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Delmas, Marianne. "Aux frontières de la "couleur locale" : étude des figures et des espaces sudistes dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Grace E. King." Toulouse 2, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997TOU20089.
Full textGrace king (1852-1932) is a louisianian author who achieved great success in her day as a biographer, historian and novelist of her region. This study of her fiction illustrates the characteristics of the local color movement to which it belongs, and their transgression for apologetic, realistic or feminist purposes. The chronological analysis puts into relief the writer's evolution throughout her career, on an ideological and literary level. Part i tackles the historical, cultural and biographical circumstances surrounding grace king's literary output, enhancing the paradoxical status of the writer as a southerner and as a woman. Part ii, examining the first works, discloses, behind the regional romance, some of grace king's favorite motifs: space symbolism, race and gender barriers in the south. The analysis of tales of a time and place is the topic of part iii. The short stories infringe the conventions of the genre (stereotypes, irony, picturesqueness), use naturalistic themes to depict the south from a social standpoint. The stories considered in part iv mark a turning point in king's writing, introducing a more intimate style in which local color vanishes behind the main character : the new southern woman. Part v is a structural analysis of the pleasant ways of st. Medard, a autobiographical novel which reveals the author's inventiveness. The last part focuses on la dame de ste hermine, a romance confirming king's competence as an historian while suggesting her abdication as a modern author. Examining the narrative devices of structure, characterization, space and time representation, this study sets out to explain the complexity of the author's motives, and investigates the subversive perspective of her writings, which turns her lucid description of the south into a praise of the southern woman and a condemnation of southern masculine hegemony
Moraes, Rodrigues Ariston. "O romantismo revisitado : Machado de Assis, primeiros romances." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCA053.
Full textThis work analyzes the first four novels of the Brazilian writer Machado de Assis (1839-1908) – Ressurreição (1872), A mão e a luva (1874), Helena (1876), and Iaiá Garcia (1978) – aiming to understand the link between these books and the Brazilian romantic movement. Although the novels were written at a time when Romanticism in Brazil was coming to an end, they were classified by critics of the early 20th century as romantic works because they contained recurrent narrative elements based on that movement which began in Brazil in 1836. Nevertheless, although such elements can be observed in the early work of Machado de Assis, they do not meet the technical procedure of the overall romanticist literary movement. It is thus necessary to discuss the extent to which these elements are deployed in the writer's initial novels. In order to do that, this work analyzes the process of creation of the Brazilian romantic movement, which is directly associated with the Empire of Brazil (1822-1889). This is important to understand the role of the local color, and more specifically of the Brazilian landscape, in the aesthetic basis of the Brazilian romanticism. From the outline of this basic structure of Brazilian romanticism, the analysis of the early novels of Machado de Assis shows that the author critically reviewed the romantic tradition to develop an original, creative, independent and universal literature
Este trabalho analisa os quatro primeiros romances do escritor brasileiro Machado de Assis (1839-1908) – Ressurreição (1872), A mão e a luva (1874), Helena (1876) e Iaiá Garcia (1978) – com a intenção de compreender a relação destes livros com o movimento romântico brasileiro. Apesar de terem sido escritos na época em que o romantismo no Brasil chegava ao seu fim, esses livros foram classificados pela crítica do início do século XX como obras românticas dada a recorrência de elementos narrativos aparentados a este movimento que, no Brasil, teve início em 1836. No entanto, ainda que se possa observar a presença de tais elementos nas obras de juventude de Machado de Assis, eles não obedecem ao proceder técnico desse movimento literário. Então, cumpre-se discutir em que medida e de que maneira esses elementos estão presentes nos romances iniciais do escritor. Para tanto, a discussão sobre o processo de criação do movimento romântico brasileiro, diretamente associado à afirmação da identidade nacional e do Império brasileiro (1822-1889), consiste numa questão relevante a fim de se compreender a importância da cor local, e mais especificamente da paisagem brasileira, no cerne estético do romantismo nacional. A partir do delineamento desse elemento estrutural do romantismo no Brasil, a análise dos primeiros romances de Machado de Assis permite constatar de fato o seu intuito de revisitar de forma crítica a tradição romântica no intento de desenvolver uma literatura original, criativa, independente e universal
Merida, Ramos Diana. "Vers une nature sombre de la couleur. Relations et significations de la couleur et du corps dans «Le torrent» d'Anne Hébert." Thesis, Université Laval, 2013. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2013/30015/30015.pdf.
Full textWe continue talking about Hebertien works because of their originality In this paper, we are focusing on her first masterwork in prose. The Torrent (1950) broke with the traditional forms of the French-Canadian literary panorama on different levels, producing a profound mutation in sensibility, focusing henceforth on the internal world. This analysis is interested in colour, a phenomenon anchored in the perception of François Perrault, the main character of the story. The study of perception will be carried out by a semiotic of presence because « to perceive » implies, according to Fontanille, to recognize a presence in relationship to our own. We will try to demonstrate, later, how a sensory phenomenon, in a condensed form, is connected with the somatic.
Caplan-Philippe, Murielle. "La couleur dans l'oeuvre de Lawrence Durrell." Paris 3, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA030071.
Full textThe use of colour in Lawrence Durrell's novels and travel books highlights different aesthetic choices from earlier to later works, showing the ambivalence of Durrell's artistic positions. Colour appears to partake of a baroque anti-classical inspiration both because of over-inscription and because of optical illusion produced by reflections and mirages. The result very often suggests a blurred picture, which it is impossible either to "read" or even "see". However, the tendency to use names of things as colour-words may turn the blurred picture into a seemingly tactile representation. Colour within the text thus provides a way of grasping what, by definition, eludes language, i. E. The visual, by recreating a three-dimensional image, an image that one might "see", "read", and "touch"
Ripoll, Élodie. "De l'unique au multiple : emplois et fonctions de la couleur dans le roman français (1720-1839)." Paris, EHESS, 2016. https://janus.bis-sorbonne.fr/login?url=https://doi.org/10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-08304-7.
Full textThis project deals with the use and the meaning of colour in literature. Theoretical hypotheses are to be tested in a broad corpus of French novels, from 1720 to 1839, which is a central time for both the history of colour and the history of literature. Newton's Opticks was first translated into French in 1720 and Chevreul's work on the simultaneous contrast was published in 1839. In the meantime, the modern European novel emerged and colour has become an essential part of it. Contemporary scientific, artistic and literary discourses are to be investigated along with various aspects of everyday life in order to reconstruct the status of colour and the part it played in culture at that particular time, as well as the evolutions that occurred. Comparing those results with contemporary novels would not only show similarities and/or differences in the treatment of colour but also help to determine the particularities of the use of colour in literature which does not seem to develop chronologically. A corpus of 50 French novels will be analysed to highlight several aspects of that non-linear evolution such as the colour vocabulary chosen by the authors, the colour symbolism involved in the novels, the tensions between narration and description or literature and painting. This project is based on a transdisciplinary approach, including the works by M. Pastoureau, A. Mollard-Desfour, Berlin and Kay, as well as literary theory, aesthetics, anthropology, linguistics, cultural history, history of science, history of art
Mérida, Ramos Diana. "Vers une nature sombre de la couleur : relations et significations de la couleur et du corps dans Le torrent d'Anne Hébert." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/24339.
Full textWe continue talking about Hebertien works because of their originality In this paper, we are focusing on her first masterwork in prose. The Torrent (1950) broke with the traditional forms of the French-Canadian literary panorama on different levels, producing a profound mutation in sensibility, focusing henceforth on the internal world. This analysis is interested in colour, a phenomenon anchored in the perception of François Perrault, the main character of the story. The study of perception will be carried out by a semiotic of presence because « to perceive » implies, according to Fontanille, to recognize a presence in relationship to our own. We will try to demonstrate, later, how a sensory phenomenon, in a condensed form, is connected with the somatic.
Guicharnaud-Tollis, Michèle. "Littérature et société à Cuba (1810-1850) : images de la population de couleur." Bordeaux 3, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987BOR30016.
Full textIn foreign literature -european and north american- dealing with travel as in native fiction, the different images of the coloured population of cuba during the first half of the nineteenth century have been successively studied. When placed against the often quoted material from contemporary historians, the contribution made by the former allows us to qualify the official records, but also, through the description and the impressions of the colonial way of life, to isolate the various ambitions, not all of which were desinterested, for cuba at that time. Whether in the form of souvenirs of a private holiday or a report on a scientific or political expedition, such eye-witness accounts are invariably critical, stemming as they do from commentators particularly sensitive to the most glaring weaknesses of the spanish colonial system. To counterbalance this, and on the same subject, the native literature produced by a minority of enlightened creoles gives the inside view. First of all by letting themselves go towards an advanced form of cultural cubanization from 183740, then by turning to foreign models in scientific, technical and literary fields, the cuban intellectuals of that period marked their irrepressible desire, effectively and to varying degrees, to go through with their divorce from the metropolis. Writers of the domestic urban novel, as well as those of the rural one, show the emergence of an anti-slavery line of thought by their keen interest in the coloured population and the image it projects. This is evident as much from their efforts to encourage the growth of the white population as in their evocation of the horrors of slavery. The anti-slavery line of thought, thus sketched, stems from traditional christian humanism, but is corrected by the first evolu- tionist convictions, and is not without its contradictions and qualifications. Thus we can say that the cultural history of cuba, during the first half of the nineteenth century, allows us to grasp the evolution of ideas which, several years later, resulted in the abolition of slavery, and that the emancipation of the island was due to the most enlightened minds of t
Massolou, Ida Sandrine. "Le rôle de la couleur de la peau dans le roman contemporain antillais et d'Afrique noire subsaharienne francophone." Thesis, Limoges, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014LIMO0063/document.
Full textThe contact with the Other, so called because of its cultural, skin color or phenotype difference, has generated a deep upheaval into the sociocultural structures and affected territories by the slave and colonial systems. Nowadays, the new generation natives of those territories are facing transformations that we are investigating in order to bring out the colonial survivals and the new sociological phenomena described by the contemporary French-speaking authors. The subjects analyzed by the latter in their works are expressing interactions based on ideological, racial, physical, cultural differences and/or similarities, in the three geographical areas: the Antilles (Martinique, Guadeloupe), Africa (black and French-speaking sub-Saharan) and Metropolitan France. The novel becomes then a dissection instrument of the effects of the presence and the domination of Western ideology and culture. Thereby, we discover the different types of relations, White/Black, former slave driver/former slave, former dominant/former dominated, former colonizer/former colonized, from the authors point of view. In a social context dominated by human movements and intercultural exchanges, the crossed looks of the characters focus on the various forms of otherness and identity and on the current problems in relation with race, immigration, exile, racism
Azzouz, Karima. "Esthétique et poïétique de la coloration dans l'architecture traditionnelle et contemporaine dans les villes du sud tunisien." Phd thesis, Université Toulouse le Mirail - Toulouse II, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00944011.
Full textMaršálek, Marie-Anne. "La réinvention du Moyen âge sur les scènes lyriques parisiennes entre 1810 et 1830 : genèse, contours et circulation vers l’Italie et l’Allemagne d’un imaginaire français." Thesis, Rennes 2, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016REN20034/document.
Full textThis thesis is rooted in the methodological framework of the history of representations. It aims to identify the literary, visual and musical features of the medievalist imaginary invented in the French opéra-comique between 1810 and 1830. The imaginary now only appears through the reflections of an evaporated sensitivity and through discontinuous hintsthat need to be reassembled.Thus the characteristics of this imaginary conditioned by the couleur locale emerge from the combination of several methods: the comparison of several opéras-comiques – taking into account their booklets, set designs and scores –, the study of the Parisian press and investigation of parodic manifestations of the medievalism in the years that followed.The methodological challenge consists in a multidisciplinary approach, which tightly binds the opéra-comique with its context. The idea that music only acquires its meaning and color in an imaginary framework underpins this approach. Among the other French medievalist aspects considered, Charles Prévost Arlincourt’s novel provide the most valuableway to clarify the lyrical imaginary.The comparison with adaptations and translations of French medievalist plots in Italy and in Germany is one of the best way to identify the characteristics of the imaginary. Thus this study does not identify a European style but rather reveals some untranslatable components in the wake of French medievalist intrigues. However, at the time when each country is seeking roots and identity, some European references emerge in the context of the lyrical medievalism
Bertrand, Sandrine. "Représentations des subalternités, de la ligne de couleur et du genre dans les romans et récits mémoriels mauriciens et réunionnais." Thesis, La Réunion, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014LARE0005/document.
Full textColonial novels try to represant more precisely the Colored people than exotic literature. As colonial museum, Ulysse cafre ou l’histoire dorée d’un Noir written by Marius-Ary Leblond and Ameenah written by Clément Charoux expose colony, its functioning and natives. These colonials mauritians and reunioneses novelists use naturalism style to describe the intimate of races, genius of races. Marius-Ary Leblond say that they are better able to teach insular world than exotic literature. Colored people representations provoke legitimate conflict. In colonial novels, colored women, (Indians, black, “cafrine” , metis) are regarded as racial Other and gendered Other. They are subaltern of white narrators and heros. Conversely, in postcolonial women mauritian and reunionese novels, (Á l’autre bout de moi written by Marie-Thérèse Humbert, Rouge Cafrine written by Véronique Bourkoff and Femme sept peaux written by Monique Séverin) female narrators and heroines criticize continued colonial ideology, which still goes on in societies that were colonized. They give different visions of colored women, enough to represent themselves, to analyze themselves and observe postcolonial society. They still filled with stereotypes and colonialist, phallocrate, orientalist discourses. These rhetorics destroy their identity. Paradoxaly, complex, heterogeneous and multiple identities of female narrators figure into more novelistic fiction than autobiography. However, autobiography is supposed to account for true female narrator’s identity. This way, mauritian autobiography and reunionese autobiography are deconstructed in the texts of our corpus: Miettes et Morceaux written by Eileen Lohka, Letan lontan written by Rada Gungaloo, Tête Haute written by Mémona Hintermann and La Magie de Siva Desiles an autobiographic music hall written by Jasmine Desiles
Serodes-Mirabel, Françoise. "Modernité et synthèse des arts. Le mot, le son et la couleur : autour de Kandinsky." Paris 8, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA081045.
Full textBetween 1905 and 1914, both german and austrian artists experimented in the field of color. Color came to be the decisive link in the development of modern art and of the complete work of art. Thus on the stage kokoschka with "morder, hoffnung der frauen", schoenberg with "die gluckliche hand" and kandinsky with his "color" operas, "der gelbe klang" "der grune klang" "schwarz und weib" "violett", found a new energy and creativity in color, liberating it from a mere utilitarian role and considering it as an autonomous living thing. Color was stronger than words in its ability to translate inner feelings and the senses. It could metamorphose, reunite, reconcile and transcend and kandinsky founded the interaction of these different artistic means through sound and vibration. It was a new synthesis in continual flux opening up a new space and kandinsky proceded first to simplify the basic elements, then became more complex by putting into play their polarity, their extremes. In poetry kandinsky transposes pictural techniques in order to liberate sound through repetition, reducing the word to its proper sonority
Munnick, James. "Romans et nouvellistes noirs en afrique du sud, de 1948 a 1986 : exploitation litteraire de la vie des gens de couleur." Toulouse 2, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992TOU20046.
Full textThis thesis is an analysis of writings in english between 1948 and 1986 by south african authors of colour (defined as africans, coloureds and indians). 1948 was the year of the official institution of the appartheid policy which aimed at permently separating whites and blacks. The study starts from an analysis of their short stories, novels and other writings which changes, reflecting the attitudes of blacks which were modified in the course of the same generation from passive defence to active resistance. The themes of alienation and the raising of political consciousness are considered, as are historical, sociological, psychological, economic and other political factors. The study terminates in 1986, the tenth anniversary of the soweto uprising
Tremblay, Jean-François. "L'agriculturisme et le roman de la terre québécois : (1908-1953) /." Thèse, Chicoutimi : Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 2003. http://theses.uqac.ca.
Full textNazari, Fariba. "Les couleurs : usages et significations dans l’art et dans la société islamique au Moyen-âge." Paris, EHESS, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012EHES0176.
Full textThis thesis spells out specifically a developed tradition of polychrome in the art and the society Muslim Medieval, and tries to improve such concepts extensively. It should be mentioned that the recent improvements made in Islamic sensitivities for color over the recent centuries that separate us from the older period of time (the eighth to fifteenth century) that radiates the Islamic art is beyond this research. As a matter of fact in this study, our goal is to present the concept of color during the eighth to fifteenth century, explaining the meaning and the use of color during that time which correspond its true concept. Since the achievement of the harmony of colors depends on physical processes and appropriate techniques, we will try to demonstrate the practical application and objective of Islamic art and color at those centuries based on visual evidences that were obtained during our research, thus painting is considered as the raw material of our study. These centuries can present all the aesthetic elements of interest especially in painting (miniatures) because among the various arts, painting is the area where the colorist expressed with more freedom. From Baghdad to Tabriz, from Tabriz to Herat and from Herat to Shiraz and Isfahan, the Islamic miniature has produced the most beautiful pages of the history. In addition, color as an element in Islamic culture including poetry, mysticism, regulations and the religious holy book is studied to fully characterize the role of color in other Abrahamic religions
Burghgraeve, Delphine. "De couleur historiale et d'oudeur de moralité ˸ poétique et herméneutique de l'histoire antique dans la Bouquechardière de Jean de Courcy (1416)." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019USPCA029.
Full textThe Bouquechardière is a moralized universal history written from 1416 by Jean deCourcy, a Norman knight. Despite this rather unusual appropriation of a historical genreparticularly rooted in theology, Jean de Courcy's text has not aroused much critical interest. Ourpresent work fills this gap by questioning the way in which the lay author revisits the historicaland homiletic codes that were until then the prerogative of clerics. On a broader level, our studyalso makes it possible to better identify the variability of an auctorial panorama and a literarycommunication in full evolution at the end of the Middle Ages. Coming from a secular culture,Jean de Courcy must impose his intellectual and moral credibility in the field of writing.Without usurping the roles of the cleric or the intellectual, he creates his own « fonctionauteur »: an amateur writer who bases his legitimacy on an experience acquired in the world,an accumulation of knowledge through reading and a devotional attitude. His Christian andedifying approach to reading determines the choice to write an Ancient History at a time whenwriters tend to react to current events. Indeed, the way in which he ordered, compiled, selectedand recomposed the material reveals a strong submission of history to the eschatologicalperspective. Tracing a historical continuum from the actors of Antiquity to the contemporaryreader, the compiler creates the necessary conditions for its actualisation. The spiritual purposeof the reading then allows the surprising insertion of Ovidian fables into the historicalframework. Historicalized mythological fiction contains a hermeneutical potential : it is offeredas a sign of God to be deciphered by using an analogical and allegorical method. It. As a modelreader, Jean de Courcy teaches his own reader to fix the meaning of words and things, so thatwhen the book is closed, the process of « refiguration » of history is born. In other words, thereading leads to spiritual conversion
Pelletier-Michaud, Lydia. "Évolution du sens des termes de couleur et de leur traitement poétique : l'élégie romaine et ses modèles grecs." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/26683.
Full textLes termes de couleur, anciens ou modernes, ne peuvent être réduits à la dénomination de catégories servant à diviser le spectre des visibles : cet ensemble lexical unique mérite d’être considéré comme un phénomène linguistique et littéraire à part entière. Pourtant, trop souvent encore, les études portant sur le vocabulaire de la couleur tendent à subordonner le système langagier au phénomène physique, conséquence indirecte de la recherche d’objectivité qu’une vision positiviste attribue aux sciences de la nature. Les termes de couleur sont alors examinés selon des critères qui ne correspondent pas à leur véritable essence – une attitude qui, dans le cas des langues anciennes, mène à des constats d’imprécision injustifiés. Dans les faits, l’emploi des termes de couleur transcende largement la dimension visuelle : leur nature se révèle essentiellement subjective, et ce à plus forte raison dans les textes littéraires, dont se compose l’essentiel du matériel dont nous disposons pour étudier les cas du grec et du latin. Plutôt que de mettre l’accent sur les différences entre conceptions anciennes et modernes, cette étude aborde la couleur en tant que phénomène culturel dans une optique de continuité ; elle vise à montrer que l’analyse littéraire de textes poétiques anciens peut nourrir une réflexion sur la nature des couleurs et sur les processus qui mènent à leur conceptualisation. Après avoir posé les bases d’une réflexion sur la nature de la couleur (Chapitre I), cette thèse étudie le traitement poétique des termes de couleur et, de façon plus générale, l’utilisation des procédés littéraires faisant appel au chromatisme, chez les élégiaques latins (Ovide, Properce, Tibulle et le Corpus Tibullianum) et Catulle, à partir de leurs principaux modèles grecs d’époque alexandrine (Théocrite, Callimaque) et archaïque (poésie lyrique et épopée homérique). L’étude se focalise autour de quatre grands thèmes qui correspondent à des images littéraires développées par les poètes élégiaques – le « petit livre coloré » (Chapitre II), le « portrait en rouge et blanc » (Chapitre III), l’« amant pâle » (Chapitre IV) et la « mer céruléenne » (Chapitre V). Le corpus principal, approché dans l’ordre chronologique inverse, est envisagé sous l’angle de la réécriture. En effet, l’imitation émulative se trouve au cœur du processus créatif des poètes latins, qui élaborent leur identité d’auteurs en réinventant les vers de leurs prédécesseurs ; ce procédé amène les poètes à reprendre et à enrichir des images littéraires colorées, donnant naissance à des topoi et à des associations d’idées qui, au fil des siècles, tendent à se cristalliser sous la forme de termes de couleur abstraits.
Color terms, in modern and ancient languages alike, cannot be reduced to sections of the visible spectrum: this complex and rather unique lexical ensemble deserves our full attention as a linguistic and literary phenomenon. Yet color vocabulary is still too often regarded as an imperfect means to describe visual perceptions, a system that fails to achieve the precision of optical science. This idea, a consequence of the quest for objectivity which natural sciences are hoped to provide, does not reflect the true nature of color terms and induces an important bias in their study: as a result, many classical philologists have come to judge Greek and Latin color vocabularies as underdeveloped and their use by ancient authors as clumsy. The purpose of color terms is not limited to description in terms of chromatic acuteness: in fact, this vocabulary proves to be subjective by nature. This is even truer about its literary use, and literature constitutes the main material available to study color terms in Greek and Latin. Instead of looking for differences between ancient and modern conceptions, this study focuses on continuity and on color as a cultural phenomenon; its aim is to show that the analysis of ancient poetry can contribute to a more general reflection on the nature of colors and to our understanding of how they become concepts. Beginning with a chapter devoted to the nature of color (Chapter I), this dissertation studies the poetic treatment of color terms and, more generally, the use of literary devices pertaining to chromatism in Roman Elegists (Ovid, Propertius, Tibullus and the Corpus Tibullianum) and Catullus, as well as in their Greek models from the Hellenistic (Theocritus, Callimachus) and Archaic (lyric poetry and Homeric epics) periods. The study focuses on four poetic figures – the “little, colorful book” (Chapter II), the “red and white portrait” (Chapter III), the “pale lover” (Chapter IV) and the “cerulean sea” (Chapter V). Each of these chapters surveys the meaning of Latin vocabulary and expressions through the Greek verses they refer to. The corpus is approached in reverse chronological order, with more specific attention paid to intertextuality and rewriting: imitatio plays in fact a crucial role in the creative process of Latin poets, who construct their identity as authors as they interpret and transform pre-existing text. The colorful imageries that are thus being developed over centuries give birth to topoi and strong associations between emotions and realities that tend to crystallize in the form of abstract color terms.
Nicolini, Juliette. "Le visuel chez Gilbert Sorrentino : figures et couleurs du purisme." Thesis, Paris 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA030126.
Full textGilbert Sorrentino is often presented as an emblematic postmodernist writer. This study focuses on colour and the visual in five works in particular : The Sky Changes, Steelwork, Splendide-Hôtel, Aberration of Starlight and Crystal Vision. Far from the egalitarianism of postmodernism, modernist principles go along with a moralizing and exclusive viewpoint. Intermediate values of grey imply uncertainty which refer to the amorphous and to evil. The burden of a religious education is felt in the opposition between dark values, which refer to sin, and flashing light which breaks into the mournful grey, giving life and form to space. The radicalism of Sorrentino’s aesthetic position shows in his taste for contrasts in colour, namely in Splendide-Hôtel. Black and white set up a sharp contrast, as in Franz Kline’s paintings. The elegiac stand of the author is asserted by the opposition between red and grey. A taste for synthesis leads to a simplification of shapes and colours which evokes the Minimal Art movement. A propensity for immaterial and immutable abstraction is noticed. Sorrentino expresses colour by using generic terms, thus taking account of the inability of language to encompass the real. This respect of the language idiosyncrasy matches Clement Greenberg’s purism. Crystal Vision is based on two ill-assorted sources (A. E. Waite’s Rider deck and Steelwork) which produces a tension between the high symbolism of the cards and the sordid reality of Steelwork. By setting a dichotomy between the secular visible and the sacred invisible, Sorrentino goes towards the platonic and medieval mind. The ironic transposition of images proceeds from a defeated idealism
Astoul, Christiane. "Une revue régionale et régionaliste : "La Revue du Bas-Poitou" (1888-1972)." Angers, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995ANGE0009.
Full textStudy of a regional and regionalist magazine, representing a train of thought over almost a century. The purpose of la revue du baspoitou, at the same time general and eclectic, is to serve "literature", "science" and "the arts". Although not directly involved in current issues, it reveals its political, literay and artistic values and options. Royalist up to the first wold war, it was to support maurras and then petain in 1939-1945 ; the influence of Louis Chaigne was to bring it closer to christian democracy during the most recent period. Far from all the trends of fashion, its literary and artistic values are those on which the reputation of france is based : clear thinking, moderation, harmony. The poets imaginary world has bean clearly exposed because of the central place devoted to poetry, studied following the bachelard method, as has a certain sensitivity in its artistic reviews. The wars in the vendee region, a founding event of the "vendeenne" identity, at the same time an anchoring point and a myth, crystallize around them a living, painful and rebellious memory. Thankes to the archives, the problems of publishing, distribution and readership, all that makes up the daily life of a provincial magazine, have been dealth with in the correspondance of its directors and contributors. As an expression of a region, and the magazine of te "establishment", it not only has a mere function of reflection but it also poses the problem of reception. The organ of expression of a catholic elite which represents the majority in the region, la revue du bas-poitou reveals the aspirations and dreams of a popular provincial mentality to which it is very close