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Ford, Ed. "La Bruyère as Quietist: A Straussian Reading of La Bruyère's Caractères and Dialogues sur le quiétisme." Harvard Theological Review 98, no. 1 (January 2005): 95–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0017816005000878.
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Leveau, Eric. "Les Caractères de La Bruyère entre poétique de la morale et immoralité de la poétique." Paris 4, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA040004.
Full textMy dissertation reconsiders La Bruyère’s Caractères as an original reflection on the literary landscape of its time. Looking at theoretical debates about character writing and other genres that frame this text, I demonstrate that the form of discourse chosen by La Bruyère allows him to explore the fundamental implications of the act of writing. Deeply implicated in the esthetics of the salons, but also resolutely modern in his conception of theater, La Bruyère envisions the text as a battleground where notions of truth and trust are undermined by a preoccupation with textual effects and dynamics. Les Caractères constructs a figure of the author as a philosopher or an “homme d’esprit” that proves to be the exact opposite of the ethos of the virtuous orator. Hence La Bruyère, in his depiction of vices and virtues, presents his own act of writing as morally compromised and Les Caractères can be seen as a fictionalized self-portrait, somewhere between Montaigne and Rameau’s nephew
Ricord, Marine. "L'esprit dans "Les Caractères" de J. De La Bruyère." Lyon 3, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996LYO31011.
Full textParmentier, Bérengère. "La critique de l'usage : la question politique de l'écriture dans Les Caractères de La Bruyère." Paris 10, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA100001.
Full textThis study is an attempt to consider certain types of writing in their relationships to social practices and the political context. The analysis of the growing amount of printed material, which, during the xviith century, offers ethical discourse as a means to shape social attitudes, leads us to underline the growing importance of the theme of common language ("la langue"). This conception of language is the basis for representations of man which are grounded on the sociability of conversation. This has important consequences for the conception of writing, imagined on the model of speech, and, more and more as the century progresses, on that of conversation. The debates on language bring forth questions essential to writing, such as the possibility to contravene the grammatical norms of the "langue d'usage", the right of the author to pass judgement from his own, even the problem of the users' representations of their social universe or that of the function they attach to printed matter. Writers do not take part in this debate only through explicit expression. The relationship of their writing to their native language may also reveal a critical attitude. In les caracteres of la bruyere, a number of distorsions of the grammatical norms struck the contemporaries. The dispersion of the instances of enonciation, or the use of the indirect style, demand that the reader reconsider the practical uses of his linguistic habits. These techniques undo common illusions about language which are also common illusions about the world. La bruyere uses the disposition of separate "caracteres" in his book, its editorial progression and its typographical organisation to question linguistical practises. Thus, on the basis of an analysis of les caracteres, we attemp to define the shape, possibilities and limits of a critical form of writing
Versel, Cerdelli Martine. "De la morale à la passion dans "Les caractères" de La Bruyère." Toulouse 2, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994TOU20015.
Full textThe semiotic problematic is related to the subject as being as opposed to the subject as doing. An epistemological framework of passion attempts indeed to present the phenomenom of pathemization - from the protensivity of subject that, in rising to surface, can be articulated into discret units (passional modulation, modalization). This enables us to analyse some passional lexemes coquetterie (coquetry), galanterie (gallantry), faussete (duplicity), les tentations de lelie (lelie's temptations), la perdition feminine (women destress) - in the chapter "les femmes" (women) of la bruyere's "les caracteres". It is possible to implement a deductive procedure from the observer's standpoint, in order to build the passional configurations in a moralizing discours. However, we are confronted with some questions : tensivity, and its relationship between continuity and discontinuity and also the position of the new component of narrative syntax - the potentialization -. Our analysis takes into accompt the
Escola, Marc. "Rhétorique du discontinu : rhétorique et herméneutique dans Les Caractères de La Bruyère." Paris 4, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA040261.
Full textThe renewal of the character and the invention of a rhetoric of discontinuity in La Bruyère's Les Caractères give evidence to a deep mutation for a story of the hermeneutic: the hermeneutic of behaviors and the textual hermeneutic are intimately bound. The new poetic of the character must be hold as a "moment" in the separation during the XVIIth century between two semiotics : the analytic takes the signs of behaviors as indices for a inductive interpretation (Coeffeteau, Senault, Cureau de la Chambre, Descartes, Le Brun), face to an another formation who takes the signs as symbols for a abductive reading (Le Moyne, Faret, Gracian, Bary, La Bruyere). For La Bruyère first, the behavior must be read, that means interpreted, as a text. On the other side, the story of the nine editions of his book reveals his desire for a new rhetoric who promotes, after the example of Montaigne, Pascal, la Rochefoucauld, a new way of reading. The investigation of the ways of coherence in the chapters of Les Caractères is also an incitation for the theory of the literature of formulate a new method: an archeology of lisibility
Badiou-Monferran, Claire. "La liaison du discontinu ou les conjonctions de coordination dans Les Caractères de La Bruyère : étude linguistique, stylistique et littéraire." Paris 4, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA040274.
Full textOur thesis deals with the function of conjunctions of coordination in La Bruyère's poetics. Our literary analyses (II) have been preceded by a linguistic study (I) explaining the functioning of conjunctions of coordination "in the language" (as opposed to "in the discourse"). In this first part, the history of conjunctions, as grammatical category, was briefly described, from the graeco-latin sphere to the nineteenth century, where coordinating words were distinguished from subordinating words. Then, the state of the problem in contemporary linguistics was set up; it appeared that no existing approach was explaining satisfactorily the relationship between conjunctions of coordination themselves (chapter I). Attempts were made to remedy to this situation by building up a system based upon the linguistic theory of enunciation. This was derived from contributions of G. Guillaume's linguistic theory, as well as O. Ducrot's theory about argumentation "in the language" (chapter II). In the second part of the thesis, this theoretical construction was applied to the literary analysis of les Caractères. Using this approach, we considered successively the relationships between grammar and rhetorics (I), grammar and ethics (II), grammar and religion (III). These three contributions have shown that beyond the "shattered style" (formal image of the diversity of the actual world). La Bruyère's eloquence, inclined towards polyphony as well as arrangement of connecting elements on a scale of meanings, and "figurative" lay-out (in the Christian sense of "prophecy in act")
Aune, Laurence. "Une littérature d'opposition pacifique sous Louis XIV : La Fontaine, la Bruyère, Fénelon." Aix-Marseille 1, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/2000AIX10009.
Full textCuche, François-Xavier. "Une pensée sociale catholique : les idées de Fleury, La Bruyère et Fénelon." Paris 4, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989PA040311.
Full textWe are trying to show how coherent were a group of disciples of Bossuet and their social and economic thought as it manifested itself in the critique of contemporary society, their basic theory of society, the historical or fictitious models they set up as examples and their concrete reform proposals. Their thought was often close to the thought of the "reformateurs" of the end of the seventeenth century, but they were catholic thinkers first of all. They confronted the problem of the secularization of society, due to the rise of the modern state, as well as the first advances of the "enlightenment" they were conscious of the historical changes and refused all absolute anthropological pessimism, even if they experienced their time as a time of crisis - an intellectual, social and economic crisis. Based on the results of our study, two conclusions could be made : the fact that every christian social synthesis is perishable, but also that catholic social thought shows remarkable conceptual, ideological and theological consistency throughout the centuries
Joucla, Véronique. "L'hypocrite, de Tartuffe à Onuphre." Aix-Marseille 1, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992AIX10025.
Full textDuring the seventeenth century, a hypocrite is someone who pretends he is a pious person while he is not. This is the definition given by glossaries. One can often find him in literature, in tales and short stories before moliere writes tartuffe. But he doesn't caus any scandal. In theatreplays, he is not a sanctimonious character. Moliere shows some originality in putting tartuffe on the stage. Literature, religion and society mingle in moliere's struggles. The hypocrite can be a jansenist, a jesuit, a member of the company of the saint-sacrement. He can also be a libertine lord. When la bruyere writes onuphre's portrait piousness has become the fashion. Women and courtieres are particularly concerned by hypocrisy. Devout becomes synonymous with hypocritical. Onuphre replaces the hypocritical courtier, who attended louis xiv court, a character impossible to depict openly. When we go from tartuffe to onuphre, we actually go from the libertine lord to a substitute of the hypocritical courtier
Normand, Maxime. "Sagesse classique : Sapiential biblique et littérature morale dans la seconde moitié du dix-septième siècle en France." Paris 4, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA040037.
Full textIn this doctoral thesis, our goal is to assess, describe and interpret the intertextuality of the Wisdom Books (Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus) in the major works of the four great classical moralists : Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, La Fontaine and La Bruyère. An examination of the literary and historical context reveals how biblical wisdom literature permeates the classical period. In our first part, we analyse the sapiential intertextuality by focusing on the use of commonplaces or topoi. This topical use of the Wisdom Books is particularly significant in the Fables of La Fontaine and the Caractères of La Bruyère. In our second part, we examine the philosophical and theological impact of the Wisdom Books. Ecclesiastes, in its criticism of illusions and in its "epicurean" moments, appears as a fundamental reference for the four moralists. For them, the Wisdom Books seem more particularly devoted to the expression of human misery. However, religious and inspired wisdom infuses many pages of Pascal's work. In our third part, we show that the Wisdom Books constitute a rhetorical model for the moralists, especially concerning brevity and discontinuity. This model, weakly constraining for La Rochefoucauld, stronger, but not preponderant in La Fontaine and La Bruyère, proves to be essential for Pascal, and especially the Pascal of the Pensées