<p>Cette dissertation est ecrite dans Ie but d'etablir l'importance du role que joue Ie silence dans Ie theatre d'Albert Camus. Dans Ie premier chapitre, Ie silence est redefini selon l'usage camusien et est mis en comparaison avec l'usage de certains des contemporains de Camus. Dans Ie deuxieme et troisieme chapitres, les deux pieces les mieux connues de Camus, Le lVIalentendu et Caligula sont etudiees tour a tour, en considerant Ie role joue par Ie silence.</p> / Master of Arts (MA)

Dans cette these nous tenterons d'etablir ce qui constitue Ie sacre dans Ia pen see d'Albert Camus. Afin d'accomplir ceci nous etudierons La Peste. La Chute, et des recits choisis de L 'Exil et le royaume a la lumiere des idees mises en evidence dans ses essais. Nous ne tenons pas a donner une definition universelle du sacre, mais plutot a eciaircir ce que ce concept signifie dans les ecrits de Camus. / Master of Arts (MA)

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<p>This work explores the expression of female sexual desires in the pastourelle. As female sexuality remains to this day a "dark continent", it is necessary to turn to the Middle Ages, when the concept of love, and consequently of sexuality, that would dominate western civilization, was first established. The pastourelle was predominantly used by male poets, and thus Christine de Pizan's pastourelle provides a rare glimpse of the feminine perspective within the male discourse of the pastoral genre.</p> <p>The first chapter examines the pastourelle as a literary genre. In the first part of this chapter, questions as to its origins and definition are set forth. The second part deals with the subject and themes expressed in this genre. The final part concerns the existence of the pastoral and how it distinguishes itself from the pastourelle.</p> <p>In Chapters 2 and 3 I discuss Christine de Pizan's life and works as well as her feelings about the treatment of women in her society, and in particular about the tenuous position they held within the courtly system.</p> <p>The fourth chapter raises the question of sexual violence present in 18% of the pastourelles as well as the potential for rape in all of the pastourelles. This element of sexual violence, or potential rape, remains a point of contention. Some scholars have interpreted it in terms of sexual aggression against women, with the poem itself constituting an act of aggression. Others see it as pure erotic fantasy that remains unfulfilled, thus rendering the pastourelle a poetic joke, with no reference to actual historic sexual violence. In this chapter, I examine both points of view.</p> <p>The final chapter looks at how Christine de Pizan uses this literary genre in order to express her own ideas about female sexual desires and love. Unable to create an alternative to the male gender system, Christine's expression of sexual desires are paralleled by a feeling of anguish and anxiety. This chapter discusses the ambivalence in female sexual expression and its inevitable culmination in the desire to die.</p> <p>Is the equivalence between sexual desire and the desire for death a tragic inevitability when a woman tries to express herself within a male gender system? Is it a sign of rnasochism? The present study does not claim to answer these questions, but merely to suggest that an ambivalence in female sexual expression in medieval Iyric exists and should be further researched if we wish to have a new understanding of female sexuality.</p> / Master of Arts (MA)

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The author has undertaken a critical edition of a late seventeenth-century French novel whose contemporary popularity ended in virtual obscurity for two and a half centuries. It has recently received some attention in the context of the development of French literature and the novel genre. This for the most part has been in relation to the theoretical work published by the same author, Le Sieur Du Plaisir, a year following the appearance of the novel La Duchesse d 'Estramene. A facsimile printing of the novel with an Introduction by Rene Goderme, was published by Slatkine Reprints in 1978. An edition by Giorgetto Giorgi appeared, in Italian, in 1978. To our knowledge, the present thesis represents the only allocated edition of the novel in French. The Introduction provides contextual material regarding the political philosophical, socio-moral and literary context in which the novel was written and the period that it covers -- the recent past, in the courtly society of Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France. Certain stylistic characteristics are enlarged upon in the annotations to the text of the novel which seems to stand on the cusp between the heroic. baroque form of the genre, as seen in La PriJ1cesse de Cleves (1678), by Madame de Lafayette, and the more classic style and naturalistic approach that were to follow. / Master of Arts (MA)

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