This essay examines the structural and representational strategies employed by Michel Marc Bouchard in Lilies, or the Revival of a Romantic Drama to effect a transformation of the traditional images of homosexuality in the contemporary theatre. At the centre of the play is a love affair between two young men in the rural and oppressive environment of Roberval in 1912; a complex metatheatrical structure, incorporating numerous mises en abyme surrounds this nucleus and facilitates an exploration of problems which relate directly and indirectly to its expression of adolescent passion. Within this structure, Bouchard, like his characters, makes use of theatrical revival as a narrative technique in order to reconstruct present meaning out of the...
This paper seeks to explore the validity of the notion of « post-romanticism » when applie...
Les dramaturgies contemporaines répondent à l’exigence d’une écriture du temps au théâtre en renouve...
By the 1960s, many scholars have questioned the belief that the “Sexual Revolution” that took place ...
This thesis proposes to apply Queer theory as the framework for examining Michel Marc Bouchard's pla...
My dissertation reads the contemporary French novel from the viewpoint of the history of sexuality, ...
The dissertation focuses on French Romanticism as a space of experimentation for imagining alternati...
This dissertation examines homo/sexual representation in French and American literature and film fro...
Play occurs as a textual model throughout Baudelaire's poetic and critical writing. In its ambiguity...
The aim of the article is to show the evolution of classical melodrama, the complexity of the genre ...
The creation of Emma Bovary, the major character in Madame Bovary written by Gustave Flaubert, must ...
Reference to Flaubert in contemporary writers is not like a return to the author. It does not appear...
My study situates non-normative erotics, specifically frameworks of abjective lust for that which ha...
Constructions of gender and sexuality inform and structure inscriptions of narrative authority in tw...
In his book The Celluloid Closet Vito Russo argues: “It is an old stereotype that homosexuality has ...
With the androgyn, Theophile Gautier sets in Mademoiselle de Maupin a triple quest : an erotic quest...
This paper seeks to explore the validity of the notion of « post-romanticism » when applie...
Les dramaturgies contemporaines répondent à l’exigence d’une écriture du temps au théâtre en renouve...
By the 1960s, many scholars have questioned the belief that the “Sexual Revolution” that took place ...
This thesis proposes to apply Queer theory as the framework for examining Michel Marc Bouchard's pla...
My dissertation reads the contemporary French novel from the viewpoint of the history of sexuality, ...
The dissertation focuses on French Romanticism as a space of experimentation for imagining alternati...
This dissertation examines homo/sexual representation in French and American literature and film fro...
Play occurs as a textual model throughout Baudelaire's poetic and critical writing. In its ambiguity...
The aim of the article is to show the evolution of classical melodrama, the complexity of the genre ...
The creation of Emma Bovary, the major character in Madame Bovary written by Gustave Flaubert, must ...
Reference to Flaubert in contemporary writers is not like a return to the author. It does not appear...
My study situates non-normative erotics, specifically frameworks of abjective lust for that which ha...
Constructions of gender and sexuality inform and structure inscriptions of narrative authority in tw...
In his book The Celluloid Closet Vito Russo argues: “It is an old stereotype that homosexuality has ...
With the androgyn, Theophile Gautier sets in Mademoiselle de Maupin a triple quest : an erotic quest...
This paper seeks to explore the validity of the notion of « post-romanticism » when applie...
Les dramaturgies contemporaines répondent à l’exigence d’une écriture du temps au théâtre en renouve...
By the 1960s, many scholars have questioned the belief that the “Sexual Revolution” that took place ...