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Oye, Allogho Régine-Stéphanie. "Le sublime et l'idée d'énergie dans les Natchez et les Martyrs de Chateaubriand." Toulouse 2, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008TOU20002.
Full textThe Nineteenth century is a period which breaks with classical conventions and seems to mark the beginning of the modern age. The most important sign of this rupture is the French Revolution, which brought about a considerable upheaval in society and gave new direction to the work of many writers. That is the case for Chateaubriand, for whom the Revolution produced convulsive images in which the ugly and the beautiful merged into each other, in compliance with the aesthetic of the sublime. The same horrific scenes are found in both Les Natchez and Les Martyrs. We are plunged into a fascinating and enigmatic world, full of characters both disconcerting and upsetting, a powerful world in which all extremes come together. Chateaubriand's novelistic texts are inspired by Milton's and Burke's sublime. Energy, passion and violence override aesthetic taste. Our study consists in showing how the infernal sublime which appears simultaneously in characters, nature and writing, is also attenuated by a supernatural sublime linked to religion. Chateaubriand's characters worship exaltation in the face of misfortune. The author stresses the voluntary experience of crime, even when it is collectively justified by war. The vocabulary of the sublime leads to a theory of action and of individual transgression. The pleasure in evil is no more a paradox but the logic of the desire of power. Through his characters, Chateaubriand fathoms dark energies which animate man, and their explosion produces a sublime of terror. The author introduced the suject of crime to cause an extraordinary and shocking effect, as the notion of sublime requires ; he also tells of the devil's apparition which embodies Evil in his novels, so that the world of Les Natchez and Les Martyrs is a disorded and fantastic one. In Les Martyrs, Chateaubriand tackles crimes that society commits, and which suggest hell beneath our world. The survival of evil shows itself in awful crimes, violent behaviour and the exacerbation of desire. Terror, strength and excess are the driving forces of both our novels. The inexhaustible power of the wicked must always leads them to extreme states of mind : madness and monstrousness. The only means to present these superhuman beings is to use the image of the monster, or else those of fire and hell, which convey quasi-demoniacal characters. This transgression of law and order makes possible the creation of a man absolute in evil, such as Ondouré, and this boundless power constitutes the fondamental feature of the sublime in both works. Les Martyrs and Les Natchez point out in their own way that the most profound truth of man is revealed through emotion and violent pulsions, and not in the use of reason and wisdom. This idea of sublime also appears in nature, first impulsive, then glorified. Horrible and threatening, seas, forests and storms impress and hypnotize because of the sublime forces they contain. This monstruous sublime of nature imposes the desire for power's defeat of man. It expresses the dramatical intenseness in which man is confronted with the vertigo of his weakness and with his helplessness faced with an inhospitable nature. Parallel to this monstruous sublime, a more peacefull sublime can be found in the narration. The sublime comes to be in humbleness and simplicity, as well as in a Christian thought which wants to conciliate humility and sublime, devotion and divine greatness. In Chateaubriand's world, the sublime's poetics are never far from a religious question, in communion with God. This ideal sublime becomes especially apparent in Les Martyrs, where it is lived morally and religiously, and its purpose is to acknowledge divine law. It also leads to the evocation of nature, finally peaceful and welcoming. Chateaubriand becomes a painter, because restful sublime is for him first a delight for the senses, a visual display which causes artistic activity. Chateaubriand thus guided the sublime towards the picturesque. So, this notion does not originate solely in violence and is not always on a par with terror. Nature is the place in which a ceaseless fecondity leads to a particularly sensual reverie : sublime is in league with pleasure and grace as much as with violence and terror. It is so full of humanity that the author gives a moral and sentimental aim to the simplest beings : the flower, the bird, the insect show its vitality and unity. The natural element is perhaps an abyss, but Chateaubriand rejects the thought of chaos, and makes his texts converge at a finality : harmony. Nevertheless, although Les Natchez and Les Martyrs are the privileged crucible of the author's idealism of simplicity, Chateaubriand's thougt remains constantly preoccupied with the problem of evil, which unceasingly ruins the whole structure of humanitarian and religious idealism
Baudoin, Sébastien. "La poétique du paysage dans l'oeuvre de Chateaubriand." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2009. https://theses.hal.science/tel-00658756/document.
Full textAureau, Bertrand. "Chateaubriand penseur de la Révolution." Paris 4, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA040081.
Full textCsíky, Gábor. "La fascination de la mort dans les Mémoires d'outre-tombe de Chateaubriand." Paris 3, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA030079.
Full textThe present thesis consists of two parts which are demarcated distinctly by their theme and their method. The first, dedicated to death in history, is placed under the aegis of the problem of murder, of violent death. The second deals with the experience of death whether it affects the self, the relatives or others. A common problem traverses death in history and death as a way of living : the scriptural representation of the historic past and the personal testimonies are defined in comparison with an obsession, or even better, a fascination over death. Both parts are structured according to an orientated trajectory which is found to assume each time a triple rhythme. In this way, death in history begins deliberately with the analysis of the French Revolution, from its criminal birth until the disappearance of its actors ; it goes through the entire reign of Napoléon, from the execution of the duke of Enghien to the tomb of the Emperor at Sainte-Hélène ; it reaches finally the years of the Restauration to stop at the moment of the death of Charles X. The trajectory of the triad of the self, of the relatives and of others, embraces the three phases of the experience of death which becomes a veritable way of life ; from the stadium of the external and impersonal knowledge of common death, it goes through the disappearance of relatives by evoking the problems of loss and of mourning ; it comes to an end with the death in the first person of the appropriated and internalized death
Morel, Anne-Sophie. "Chateaubriand et la violence de l'Histoire dans les Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe." Lyon 3, 2007. https://scd-resnum.univ-lyon3.fr/in/theses/2007_in_morel_as.pdf.
Full textViolence permeates and informs the writing of the Mémoires d'outre-tombe and brings together both the memorialist's esthetics and his readings from the period as echoed in his works. Thus the theme of violence constitutes a particularly effective approach for defining and refining one's appreciation of Chateaubriand's poetics, his esthetic and political thought, and the constructs of his imagination, all anchored in a historic perspective—states of mind, mythologies, and ideologies. Revolutionary violence brings with it destabilization and grounds the modern era on a rejection of tradition and a loss of identity. Marginalized from History in terms of actual events, Chateaubriand recovers a measure of historical authenticity through his use of the imaginary. Revolutionary trauma is thus at the origin of a rich production of images that the writer develops both to stigmatize and at the same time to attempt to exorcize violence endured. Because he was a participant in history, the memorialist formulated strategies of implication or protection, inaugurating a specific way of writing about violence
ZEIDAN, JOSEPH. "Feminite mediatrice et prophetisme dans les memoires d'outre-tombe de francois-rene de chateaubriand." Angers, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999ANGE0013.
Full textVeto-Bougeard, Marie-Elisabeth. "Chateaubriand traducteur : de l'exil au Paradis perdu." Paris 4, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA040111.
Full textRoret, Anne. "Les lieux de mémoire dans les Mémoires d'outre-tombe de Chateaubriand." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA040090.
Full textSpace and time meet in "memory places": these places are not only geographical sites, but they are pictures too, extracted from time, like photographs kept in mind. We have limited our study, in the "Mémoires d'Outre-tombe", to memory places which protect the writer and constitute life and creation spaces. Their heart is a refuge, which may be a residence, an architectural place or a simple shelter, and the town or village, woods and gardens surrounding it. Main places are both protective and fragile, like secondary places of memory which multiply, for the artist nostalgic of somewhere else and past. They are all present in the text, like small lively pictures. Secondary memory places are linked to the first by the associative memory's work which aims to recreate continuity of actual time. But all of these places are in danger of being forgotten, of falling down, being deserted by life, because of death, banishment, moving, historical disorders. . . So the constructive strength of the artist has to appear even in the heart of each picture: if associative memory, links of heart, travelling memory places bind together the writer's stages of life and travels, cultural, sentimental and spiritual roots also make each picture stronger. Perceiving time as continuous could also be staying in the same place, as an epicurean, looking at time sedimenting, as the writer dreamt. So Chateaubriand succeeded in overcoming threats of time's disasters, never forgetting them
Weber-Maillot, Tatiana. "Le Moyen-Age de Chateaubriand : esthétique, éthique et idéologie." Paris 4, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA040121.
Full textStarting from the presupposition that Chateaubriand rehabilitated the Middle Ages, i examine in his work the evolution of two themes which were treated as rather marginal in the 18th century, but then came to fruition in the Romantic period : the Gothic and chivalry. In doing so, I seek to show how the Revolution, which Chateaubriand despised only for its crimes against ancient France, paradoxically made him into the disseminator of a culture to which he had no innate inclination. Central to a gothic imagination which combines imagery from Breton landscapes and arguments from the Gothic revival, the cliché of the gothique sylvestre, an intuitive theory which prevents one from having to think as a specialist, first serves the purpose of a re-sacralization of a profaned cathedral, and then, after 1830, moves towards a romantic aesthetics of profusion and enormity. Parallel to this, as a model of greatness extended to a world of pygmies. But the ruin determines the emotion. If Chateaubriand brings into his "cathedral autobiography" the commited figure of the knight-writer and integrates courtly ethics into his amorous fantasies, the Middle Ages, set at the distance through irony and emptied out by ghostly stagings from the gothic novel, is denounced as a reactionary aesthetics and ideological model. Torn between honor and freedom, the Gothic and the Classic, Chateaubriand finally stops at the Renaissance which , as conveyed in the figures of Chambord and François Ier, carries out the ephemerical fusion of principles and styles and, above all, by letting the past dye peacefully and by preserving the continuity of history, opposes the bloody advent of modernity with the miracle of a painless Revolution
Champseix, Jean-Paul. "L'image de la Bretagne et du Breton dans la littérature et la para-littérature française d'audience nationale de Chateaubriand à Becassine." Paris 10, 1985. http://www.theses.fr/1985PA100046.
Full textAntoine, Philippe. "Les récits de voyage de Chateaubriand : contribution à l'étude d'un genre." Dijon, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995DIJOL005.
Full textChateaubriand is one of the creators of the literary travel, but he has also been under the influence of his predecessors. His writing cannot be analyzed without their being related to the traditional genre and culture out of which they have grown. The author also interweaves relations between his travel narratives and his other works. As soon as he is to depict the elsewhere, particular processes appear in the making of the text. They build up a time and space within the story - which is never itself the direct reflection of experience. Lastly the traveler is inevitably featured within his text, whether as narrator or as a character, but also through the visions of the world which he presents his reader with. By rewriting the world and the ego and by inventing the character of the travelling writer, chateaubriand has brought travel narrative up to the level of the major branches of literary creation
Pinel, Marie. "La mer et les approches du sacré chez Chateaubriand." Paris 4, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992PA040168.
Full textChateaubriand wanted himself to be a seaman: he assumes his british atavism by elaborating a mythical image of himself and becoming the bard of ocean. His knowledge of the sea rests on three sources: his own experience and the double influence of the greco-latin and judeochristian cultures. Then he makes an essentially tolerant and personal synthesis which constitutes the basis of his experience of the sacred. Like plato he considers the beautiful as the sign of the true; tolerant like the philosophers of the enlightenment he respects any physical access to the beautiful as long as it is an authentic experience of the sacred. His religion can be defined as means as atteigning the transcendent through the experience of beauty based on an accepted and surpassed sensualism. The mission of the poet is then to account for the beauty of god which can be perceived through the beauty of nature in accordance to the theory of harmonies. Chateaubriand bases his poetics on the three fundamental characters of sacred for him: greatness, mildness, mystery. As a source of poetic inspiration the sea also becomes a privileged instrument of writing: it provides him with a symbolic system expressing his own sensitivness and his link with the sacred
Cavallin, Jean-Christophe. "Chateaubriand mythographe : figures du moi et poétique de l'analogie dans les Mémoires d'outre-tombe." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA040133.
Full textMy thesis intends to demonstrate that the character of the man of the memoires d'outre-tombe is a symbolic one who allegorizes the palingenesic myth of death and rebirth whose original event was the awesome year of 1793. This allegoric character's likeness is neither a psychological nor a confessional one, but a figurative likeness, configured 1) on three great legendary ancestralities (Moses, Noah, Eneas) of which his face is the mingled palimpsest; and 2) on three basic allegoric patterns: a figure of hybridation of past and future ( ie moi'hybride}, a figure of androgyny ( ie moi-androgyne) and a figure of cryptophoria (ie moicryptique) that configure each in its turn the three folded likeness of the man of the memoires as an historical character , as a poet, and as a memorialist
Ghazul, Mohamed. "L'image de l'islam dans les œuvres de Chateaubriand." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA040066.
Full textTo discover “The picture of Islam in works of Chateaubriand”, that is the topic of our thesis, we first tried to establish sources to which he drew. After his childhood and his youth, we studied the influence of his middle, of people met in Orient, of the idea general of France and the press on his thought politico-nun vis-a-vis of Islam. We took Voltaire for example of this influence. The part most important this chapter is dedicated to the written sources in which Chateaubriand had drawn to his itinerary. In the second admonishes us looked for texts in which Islam was present in time that religion, politics, customs, etc. We divided them in three groups: written texts with his departure in orient, those of the itinerary, and in short those published after the release of this work. To measure his vision of Islam and Muslims, we treated the situation general of the Ottoman Empire. We presented of a historic view point the Turkish government, his administration, his fiscal system, his character, the conduct and customs of Muslims. Also, we solved relations of the Muslim society and the oriental Christians. As Chateaubriand often judged Islam in time that strength politics, we examined his political reflections therefore in order to discover the sense of his reproaches to Muslims and solutions that it proposes to problems of the orient. Besides, to know the value of information given by him on this religion, we indicated contradictions and some restrained inaccuracies in the itinerary, notably by the way of the morals of the Koran and the invitation of this sacred book to the progress. These researches permitted us to appreciate so chateaubriand knew Islam indeed; if the Itinerary, is a work in quest of objectivity, what factors influenced his thought politico nun and what picture he gave Islam
Mun, Mi-Young. "René et Julien Sorel : ambition et mélancolie chez Chateaubriand et Stendhal." Paris 12, 2004. https://athena.u-pec.fr/primo-explore/search?query=any,exact,990002102880204611&vid=upec.
Full textBetwenn Chateaubriand and Stendhal, there is an intertextuality through "René" and "Le Rouge et le Noir", in spite of very different styles of writing. In particular, René and Julien Sorel reveal some interesting elements because of their destiny with the same romantic characteristics. They represent each in their own way a generation of youth after the Revolution and illustrate the evolution of romantic hero in XIXth century. Chateaubriand and Stendhal show thematic and structural symmetry of ambition and melancholy through the circle of René ("Atala", "René", "Les Natchez") and "Le Rouge et le Noir" : ambition and melancholy create in René and Julien Sorel the system of opposition that complete and that converge in his characters looking into oneself and the harmony with the exterior. Ambition and melancholy are first tackled in relation to the historical and medical context. They are then developed in contact with the romanticism, love and religion in this thesis
Bercegol, Fabienne. "La poétique de Chateaubriand : le portrait dans les "Mémoires d'outre-tombe"." Paris 4, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA040069.
Full textThis work intends to give again to the portraits their proper place in the judgment of chateaubriand's work and poetics, as well as in the theoretical reflection on the art of description. Il deals with the elaboration of a definition of the portrait based on its formal characteristics ; it then considers its evolution in chateaubriand's work, its descriptives techniques, its subjects and its components. The study of the physical description touches on the question of the unity of arts, which is essential to the theory of literary portrait ; it reveals chateaubriand's gifts for caricature, his taste for the grotesque, as well as his choice of an aesthetics of the grace in his portraits of women. The study of the moral description reveals his political and literary thought, his cleverness at writing panegytics, and most of all, satires and polemics. Yet, the aim of his portraits remains to seize, through the structures of the myth and of the epic, the symbolic power of the characters, and espacially of napoleon, whose portrait becomes the best embodiment of the romantic hero, and shows at best chateaubriand's historiographic principles
Weiler, Christine. "Les formes brèves dans les "Mémoires d'outre-tombe" de Françoise-René de Chateaubriand." Lyon 3, 2005. https://scd-resnum.univ-lyon3.fr/out/theses/2005_out_weiler_c.pdf.
Full textLanot, Simon. "Écrire la fin et la mémoire des mondes : une ethnocritique d’Atala, René, les aventures du dernier Abencerage." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université de Lorraine, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LORR0281.
Full textThe question of the end of civilizations holds a major place in Chateaubriand's work. His novels, Atala, René and The Last Abencerage, written during the Revolution and the Empire, evoke, through the figure of “the last”, the end of the indigenous societies of America, Muslim Andalusia, Louis XIV's France, the end of the Jesuit communities, of the French provinces and traditional Scotland. Drawing on the work of Vincent Descombes, we analyse how fictional writing transforms these disappeared societies into “worlds”, into coherent universes structured by a system of values, their own rhetoric and cosmology. The plot is developed on a historical “gap” (H. Arendt, F. Hartog), in an inter-world : this rift between two worlds, this border space-time, is not only the framework of the fiction, it is also its subject. Writing does not aim to reconstitute lost worlds but to represent the passage from one world to another, or a double passage : that of the reader to the worlds to which the text initiates him, and that of the old world to the new world. The many descriptions of rites (shamanic, Islamic, Christian) can be read as keys to understanding these passages. By exploring the hypothesis formulated by the ethnocriticsm of a possible homology between rite and narrative, we will study the rite dimension of this writing that reconfigures lost worlds. These worlds are developed through writing in three ways: utopia, the golden age, and what we call, using Daniel Fabre's words, "the land of time". The notion of “negative truth” (Lévi-Strauss) encourages us to read utopia as a criticism of the colonial enterprise. The “political myth” of golden age (R. Girardet) reads Andalusia as a myth on the despotic drift of all regimes. The “land of time” includes all those worlds in which the perception of time obeys a logic other than that of modernity: so the narrative integrates the logic of oral cultures to perceive and inhabit the world in a different way. Three ways to write the modern world, but in “counterpoint” (Edward Said). The writing of the memory of the worlds requires a mixed writing that integrates diverse cultural logics
Mello, Melissa Moura. "Atala de F.-R. de Chateaubriand : objet fictionnel pour une pédagogie chrétienne." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/102194.
Full textEsta dissertação é composta por duas partes distintas: na primeira, realiza-se uma análise de Atala, ou Les Amours de deux savages dans le désert, obra publicada em 1801 e a qual François-René de Chateaubriand utilizou para ilustrar sua defesa do cristianismo. Iniciase comum breve apanhado da vida e obra do autor, a apresentação e alguns comentários sobre os prefácios das diferentes edições e o estudo narratológico do romance com o objetivo de buscar uma maior compreensão do texto assim como os efeitos de sentido que produz. Utiliza-se referencial teórico sobre a narratologia, o qual é aplicado para a realização da análise, assim como bibliografia relacionada a diversas propostas interpretativas do texto. Na segunda parte, apresenta-se uma nova tradução para o português do prólogo da obra, visto que a última data de 1939. Com base em alguns aspectos teóricos e a partir da comparação de alguns trechos das duas traduções, são feitas algumas observações sobre o ato tradutório e as diferenças entre as duas traduções levando-se em consideração o estudo literário feito anteriormente.
Romano, Cristina. "La rappresentazione del paesaggio tra letteratura e pittura nelle prime opere di Chateaubriand." Paris 8, 2006. http://octaviana.fr/document/117594148#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0.
Full textOur research is based on the depiction of landscape in the early works of François René de de Chateaubriand. First of all we have attempted to retrace the phases of the author's visual experiences through art and literature as well as in real life. In the second part, we have analysed the descriptive passages to uncover the sources that inspired Chateaubriand's representation of landscape. In this section we have focused on clearly-defined models:the pastoral, the sublime, Italian landscape, America, mountain scenery. Finally,in the third part, we have set aside an aesthetic approach to highlight the significance of description as a literary act. The defined corpus has also enabled us to analyse description in different contexts (the essay, fiction, the travel story) and to understand the dynamics arising from its relationship with narrative
Tabet, Emmanuelle. "Chateaubriand et le XVIIe siècle : mémoire et création." Paris 4, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA040120.
Full textPerot, Nicolas. "Musique et sentiment religieux chez les ecrivains de la generation de chateaubriand." Paris 8, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA081197.
Full textThis dissertation shoes the special link that exists between the feeling for religion and the music in the works of chateaubriand, madame de stael, joubert and senancour, but also in the works of composers and musicologists in their age : cherubini, mehul, lesueur, choron. I have in the first place brought to light the presence of sacred music (gregorian chant, the miserere of allegri, hymns, organ and bells) in literary works and i have studied, in the second place, the intellectual systems that tie and shape that religious feeling and the idea of music (the theories of imitation, of harmonies and correspondances, of enthusiasm). From that angle, i have redefined the new religious feeling at the beginning of the xixth century in the wake of the philosophy of enlightment (diderot, chabanon, rousseau). Through music, one can determine its most important themes (the need of passed, the feeling for nature, the aesthetic idealism) and show that that religious feeling is based on a sensualist conception of feeling and imagination. Religious fashion and musical fashion back up each over : music is always sacred and what sacred is always artistic. In the last division of this dissertation, the birth of that new religious conception is analysed as one of a roman catholic modernity. The historical approach is completed by a stylistic approach, both literary and musical. I have tried to show how the musical effect was expressed, how musical themes were used both figuratively and as literary element. Finally, i have tried to show how religious feeling was also expressed through music
Lee, Soon-Hee. "Les Œuvres complètes de Chateaubriand : une histoire éditoriale." Caen, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010CAEN1571.
Full textThe first edition of Chateaubriand’s complete works is published by Ladvocat in thirteen parts over six years. This edition is unique in two ways : it is conceived and made by the writer himself, and its successive installments are closely related to the changing contemporary political circumstances. Organised in four parts, Literature, Travel, Politics and History, this Epic of his time celebrates the progressive course of history. Proofreading and rewriting follow this same way, and Chateaubriand steadily builds the monument to his life and times as a vindication of progress. Until the twelfth part, everything points towards a glorious finale. However, the writer’s enthusiasm, waxing during the last years of the Restoration, wanes when the July Monarchy is established in 1830. Everything collapses then, and remain only the ruins of this monument, for which he had worked so passionately since 1826. The Ladvocat edition is completed in 1831, yet its history continues with the Mémoires d’outre-tombe. Published in 1848. Observing the evolution of society, Chateaubriand has endeavoured to make it understandable in the course of his complete works, and, as a memorialist, he keeps on with this project in the context of the general transformation of society, casting his gaze in the distant future where history, some day, will resume its progressive course
Moukete, Ferdinand. "Le discours satirique dans les "Mémoires d’outre-tombe" de Chateaubriand." Thesis, Paris Est, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PEST0028/document.
Full textThis thesis offers a reading of monumental work of Chateaubriand’s Memoirs from beyond the grave about the theme of satire as a literary genre and tone as writing. The approach is very ambitious given the complexity of reading levels, from autobiography to historical epic through the social and political critique. Similarly writing an epic, poetic, satirical and comic reveals another Chateaubriand. Face the monument often considered unclassifiable, this thesis presents a clear plan with a first part which first draws up a schedule of major events in the center of the Memoirs. The introduction and release the first part of this double-sided argument between civilization and social criticism, among an array of France and a study of gender: What is satire? and evolution of the kind of Juvenal to Chateaubriand.In part two and part three, exposed objects of satire, namely politics and his image, then the social question. Information are many, because they paint a nuanced portrait of this proud and wounded aristocrat: he condemns tyranny, revolution and violence, but it enhances the freedom of peoples and especially remains lucid, despite his faith in them, on errors the last Bourbons.The fourth section addresses the research problem: satire and rhetoric. The different shades of satirical writing are analyzed: the irony to cynicism through the comic. The comedy is never free, it is often used to hide the bitterness of feeling and derision situations. Similarly, cynicism is not from a cold mind, but an inner hurt or disappointment hurtful to self-esteem. For this reason, sarcasm is a step between comedy and cynicism, the first masking the second in the Memoirs
Barhoumi, Dorra. "Écrire le "mal d'être" au XIXème siècle : Chateaubriand, Constant, Maupassant." Paris 8, 2011. http://octaviana.fr/document/204602114#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0.
Full textThis research focuses on "Writing the World-Weariness" in the nineteenth century, through the study of Chateaubriand‟s “René”, Constant‟s “Adolphe”, Maupassant‟s “Strong as Death”, those texts belonging to Romanticism and to Realism. Starting with the psychoanalytic notion of “World-Weariness”, our research first explores the historical, political and social contexts of these three works, and the stylistic and “genre” differences, and literary streams to which the three authors belong. References are also given to other nineteenth century writers, mostly Flaubert and Baudelaire. Our study then develops the commonalities that unite the three texts through the presentation and the expression of “Disenchantment”, the same anguish and the same “neurosis”. Depersonalization and inhibition affect the three heroes, as well as the macabre sense of repression and melancholy that led them to ultimate tragic sense of death. Then we develop a philosophical approach showing that the three works express the same sense of “Schopenhaurian” boredom and the same “Stoic” sense of lovesick. Finally we show how these three literary expressions of “World-Weariness” can be compared with “Racinian” plays, and their tragic outcome for love and glory. Our thesis reveals latent similarities with inclearly different literary works in their way to express a both historical and metaphysical “World-Weariness”
Zanone, Damien. "Ecrire son temps : les memoires en france de 1815 a 1848." Paris 8, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA081317.
Full textBetween 1815 and 1848, from waterloo to memoires d'outre-tombe, the genre of memoirs has been considerably developping and became very popular. It is observed by all the contemporaneous : at the time when history is becoming a major epistemologic category, memory is strongly linked to it as its main manifestation. The production of memoirs is so numerous that some observers of that time spoke about a + fever ; (or even a + mania ;). Our inventory confirmed their immediate feeling : about four hundred and fifty new memoirs have been published during the thirty- three years we have considered; almost the three quaters of them came out between 1819 and 1834. Our study based on the whole phenomenon but, in the same time, chose a corpus of some thirty memoirs. Memoires d'outre-tombe by chateaubriand are, of course, the best known of these texts; but we have also considered, among others, memoires by fouche, madame de genlis, duchesse d'abrantes, as well as histoire de ma vie by george sand. We studied memoirs as a literary genre, but showing its many moving features: we explored those as theorical links between literary and epistemologic categories. They threw a strong light on relashionships between literature and knowlegde. That's why we dealt with poetical questions (borders of genres, problems of literacy) ; epistemological questions (problems of history writing, value of referenciality); questions of literary history and of history of ideas (influence of memoirs over the evolution of the novel around 1830, historical novel and realism) ; questions of sociocritics (memoirs as a main voice in the social discourse of the 1820's)
Girault-Fruet, Arlette. "Mers Intérieures : Chateaubriand, la mer, et les Mémoires d’outre-tombe." Thesis, Université Clermont Auvergne (2017-2020), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018CLFAL013.
Full textThe sea was first a real geographical space in Chateaubriand’s life, the boundless playing field of his childhood. By unfurling the world at large under his gaze, the sea provided him with a singular mode of appropriating it. The author of the Mémoires d’outre-tombe claimed for himself the status of seaman, discoverer, and traveller. The maritime lexicon comes to him spontaneously. While he only spent seven years of his childhood by the sea, then subsequently stopped but briefly in foreign port of calls, he keeps on referring time and again to the sea, and incessantly reinstates it in his texts, thus elaborating a rich netwwork of echoes. His very style evokes the rhythm of the sea and its ever-changing harmonics. The reader always seems to hear resounding waves and backwash in the distance. It is as if the writer’s sensibility and imagination, bearing the stamp of a foundational landscape, had him perceive the world through the shades and against the backdrops peculiar to the shores he left. Chateaubriand anxiously wondered whether the Mémoires would remain readable to his posterity. But writing and the sea conjure up the same idea of eternity : they write in labile script everlasting songs
Gil, Beatriz Cerisara. "Remémoration et histoire dans les "Mémoires D'Outre-Tombe" de F.-R. de Chateaubriand et leur traduction en portugais." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/17549.
Full textEste trabalho tem como objetivo o estudo da obra Mémoires d'outre-tombe, de François-René de Chateaubriand. Procedemos, inicialmente, à tradução de uma parte da obra - seus cinco primeiros livros -, estando esta tradução precedida por uma síntese do período histórico que serve de pano de fundo às Mémoires e também pela gênese da escrita deste texto memorialístico, com ênfase nas alterações em seu processo de redação que durou aproximadamente quarenta anos. A seguir, desenvolvemos uma análise centrada no corpus traduzido, que nos permite conhecer a construção do sujeito autobiográfico da narrativa. O estudo procura apresentar a particularidade deste sujeito que se forma a partir da dupla necessidade de criar uma subjetividade autônoma, de um lado, e de manter fortes laços com sua história, de outro. Investigamos as relações do texto com a herança dos gêneros que chegava então a Chateaubriand, mais precisamente com o gênero das memórias e com o da autobiografia, a fim de examinarmos aspectos da composição narrativa que formam sua dimensão autobiográfica. Diante desses elementos, pudemos, enfim, detalhar as análises sobre o eu autobiográfico que resulta da articulação, feita pelo narrador-protagonista, da perspectiva intimista e da perspectiva histórica.
Catel, Olivier. "Peinture et esthétique religieuse dans l’oeuvre de Chateaubriand." Lyon 3, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007LYO31019.
Full textThis thesis inquires into the relations between Chateaubriand and painting that were not much investigated even if he often quotes several painters and compares his descriptions with paintings. The first part of this thesis concentrates on the many pictorial sources that may have inspired Chateaubriand and which build up his imaginary museum. After this first part that gives a general idea about the close connections between religion and painting in his works, in a second part I showed how his pictorial aesthetics were dependent on his metaphysical conceptions that changed over the years : Chateaubriand, as a religious painter, went through several pictorial seasons. In a third part, I tried to define Chateaubriand's religious sublime, a sublime that is a subtle blend between the English and the French traditions and that is expressed through renewed pictorial forms
Baudoin, Sébastien. "La poétique du paysage dans l'œuvre de Chateaubriand." Phd thesis, Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand II, 2009. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00658756.
Full textGallo, Pierino. "L'intertexte épique moderne dans la théorie et la pratique de l'épopée chez Chateaubriand." Phd thesis, Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Etienne, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00921107.
Full textLara, Christine. "Pour une théorie de la réception "communo-culturelle" de la lecture : le sujet lecteur commun : réception d'Atala de René de Chateaubriand dans des aires culturelles variées : cas de la Guadeloupe, de la Polynésie et de la métropole." Toulouse 2, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010TOU20096.
Full textThis study suggests analyzing the reception of the reading within varied cultural areas. My postulate is that the reception of the reading by an empirical, cooperative or abstract reader, is made at two levels: the one that define the theorists of the reception of the reading as Iser, Eco, Jauss or Picard, an individual level where the reader creates, completes the text and another level than I shall define in the thesis, where the reading is made according to a shared culture, to a common culture. Wolfang Iser, in L’Acte de lecture (1985), tries to discover what occurs in the authority reader at the time of her reading. For this theorist, the reader is also a creator of the text. He shows that the reader reacts to the requests registered in the text and which pre-direct his reception. For him, the text organizes and manages the reading. It leads the reader, guides him in his reading of the text. For Umberto Eco, in Lector in fabula (1989), the ideal reader answers standards planned by the author, he is the model reader who cooperates to complete the text, "tissue of white spaces, chinks to be filled". The reader so cooperates, by updating the text, this Model reader is capable of communicating with the author who slid for him indications in the text. Thanks to his encyclopaedic skill, the reader can build his reading. Hans-Robert Jauss, as for him, in his book Pour une esthétique de la réception, which combines texts written between 1972 and 1975, criticizes the literary history which still granted importance only for two authorities: the author and the text. Jauss claims the participation of the reader in the text. The reader thus takes up the text by updating it, by inserting it into a field referent defined by his personal, cultural, social references, his own lived. Michel Picard, theorist of the literary reading, in his book La lecture comme jeu (1986) is more particularly interested to the real, empirical reader, who reads with his body, the one that we shall meet mostly, during this study. The subject reader is in the heart of the researches for the theorists of the literary reading. He is the third authority of the set of three (author, text, reader). These theorists defined a first level of the reception, more personal, more individual, than a second level for which I try to bring to light and to theorize. This new aspect of the reception, which I shall define as communo-cultural, shows that the reader reacts to the cultural requests established in the text and brings his according to the history and the culture of his community, his people. Indeed, every word, every situation that reads the pupil reader, activates in him a cultural phenomenon of memory, stemming from the cultural heritage which he shares with his community, of his common, ancestral history, passed on by his family, his traditions, sound lived daily, his reality. The teaching according to me has to take into account this "hillside" of the pupil, this wealth and this second reading of the text to allow him to advance, to feel reassured sometimes and especially, to open in the reading of the literary texts. Annie Rouxel, Gérard Langlade and Marie-José Fourtanier propose the another notion of the literary reading “which is interested in the reconfiguration of the text by the real reader and presents plural modes of realization. There is thus a movement of the interest: from the virtual reader to the real reader, and, consequently, from the text of the work to the text of the reader ". This creative reader is the one as well as we find in our classes, the one who, in the contact of his culture, becomes the " subject common reader ". This reader exceeds the individual frame of the reception to share a common reading with those who have the same cultural heritage. The text becomes then as a cultural bridge between them. This " subject common reader " his history reacts to stimuli in touch with his past and: the interpretation that he makes actions(shares) of the characters, the situations, even the vocabulary used by the author is so shared by several other pupils readers. An exchange becomes established, unspoken cultural and historic are individually expressed and grouped together within the classes. It is only when we noticed that the observations of the pupils were identical to more than sixty percent than we elaborated this notion of “subject common reader”. It is about a cultural reader, about a multiple reader in the sense that he represents the reception of almost all his community. The reader who begins this journey within the fiction is persuaded to live in reality events which mark him. He cries, he laughs, he gets angry against a situation or against a character, against Atala, who goes away from her culture and wears a crucifix instead of the trick and dreams, against Chactas who travelled in Paris and behaved in European, giving up a part of himself. But this reading of the other one, this reading of one is influenced by the cultural heritage of the pupils, by the situation which they live at the time of the reading. The reader begins a “reading in shadow". What I call " reading in shadow ", is the reflection of the text, this other possible reading, hidden behind the book, the unfaithful reading to the text, but which arises from the text, a little as a shadow and its object. The reader imagines, weaves the another text everything around that of the author. We shall thus see during this analysis, that the pupils readers of diverse cultural spaces have a reception and a perception of texts, different in certain points of that of the others. It is a kind of identity lectoriale common to a culture. Atala of Chateaubriand is the work retained to demonstrate that the reading of a work is certainly plural because it addresses all the readers and can be perceived by various manners according to the "reader", but also community because it allows a cultural group to find known elements. It is the book which in spite of its success in the XIXth century, of its indisputable influence on the texts which succeeded it, is only few or not studied at the school. This reflection will use diverse studies, pupils-reader's numerous works as well as documents and investigate, as that led with 379 teachers of overseas, between 2007 and 2009. And we shall see, throughout this thesis, that the triad defined by the theorists: TEXT-AUTHOR-READER, would have to integrate a new authority: the PATRIMONIAL COMMUNITY, interacting with the subject-common
Guyot, Alain. ""Une certaine manière de voir" : la description entre récit de voyage et récit de fiction chez Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Chateaubriand et Théophile Gautier : essai de confrontation stylistique." Paris 4, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA040278.
Full textBernardin de Saint-Pierre, Chateaubriand et Théophile Gautier, as many other writers, bring back written trails from their travels, in the form of descriptions, often reused from one work to the other. Comparing these descriptions, on the basis of recent researches, allows going through their insertion in the narrative texture, their construction, their functions and their positions in the account, as well as their relationship with referential reality. It also allows to bring out information about stylistical practices of the authors, and to sketch a typology out for so different narrative forms as travel account and fictional account. From similar means, such as analogies, syntactical structuration, verbal tense effects, demarcating proceedings, work on vocabulary, hypotyposis, etc. ), these two literary genres treat description differently, according to their own restraints. Narrative fiction, a hurried discourse, clearly tends to make it profitable and functional. Travel account, in which narrative structure is weaker, gives more freedom in description, and helps to elaborate a new way of composing, not to be ignored modern novel
Bonnet, Caroline. "L'art et le décor à travers le style de deux écrivains du XIXe siècle, Chateaubriand et les Goncourt." Paris 4, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA040255.
Full textAssuming that art and literature reflects their time, we will point out the evolution of art and interior decoration by a comparative study of literature and interior decoration styles'. Authors such as Chateaubriand for the early XIXth century and the Goncourt for the second half will provide significant examples to analyze the evolution of art and decoration and their relevance with the authors' style. We shall define the Empire style of Chateaubriand based on neoclassicism, beauty, harmony and balance, revealing both in prose and decoration a architectured style, defined by the line and idealisation. Participating to the Napoleonian propaganda, arts and decoration emphasize the didactic purpose of prose, expressing the classical doctrine of docere, movere, placere. Prose of war, painting and decoration can lead to meditation, catharsis and figurative or literary vanities. Yet, beyond the classical constraints, writing, painting and decoration reveal a sensibility forecasting romanticism. Drawing gave way to colour, foreshadowing a break in decoration, witnessed in the Goncourt prose. Decadence in prose and eclecticism in decoration epitomized the second half of the century. The richness of prose echoes a decoration subjected to the horror vaccui. The deconstructed décor parallels not only the decadence of a fragmented sentence but also the decay of the sick body. The fragmented syntax in this precious writing style mirrors the impressionist dispersion misunderstood by the Goncourt. The scattered touch corresponds, in decoration, to the anthropomorphic and feminine substitute bibelot and, in literature, to the word which becomes a word bibelot, work of art
Degout, Bernard. "L'impossible souveraineté : Victor Hugo et la condamnation royaliste du romantisme, 1819-1824." Paris 12, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA120003.
Full textThis thesis considers its subject (victor hugo until 1824, strictly) in its relation to the condamnation of romanticism by the societe royale des bonneslettres and the quatre academies, end of 1823 and beginning of 1824. The purpose is to make clear that victor hugo's work has been concerned in the first place by this condamnation, but by no means because of a concealed liberalism. Has been condamned a particular inflection of royalism (built through a rewriting of chateaubriand) that refused to the restauration the fact of being a real restauration. The strong tense of victor hugo's work to the future, the strength found in the certitude that the french revolution was opening a new era, were fought by the also strong certitude that the future was intimately threatened by the bad that had just made a formidable irruption in history ; his royalism tried to base poetically an organical sovereignety of divine law, and in the same time, the poet, whose legitimacy lay in the assomption of his divine destination, was obliged to confess that god stayed hidden to him
Lagardère, Lucie. "Ecritures de crises, poétiques du devenir : imaginer l’histoire par la littérature dans les proses romantiques de Foscolo, Chateaubiand et Coleridge (1789-1815)." Paris 7, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA070136.
Full textThis thesis explores literary forms of history between 1789 and 1815 - period in which revolutionary and post-revolutionary Europe experiences an endless string of political, social and economical crisis —, in order to examine the ways these forms write about the historical outlooks. The contextuel, generic, and poetic analysis of the works of Foscolo, Chateaubriand and Coleridge reveals ruptures, hybridizations, pluralities and fragmentations, which affect both prose and represented subject. Sign of the particular historicity of this time, the poetical and political destabilizations demonstrate a critical experience of time and history. Moreover, unlike the historiographical model that will be gradually imposed, starting from the second half of the nineteenth century, the works studied do not fit into a stable and clearly identifiable narrative genre: they follow the path of poetic depiction, of prophecy, and of symbolic imagination, in order to repair the wreckage of history, the fractures of the subject and the breaking of textual forms. The writing of the facts deals with the emotions of the subject, builds a poetic recollection of the past and opens the memory to an aftertime. The authors try to translate the present global crisis into a dynamic of future. This general watermark movement, that goes from ruins to repairs, from sudden stop to restart, guides the outlines of this thesis: so conceived as a becoming, time can be renewed. Imagination and prophecy gradually replace former times report and make the prophetic fact happen in present reality. Thanks to the rhythm and the generic distortion, the literary text reveals the endeavour to give meaning and coherence to history, while simultaneously undermining this effort by introducing contingency and conflicts of temporality. Prose steadily assumes poetical qualities to institute poetry as a future-based oriented temporality. This diction of reality belongs to a larger project of re-foundation: first, the temporal one, due to the reconnection of the three temporal categories, then the patriotic one, with each author's strong national and political plans likely to reshape a possible vivre-ensemble, and finally the literary one, for the authors look for the most appropriate literary form more likely to convey ideas of liberty, balance and synthesis
Al-Hadal, Sami Sharaf. "L'Orient sous l'œil des écrivains voyageurs : Six récits de voyage littéraires français du premier XIXe siècle." Caen, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012CAEN1655.
Full textThis thesis aims to examine the representation of the "Orient", in French travel literature in the first nineteenth century. It invites to detailed analysis for the six travel histories of the "Orient", which we have chosen. The objective is to determine the status of these trips, the motivations, the conditions, the risks, the followed routes, the means of transport used at the time as well as the views of travel writers of the region, their impressions and feelings. It's also to know how the "Orient", the "Other" fascinating for Westerners, was presented in French literature of the Romanticism century. Following Bonaparte's expedition to the "Orient" in the early nineteenth century which opens the way to the region, many of the French travelers who searching of exoticism have led to the "Orient". On their return, they began to write and publish their diaries, their stories, notes. . . Etc. The literary, artistic and cultural manifestation unprecedented born in France, giving rise to the so-called «Orientalism». The present study shows, on the one hand, that the literature is produced by the imagination of the "Orient" with wealth equal to the disciplines that have been preferred so far by studies of the “Orient”, and on the other, that there is a need to open a dialogue between literature and the Eastern knowledge. So, this thesis evokes the singularity of the meeting between the world of eastern knowledge and the reader
Arici, Esra. "La résurgence et la liquidation des modèles politiques antiques aux XVIIIè siècle, de Diderot à Chateaubriand." Thesis, Tours, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010TOUR2027/document.
Full textThe political discourse in the 1770s, which coincides with the parliamentary crisis, is marked by arecurrence of references to the Antiquity with positive references to democratic models and negative figures of tyranny. These references reach a true peak with the French Revolution before the divisions between the revolutionary parties (moderate Girondists/radical Jacobins) gradually degrade their credibility. Texts of certain eliminated revolutionaries, such as that of André Chénier,demonstrate that decline. Chateaubriand’s "Essai sur les revolutions" (1796, reed. 1826) disintegrates, in a systematic manner, the political antique models, which henceforth, become perceived as triggers of revolutionary acts in the post-thermidorian period.This thesis investigates the modalities of the revival and the liquidation of the political antique models through diverse esthetical genres during the late XVIIIth and early XIXth centuries in Diderot’s "Essai sur les règnes de Claude et de Néron" (1782), the poetry and the prose of André Chénier, the theater of Marie-Joseph Chénier, David’s paintings and Chateaubriand’s "Essai sur les revolutions"
Vauloup, Jeanne. "D’une Grèce l’autre : l’écriture de l’histoire dans les récits de voyage en Grèce de Chateaubriand et Edgar Quinet." Thesis, Université Clermont Auvergne (2017-2020), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017CLFAL013/document.
Full textEarly after the fall of the ottoman domination, the French travelers went to Greece in order to wander through a land full of history, with a glorious past but a deceiving present. Chateaubriand and Quinet were writers and travelers who reported the crisis lived at the turning point of the Hellenic war of independence (1821-1830). Through their gaze of “borders-men” – both writers and historians – these French painters of the Greek landscape described a plurivocal Hellade, at the beginning and the end of the war of national uprising. This study question the intrusion of history in their fictional travel narratives and report the making of their Greek thought situated at the heart of their respective career. The romantic historiography was just at its premises because history as a scientific discipline was barely emerging. Thus, through the prism of literature and imagination, travel narrative was a fitting genre for writing history, propitious to the fragmentation of speeches by the work of palimpsest. As Januses with their eyes turned to the past as well as to the future, in Greece, Chateaubriand and Quinet inscribed themselves in the history of their time, at the turning point of the European Revolutions, through a writing of the immediate history while painting landscapes with historical dimension
Lefort, Luc. "Le Génie du paysage : l'idéologie paysagère dans la littérature française des années 1800." Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030009/document.
Full textThe first romanticism at the turn of the 19th century would be the successor to Rousseauism. However, we believe this translates into a radical break between the idea of nature as understood in the 18th century and the idea of landscape as expressed by the young writers in the 1800s. Until the Revolution, the idea of nature is still considered as the ideal setting for potential happiness, as evidenced, even on the ground, by landscape designers at the end of the former Regime. From the regular garden to the landscaped garden, landscape was only ever designed as a background. In the wake of the Revolution, landscape takes on a whole new meaning. It is no longer the divine setting where the intelligent man flourishes, but becomes the sublime figure of a new relationship that the man has with himself. Representations of the Enlightenment culture were based on transcendence and verticality; these give way to representations of romantic thought, built on immanence and horizontality.Thus elevated to the status of concept, the landscape gives rise to a new relationship with time and space, redefines the view point and the horizon and prioritises the relationship on the essence. We believe that this transformation of representations, which heralds the entry into the modern era, is the most profound effect of the upheaval caused by the Revolution. Our thesis claims that it is important to talk about the emergence of a landscape ideology for these 1800s if we are to understand what leads not only to the literature of Senancour, Germaine de Staël and Chateaubriand, but also the philosophy of Destutt de Tracy and Maine de Biran as well as the growth in the physical sciences, with Georges Cuvier, and the human sciences, with Jean-Baptiste Say, to quote our principal authors
Levet, Marie-Anne. "Syncrétisme, synergies, synesthésies, mimêsis littéraire et picturale en France à l'articulation des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002CLF20020.
Full textShagaf, Soliman. "La perception de l'Egypte dans les récits de voyageurs français de 1783 à 1869." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA040087.
Full textTravel in Egypt is an old dream shared by travellers since the beginning of the XVIIIth century and encouraged by philosophical and political writtings. Volney and Potocki, sons of the Enlightenment, travel in the East to check the truthfulness of their readings and to pave the way to european spreads. In the nineteenth century, a few Romantics like Chateaubriand and Nerval travel to discover this mythic Orient, where recollections of civilisation and history mingle with a quest of identity. As for Fromentin, who comes from the pictural art, he attempts to reveal with his nib and paintbrush, the light and the colours of this Orient. Do these writers-voyagers research the mythic Orient or their own identity?
Montocchio, Clémence. "L'esclavage, les Amérindiens et les femmes dans les récits de voyage et les romans de Bernardin de Saint-Pierre et de Chateaubriand, 1768-1827." Mémoire, 2011. http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/4113/1/M12101.pdf.
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