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Bouchard, Benjamin. "La Fontaine : une poétique de la diversité." Versailles-St Quentin en Yvelines, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011VERS013S.
Full textThis study offers a synthetic approach to La Fontaine’s poetics. The corpus comprises the complete works of the poet. The starting point of the analysis is the notion of diversity. In a short, entirely theoretical first part there is an attempt to evacuate diversity from the intuitive approach (« mixture of genres, styles and modes ») in order to turn it into a rigorous analytical tool. This aims at redefining the notion of genre. On a primary level, it describes all the phenomena of diversity, without resorting to the categories of style, mode or tone. On a secondary level, it appears that diversity can be described more accurately through the rigorously defined notions of variety and variation. In the second part, a descriptive model of the Lafontainian text is conceived, which takes the form of a rational genesis that follows the trio inventio, dispositio, elocutio. La Fontaine scholars have previously demonstrated the value of the study of rhetoric in understanding the craft of La Fontaine : the chapter on the invention of diversity sums up those observations while integrating them into the model. Next it is argued that, as variation is the basic and omnipresent principle of composition for the various works of the poet, the structure of the Fables and Tales comes out in a fresh way. A chapter that puts the model into its historical perspective is added and shows how important variety and variation were in the 17th-Century reader’s expectations. The last chapter puts forward new considerations on the notion of tempérament and details the various techniques used by La Fontaine to give his works their final gloss
Gallardo, Jean-Luc. "Thématique et poétique des Fables de La Fontaine." Paris 3, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA030094.
Full textAs fables are made up of various elements first and then because they are a microcosm, a "petit monde", related to the marcocosm, they generale their own critical method : every single fable must be scrutinized, then confronted with others; besides the questio of the arrangement of the collections and of the books must be raised. In short the very title of the work fables choisies, mises en vers par m. De la fontaine must be accounted for. A thematic analysis can't go without a poetical analysis. The theme that comes first is the concept of inheritance which brings about the one of natural qualities. The latter leads us to question the idea of imitation that appears under numerous aspects : imitation as a whole, revenge, artistic creation, plagiarism, literary pratice, repetitive structures, double or twin fables, nest of fables, implicit poetic arts and dedicative fables. The theme of imitation conjures up the ideas of illusion and representation. Moreover la fontaine's crait is founded on the concepts of appropriation, work and technique, grace, piety, imperfection, childhood and education, play, rhetoric and speech, animals of course, epicureanism and myth. The choice of all of these subjects is grounded on the process of thinking about literature. Il deals with illusion, the nature of poetry and the role
Fortin, Damien. "Entre légende et historiographie : La Fontaine devant ses biographes (1695-1853)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA040005.
Full textThe contrasting and paradoxical answers offered in academic critiques of the last third of the XXth century, regarding the question of the author's place, suggest that we retrace the history of our literary history, from the early genre of the Author's Life, elaborated during the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries and transformed continually thereafter. La Fontaine provides the example of a writer whose critical fortune intermingles with his biographical account in an altogether significant, contradictory and suggestive manner. In the waning of every great figure, this famous fabulist leads a double life : the decline of his historical life, related in the minutest detail by biographers, is intertwined an existence at times likely and at times fabulous, whereupon the biographical person gives way to the legendary figure. The biographical mass, comprised of notices, praises and portraits from the XVIIth, XVIIIth and XIXth centuries, built up his notoriety, whilst influencing permanently and radically the reception and critique of his works, which subsequently took on a “fables” structure to be unconvered and analysed. Natural ingenuity or calculated guile, the "Bonhomme" figure is the result of a complex legend whose study of its constitution and diffusion enables one to follow the elaboration of each component and their successive crystallization. The goal of this study, in part editorial and in part analytical, is all the stronger given as there has only been, up to now, punctual and partial approaches to this theoretical question, addressed from the point of view of the sociology of literature. In opting for the intellectual and material definition of a genre of the Author's Life, whilst inserting this genre in the intermediary between the Lives of Renaissance artists and post revolution biographies, this thesis will challenge the hypothesis of a generic definition of the model and of an aesthetic approach to the corpus
Leplâtre, Olivier. "Le pouvoir et la parole dans les "Fables" de La Fontaine." Lyon 3, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996LYO31016.
Full textChraim, Joseph. "La Fontaine et le théâtre." Paris 3, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA030115.
Full textDisciple of terence, friend and admirer of reputed greek dramatists of the seventeeth century: namely moliere and racine. La fontaine makes his first in the theatre. L'eunuque his first play, was a mere adaptation of the latin eunuque: "a bad copy of an excellent original". (in his warning). It was naver played. Clymene, a dialogue story, was not intended for representation: a mixed litterary and psychological analysis. Astree, a tragedy, is an adaptation of the astree of honore d'urfe. After six representations it was received with epigrams and mocked songs. Galatee and achille, two unfinished tragedies, considered by la fontaine as mere theatrical exercices. The former is inspired by metamorphoses of ovide but trenchised. The second one is drawn from the iliade of homere. Particularities of both essays: a stylistic effort and a mastering of versification. Daphne is an opera inspired by the metamorphoses. His goal was to compete with quinault and to please the king. Setbacks: thesee of quinault won the contest. A ballet play: les rieurs du beau-richard: a comedy inspired of the daily life of the inhabitants of chateau-thierry. The second part: the fabulist is a great dramatist: the old didactic fable becomes dramatic. It is a sort of a miniature drama. The fables book includes many comedies and tragedies. Conclusion: the theatre of la fontaine is a missed vocation and an unfulfilled dream. It is pure foolishness to talk about the theatre of la fontaine. However, le thatrical character of his fables compensates for his failure in this field
Shin, Myung Souk. "La féminité dans l'œuvre de La Fontaine." Rouen, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998ROUEL299.
Full textHere our study aims at stating or proving La Fontaine's ideas about women. That is to say, what La Fontaine was seeking in women, what he expected for them and what were his convictions about their values. La Fontaine generally portraits women through a two-faced picture. These two faces are contradictory contrasted or ambiguous: now satirical now kind. Under La Fontaine's moralizing role, feminine characters are depicted in a widely negative way. Although La Fontaine first appears as a misogynist, we can see undeniable differences between the latter and the misogynists. Indeed, La Fontaine agrees on the fact that both sexes, men and women, naturally share the same qualities and the same faults. In fact, the aim of our study is to know what is the true value of women according to La Fontaine. We can notice through our analysis that it does not reside in physical beauty, maternity, love or maternal devotion, nor in virtues. According to him, this value lies in the ability to atone for a sin or a fault. Feminity does not mean weakness, so he is expecting a woman able to expiate her fault, to overcome her sin through sufferings, and able to find back the true value of love like the character Psyché
Gruffat, Sabine. "L'art du moraliste dans les Fables de La Fontaine : une esthétique du détour et de la négligence." Lyon 3, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999LYO31008.
Full textWON, JONG-IK. "La fable en france au xviie siecle : apres le 1er recueil des fables de la fontaine." Strasbourg 2, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997STR20089.
Full textThe aim of this thesis lies in having a better understanding of the evolution of the fable by discovering la fontaine's contemporary fabulistes. The first part is dedicated to a general presentation of the fabulistes and a short summary of the history of the fable. The second part of our work deals with poetics of the fable. Although the fable of the time does not equal the poetical quality of great genres like tragedy, it has something in common with them. Then the characteristics of the fable as a genre will be under scrutiny : brevity,morality,definition of the fable. The third part offers a classification of fables, made according to the taste of this period. In the first place, the "fable morale" aims at teaching a certain wisdom to help people in their lives and to improve their behaviours. The "fable pedagogique", variant of the "fable morale", applies to children. As regards the "fable galante", it is focused on love, its hazards, its delights, its sufferings. The themes and the expressions of the "fable galante" are identical with those of the "poesie galante", which shows that the "fable galante" is deeply rooted in the realm of poetry and follows faithfully the taste of the "societe mondaine". While the "fable galante" is related to the "societe mondaine", the "fable politique" is settled in the political situation of the time. The fable reflcts the international situation at the end of louis xiv's reign, period when the france was waging war against most european countries. To sum up,we must return to our fabulsites so that we can fully understand the situation of the fable in the second half of the seventeenth century and in addition to that, widen our field of investigation on the seventeenth french literatury. We have to add that the fable of the time claims the autonomy of french literatury toward the authority of the ancient fable, incorporating itself in the poetic realm with an imagination and a variety which are not to be found in the ancient fable
Le, Pestipon Yves. "Les relations de pouvoir dans l'oeuvre de La Fontaine." Lille 3, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993LIL3A001.
Full textBared, Robert. "La rhétorique ou le jeu des voix dans les Fables de la Fontaine." Paris 4, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA040299.
Full textAllegorical by nature, the fable, in la fontaine's hands, extends as well into the realm of prosopopoeia. In the musical score of the fables, the word is written on several slaves, reserved in turn for the characters, the narrator, or the mo ralist. And it is not uncommon for on of the voices to be transcribed onto a different stave, or for several voices to proceed together according to some subtle inner counterpoint. In desperate situations the characters find within themselves the leaven of natural eloquence. "i hate oratorical tirade s" said la fontaine, railing against tedious, deliberative passages, pretentious conceits of any kind. Above all, he rejects the inopportune word which fails to take into account either the circumstances or the audience. The narrator has at his command all the leisure of informal conversation; he converses with his reader as he does with his characters and is marvellously in touch with all the ressources of varietas; "gaiety" is second nature to him. To dazzling displays of oratory the prefers the virtues of story-telling. The fabulist-moralist is the supreme creator of this allegorical universe. As well as this indirect rhetoric, his words often penetrate into the territory of the narrative, to culminate in a broad moral of "a hundred diverse fragments"
Welfringer, Arnaud. "Le courage de l'équivoque : politiques des "Fables" de La Fontaine." Paris 8, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA084033.
Full textHow is it possible that the Fables, that contain their own commentary in their final moral, gave rise to such many different political interpretations? The first part studies the hermeneutical strategies of the political commentaries of the Fables (Ch. I-IV), while the second finds in the classical theories of the apologue a rhetorical reading through which the Fables are characterized by a multiplicity of interpretations or equivocation (Ch. V-VI). For scholars the Fables are focused on a face-to-face between the poet and the king: volens nolens, they go back to frame of the courage of truth, parresia (M. Foucault), a topos since the Antiquity: to tell sharply to the prince his true nature (ethos). The second part examines the relevance of this ethical-discursive reading of politics in the XVI and XVII centuries (Ch. VII-VIII), focusing then on the fables in which the parresia is at the center of the scene (Ch. IX). If the parresiastic requirement appears clearly, it is at the same time softened: brutality is abandoned, the parresia became a private affair, the formulation is a task assigned to the princes themselves. The third part studies the Fables as a parresia aimed for prince’s interpretation (they enable him to improve his judgment and his wisdom), but open to other readers (Ch. X). La Fontaine himself makes clear this double destination to the prince and the public (Ch. XI). The Fables reveal the truth, not in the ancient brutal manner, but through equivocation: opened to different hermeneutical alternatives, the spitted text is received by a reader who has to make a choice revealing his ethos (Ch. XII). This equivocation comes from the fabulist’s work on his hypothesis (Ch. XIII). For this reason the politics of the Fables presupposes an ethics and a politics of interpretation (Ch. XIV)
Falcucci, Laureen. "La poésie de circonstances de La Fontaine." Aix-Marseille 1, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010AIX10032.
Full textImani, Waffa. "L'interrogation rhétorique. Argumentation et polyphonie : application aux fables de Jean de La Fontaine." Toulouse 2, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989TOU20036.
Full textIn this work, i undertake to study the french rhetorical interrogation as exemplified in jean de la fontaine's fables. This study differs from traditional ones which were devouted to the interrogation in general and the rhetorical one in particular. In fact, my approch will be argumentative and polyphonic; in other words i will be working within the framework of pragmatics and more precisely within the scope of the works of o. Ducrot, j. C. Anscombre and others among their collaborators. I have started my work with a presentation which is both theoritical and introductive, as well as a description of the interrogation, from a syntactic and semantic viewpoint. Parallel to the treatment of the rhetorical interrogation, i have dealt with the problem of argumentative connectors, namely : puisque (since), car (because), mais (but), alors (then), donc (so). . . Which play a great role in the theory of argumentation. I have concluded that certain rhetorical questions in my corpus do have some argumentative connectors that are explicite in surface structure, above all in partial questions. Others do not have them, such as total questions. In this cas, i have inserted them myself, in order to reveal the argumentative value of rhetorical interrogation. As far as polyphony is concerned, that is to say distinction between several different voices, it is presented in different forms either with the use of since, or with repetition or irony, or negation. By combining the different evaluations attached to each chapter, i have been able to reveal a typology of questions and regroup rhetorical interrogations according to their schemes
Balique, Florence. "Étude rhétorique des discours dans Les Fables de La Fontaine." Paris 4, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA040156.
Full textAt the crossroads of several disciplines - literature, rhetoric, philosophy,- our study of La Fontaine's Fables explains how the apologue, a minor genre with a didactic purpose, grows into a poem with a powerful style viewed as a hypothesis of meditation through fiction. The investigation goes beyond the apparent passage from "body" to "soul" to consider the fable, a cryptic speech, as a complex web with manifold polyphonic effects. The survey of rhetorical components leads us to an analysis of the oratory strategies displayed by the narrator, the discursive varietas, wich substitutes fictional speech to moral teaching, shaping a non-systematic thought. The "lecteur modèle", who falls in with feigning, enters the fiction to find there a questioning about his own outlook on the world. The omnipresent narrator enables the writer to ironically stand back, keep away from lyricism, a call to find our bearings along the puzzling paths the fable offers
Lebrun, Marlène. "Les fables de La Fontaine : un exemple de propédeutique à la lecture littéraire." Lille 3, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999LIL30011.
Full textNepaulsingh, Stephen. "La Fontaine et la fortune." Caen, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987CAEN1047.
Full textCarsalade, Henriette. "La Fontaine, philosophe de la société, de la nature et du droit dans les Fables." Paris 2, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA020073.
Full textCunha, Fernanda Oliveira [UNESP]. "Fabulosas crônicas: La Fontaine nas crônicas de Machado de Assis." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/124449.
Full textEste trabalho tem como objetivo analisar a presença de La Fontaine em dezessete crônicas machadianas escritas entre 1861 e 1896 nos jornais cariocas Diário do Rio de Janeiro,O Futuro, Ilustração Brasileira e Gazeta de Notícias. Nestes textos jornalísticos, é possível verificar a marcante presença de La Fontaine, seja por meio de citações ou de alusões às suas fábulas. Entretanto, esta pesquisa não visa apenas localizar as fontes citadas pelo escritor brasileiro, mas buscar semelhanças e diferenças entre os dois autores, demonstrando de que maneira Machado de Assis utilizou os versos de La Fontaine, adaptando-os ao seu discurso e estabelecendo, desse modo, um diálogo intertextual com o mestre das fábulas. Pretende-se verificar de que modo Machado de Assis serviu-se das fábulas de La Fontaine para enriquecer seu discurso e qual o papel desempenhado pelo autor das Fábulas nas divertidas crônicas escritas pelo escritor brasileiro
Ce travail vise à analyser la présence de La Fontaine dans les chroniques de Machado de Assis, écrites entre 1861 et 1896, dans les journaux Diário do Rio de Janeiro , O Futuro, Ilustração Brasileira et Gazeta de Notícias. Dans ces textes journalistiques, il est possible de vérifier la forte présence de La Fontaine , à travers les citations ou les allusions à ses fables . Toutefois, cette recherche ne vise pas seulement à localiser les sources citées par l'écrivain brésilien , mais aussi chercher les similitudes et les différences entre les deux auteurs , en montrant comment Machado a utilisé les vers de La Fontaine, en les adaptant à son discours, en établissant, de cette façon, un dialogue intertextuel avec le maître des fables . L'intention est de vérifier la manière dont Machado de Assis s'est servi des fables de La Fontaine pour enrichir son discours et quel est le rôle joué par l'auteur des Fables dans les amusantes chroniques écrites par l'écrivain brésilien
Rolland, Tiphaine. "Le « vieux magasin » de Jean de La Fontaine. Les Fables, les Contes et la tradition européenne du récit plaisant (XVe-XVIIe s.)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA040132.
Full textAlthough La Fontaine claimed that his Tales were deliberately imitating some famous collections of amusing stories, such as The Decameron or French Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles and Heptaméron, two questions remain unresolved. The first one deals with how those prestigious models were passed on to the poet; little-known, anonymous compilations that both spread those narratives throughout Europe and influenced the way they were read, are to be taken into consideration in this process. The second one is about the undervalued influence of these protean entertaining texts on the other part of La Fontaine’s works, written at the same time as his Tales: the Fables. Those two works, tackled as a coherent whole, must therefore be collated to a corpus of about one hundred books collecting short, funny narratives, mainly written between the XVth and the XVIIth century – in order to define the precise debt of the Tales and Fables to this merry literary tradition. Thorough archeological investigations are the basis of this survey that determines, within La Fontaine’s texts, how the poet rewrote some jokes he knew directly or indirectly ; which stylistic devices he invented to adapt this ancient legacy ; how he renewed the way the didactic genres are differentiated from the comic ones. The view La Fontaine had of this long-aged heritage, seen as the product of a saucy Renaissance, entails a broader and better understanding of the ambiguous relations between the classic era and a past supposed to have been more cheerful. This lays the foundations of an aesthetics of influence, which links together genetic research, close-reading of literary texts and history of cultural representations
Le, Doujet Daniel. "Combeau, Yves Louis Marie : (1799-1870) : traducteur breton des fables de La Fontaine : sa vie, son oeuvre." Rennes 2, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001REN20031.
Full textThis study of a manuscript by Y. L. M. Combeau (1799-1870) with translations into Breton of six books of the fables of La Fontaine, written in the period 1836-1838 and conserved at the Municipal library of Rennes, France. Volume I deals with the life and works of Combeau and the translations into Breton of La Fontaine. Volume II comprises the litteral and the orthographically mdernised transcription of the original text of the manuscript. Volume III comprises a glossary with accompanying quotations in order to highlight the richness of vocabulary of the author. This is followed by an inventory of terms and expressions harvested from the works of Combeau by great Breton lexicographers such as Troude, Milin, Ernault and Vallée. Volume IV analyses Combeau's translations and compares them to a sample collection of extracts taken from other translations by other translators of the fables of La Fontaine. A full inventory of those we collected is provided at the back of this volume. Volume V comprises a bibliography, and an annex of diverse material such as articles and writings on Combeau from 1869 to today. This tome also incorporates correspondence to the periodical 'Migon al Labourer' for which the author worked in 1833. A collection of nine extremely rare editions of this periodical, all worked in 1833. A collection of nine extremely rare editions of this periodical, all translated by Combeau, bring this volume to a close. This thesis therefore, contains all that remains to us of the most important works of Y. L. M. Combeau, most of which is considered to be lost
Donné, Boris. "La Fontaine et la culture allégorique." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA040304.
Full textThis study aims to point out how much the art of la Fontaine, in its development, owes to allegorical culture - i. E. Symbolic and emblematic reading and writing, as well as the vast literature it commands. The thesis opens with a general view on this field in 17th century France: in its extent, social uses and specific forms; in its inner coherence (as a culture of speaking and meaningful pictures leading to meditation); in its creative movement. The author tries first to establish the familiarity la Fontaine had with this culture during the time of his intellectual growth; he then studies his works chronologically in order to see how the poet gradually appropriates allegorical devices. The selection of texts analyzed encompasses the major works of the 1658-69 decade but the contes: Adonis, a tiny epic that can be read as a love-psychomachia; Le songe de Vaux, an encomtun-allegory which takes the form of a symbolic dream, based on an enigmatic plot, full of personifications fighting in an aesthetic paragon; the 1668 fables, halfway between satirical allegory (a cryptic plea for Fouquet) and moral allegory - according to the general/peculiar dialectic bound to emblematic forms, to which fable was related. All these trends mingle in psyche - at the same time a figurative aesthetic reflexion, an oblique political lesson, a variation on a classical myth, as well as an allegorical progress and a meditation upon passions. With this work, la Fontaine reaches an acme in its exploration of the allegorical field. These analyses show that the poet used allegorical writing in a very light and subtle way - by no mean as a rigid code, nor as a didactic medium, rather as an expressive device related to the eloquence of the passions, which enabled him to engage a reflexion upon his art, and to study the various ways to convey a meaning to his readers. As such, allegorical culture played a decisive role in the elaboration of his highly implicit, ironic and meditative poetry
Biscéré, Antoine. "Jean de La Fontaine et la fable ésopique. Genèse et généalogie d'une filiation ambiguë." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUL127.
Full textAt the beginning of his Fables, La Fontaine claims that he « sings the heroes whose father is Æsop ». Because it was often accepted at face value, this self-styled genealogy led the critics to consider the composition of the Fables as a « tête-à-tête » between the so-called « father » of the genre and his spiritual son. In this dissertation, I try to renew the study of the Æsopic sources of La Fontaine. What does « singing the heroes whose father is Æsop » really mean ? Which books could be related to the name of Æsop in the mind of a 17th-century French poet ? After a carefull examination of the origin and nature of the so-called Æsop’s fables as well as the fictionnal biography of the Greek fabulist, the present investigation analyses the reception and the transmission of both Æsop’s life and fables in Early Modernity (15th, 16th and 17th centuries). In the light of this archeological research, the belief in an obvious and direct relationship without any mediation between the legendary inventor of the fable and his most gifted heir turns out to be completely deceptive. The Æsopic tradition proves to be far more various and complex than one might think after reading the comments and footnotes of the critical editions of La Fontaine’s Fables choisies mises en vers
Laarif, Faouzi. "La peinture de la société dans les comédies de Molière et dans les fables de La Fontaine." Rouen, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994ROUEL185.
Full textA study of seventeenth century society as presented by Moliere and La Fontaine. A description of the lower class, the middle class, the clergy, the mobility and royalty, with their views on women and on war
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 textBeynel, Muriel. "Fables, mythes, apologues : le texte et l'image dans les fables de La Fontaine, Samaniego et Iriarte." Paris 4, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA040224.
Full textComparative study of sources and bestiary in La Fontaine's fables and those to two Spanish authors of the eighteenth century : Samaniego, close to the French poet, will free himself from the lafontainian model to be inspired by the English poet John Gay; Iriarte's fables are more original concerning their poetic form and their literary topics aiming at defining a poetic art. His choices of animals reveal him as a polemist, not so far from La Fontaine's irony. He displaced the didactic aspects of fables to adapt them to another public. This study enabled to discover narrative patterns in fables. It enlarged upon illustration, relations between text and picture, leading to an attempt to classify both of them: imitation, inspiration, pure creation. The evolution of iconography seems to go from ornamentation to interpretation, often humanized, nearer from texts in their depth. Illustrations of Samaniego's fables, discovered in Spain, lose their French influences through centuries. Those of Iriarte's , more recent, seem to be independent of them
Zarrouk, Yousr. "Les Fables, point de rencontre des discours : Etude pragmatique et énonciative de l'ethos prédiscursif et discursif des personnages dans les Fables de Jean de La Fontaine." Thesis, Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013CLF20001.
Full textThis research is both a pragmatic and enunciative study focusing on the different utterances of some characters of the Fables so as to determine their ethos. The circulation of singular voices in the texts allows to confront discursive ethos to prediscursive ethos as well as to delineate the varied manipulative strategies of self assertion
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
Darmon, Jean-Charles. "Pari passu : philosophie épicurienne et littérature au XVIIème siècle en France : études sur Gassendi, Cyrano de Bergerac, La Fontaine, Saint-Evremond." Paris 4, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA040299.
Full textThe aim of this research is to study the complex, mobile and fruitful relationship between a philosophy - epicurianism - and certain kinds of literary works in 17th century of France. In the first part, through a careful reading of p. Gassendi's still widely ignored and mostly untranslated works, we have tried to understand how and why it became a key reference for many writers, in particular as far as the very status of appearances, images and imagination is concerned. Cyrano's L'Autre monde, La Fontaine's fables, saint-Evremond's writings: in a second part, through three monographical studies, we tried to bring into focus the extreme mobility of epicurean or gassendian motives, the wide variety of levels on which they develop within each work, and to show how they "function", epistemologically and morally, in singular literary spaces where they often deviate from their original philosophical meaning
Bermann, Mathieu. "Licence et mondanité : les Contes et Nouvelles en vers de La Fontaine." Thesis, Lyon 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LYO30023.
Full textAt the same time, La Fontaine’s Contes provoke antagonistic reactions, from rejection to emulation - which is a singularity in the poet’s work. La Fontaine doesn’t hide that he takes liberties with moral standards and versification’s rules, but his licences don’t fall within the transgression : they are derogations granted by aristocratic readers.Firstly, we determine the place of the licence in the normative set of classical esthetic. As a tolerated deviation, the licence isn’t limited to poetry : it potentially applies to any norm of classical esthetic, according to the criteria used to judge the text. Our study analyzes the part occupied by the licence in the state of mind of aristocratic readers of Contes.Also examining other tale’s writers contemporaries of La Fontaine who consider him a model, this study shows how the text built its legitimacy by diverting forms of writing or thinking that are usual to the aristocratic public. La Fontaine seeks to establish connivance with the reader. He appropriates genres appreciated by the aristocratic public and invents a scenography making the reader an accomplice of immoral text. La Fontaine diverts also the lifestyle of its readers : leisure. He gives an erotic version of otium. Within this analysis, we will discover what is the contribution of Contes in La Fontaine’s anthropology
Caeiro, Sandra 1970. "Do registo do natural à ilustração para a infância." Master's thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/34015.
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