Cahun’s works, regardless of their style. To demonstrate this commonality, I will analyze her work of theatre, Heroines, five of Cahun’s self-portraits and her autobiography, Aveux Non Avenus. Although Cahun’s artistic mediums are very different respectively, all three of these works use a sense of artistic ambiguity to resist social binaries. Such techniques of indeterminacy include subversive rewritings of famous characters and self-portraits that use motifs such as masks and masquerade to subvert the gaze of the spectator. Additionally, her photomontages include a fleeing gaze, an obstructed gaze, and a gaze that confronts itself. In this thesis, I affirm that Cahun's methods are aligned with queer theory because the way that Cahun uses a queer identity in her works creates a form of political and social resistance against heteronormativity and homophobia. Therefore, I will show all of the ways that Cahun has used visibility as a Jewish gender neutral lesbian for social resistance. Queer theory indeterminacy Cahun subverting French and Francophone Literature French Linguistics
22	Understanding the Body-Mind Unification to Promote Foreign Language Learning as a Somatic Experience Sadoff, Annabelle 01 January 2019 (has links) This paper stems from my positive kinesthetic learning experience and aims to delve deeper into the process of learning a foreign language through understanding the body-mind connection and its benefits. Divided into five chapters, this paper targets foreign language teachers and is meant to change the ways of thinking of traditional educators. It invites both educators and learners to exploit the body-mind unification, hoping to turn foreign language learning into a somatic, first-person experience rather than the more common rote method of learning from a third-person perspective. Somatics French Dance Education Curriculum and Instruction Dance French Linguistics
23	This is Home: Reflexiones Sobre Una Obra de Danza Basada en Historias Personales de Inmigración Nagler, Michelle 01 January 2015 (has links) This is home. es una obra de danza exploratoria y abstracta que investiga la combinación de danza con historias y temas de inmigración. Por selecciones entretejidas de historias personales grabadas de inmigrantes hispanohablantes y francófonos, la danza desenreda niveles de complejidad. Motivos de movimiento que recurren incluyen la navegación completa de la vulnerabilidad absoluta, manejar por lo desconocido, lo desfamiliar, la desorientación, la confrontación, relaciones ambientales entre grupo e individual, el descubrimiento de sí mismo, el éxito o fracaso en comunicar y la presencia o falta del apoyo y la camaradería. Dado que la narración es abstracta, deja que el espectador determine el mensaje final. El departamento de danza de Scripps College tiene un vídeo de las representaciones del 17 y 18 de abril 2015. This is home. is an exploratory abstract dance work that investigates the merging of dance with stories and themes of immigration. By way of interwoven selections from recorded personal histories of Spanish and French-speaking immigrants, the piece unravels layers of complexity. Recurring movement motifs include the navigation of complete and utter vulnerability, steering through the unknown, unfamiliarity, disorientation, confrontation, environmental relationships between group and individual, self-discovery, success or failure in communication, and the presence or absence of support and camaraderie. Because the narrative is abstract, the ultimate message is left to the viewer’s interpretation. A digital recording of the piece as performed on April 17-18, 2015 is on file in the Scripps College Dance Department. Immigration Dance Cultural Exchange Choreography Inmigración Danza Idioma Lengua Language Coreografía Dance French Linguistics Spanish Linguistics
24	La fonction narrative du regard dans trois romans de Zola Beck, Milka 09 1900 (has links) <p>[missing page 1]</p> / Dans notre étude, nous nous concentrons sur le jeu des regards masculin et féminin, c'est-à-dire la relation regardant/regardée, pour en étudier la fonction narrative. C'est avant tout au jeu des regards masculin et féminin que nous nous intéressons, car il nous semble que dans les trois romans étudiés, La Curée (1871), Nana (1880) et L'Euvre (1886), Zola nous raconte la difficulté de la femme à se libérer et à maîtriser son destin. Pour Zola, non seulement le regard, mais aussi les objets relatifs à l'optique jouent un rôle prépondérant dans la création de son oeuvre romanesque. Au cours de notre analyse du jeu des regards masculin et féminin, nous aborderons au fur et à mesure le pouvoir d'objets tels que le miroir, le masque, le binocle ainsi que le vêtement. En effet, ceux-ci contribuent à la relation du regardant/regardée en ce qu'ils interviennent dans la perception psychologique des personnages. De notre étude nous concluons que dans La Curée le regard masculin réifie la femme; dans Nana, l'homme porte essentiellement sur la femme un regard scopophiliaque qui engendre un désir inhérent de regarder, soumettre et tirer du plaisir de son objet. En d'autres termes, le regard masculin réduit la femme à un objet de désir. Enfin, dans L'Euvre, il s'agit du regard d'un artiste qui réduit la femme à un objet d'art afin d'épanouir sa création artistique. / Master of Arts (MA) French French Linguistics
25	L'inscription idéologique dans le roman naturaliste: l'exemple de Zola Sauvé, Rachel January 1992 (has links) This work explores different means of locating the ideological discourse in the realist novel. Ideology is considered here in its broadest meaning, that is to say a set of beliefs shared by a social group as common knowledge. In the process of fiction writing, the author and his/her narrator produce, parallel to the fiction, an ideology-bearing discourse. The first chapter situates this function of the narrator in relation to other functions and within the limits of the narrative. Parameters for the collection of ideological discourse in the realist novel are introduced in the second chapter of the first part. These parameters are set according to syntactic and grammatical criteria: changes in verb tenses, use of deictics, passages in the style indirect libre, choice of terms in similes and metaphors. In the second part of the study, the parameters are applied to eleven of Zola's novels, written between 1868 and 1899. First the ideological discourse is collected and divided into themes; it is then demonstrated that the discourse relating to women displays a number of types (of women) that can be compared with those considered in structuralist studies of the same texts. In a fourth chapter, a corpus of similes and metaphors relating characters to animals is analyzed; it shows that recurrence of this type of presuppositional figures can constitute the prominent though underlying message in the discourse. Zola's thought as a novelist still seems ambiguous to his critics. Was he on the fringe of the doxa of his times, or was he an opportunist petit-bourgeois? The present study does not claim to answer this question, but merely to suggest a few paths that could lead to a better understanding of this writer's ideology. / Master of Arts (MA) French French Linguistics
26	L'Assommoir et Madame Bovary: Echos et parallèles Van, Holst Arthur Richard 04 1900 (has links) <p>L'objet de cette étude est d'approfondir et de nuancer les comparaisons qui ont été établies entre L'Assommoir d'Émile Zola et Madame Bovary de Gustave Flaubert. Nous examinerons tout d'abord l'emploi analogue de trois techniques narratives: le tableau, qui remplit plusieurs fonctions dans chaque roman; l'agencement de l'intrigue, grâce auquel on distingue dans la carriêre de chacune des héroïnes deux structures semblables; et le style indirect libre, qui permet aux romanciers d'intégrer dans la narration des propos de leurs personnages. Ensui te nous passerons à une analyse thématique, qui nous permettra de voir les diverses fonctions de la nature et du corps. Enfin, nous examinerons les rapports entre les personnages à l'intérieur de chaque roman aussi bien que les liens intertextuels entredivers personnages. Ainsi, nous pourrons préciser ce qui rattache les deux ouvrages et ce qui les différencie.</p> / Master of Arts (MA) French French Linguistics
27	Textual Analysis of Two Translated Transcripts: 2012 Presidential Debate and a Speech Presented by Cyrille de Lasteyrie Witty, Laryssa M 07 November 2014 (has links) (PDF) Delia Chiaro (2010) describes humor in two broad categories: referential and verbal. The former focuses on the meaning of a story or event and the humor embedded within. In the case of the latter, idiosyncratic features such as word play displays humorous undertones. This Master’s thesis examines oral text transformation to another language via transcription. The transcripts themselves consist of 10 minutes of the 2012 Presidential debate between François Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy and 10 minutes of a monologue presented by French animator Cyrille de Lasteyrie. Both transcripts are linked by the commonality of humor and exhibit the two categories previously outlined. Additional attention will be given to the translation challenges that arose such as: transferring the overall meaning of each idea, maintaining as much of the humor within the text as possible and conveying each speaker’s style. This study aims to provide future translators guidance in their translation endeavors by pinpointing scholarly research and discussing the various translator techniques implemented in overcoming challenges such as metaphors and collocations. Translation Humor Transcript Presidential Debate Textual Analysis Arts and Humanities French Linguistics
28	There’s an App for That: Foreign Language Learning Through Mobile- and Social Media-Based Video Games Hoy, Trenton Edward 01 May 2011 (has links) There is no doubt that the video game industry is undergoing a major upheaval, yet in spite of the recent reconceptualization of video games, educational games as a whole remain the pariah of the industry. Very little has been done in the wake of recent social and industry trends to adapt instruction of academic subjects, especially foreign language, for delivery through video games. Prior studies discussing the potential of games developed specifically for language learning have focused primarily on general principles and have offered no recommendations for platform, genre, or other aspects of design. Through an online survey as well as qualitative analysis of gaming forum discussions and student evaluations of an existing educational language game, this study goes straight to the learners and players themselves in order to determine the opinions and behavioral intentions of potential customers. By synthesizing these insights into consumer demand with theory and industry trends, this study argues that mobile or casual games that are intrinsically social and communicative hold the most potential for success, both in academia and in the industry. foreign language pedagogy video games CALL second language acquisition educational games Applied Linguistics First and Second Language Acquisition French Linguistics Instructional Media Design
29	Good Game Blake, Greyory 01 January 2018 (has links) This thesis and its corresponding art installation, Lessons from Ziggy, attempts to deconstruct the variables prevalent within several complex systems, analyze their transformations, and propose a methodology for reasserting the soap box within the display pedestal. In this text, there are several key and specific examples of the transformation of various signifiers (i.e. media-bred fear’s transformation into a political tactic of surveillance, contemporary freneticism’s transformation into complacency, and community’s transformation into nationalism as a state weapon). In this essay, all of these concepts are contextualized within the exponential growth of new technologies. That is to say, all of these semiotic developments must be framed within the post-Internet sphere. platform capitalism surveillance video games social media the dromosphere Ziggy Advertising and Promotion Management American Film Studies American Literature American Material Culture American Popular Culture Art Practice Audio Arts and Acoustics Book and Paper Business Analytics Business and Corporate Communications Business Intelligence Contemporary Art Cultural History Digital Humanities Diplomatic History Ethics and Political Philosophy Fiction French and Francophone Literature French Linguistics Game Design Graphic Design Illustration Industrial and Product Design Interdisciplinary Arts and Media Labor History Management Information Systems Marketing Nonfiction Other American Studies Other Business Other Film and Media Studies Philosophy of Mind Photography Poetry Political History Public History Sculpture Social History Technology and Innovation Television Theory and Criticism Visual Studies

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