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Miller, Anne-Sophie. "Hiatus projectifs : une esthétique de la crise chez Robert Aldrich." Paris 3, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA030089.
Full textRobert Aldrich was a master at representing crisis, paroxysm, violence and trauma. His films depict the human adventure while focusing on its most painful moments – when conflict and antagonism detach the individual from his environment and from himself. This crisis also affects the essence of the Hollywood show itself, in its perfect transparency and its figurative evidence. Three projective hiatus are present in Robert Aldrich's cinematographic language that disturb the filmic material and its full readability : perspectival syncopes, scalar breaks and effects of rupture, offshoots of an overly lucid camera, the perspicacious camera. The traces left on the image by the confrontation of perspective and architecture, rhythmical staircases and bodies, camera and scenes of fiction, are stigmata of the disunification of the visible. They throw representation into a paradoxical cinematographic system in which the spectator's credulity is inexorably bound to get jammed
Athanassopoulos, Evangelos. "Esthétique et publicité : l'art contemporain après la crise de la représentation." Paris 1, 2008. http://accesdistant.bu.univ-paris8.fr:2048/login?url=http://www.dawsonera.com/depp/reader/protected/external/AbstractView/S9782296246140.
Full textBrasme, Isabelle. "Parade's End de Ford Madox Ford : vers une esthétique de la crise." Paris 7, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA070079.
Full textFord Madox Ford held a major yet paradoxical stance within modernist. His relationship to his literary context is characterized by a vibration between the tribute to his artistic heritage and enthusiasm for the imperative of novelty mat defines modernism. The reluctance to inscribe Ford within the modernist canon may be explained by the difficulty to reconcile his work's contradictions and consequently to delineate a stable aesthetic System. Ambivalence is indeed at the core of the author's aesthetic project, particularly so in Parade's End. The tetralogy describes a contradictory relationship to its ideological, aesthetic and philosophical heritage and to the past; it initiates an irreconcilable dialectic between the ideal of a past inhabiting the present and the notion of newness that such nostalgia implies. The text conveys a reluctance to resolve the confusion it generates: it is thus impossible to establish a fixed line between the values of tradition and those of modernity. The fundamental dimension of negativity endows the text with a paradoxical dynamism. This work explores the tension between homage and derision that characterizes Parade's End, The nostalgia of a stable ideology, of a satisfyingly coherent narrative and of a subject that can be grasped as a whole, is simultaneously sublimated and derided. The crisis of ideological, aesthetic and ontological Systems of thought that is thus made blatant does not result in the development of an alternative System; it does not however lead to void either, but to lets us delineate a System that has yet to be created. The text is constantly moving towards an aesthetics whose contours are merely suggested
Brun, Agathe. "L'émergence de l'individualisme et le questionnement de la vérité dans la littérature victorienne, 1830-1900 : crise du moi, crise de la vérité." Phd thesis, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00941198.
Full textPironneau, Amélie. "La crise de la peinture en France 1968-2000 : mort et résurrection." Paris 1, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA010599.
Full textPerrin, Dominique. "Crise collective et écriture romanesque chez Julien Gracq." Lyon 2, 2006. http://theses.univ-lyon2.fr/documents/lyon2/2006/perrin_d.
Full textThe works of Julien Gracq claim their belonging to the sphere of literature - in opposition to other forms of expression and writing - and their independance from the law of the market. Our purpose is to fully understand the range of this claim of independance through a series of questions : what would be Gracq’s definition of literature ? What values and what kind of relationship to society are induced by this particular definition ? In order to answer those questions the present essay particularly focuses on the writer’s speeches and interviews and tries to explore the historical context of his creation. The rise of fascism in the 1930ies was to prove of great significance for Gracq, not only as far as his political comittment - in the Communist party - is concerned, but also because it is at the core of his very process of writing. The writing of his novels can thus be understood in the light of his experience of this major crisis in european thought and tends to contradict the established image of a writer whose work would be « out of his time »
Smolianskaia, Natalia. "CRISE DU CADRE(Art et langage)." Phd thesis, Université Paris VIII Vincennes-Saint Denis, 2006. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00171891.
Full textMalévitch, un des premiers, a supposé des cadres conceptuels pour comprendre un " langage de l'art " (" l'élément additionnel ", 1927). Un cadre matériel se transforme ainsi en un cadre conceptuel, le cadre de référence (" frame of reference ") chez Nelson Goodman. Sa théorie (" Langages de l'art ", 1968) est ici considérée comme celle du cadre modelant. La crise du cadre dans l'art ramène au moteur de la création. Toutes les crises constatées - celles du discours, de l'œuvre, du lieu, de l'artiste, du regard - contribuent à l'ouverture de nouvelles visions et donc, en un sens plus large, à la création.
Hurpeau, Laurent. "Paris 1871-1894 ou la recherche d'une identité musicale : l'exemple de Marie Jaëll : Contribution à l'étude de la crise d'identité nationale des débuts de la IIIème République dans les milieux musicaux parisiens." Saint-Etienne, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006STET2094.
Full textThis work presents a study of the woman composer Marie Jaëll. The activities of the musician are presented in the context of time marked by the French-Prussian conflict of 1870 and by the establishment of the "IIIème République". The numerous presented documents, the correspondences of Marie Jaëll with Liszt and Saint-Saëns as well as the analysis of pieces of music of the composer show the progress of an Alsatian formed at the German school and looking to introduce an exclusively French aesthetics. A thematic catalogue presents wide extracts of Marie Jaëll's pieces of music
Su, Xiaobei. "L’invention de la Chine par Victor Segalen : une expérience interculturelle." Brest, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010BRES1011.
Full textVictor Segalen is a “discoverer” as well as an “inventor” of the treasures of ancient China, with the latter literally meaning the former in French legalist language. He’s “discovery” of China is also an invention because he committed himself to it with all his personality, imagination, sensibility and questions. China, in Segalen’s writing, testifies the degradation of an old empire and the preservation of nature: natural landscapes, ancient civilization and fiistory which enabled possible his tracing the origins. In parallel, China is for Segalen a source of inner experiences and is discovery maintains him in a deep and poetic spirit, corresponding to his request for himself. China is crucial to Segalen’s personal, cultural and literary life and the image of China he created is such an encoded one that reflects the writer’s inner world
Kampa, Artemise. "Le syncrétisme esthétique de Forces Nouvelles (1935-1942) : une voie pour la définition de l’identité culturelle française dans l’imaginaire de l’entre-deux-guerres." Thesis, Paris 10, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA100081/document.
Full textThis dissertation analyses the problematic, paradoxical position of the group known as Forces Nouvelles within the large movement of a return to realistic figuration, which takes place in the context of interwar aesthetics. Forces Nouvelles, launched in 1935 as an anti-modern, anti-conformist group, proposes a new pictorial language, a more sensitive realism at the service of the expression of the interiority of human beings and remote from social and ideological associations, beyond trivial realism and jaded classicism. This humanistic realism would confer a noble aesthete's profile to the group. Such ambivalence between realism and classicism, between activism and aestheticism is carried over in art criticism even after the dissolution of the group in 1942. This ambiguous, obscure identity of Forces Nouvelles becomes meaningful in the light of the spiritual and ideological quest of the 1930s intelligentsia, which revolted against materialist ideology, whether liberal or Marxist, aspiring to a new, more spiritual and moral, modernity. In its exploration of a new alternative, which is neither right nor left-oriented, it veers towards the most anachronistic conservatism verging on fascism. Having intellectual affinities with the radical elite, this both nihilistic and eclectic group, strives to achieve original aesthetics - modern and spiritual - and a new Renaissance. Based on a supposed authentic pictorial tradition Forces Nouvelles adopts a realistic style, grave and sober, verging on archaism. Resonating with the vision of this non-conformist generation and the advent of a new moral order Forces Nouvelles puts forward a realistic style with an existential basis as the aesthetics of ultra-modernity
Kern, Matthias. ""L'amour du peuple" : esthétique populiste et imaginaire du populaire dans la culture française de l'entre-deux-guerres." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019EHES0152.
Full textThe cultural production of the interwar period in France is noted for its renewed interest in the representation of social issues which shake the everyday life of the French population : work and urban misery become the main subjects in literature, photography and cinema, especially in the period between 1928 and 1939. In view of the financial crisis, labour strikes and the rise of the Front Populaire, the artistic field reacts with a renovation of realist representation styles, which should lead to a questioning of the nature of ‘people’, of the underlying social connections in the masses and of the place of popular traditions in a modernized way of life. In the ambit of literature, a short-lived movement of novel writers dominates the discussions from 1929 onwards: the populist novel, a movement founded in a manifesto written by Léon Lemonnier. This movement becomes quickly the backround for a further discussion about the needs for a renewed literary realism or naturalism. Simultaneously, the group for proletarian literature, founded by Henry Poulaille, follows the same aesthetics and claims to be the real representants of the working people by giving workers the occasion to publish. Both groups, as well as many other authors close to the literary populism, try to renew the novel by describing the ‘people’ and their living conditions. In this context, the notion ‘people’ is opposed to the bourgeoisie and its ‘psychologic’ or ‘snobby’ writing style. Thus, resorting to the term ‘people’ means first and foremost that the creator subscribes to an anti-bourgeois aesthetics, but also to an anti-modernist mindset – which distinguishes populism from the French avantgardes. It means furthermore that the creator strengthens a conception of everyday life marked by poverty which should correspond to the experiences of a majority of the French population. This thesis tries to bring out the elements of such an imagination of the ‘people’ on the basis of the artistic criticism and of the analysis of several novels written by authors who are more or less associated to the populist novel movement: Pierre Mac Orlan, Eugène Dabit, André Thérive, Marcel Aymé and Henry Poulaille. The thesis goes then on to highlight the survival of aesthetic elements of populism in the cinema of poetic realism and in French documentary photography which marks the beginning of humanist photography. By doing so, the thesis represents a sociocritical contribution to the history of ideas of the French interwar period and indicates the ideological traps of aesteticization of terms like ‘little people’ or ‘people’ in general
RAFIEE, SEYED JAFAR. "La crise de la modernité et l'analyse des esthétiques du roman postmoderne." Paris 7, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA070020.
Full textChanges in what marks an era are to be seen first of a11 in aesthetics. But according to the most judicious observers, the crisis actually hitting the meta-narratives of modern times allows us to think that we enter a new era called, lacking a better denomination, postmodernity. What does postmodernity mean in the fields of reflexion and arts (philosophy, sociology, painting, architecture, cinema). What is the aesthetical expression of postmodernity, especially in novels ? this thesis tries to give part of an answer to this question in analyzing aesthetics (objectives, procedures) of the french postmodern novel through the works of four novelists (l. R. Des forets, m. Tournier, a. Robbe-grillet and j. Echenoz). It also includes a survey of american, english, canadian and latin-american postmodern novels. We found that the parody is the most representative figure of modern aesthetics. Humourous rewriting ("return" strategy because of the state of exhaustion of modernity) returning to forms and contents of the past, show, in an ironical and distant way, the conflictual relationship of modern subjects with the langage, the real world, the identity and the others. It is also a sign of the end of literature. Modernity and the novel were born the same day. Their destinies seem, more than ever, to be linked together
Tortorella, Andrea. "Pour une nouvelle perspective de l'Informité chez Bataille." Thesis, Paris 8, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA080038.
Full textWe can utterly assert that the aim of our analysis has lead, throughout the balancing/ a balancement of aphilosophical hermeneutic and a literature analysis, to the delineation of an informal subjectivity in GeorgesBataille’s thought. Afore the achievement of our theoretical demonstration, we will be glad to onset a briefparenthesis over the first commenters who had set a debate over the Formless, to enhance, thanks to them, ourassumption. Commencing from the work Documents (1929/30), reprinted by the will of Dennis Hollier in 1995.we will understand why its main analysis2 have secluded the debate into the esthetical- figurative corner,effectively closing the debate to other possible postulations. In this perspective, the formless has lost itssubversive tendencies to gain/obtain the pityfull status of «museal knick knack» implied into the artisticaldomain. Afterward having drafted the meaning of formeless by new, and given to it a contemporary perspective,we could start to settle a confrontantion with his philosophical roots: Nietzsche and Hegel. It is only due to theparallel with them both and to the overhaul of their theories, which we could assert that Bataille has in a wayreached the true meaning of formeless. The same formeless that is deeply rooted in his erotical novels. It is alsothrough these passages that we could understand the real meaning of parody in the bataillean sense, that is is aninversion of the moral values that the author has applied as a souverain and deforming lecture of his works. Themanicheism that the autor recour to use to divise the whole reality into two exact parts of positive andnegative,will be a peculiar aspect that leads to the comprehension of his entire work. This disorder wil beprocured, by the inversion of the moral values which are divided into an “high” and a “low”, and as consequent,the higher polarity will be related to the a positive value, and the low, to its tcontrary. Their upheaval willproduse an ethical swap of their positions, in a second stance this will lead to a real deformation of every kind ofpreassumption in his novels and of course in the characters, a rupture taken against every kind of normalizationor reduction to the norms. In the last part of our research, before going through the application the formlesstheory, we will briefly argumentate about the major inversion that had prevailed upon our author, obliging him totake the distance from the Bildungsroman and to oppose to it a Verbildungsroman. Only after conceived theglobal valorial inversion, we will arrive to this “Game of polarities”m which will lead to the constitution of ainformal character. Starting from there, effectively, we eill see that the character will become a formless thatmanifest itself thanks to the narration, the same invisible and terrifing subjectivity that we have already met inthe first part of our work. Consacrating ourselves to the Bataille’s works, will signify, not only trying tounderstand the character born under a formless will, but even also- how this formless could be gained far distantfrom the mores applayed into the university. Our demonstration, will be constructed to have a new eye: theformless will be conceived to be à “becoming” that can’t be, that is aphone and unpronounceable, but so forth, itis a right alternative to the “Deleuzian’s becoming”, to the Z.O.O and of the subjects that are trying to force areconfiguration of an autonomous space, of the fluid sexualities: and is for these reasons that we evinct that theformless needs a new recalibration, far from the aesthetical intuitions, in need to re-orienting itself to a newdialogical horizon, and to put itself to the extreme sens of a destructive immanence
Bykova, Dognon Oksana. "La mafia russe et le crime organisé dans le cinéma : (1988-2010) : représentation, communication et esthétique." Thesis, Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018UBFCH034.
Full textToday, although the Russian mafia and organized crime community is officially defeated, it continues to influence, transform the identity of his « faithful » viewers through by the way of cinema. It's necessary to understand the exchanges between the cinema said « criminal fiction » and its influence on the public reality. On the one hand the Russian mafia identity of cinema was built across the international market and international audiovisual film.The originality of Russian fictional crime genre, in particular, that it was in some cases produced, directed and performed by former criminals, who also faced historical changes, and were influenced by Hollywood mafia movies lived a period of transformation in « cinema professionals », as also the professionals in the field of other arts such as literature, publication, music, television. Such was the case of Vitaly Demochka 1, the former criminal, who became director, producer, actor and writer. The particularity of his case, that he directed and performed his own « life story » on the screen, as well the members of his former criminal team became the fictional heroes of his film « Spets ».In parallel, our work is focused on the study of “communicating objects”, such as a music, behavior, language, dress code, tattoos. Which have become representative as the 'weapon' of mafia propaganda, projected in the cinema and widely recycled in reality, and vice versa. It operates not only the mythification of public communication but therefore, the evolution of the social representations and even transformation of the spectators
Malfray, Hubert. "Pour une esthétique du crime : les « Newgate Novels », essai de définition d’un genre populaire." Thesis, Paris 4, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA040237.
Full textThis study focuses on a minor literary genre, the Newgate Novel, published between 1830 and 1847. Its aim is to define the scriptural modalities that lie at the core of these works of art which do not constitute a school of writing, but were grouped together by the critics of the time. Between biography and romance, the novels depict thieves, murderers or highwaymen. Following the Newgate Calendar, they were extremely popular at the time of their publication, a success which can be linked to the way they mingle crime news, legendary criminal figures and a poetical stance. The purpose of this study consists in assessing how crime and aesthetics meet in these novels to form the core of the literary project. The novels are caught in-between dissidence, sensationalism and obscenity: they fascinate as much as they repulse their audience. These scandalous pieces of writing keep negotiating with the conventions of their time – should they be social or moral conventions, the criminal code or the aesthetic standards. Thus, they can be situated in a paradoxical place, oscillating between their allegiance to the past and their necessity to affirm their difference, their novelty: they are the objects of desire, a key-concept around which gravitate the notions of crime and aesthetics. The heroes of the stories are also objects of desire, constantly longing for their origins. The novels were a success because they managed to affirm their popular identity: hesitating between the melodramatic and the carnivalesque, they aimed at attracting the new mass-reading public who were invited to indulge in a feverish, devouring reading experience
陳, 紅星. "Entité - Identité - Identification : ce que l'art contemporain fait à la philosophie." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020EHES0138.
Full textWhat is art? What is art after and according to contemporary art? This PHD dissertation starts with the observation of a paradigmatic turn in artistic evolution, and tends to analyze the cause and the very nature of the so-called "crisis of contemporary art" in France in the 90s of the last century. All of the debates subsequently lead our research into the essential questions related to the definition of art, the existence modes of works, and the artistic function. It is an ontological approach with an analytic spirit on the identity of art and art after and according to contemporary art
Koumba, Brice. "Du bonheur dans sa relation au crime. Approche ethico-poetique du texte sadien." Thesis, Nancy 2, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010NAN21020.
Full textIn Sade's text, why is there crime rather than anything else? Probably because the verb to write is always already bound to the verb to kill, not contingently but essentially. The text tells of Nature in another way, and crime is nature's mode of existence: mechanical movement whose goal is always destruction. As an expression of nature, crime is perceived as what best expresses Man's heart, but more than that ... the human condition. Crime is the dramatization of the human condition, a condition marked by penance. Everywhere, simply by virtue of his existence, man is experiencing pain and suffering. His condition is tragic indeed; crime is fatal to him. Fatal because, in fine, crime appears as the only reality of existence. Living is necessarily experiencing crime. Misfortune drives people to crime. However, resisting crime makes it impossible to reach bliss. This is why, pragmatically, happiness implies the advent of the criminal, a man who has become nature, a man who has become pure unadulterated bestiality
Monnet-Cantagrel, Hélène. "Les Séries télévisées du format aux franchises. Pratique et esthétique des dramas américains de prime-time, créés entre 1996 et 2006." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015USPCA173.
Full textSince the beginning of the 2000s, television series arouse an unheard-of interest in their history, which brings to question the sense of this kind of fiction. But, in this issue of the meaning of the object, is also the one of the method to answer it.Narratives and fictions, series are also commercial and industrial products and, therefore, strongly determined by their contexts of production and reception. Since 1996 and the deregulation of telecommunications in the United States, american then international media landscapes and markets have known important economic and technological upheavals which led to new strategies of expansion and branding of the programs, in an unprecedented tourAdapted, spun off, remade, dramatic series lead to franchises, revealing then what establishes a specificity of the serial creation : the format. The television format is a written presentation which sets the fundamental core of the fiction, allowing not only serialization but also its distribution.Studying formats and franchises of American dramatic series of the decade introduced in 1996, this thesis examines how the television format could contribute to enrich the study of television series in a theoretical as well as in an interpretative objective
Goetzmann, Sophie. "« Et les grands cris de l’Est » : Robert Delaunay à Berlin, 1912-1914." Thesis, Paris 4, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA040191.
Full textRobert Delaunay (1885-1941) is among the French artists that are the most involved in Berlin at the dawn of the World War I. Thanks to Herwarth Walden (1878-1941), who is the director of the magazine and the gallery Der Sturm, the artist quickly earns a solid reputation in the German capital city where he exhibits around forty paintings in 1913 alone, while widely circulating his own theoretical texts as well as those of his friends Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) and Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961). The French painter soon spurs the interest of some Berlin artists, many of whom have met him during his two trips to Germany before the war. For an extensive part of the research, this success could be explained by a “working misunderstanding”: the artists of the German capital city supposedly twisted Delaunay’s work in a Germanic sense, appreciating his painting for reasons that were not related to his initial intents. We contest this hypothesis – which is a variant of the centuries-old hypothesis that states a natural incompatibility between German and French tastes – we suggest to consider the Berlin welcome of Delaunay in a micro-historical perspective by focusing on three artist’s point of view about him: Ludwig Meidner (1884-1966), Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) and Bruno Taut (1880-1936). After underlining the speeches they possibly “heard” surrounding the French painter’s work in Germany, we focus on each artist’s individual path, showcasing the depths of the links that join actually the avant-gardes that are coined under the terms of orphism and expressionism
Cohen, Corentin. "Politiques des images dans les conflits armés contemporains : cas de l’insurrection de Boko Haram et de la violence urbaine liée au Primeiro Comando da Capital à Sao Paulo." Thesis, Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017IEPP0043.
Full textThis thesis aims at understanding the visual dimension of contemporary armed conflicts. To do so it presents empirical datas on the pictures, their production, circulation and reception during two armed conflicts. The first case is the urban conflict around drug trafficking and the Primeiro Comando da Capital in Sao Paulo. The second one is the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon. This approach shows that contemporary conflicts are entangled in controversies about their meaning and definition. The actors of theses conflicts try to impose their own framing and their interpretation of the conflict using pictures. When the actors do not produce images, they are forced to advance some interpretations of the pictures. To identify the role of images in controversies relating to armed conflicts the thesis develops two concepts. The first one is the « regime d’images ». It underlines the modes of functionment of these images and makes it possible to explain their power over the controversies. This concept is used to show the different dynamics in the two cases. Regarding the Boko Haram insurgency, one of the « regime d’image » contributed to the internationalization of the conflict. In Sao Paulo the regimes of images reinforce the different positions of the actors in the controversy. The thesis also develops the idea of aesthetic capital of armed groups. This aesthetic capital can be transformed into military capital. We validate this hypothesis showing how this capital worked for the PCC and Boko Haram. The two groups are forced to adopt the visual codes and the aesthetic of the Islamic State to manifest their political antagonism
Bleau, Alexandre. "La crise chez Mallarmé et Debussy." Thèse, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/7260.
Full textLanoue, Marie-France. "Éclatement des repères artistiques : la philosophie face à la crise de l'art contemporain." Thèse, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/11700.
Full textThe decline of artistic reference points (which several people associate with the first readymade of Marcel Duchamp) reveals the symptoms of a crisis in art. As the history of art is a representation of what we are, we can infer that the crisis extends far beyond art. However, art has the power to enlighten because it literally illustrates several problems, especially in terms of judgment and reasoning. Without references or common knowledge, could it be that our world is lacking in discernment ? This question is legitimate insofar as everything and anything seem to be elevated into Art in our present context. The cult of individualism seems to be one of the causes of the problem. As observed in the régime de singularité (in the words of art sociologist, Nathalie Heinich) relations in the world of art are becoming more and more conflicted : when asking an artist to justify his own work, rationality necessarily becomes instrumental; it also renders the role of critics and institutions obsolete. This thesis focuses on analyzing, from a philosophical perspective, the various manifestations of the crisis in art and its issues in the world today.
Caillé, Anne-Renée. "Théorie du langage et esthétique totalisante dans l’œuvre poétique de Christophe Tarkos." Thèse, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/11641.
Full textThis dissertation takes as its object the tie between self-reflexivity and aesthetic form in the poetry of Christophe Tarkos, produced in the 1990s. It highlights the relationship between the development of a theory of language within his poetic oeuvre and aims to illustrate its “totalizing” aesthetics. “Theory” is understood as the combination of reflections, meditations and concepts about language and poetry. This thesis endeavors to identify the generating principles in his poetic oeuvre, which are inscribed within the crisis of representation often seen as originating in the mid- nineteenth century. By revisiting this crisis of representation, Tarkos’s poetry can been seen as being located in a historicity. My thesis attempts to interpret this revisiting process through an analysis of a poetic form that gives shape to the world and to individual memory. My assumption is that the theory of language facilitates the intelligibility of his poetry because it provides a reflexive medium. My thesis, which favors a method based on textual analysis, is divided into three parts. The first provides a review of the critical reception of the work, in which I track major lines of interpretation, ranging from Christian Prigent to Jean-Michel Espitallier. Placing Tarkos within the French poetic field allows me to position my research within the commonplace of criticism. The second part investigates the theory of language in his manifestos (Le Signe =, Manifeste chou, Ma langue est poétique et La poésie est une intelligence) that reveal several principles, powers and limits of language and poetry. In order to demonstrate the specificity of the concept of « pâte- mot » (a dough of words) developed by Tarkos, I compare it to the poet Danielle Collobert’s figurative representation of « dough », as « paste ». The third part offers a study of the will and “totalizing” aesthetic present in the work of Tarkos, which seeks to shape the real. Indeed, poetry answers to the excess of the real by various strategies. While wanting to represent his brimming nature through a language akin to logorrhea or by using methods such as repetition, it also seeks to control it in stable textual forms such as « squared » fragments of prose (Carrés, Caisses), in enumerative lists (Anachronisme) or in networks of figures. Tarkos’s willingness to “totalize” also seems to be rooted in a sense of urgency concerning, ultimately, a battle against finitude.