The cinematic adaptation of West African Francophone literature offers an impetus to focus on African culture. This study begins with an overview of the development of West African Francophone literature followed by a discussion of cinema from this region. Furthermore, it examines the techniques of how West African Francophone directors adapt the novel or short story to the screen. To appreciate this craft, a detailed analysis of both the characteristics and procedures of adaptation is offered. / The study is divided into five parts. The Introduction is followed by three chapters. Each chapter presents the filmmaker's work(s) along with its literary source. Chapter One analyzes three films by Ousmane Sembene: La Noire de ..., Le Mandat, and Xala. Chapter Two examines Daniel Kamwa's Boubou-Cravate. Chapter Three investigates films directed by Momar Thiam: Sarzan, La Malle de Maka-Koli, and Karim. The final section comprises the conclusion. / Each film and its literary source are analyzed according to its point of view, themes and tone taking into account various cinematographic techniques used by the filmmaker who translates the literary text to the screen. Thus, we will discover not only which approach to adaptation (literal or creative) the director employed but also what impact the oral tradition had on the filmmaker's interpretation of the literary work thereby ascertaining how he develops a new artistic creation. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-08, Section: A, page: 2943. / Major Professor: Victor Carrabino. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1991.

This study examined the similarities and differences in the syntactic style of the twentieth-century Spanish author Alejandro Casona between subcategories of his dramatic works (fantastic vs. historical plays), and between those plays written specifically for children and those written for adults. / Average word length and number of words per sentence, number of different words, and frequency of various syntactic structures, the latter analyzed using an adapted Chomskian-based transformational-generative model, were examined in twenty 1200$\sp+$ word samples drawn from Pinocho y Blancaflor (1940), A Belen, pastores (1951), Prohibido suicidarse en primavera (1937), Los arboles mueren de pie (1949), Sinfonia inacabada (1939), and El caballero de las espuelas de oro (1964). / Using MaxSPITBOL, computer programs were designed that aided in finding examples of these structures. Results were based on the manually-adjusted output from these programs. / Casona's syntactic style was found to be consistent regardless of type of play (fantastic or historical) or intended audience (children or adults). This consistency suggests that there are identifiable features of Casona's style for the types of works analyzed, and perhaps, by extension, the style of other authors. This is important since some stylistic studies are based on the assumption that an author has an identifiable style. / Additionally, it appears that the language in these works approximates that of speech. This finding, and the fact that there are a wide variety of structures in the works, suggest their appropriateness as language learning materials. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-03, Section: A, page: 0907. / Major Professor: James L. Wyatt. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1995.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Comparative Literature, 2006. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-03, Section: A, page: 0756. Adviser: Joan Hawkins. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed March 16, 2007)."

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