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Finding her voice: The princess’s struggle in Madame de Lafayette’s “La Princesse de Clèves”
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Schaf, Ellen Long
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Year and Degree
2011, Master of Arts, Miami University, French.
Abstract
In Madame de Lafayette’s novel La Princesse de Clèves, the princess’s voice is silenced by the people in her life. This begins by her mother’s pedagogy at a very young age. When her mother dies, her husband becomes the one to carry on her mother’s discourse. Her lover, Nemours, prevents her from finding her voice through his ceaseless gaze. This gives everyone in the novel power except for the princess. Many times in the novel power is linked to vision. In this novel, it seems that someone is always looking or being looked at, and the people looking are in power. Vision seems to be everything, yet appearances always seem to be deceiving. In this thesis, I will explore the themes of power, vision, and voice in La Princesse de Clèves.
Committee
Claire Goldstein, Dr. (Advisor)
Elisabeth Hodges, Dr. (Committee Member)
Anna Klosowska, Dr. (Committee Member)
Pages
36 p.
Subject Headings
Foreign Language
Keywords
Madame de Lafayette
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La Princesse de Cl&232
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ves
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Schaf, E. L. (2011).
Finding her voice: The princess’s struggle in Madame de Lafayette’s “La Princesse de Clèves”
[Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1304105170
APA Style (7th edition)
Schaf, Ellen.
Finding her voice: The princess’s struggle in Madame de Lafayette’s “La Princesse de Clèves”.
2011. Miami University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1304105170.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Schaf, Ellen. "Finding her voice: The princess’s struggle in Madame de Lafayette’s “La Princesse de Clèves”." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1304105170
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