Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references.

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This Master's Thesis offers a study of the works of Swiss travel narratives' writer Nicolas Bouvier (1929-1998). Bouvier develops a poetics that defines the practical rules of his travels as well as the aesthetic rules of his writing. / These rules form a whole that can be named poetics of transparency and divided into two complementary poles, each linked to themes and images of disappearance or apparition. Both are oriented towards one single goal: to make the world visible for the reader. Seemingly contradictory, the two movements of Bouvier's project are connected by a polyphonic worldview, mirrored in narratives by the interweaving of multiple voices. / Bouvier's work is a model of the travel narrative's evolution in the XXth century. Compared to travel writings of the classical and romantic periods, it appears as a reversed interpretation of the genre's codes, leading it to explore the possibilities of grasping a world poetic rather than objective.

Nicolas Poussin's landscapes, The Four Seasons, 1660-1664, have been the subject of extensive analysis because of their enigmatic character and the modulation in Poussin's style in his last years. The meaning of these representations has, however, remained cryptic and, to some extent, neglected. / This thesis attempts to make a contribution toward unravelling the mystery of The Four Seasons. These profound works reflect Poussin's religious persuasion, knowledge of which is essential to an understanding of them. Poussin's religious convictions, however, are difficult to discern with any precision; for, although he died a Catholic, he was closely associated with the progressive thinking that influenced religious belief in the Baroque age, much of which was rejected by the Church of Rome. / Nevertheless, Poussin was undoubtedly a devout Christian, inspired particularly by the early Christian Fathers and Stoics. It is in nature, above all, though, that he perceived God's presence and message which he strove to capture in his "altarpiece" to the seasons.

Thesis (D.M.A.)--University of Rochester, 1991.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Zürich.

Inaug.-diss.--Göttingen. / Lebenslauf. "Literatur": p. [53]-55.

Diss. : Philosophische Fakultät : Aachen : 1977-1978. - Bibliogr. p. 152-168. Index. -

Thèse--Lettres--Paris, 1904. / En appendice, choix de textes de Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, suivis d'une lettre de Marie-Louise Sophie de Condorcet. Bibliogr. pp.XI-XXXI. Index.

Thèse--Sciences politiques et économiques--Poitiers, 1915. / Bibliogr. p. V-VI.