Les enjeux du divertissement dans les Nouvelles françaises de Jean Regnault de Segrais

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dc.contributor.advisorCampangne, Hervé-Thomasen_US
dc.contributor.authorCassidy, Virginie Marie-Franceen_US
dc.contributor.departmentFrench Language and Literatureen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2007-09-28T14:56:51Z
dc.date.available2007-09-28T14:56:51Z
dc.date.issued2007-05-31en_US
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation concentrates on Jean Regnault de Segrais' Les Nouvelles françaises ou les divertissements de la princesse Aurélie, a collection of short stories which portrays six noblewomen entertaining one another through story-telling and other leisure activities. The book was allegedly composed at the request of Mlle de Montpensier, the patron of Segrais. My work evaluates the cultural, political and literary stakes of the notion of divertissement as a means of diversion and social amusement alike. I provide a systematic analysis of the different levels of divertissement inherent in the book in which games function not only on structural and thematic levels, but also in the author's very approach to writing. Drawing on a wide array of texts contemporary to the author, this study explores how the book manifests Montpensier's socio-cultural resistance to absolutist power while the role of Segrais as a secretary and his use of divertissement allow him to advance his underlying critique of the social framework of the era.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/7175
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dc.subject.pqcontrolledLiterature, Romanceen_US
dc.titleLes enjeux du divertissement dans les Nouvelles françaises de Jean Regnault de Segraisen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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