Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Balzac, Honoré de (1799-1850) – Critique et interprétation – 19e siècle'
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Omure, Kazue. "Étude d'une nouvelle de Balzac, "Gobseck"." Paris 4, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA040147.
Full text"Gobseck" is the Balzac's novel for a thesis; Gobseck is the usurer of the "Comédie humaine" to be studied thoroughly. The purpose of the first chapter of our thesis is to demonstrate not only how the author produced, for the first time in 1830, this central personage and this small masterpiece which influenced the other works, but also how he developed them to reach the perfection of their last state in 1842. The second chapter is designed for the intensive study of the natural shape of the avaricious hero: Gobseck is "l'or personnifié" as well as "l'insatiable boa". Then, we passed to the third chapter to report on our analysis of each colleague of Gobseck. The result of this study is that all of the usurers of the "Comédie humaine" take after, more or less, Gobseck. We discovered that Balzac decomposed the image of Gobseck, after the description of his death, and used the fragments for the construction of the others usurers. The supplementary chapter is reserved for the research of the sources of two fireplaces described in the novel
Kan, Chia-Ping. "La question de l'aristocratie chez Balzac." Aix-Marseille 1, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008AIX10043.
Full textSano, Tsuyoshi. "Métaphysique du sujet et théorie sociale dans "la Comédie humaine" de Balzac." Montpellier 3, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002MON30042.
Full textTanimoto, Michiaki. "La figure du conteur chez Balzac." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCC219/document.
Full text"What is the talent of the 'Conteur', if not that of all talents combined ?" writes Philarète Chasles in his forward to Romans et contes philosophiques published in 1831. Although Balzac is best known as a novelist, he himself greatly admired the genre known as the "conte". Balzac traced a great deal of his own literary identity to the "grands conteurs" he considered his patrons such as Boccaccio, Rabelais, La Fontaine, Sterne and "the anonymous authors of The Arabian Nights". If in La DerniŠre Fee and Contes drolatiques Balzac confronts the traditions of this genre, his Romans et contes philosphiques, Contes bruns and Nouveux Contes philosohpiques represent instead an attempt to reform the "conte" in his own style. This thesis re-examines the "conte" as it was written in the first decades of the 19th century and traces the course of Balzac's literary development vis a vis this genre from his "youthful period" until the first years of the 1830s. Through a survey of books and literary magazines, I give a bibliographic survey of various "contes" published during this time. I also examine the daily work and life of Balzac during these years : a time not only of immense popularity for the "conte" within literary circles, but also one of changing socio-economic conditions for writers in general. Balzac envisaged the "conte" not as fixed genre, but as one of great flexibility and iridescence capable of accommodating a variety of styles, tones, and themes. Through his close identification with this genre, Balzac styled himself above all as a "conteur", an identity which this thesis traces from its earliest formulations until its precocious dissolution near the end of 1832
Monteilhet, Véronique. "Les représentations sociales du monde balzacien dans ses adaptations filmiques." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002CLF20009.
Full textNovak-Lechevalier, Agathe. "La théâtralité dans le roman : Stendhal, Balzac." Paris 3, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA030131.
Full textTheatricality is frequently mentioned as an effect produced on the reader by the novel. However, the notion remains generally imprecise and consequently hardly operative. A study of theatricality from the perspective of a historical poetics of literary genres is necessary to explain its mode of appearance and its properties in Balzac and Stendhal’s novels. Therefore, this work aims to highlight what the notion meant since Aristotle’s Poetics. We will explain first how the idea of a theatrical effect independent from the dramatic mode appeared in the nineteenth century, and, secondly, why the promotion of the novelistic genre implied a link with drama. This analysis emphasizes a few features operating as theatricality markers, which allows to study how these features, combined together, contribute to produce a theatrical effect in the context of novelistic scenes. It appears that the theatricality effect is based upon the narrative speech which produces the dialogue as on a stage. The variety of the features used by Stendhal or Balzac allows to enlighten the differences that characterize the aesthetics of each novelist. Finally, the adoption of a dramatic pattern by the novel is closely linked to hermeneutic and pragmatic perspectives : by informing the universe represented in the novel, this pattern gives information to the reader about the rules that govern society ; by regulating the connection between the reader and the fiction, it enables to correlate emotional paroxysm with critical distance
David, Jérôme. "Éthiques de la description : naissance de l'imagination topologique en France dans le roman et la sociologie (1820-1860)." Paris, EHESS, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006EHES0094.
Full textThis work offers a compared history of literature and sociology in France between 1820 and 1860. During that period, the notion of type appears in the literary and sociological descriptions of social reality, and becomes more and more central in the apprehension of the differenciations among classes, communities or groups. Based on the analysis of Honoré Balzac's La Comédie humaine and Frédéric Le Play's Les Ouvriers européens, this study shows that these two series of novels and of workers' monographies put typification at the center of their descriptive ambition. More broadly, it proposes a history of the uses of a typological imagination and of the ontologies, above all social, that were underlying them. That is why the texts also taken into account in this study range from natural history, medical sciences, history, chemistry geology and metallurgy, to the sentimental novel, the historical novel and the panoramic literature, as well as social inquiries and statistics
Perret, Maxime. "Balzac et le XVIIe siècle : mémoire, création littéraire et discours moraliste dans La Comédie humaine." Thesis, Paris 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA030050.
Full textThe present study addresses the multifaceted relationships between Balzac and the French literary 17th century. It consists of three parts: first, an analysis of Balzac’s own memorial selection of 17th-century political and literary events, followed by a detailed exploration of the variety of modes of attendance, practices and functions assumed by the “Grand Siècle” in La Comédie humaine, and finally of an evaluation of the range and consequences of the development of moralist-type thinking within prose narrative fiction. First, this research work allows for a renewed questioning of some foundations of Balzacian poetics. Secondly, the different methods of reception of the 17th century in the novel cycle built by Balzac between 1829 and 1850 highlight new reading circulations of La Comédie humaine by means of specific network-type textual devices. And finally, this study shows the permanence of problems linked with the development of the genre of the novel from the 17th to the 19th century. Hence, it invites to a revision of some deep-rooted prejudice of literary history, as much about Balzac than against the “classical Grand Siècle”
Younes, Kaddis Youssef Anwar. "La société bourgeoise française au XIXe et au XXe siècle vue par les écrivains contemporains." Strasbourg, 2011. https://publication-theses.unistra.fr/public/theses_doctorat/2011/YOUNES_KADDIS_YOUSSEF_Anwar_2011.pdf.
Full textWriting history by depending on the literature may seem surprising. Thus history can be seen as a human science its purpose is the study of the past, while the literature book written within a culture, age and gender. So we can say that the literature can serve as a literary source as well as any other historical document. Consequently, I do not find its difficult to select some literary works that serve my research and help me to describe the bourgeois community at that time as correct as possible. The study is divided into four parts. The first part is examining the bourgeois community, during the Restoration and the July Monarchy, according to Balzac's Father Goriot. In the second part of the thesis, i discussed the bourgeois community during the Second French Empire through the works of of Georges Feydeau and those of Zola. The third part is entitled « bourgeois community at the beginning of First World War as seen by Roger Martin du Gard. » and the last part of the thesis deals with the French bourgeois community between the two major wars according to the autobiography of Simone de Beauvoir « Memoirs of a willful Daughter ». [. . . ]
Girard, Christelle. "La Comédie humaine : une poétique en fictions." Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015USPCC293.
Full textThe idea of mise-en-abyme in an artistic work - whether formulated by the first German Romantics or, in a different way, by the French Romantics - gained momentum at the end of the eighteenth century and during the nineteenth century. However, paradoxically, its metatextuality did not weaken when Realist aesthetics were imposed later in the nineteenth century. The metadiscourse does not interrupt the fictional immersion, as it does in parodic novels and their avatars, but it remains, albeit in new forms that are incorporated into the fiction. Balzac embodies this trend. In this sense, we support the idea that Balzac was one of the first to transpose into a Realist contract what parodic and eccentric novelists did before him or during his time. Moreover, he assigns a reflexive purpose to the category of the novel, making a specific pact with the reader. The prologue to my thesis notes the inadequacies of the prefatory discourse on the subject of the novel. But an intentional Balzacian reflexivity is palpable through an exhaustive study of the poetic lexicon, in the first part of the thesis. The years 1839 to 1844 appear as the culmination of a meditation on the novel and as a moment when metacritical vocabulary from prefatory discourse moves towards fictional intrigues. The analysis of fictionalizations, which is the subject of the second part, supposes, then, an enrichment of the debate on the novel. The third part observes a crucial shift : Balzac no longer narratizes both the novel's hold over the reader and its reflexive power. The novel thus emancipates the reader, bringing him or her into the metatextual pact
Raulet-Marcel, Caroline. "Librairie romantique et genre romanesque : l'instauration d'une nouvelle relation entre l'auteur et son lecteur sous la restauration." Paris 7, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA070039.
Full textDuring the Restoration in France, under the influence of numerous changes in the book market, the novel brought about a new relationship between authors and readers. Choosing to write novels is often seen as a sacrifice that Romantic writers made to the exigencies of the publishing world, but in fact, such writers wanted to explore the potentialities of a literary form and of a medium - the book - to create a new kind of reader in an increasingly large and anonymous public. The study of the Romantic publishing world and the analysis of the texts and peritexts of novels by Nodier, Hugo, Balzac, Stendhal, Vigny and Mérimée published between 1818 and 1829 cast light on the enunciative modalities of such a process. The Romantic relationship between authors and readers was not based on nostalgia for a declining oral culture. In spite of its rhetorical dimension the novel constructed its reader in the interstices of the enunciative System disclosed by the text. Alternatively didactic, tender, friendly, playful, literary communication was established by undermining established moral certitudes, sharing an "affective vibration" and playing implicitly with commercial novelistic forms. Irony was part of the process : it revealed the author behind the narrator, while nonetheless endangering the author figure itself. Indeed, the construction of the new literary relationship was partly based on the ambiguous search for a "catch-me-if-you-can" author. Thus, Romantic novelists criticized biographical reading, which is usually considered part of what Paul Benichou has called the "sacre de l'écrivain", but they also led the reader to explore the legends of an emerging authorial myth
Naïm, Jérémy. "Le Récit enchâssé, ou la mise en relief narrative au XIXe siècle." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015USPCA127.
Full textAt the beginning of the twentieth century, embedded narrative emerged as a concept, thanks to the research that Russian formalists had carried out on a collection of short stories. But the category came into bloom only in the 1960s, under Todorov and Genette's pens. At that time though, the subject was broached rather than dealt with in depth. No definition based on consensus ever arose from narratology; and the seamless persistence of this narrative technique, dating back to Ancient India, has never been well accounted for. Embedded narrative has always been a critical myth rather than a subject to be studied. The aim of this dissertation is to start where the first tentative conceptualization stopped: the feeling that some texts do contain extra narratives. Inserted stories can be enhanced through typography layouts, changes of narratee, time-related alterations, or by sets of specific markings. Embedding might then mean emphasizing rather than inserting. Is it then legitimate to comment on 'embedded narratives' as such? Was there ever a consistent technique to emphasize narratives? By raising these issues, this dissertation aims at getting to the root of the notion, and addresses the topic by drawing on a large number of short stories published between 1800 and 1890. For during the nineteenth century short stories collections came for the first time closer to independent fiction, precisely to short story. Analyzing this rapprochement will enable us to discover how the very notion of 'embedded narrative’ could come up
Saïdah, Jean-Pierre. "Dandysme social et dandysme littéraire à l'époque de Balzac." Bordeaux 3, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990BOR30038.
Full textDandyism, such as it developed in france in the 1820's and especially after 1830, appears to be a phenomenon linked to the disappearance of the old aristocratic values and to the rise of the bourgeoisie. The dandy abides by strict rules that command his behaviour and his attire. In the salons where he is sought for his gracefulness while feared for his impertinence, in the circles or cafes of the boulevard, he fosters a cult of difference, a cult of strength and a cult of form, making him the impassive and ironic priest of a religion of beauty. Literature could not remain indifferent to such a cultural phenomenon that affected young people as much in the bourgeoisie as in the aristocracy. Balzac is the novelist who gave the most varied representation of social dandyism. Both fascinated and irritated by these sparkling figures, he understood better than anyone else that dandyism was the royal road taken by an idle youth kept away from power and forced to consume its energy in appearances in order to exist. Around 1830, some other writers, often marginal, turned dandyism into a way of writing, governed by playfulness, off-handedness, irony and derision. Establishing with their works and their readers the same type of relationship as the dandy maintains with his body and his audience, they partially borrowed from traditional parody the figures on which their poetics are based. This practice, long misunderstood, heralds modern works which have used protest as a creative principle. . .
Jacobée-Biriouk, Sylvie. "La notion d'indice d'après quelques exemples de récits romanesques du XIXe siècle : Béatrix, La Vieille Fille, La Muse du département de Balzac, L'Éducation sentimentale, Madame Bovary de Flaubert, Une vie, Bel-ami, Mont-Oriol, Pierre et Jean, Fort comme la mort, Notre coeur de Maupassant." Paris 12, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA120077.
Full textThis thesis wants to show that exist, in some xixth's novels, secret elements at first reading, called "indices". According to their information, they are contextual or permanent. They have their own inventors, transmitters and receivers, who recognize, make out index and sometimes have their reading confirmed by the ending. The indicial process has three types of functions. Firstly, they construct the text when binding it with reality, when giving to characters a past and a future, out of diegesis, when putting rhythm into novel with recurrences, when playing upon informations conveyed bu narration linearly. Indices announce characters personality and events, distinguish chronological order and diegetic order, sometimes set reader in false trail. Lastly, they allow characters to express themselves through insinuations. Their behaviour in front of index characterizes them : conscious or unconscious, volontary or unvolontary. Different diagrams give index different functions, even if it always appears like a paralanguage
Gendrel, Bernard. "Le roman de moeurs en France (1820-1855) : du roman historique au roman réaliste." Thesis, Tours, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010TOUR2015.
Full textAfter having distinguished three explicative aspects of the novel (the psychological, social and plot-driven aspects) and defined three corresponding types of novels (novels of characters, manners and plot), this work focuses on the novel of manners during the Bourbon Restoration and the July Monarchy. Heir to quite an old tradition, this genre is at its peak with the Scottian historical novel and the novel of contemporary manners of the 1820’s. Balzac, first influenced by the novel of manners, develops in The Human Comedy a hybrid form (combining social and psychological aspects, novel of characters and novel of manners), which we may call the realistic novel (characterized by an overloading of verisimilitude). This definition of realism does not erase the differences between the authors; it allows, on the contrary, to appreciate the specific poetics developed by Stendhal, George Sand or Champfleury
Shen, Yanan. "L'image de Sade dans le roman noir des années 1830." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUL177.
Full textThe revolt of July in 1830 echoed the Revolution of 1789 and the rule of Louis-Philippe took France into a period of transition where the punctual riots and the cholera epidemic in 1832 was reflected in the dark tones of the image of sufferings and evil of that time. The romantic movement merged with the image of Sade in this difficult period of social evolution. The Jeunes-France, one century later qualified by the surrealists as petits romantiques, used the image of Sade to face down the critics of the moralists. It was during these turbulent times the image of Sade emerged in the black novel, an undefined genre in different literary tendencies, including the gothic novel, the fantastic tale and the historical novel. The legend of Sade’s life took its form at the end of 18th century in the gazettes and political inquiries. He was seen by his contemporaries, for example, Rétif de La Bretonne, that as a criminal libertine, one unpunished by the Ancien Régime, and was considered the insane writer of the libertine and perverse literature. Sade is related to the Revolution. Surviving the Terror of 1793, his feudal fury was compared to the cruelty of Danton and Robespierre. At the beginning of the 1830’s, the writings of Sade the prisoner, victim of an Empire, was discovered by Charles Nodier in his historical research. He defined the term “sadism” in the dictionary in 1834. In the same year, the multiple faces of the image of Sade were recorded by Jules Janin in his biographical article. The young romantic poets timidly explored the images of Sade in their black novels. Within these tales and within the historical novel of Pétrus Borel, Sade represented not only the atrocity and corruption of the Louis XV’s court, but also the violence of the revolutionary rampage. For Balzac, Sade and his work signified a collaboration of the erotic literature with the black story and in Balzac’s boudoirs, the frantic crimes and the transgressive perversions set the scenes. In the black novels of Frédéric Soulié in the form of the feuilleton, the image and the imaginary of Sade was used to describe the social monstrosity. The sadism was popularized in the universe of corrupted morals
Humann, Guilleminot Magali. "La peinture dans l'œuvre d'Honoré de Balzac." Paris 4, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA040294.
Full text“The work of Balzac is written painting": the Goncourt’s comment has been our leading thread through the work of Balzac. It is the real transposal of art that is achieved when the novelist describes portraits, landscapes, and homes. Our study consists in demonstrating how the writer takes the place of the painter: "literature used the same process as does the painter" writes Balzac. The intensity, giving to the descriptions by the evocation of colors, light, materials is very similar to the pictorial technique. In the first part of our essay we study how the "fraternity of arts" has developed in the beginning of the nineteenth century when "the arts tend compensate one for the other" according to Baudelaire. In the second part we study the painters that Balzac mentioned in his work. Finally it seemed interesting to examine the aesthetics of Balzac how does his writing evoqued pictures?
Couture, Maude. "Les romans de l'écrivain-journaliste d'Illusions perdues à Bel-Ami : continuités et ruptures." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/26093.
Full textRezeanu, Ioana-Cătălina. "Les échos dix-neuviémistes dans l'oeuvre de Michel Houellebecq : Balzac, Zola, Huysmans, Auguste Comte, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Lamartine, Baudelaire." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017AIXM0190.
Full textAt the origin of this study lies the invocation by Michel Houellebecq of the nineteenth-century readings that marked his youth and also his clear opposition to writers of the XXth century to whom he prefers the writings of the XIXth century. Our interest was aroused by his constant references and allusions to names such as Balzac, Zola, Huysmans, Auguste Comte, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Lamartine, Baudelaire. What do they have to say to him? If Michel Houellebecq moves towards this period of the past, it is because it coincides with the first anti-modern protests against the coldness of liberalism, of capitalism, the irreligious spirit, that is against the three evils which are responsible for the disruption of the (post)modern social structure.The first part of our comparative analysis introduces the novels of Houellebecq into realism - an echo to Balzac -, to naturalism - in reference to Zola, relating to decadence - evoking Huysmans. The second is the thread of philosophical reasoning of Auguste Comte, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, of which Houellebecq feeds his judgments about love and religion, under the influence of a resentment sometimes discreet, sometimes sharp. The last part also enters on the territory of the Houellebecq poetry. In echo to Lamartine and Baudelaire we will discover a Houellebecq enlightened by a sensitivity that he uses in prophetic projects with utopian or dystopian reach. His work certainly belongs to the postmodern literary tradition, but it has the merit of revalorizing the voices of the romantics and the first witnesses of modern times