Recent MA thesis topics in French

These recently completed thesis topics illustrate the range of postgraduate research undertaken in French.

Recent MA thesis topics

Date	Author	Title	Supervisors
In progress	Rowan Steuart Fraser	La constitution esthétique du climat dans trois romans de Marguerite Duras	Professor Raylene Ramsay
In progress	Karen Lavie	THE ACT OF BEING – a study of the nature of self in three French and Francophone autobiographical novels	Professor Raylene Ramsay
2012	Uma Ravi	Theological Exegesis of Christine de Pizan's Allegories	Associate Professor Tracy Adams
2012	Sophie Patrick	Exposing the Double Bind in the Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles	Associate Professor Tracy Adams
2008	Fiona Langdon	Alienation in the writing of Maryse Condé and Assia Djebar	Dr Trudy Agar
2006	Andrew McCully	Zen and Marx in the Work of Nicolas Kurtovitc	Professor Raylene Ramsay
2006	Lorna Miskelly	La Transformation du Maître de Kone: "traduction" d'une histoire kanak en récit français	Professor Raylene Ramsay
2006	Romy Hume	Confronting Suicide. A Comparative Study of two literary approaches by Albert Camus and Hermann Hesse	Professor Raylene Ramsay and Associate Professor Friedrich Voit
2005	Rebecca Rishworth	The Lexical Status of Liaison Consonants in French Phonology	Kevin Mendousse
2005	Maria Vendetti	The metaphors of Desert and Body in the Fictions of Malika Mokaddem	Professor Raylene Ramsay
2005	Morgan Ray	Cognition and Prosthesis: The Development of Memory in the Early Films of Alain Resnais	Deborah Walker
2004	Chelvica Ariyanayagam	Heroic Figures in Patrick Chamoiseau's Texaco and Maryse Condé's Traversée de la Mangrove	Professor Raylene Ramsay
2004	Anna Belanovic	Traces of Pure Cinema in the Films of Jean Vigo	Deborah Walker
2004	Hilary Marston	Jean-Marie Tjibaou. Man, Martyr or Myth. A Study of Colonisation and Identity in a Multicultural Society	Professor Raylene Ramsay
2004	Emma Sinclair	Translation as Re-writing: Representations of Kanak Oral Literature	Professor Raylene Ramsay
2004	Anna Thomas	Representations of Justice and Custom in New Caledonian Literature	Professor Raylene Ramsay
2004	Diane Walton	Translating the Colonial Encounter in Postmodern Contexts. The New Caledonian Case	Professor Raylene Ramsay
2003	Lilian Mary McKendrick	Who is the "other" in Colonised Literature? A Study of the Representation of the Cultural "Other" in the Work of Jean Mariotti	Professor Raylene Ramsay
2001	Kathryn McKenzie	Writing "In" the Mother, Writing "Out" the Mother: Representation of the Mother-Daughter Relationship across Cultural Boundaries	Professor Raylene Ramsay
2000	Priscilla Pollard	Writing the Woman/the Woman Writing. The question of écriture féminine in the theatrical works of Marguerite Duras	Rosemary Arnoux

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