{"id":5587,"date":"2016-03-02T14:59:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T14:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=5587"},"modified":"2016-03-07T09:48:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T09:48:06","slug":"congratulations-to-eleonore-sibourg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2016\/03\/02\/congratulations-to-eleonore-sibourg\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to \u00c9l\u00e9onore Sibourg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/index.html\">Department of Modern Languages<\/a> is delighted to announce that \u00c9l\u00e9onore Sibourg has been awarded a PhD under the supervision of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/staff\/read.html\">Professor Peter Reid<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/staff\/duffy.html\">Dr Larry Duffy<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/staff\/o-meara.html\">Dr Lucy O\u2019Meara<\/a> with a thesis entitled \u2018<em>Science et surnaturel dans le cycle de Durtal de Huysmans<\/em>\u2019 [&#8216;Science and supernatural in Huysmans\u2019 Durtal Cycle&#8217;].<\/p>\n<p>Her thesis examines interactions between science and the supernatural in Huysmans\u2019s Durtal tetralogy, his four-book series consisting of <em>L\u00e0-bas <\/em>(1891),<em> En route <\/em>(1895), <em>La cath\u00e9drale <\/em>(1898) and <em>L\u2019Oblat <\/em>(1903).\u00a0The protagonist, whose aesthetic and philosophical starting point is naturalism, converts to Catholicism. This unusual conversion reflects social upheavals contemporary with Huysmans\u2019s cycle of novels. In the late nineteenth century, science, emerging as symbol of new hope and salvation for humanity, has in a sense replaced religion. The Durtal cycle catalogues the disorders generated by this replacement, and represents the creation of a new order more suited to Durtal\u2019s persona, through deconstruction of existing codes and beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>Our congratulations to Dr Sibourg<\/p>\n<p>For more details of research programmes in French see: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/postgraduate\/index.html\">www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/postgraduate\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Modern Languages is delighted to announce that \u00c9l\u00e9onore Sibourg has been awarded a PhD under the supervision of Professor Peter Reid, Dr &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2016\/03\/02\/congratulations-to-eleonore-sibourg\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":5666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5587"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5655,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587\/revisions\/5655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}