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Racine, Romain. "Le Mythe littéraire de Cassandre." Paris 4, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA040136.
Full textBased on a theory that rejects the concept of variation, this study analyses twenty appearances of the Cassandra myth in European literature (Homer, Pindar, Eschyle, Euripides, Lycophron, Virgil, Seneca, Benoît de Sainte-Maure, Barnfield, Ronsard, Schiller, Foscolo, Platen, Meredith, Eulenberg, Mandelstam, Giraudoux, Eliot, Hauptmann and Wolf). At certain times, Cassandra seems to lose her identity by melting together with Sibylla or with Proserpina. At other times, she is described as a strong personality with a lot of ambiguous traits of character : She is an inspired prophetess who gives interpretations of her own words. She foretells misfortune, she is revolting against fate and at the same time full of resignation. As a guardian of the past she foresees better times. Her language is at the same time enigmatic and direct, poetic and ironic, always hesitating between screaming and silence. Tortured by identity crisis, Cassandra succeeds in gaining greatness, balance and strength
Le, Naour Sandrine. "Ulysse dans la littérature et les arts en France de la Renaissance à 1730." Rouen, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1994ROUEL199.
Full textStefanaki, Aikaterini. "Le mythe d'Hélène et de Clytemnestre chez Jean Giraudoux, Jean Anouilh et Yannis Ritsos." Bordeaux 3, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006BOR30015.
Full textThis comparative study bears on the plays written by jean giraudoux, la guerre de troie n'aura pas lieu (1935) and electre (1937), jean anouilh, tu etais si gentil quand tu etais petit ! (1969) as well as the dramatic monologues in yannis ritsos' poetic work, la quatrieme dimension (1975). The playwrights and poet increase the symbolic value of the classical myths of helen and clytemnestra through their innovating dynamic variants. The ambivalent figures of the twins are represented in the least familiar dimensions of their myths, offering each phase and age of female life and defending the values of the matriarchal religion which prevailed in pre-hellenic civilizations. As manifestations of a neolithic, almighty great goddess, those queens stand out in the literary imagination, bringing the legacy of their ancient religion : they abide by the laws of this supreme feminine deity whose main function of creation they fill. Helen's and clytemnestra's femininity is first analysed, whether it be sacralised or on the contrary demonized, leading to an interpretation of their love adventures. The second step of the study covers the manifestations of maternity, be it real or imaginary, even in its cosmic dimension. Lastly, the alliance established between the twins and the creatures in the universe is examined, as well as their wisdom and their privileged links with the supernatural. Those epicurean women elude any notion of morality, and illustrate both the benevolence and monstruosity of a sacred femininity
Lenzi, Federico. "Désamorcer le mythe : expérimentations littéraires et tradition classique dans le théâtre français de l’Entre-deux guerres." Paris 4, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA040058.
Full textThis thesis focuses on the persistence of classic models in French theatre in the period between the wars, especially on the re-elaborations of the Greek myth. The research has been structured in three parts. The first one traces the history of various plays inspired by the myth, that flourished in France between 1919 and 1944. The second part analyses texts concerning legendary characters, such as Electra, Oedipus, Medea, Antigone, Orpheus. It also tries to understand to what extent the authors in question (Sartre, Anouilh, Giraudoux, Cocteau, Gide, De Bouhélier, Fabre, Lenormand) re-appropriated the classical subject, and to measure the distance between their works and the original Greek models. Finally the third part brings together the findings of this work: the emergence of common traits between different attempts to recover Greek classic elements
Pondepeyre, Marie-Thérèse. "Le personnage de Tirésias dans la littérature française et anglaise." Paris 4, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991PA040074.
Full textThe literary lives of Tiresias multiplicity have shaped the complexity of the figure from homer's odyssey and Sophocles' Oedipus Rex. Maintaining the sacred order he comes as the wisest who declares a fearful truth, the self-knowledge. By his wisefull blindness, he shows to heroes their inordinate pride mirror and their self-blinding. All the mysterious primordial beginning symbolical schedule is engraved in his mythological androgynous dream. Even he instructs to Ulysses through infernal darkness his return to Ithaca, even he suggests his identity to Oedipus, he comes from the tragic conflictual dispute as a winner, in despite of his obscureness of oracle, of his divine gifts vanity. Incommunicableness gives the tragical paradox from his original nature. Only poetical mythic writing regards him as an omniscient voice, a creative consciousness and a collective memory. His dramatical character importance and his self-narrative allowed the permanence of the greek seer-philosopher since homer to sferis
Ruatta, Stéphanie. "Présence du monstrueux et du prodigieux dans la littérature grecque d'époques archaïque et classique : étude sémantique du mot téras." Nantes, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013NANT3039.
Full textVillard, Pierre. "Recherches sur l'ivresse dans le monde grec." Aix-Marseille 1, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988AIX10033.
Full textTurrettes, Cécile. "Survivance et métamorphose des descendants d'Agamemnon dans le théatre français du XXe siècle." Toulouse 2, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998TOU20004.
Full textElectra, Orestes and Iphigenia have gone through the ages and inspired a good many writers of the twentieth century. Therefore the first object of this thesis will be to try and understand why contemporary playwrights keep studying the myths of Electra and Iphigenia and how those legends are made perennial. Secondly it will deal with the way creators depict those protagonists descended from ancient times. And ultimately it will consider the distinctive features of the tragedy born of those characters - which are at the same time faithful to their Greek models and different from their predecessors. It is a tragedy that modern authors have "acclimatized" by enhancing the part of pathos and nonsense, two tonalities that give their plays an original resonance and counterbalance the tragic elements
Aurenty, Ivan. "Cyclope, Cyclopie, postérité littéraire cyclopéenne." Perpignan, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PERP0898.
Full textOur present research is to approach the imaginary of Kyklopes as seen in ancient myths and french literature, so as to take into account the fundamental ambiguity and complexity of these literary figures. Beyond the constitution of a corous mythorum Cyclopum in ancient literature, which cannot be exhaustive anyway, we tend to confirm a traditional distinction - firmly established by ancient mythographs - between different kinds of Kyklopes considered in accordance with their particular functions : sheperds, blacksmiths and wall-builders. In this work we try to prent another typology, which is not meant to replace the one below but rather to fulfill it. Our classification indeed is based upon the literary treatment and reception of the myths related to the Kyklopes in ancient and modern literatures. Three great groups of narratives which have known a vast fortune in post-ancient literatures and arts seem then to emerge : the story of Polyphemus and Ulysses, the tales of the masters of technè concerning blacksmiths and wall-builders Kyklopes, and the "love story" between Polyphemus and Galateia. Our work, which leads us from Homer to literary representations belonging to the twentieth century, tries to take into account the evolution of these rich and various narratives. Our objective is to find out the permanence or changes of these figures and to observe their possible interpretations and the constant plurality of their significations. At least, we have to emphasize the fundamental and fascinating faculty of adaptation of these complex mythological figures
Mohamed, Hassan Youssef Hassan. "Mythes grecs et influences françaises dans le théâtre de Tawfiq Al-Hakim." Grenoble 3, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004GRE39009.
Full textMorou, Antigone. "Sophocle et Artaud : Pour une représentation contemporaine d'"Ajax"." Paris 3, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990PA030097.
Full textInfluenced by the premier magico-religious greek thought (vi century:orphism, "greek shamanism"), sophocleu's universe is founded on the vision of the "the total man":the antithesis of the original principles, the ethic the tragic hero defends (cult of dead) and the tragic language affirm the presence of the myth in sophocleus. In ajax, the trajic hero becomes divine and he, as the orphic god dionysus, passes through passion from death to the restoration of the dionysiac body. Artaud's theatrical vision springs from the mythic sources: his actor, incarnation of the mythic hero, mediator of the conflicts, from a ritual space by his acting. Artaud evokes the greek thoght as well as sophocleus, especially in his ideas bout the body (orphic conceptions) and the culture (heraclitu's influence). His search follows the sophoclean mind in recreating the divine united body. So ajax could constitute a model of the theatre of cruelty : the trajic language and the acting from a ritual space, as artaud wanted to realise in his theater. Our project of direction proposes a space conbining the structures of the ancient greek theater and artaud's theater (the spectators are encircled by the action): the chorus could transform the space (according to his acting). The acting (voice and movement of the actors), the light and the sound would create a ritual space, exercing a "physical" role, as in artaud's theater
Soliman, Aziza. "Le mythe d'oedipe dans l'antiquite mediterraneenne ( egypte - grece ) et quelques-uns de ses prolongements litteraires francais et egyptiens : rapport entre la litterature et le social." Paris 3, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1989PA030117.
Full textThis thesis proposes to treat the oedipus myth in his relations, first, with ancient egypt. It isolates, to achieve this purpose, the motives that, all along its travels in time and space, seemed to constitute his constant aspect. Secondly, it proposes to interrogate the greek antiquity, that evolutes, by some of its aspects, in the same orbit as the egyptian one, to bring at light the contribution linked to the athenian democraty ( of the fifth century ), of this social form, in the modification of this myth on both levels of form and contents. From myth to tragedy, a long way has been made that we tempt to analyse the socio-historical causes, linking ideology to unconscious. A study of myth survivals in his essentially egyptian form, despite the diverse confessional substitutions, is done then in the epic popular tradition and the marvellous stories of some ethnic groups that belong, in our point of view, to the same ideological univers ( bible, coran, the golden legend, the african short stories, the legend of antarah, the peasant egyptian folklore. On the other hand, some contemporary treatments of the myth in the theatre ( tragic and comic ) : the french one with ( vercors, gide, cocteau ) and the egyptian one with ( el-hakim, bakathir, ali salem, kamel salib, el-maghrabi, etc. ) will be finally analysed in the light of the relations mentioned before between literature and society, in the light also of the continuity-rupture, between the past, that is nearly exclusively greek this time, and the present
Karakostas, Dimitris. "La figure mythique de Méduse dans la littérature européenne." Paris 4, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA040071.
Full textPapakyriacou, Irini. "Le sujet de la "deuxième Odyssée" dans la poésie néo-hellénique du XXème siècle." Paris 4, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA040185.
Full textThis study examines the presence of the Ulysses myth in Modern Greek poetry of the 20th century. It contains a thematic comparison of different motifs of the myth, as told in the Odyssey of Homer. The main methodology used for this study is based on the theories of intertextuality. Various rearrangements and reinterpretations of the myth, concerning either the personalities of the mythical figures or certain events of the epopee, are examined and analysed in the present thesis. The Ulysses myth has interested many authors all over the world including a considerable number of Greek authors. During the last century, recourse to the ancient myths has been proven very important, and, together with the political events in Greece and the literary movements, offers a rich study material. The Greek poets –cosmopolites, traditional bourgeoisie, communists, surrealists etc. – have treated the myth each by emphasising the aspect that seemed most important according to his ideology and poetics. Thus, we have attempted to perceive the evolution of the Ulysses myth in parallel with the history of Greece over last century
Nam, Suki Hee. "Le thème de Phèdre dans le théâtre." Rouen, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000ROUEL343.
Full textKatounta, Sylvia. "Les femmes, la loi et la justice dans la tragédie et le drame moderne : la transposition du mythe d'Antigone et de Médée dans le théâtre d'Anouilh." Paris 3, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA030053.
Full textThe aim of this study is to compare Sophocle's Antigone and Euripide's Medea and their transposition in the theater of Anouilh, at the crossroads of literary hermeneutics and political thinking. The theme of justice and law in these four texts provides a point of departure for a demonstration which aims to revitalize an inquiry around political, social, philosophical and existential problems. In taking on this topic, our primary objective is to revitalize the social and political dimensions represented in the fictional situations intended by the tree authors. The appropriation of myth by Anouilh constitutes a new approach, and our method of critical analysis will attempt to underline Anouilh's dramatic innovation. Our objective will be to examine how Anouilh, in the tradition of the great tragic poets, articulated the different levels of his own drama. The myths of Antigone and Medea drama crystallize around particular dramatic action which permit the contemporary author to develop certain key aspects, linked more or less explicitly to the painful experience of world war II. The myth becomes a pretext for the creation of universe which finds itself in a situation of rupture with its origins. Medea and Antigone, projected in the 20 th century, can hardly evoke the classical characters who are so familiar to us
Gély, Véronique. "Le mythe de Psyché des origines à 1671 (Italie, France, Espagne)." Paris 4, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA040058.
Full textBetween life and death, between masculine and feminine, Psyche appears like a metamorphosis of Pandora. From fairy-tale to heroic narrative, to pastoral drama or pastoral narrative, to auto sacramental, she was interpreted as an allegory of sensuality, curiosity or feminine courage. The myth of psyche reflects literary and artistic fiction
Ferry, Ariane. "Amphitryon en ses avatars : théâtre et identité dans : Amphitruo de Plaute, Les Sosies de Rotrou, Amphitryon de Molière, Amphitryon or The two Sosias de Dryden, Amphitryon, ein Lustspiel nach Molière de Kleist, Amphitryon 38, de Giraudoux." Rouen, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002ROUEL427.
Full textExamining the Amphitryon myth starts from the reflexion that is has been staged over and again through out centuries of literary history, becoming a referential scenario and being thusadapted by the most talented dramatists. From this starting point the following hypothesis arises. If only the footlights can make the myth shine, then a close link can be established between the questions born by the substitutions of identities and the theatre itself. In order to test this hypothesis, several unrecognised transformations of the myth were explored, such as mythological and historical dictionaries, gastronomic works, operas, uses of "amphitryon" as a substantive, and films. It then emerges that the theatrical treatment of the myth is specific and that staging the myth in a specular way revolves around two ideas questioning the notion of role : role and identity on the one hand, and role dealing with others on the other hand. After making the list of the works built on the myth and a definition of what could be called aesthetic of imitation, we narrow down our research to six authors - Plautus, Rotrou, Molière, Dryden, Kleist and Giraudoux - chosen so that comparing their Amphitryons be both justified and stimulating. In this study in comparative literature each play was thoroughly read sequence by sequence, character by character, particulary in the part called "Two in one : who is real one ? Game, identity and amorousfeeling. " After having shown why the characters are confronted to the necessity of taking on a identity of role, we demonstrate how theses plays stage characters in search of an ever problematictruth be it the truth in words, in people, in love, so many truths inseparable from the theatre
Fürstenberger, Nathalie. "Le mythe grec dans la littérature argentine contemporaine." Paris 3, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA030020.
Full textThe study of greek mythology and of its usage in contemporary argentinian literature has showed us that the mythe do not only get their strengh from an aesthetic writing. At the beginning of the 20th century, intertextual practice conveyed the collectif and individual worries of writers. The various aspects of argentinian literature testify to the plasticity and flexibility of its mythology and reveal its permeability to past and present times
Presselin, Valérie. "La figure d'orphee dans l'oeuvre de pierre simon ballanche." Paris 7, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA070023.
Full textChauvel, Virginie. "Les résurgences du mythe de Médée dans la litterature française et étrangère : 1975-2005." Angers, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006ANGE0009.
Full textThis thesis analyses the myth of Medea and its most famous episode, the killing of children, in contemporary literature. The research examines the influence of the controversial motherly character, Medea, on collective imaginary. It is based on the review of both implicit and explicit rewritings of the myth in the world literature between 1975 et 2005. I start by comparing the modern Medea to Euripides' model and to other antique figures (Niobe, Ino, Agave, among others). I then show to what extent Medea has influenced the creation of muderous mother figures in literature. The recent "Medea complex" will be used to demonstrate that the line between fiction and reality is blurred. The Medea myth suggests that the feminine and monstrous character can suddenly shift from bliss to horror. This frightening statement explains the fascination that the Colchis princess exerts and the strange artistic success of the mytheme linked to her : infanticide
Lamiot, Christophe. "Le temps dans la nouvelle de Frank O’connor." Paris 10, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988PA100088.
Full textFrank O’Connor’s short story illustrates Paul Ricoeur's assertion according to which "the thought processes at work in any narrative configuration shape themselves into the refiguration of a temporal experience". Such a refiguration is traceable on a grammatical level (verbal, syntactical and stylistic). Frank O’Connor’s use of Greek and Celtic mythologies confirms it. The development of a "same" story through all its different successive versions suggests that frank O’Connor’s own experience of time is being presented. The characters voice the author's concerns. When they become aware of their loneliness (they have fallen outside of "time's pocket"), they dream of a time outside time, which increases their self-knowledge. Finally, even spatial notations can be subsumed to the refiguration by which time becomes the true --though abstract-- hero of the short story
Vallespín, Sánchez Josefina. "La figure d'Orphée dans l'oeuvre de Pierre Emmanuel." Paris 3, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA030028.
Full textAmongst the fifty or sa books which pierre emmanuel has written, half of them are in verse. The first one which ne published is called elegiesn, and the last one le grand oeuvre. The euthor's poems are a mixturs batween mythical subjects (orpheus and eurydice) and biblical subjects (christ, for example), with the interactions of ideas between them. The post adapts this classical myth to his literary needs. The presence and absence of the figure of orpheus in his poetry (either directly explicit, or by the principal intermediary of the themes of love, dath and new birth), are the demonstration of his vision of lifs and of his of his own personbal interests. Ambisuty reigms in certain parts of pierre emmanuel's work bacause this writer feels a duality within himself. Often, it is sussested not to look back back towards a pst which kills; but cur author, orpheus at the end of the day, has returned mors than once, he has to be continuallyu reborn, that is to say, to stop being the "cld" man in order to become the "new" man, by asking ourselvs if he can be classified as a christian poet or suncretic poet, we unmask the "faces" of a man who has prefered be called pierre emmanuel
Février-Vincent, Burkhardt Marie. "Monde de la magie, magie du monde : aspect, rôle et symbolisme de l'univers de la magie dans quelques oeuvres d'Heroic Fantasy L'enchanteur de René Barjavel, The Mists of Avalon de Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Belgariad et The Malloreon de David Eddings, Le secret de Ji de Pierre Grimbert, The Lord of the Rings de J.R.R.Tolkien." Grenoble 3, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002GRE39001.
Full textFente, Elvira. "María Xosé Queizán, la renaissance d'une Antigone : l'esprit d'Antigone dans les personnages féminins de l'œuvre de María Xosé Queizán : métaphore de la valeur et la force de la femme galicienne contre le pouvoir et la domination masculine." Paris 8, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA083485.
Full textThis work aims to give María Xosé Queizán its rightful place as a theorist of feminism as a writer and Galician feminist. The socio-cultural construction of "being woman" is analyzed here through his speech, since the years after the Spanish Civil War, to today's society. The myth of Antigone appeared to us as the myth that comes to Queizán, the birth of feminism in Galicia long identified with Penelope. Transmission of patriarchal values through women who honor the system blindly, as opposed to the spirit of freedom of Antigone is a constant in her novels. The darkness in the formation and development of the domestic work of women is ensuring the survival of patriarchy. But in counterpoint, one can follow individual strategies of heroines around obstacles and sometimes become marginalized and lose, sometimes win and live their freedom
Léontaridou, Théodora. "Le mythe troyen dans la littérature française." Paris 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA030013.
Full textFrom the 16th Century until the 20th, le troyan myth emerges in a variety of forms in French literature with famous or less known works but of equal significance as they convey the climate and the spirit of an era. The reason why all of these writers go into mythology could be partly explained by the imitation of ancients applied to the French letters of the 16th and 17th centuries. How this material is transformed, what the writers are expressing through the legends and the myths, which is the relationship of the transformed materiel with the initial, are some of the questions that this research is requested to explore. During the period of the Absolutism in which the freedom of expression is limited, the myth is proved to be a secure means which offers the security of the distance, the suitable frame and the flexibility of the mythological material which are processed by the creators. It becomes the vehicle of doubt and criticism of various grades against authority. The end of this political period removes from the myth this function. But it doesn’t stop its use in literature and the theater. This is because the myth is capable of putting again questions for the vital causes which deal with the human race, such as the woman, the war, the xenophobia
Bourreau, Steele Anne-Françoise. "La réécriture du mythe dans la poésie de la décadence et du surréalisme : une étude des mythes de Persée et Andromède, des Argonautes et des Sirènes dans des poèmes de Jules Laforgue, Walter Crane, Alister Crowley et Robert Desnos." Paris 4, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA040283.
Full textMarignac, Lucie. "La conquête de la Toison d'Or, des origines à la fin du XVe siècle : essais." Paris 4, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA040304.
Full textThe conquest of the Golden Fleece is a myth which on the one hand has deep roots in tradition, and on the other hand cannot be grasped easily because of the great number of his transformations. The works the myth has inspired are actually countless. Facing so many texts, images and commentaries, our work concentrates on the works prior to the renaissance, lays emphasis on some aspects of the identity and the evolution of the myth. It aims at bringing to light some mechanism of the west creation, through the study of the successive distorsions of a mythical model. The first part exhibits the geographic and chronological articulations of the myth, as they can be reshaped from the works of poets and mythographs that have dealt with the whole of Jason and his companions' adventures : Pindar, Apollonius Rhodius, Diodorus Siculus Ovid, Seneca, Valerius Flaccus - and also with the help of all the antique allusion s to the myth. The second part of our work is split in four essays devoted to the main questions raised par the myth and its evolution. The first essay searches for the improbable if not impossible, typological, genetical and political, unity of the myth. The second analyses the ambivalence of the significance of the mythical story, and of its protagonist s. The third studies the new favor of the argonauts' myth during the middle ages, while the myth of Medea was much more famous at the beginning of the middle ages
Daney, de Marcillac Marie. "Le nom Ulysse dans les textes philosophiques occidentaux depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale." Paris 8, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA083391.
Full textThis dissertation is a cartography of the name Ulysses in various philosophical texts of Western post-1945 tradition, built around a common reference to Ulysses. It offers an alternative reading of philosophical texts, which is not set on a philosophical hermeneutics, but focuses rather upon a hermeneutics that tries to determine the textual variants of Ulysses and their interpretations. This hermeneutics highlights the existence of a unique moment in the memory of Ulysses as corpus, which is demonstrated as a new version of the myth of Ulysses. The present interest in the figure of Ulysses proceeds from its capacity to trouble the border between various disciplines, especially that which divides philosophical and literary traditions. A study of the areas of textual interbreeding between philosophical texts and literary intertexts of Ulysses, the Odyssey and the literary tradition of its rewritings, the revelation of the character of Ulysses' intelligence in the philosophical texts as well as its figural dimension, demonstrate that Ulysses is in fact the alibi of philosophy. As non-disciplinary figure, his role serves to establish an opening towards that which lies beyond the philosophical texts in which he appears
Arcellaschi, André. "Médée dans le théâtre latin d'Ennius à Sénèque." Paris 4, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986PA040001.
Full textThe permanence of the myth and the character of medea in latin litterature prompts one to try ans seak the reasons for such a presence and the meanings it may have. One of the main themes of this study rests in the apprehension the place caesar has assigned medea in the temple of venus. Questions are first asked about ennous being the first latin author to celebrate medea, whereas greek literature has greatly used the myth and the character. Excerpts from ennius, pacuvius and accius are classified, translated and commented upon. Such a republican and dramatic trilogy is followed by varro's epic, a turning point between the republican trilogy and that which succeds it thanks to lucan, ovid and seneca. It tells of what cardinal importance is the epic written by varro,who was one of caesar's friends. All the works are scrutinized against the literary and political background of the time. In all the instances one grows aware thet the presence of medea on the roman stage correspond to the necessity of expressing a treefold conception of the myth, apprehended both as an element in a poetic technique, a praxis a policy. In such a threefold practise, medea certainly seems to serve the cause of an elitist and popular monarchy, where the best ones govers in agrement with the people, an old republican dream and imperial ambition of the caesars and of their successors. But all this would amount but to an ideological epiphenomenon, had medea never been present in the stoical and pythagorean studies that had escorted her since she appeared on the roman stage, in her white and red apparel, with her main attributes, the dragon and the sword, and in the total acceptance of the agony that she imposes upon others and that she herself endures
Radix, Elise. "L'homme-Prométhée vainqueur au XIXe sicècle." Lyon 3, 2001. https://scd-resnum.univ-lyon3.fr/out/theses/2001_out_radix_e.pdf.
Full textThiria-Meulemans, Aurélie. "Reflets et résonances : poétique et métapoétique des mythes d’Écho et de Narcisse dans la poésie de William Wordsworth." Paris 4, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA040191.
Full textThe point of this thesis is to show the importance of this double myth – mainly in its Ovidian version – in the poems of William Wordsworth. The two figures are implicitly present in the many scenes of self-contemplation and of echoes. Wordsworth also wishes his verse to repeat Nature’s voice, like an echo. He is equally famous for the poetic crisis that affected him after his Great Decade, and he admires himself in his verse through a series of doubles, many of which are characterized by a loss which reads as an allegory of his own. Eventually, Wordsworth aims at turning the reader into a reflection of himself and an echo of his voice
Odagiri, Mitsutaka. "Le mythe d'Œdipe dans le théâtre français du XVIème siècle à nos jours." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA040141.
Full textThis work attempts to contribute to the study of the Oedipus myth in the history of modern French theatre from the sixteenth century to the present day. In the first section, we attempt to give prominence to the relationship between the myth and literature in. We then, in two further sections, endeavour to describe the diachronic path of the development of this myth, in order to highlight both the variation and constancy in the essential components of the Oedipus myth. In the fourth section, we attempt to adopt a synchronic approach in order to demonstrate the different ideological aspects which, for each dramatist, endorse the palimpsest style of the Oedipus myth. This is done particularly from the philosophical, psychoanalytical and metaphysical points of view
Debard, Clara. "Oedipe d'André Gide : édition critique commentée et annotée." Nancy 2, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001NAN21012.
Full textThis study is about André Gide's play - Oedipus - first published by Commerce and La N. R. F. At the end of 1930 and beginning of 1931, first printed by Editions de la Pléiade, edited by Jacques Schiffrin. The study is a critisized and annotated review of Gide's three-acts drama. Five introductory chapters lead up to the play itself. The first chapter is devoted to the reconstitution of the origins of the play ; the second one records the different potential sources ; the third one lists its influences and allusions ; the fourth one offers a thematic study as well as a dramatic analysis ; the last one brings up the handwritten sources and the principles which lead to the setting up of the play. This study is focused on Gide's actual drama, here shown for the first time with all the variants coming from his own manuscripts as well as from the various printings which were made during his lifetime. Another chapter is about the way the play has been received and its French and German most important performances. The study ends with a six-parts appendix. Previously unpublished documents and letters concerning Oedipus are shown here, together with a selection of newspaper articles from 1931 to 1978
Humières, Catherine d'. "Le monstre en son labyrinthe dans les littératures du XXème siècle en langues romanes." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000CLF20010.
Full textWang, Julia. "Séléné : éclipses, éclat et reflets." Thesis, Paris 10, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA100128.
Full textThe moon in the ancient Greek world is a problematic topic, for which there is no single, homogeneous definition. Nevertheless, the focus on visualness that we have chosen for our study, allows us to make out some elements of consistency and to account both for the existence of Selene as a divine figure making herself manifest in the visible world by appearing and disappearing, and for the tale of Endymion, the moon-goddess’ lover, and of his eternal sleep. Our work is divided in four parts: we first focus on the light of the moon and the visions it summons, as well as the representation of lunar eclipses; secondly, on Selene and her way of acting as a visible goddess and as a celestial eye; thirdly, on Endymion and the textual and iconographic representations of his sleep, which allows us to deal with the question of dreaming; fourthly, on the moon as a mirror and a source of reflections (eidola). The perspective that we choose to adopt is inspired by the methods of historical anthropology. We aim to shed light on structures and relations, relying on the analysis of various sources in context within a vast corpus extending from the archaic period to the end of the Roman Empire. Our goal is not to define a general “lunar mythology”, but rather to examine what the definition of the moon as a visual object might reveal
Kefala, Anastasia. "Le choix d'Achille : du refus, de la réconciliation et de la mort dans l'Iliade." Paris 8, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA081512.
Full textAll the different faces of achilles which have emerged in the course of critical controversy make of him a contradictory and incoherent character, impulsive and devoid of inner life. This study, rooted in the writer's belief in the coherence of both the hero and the poem in which he was created, attempts to demonstrate how the different aspects of achilles' behaviour are all linked through the poetics of the iliad. Achilles' refusal to accept agamemnon's offer of amends is intended less to reveal the intransigence of the hero or his detachment from the ties of philotes than to expose a crisis of public dimensions, affecting the whole community in both its being and its becoming. A flawed act of persuasion, the failure of the embassy sent to sway achilles brings out the imperative necessity of an attitude of flexibility if the disrupted harmony of the community is to be restored. Achilles' refusal to admit a corrupted procedure thus manifests itself as a challenge, at the same time individual, social and poetic. A challenge to redefine the essence and place of 'flexibility' and the ethics it implies in the heroic process. The keynote in the reconciliation scene between achilles and priam, flexibility is linked to the problematics of the iliad; it is the motivation behind the choice made by achilles himself, and that of the poet. This parallel process of choice -the poet choosing achilles as the hero of his work, achilles choosing mortality for himself- is highlighted through a semantic polarity between the two terms kleos and nostos. Within the texture of the poem this polarity is condensed into the choice of achilles. The hero's decision to re-enter into the battle implies a deliberate choice: to miss nostos, so as to win kleos. Unobtrusive but ubiquitous throughout the epic of the iliad, nostos is a collective project of the achaeans and the impulse behind their heroic ambitions. Understood as a triumphant homecoming and founded on a promise made in the past by the warrior heroes, it represents an area of experience where collective values and individual trajectories coincide. In this context achilles' choice, which bestows on him his kleos, is in keeping with the logic of the heroic and the poetic project, whose accomplishment it guarantees. Both hero's choice and poet's choice thus correspond to one another and merge together over the course of a human cr
Birette, Fabrice. "L’imaginaire de la métamorphose dans la littérature et les arts figurés de la Grèce ancienne." Thesis, Paris 4, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA040086.
Full textThe universe of the metamorphosis recovers multiple fields of the thought and the social reality of the ancient Greece. Numerous myths, diverse ritual practices confine a daily world of the transformation. Apparitions or divine metamorphosis, fables or legends of transformed heroes, dance masked, stuffings, etc., establish so many elements and motives which participate in the elaboration of the identity of the Man and his imaginery. It is considerable that the myths of metamorphosis among which the Literature and the Figurative Arts abundantly made the echo, held in this process an important part considering their big elasticity since at least the mycenaenan period. The universe of the metamorphosis confers a part of sense on the hard exercise of the everyday nature by introducing on second thought on the world of the hidden but also shows of constant efforts to think the body during the long period of the antique Greek history
Duchesne, Cathelyne. "L'hellénisation du motif plastique et littéraire du griffon à travers le monde grec à la fin VIe siècle et au Ve siècle av. J-C." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/27493.
Full textThe griffin of the Archaic Period in Greece is the result of the import of the pattern from the Middle East. If its popularity at that time was obvious, it drastically decreased at the end of the Greco-Persian wars. However, when it reappeared in full force during the fourth century BC, it was completely changed. Ancient sources reference a tale, a Scythian myth in which the griffins are in perpetual conflict with their neighbors, the Arimaspians, over the glittering gold that is plentiful where they roost. In the arts, the griffin was no longer represented as a bronze protome on cauldrons dedicated to various deities, but rather on terracotta vases. Apart from its morphology, the creatures associated with each support are widely different in style, and the motif is nigh unrecognizable. What might have occurred for the griffin motif to have changed so much ? The Hellenization of the pattern in the fifth century through art and writing is difficult to discern. As for the Roman texts, they are of dubious reliability due to interpretations that do not necessarily reflect the thought process of the originals artists. However the Hellenization of the plastic and litterary motif is easily perceived through the stylistic development of the plastic pattern and the presence of the griffin in a pseudo Greek Scythian Koine fabricated.
Thompson-Brenot, Kassandra A. "A la recherche de Prométhée : le mythe prométhéen dans la littérature latino-américaine du XXe siècle et sa généalogie anglo-saxonne et germanique." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA040053.
Full textTwentieth century Latin American promethean literature is the product of the melange of archetypal, cultural and historical “voices”, amongst these voices figures Anglo-Saxon and Germanic promethean literature. This thesis identifies six modern Latin American promethean works, analyzes them from a Jungian perspective, establishes and discusses their parallels with earlier Anglo-Saxon and Germanic promethean works and, finally, presents a classification for promethean characters from modern Latin American literature. The first part of this thesis discusses, from a Jungian point of view, the archetypes of the mature masculine and their role in the process of individuation which the promethean myth chronicles. The second part presents the development of promethean literature from ancient Greece and Rome up to seven Anglo-Saxon and Germanic works : Faust, 1st part (1808) and 2nd part (1832) by Johann von Goethe, Frankenstein (1816) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Prometheus unbound (1820) by Percy Bysshe Shelley, the short story “the birthmark” (1843) by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson, The portrait of Dorian Gray (1891) by Oscar Wilde, and The island of dr. Moreau (1896) by Herbert George Wells. The third part analyzes six fictional works by six modern Latin American authors: Prometeo (1943) by the Ecuadorian Humberto Salvador, La invención de Morel (1940) by the argentine Adolfo Bioy Casares, El señor presidente (1946) by the Guatemalan Miguel Angel Asturias, Los pasos perdidos (1953) by the Cuban Alejo Carpentier, Cien años de soledad by the Colombian Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the short story “las ruinas circulares” from Ficciones (1941) by the argentine Jorge Luis Borges
Daneshvar, Negin. "Narcisse et narcissisme dans la littérature fin de siècle française et anglaise." Paris 4, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1991PA040118.
Full textAmong all the mythical figures that adorn and reveal the "fin de siècle" literature and mentality in France and Great Britain, Narcissus in favor of its affinities with the essence, the logic and the structure of eschatological phenomenons, set himself apart. Narcissus, the central figure of transition periods, or moments of pre-metamorphosis, thanks to his metaphysical fertility, divided and unified self being exhibited in his complexity, makes it possible a better knowledge of man and the universe. Narcissus, an identifical myth, brings a new enlightenment not only to the discomfort, anguish and question of man but also to the problematic ambiguity of the "fin de siècle". Therefore, a detailed study of the narcissus myth evolution leads thus, to recognize in this figure, then in narcissism, an answer to the human condition on the threshold of modernity
Montana, Jean-Marie. "Le spectaculaire dans la tragédie romaine." Paris 3, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA030105.
Full textRoman tragedy is a show which can be aptly compared with traditional stage productions such as those from the Far-East. It does not aim at reproducing reality, but is essentially connected with the non-realistic pattern of "ludi" i. E. Games, which the Romans are fond of, for entertainment as well as for collective experiences of great passions, or "motus animi", as different from Greek pathos. Topics are borrowed from Greek mythology, which is part and parcel of Roman culture, and which the Romans are first acquainted with through the plastic arts. The transition from the characters of the Greek stage to those of the Roman stage takes place through imagery, which is basically narrative in Antiquity. Tragedy then turns into a live ekphrasis, an image brought to live by the actor's words and gesture. Through his usage and abusage of the techniques of rhetoric, the actor stirs up "motus animi" in the audience. .
Michaut, Cécile. "Gémeaux, androgynes, hermaphrodites, Narcisse : unité et dualité du corps politique, 1562-1676." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008CLF20008.
Full textThe double monsters (creatures with two sexes, two bodies or two heads, such as androgynes, hermaphrodites, joint Gemini) were, in the 16th and 17th centuries, notable figures because there were many them and because they raised distressing issues. The double monster is, on the one hand, a sign announcing schims and civils wars, a sick or deviant figure ; but it is also sometimes announcing reconciliation and is a symbol of concord, peace and love. This study aims at reflecting on the meaning of these double monters. Our hypothesis is that they hold a discourse of a political nature on the Other (among a corpsb or a city). But that discourse, from the first religious conflicts (1562) to the publication of The Southern Land Known by Foigny (1676), evolved. The first part of this study is devoted to the definition of the single family of myths, including Hermaphrodite, the Androgyne, Janus, the Gemini and Narcissus. It shows how, from Antiquity onwards, those figures have been questioning the relation to the other. The second part reveals how those figures have become, in the 16th and 17th centuries, the ambivalent political emblens of war as well as peace, of order as well as disorder. The third part explains how novelists and poets have concentrates on the hermaphrodite. It analyses how and why that equivocal and hunted monster became, in the 17th century, the mouthpiece of a new State that does no longer tolerate otherness, and yet needs it
Matsubara, Yoko. "Proust et Racine : les références raciniennes dans les écrits de Marcel Proust." Paris 4, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA040066.
Full textThis thesis attempts to analyze the references to Racine found in the writings of Proust. Efforts are targeted to discuss how and why the references are integrated into Proust's work, and what effects they have on the central motifs of the novel, "À la Recherche du temps perdu". We should think about the question from three perspectives : that of the language, of the characters and of the story. We note that the references to Racine are used for theatrical dramas of the novel. Consequently, we approached not only the playwrights - the narrator, Albertine, Charlus and Mme des Laumes- , but also their dramas, established on their imaginary reading of Racine's tragedies, Esther, Athalie, Bérénice, Andromaque and Phèdre. With the eyes of these playwrights, the world appears complex : the readers are between two or three worlds of which they do not arrive at knowing which is true. We consider also how the references to Racine function : they prescribe the gestures and the look of the characters in the novel. By these references, the space also is transformed into the scenes of the theatre. The verses of Racine, whose original tonality was solemn and pure, and who were intended for a sacred and tragic scene, are used in the roman for a profane and comic piece. An analysis is focused on this process, which brings to light the comic and profane aspect hidden in the tragedies as well as the tragic and sacred side in the comedies
Romaggi-Trautmann, Magali. "La figure de Narcisse dans la littérature et la pensée médiévales." Thesis, Lyon, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LYSE2143/document.
Full textGreek myths « font signe sans signifier, montrant, dérobant, toujours limpides disant le mystère transparent, le mystère de la transparence2 ». With these words, Maurice Blanchot insists on the very mystery of all myth. It is also the case for the myth of the Narcissus that has known a considerable success in the medieval time but for which it is difficult to … a stable meaning. It is the famous Augustinian poet Ovidius myth that the medieval authors inherited. They added new meanings to the already rich legend, following the footsteps of Ovidius.Narcissus is foremost a figure in love. Narcissus is the unfortunate lover who suffers such a strong passion he dies from it. What he is in love with can be ignored in the medieval versions. Even if he loved a shadow, it is the intensity of his love and the funest consequences the texts insist on. Passion drives Narcissus on the road to death : spiritual death because of Madness et physical death. Narcissus was a prime subject for fin’amor poetry. Troubadours and trouveres made of Narcissus the perfect example of the fin amant between the XIIth and XIIIth centuries. Moreover Narcissus is the deeply linked to the representation of the melancholic that came from the psycho-physiological philosophical and medical theories of love.Moral Reading were also inspired by the myth. Indeed, Narcissus becomes a sinner full of flaws Under the Christian vision of the myth. Pride is the origin of all the flaws: vanity and arrogance are direct consequences. Narcissus becomes the perfect incarnation of these sins. Depending of the point of view the condemnation may vary but the idea is still the same: Narcissus is self-important and is too pleased with himself. Finally the water from the source, one of the most important aspect of the Narcissus mythology, became the meeting point of several traditions which interlaced in the medieval work: biblical water on one side and neoplatonician conceptions of reflection and ancient myth of Narcissus. The ancient fons transforms itself into a medieval fountain and a true mirror. The mirror becomes more and more independent from the surface of water. The phantasmatical dimension of the Narcissus love for his reflection is developed
Campan, Hélène. "Formes et figures du labyrinthe dans la littérature espagnole du Siècle d'Or : la figure de Méduse dans le Don Quichotte de Miguel de Cervantès." Paris 4, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA040042.
Full textThe labyrinth is an intricate mythological figure inserted into the Spanish classical literature. At once myth, symbol and metaphor, it is recurrent in the Don Quixote by Cervantes, in which work it develops into a close relation with the myth of medusa. The analysis of personages and fundamental episodes reveals, occulted under a relation apparently made in order to amuse the reader, a constant process of quest and sideration, which convokes the mythological figures of Daedalus and Medusa, as a mask and a mirror, sets an interrogation about through its very construction, the Don Quixote proves to be a labyrinth in which the figure of medusa, as a mask and a mirror, sets an interrogation about the mimesis understood as a strict imitating. Correlative of this interrogation, a self-identity question appears, revealing ways of psychical functionings, and presents the Don Quixote as a specular projection of the very functioning of the human mind
Roussillon-Constanty, Laurence. "Méduse au miroir : la quête du regard dans la peinture et la poésie de Dante Gabriel Rossetti." Grenoble 3, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001GRE39022.
Full textBastian, Aeneas. "Le mythe littéraire de Sisyphe." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA040020.
Full textThis thesis aims at studying the myth of Sisyphus in European and American literature. Adopting a comparative approach, the thesis retraces its chronological evolution from its origins in Homeric poetry to the present day. The investigation of the numerous versions of the myth sheds light on its development throughout the ages and gives an account of its principal constant and varying elements. The thesis analyses the foundation of the myth in Greek and Latin literature as well as its reinterpretations since the Middle Ages, especially in the nineteenth and in the twentieth century. This study shows the fertility and the adaptability of the myth of Sisyphus, a person considered to be crafty and immoderate in ancient literature. The punished serves as a term of comparison in a diversity of contexts: he represents the suffering of the unfortunate lover, the vanity of ambition and the futility of certain types of labour. Linked to the absurd by Albert Camus, the myth is frequently politicised in the second half of the twentieth century
Détoc, Sylvain. "Ulysse, ou l'épopée du retour : étude comparée du mythe odysséen dans la littérature européenne." Paris 4, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA040226.
Full textAmong all the stories dealing with coming back home in European literature (the coming back of a sailor, a soldier, a traveller, the coming back of a husband, a son, etc. ), the best-known is, without any doubt whatever, that of Ulysses, narrated in the Odyssey which has been told again and again for almost thirty centuries. This exceptional good fortune is to be explained more by the crystallization of the main features that make up this thematic corpus than by the historical importance of a model. Homer managed more than any other story-tellers to clarify and typify the traditional theme of the coming back of the missing one by giving his epic a dramatic density and a narrative scope that has remained unequalled. That is what the first part of this study shows. Yet, this mythification process can better be understood a posteriori thanks to resurgences that have played a part in enriching the story of the coming back of Ulysses with remarkable plenitude both at semantic and emotional levels. If there is a field in which this idealization of the coming back is to reach its full climax, it is undeniably poetry in exile as the second part of this work shows. From Antiquity to the twentieth century, the poets far away from their motherlands have found in the tale of the coming back to Ithaca very inspiring poetic material to build up elegiac fiction in which homesickness also ignites incentives to come back of another nature : a coming back to paradise lost, particularly that of childhood and that of an inaccessible absolute. If it is abusive to speak about the Myth of Ulysses, it is legitimate to distinguish in this narrative set a myth of the coming back : the Odysseyan myth
Mauré, Cécile. "Héritages et réappropriations du mythe d'Écho dans la littérature élisabéthaine." Montpellier 3, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006MON30027.
Full textAt one and the same time an acoustical phenomenon, a mythological figure and a literary device, Echo offers Elizabethan artists many outlets. The Ovidian myth has been adulterated, moralised, synthesised, and appears in a hybrid form in the 1550's and 1560's. Echo captivates and puzzles artists because it involves representing what cannot in fact be represented. Poets and dramatists find their own way round this paradox. Under French and Italian influence, they follow the pastoral trend and place Echo in a new Arcadia where joy and melancholy are mingled. Frequently quoted in elegies and complaints, Echo is also a tragic figure associated with suffering and lamentation, who no longer praises the gods, but bewails the dead. Hidden in the shade, her voice becomes suspect, leading men on false trails, blurring signs in woods which are suddenly transformed into dangerous labyrinths. In Shakespeare's plays and poems, she stands for disorder, bearing witness to a changing world. Echo is considered a minor figure, yet she incarnates the different aspects of a rich and complex style of writing which delights in taking the reader on roundabout detours