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Fleury, Cynthia. "La métaphysique de l'imagination." Paris 4, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA040038.
Full textMarpeau, Elsa. "Les narrations dramatiques : imagination et mondes possibles de la comédie (1629-1663)." Paris 10, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA100114.
Full textThe narrative in the comédies during the period 1630-1660 has an exploratory function. First of all, the narratives explore the limits set by the poetics of the XVIIe century, by circumventing the impératives of unification, rules of etiquette and of plausibility. By going around the rules in this way. They introduce a discontinuity in perception. They explore the boundaries of stage intrigue, by offering the possibility of other stories or characters, that compete with the traditional endings in comedies. Through this, they equally explore the very limits of the genre by inserting sequences that are generically heterogeneous to comedies. In this manner, they compensate for the theoretical silence by confronting within the drama itself a visible comic intrigue with tragic, romanesque or epic narrative episodes. Therefore, these narratives endow the comedies with the aesthetics of the counterpoint (theoretical, dramatic, generic)
Poitras, Huguette. "L'étoile d'araignée, recueil de nouvelles ; et L'enfance, terre d'exil de la création littéraire : réflexion critique." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ48986.pdf.
Full textNegroni, Nathalie. "Poésie et imagination dans la première moitié du XVIIe siècle : Les "Poésies" de Théophile de Viau." Aix-Marseille 1, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001AIX10051.
Full textJaunay, Pascale. "L'imaginaire dans les oeuvres romanesques de Daniel Moyano : sous le signe du lien." Poitiers, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998POIT5011.
Full textNfono, Ekomo Jessyca Fleurta. "Information et imagination : la représentation de l'Afrique dans Les Voyages Extraordinaires de Jules Verne." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LORR0328.
Full textThe results reported from the first explorations of the African continent by the famous travelers of the nineteenth century, coincide with the emergence of an adventure literature of which Jules Verne will remain the most illustrious author. The Extraordinary Voyages, evocative title given to the series of novels in which the author sets out to conquer the geographical space on a global scale, begin in 1863 with the publication of Cinq Weeks in balloon, novel in which the exploration of the African continent is the main theme. This first trip, which is described as the most curious and useful of imaginary journeys, summarizes the great discoveries of the most famous travelers. The immediate success of this first trip combining imagination and truth, puts in perspective a complete work of which part is rooted in the heart of the African continent. Africa, land to civilize and still primitive in many respects, appears as a vast laboratory where explorers and scientists of all kinds come to seek answers to the many questions raised by the march of progress. Then, between information and imagination, the Extraordinary Voyages testify to the desire to tell the experience of the famous explorers who roam Africa, and who furrow it in search of a knowledge that only the voyage can make emerge. The African continent is thus at the center of the Vernian work, and has multiple meanings that lie between imaginary and historical, geographical, scientific, but also cultural reality. Because, what the Voyages bring to the fore, are also the cultural shocks that occur during the great explorations of the interior, but above all, they raise a certain number of questions relating to the legacy that the writer whose predictions still make the news today
Bergot, Louis-Patrick. "Apocalypse et littérature au Moyen Âge : réception de l’imaginaire apocalyptique dans la littérature française des XIIe et XIIIe siècles." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUL167.
Full textAmong the numerous apocalypses written during the Judeo-Christian Antiquity, only the Revelation of John and the Apocalypse of Paul (through the Vision of Paul) got old french translations. In this work, their textual reception is the subject of a complete inventory and a detailed study. Because of their success, both left a durable trace in the medieval mindset, as they solved two major concerns : collective judgement (Johannine Apocalypse) and individual jugdement (paulinian apocalypse). They gave birth to an imaginary world which can be detected in medieval french literature thanks to an intertextual approach. Many parts of the medieval literature use this imagination : the visionary literature (in the Vision of Tondale and St Patrick’s Purgatory), the allegoric literature (in the Tournoi de l’Antéchrist and the Roman de la Rose) or the didactic and religious literature (in the Somme le roi, the homilies and the “épîtres farcies”). The apocalyptic imagination thus spreads through a considerable part of this literature, and therefore we can consider it as an independent world of the mind, full of motives, places, creatures, and sometimes fears. From a text to another, this imagination has disseminated according to intertextual levels which can be distinguished by philology. But this complex web of correlations must not make us forget that the reception of the apocalyptic imagination is not only accessible from a textual viewpoint. It also employs cognitive mechanisms like understanding, representation and imagination
Paradis, Swann. "IMAGINATION, JUGEMENT, GÉNIE : la fabrique des quadrupèdes dans l'Histoire naturelle de Buffon (1707-1788)." Thesis, Université Laval, 2008. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2008/25813/25813.pdf.
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Roche, David. "L' imagination malsaine et ses ambiguïtés : étude d'une esthétique contemporaine dans le cinéma et la littérature de l'Amérique du Nord." Aix-Marseille 1, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005AIX10062.
Full textGrigoropoulou, Marina. "Mémoire et imagination dans « Le labyrinthe du monde » de Marguerite Yourcenar et la « Lettre au Greco » de Nikos Kazantzaki." Thesis, Paris 3, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA030031.
Full textMarguerite Yourcenar’s The Labyrinth of the world and Nikos Kazantzaki’s Report to Greco constitute the personal and familial narratives of the authors, written around the end of their lives and belonging generally to personal literature. Between a desire for the truth on one hand, and the erosion of time and the transformations of the conscience on the other, objective reminiscence and imaginary intervention coexist. Memory and imagination are therefore constitutive components of the Works, making difficult a determination of their exact genre. In this thesis, we explore each as well as their connections with each other. For the analysis of memory, of time, of consciousness and of fantasia, we will call upon philosophy and above all a phenomenological approach ; for the study of images of experience elaborated by the unconscious, we will direct ourselves to psychoanalysis and more precisely to the Freudian, Jungian and Lacanian contribu! tions. Thus, by evaluating the importance of each on of these components for the symbolic construction, we will try to determine the dominant with a view to finally describe the generic status of the Works
Vadnais, Christiane, and Christiane Vadnais. "Mécanique de la nuit suivi de Narration et imagination environnementale dans"Les larmes de saint Laurent" de Dominique Fortier." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/37624.
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Ce mémoire de recherche-création se divise en deux parties. La première, Mécanique de la nuit, est un recueil de nouvelles oniriques qui aborde la confrontation entre l’humain et la nature en mettant en scène des catastrophes naturelles, des animaux sauvages, des parasites, etc. Les textes se structurent par des échos entre les personnages et les lieux. Ils sont portés par une voix narrative qui raconte les histoires à la troisième personne et disserte sur la notion de rêve dans une perspective scientifique. La seconde partie s’intitule Narration et imagination environnementale dans Les larmes de saint Laurent de Dominique Fortier. Elle analyse la place de la narration dans la poétique de cette oeuvre éclatée pour ensuite en étudier la portée d’un point de vue écocritique. De cette façon, elle vise à dégager la contribution potentielle d’une narration atypique au renouvellement de l’imaginaire environnemental contemporain.
Ce mémoire de recherche-création se divise en deux parties. La première, Mécanique de la nuit, est un recueil de nouvelles oniriques qui aborde la confrontation entre l’humain et la nature en mettant en scène des catastrophes naturelles, des animaux sauvages, des parasites, etc. Les textes se structurent par des échos entre les personnages et les lieux. Ils sont portés par une voix narrative qui raconte les histoires à la troisième personne et disserte sur la notion de rêve dans une perspective scientifique. La seconde partie s’intitule Narration et imagination environnementale dans Les larmes de saint Laurent de Dominique Fortier. Elle analyse la place de la narration dans la poétique de cette oeuvre éclatée pour ensuite en étudier la portée d’un point de vue écocritique. De cette façon, elle vise à dégager la contribution potentielle d’une narration atypique au renouvellement de l’imaginaire environnemental contemporain.
This master thesis in creative writing is divided in two parts. The first one, Mécanique de la nuit, gathers dreamlike short stories about the conflict between human and nature. It stages natural catastrophes, wild animals, parasites, etc. The short stories are structured by echos between characters and places. They are told by an omniscient narrator who also talks about dreams in a scientific perspective. The title of the second part is Narration et imagination environnementale dans Les larmes de saint Laurent de Dominique Fortier. It talks about the role of narration in the novel poetic, and then analyses its scope with an ecocritic perspective. It aims to determine the potential contribution of an unusual narrative voice to the renewal of contemporary environmental imagination.
This master thesis in creative writing is divided in two parts. The first one, Mécanique de la nuit, gathers dreamlike short stories about the conflict between human and nature. It stages natural catastrophes, wild animals, parasites, etc. The short stories are structured by echos between characters and places. They are told by an omniscient narrator who also talks about dreams in a scientific perspective. The title of the second part is Narration et imagination environnementale dans Les larmes de saint Laurent de Dominique Fortier. It talks about the role of narration in the novel poetic, and then analyses its scope with an ecocritic perspective. It aims to determine the potential contribution of an unusual narrative voice to the renewal of contemporary environmental imagination.
Ferrand, Aude. "La conscience et l'appréhension du réel dans l'œuvre de Rosamond Lehmann." Montpellier 3, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005MON30061.
Full textIn the fiction of Rosamond Lehmann, the main character is a woman who appears under many guises. She is in turn a little girl, a teenager or a grown woman, but always the centre of perception. The systematic use of internal focalization can be reductive but it also allows the author to explore reality in depth. The character is a pretext to throw light on how consciousness works. The heroine is the one who perceives space, time and the others. The author's literary project is thus to write the relationships between consciousness and reality and the way memory, anticipation and imagination act as prisms. A phenomenological approach, inspired by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, can be seen behind the plot, putting the notion of "centre" to the fore as the origin of perception as well as creation. What is at stake, for the author, is to transcend the appearances and distortion caused by a subjective point of view in order to reach the dark side of the visible, i. E. The actual reality, free from all contingence. Reality is thus to be sought in interstices, margins and, even, in nothingness and death
Blanchemain, Laure. "L'imagination féminine dans les romans de Frances Burney." Toulouse 2, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003TOU20059.
Full textIn Frances Burney's novels, the limits between the outer world and the characters' imagination tend to be blurred. This confusion lends the text a dreamlike quality and seems to point out the potential danger that an overactive imagination can represent. Nevertheless, the female imagination also enables women to ignore more freely the rules imposed by society. It is linked now with the female body, now with reason, and while the traditional hierarchies are apparently reasserted, they are undermined at the same time. The role granted to imagination in the arts is also ambivalent, hovering between mere imitation and real creation. There are no clear-cut oppositions and the novels are far from univocal. Taking into account the theories of the eighteenth-century philosophers proves necessary, since it provides some essential clues, helping the Burney reader to understand her complex works more thoroughly
Isal, Florelle. "Poésie et synesthésie dans l'oeuvre de Charles Baudelaire ˸ une poétique de la totalité entre imagination sensible et savoir." Thesis, Paris 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA030017.
Full textThe present study proposes to shed light upon the meaning of Baudelaire’s Correspondances using a method that incorporates a close reading of passages involving the senses in the text and a cross-disciplinary approach. Our objective is to reinterpret the verse “Colors, sounds and perfumes respond as one” using the entirety of Baudelaire’s works. Does there exist a doctrine of Correspondances that would acts as an unvarying principle or is it preferable to see the question in terms of the crisis of analogy, with Baudelaire having attained the limits of this mode of expression? The mobility of the Correspondances invites us to question ourselves about the unity of the world, founding principle of the universal analogy. After a genealogical study highlighting the configuration of the world innate to the principal analogical paradigms from Antiquity to Romanticism, an analysis of Les Fleurs du Mal reveals the aspiration to portray the world in its totality in this tradition. However, as Baudelairean idealism is not compatible with industrial and positivist France of the Second Empire, Baudelaire, particularly in Spleen de Paris, attempts to recreate unity by weaving a web of new relations that are possible between humans and the world, thus beautifying modernity. Synesthesias thus appear as a “science of the senses” made efficient by the imagination. This “queen of faculties” fills the holes left by science and makes glimpses of reality literally perceptible thanks to evocative imagery that lead the reader into a hybridized lyrical euphoria. Finally, we sketch a hermeneutics of the Baudelairean creative act that examines the epistemological function of a poetry of the senses. As such, this thesis aims to highlight the existence of a synesthetic writing not only intended to move the reader, but also to be a tool that can be used to understand the world and one’s self. The poet’s access to knowledge is created by a retrospective voyage but also especially by alternating temporalities rich in meaning. Synesthesias thus allow for the creation of a nomadic writing that vigorously enters into and embraces the accidents of the present and of life
Dolapsakis, Dimitrios. "Les Histoires de la Littérature Néohellénique 1780-1880. Autour d’Adamantios Coray et de Jacovakis Rizos Néroulos. Des épigones et des émules." Thesis, Paris 4, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA040265.
Full textIn this thesis we have studied the reasons why each book of the literature’s History (1780-1880) was written, the date which marks the beginning of the rupture with the ancien Greek past, the division into literary periods, literary notions presented (utility, love of the homeland, imagination, originality), the criteria of choice of writers who are listed in these books, the bibliographic sources used, the reciprocal influence of the historians, their agreements and their rivalry. We also have studied the references to popular songs, the role of Cretan literature, of the Ionian Islands literature, the preponderance of Phanariot literature and its role in the evolution of neo-Hellenic literature, finally the influence of the translated books on the production of original ones. The books of the neo-Hellenic literature History were based on two pillars: The Mémoire sur l’État actuel de la Civilisation dans la Grèce of Coray in 1803 and the Cours de littérature grecque moderne of Neroulos in 1827, both written in french. Around them a crowd of writers, editors, translators, merchants or just scholars, as well as their books, would identify or compete with each other : E. Philandros (1810) G. A. Manos (1825), C. Coumas (1832), Al. Soutsos (1833), Al. Négris (1829/1835), W. Brunet de Presle (1837), D. Vikélas (1871) and A. Rizos Rangavis (1877)
Djama, Said Ared. "La femme dans la littérature d'expression française de la Corne de l'Afrique." Thesis, Dijon, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012DIJOL015.
Full textIn the Horn of Africa French-speaking literature, there are very often the caricatured images of female characters who are engaged in a difficult daily life. In both texts Waberi and Nuruddin Farah, female characters are constantly on the run to escape the tragic fate of a painful existence where moral and material/financial poverty is a major obstacle. If one of the factors that tends the female characters towards effective marginalization is related to a cantankerous space, dominated “by the vicious will of an imperial Sun”, there are also others who are contributing to stifle their identity in a traditional environment where "anything out of the herd is the elsewhere, the unknown distance, the limbo of oblivion”. We integrate this essentially misogynist perception in a critical size where marginalization related to exploration of the female body in” the nights in Addis Ababa takes shape over the narrative through exploitation the sexual rites that is graved in the flesh of female characters as” a surface where society registers the various terms of transaction”. This present thesis questions initially on issues related to the gender issue in the novelistic universe of writers while taking into account the popular imagination on the representations of women in the Horn of Africa
Denize, Joseph. "L'imagination créatrice chez William Blake et James Joyce." Paris 8, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA081994.
Full textLaffont, Karine. "Philosophie, mythe et imagination dans l'œuvre dramatique et poétique d'Alexandre Soumet." Phd thesis, Université Toulouse le Mirail - Toulouse II, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00788693.
Full textEberz, Ingrid. "L'imagination surréaliste dans son rapport avec l'automatisme." Paris 7, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992PA070067.
Full textIn the surrealist study od the actual process of thinking, all notions of traditional philosophy - the ego, mind and body, nature, transcendance, representation - will be deconstructed and replaced by notions which mark the rupture with dualist and idealistic philosophy. The psychophysical field, the inner ear, the wild eye, the automatic message, the magical dicatation announce a pictural and poetic thinking which is not based on the cogito, ergo sum, but on a est, ergo cogito. It is the automatic dimension who gives us to think and who is, in pursuance of that, the ontological dimension of surrealism, the availability for automatism opens the widest field at human imagination. The fundamental solidarity of imagination and automatism determines the surrealis:m as an ontology of imagination based on automatism. It is imagination who is putting into motion the magical and revolutionary power of desire, in order that her movement does not lead onto the nihil, onto imptiness, but onto creation, onto action, onto a world according to our most noble projects and desires
Barontini, Riccardo. "L’imagination de la littérature, des romantiques à Sartre." Thesis, Paris 4, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA040159.
Full textThis dissertation investigates the concept of imagination in literary theory during the period 1924-1948, in the larger context of the relationship between imagination and literature from the Romantic period on. This work stresses in particular the evolution of the theoretical link between imagination and the cognitive power of literature. The text is composed of two main sections: the first part provides a synthetic consideration of the terms of the intellectual debate around the imagination, through the early twentieth century. Four main subjects are discussed: the conflict between reproductive imagination and creative imagination, the importance of the romantic model, the hermeneutical contribution of human sciences and the problematic dialectics between these latter two elements, in the context of the crisis of legitimacy faced by literature in the interwar period. The second, more analytical part is composed of five monographical chapters dedicated to the theories of imagination developed by five authors: André Breton, Gaston Bachelard, Roger Caillois, Armand Petitjean et Jean-Paul Sartre. This section aims to study both the specificity of these theories and their participation in a common framework. It analyzes the strategies these authors employ to preserve, through the concept of imagination, an epistemological autonomy for literature
Petitjean, Lucie. "Le lotus et la caméra : dynamiques de l'image dans l'oeuvre de H.D." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCC068/document.
Full textIn the late 1920s, American modernist writer H.D. presented the cinema as a major artform, superior even to literature as it could represent reality better and more directly according to her. Answering a questionnaire sent to her to reflect on her career so far, she chose to focus on her keen interest for the moving picture and the importance that new artform was taking in her own artistic ventures. Moviegoer, actor, film editor, critic, H.D. approached the film from all sides. She wanted to give that artform the recognition it deserved. Filmmakers such as G. W. Pabst and Sergei Eisenstein were true great artists and writers should even look to them to renew literature. For about five years, H.D. directly engaged with the film, through production - in her work with young British artist Kenneth Macpherson, director of Borderline, an avant-garde feature-film in which she also held the female lead role -, as well as through film reviews. Macpherson, H.D. and British author and art patron Bryher edited the film magazine Close Up, in which H.D. published various articles and poems. Beyond that short period, the author’s involvement with the film became less direct but this work argues that the motion pictures and the theories she derives from that artform lastingly inspired her imagination and her writing.This thesis provides an analysis of the influence of the film on H.D.’s works., taking into account her literary career as a whole, from the Imagist period to her late esoteric writings. Through the study of poems, romans à clefs, memoirs, and film reviews, two diverging image dynamics are identified, one participating in textual saturation and the other seeking for more immediacy and less artistic elaboration
Yao, Adjoua N'Guessan Alice. "La création poétique chez Henri Michaux : formes, langages et thèmes." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCA140/document.
Full textThe writing of Michaux moves invariably in forms so diverse as contradictory. In prose or versified, the poetic writing at this author is total and keeps(preserves) in this suppleness a with difficulty perceptible stylistic unity(unit) at first sight so much he(it) is made contortionist of the shape ., Michaux realizes with perspicacity a hybrid poetic writing of a generic point of view. The report(relationship) of Michaux in the language(tongue) is also complex. The linguistic subversions are at his home multiple and taken away from the ungrammaticality even essential of the poetic genre. The words and the typographic signs build a language under the impulse of the various emotional routes(courses) of the poet, where from écarts and improper associations. The repetition, as elementary pit of the rhythm seems to it to coincide with a desire of exorcism or the development of the word stresses to say it in a timeless movement on returning to one and on returning to the world. Michaux registers the rhythm in the visual perception. And the graphics associated with the breath leads to consider certain poems communicating paintings. The poems of Michaux are frescoes in the unusual taste where strange creatures and comic intrigues mobilize to give free rein to his overflowing imagination which draws from the "space of inside" which echos the existential concerns
Coadou, Bénédicte. "Recherches sur l’écriture de l’imaginaire dans La Galatée et le Persiles de Miguel de Cervantès (1585-1617)." Thesis, Rennes 2, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012REN20034/document.
Full textLa Galatea and Persiles, two romances written by Cervantes, are frequently misunderstood because they do not establish the same relation with reality as in Don Quixote. They explore an imaginary space and seem to work in contradiction with the rule of verisimilitude and what we consider to be the foundation of the modern novel. After this assessment, the present study has been elaborated in order to understand the reasons for these special features in Cervantes's first and last books, a writer whose “ingenio” has often been praised. That is why, for a start, I will focus on the similarities between them and, first and foremost, I will contextualise them: the imagination and the imaginary will be the guiding principles. This work tries to show how these books are able to meet the readership's and the theoreticians' expectations. At the same time they explore an imaginary space, proving that it is possible to invent a free writing
Mirouze, Abbas. "Un héritier de Ptolémée à la Renaissance : imagination syntéthique, astrologie et autobiographie intérieure dans l'oeuvre de Giovanni Pontano (1428-1503)." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA040248.
Full textAbout the humanist Giovanni Pontano (1428-1503). All the main points were thought studied. A third of his works however, had not been explored, or very little, for one reason: it concerned the astrological writings of the napolitan. Beyond the darkness of the astral language, the author was considered as an ordinary link in the tradition. A reading of this corpus has convinced us in the opposite direction. Doubtless was Pontano pursuing, as Ptolemaeus 's heir, the astrological research, nevertheless his work was teeming with self-analyses, and especially important biographical data. That's why we were lead up to establish his accurate birthday, unknown since the XVIth century, by astronomical computation, to the year of 1428, in order to erect his birthchart. An extraordinary self-portrait has emerged from the commentaries of our astrologer. Slowly many other characters in his entourage come to light, to begin with the aragonese kings. Meanwhile, we have noted the rich confusion carried out by the author between the urania's language and the mythological tales. From the Venus, mistress of the taurus (Pontano's sign) to the ancient Venus. There was a couple of paces. Our astrologer had played upon two stages, and translated his life in the shape of a self-mythology. By the systematic examination of the more characteristic figures, based upon a chronological axis, we were able to exhume a new reading of his works, where the astrology was an hermeneutical tool. Thus Pontano had become the fitted guide of his creation
Carver, Torrent Ruth Ann. "Text as metamorphic process." Paris 7, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA070066.
Full textCoyault, Sylviane. "Le personnage dans l'oeuvre romanesque de J. Giraudoux." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990CLF20029.
Full textMost of giraudoux's fiction was colpmeted between the two world wars. Contemporary with gide, and breton, giraudoux helped in his own way to alter the novel at the beginning of our century. Indeed, since the symbolist mouvement, the realistic pattern has been criticized, and particulary the hero of fiction. In the 19th century, he was conceived in a way that does not allow him to account for the complexity of mankind. For a long period of time, giraudoux refused to create characters and his first stories were written by an omnipresent narrator who deprived all those around him of any reality and prevented characters from existing. When he at last accepted to create heroes freed from the first person narrative, however, he didi not depict them very precisely - the portraits were just fake, the heroes were just stereotypes with no true-to-life features. Actually giraudoux tended to create archetypes assuming the anguish and the essential freams of mankind. That is why they are fraught with mytical refe- rences borrowed from various cultures. Giraudoux also wanted them to be above ordinary lives and tanked them as high as the great heroes of the epic and the tragedy. In stories which are often quite different from the ropmantic genre, we find "poetic characters"
RAPIN, CATHERINE. "L'invisible et le theatre coreen de ch'oe in-hun." Paris 7, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA070072.
Full textBriot, Aude. "Le plaisir dans À la recherche du temps perdu." Thesis, Paris 4, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA040166.
Full textPleasure appears in various guise in A la Recherche du Temps Perdu. It often directs the characters’ lives or serves to define them: the objects and forms of pleasure enjoyed by the characters constitute indirect portraits of them. Pleasure is not only to be observed on an individual level, but can be analysed on the narrative level. Although it is everywhere to be found, it fails to be actually experienced by characters who more often than not reject it into the past or the future, and entertain a very negative vision of it. The senses indeed appear unable to provide pleasure, and only become sources of guilt, disappointment and retribution. Other paths to pleasure must then be discovered, but artificial paradises or perversions fail to yield real pleasure. The Proustian hero ultimately finds it in the world of imagination, especially through literary creation. Paradoxically, it is from the failure of experiencing pleasure that creative power derives
Tlemsani-Cantin, Charifa Jawad. "Lumières sur le sujet contemporain : pour une poétique du sujet contemporain à travers l’oeuvre en prose de F. Delay, G. Macé, P. Michon et P. Quignard." Thesis, Tours, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008TOUR2021.
Full text"Death of the subject", "return of the subject", Postmodern subject" - modern criticism is not short of such notions and formulae. To know precisely what these mean is, however, another matter entirely... Whilst understanding the contemporary poses an intellectual challenge of one kind, defining the subject poses another of equal importance. For this reason, it seemed methodologically appropriate to define the specificities of the subject today by considering the three dimensions it assumes in the works of contemporary writers - namely the scholarly, the fabulous and the fictional. The corpus of works considered in this study comprises about thirty imaginary lives and meditative essays - literary forms which have developed mainly during the last quarter of the 20th century. These texts, by four relatively well-established literary figures, (P. Michon, G. Macé, P. Quignard and F. Delay) mingle both fiction and reality. It was firstly necessary to determine how the break with the Formalist era had affected the writing of the authors considered. In this regard, they were found to be locking for a more concrete way of self-expression thus avoiding the potential pitfalls inherent in subjective writing. that this re-analysis of subjectivity in the chosen texts equally affects the delicate characterises our times and illustrative of one of the forms of lyricism in contemporary prose. Such tensions in contemporary writing do not lead so much to rupture as to the beginnings of a new configuration. With a lightness, a spectral luminosity and a depth of complexity with a translucent quality, the hologram represents a rich set of metaphors for contemporary writing and the dynamic of the character within our texts. Neither an active force within the world nor disabused by it, the contemporary subject is above all a dreamer constructing its own worlds in which to take place ; altering the present in order to approach others, the contemporary subject presents itself as open to relationships with others, and constitutes a new lyrical entity brought forth by a whispering voice between the real world and the imagined
Sorel, Elise. "Écriture et identité aristocratique dans l’oeuvre de Barbey d’Aurevilly." Thesis, Paris 4, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA040139.
Full textOur thesis intends to explore, through an extensive study, Barbey d’Aurevilly’s problematic and paradoxical ways of relationship to aristocracy, setting the hypothesis that this identity conscience lies at the basis of his conception and his experience of writing. After having grasped the idea that the author has developed about aristocratic identity, following evolutive dynamics, and having precisely described what constitutes for him the features of the ideal aristocrat, we mean to question more particularly the way he tries to assert this identity in his style of life and writings. How is it possible to conciliate this identity with one’s status of writer ? Attached to an aristocratic posture, dating back to the Ancient Regime, which privileges the amateurism tradition and aesthetics of negligence, Barbey d’Aurevilly legitimates nevertheless his writing art, paradoxically, by the display of aristocratic ethé, different according to the various genres involved. These ethé justify his discourses ; meanwhile their fundamentally ambivalent nature sets the writer free of his personal contradictions and enables him to invoke these prestigious models. Finally, we explore more largely the way such an aristocratic posture influences his conception of writing and literature, through a poetical and stylistic study
Lagardère, Lucie. "Ecritures de crises, poétiques du devenir : imaginer l’histoire par la littérature dans les proses romantiques de Foscolo, Chateaubiand et Coleridge (1789-1815)." Paris 7, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA070136.
Full textThis thesis explores literary forms of history between 1789 and 1815 - period in which revolutionary and post-revolutionary Europe experiences an endless string of political, social and economical crisis —, in order to examine the ways these forms write about the historical outlooks. The contextuel, generic, and poetic analysis of the works of Foscolo, Chateaubriand and Coleridge reveals ruptures, hybridizations, pluralities and fragmentations, which affect both prose and represented subject. Sign of the particular historicity of this time, the poetical and political destabilizations demonstrate a critical experience of time and history. Moreover, unlike the historiographical model that will be gradually imposed, starting from the second half of the nineteenth century, the works studied do not fit into a stable and clearly identifiable narrative genre: they follow the path of poetic depiction, of prophecy, and of symbolic imagination, in order to repair the wreckage of history, the fractures of the subject and the breaking of textual forms. The writing of the facts deals with the emotions of the subject, builds a poetic recollection of the past and opens the memory to an aftertime. The authors try to translate the present global crisis into a dynamic of future. This general watermark movement, that goes from ruins to repairs, from sudden stop to restart, guides the outlines of this thesis: so conceived as a becoming, time can be renewed. Imagination and prophecy gradually replace former times report and make the prophetic fact happen in present reality. Thanks to the rhythm and the generic distortion, the literary text reveals the endeavour to give meaning and coherence to history, while simultaneously undermining this effort by introducing contingency and conflicts of temporality. Prose steadily assumes poetical qualities to institute poetry as a future-based oriented temporality. This diction of reality belongs to a larger project of re-foundation: first, the temporal one, due to the reconnection of the three temporal categories, then the patriotic one, with each author's strong national and political plans likely to reshape a possible vivre-ensemble, and finally the literary one, for the authors look for the most appropriate literary form more likely to convey ideas of liberty, balance and synthesis
Lebarbier, Amandine. "“Cette jolie muse chrétienne” : la figure de sainte Cécile dans la littérature et les arts en Europe au XIXe siècle." Thesis, Paris 10, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA100147.
Full textThis thesis aims to show the important role played by the figure of Saint Cecilia in the European musical psyche in the 19th century. The first part of this work is devoted to the historiography of Saint Cecilia, from the fifth century to the 19th century, and to the inclusion of the figure in the European cultural space. Various media have contributed to make this legendary Roman patrician a celebrated and famous patron saint but, first and foremost, is the picture of Raphael, The Ecstasy of St. Cecilia. During the first half of the 19th century this artistic European heritage artwork is the subject of a true fascination for the writers, musicians and painters. This thesis tries to understand the reasons why. In the second phase, this thesis shows that the figure of Saint Cecilia is a trope figure, a vivid allegory, used by many writers to construct a discourse on music, art and the relationship between the arts. During the 19th century there were several strong phases of focus on Saint Cecilia, each leading to recharge the figure with a vivid breath. She then imposes herself, no longer as a figure of persistence only, but rather as the possibility of thinking about transcendence and of constructing an aesthetic discourse. The third axis of this research focuses on gender studies. Heiress to several types of feminine representations, Saint Cecilia appears as an analogical tool, rich in ideological presuppositions on the representation of women and women musicians. Representation of an eternal feminine fantasy, the female musicians associated to Saint Cecilia are the guarantors of an ideological memory which encloses the female musician in a very restricted area of the musical practice
Perreur, Carine. "Le rêve américain dans l'oeuvre de Romain Gary." Phd thesis, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III, 2010. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00719429.
Full textVan, Horne Mary. "CARVING A PLACE IN THE CANADIAN IMAGINATION: (RE)WRITING CANADA'S FORGOTTEN HISTORY IN A SELECTION OF CHINESE CANADIAN HISTORICAL FICTION." Thesis, Université Laval, 2010. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2010/27668/27668.pdf.
Full textHabib, Elsa. "Le dialogue des cultures dans la Caraïbe de Gabriel García Márquez. Eléments indiens, européens, africains et arabes." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCA038.
Full textIn his work, Gabriel García Márquez recalls a particular geographical and cultural space, the Caribbean, through which he apprehends the world. By way of a new language developed through means of aesthetic expressions that he deems inherent to his reality, García Márquez puts his writing at the service of the recognition of the geographical and cultural specificity of the Caribbean and the Latin American continent in general. Their singularity is the product of their complex historical process: the history must be read again and rewritten. García Márquez’s challenge in creation is to transcribe his reality, to poeticize it. Transformed into a mythical place, the Caribbean is first and foremost a sentimental space: the constant intrusion of autobiographical exploration transforms the literary and journalistic work of García Márquez into a realm of memory, reflection, and imagination that are driven by nostalgia. From one story to another, the cultural identity of the Caribbean is built and builds with it that of the writer. The constant affirmation of that particular cultural reality is the primary factor that guides and imposes the creative challenge. The universal scope of his work lies within his creative process: if the identity discourse always brings back to the particular, the aesthetic creation projects the work into a universal sphere. The cultural diversity of the Caribbean is mirrored through images indicative of the manner in which García Márquez considers and enhances that plural presence. As a starting point for any comparative thinking, the study of the foreign dimension reveals mythological and symbolical dimensions that are common to other cultures
Safavizadeh, Nazanin. "L'imaginaire des quatre éléments dans la littérature contemporaine : analyse comparée à travers Goli Taraghi et Jean Marie Gustave Le Clézio." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014LYO20050.
Full textThis thesis focuses upon the imagination of the four elements through contemporary comperative literature, between French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio and Iranian writer Goli Taraqi. The methodology used here reveals symbolic characters from the sensitive qualities of each element. On the other hand, compared literature requires that we understand our subject with a more expanded vision based on cultural and societal facts because each writer carries in his/her own imagination of the nature at times a personal and collective memory. This memory is in fact crossed by particular historic events which have a specific influence on individual psychology and relation with the world. The share of memories and the interpretation of memories are attentively observed and we follow the way the writer has designed for each element in writing his world. This study is comprised of three parts: The first and the second parts are about sensitive and symbolic areas and the third part compares the results obtained from exposing the thematic networks of images and symbols. Finally, the conclusion brings us to underscore the importance of psychology of each writer, which determines a territory of action for each element by outlining a cosmogony whose four elements represent only a single aspect. The advantage with analysis in the compared literature here is that the latter is rich in meaning, allowing the emergence of differences and elements of universality beyond erosion resulting from the globalization of post-modernity. The writer shows a sort of independence through persistence of specific lively attitudes through the vigor of cultural roots
Poulet, Françoise. "L'extravagance : enjeux critiques des représentations d'une notion dans le théâtre et le roman du XVIIe siècle (1623-1666)." Thesis, Poitiers, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012POIT5020/document.
Full textThe purpose of our research is to define extravagance by looking at this notion in context when it experienced its first literary successes, that is from 1623 (with L'Histoire comique de Francion by Sorel) to 1666 (Le Misanthrope by Molière and Le Roman bourgeois by Furetière). We therefore aim at showing how it illustrated sociocultural, literary and esthetical issues in the early seventeenth century. Our research is carried along pluridisciplinary lines: extravagance deals at the same time with medicine, the history of cures and the imprisonment of the insane and the philosophical question of reversible links between madness and wisdom, and this is why I am studying these fields while analysing literary representations of madness. The extravagant's disorder disturbs his imagination without really impairing his understanding. Uncontrolled knowledge and noxious readings, which are often novels, are responsible for his madness. Unlike the fool, his mind is not empty, but it blurs the way in which he perceives the world. Such mental confusion also makes him move away from accepted social behaviours. As opposed to the model of the honest man as defined by treatises of courtesy, the extravagant man cannot abide by proprieties and polite codes. This perspective leads me to formulate a new interpretation of the comic characters we can find in comedies and comic novels from the 1620-1660 era, such as the braggart, the pedant, the countryman, and so on
Pradère-Ascione, Clémentine. "La fantaisie noire dans la fiction en prose de Boris Vian (Romans, nouvelles, pièce de théâtre)." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015USPCA076.
Full textBoris Vian's literary work calls to mind by the feelings it arouses. For a long time it nevertheless remained unknown concealed by its author's protean talents. Boris Vian, whose texts were mostly published posthumously, wasn't at the beginning seen as a writer to finally get in the Pléiade in 2010, 51 years after his death. To analyse his work it appears natural to consider the idea of fantasy. The fictional world he created remains a fantasist one where imagination and inventiveness prevail. Yet, opposing worlds get mixed up: fairy and cruelty, casualness and anxiety, indifference and seriousness, fantasy and reality. Considering only the fictional texts in prose (novels, short stories and plays) we questionned the legitimity of the fantasy notion. Does its obviousness withstand a further analysis? This questioning drove us to the idea of 'fantaisie noire'. Sometimes magical, incredible, linguistic, comical or parodic, the fantasy collides with the inwardness of the characters and with an anxiety that contaminates both beings and objects. The fantasy defers to an oppresive world where the dream reveals itself in all its power. The come back to fantasy is then only possible by comical detachments and a linguistic inventiveness that contributes to let the work opened
Ben, Hamad Feki Salwa. "Enracinement et déracinement dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Sylvie Germain." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015AIXM3003.
Full textWith a dense and complex work of fiction, Sylvie Germain has become a prominent figure in modern French literature. Refering to a large corpus of works illustrative of her fiction, this study attempts to explore her fictional universe that is based on the cosmos and its four elements. The subject of this thesis is therefore the study of space and the symbolic function of material imagination in Germain's novels. In fact, she puts emphasis on the importance of inheritance, roots, transmission, and the elements that mark a family memory. Germain resurrects the rootedness and uprootedness problematic that appeared in French literature in the beginning of the 20th century. Following the thematic and psychoanalytical approaches, this study is built on the binary opposition: rootedness and uprootedness, first within a geographical framework, which later extends to every form of extraction, be it psychological or metaphysical. This study also attempts to prove that both desires of rootedness and uprootedness create a new human typology that would replace the old nomadic/sedentary typology. The will for uprootedness is often translated by the will to make a tabula rasa of the past and to split from a filiation, whereas rootedness requires reconciliation with the past and implies a quest for filiation. Finally, in order to depict memory, Germain develops a pattern of intertextuality and intratextuality, inscribing her text in the line of genesis narratives and in a literary tradition, which both ceaselessly inspire her work
Rasongles, Marie. "L'artifice de l'écrivain" : représentation et imaginaire dans les fictions narratives de Théophile Gautier." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014LORR0279/document.
Full textFrom accounts given in the time of the author to those collected nowadays, critics have always seen in Gautier's writing the means to create “tableaux à la plume”. The question of the specificities of each and every artistic form thus arises from this remark. Even though Théophile Gautier does not overtly explain what he means by “l'artifice de l'écrivain”, he nevertheless makes it explicitly appear as inferior to the painter's device. Since the expression of Beauty by figurative arts is obvious and immediate, Gautier deplores the fact that literature, on the other hand, demands a process that unfolds in time in order to turn a word into an image. Indeed, time is fixed by the painting while it is part of the very dynamics of literature. Time must then be annihilated in order for the artist's only purpose to affirm itself as the quest for and desire of eternal and general Beauty.Beyond those considerations, the intersection between painting -as a formal representation- and writing -as imaginary representation- allows one to consider the narrative work as a challenge that a frustrated novice painter set for himself. The paintbrush can express visually what writing can only claim through the means of imagination, which leads Gautier to believe the paintbrush to be a more relevant device than the pen a priori. Whereas the brush suspenses the entropic process that necessarily tarnishes Beauty, the pen not only proves incapable of stopping time but even attempts to stretch it in order to euphemize its incidents. Therefore, the pictorial statics opposes the narrative mechanics. Without claiming to stop the time to which it is intrinsically subdued, writing rather uses this competence to immortalize in an artificial way both Beauty and the desire that precedes it
Sebai, Ameziane Ibtissem. "La poétique de l'espace dans l'oeuvre d'Edouard Glissant : La Martinique, un vaisseau fantôme." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014BOR30063/document.
Full textThis thesis tries to comprehend the space in the work of Edouard Glissant. For the bard of the “all-world”, the space is not limited to his native island, Martinique. Indeed, contrary to the classical westerner view of the insularity, what underlies and feeds the work of Edouard Glissant is mainly the appeal of lands, which means not only the Caribbean archipelago, but also every place in the world. The Martinique which is supposed to be the tiny island, lost in the middle of the Atlantic and kept in American continent’s shadow, becomes the preface of this one. on top of that, in the wake of the ”all-world”, the west Indian island experience the same drifts and the same challenges. Because of that, the sea becomes the link which gathers lands at the same time as it stimulates the imagination. The new sea’s perception is not a counter-vertical, but it is a necessity. Owing to the slave trade and the amnesia which is associated with, the story of the “naked migrants” begins henceforth with the slave ship. Everything is based on this new matrix, whatever it is denied, and in which the eternal swaying between particular suffering and the other’s knowledge has its roots. Thus, through the vertigo of mountains, plantations and the “in-town”, Martinique seems like a ghost vessel which keeps jealously its secrets in order to continue its voyage
Pineau, Noémi. "Pensée et écriture du réel : pour une interprétation de l'oeuvre d'Ilse Aichinger de 1945 à 2006." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012STRAC032.
Full textThis doctoral research analyzes the statute of the reality notion within Ilse Aichinger’s literature. It focuses on her theoretical cogitation about the connection between literature and reality and on the different textual aspects of her writing about reality. We also tried to set Aichinger’s production back in the context of literature after 1945, in which cogitation about transmission of reality and about the cognitive function of writers plays a great part.The approach of the first part is the importance of fiction through the concepts of fictivity and fictionality. This analysis is completed by a cogitation about fiction in the context of literature production and reception. Knowledge is the second approach of this research about reality. In this part, we first characterize the status of knowledge in Aichinger’s literature and secondly describe some particular examples which are characteristic for Aichinger’s writing, as subjective knowledge or intuition. We finally analyze two different ways of writing about reality in literature. The study on the artificiality of the literature text leads to a reflection about the meaning of authenticity and imagination by this author. We conclude this research by analyzing the changing of narrative structures in Ilse Aichinger’s literature
Chou, Shin-Yi. "Les personnages féminins dans "À la recherche du temps perdu" de Marcel Proust : Étude menée à partir de René Girard et de Marcel Mauss." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014AIXM3059.
Full textMy research focuses on the female characters in In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust from the perspective of the "desire" of René Girard, the "gift" of Marcel Mauss and the "focus" of Gérard Genette. The variable focus in the narrative facilitates the comprehension of all relationships, connections and in particular the passion and the varied emotional projections of the hero for these women. He believes that his dreams will come true through these women. It will be the narrator, another "me" of the hero, who will demystify this feeling. In fact, his satisfaction is not in regard to the women themselves, but to the peripheral qualities that he can find from these women. Girard defends the desire of bad processes, he talks about the mimicry, rivalry and violence in desire which is also from the imagination. Girard's theory of mimetic desire composed of envy, jealousy and helpless hatred corresponds exactly to the unhealthy desire of the young hero for these women. The theory of Mauss regarding mutual recognition as being composed of "three obligations" which constitute a good social relationship. He defends not only the good processes like friendship, love and gift exchange, but also the topic of rivalry. It might seem that these two theories are contradictory, but Desire and the Gift coexist in fact in this novel, we can find them in our new interpretation. The hero's pursuit of friendship and social glory is defeated, however all pages on art shows us the philosophy of Proust, which is not possible by love is possible through literature. In Search of Lost Time is a gift of the author, it's a comprehension all about life
Musso, Daniela. "Réminiscences mythiques dans les Miracles de Nostre Dame par personnages : Ia mise en scène dun imaginaire chrétien du XIVe siècle." Phd thesis, Université de Grenoble, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01063181.
Full textPark, Sunghyun. "Ko Un, la poésie et l'histoire en Corée du Sud : le monde de Maninbo (Dix mille vies)." Paris, EHESS, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015EHES0026.
Full textManinbo (Ten Thousand Lives), published in 30 volumes between 1986 and 2010, is a series of poems that tells the "stories" of about 5,600 people in 4,001 poems. Its author, Ko Un (1933-), one of the most influential poets of Korean literature, restores Korean history through the representation of the lives of people he met (directly or indirectly). This dissertation aims to analyze this set of "historical" poems, or what I call a poetic historiography, as interpenetration or interfusion between history and fiction. The problem of historical narrative and literary narrative constitutes one axis of my analysis of Maninbo, in which I focus on the multidimensional aspect of temporality of the form and content of the narrative related to its historicity, especially the multiple uses of the past, present and future tenses. Another axis is the philosophical thought of Ko Un, the basis of his literary creation and his life. Based on Buddhist philosophy, Ko Un's questioning of the self and others manifests, on the one hand, as the problem of the first-person narrative in his poetry and, on the other hand, as that of the interrelation between oneself and others on an ethical level. This also relates to the interaction between the reader and the text (author, narrator, characters). Taking a synthetic approach to Maninbo, we study the literary, historical and philosophical aspects of Ko Un's monumental work and show how it constructs historical time through its stories of "ten thousand lives. "
Servier, Alicia. "La représentation des figures féminines dans les images enluminées du roman en prose de Lancelot du Lac (XIIIe -XVe siècle)." Thesis, Lille 3, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LIL30018.
Full textThe subject of our thesis concerns the representation of female characters in the illuminations decorating the manuscripts of the prose romance of Lancelot du Lac, which belongs to the Arthurian literary cycle of the Lancelot-Grail, produced between the second quarter of the 13th century and the end of the 15th century. This courtly chivalric romance, which was a great success in the 13th-15th centuries, contains a lot of female characters of a remarkable variety. The objective is to study how ambivalence and ambiguity that characterize most, if not all, of these characters - because of, among other things, their obvious or latent links with a marvellous Otherworld and a feminine nature thought generally equivocally in the Middle Ages - are shown in the pictures. For it, we proceed to an iconographic, stylistic and comparative analysis of the illuminations in twenty-nine manuscripts of the Lancelot du Lac. We are also interested in the representation of female figures in other artistic and literary works of the Middle Ages, to compare it with that of the Lancelot. The pictorial interpretation of the text, making the transition between the literary character and the iconographic figure, the complex relationships between ontological categories (the human/the fairy ; the feminine/ the masculine) in the conception of these, are at the heart of our work. The representations reveal a complex, unstable and contrasting image of the woman and the feminine marked by alterity, where the elements of the text interfere with the creativity and the visual culture of illuminators. In Fact, they lead us to go beyond the stereotypes imposed mainly by the Church, beyond the social and historical realities, to improve our knowledge about the imagination that is developed around the female gender in medieval times
Schuppert, Guillaume. "Le "faire-semblant" en procès : examen et défense de la philosophie de Kendall L. Walton." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LORR0036.
Full textThe ordinary concept of fiction raises ontological, epistemological, logical and aesthetical questions. Kendall Walton's Mimesis as Make-Believe (1990) introduced a groundbreaking theory on fiction and representation. According to his main claim, the practice of appreciating representational works of art shares significant similarities with the practice of playing games of make-believe. According to Walton, both activities rely on the concept of fictionality, the fact of being true in the fiction, which is understood in terms of prescriptions to imagine. My dissertation consists of an introduction to Walton's philosophy, a commentary of Mimesis' theory of make-believe and a defense against their critics. The first part provides a presentation of Walton's philosophical methodology and discusses one of his most famous articles, "Categories of Art" (1970). The second part provides a detailled commentary of Mimesis, based on a confrontation between Nelson Goodman's theory of representation and Walton's one. The third part is dedicated to analyse the criticisms that are encountered by the theory. A first set of criticisms comes from philosophers admitting the fundamental principles of the theory : those are Gregory Currie (1990), Peter Lamarque and Stein Olsen (1994), or Jerrold Levinson (1993). I argue that those objections are groundless. Another set of criticisms comes from philosophers attempting to undermine the fundamental principles of the theory : those are Stacie Friend (2008), Derek Matravers (2014), or even Walton himself (2015). According to me, those objections are on the right tracks if correctly understood, but fall short from being decisive. Nevertheless, I argue they should lead us to develop a research on the semiotic aspects of fictionality
Bellemare, Alex. "Mundus est fabula. L'imaginaire géographique dans la fiction utopique (XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles)." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCA125.
Full textWhy were utopian fictions in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries written in the form of a first person imaginary travel ? Most commentators study utopian literature as being a concept ; the form it adopts and the representations it deploys are considered, at best, incidental. Our hypothesis is quite different : these texts should interest the historian of literature precisely because they present themselves in the form of a narrative in which the subjectivity of the narrator is problematic. By their construction mixing factual and fictional elements, these texts can be read in the double perspective of the “world as fable” and the “fable as world”. We will study this duality through the notion of geographical imagination : the texts we analyze are addressing the links between travel and language, territory and society, mobility and subjectivity. The geographical imagination that we will interpret is a process that informs the perception of the world and the possibility of its representation. This doctoral thesis is divided in two parts : we will investigate depictions of space and spatial practices which are both mediations between the utopian traveler and the places he crosses
Benhamza, Fatiha. "Théories et pratiques de l’imagination surnaturaliste dans les œuvres de Victor Hugo, Théophile Gautier et Charles Baudelaire." Paris 10, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA100129.
Full textThis thesis project aims at studying the theory of surnaturalism in the works of Victor Hugo (1802-1885), Théophile Gautier(1811-1872) and Charles Baudelaire (1821-1827). The matter will be the evaluation of the concrete involvements in their litterary works. Consequently, the goal of this work will be, on one hand, analyzing the sociological, metaphysical and psychological foundations of surnaturalism, on the other hand, the evalutation the esthetic developments on the theorical and practical levels. As a result, the research will constitute three main axis : 1) Upstream, authors studied with the detailed and compared analysis of the various classical doctrines of imagination the romantic writers inherit. 2) The study of the speeches and the representations of the esthetic, contemporaries with these authors who shape the immediate background (in the second-third of the nineteenth century) of “the surnaturalism” according to Victor Hugo, Theophile Gautier and Charles Baudelaire. 3) The intrinsic description of the texts of the operating way of the surnaturalist writing, that will be defined
Mosseron, Maxence. "L'imagination créatrice chez Théophile Gautier - autour d'Arria Marcella." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015USPCA070.
Full textThe subject of this PhD is a short story by Théophile Gautier, entitled Arria Marcella, as seen through the theme of creative imagination. Although the present dissertation focuses on this particular short story, it also takes into consideration the author’s entire works – fiction, art criticism, travel literature and to a lesser degree, poetry. The 3-part study begins by describing the different sections of the short story, and the way Gautier organized his narration. The story is based on different literary sources and a transitional object (a museum artefact) through which he staged the adventures of a nineteenth-century young man encountering his female ideal in ancient times. Arria Marcella is the story of a walk at daytime then nighttime, in reality and in the character’s mind. The second part deals with creative imagination: image and the way it is transformed and enriched in literature through descriptive work as seen through the writer’s eye. Rather than remaining faithful to reality, it is a matter of enchanting reality through the fantastic genre, survival and figurability. The third part is devoted to an analysis of Arria Marcella through further readings so as to highlight its complexity. Thus, this work, which holds a strategic position among Gautier’s works, can help explain his writings. The viewpoint is threefold: aesthetic, philosophical, through a close examination of the Platonism and Neoplatonism features – essential though filtered, and finally generic since it shows how the Pompeian short story reaches Gesamtkunswerk by combining different creative genres