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Baumgardt, Ursula. "Représentations de la femme dans la société précoloniale de l'Aadamaawa (Nord-Cameroun) : analyse du répertoire d'une conteuse peule de Garoua." Paris, INALCO, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993INAL0003.
Full textMirza-Hessabi, Jafar Jahangir. "Étude comparative des contes français et persans." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA040112.
Full textBazzi, Rachid. "Le conte de l'étymologie à la métaphore : quelques thèmes et leurs transformations dans les deux littératures classiques iranienne et arabe." Paris, EHESS, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000EHES0023.
Full textRaharijaona, Alphonse. "L'individu à travers les contes malgaches." Paris 12, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989PA120025.
Full textThe individual in tales can be observed and identified by means of five factors : 1. His role and functions as a character in tales 2. His place and integration in his environment 3. The contrasts defining the human being : earth heaven, heavenly being earthly being. . . . 4. The search for a spoux, wealth, power, danger. . . 5. His skill in using the various powers at his disposal. These powers will preserve the essence of the individual as well as the "lamina" or the order set by god. Living in one unit of life (time and space) and evolving within a fence of paternalism (the community he lives in, the values in this community and god and the metaphysical powers) the individual will manage to conquer his "anjara" or destiny and receive a reward according to his deeds
Saucourt, Emmanuelle. "Amadou Hampâté Bâ : ethnologue ou silatigi ? : travail sur un corpus écrit de contes initiatiques peuls." Lyon 2, 2004. http://theses.univ-lyon2.fr/documents/lyon2/2004/saucourt_e.
Full textNjeddo Dewal, Kaïdara, Koumen, L'éclat de la grande étoile - these are the titles of Fulani initiatory tales passed on by the Malian writer Amadou Hampâté Bâ. Through crossing and questioning these materials, we have tried to address the issues linking culture, orality and writing. What is being said about men and culture in the passage from the oral to the written transmission of founding texts? Choosing to study initiatory tales of young Fulani shepherds - an oral material playing a significant social and cultural role for the individual and the community - what status should be conferred upon these tales once they are written and published? Can then this new form of tales be considered as a source of ethnological knowledge of Fulani culture? What is the literary, initiatory and ethnological work achieved by author Hampâté Bâ, so as to make these written tales both pieces of expression of a culture and structuring elements of initiation? Thus our research through pages have led us to perceive the tales as a creation to the glory of the Bovidae, containing the sacred words and the knowledge necessary to the weaving of the bond between the Fulas and their culture’s cement element - the cow. By collecting and putting the tales in writing, Hampâté Bâ reiterates this attachment, but even more preserves and reveals the literary and cultural wealth they are linked with. True the tale is indeed a phenomenon whose justification is pleasure, that is enjoying exchange and circulation. However it is within its permanence, its curves and its variations that the tale takes its full scope and draws the strength enabling it to carry the culture that creates it
Vauleon, Maud. "Anthropologie et littérature : le cas du conte (breton et martiniquais)." Cergy-Pontoise, 2006. http://biblioweb.u-cergy.fr/theses/06CERG0293.pdf.
Full textWe consider that anthropology and literature are linked, especially in the particular case of folk tales. We will take an interest in the Center of Brittany and Martinique, through field studies and a corpus of tales, fictional texts and monographs. The folk tale is seen as a means of conveying information testifying to ways of lives and thinking. It finds its way through social sciences, mainly towards anthropology. Any act of writing is considered as an act of creation : indeed, anthropologists use literary processes while storytellers and novelists get their inspiration from methods of anthropological analysis. The folk tale shows the strength of the word that make storytellers become owners of power and that allows the creation of worlds. It takes part in the making of a memory of the future. Thus it fits in with the cultural revival and it becomes a vector of cultural identity in those two regions
Gaillard, Aurélia. "Fables, mythes, contes : l'esthétique de la fable et du fabuleux (1660-1724)." Paris 7, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA070024.
Full textThis thesis aims at studying the renewal of the aesthetics of the fable in france at the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries precisely from 1660 (with the beginning of louis xiv's reign) until 1724 (with the publication of of the fables'origin, by fontenelle). Considering that the polysemic word "fable" could mean, at that time, either a tale, a myth or a fable, this research follows two points of view, a historical and a theoretical one. We will, therefore, first determine the changes in the characteristics of the fable in pieces of criticism as well as in representations; we will also define the permanence of an aesthetic category. Thus, the first part deals with the changes in the status of fables, especially through the critical attacks of the moderns against the mythology of the ancients. The fable ceases to be an allegory to become an ornament. The second part shows how, along with criticism, came a renewal of aesthetics, notably through an extremely theatrical representation of the fable, and displays an inventory of the places where the fable usually takes place, places of learning (colleges, speeches) and places of everyday life (books, palaces, gardens, royal parties, operas). The fable is not a veil anymore but a mask and starts out a complex strategy of what is veiled and unveiled : the power of fables becomes the pleasure of unveiling things. The third part develops a theoretical study of the fable's narration's temporality conceived as the necessary mediation to gain access to the truth of the fable. Metamorphosis is the most appropriate means of this mediation. Finally the thesis offers a comparison between the three temporalities of the tale, the myth and the fable, while keeping the idea of a general category of the fable characteristics
Timtcheva, Viara. "L'image du magicien dans les contes méditerranéens et slaves." Bordeaux 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008BOR30093.
Full textThe fairy tale, underrated for a long time, has been rehabilitated by researchers and is now considered to be an expression of the collective unconscious, or at the very least, a source of profound wisdom. Good or evil magicians, although they are seldom protagonists, are undoubtedly key figures. First I deal with the place of magic and magicians in ancient Greek and Roman systems of belief, among the ancient Slavonic and Arab tribes, and in the three monotheistic religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Then I analyse the figure of the magician (physical portrait, social position, character, knowledge, function) in a corpus of more than 200 fairy tales from 25 different countries. Finally, I focus on the magician as archetype and universal symbol seen from both the literary and the psychological angles. I examine the correlations between magicians in fairy tales, the keys-concepts of magic, and the roots of this mysterious and immortal figure. Beyond the religious and cultural differences, the figure of the magician is seen as atemporel, from the point of view of what it has common with the whole of humanity. Although I have chosen to restrict my corpus to fairy tales, my analysis has a broader objective and scope. I attempt to outline the origins of the figure, to show how it has changed and to understand its significance. My study is at the crossroads of Literature, Ethnography, Religion, Sociology, and Psychology
Boudjellal, Meghari Amina. "Analyse de la structure et des procédés de narration et de contage : approche comparative des contes de Perrault et des contes chaouis." Aix-Marseille 1, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008AIX10079.
Full textBALZAMO, ORLOVSKAIA ELENA. "Le conte litteraire suedois : evolution d'un genre." Lille 3, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987LIL30026.
Full textThe present study deals with the transformation of the fairy-tale generic models in the swedish hildrens' literature during the period of the 19th - 20th cent. , and the relationship betwee tthe li- terary fairy-tale and its' "ancestor", the folktale. The first chapter considers the collections of folktales by the brothers grimm, asbjornsen and moe, hylten-cavalius et stephens, and shows the transformation of an oral folktale into a written text which means the folktales' integration into literature. The second chapter describes how the traditional model was used by h. -c. Ander- sen in his fairy-tales; the third chapter relates how the type of fairy-tale created by h. -c. Andersen was assimilated in sweden and developed by authors like w. A. Backman and z. Topelius. The forth chapter describes the most prolific period in the history of the li- terary fairy-tale in sweden (end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th cent. ) and examines some of the recurrent narrative mechanisms. The fifth chapter contains a detailed analysis of two important writers of this period, e. Beskow and s. Lagerlof, whose tales offer a good example of the genre's acquisitions and its latent problems. The sixth
Cambou, Pierre. "Le traitement voltairien du conte." Paris 4, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA040109.
Full textVoltaire's tale is less a fictional text than a philosophical concept, a philosophical tool: that approach was made possible by the lesser status and the discredited reputation of a genre as well as by the favor enjoyed by the oriental tale and the fairy tale, which revived an older tradition of parody, and played endless variations on the genre. Paradoxically, the genre was both despised and in fashion, had a recognizable identity but no recognized set of rules. Voltaire, in his Essai, gives it a meaning and a part in the history of the human mind: from then on the word is associated with a new symbolism and the beginnings of reason, with an attempt to interpret the world. At this stage in the 18th century, it is nothing but a remnant of dogmatism with its flaws, systematic procedures, analogical reasoning, metaphorical language, it trusts fiction rather than argumentation, it has become archaic. Voltaire will widen its range to religion, to all the fields of learning, including science. Consequently, the Contes en vers et en prose are not simply tales but a reflection on the symbolism of the tale, no parody but a critical commentary from the inside, on the narrative mode. Today's poetics meet Voltaire’s analysis and style there: the caricature of the major functions of the tale is part of the philosophical project since irony bends the rules of a genre which stops repeating endlessly its own motifs and extolling its own values, to tackle history and become that dialogical space where contemporary ideas confront each other and evolve. Thus, by revising its form and its aims, the tale accedes to a new symbolism and attests to the cultural change in the age of enlightenment. These tales call the tale into question; open-ended, they evolve into other modes of expression, probe the real world, after such a paradoxical and cynical process of change and adaptation that they draw from this very "treatment" an unexpected literary value. That exercise is what we call the challenge and the incongruous
Bridle-Surprenant, Deborah. "Le miroir dans les contes victoriens : seuils, faux-semblants et paradoxes." Nice, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010NICE2020.
Full textIn Great-Britain, the nineteenth century saw the emergence of children’s literature, and the second half of the Victorian era in particular witnessed the Golden Age of that literary genre. The purpose of this work is to define the specificity of the Victorian fairy tale, which differs from its European predecessors in its relatively late appearance, but especially in its innovative writing that underlines at the same time the fact that it belongs to tradition, and its decisively modern nature. The corpus that was chosen encompasses the whole span of this Golden Age and emphasises its main features, that the topos of the mirror enables to synthesise in a unique dialectic: that of the same and the difference. The narrative issues, which express themselves inside and outside the discourse, the stylistic devices as well as the main themes developed in the texts celebrate the Victorian tale as a dual and paradoxical object, at the same time a faithful reflection and a distorted image of the traditional fairy tale, and whose deep links with the social, philosophical, scientific and artistic issues of the Victorian era are inseparable from its purpose and its writing
Michaud, Alexandra. "Le conte cité à comparaître : hybridation et réflexivité dans les transfictions policières de contes de fées." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/66802.
Full textThe combination of fairy tale and detective fiction may seem surprising when one thinks about the differences between the two genres, each one being structured by an important number of rules. However, several writers have undertaken to combine them and offer texts that fit characters and plot elements from fairy tales into the detective genre. This study intends to focus on the consequences of this transfictional combination. More specifically, it shows how the reading contract of the detective genre is affected by the presence of elements from famous magical stories within the investigation. First, by a detailed observation of the amalgamation process, we highlight the role played by each genre involved in order to verify our hypothesis that the texts studied are meant to be read as detective stories and thus propose the particular reading contract associated with it. We then offer a description of the reading act expected by the detective novel, described as a game, before focusing on the way in which the enigmatic nature of the transfictional link redefines the game that is being played in the texts under study and seeks this way to accentuate the reader's vigilance about the reading they are doing. Finally, we focus on the metafictional dimension of the game which, coupled with the recycling of diegetic elements from fairy tales, leads to an effort to unveil the process of transfictional creation and its reception.
Paturzo, Mariagrazia. "Il conto nella letteratura francese del XIX secolo." Paris 4, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA040004.
Full textOur work traces an historical perspective of the genre of the conte through the presentation of lots of texts of the 19th century, and considers the characteristics which make the conte a particular literary genre, different from the nouvelle. Always keeping in mind that the conte and the nouvelle are almost inseparables in the 19th century, our dissertation aims to present the different kinds of contes existing in this century and, at the same time, to meditate on the idea of conte as a specific genre. Our dissertation is made up of three different parts, namely the Introduction, the General Part and the Conclusions. The introductive part retraces the iter of the short story from the Middle Ages up to the 17th century and also proposes some definitions of conte and nouvelle given by dictionaries of different periods. The General Part proposes an historical as well as literary perspective of the genre of the conte in its different aspects through the analysis of more than a hundred collections of contes of the 19th century. It also analyses the role of the conte in the reviews (ch. V) and in the mélanges (ch. VI) of that age. The Conclusions are entirely consecrated to the reflections on the idea of the conte considered as a specific literary genre, enouncing the theories proposed in the 19th century by Gœthe, Edgar Poe, Baudelaire and Marcel Schwob, and also proposing a definition of the conte in the 19th century through the three categories of Form, Subject and Message
Sow, Abdoul Aziz. "Essai de typologie des genres poétiques peuls (Mauritanie-Sénégal)." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA040181.
Full textThe purpose of this PhD deals with oral Fulani poetry from the Fouta-Toro (Mauritania - Senegal) and is composed of three parts. In the first part, a sociological approach brings into relief the role and function of each of the social classes that are the generating of this literature. A brief survey of works already written on Fulani literature has put an emphasis on the specificity of the former in each Fulani cultural area. Starting from the local taxinomy of poetic genres, this thesis has achieved a typology of poetic genres by showing that poetry is produced in a specific context that regulates its performance and its reception. Poetic genres have had as a main axis of development the social classes that compose the Fulani society of Fouta-Toro. In the third and final part, the literary analysis illustrates two major aspects of this poetry. Rhythm is so far as poets use various means to create. Furthermore, it is the vector of an ideology proper to the social groups to which it is linked with
Farkoa, Oscar. "Flaveurs et féérie ou cinq sens gourmands pour des contes de fées classiques (1691-1756)." Paris 4, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA040192.
Full textCulinary and “gourmand” perspective of the five senses in the fairy tales between 1691 and 1756. Literature dimension of the genre, born and transmitted by spoken language, refractory to any confinement, connection to food and eroticism. The path to the wonderful, the décor, the influence of Louis XIV, the relation to the sin, the study of the context, time and geography of gastronomy and the links with fairy tales. If the search for refinements and culinary improvements seems to always have been part the human being preoccupations since he could eat all his soul without feeling concerned for his survival, the 16th century clearly stood out as turning point in the food aestheticism and made the first step towards modernity. Double purpose: firstly, intend to restore the interest in fairy tales and create the desire to go deeper in the knowledge of the legacy of unfairly underestimated authors; secondly, emphasize on the importance of the blossoming of gastronomic sensibility at that time, particularly meaningful in this literary genre and witness of its importance at the golden age of fairy tales
Léon-Sironval, Margaret. "Metamorphose d'un conte aladin francais et anglais (xviiie et xixe siecles). Contribution a l'etude des mille et une nuits." Paris 3, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA030162.
Full textThe story of aladdin or the wonderful lamp is part of the "thousand and one nights" which were orally transmitted before being transcribed into arabic. A critical review of the alleged arabic sources and a study of the transmission of the story and its metamorphoses, have made it possible to retrace the historical and geographical itinerary of the text and the avatars of its entry in the international folklore the study of the tale focuses on the comparative analysis of the illustrations through 73 french editions and 76 english editions and of the different eighteenth and nineteenth century rewritings, in france and in england. This important volume of collected documents required the creation of both a data bank and an image bank. The large number of images (661) illustrating the story, made it necessary to choose a limited number of illustrated passages. Consequently, this is why the analysis of the relations between text and images, takes into account only the illustrations in the preliminary and final pages of the narration. The fame of the tale raises questions as to the reasons of its lasting impact in the collective memory. One would be inclined to identify aladdin as a social archetype and understand how such an archetype was related through the different illustrations and rewritings of the tale. Indeed, the rewritings of the text for various purposes such as children's books, popular publications, the theatre, the cinema, and the fact that the tale was a source of inspiration for some writers, also raises the question of the relation of aladdin to a myth. The suggested mythical model, that of a man who started from scratch and became immensely rich and powerful, highlights the dimension of magic and wonder in the tale
Cárdenas, Fernández Blanca. "Les contes en langue P'orhé : un point de vue sociocritique." Perpignan, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PERP0364.
Full textLHOSTE, PAULY VERONIQUE. "Le conte, sa place, son rôle dans la littérature enfantine contemporaine." Lyon 2, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987LYO20037.
Full textAs teacher, we have noticed that fairy tale is omnipresent in schools and children librairies. We have also noted that this tradition, still alive, produces new fairy stories todays. So we have look into this subject, not without questionning us about next points : 1) what are the raisons wich could justify fairy tales succes ? 2) why and how do they belong to the children contemporary litterature ? 3) how storytwriters do proceed today ? We have tried to answer these questions; so we have investigated the intinsic copyrights of the genre itself. Then we have analysed the personages and their evolution in fairy tale, showing that they have encouraged the assimilation between fantastic story and child imaginary. We have demonstrated that the reactualization of the concept "fairy" permits fairy stories to exist in librairies of the xx century. In the end, we have made an exhaustive picture of children litterature in order to define the place which comes back to the fairy tale in it. From this study, we have conclued that fairy stories present a chilhood concept which is altered
Gueunier, Noël Jacques. "La tradition du conte de langue malgache à Mayotte (Comores)." Paris 7, 1985. http://www.theses.fr/1985PA070057.
Full textZouaghi-Keime, Marie-Anne. "Forme et signification des contes de la démence chez Guy de Maupassant." Paris 10, 1985. http://www.theses.fr/1985PA100210.
Full textGauthier, Luc. "Le fantastique dans les contes canadiens-français du XIXe siècle." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/mq21989.pdf.
Full textChiu, Chia-Ping. ""Un singulier mariage" : le cycle du fiancé animal dans les versions orales chinoises et françaises de deux grands contes de tradition orale (ATU 425, ATU 433)." Paris 7, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA070065.
Full textThe tales "Beauty and Beast" and "The snake-prince" broadly circulated both in Europe and Asia take up the topic of the "animal fiancé cycle" which constitutes the main subject of this research. On one hand, the object of our research aims to study the theme of the "animal fiancé" through variant forms in the cultures of countries as different as France and China and on the other hand, to analyses the underlying symbolic structure. The protagonists, all single, seek the congenial soul in their initiatory quest. However, the common dream of a "fine marriage" is not only influenced but also imposed by the social institutions and traditions of each culture. This fantasy emerges as a personal desire but also as a bounder duty set by a community. How can we account for the condition of the hero who strives to become fully human or the heroine's plight? She proves curious, courageous, sympathetic, but doomed to endure a sting of hardships and punishments before becoming a "true wife". The hero and heroine face separate duties, functions and obstacles to overcome in their progress to initiation. Each achieves self-fulfilment in matrimony which entails destiny as well as social status. This study tries to understand more clearly this beautiful narrative belonging to oral tradition record, show its multiple forms, its transmission in time and space, and bring out its symbolic and sociological content
Zygel-Basso, Aurélie. "La mort du conte de fées ? : les conteuses des années 1730-1750 au carrefour des exthétiques." Paris 4, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA040099.
Full textFrom 1730 to 1750, fairy tale women writers’ role in the Republic of Letters was associated with promoting a rhetoric of the delectare. Moreover, as they developped Rococo æsthetics and neo-Epicurean galanterie, their prefaces advised the reader to give up some vraisemblance. They claimed the usefulness of pleasure and the author’s acute awareness of the reader’s expectations. Thus they contributed to emancipating the fairy literary matter but led it to its decline. Indeed, the tales were being exploited and reused in pedagogical as well as licentious texts. The intermediate spot they had conquered as an æsthetic crucible had to evolve and disappear. In this line, Mayer and Marillier (Le Cabinet des fées 1785-1789), applied to this corpus a vision that favoured morals, allegory and sentiment. Their anthology paved the way for a celebration of national antiquities and character, as well as an Heritage notion. They also participated in a neoclassical return to noble genres and a rising Troubadour æsthetic
Florea, Vladimir. "L'art littéraire de Guy de Maupassant dans ses Contes, ou la mimesis et sa. . . TVA." Paris 4, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA040103.
Full textThe first part of the thesis draws some main outlines of Maupassant’s theoretical thought as a writer: we know that it is the incoming of a literary inheritage (from Flaubert and Tourgueniev); his thought attaches a great importance to the replication of the real-life situation of speaking. Maupassant throws out the term of realistic, he prefers being called illusionist. The second part lists some means of making illusion: the shifters, the self-effacement of the narrator beyond the dramatis personnae who are promoted to talk (direct speeches, discours indirect libre, and a few reported speeches); by using some forms of repetition (phonetical, metrical or lexical), he obtains a seductive effect in the reader. The third part studies how questions work - the characters feel alone and distraught and the narrator shares their distress and ignorance. The thesis lastly shows that in addition to the use of "normal" proper names, there are much distortion that allows other mays of meaning Maupassant’s short stories
Zaika, Natalʹâ Mihajlovna. "Approche textologique et comparative du conte traditionnel basque dans les versions bilingues de 1873 à 1942 : (W. Webster, J.-F. Cerquand, J. Barbier, R. M. de Azkue)." Bordeaux 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011BOR30053.
Full textDans notre thèse, nous avons envisagé plusieurs aspects concernant les problèmes structuraux et textuels des contes basques collectés à la fin du XIXème et durant la première moitié du XXème siècle. Notre corpus, dont nous avons analysé les points forts scientifiques consiste en quatre recueils (environ 500 contes), ceux de Cerquand, de Webster, de Barbier et d’Azkue et représentent les contes des sept provinces du Pays basque. Dans l’introduction nous avons abordé le problème des définitions dans le domaine folklorique, notamment dans la tradition basque. Dans la première partie, nous avons envisagé les problèmes de la collecte de contes ainsi que les problèmes structuraux du conte basque, notamment, la classification des contes basques avec une présentation du corpus et des remarques comparatives. Nous avons analysé les ressemblances et les différences entre les contes basques et les contes européens et nous avons essayé d’analyser les problèmes de la composition de récit folklorique à partir de l’exemple des textes basques. Dans la deuxième partie, nous avons étudié les aspects textologiques du folklore basque et pour cela nous avons analysé plus précisément les manuscrits de Webster et de Vinson et les publications de Cerquand. Une partie considérable de notre travail est consacrée à la réception du texte dans les éditions modernes. L’aspect comparatif dans les études sur les contes concerne également la comparaison des différentes versions d’un même conte, c’est-à-dire, le fonctionnement du texte folklorique. Nous nous sommes penché également sur les problèmes de la traduction des contes en français et en d’autres langues
Roberge, Vincent. "L'imaginaire populaire et les écrivains-conteurs du XIXe siècle, étude comparative du conte québécois et du conte breton." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0019/MQ38182.pdf.
Full textPirbhai, Jetha Neelam Fatmah. "Imitation et invention dans les nouvelles et contes mauriciens : du XIXe siècle jusqu'à l'indépendance." Thesis, La Réunion, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LARE0018.
Full textThis thesis analyses short stories of Mauritius in the French language during the colonial period. In fact, Mauritius has been colonised by the French from 1715 till 1810, and by the British from 1810 till 1968, in which year it gained its independence. These political upheavals had an impact on the literary works of that time, works which are nowadays forgotten and have often been accused of being a literature of imitation. However, in the 1940s, innovative ideas started to crop up and changes in the writings and themes are observed. This study therefore illustrates the evolution and invention in Mauritian writings especially in its short stories
Rimasson-Fertin, Natacha. "L'autre monde et ses figures dans les "Contes de l'enfance et du foyer" des frères Grimm et les "Contes populaires russes" d'A. N. Afanassiev." Phd thesis, Grenoble 3, 2008. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00370179.
Full textCe thème constitue la base des principales conceptions de l'univers des peuples indo-européens et exprime le sentiment des hommes d'être entourés de puissances inexplicables. Il sera analysé dans les Contes de l'enfance et du foyer des frères Grimm (1812-1815 pour la 1ère édition), et les Contes populaires russes d'A. N. Afanassiev (1855-63). Les deux recueils, qui seront étudiés dans leur langue d'origine, partagent un même objectif : le collectage des productions de la poésie populaire, Afanassiev ayant lui-même placé son travail dans la lignée de celui des Grimm. D'autres textes viendront enrichir l'analyse, notamment les romans et visions du moyen-âge européen.
La méthode adoptée est comparatiste et relève de l'anthropologie culturelle, dans la mesure où le corpus choisi permet une mise en regard de deux aspects de la pensée et de la culture européennes du XIXème siècle : le thème de l'autre monde jouera le rôle de révélateur des mentalités populaires.
Le classement des occurrences de l'autre monde en fonction de ses localisations débouchera sur une typologie visant à dégager les grandes tendances de chaque aire culturelle ainsi que les variantes écotypiques dans la représentation de l'autre monde, non seulement sur le plan des motifs, mais aussi sur celui des techniques narratives et de l'organisation du récit. L'étude traitera donc également la question des genres auxquels se rattachent les différents textes.
Li, Jinjia. "Le Liaozhai zhiyi en français (1880-2004) : étude historique et critique des traductions." Paris 3, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA030027.
Full textThe Liaozhai zhiyi (Strange chronicles from Leisure Studio) by Pu Songling (1640-1715) is one of the works of classical Chinese literature most translated into French. This dissertation studies, in a comparative framework, the twenty-two translations of Pu Songling's work into French that have been published since the end of the 19th century. After drawing up a complete inventory of these translations, published either in book form or in periodicals, the argument focuses on the relationship between these different versions, their continuities and discontinuities, providing an account of how Pu Songling's masterpiece was introduced to French readers. The following parts are detailed studies of concrete translation and adaptation techniques and devices. Based on a large range of examples, they highlight certain recurring features of French translations of Liaozhai zhiyi. These features are subsequently examined as to their representative nature within the wider field of Sino-French literary translations. In order to clarify the theoretical assumptions inherent in the critical readings of translations, these readings are examined against the background of various fundamental aesthetic and literary problems, which inform our understanding of translation as a particular mode of transforming human discourse
Corderot, Didier. "La littérature de kiosque entre la plume et le fusil : les formes narratives brèves pendant la guerre civile espagnole (1936-1939)." Dijon, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000DIJOL002.
Full textChatelain, Nathalie. "Le conte de fées en Europe à la fin du XIXème siècle : naissance, essence et déliquescence du conte de fées fin-de-siècle." Nancy 2, 2005. http://docnum.univ-lorraine.fr/public/NANCY2/doc226/2005NAN21005_1.pdf.
Full textThis work is about the birth, the matter and the disappearance of what we called "the fin-de-siècle fairy tale", or "the yellow tale". It is first of all a question of understanding how and why the fairy tale appear in the "fin-de-siècle" literature work in Europe, then we study its specificities which constitute a real genre, although built on the subversion of indisputable models such Charles Perrault, who will be the ideal victim for the story-tellers of the moment. At last, the genre die with the generation who produced it, a death announced in texts, and expected by authors
Chassagnol, Anne. "La renaissance féerique dans les contes et les tableaux de fées en Grande-Bretagne de 1840 à 1870." Paris 10, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA100064.
Full textBetween 1840 and 1870, the fairy, long banished from Britain, exerted itself in a number of fields, notably in tales and in paintings. The majority of the great Victorian novelists, such as Charles Dickens, William. M. Thackeray and John Ruskin published fairytales. The motif of the renaissance, that of revival or even birth, appears in numerous works featuring fairy themes. This comparative study aims to explain the modalities of the return of the fairy, which occurred much later than in other countries, but is nonetheless characteristic of British culture. This thesis seeks to bring to light the originality of a renaissance that seems paradoxical. On the one hand, the Victorian fairy nostalgically evoked a lost golden age, both rural and pre-industrial; on the other hand, it was nourished by numerous scientific discoveries of the period, such as in biology, geology, medicine, botany and entomology. Far from being cut-off from the world in which it emerged, the fairy is inspired and has never been closer to it, now providing a final bastion that refuses to yield to the power of scientific equations. Text and image are intimately linked in this field. Numerous artists were inspired by the work of Shakespeare and, similarly, fairy tales exhibit a pictorial dimension. The representation of the fairy oscillates between visibility and invisibility, the legibility and illegibility, enabling it to address several types of readers or viewers, often at the frontier of eroticism
Colombani, Elsa. "Contes gothiques, Tim Burton : de Vincent à Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children." Thesis, Paris 10, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA100090.
Full textThe films of Tim Burton can easily be recognized by their thematic codes and identifiable images so much so that the director’s very name has given birth to the adjective “Burtonian”. But what does it qualify exactly? This dissertation proposes to demonstrate that Burton’s signature is particularly recognizable because it inherits from gothic literature and film. Burton tackles and transforms gothic tropes using a double strategy of adherence and reversal. To define what we call the “Burtonian gothic”, we first study the crossing between the humane and the monstrous, an issue directly inherited from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and its film adaptation by James Whale in 1931. We analyze then the geography of the Burtonian landscape and its representation of a cruel and mechanical society from which the characters must escape to survive. Art emerges as an ambivalent means of survival which leads us to consider the artistic creation of the filmmaker himself, built like great gothic works on blurred frontiers, between life and death, past and present, dream and reality
Perbet, Héloïse. "L'expression de la temporalité dans les contes de Joseph Jacobs." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017STRAC015/document.
Full textThe link that fairy-tales have with the notion of time is specific : the story is rooted in a spatiotemporal frame which is presented as far and vague and which the narrator keeps at a distance. The characters then live in a temporality which clearly shows a break with the real world through the use of different linguistic markers and processes, like the adverbial phrase “Once upon a time”, which is typical of fairy-tales. Thus, they have an internal temporality, but they aim at reaching readers who belong to any time and place. This thesis then involves the study of the ambivalence of the fairy-tale between temporality and atemporality. To try and answer the questions linked to this ambivalence, our research focuses on three main lines : the temporal characteristics of the fairy-tale as a literary genre, the linguistic markers and processes which express temporality, and the study of specific cases which are pertinent in the expression and representation of time, including the relation between parataxis and hypotaxis, when-clauses and the connector AND. Our corpus is composed of 104 English tales written by Joseph Jacobs
Palmers, Anaïs, and Anaïs Palmers. ""L'émancipation par le conte : voies de l'imaginaire et enjeux du réel" suivi de "Conter la matière"." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/34939.
Full textCe mémoire de recherche-création s’articule autour de trois concepts : le conte, l’émancipation et la matière. À travers notre étude, nous nous interrogeons afin de savoir en quoi des références au réel intégrées à l’univers merveilleux du conte contribuent à modifier notre perception de la matière. Notre recherche est guidée par une curiosité du monde tangible, en particulier les matières qui nous entourent, et par un désir d’appréhender les enjeux qui se posent entre le réel et le merveilleux dans le texte. Nous avons, dans le volet théorique, observé comment le réel et l’imaginaire pouvaient se nourrir l’un l’autre et ainsi amener celui qui reçoit le texte à être mieux informé au sujet de la matière ainsi qu’à transformer sa vision de celle-ci. Nous avons également constaté quelques limites d’un discours sur le réel dans le merveilleux. Nous nous sommes demandé en quoi trop de références au réel pouvaient entraver le plaisir de se faire conter et nous avons pour cela réfléchi à l’effet de distanciation de Brecht, procédé que nous avons fini par appliquer à notre pratique. Dans la partie création, nous avions pour objectif de développer une écriture de la matière à travers le conte. Le volet création de ce mémoire prend donc la forme d’un recueil en quatre sections, une par matière (nous abordons la terre, l’eau, la roche et le bois). Nous avons aussi élaboré un laboratoire de création, où le texte a pu rencontrer la matière physique. La description ainsi que les images du laboratoire se situent dans les annexes.
This research-creation thesis hinges on three concepts : contes (a French term, sometimes translated as « storytelling » or « folktales », for which there is no exact equivalent in English), emancipation, and matter. It explores how references to reality, which are integrated into the marvellous world of contes, change our perception of matter. The research is guided by my curiosity about the tangible world, especially my surroundings, and a desire to understand the issues that arise between the real and the marvellous in texts. In the theoretical component, I explore how reality and fiction can feed off of one another, providing receivers of a text with more information about matter and transforming their understanding of it. I also identify certain limits to the use of reality discourse in the marvellous, by examining whether too many references to the real can actually hinder the audience’s enjoyment of being told a story. This led me to Brecht’s estrangement effect, which I came to apply in my practice. In the creative component, I strive to develop a method for writing about matter through contes. It takes the form of a four-part collection based on four types of matter : earth, water, rock, and wood. I also develop a creative laboratory, which functions as a crossroads where the text and physical matter intersect. A description and images of the laboratory are included in the appendices.
This research-creation thesis hinges on three concepts : contes (a French term, sometimes translated as « storytelling » or « folktales », for which there is no exact equivalent in English), emancipation, and matter. It explores how references to reality, which are integrated into the marvellous world of contes, change our perception of matter. The research is guided by my curiosity about the tangible world, especially my surroundings, and a desire to understand the issues that arise between the real and the marvellous in texts. In the theoretical component, I explore how reality and fiction can feed off of one another, providing receivers of a text with more information about matter and transforming their understanding of it. I also identify certain limits to the use of reality discourse in the marvellous, by examining whether too many references to the real can actually hinder the audience’s enjoyment of being told a story. This led me to Brecht’s estrangement effect, which I came to apply in my practice. In the creative component, I strive to develop a method for writing about matter through contes. It takes the form of a four-part collection based on four types of matter : earth, water, rock, and wood. I also develop a creative laboratory, which functions as a crossroads where the text and physical matter intersect. A description and images of the laboratory are included in the appendices.
Le, Guern-Camara Gaëlle. "La tentation de la fuite : itinéraires féminins à travers quelques grands contes de tradition orale." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCC225.
Full textWondertales display a sequence of events whose ending systematically seems to be a foregone conclusion: the commonly admitted idea is that the outcome of their heroes’ story should only be of the type “they were happy and had many children”. Such tales are thus regarded as quaintly old-fashioned and retrograde particularly where female characters are concerned: how then could an image of contemporary women ever be found in traditional patterns whose nature is so obviously stereotyped? Our hypothesis is that this analysis rests upon a wrong perception which bestows more significance on the manner the adventures of heroines end up than on the succession of strong images which are met with all along the narration and make the story much more subversive. Far from sitting quietly by the fire and performing domestic chores which in traditional societiesordinarily devolve on women, a number of female characters in the tales take to the road in order to flee from the kingdom of their father as well as from the safety it is wrongly supposed to provide. The resultis a period of erratic wandering either in a forest or any other place emblematic of a plunge into another world, this being a phase of initiation in which the characters learn to know themselves, are in harmony with nature and go beyond the limits set up on them by society. Such stages are particularly obvious in three tale-types: Peau d’Asne (tale-type AT 510B), The Dance-out Shoes (tale-type AT 306), The Search of the lost husband (tale-type AT 425). True, with the ending there generally comes about re-socialization, which is made possible through a wedding. But the heroines’ transgression all along the narration throws a different light on that. By comparing versions from different countries and periods and setting them along side those of other media (legends, films, novels), one becomes aware of the complexity of the vision of women to befound in wonder tales and and the extent to which it is likely to appeal to the contemporary world
Cabanat, Anne-Marie. "Les Figures de "l'impossible" père dans les "Contes moraux" de Jean-François Marmontel." Montpellier 3, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004MON30029.
Full textThe moral tale has to be linked to a philosophy of the Social Pact and the quest for happiness. These tales aim at making daughters and sons give up an unlimited lust in favour of a reasonable lust, oriented toward the Public Good. Heroes get rid of their passions thanks to a paternal word which is soothing and at the same time severs. If the best symbolic fathers are substitute fathers, real fathers act in spite of their lacks: they compel their sons to pay off the fundamental debt by ordering them to transmit life. However, the tale discloses a negative aspect of the sensible happiness: the feeling of ill-ease stems from the difficult defusion between the father's role and the son's role, or from the denial of the filial bond, but its mad side is revealed by the abolition of the paternity principle achieved in reality by the actors of the “Terreur”
Mouton, Marguerite. "Les « profonds enchantements » épiqueres : nouveau modèle d’épopée et pouvoir de l'imaginaire chez Victor Hugo et J.R.R. Tolkien, (Notre-Dame de Paris et La Légende des siècles, Le livre des contes perdus, Les Lais du Beleriand et Le Seigneur des anneaux)." Thesis, Paris 13, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA131010.
Full textThis dissertation sets out to highlight the relationship between the epic genre and imagination as it begins to unfold anew from the Romantic period on. To that purpose, this study compares and contrasts works from Victor Hugo (Notre-Dame de Paris and La Légende des siècles) and from J.R.R. Tolkien (The Book of Lost Tales, The Lays of Beleriand and The Lord of the Rings) with the Western epic tradition, presented as an on-going history of models. Within this generic chain, special attention is given to the specific features of modern times. From this perspective, the present research lies on recent findings and new approaches to the epic genre of that period, whether in philosophy, sociology, anthropology, or philology. In particular, it elaborates on a conception recently established from a body of canonical texts, according to which epic works – of flexible and popular forms, readily transposed and extended –, do perform within a given society the functions of reflecting and problematizing, within the narrative framework, the crises experienced by this society, thus allowing new configurations of the world to emerge. Reading from nineteenth- and twentieth- century literary works, I propose to interpret the epic creation of these innovative political frameworks as an outpouring of new meanings into the world. It then becomes possible to establish a new epic model that answers a specific question encountered by modernity: disenchantment understood as the process of losing meaning and purpose. Considering the appeal to imagination as an operation in its own right, such epic works provide views of a world that makes sense; thus they create for the reader the very possibility of meaning, even prior to assigning any specific determination to that meaning
Lafon-Viellard, Marie-Hélène. "Du conte au roman dans l'oeuvre d'Henri Pourrat." Paris 7, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA070110.
Full textFrench author Henri Pourrat (1887-1959) wrote several novels and many literary essays. He is best known for his tresor des contes, a 13-volume collection of folk tales. The tales he collected around Ambert in France's massif central provide the basic material for his work. The plot of gaspard des montagnes, his first novel, consists of four intertwining tales. Pourrat expanded these tales inserting others and introducing new characters, inspired by tradition. Even when not derived from oral tradition, the structure of his novel uses the same repetitive devices and variations of themes. Gaspard des montagnes was patterned after traditional story-telling and was henri pourrat(s first attempt to rescue popular heritage from oblivion. Similarly for le chasseur de la nuit, his last novel, inspired by a story first recorded by a friend of him. Pourrat reorganized this around another tale that gives its title to the novel and emphasizes its circular structure. The essence of henri pourrat's work, from Gaspard des montagnes to le chasseur de la nuit, is the endeavor to bring new life to popular culture. Not only was pourrat familiar with the riches of this culture, but he was all too aware of its fragility, especially after world war 1. A world was dying and he wanted to save as much as he could through his writings. To him, it was a question of life or death, and the urgency increased when he learned he had tuberculosis. This raised his eagerness to collect stories and recreate so many different voices, disregarding the accepted frontiers of literary classification
Nessler, Marie-Chantal. "Le Märchen de Goethe : étude d'histoire littéraire et approche figurative." Bordeaux 3, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986BOR30033.
Full textTHIS WORK COMPOSED OF A TRANSLATION OF GOETHE'S MARCHEN (1795) DEALS IN AFIRST PART WITH A SUMMARY OF THE CRITIQUE AS WELL AS A STUDY OF THE EXEGESIS; WE SHALL GATHER THE THEMES AND THE CHRONOLOGY. FIRSTLY WE SHALL EXAMINE THE VARIOUS EXPLANATIONS WITH A HISRORICAL, POLITICAL, NATIONALISTIC CHARACTER. IN CHAPTER TWO, WE SHALL SEE THE STUDIES INSPIRED BY DIFFERENT PHILOSOPHICAL SCHOOLS (KANT, SCHILLER); ANTHROPOSOPHICAL (STEINER); PSYCHOANALYTICAL (JUNG, FREUD). THEN WE SHALL DERIVE ANOTHER WAYOF READINNG: THE MARCHEN CONSIDERED AS THE FRUIT OF THE POETICAL IMAGINATION, A MOSAIC OF A MULTIPLEE REMINISCENCES (THE BIBLE, THE ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGGHTS, FAIRY TALES). THEN AGAIN THE ALCHEMIC IS ALSO STUDIED THROUGH THE EXEGESIS THAT COLLECTS THE SYMBOLICS OF NUMBERS, CHARACTERS, COLOURS AND SO ON AND DRAWS A PARALLEL WITh OTHER WORKS. (THE MAGIC FLUTE, THE CHEMICAL MARRIAGE OF CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUZ). LASTLY SEVERAL WRITERS EXAMINE THE INITIATORY ASPECTS OF THE STORY. THE SECOND PART, A FIGURATIVE APPROACH, IS A PERSONAL ATTEMPT OF ELUCIDATITION: WHILE ADMITTING A STEREOPHONIC, EXOTERIC READING OF THE TALE, THIS ANALYSIS PREFERS THE ESOTERIC WAY OF READING AND CHOOSES TO EXAMINE THE FOUR ASPECTS ALL LINKED CLOSELY TOGETHER. FIRST THE STORY IS ANALYSED CAREFULLY; CHARACTERS, TOPOGRAPHY, CHRONOLOGY). THE SECOND CHAPTER IST DEVOTET TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE NATURE AND IS CONNECTED TO SCIENTIFIC WORKS BY GOETHE. THE THEME OF METAMORPHOSIS IN THE NATURE BRINGS ABOUT THE STUDY OF ALCHEMY IN THE MARCHEN, IN GOETHE'S WORKS AND IN THE HERMETIC TRADITION. IN FACT THIS SEARCH OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL STONE IS SIMILAR TO THAT OF THE ADEPT : THE TALE IS THEREFORE STUDIED AS AN INITIATORY MYSTERY. THE LAST CHAPTER DEALING WITH THE THEME OF TIME, OF THE NEW ERA EXAMINES THE NOTION OF FAVORABLE MOMENT, OF PROPICIOUS CONSTELLATION WHICH CAN BEE FOUND IN NATURAL MAGIC, ALCHEMY, FREEMASONRY AND IN THE INSERTION OF THE TEMPLE IN THE COSMOS
Lyazidi-Errachdi, Souâd. "Les contes des "Mille et une nuits" : étude comparative des traductions d'Antoine Galland et du Docteur Mardrus : narratologie, stylistique, thématique." Bordeaux 3, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987BOR30036.
Full textA comparative study of the thousand nights and one night in three ways : - comparaison of arabic sources for the two translators. - degree fidelity between translations and their arabic sources. - convergence, and or divergence between the two french translations of the thousand nights and one night
Labrecque, Martine. "JONATHAN LE GOÉLAND: Conte universel ou récit délibérément ésotérique?" Thesis, Université Laval, 2011. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2011/28411/28411.pdf.
Full textRachdi, Naïma. "L'influence de la littérature occidentale sur la littérature de l'Egypte moderne : l'exemple de la nouvelle chez Guy de Maupassant et Mahmud Taymur." Bordeaux 3, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998BOR30018.
Full textBonapartes expedition to egypt in 1798 marked the opening of this country to europe which became the model for their economic, political and social structure. Literature does not rest apart from this influence; after a period of translation and adaptation of european works, the pioneers of modern arab literature adopted short stories novels and theatre from the european genre. This thesis aims to give concrete example of this influence of western literature on modern arab literrature at the time of nahda ( the egyptian cultural renaissance ). The work of the egyptian, mahmud taymur (1894-1973) well illustrates how an egyptian author can assimilate european literary techniques and adapt them to an arabic text. In this case, taymur was inspired by the french writer guy de maupassant (1850-1893). This comparative study shows how the two authors portray the reality of their world and approach the subject of "fantastic" liturature. The two authors are often on common ground despite the obvious differences which separate them ( the era, language, and intellectuel atmosphere ). In fact the egyptian writer took maupassants' work as his model for his narration construction and the way in which diverse subjects are tackled, the human elements are often very similar
Garrait-Bourrier, Anne. "Edgar Allan Poe et la modernité du conte : texte et sujet." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997CLF20010.
Full textMorvan, Françoise, and François-Marie Luzel. "Une expérience de collectage en Basse-Bretagne : François-Marie Luzel : (1821-1895)." Rennes 2, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997REN20036.
Full textThe @folklorist François-Marie Luzel (1821-1895) is known for having put together the largest existing collection of West Breton folktales, popular dramas and folksongs. Nonetheless, for ever a century, his work remained largely unpublished and ignored by researchers, and a biography, bibliography and catalogue of his archives had yet to be done. This thesis aims first and foremost to provide an overview of the publication project, now in progress, of a 24-volume methodical edition of Luzel's works, and -now that 12 volumes have been completed - to give a detailed account of what has been so far achieved : this includes explaining the purpose of this publication, describing its approach, pointing out omissions and planning the contents and order of publication of the remaining volumes. This edition being necessarily based on preliminary and complementary research, the second aim of this thesis is to provide a synthesis of all existing knowledge on the subject, thanks to a biography, a bibliography, a catalogue of archives and a computerized classification of Luzel's works. The third aim of this thesis is to place this edition within a historical context. Indeee, it had to be explained on one hand why, during the past century, it had been consistently impossible to prepare a methodical edition of Luzel's works, and on the other, why the Breton nationalists were opposed to this edition. In conclusion, the principal interest of this publication seems to be the opportunity it provides to study nationalist rhetoric
Chen, Chia-ming Camille. "Le phénomène de la satire dans le Liaozhaizhiyi de Pu Songling." Paris 7, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986PA070101.
Full textThe research on the satire in the liaozhai zhiyi of pu songling is undertaken through three approches; biographical, historical and rhetorical. The biographical approch allows us to confirm the identification of the frustrated heroes with the author. The comparative study between some stories of pu songling and those of the other authors helps reveal the originality of pu songling. This originality leads us to the more detailed study of the rhetorical figures with which our author hammers out his irony. The extension of our study to works, other than le liaozhai, of pu songling gives us the final confirmation of our observations
Rolland, Tiphaine. "Le « vieux magasin » de Jean de La Fontaine. Les Fables, les Contes et la tradition européenne du récit plaisant (XVe-XVIIe s.)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA040132.
Full textAlthough La Fontaine claimed that his Tales were deliberately imitating some famous collections of amusing stories, such as The Decameron or French Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles and Heptaméron, two questions remain unresolved. The first one deals with how those prestigious models were passed on to the poet; little-known, anonymous compilations that both spread those narratives throughout Europe and influenced the way they were read, are to be taken into consideration in this process. The second one is about the undervalued influence of these protean entertaining texts on the other part of La Fontaine’s works, written at the same time as his Tales: the Fables. Those two works, tackled as a coherent whole, must therefore be collated to a corpus of about one hundred books collecting short, funny narratives, mainly written between the XVth and the XVIIth century – in order to define the precise debt of the Tales and Fables to this merry literary tradition. Thorough archeological investigations are the basis of this survey that determines, within La Fontaine’s texts, how the poet rewrote some jokes he knew directly or indirectly ; which stylistic devices he invented to adapt this ancient legacy ; how he renewed the way the didactic genres are differentiated from the comic ones. The view La Fontaine had of this long-aged heritage, seen as the product of a saucy Renaissance, entails a broader and better understanding of the ambiguous relations between the classic era and a past supposed to have been more cheerful. This lays the foundations of an aesthetics of influence, which links together genetic research, close-reading of literary texts and history of cultural representations
Brehier, Ludivine. "La superstition dans les contes fantastiques français du dix-neuvième siècle." Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030031/document.
Full textThis study is dedicated to the potential superstitious part inherent to French fantastic tales of the XIXth century. Within this concise form of storytelling, we outline the impact arising from the collision of fantastic and superstition, two enemies of reason, witness of a time when imagination was in search of a new breath in literature. We return to the origins of the reunion of these two notions by considering their respective etymologies and evolutions, before focusing on their narrative similarities. The second part of our analysis revolves around the precursors, initiators and romantic authors, from J. Cazotte to P. Mérimée. Our third part is dedicated to major works of the second half of the century, which, at the instigation of the particularly famous E.A. Poe and other few realistic authors considered as less influent, benefit from a new form of imagination ending with J. Lorrain’s Decadent movement. This study shows the existence, necessity and evolution of the belief, in a genre dependent on a verve particularly receptive to the disillusion caused by a despised reality. We observe that fantastic and superstition both stand at the point where the ordinary meets an alternative hereafter which is paradoxically source of anxiety and salvation, reflecting the sensibility of the fantastic authors who transcribed it into an increasingly macabre imagination throughout the century, supported by traditional folklore, then by psychiatric pathologies
Antoni, Tessier Aude. "La réécriture des contes de fées dans la littérature espagnole de l'après guerre : l’exemple d’Ana María Matute." Thesis, Paris 4, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA040218/document.
Full textOur research is about the reelaboration of Fairy Tales in the contemporary Spanish Literature, and most particularly in the works of Ana Maria Matute. Any rewriting of a known narrative model implies a particular interpretation of the world : The message conveyed of a known narrative novels and tales is ambivalent, and dépends on te target audience, subvertin or not the traditional morals of fairy tales. If the tarrative scheme of this genre is respected when she addresses children, this scheme is entirely subverted in books aimed at adult, thus giving a heavenly and nostalgic vision of a lost childhood. Placed int the larger context of post-war how, in a traditional social structure, fairy tales and their subversion, which are recurrent patterns in the novelistic universe of franquist Spain, an then turn out to question the establishment