Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, 2006. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-01, Section: A, page: 0203. Adviser: Maryellen Bieder. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed Dec. 12, 2006)."

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, 2005. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-01, Section: A, page: 0202. Advisers: Sabrina Karpa-Wilson; Juan Carlos Conde. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed Dec. 12, 2006)."

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of French & Italian Studies, 2009. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 7, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-10, Section: A, page: 3876. Adviser: Eric MacPhail.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-11, Section: A, page: 4200. Adviser: Silvina Montrul. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 172-180) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, 2006. / "Title from dissertation home page (viewed July 3, 2007)." Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-08, Section: A, page: 3003. Adviser: Maryellen Bieder.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Theatre and Drama, 2006. / "Title from dissertation home page (viewed July 9, 2007)." Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-08, Section: A, page: 2820. Adviser: Roger W. Herzel.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-02, Section: A, page: 0624. Adviser: Andrea Goulet. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 320-337) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.

<p> Falling in love, for many individuals, begins with an inescapable, uncontrollable, transformative experience of intense emotions and intrusive thoughts; one phenomenon from the literature is the extreme love experience, limerence. Romantic love researchers have tended to lump extreme love phenomena into the limerence model viewed as pathology. Transpersonal psychology was chosen as the lens to examine an extreme occurrence of falling in love for its positive, transformational, and spiritual potential using a phenomenological approach. There were 25 U.S. born participants, age 30 and older, recruited from the internet who reported experiencing a very intense and very significant romantic love occurrence. Data from semi-structured interviews were thematically analyzed for emergent information, and then the data were compared to potential explanatory models including limerence, spiritual emergency, biopsychosocial, and passionate romantic love. The results revealed a unique experience unlike limerence and with limited correlations to the biopsychosocial model. The new phenomenon is called amigeist, characterized by immediate, intense soul-mate bonding, such as secure attachment with lifepartner potential. The larger themes were dynamic connection, intense emotions, astonishment, new behaviors, and passionate long-term relationships.</p>

This thesis explores the published work of Tierno Monénembo, Guinean author born in 1947. The main themes are space and narrative, and precisely how subjects creatively employ both. The thesis argues that Monénembo presents a reconfiguration of African subjecthood by centralising nomad subjects: characters who are wily débrouillards, ever on the move and ready to (re)invent both space and self. In a series of postcolonial rewritings, Monénembo reframes subjects beyond notions of race or victimhood. Their practices of invention are grounded in contexts rendered precarious and unstable by chains of violence and multiple losses, and the author represents these spaces in innovative language in several genres. Mobility, or its absence, determines the themes, characterisation, and language in each of Monénembo’s texts. It is addressed here via a number of contexts which position him within ongoing debates around historicisation, identity, and power in the postcolonial world. Chapter One looks at imperialism and the re-writing of history via Le Roi de Kahel and Peuls. In Chapter Two I explore dictatorship and the conflicting discourses which vie for space around it: the texts under examination are Les Crapauds-brousse and Les Écailles du ciel. In Chapter Three I discuss writing after genocide and other trauma. In comparing L’Aîné des orphelins to Cinéma and La Tribu des gonzesses I find common trends of performative storytelling which mark out Monénembo’s protagonists as self-inventing survivors. The final main chapter groups together four exile texts to assess the effects of rupture and loss on language and space. Reading Un Rêve utile, Un Attiéké pour Elgass, Pelourinho and Le Terroriste noir reveals the creative agency at work in Monénembo’s dislocated nomad subjects. A number of theoretical anchor points help to frame these studies and for these I draw on the work of Michel de Certeau, Achille Mbembe, and Patrice Nganang, among others. The thesis is concluded with a look at Monénembo in his own words as I draw together my predominant observations alongside his autobiographical comments.

Pendant les 70 premieres annees du 19e siecle La France s'interessa a la Russie, comme la langue liste de livres ecrits par des voyageurs et des diplomates franeais francais sur laRussie nous le montre. Cette liste est plus langue que celle qui montre les relations intellectuelles de la France avec aucun autre pays europeen. Un examen attentif revelera ce fait, que l'interet est dirige principalement vers la politique russe, vers les methodes de gouvernement, les institutions religieuses: les livres sont, pour la plupart, ou des impressions de voyage a travers les paysages pittoresques de la Russie, ou des traites politiques ou religieuses. Sauf quelques articles par H.Delaveau dans la "Revue des Deux Mondes" et une petite oeuvre insignlficantepar Charles de St. Julien sur Pouchkin et le movement intellectuel70 premieres annees. L'attitude de la France envers la Russiequi desirait explorer le seul pays de l'Europe qui, a cetteepoque avancee, rest&acirc;t encore un mystere. Le mobile qui poussaAnatole Leroy-Beaulieu a s'en aller voyager dans la Russie pourraitbien s'appliquer aux autres voyageurs.'Je connaissais le reste de l'Europe, j'etais attire versl'est par ce grand empire qui sur nos cartes ressemblait encorea une terra incognita. Cet argument est appuye par un examen des traductionsfrancaises des auteurs russes qui parurent pendant cette periode.(1) Vr. Gustave Lanson. ,Manuel bibliographique de la litterature francaise. Tom IV. Revolution et 19e siecle (1912) pp.938 et 1125 et seq.(2) Lettre de Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu a E .Halperip-Kaminsky, citee dans l'article de celui-ci intitule "La Litterature russeen France". Revue Internationale Scientifique, Litteraire et Artistique. 1897. (Vol: 4)(3) Vr. Gustave Lanson Manuel bibliographique. Tom IV,p. 1177 et seq.depuis 40 ans (1847), l'interet litteraire est absent pendant cesest plutot une attitude de curiosite que d'interet, une curiosite.