Note:
Other term papers for a North American Literature Course taken during two post-graduate years at McGill University include papers on:
- Narrative Viewpoint in Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, Vonnegut's Good Morning, Mr. Rosewater
and Margaret Laurence's Stone Angel
- Eexistentialism in Melville's "Baetelby, the Scrivener"& John Barth's The End of the Road
Independent Studies:
- on Rare Books, "The First Century of Printing in France & Germany"
- an annotated bibliography on Lexical Semantics
Noteworthy efforts during my Université Laval years include research papers or independent studies on:
- Villon's "Ballade des Pendus"
- Montaigne's Essais
- Diderot's La Religieuse
- Marivaux's Le Paysan Parvenu
- Marot's "Épître au Roi"
- Montesquieu's Lettres persanes
- Voltaire's Candide
- Laclos's Les Liaisons Dangereuses
- Cocteau's Les Enfants Terribles
- Anne Hébert's Les Chambres de Bois
Further Laval course readings that have left an impression are:
- poetry by Lamartine, Hugo, Lautréamont, Baudelaire, Nelligan, et al.;
- prose by Balzac, Flaubert, Maupassant, Proust ; Robbe-Grillet, Butor, Duras, Sarraute ; Godbout, Aquin, Anne Hébert, et al.
(the latter few are representative of the then fashionable "Nouveau Roman")
- plays by Sartre, Ionesco, and Jarry's proto-dada Ubu Roi (1896!), et al.
Noteworthy efforts during my Université Laval years include research papers or independent studies on Villon, Marot, Montaigne, Diderot, Marivaux, Voltaire, Laclos, poetry by Lamartine, Hugo, Lautréamont, Baudelaire, Nelligan, etc.; prose by Balzac, Flaubert, Maupassant, Proust, Robbe-Grillet, Butor, Duras (Nouveau Roman), Godbout, Aquin, Anne Hébert, etc.; plays by Cocteau, Sartre, Ionesco, etc.
From my year at the Sorbonne in Paris, I fondly remember Gide's Faux-Monnayeurs, and Proust's novel Un Amour de Swann, a prelude to his monumental À la Recherche du Temps Perdu.
Several of the above have been adapted for various presentations and/or publications. Others, including work in lexical semantics on the French term/concept "ambiance" at Heidelberg University, may be revised for e-publication here or elsewhere in the future.
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