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N'Tary, Kouka Asta Rose. "Le mythe chez les Kongo." Besançon, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994BESA1012.
Full textGiraud, Jean-Pierre. "Etude sur la mythologie d'Izumo." Paris, INALCO, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992INAL0018.
Full textMy research subject is on the Izumo mythology. The following documents have been mainly used : 1) the first documents to be studied were : 1) the "Kojiki" and the "Nihonshoki", 2) the "Izumo no kuni no fudoki". 3) finaly : "Izumo no kuni no miyatsuko no kanyogoto". The research is not an historical one but a study of the main different Shinto myths and their symbolism
Basset, Karine-Larissa. ""Nos ancêtres les Sarrasins" : Une altérité originelle face à l'histoire. Analyse historique d'un récit d'ascendance (France, XIXè-XXè siècles)." Paris 7, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA070010.
Full textThis study analyses an important part of the contemporary historical legendary : the written and oral "erudite" and "popular" narrations related to the Saracen establishment in France during the early Middle-Ages, and to its present marks, found in the landscape and through Saracen's "descendants". This peculiar object needed an adapted historical approach, sticking to the question of the emergence and the meaning by the legendary through the innovating aspect of its present forms. We definitely chose an empiric process, attentive to understand the narrations from the endogenous point of view, that resulted to a march made of four different narrative configurations. The first one presents the narration developed by scholars during the 19th century in the great Eastern France, when movements of territorial centralization and hierarchical definition of knowledges and powers are getting reinforced. In the same period, the Saracen narration appears in Provences as a claim for an Occitan Renaissance, obviously opposed to the French national narration, but also detached from an older black legend of Arabian invasions. .
Lagirarde, François. "Gavampati-Kaccāyana : le culte et la légende du disciple ventripotent dans le bouddhisme des Thaïs." Paris, EPHE, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001EPHE5013.
Full textThis dissertation deals with the local history of two disciples of the Buddha, Gavampati and Kaccāyana, as they are seen in Thai Buddhism from the 13th century CE up to the 20th century. Gavampati and Kaccāyana are examined by three different ways. The first one - the iconography - shows the persistence of a dwarf pot-bellied monk (called the Fat Monk by Luce) born in the ancient Mon Kingdoms, widespread from Burma to Cambodia especially in the Thai states or principality where his image is very common. In the second part the Monk is examined by ways of anthropology. The study of his cult shows that many sanctuaries are specially devoted to his person and that he is often next to the Buddha in terms of religious fervor. At this point we can emphasize the fact that the two names (Gavampati-Kaccāyana) are mixed up in Thai Buddhism. In the third part, devoted to the textual approach, all texts from the Pali canon and the Northern schools of Buddhism dealing with Gavampati and Kaccāyana are examined. These classical sources are then compared to manuscripts in Thai, Lao and Pali (Gavampati Sutta and Gavampati Nibbāna). These unpublished sources mostly tell us the story of a handsome disciple changing his appearance and taking the name "Gavampati". In conclusion it appears clearly that the name Kaccāyana has been used only at a relatively recent period by the Siamese of Ayutthaya and Bangkok. Gavampati remains the original name of the Fat Monk, the true bearer of the legend
Durand-Dastès, Vincent. "Le roman du maître de dhyāna : Bodhidharma et Ji-le-Fou dans le roman chinois en langue vulgaire du XVIIe siècle." Paris, INALCO, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000INAL0006.
Full textThe dissertation studies the transformations of the legends of two popular Chan masters undergone when turned into full-length vernacular novels during the 17th century. The first part deals with a novel entitled "Expelling the devils and restoring proper social relationships, or the Salvation of the East" (Saomei dunlun dongdu ji), published in Suzhou in 1635. While taking the Chan patriarch Bodhidharma's travels from India to China as its narrative framework, the novel develops in 100 chapters an allegory of moral progress through the strict observance of the five cardinal relationships. The Dhyâna master uses his unique awakening techniques in order to lead stray humans towards moral salvation. The second part focuses on the rewriting process affecting the legend of monk Daoji (Crazy Ji), as apparent in the 1668 novel "The Story of Fermented Dhûta" (Qu toutuo zhuan). This text introduces itself as a critical commentary of earlier versions of the saint's legend, and further turns their themes of Dhyâna masters, with their picturesque ways of teachings, are here portrayed as heralds of Confucian ethics. This characterises the above novels as a peculiar moment in the history of Chinese transformation of Buddhism. The dissertation studies not only the discourse of the novels, but also their publishing story, the identity and purpose of their authors as well as their reception. Both works are shown to have emerged at the meeting point between the two genres of literati novel and moral tract
Nguyen, Thi Hiep. "Variations des légendes merveilleuses vietnamiennes du XVe au XVIIIe siècle : textes littéraires et croyances populaires." Paris 7, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA070061.
Full text. That dissertation includes two axles. The first starts with a study of the Jiandeng xinhua (New tales told beside the Trimmed Lamp), a collection of tales of the extraordinary written in classical Chinese by the Ming writer Qu You (1347-1422). The dissertation also scrutinizes the dissemination of Qu You's collection to Korea, Vietnam, and Japan and its adaptations in these countries. While it concentrates on the specific case of Vietnam, the theoretical issues are discussed from a broader comparative perspective, drawing on examples from across East Asian literature. After circulating in China for the les than one hundred years, Qu You's Jiangdeng xinhua was unofficially introduced in Korea and became the inspiration for Kim Si-sup (1435-1493) collection Kûmo sinwa (New tales from the Golden Carp Mountains). A modem annotation version of Asai Ryôi's (1621-1691) Otogi bôko (The protective Doll) analyzes in detail how eighteen out of sixty-eight stories in the collection were influenced by Jiandeng xinhua. During the Ming invasion of Vietnam the 15th century, the Jiandeng xinhua was imported and helped to establish the literary tradition of the chuanqi/truyên ky genre in Vietnam. This dissertation concentrates on the cases in Vietnam. The collection Truyen ky man luc (Tales of the strange casually recorded) by the sixteenth-century Vietnamese writer Nguyen Du provides us with an interesting example of how Jiandeng xinhua was adapted and reworked in Vietnam. We may reconstruct a kind of dialogue between chuanqi writers from different times and places. We examine the most representative tales of Vietnam and their variations of the XVth century, among which three collections of Le Thanh Tông, Nguyen Du and Doan Thi Diem. On the basic of their own belief Systems, typically localized various elements of the original Chinese tales, particularly those having to do with religious belief. This religious localization is illustrated here by several examples taken from Truyen ky man luc (Tales of the strange casually recorded) and Truyen ky tan pha (New tales of the extraordinary). In writing Jiandeng xinhua (New tales told beside the trimmed lamp), Qu You inherited the chuanqi tradition of tang - Song literature. On the other hand, as a historian, he also applied the historian's critical method to his composition of the tales. Although there is no available explanation from Qu You for the title of his collection. The dissemination of Qu You's collection to Korea, Vietnam and Japan and its adaptations in these countries is noteworthy because it reveal how writers from those countries responded to it. The second party will be dedicated in search of popular beliefs concerning certain tales of the extraordinary of the Vietnam. Across this party, they could discover some popular beliefs, which are still alive in the modem society of the Vietnam. The second party concentrates on the stories that have no relationship with the Chinese collection. All the tales of TKML are connected with Vietnamese historical events; the past events they narrate are quite similar to those taking place in the author's time. Several examples taken from TKML and other chuanqi tales in Vietnam can serve as illustrations of religious localisation. The tales "The story of the Young Woman from Nam Xuong", "The general of Yaksa", "The history of marriage of Tu Thuc with a Fairy", "The Virtuous Woman of Khoai Chau" plus supporting évidence from field study demonstrate how Vietnamese popular beliefs. When examined in the transnational, cross-cultural and trans-generation contexts, the chuanqi tales of the tow collections provide insights into the socio-political, intellectual, literary, and religions interactions between China and Vietnam. In Vietnam in particular, told stories about strange events mixed with moral lessons from three teachings (Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism) as well as local belief
Diallo, Amadou Oury. "Histoire et fiction, contextes, enjeux et perspectives : récits épiques du Foûta Djalon (Guinée)." Thesis, Nice, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014NICE2011.
Full text: This work questions the complex relationships between fiction and history, the effects of contextual background, the weight of historical, ideological, and axiological issues in oral epic. In Épopée du Foûta-Djalon, the narrative fiction links real and fictional facts in a dynamic momentum to construct a memorable story, one in which epic truth enhances the heroic figure – Abdul Rahmane – at the expense of the historical figure – Almâmy Oumar -, and one in which some facts have been rearranged and updated, and thus bring forth the founding myths which are endowed with whole new meanings in the process. The conflict which opposed Fulah and the Mandinka people in 1867 is represented in the story in the form of adversary values which the bivalent, epic vision reinforces in a set of contrasting dualities: Fulah versus the Mandinka people, Muslims versus Animists. Because it aims to exalt founding values, the epic story differs from, though is inspired by, History, the essence of which is shifted to fit a drama meant to flatter and awaken the collective conscience endlessly urged to meet today’s challenges. Apart from its idyllic and eulogistical tone, the epic also takes on satirical airs through a thorough criticism of the vicissitudes and dramas of contemporary Africa (L’enfant prodige). The analysis of the narrative composition, structure and performance reveals an aesthetics based on what is called “the formulaic style”, the episodic narrative structure and a strong rhetorics of “epicisation”. This aesthetics culminates in the effects of the musical accompaniment which embellishes the listening of this oral epic and translates the main themes into sounds
Maurin, Sylviane. "“Constellation des archétypes jungiens dans le destin et dans l'œuvre de Louis-Ferdinand Céline : idéologie, légendes, mystification ”." Montpellier 3, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006MON30043.
Full textWe explored the destiny of Louis-Ferdinand Céline with the gleam of Carl Gustav Jung’s discoveries, the collective unconscious the archetypes and the (acausal) synchronicity. It’s the pagan vision of the world (Weltanschauung) of Carl Gustav Jung since its own research joined again with the depths of the unconscious pagan collective which appeared in our deepening of the work of Louis-Ferdinand Céline. In the thirties, Carl Gustav Jung explored the depths of the collective unconscious through the historical upheavals of the time. In 1936, through the events of the third Reich, in the germanic collective unconscious he distinguished the constellation of the archetype of Wotan. In the destiny of Louis-Ferdinand Celine, the constellation of the shadow appeared since he recommended an alliance with National Socialist Germany in order to ressourcer the celto-germanic roots of France of North in the objective make reappear civilization in the destruction. It was the mark of a pre-christian neo-paganism. With the gleam of the (acausal) synchronicity, we clarified the space-time upheaval of the german trilogy, Castle to castle, North, Rigodon. Just as we studied the "visual" hallucinations of the author. We are leaning on the mystifying character, trickster of Louis-Ferdinand Céline. In the german trilogy, we raised the figure of the celtic interlacings as that of the archetype of the North whose direction seems the ultimate belief in the crossing of Germany in prey with its Twilight of the gods (Götterdämmerung)
Le, Doussal Florence. "Le Roi Arthus d'Ernest Chausson ou la quête de l'Idéal." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA040235.
Full textWith King Arthus, Ernest Chausson ploughed a furrow through the forest of celtic imagination by participating in the quest for artists who draw their creative activity from dreams. Legend is in essence a coded language which reveals the mysteries of the world, and at the time of Symbolism it became a palimpsest in which everyone added their own message. What would he use in the « Breton material » and how would he help to keep it alive ? This noble mind had to suffer all its life in order to follow its vocation ; as a young man he confided : « Ten years and so little to show for it. Will I have another ten years to live ? Thus I feel frightened, not of death itself, but of dying before finishing my task, without having done what I was destined to do. » His lyrical drama was first performed four years after his death at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, on november 30th 1903, in Brussels. Its long gestation was to reveal ― more than any other work ― his deep nature, the images that were dear to his poetic sensitivity and his musical ideals. The initiatory path of the celtic King, a veritable cry of the soul, seems to reveal the internal struggles of this poet-musician. Could this emblematic figure, called on to rescue a disenchanted world, be the bearer of his spiritual testament ?
Daix, David-Artur. "Les sentences (gnomai) dans la littérature grecque archai͏̈que et classique (d'Homère à Thucydide)." Paris, EHESS, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000EHES0086.
Full textBreton, Justine. "Image du pouvoir et pouvoir de l'image : les représentations de la puissance dans la légende arthurienne, de l'écrit à l'écran." Thesis, Amiens, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016AMIE0017.
Full textThe Arthurian legend has captivated authors and readers since the Middle Ages. King Arthur’s authority, the strength of the Knights of the Round Table, Merlin’s magic: these key aspects structure medieval texts as well as their modern rewritings. In the 20th and 21st centuries, filmmakers have employed the myth to convey their own narrative and aesthetic agendas. However, such a series of rewritings and adaptations necessarily distorts the meaning of the legend developed over centuries. When shifted from text to screen, the myth changes: while the narrative, with its variations inherited from the medieval tradition, is often kept, the representations of power evolve to resemble modern social and political ideas. Films and TV series play a key role in the collective imagination and the Arthurian legend has been adapted to fit modern views on democracy, equality, religion and even human interactions. The evolution of the images of power emphasises the authors’ and filmmakers’ appropriation of medieval texts, and results in the enhancement of Arthur’s humanity, the glorification of the Knights’ force, the removal of Christian authority in favour of fantasy and the supernatural, and the appearance of anachronistic popular power. From Geoffrey of Monmouth to Guy Ritchie, from Chrétien de Troyes to Alexandre Astier, via Thomas Malory, T.H. White and Walt Disney, the legend of King Arthur that reappears in the collective imagination is grafted onto a shifting image of power
Thomas, Virginie. "Les représentations de la femme dans les transpositions des légendes arthuriennes au XIXe siècle et au début du XXe siècle." Grenoble 3, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009GRE39045.
Full textIn the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th, an arthurian revival took place in british litterature and painting. Many preraphaelite painters, but also several famous writers (like Scott, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Arnold, Morris, Swinburne, Hardy, Eliot, just to name a few of them) were deeply inspired by the world of Camelot and, more particulary, by the women who live at Arthur's court. Our diachronic study aims at underlining the evolution of the reprentation of those women : they progressively came into the limelight during the romantic period before disappearing once more during the modernist period to give way to the grail theme, the symbol of the existentialist quest led by the artists of the time. The victorian period was the most flourishing for the representation of woman. Nevertheless, it should not be dealt with separately from the historical context of those transpositions, that is to say the victorian society which was characterized by its dualist vision of feminity : the angel in the house confronted the fallen woman. The representation of woman became a screen for or against desire. The arthurian legends were used to warn against the destructive potential of feminine sensuality ; or, on the opposite, they offered room for the possible satisfaction of the male sexual drives of the author or of the reader/spectator through an artistic sublimation. As a consequence, behind the face of the arthurian woman, the sexual and artistic fantasies of the victorian writers and preraphaelite painters - stifled by the social standards of their time - can be discerned
Mirachvili-Springer, Nana. "Vies des pénitentes et des femmes ermites dans l'hagiographie géorgienne : selon les manuscrits des Xe-XIe siècles." Paris, EPHE, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008EPHE4007.
Full textThis thesis consists in an edition of hagiographical legends concerning women dressed up as male anchorites, or penitent prostitutes. The critical texts have been based on the most ancient manuscripts: one of them is currently kept in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. It was written in 1030 in the Georgian Monastery of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem. The other one is the manuscript A95 of Tbilisi, which was written in Parxal (Tao Klardzeti) by the end of the Xth century. Both of these collections have been carefully compared with all of the extant Georgian copies. The French translation aims at giving an accurate picture of all the particularities of the Georgian versions. A second part of the dissertation consists in a textological study. The Georgian has been compared with the extant Greek redactions, as well as with other essential redactions, mainly Syriac and Arabic. It appears that the Greek original from which the Georgian has been translated mirrors a more ancient stage of the Greek tradition than the extant manuscripts. Certain stories such as "The Life of the Alexandrian Prostitute" have been preserved in Georgian and Syriac, whereas the Greek original is no longer extant Moreover, the Georgian bears evidence of an Arabic substrate. The edited works are the hollowing: Life and Penance of the Thais the Egyptian; Life of saint Pelagia of Antioch; Life of saint Mary the Egyptian; Life of saint Abraham and his niece Mary; Life of a Virgin who was the daughter of the Constantinopolitan prince; Life of saint Marina; Life of the prostitute of Alexandria; Life of Anastasia, the Patrician. Synoptical tables display numerous parallels between the texts. The work is completed by a full Georgian-Greek index of the texts
Côté, Mélanie. "La légende de Théophile dans l’occident médiéval (IXe-XVIe siècle) : analyse textuelle et iconographique." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/25592.
Full textSchreiber-Di, Cesare Christelle. "José Zorrilla, "trovador romántico" ? : étude de ses Leyendas Tradicionales." Nancy 2, 2006. http://docnum.univ-lorraine.fr/public/NANCY2/doc254/2006NAN21017.pdf.
Full textJ. Zorrilla is a Spanish poet who declared himself assigned by God with a moral and patriotic mission and contrived legends written in verse from 1837 to 1845 ; they are set in Spain between the 9th century and 1715. In 1884 he had a collection published which included thirteen of these legends entitled Leyendas Tradicionales. Claiming the heritage of the poetry of troubadours J. Zorrilla's narratives take root in spanish medieval culture. Yet he also integrated elements from the poetry of the Golden Age and of the romantic era. J. Zorrilla's writings aimed at obtaining his father's forgiveness, as he didn't share his admiration for Carlism and got no recognition from him for being a writer. Torn between several periods (the Middle Ages, the Golden Age and the 19th century), between two political ideals (Carlism and Liberalism) and two poetical approaches (the Gaya Cienca and Romanticism), J. Zorrilla became an ambiguous and original poet who greatly influenced generations of writers
Mbwangi, Mbwangi Julien. "Le théâtre africain et ses caractéristiques: analyse de quelques critères définitoires à travers le théâtre urbain kikongophone." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209183.
Full textFredriksen, Alexis. "Solitude reliée : l'écriture de la légende chez Georges Haldas." Thesis, Paris 10, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA100019.
Full textSince more than 50 years now, Georges Haldas makes a discreet but persistent voice listen, which declines through a dense, deep work and various. This study attemps to show the modalities of writing of the legendary shape, how this one positions with regard to the chronicle, the sinuous route of which it borrows but from which it distinguishes itself by a different tone which leans on musical and pictorial references. Three movements seem to stand out from the process of writing. The writer tries to reveal the mysteries of the daily life through a simplification of the reality which he transfigures by embodying in individual trajectories some transcendental values. So, the legend opens a new way for the writer, another way of telling itself on a mode (self) “mythobiographic”. It sets up a writing of the ressassement which tends to immobilize the text by closing it on itself to fix what is not any more on the page-space in order to keep a track. Contradictory movement of a writing which constitutes, according to Maurice Blanchot, a fertile paradox : "Ce pouvoir de représenter par l’absence et de manifester par l’éloignement[…], pouvoir qui semble écarter les choses pour les dire, les maintenir à l’écart pour qu’elles s’éclairent, pouvoir de transformation, de traduction, où c’est cet écart même (l’espace) qui transforme et traduit, qui rend visible les choses invisibles, transparentes les choses visibles, se rend ainsi visible en elles et se découvre alors comme le fond lumineux d’invisibilité et d’irréalité d’où tout vient et où tout s’achève." Le livre a venir, Paris, Gallimard, 1959, p. 84
Amiri, Imen. "Le mythe du Graal à la lumière de Babel : la parole dans la Queste del Saint Graal et l`Estoire del Saint Graal." Thesis, Paris 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA030020/document.
Full textThe literary myth of the Grail, created by Chrétien de Troyes, has common roots with thecosmological myth of Babel which explains the plurality of languages. Can we consider themyth of the Grail as a myth of a language lost, sought and finally regained? The adventure of evangelism in Estoire del Saint Grail and the Holy Grail in the Queste, inspired by theCrusades and the Franciscan missions, converge in a dynamic unity symbolized by the Grail,which prevents language . They tend to gather materials of a primordial chaos created underthe aegis of Babel. Chaos, and fragmentation of speech are followed by a unifying voice of aunique origin that orders the world by giving it a meaning. This unification of the speech: aunique speech, God’s speech, for one mouth, that of the Christian people, follows a pattern opposite to Babel. The Estoire does not track the dispersal of a damned people but represents the archetype of a well-managed exodus of a chosen people whose purpose is not to defy butto serve God ; Therefore God grants His people the privilege and the power of words. In the Queste, the beginning of the adventures of the knights of the round table on the day of Pentecost recalls the post-Babel reconciliation offered to the apostles in order to spread thegood word. Pentecost inaugurates the start of the quest for the Holy Grail and also theintroduction of a new voice, the voice of God’s messenger. From the beginning of the story,this new voice as a sign of mystical orientation, destroys any courtly legacy
Colombani, Hélène. "L'imaginaire dans le mythe canaque : analyse des images, symboles et archétypes dans les mythes canaques." Thesis, Grenoble, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012GRENL015.
Full textWhile scientific progress offers unimaginable opportunities, constraints of industrialization, urbanization and modern technology never cease to reverse the field of the intangible and spiritual. Long spared Oceania remains a privileged space where the impregnation of traditions and nature remained alive and meaningful. “Imagination in Kanak myths” is the subject of our research, the opening of a novel exploratory field which leads to the revelation of the “Real hidden” bases this approach. The contribution of the study and research of the first missionaries, linguists and anthropologists has provided a set of data and myths that describe and interpret the organization of the Kanak society, its customs and traditions. Investigations of ethnology remained away from traditional theories and discoveries of the Imaginary Freud, Jung and Bachelard were precursors. We will call the methods of analysis and investigation of the collective unconscious and depth psychology, to fit the field of mythology Kanak. The implementation of a corpus of myths collected at the beginning of colonization, explains the structural composition of each story, which develops their “genetic identification card”, and imagine a new method of exploring the world of myths. Implementation of “mythocritic” Gilbert Durand adapted and supplemented by mythanalysis, performs an exploratory mythodologie of the imaginary of " sermo mythicus". Constellations of images, symbols and archetypes decrypted in these ancient myths, then reveal the deep semantic as well as joining the universal archetypes. Our aim is to highlight the relevance of previous theories that have revolutionized such fields as psychology, philosophy, and literature up and opening new horizons for the interpretation of oral traditions which are major among the most old Oceania, and to confirm their rich symbolism and their contribution to the knowledge of Anthropos that Leenhard had emphasized
Mas, Jean-Paul. "L'oeuvre de Philippe de Vigneulles : du vécu au récit (journal, chronique, tomes III et IV, recueil de nouvelles)." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988CLF20018.
Full textOur study proposes first a thematic then a structural reading of cent nouvelles nouvelles by philippe de vigneulles (1471-1528), a metz droper. His work, the product of the oral middle-class culture of the early 16th century, may be understood in the light of his "historical" works: on autobiographical narrative (journal) and a chronicle of metz. After having analysed the particular features of each of the narratives (which concord in their approach to reality) and resolved the problems of method raised during their reading (chapter 1), the events chronicled in metz were re-examined in the light of the author's view of his own society (chapter 2). The analysis of themes and motifs in the narratives shows that their author adopts the values present in his historical works, but using the comic mode. He contests neither the social hierarchy nor the socio-economic and political systems of his day. He does however imagine a nonaggressive society freed from any supernatural manifestation: the dream of the merchant class on its quest for material wealth and new worlds to conquer. Chapter 4 studies the formal aspects of nouvelles nouvelles in two phases: an exploration of the semantic field "nouvelle" in philippe's historical work (354 occurences) leads to the identification of a set structure, the embryonic, archetypal structure of the literary narratives. Two functions, termed "conjonctural analysis of a situation" and "choice of on immediate riposte", appearing systematically and often high-lighted by various stylistic effects, confer a didactic import on the work; philippe's stories are a series of case studies, profane "exempla", lessons in social sciences. Despite their still medieval flavour, they express their author's belief in man, at a cultural level as yet unaffected by the humanist enlightement
Auraix-Jonchière, Pascale. "La mythologie de Barbey d'Aurevilly à travers les romans et les nouvelles." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995CLF20072.
Full textAcoording to the author himself, the prose works of barbey d'aurevilly are anchored in a form of writing whose hidden mechanisms, working in indirect and multivocal ways, both veil and uncover shimmering levels of meaning which do not lend themselves readily to definitive circumscription. . The importance of a mythological code which is syncretic in nature, situated at the heart of this ambiguous language with its interconnected signs, and referring back to both ancient and biblical traditions, is manifest. The aim of this works is to study the pertinence of this code : diffused in the text, does it answer to clear principles of organisation? does it reflect archetypal, and therefore pre-existent, generalised structures? finally, does this code acquire specific characteristics in the course of its reworking by the writer, and is it modelled on the ever-changing demands of collective and individual history? this work sets out to examine how this singular language works within the prose text, and how, conversely, it makes the latter function - that is, how it reveals the elements in which the narrative is grounded as well as the finality towards which the text is bent
Sauvêtre, Maïté. "Joseph d'Arimathie et les romans du Graal." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUL176.
Full textIn the early XIIIth century, Joseph of Arimathea starts making an appearance in the Holy Grail stories. When Christ was laid to rest, Joseph of Arimathea is supposed to have collected the Holy Blood in a Vessel whose posterity is well-known. The study of such a historical figure leads us to assess how intertwined the Grail corpus and the Scriptures can be. The biblical figure ushers the Grail into the Sacred History. Through his existence, the literary works mean to highlight some Christian truths while eventually remaining works of fiction. From then on, the status of the character calls for clarification. Does he get bestowed with fictional features ? To what extent does he relate to the time of Passion as well as to the Arthurian legends ? These questions do not always call for the same type of answer. Joseph of Arimathea safeguards the unity of the Grail Romances, while delineating differences between them. His life story and poetic persona vary and these changes reflect the literary intent in each of the literary works. They go to show the distinction between prose and verse and how the Judea matter takes a new shape in the Grail texts. The authors claim responsibility for stating the truth and for recording History, while adjusting to the requirements of the narrative and to their upper-class readership. Thanks to his biblical origin, Joseph of Arimathea is instrumental in giving legitimacy to the story, thereby giving it additional value. He also reveals how the secular aristocracy take up and inflect the clerics’ discourse to their own benefit, in order to grant themselves a new stance in the spiritual real. What is emerging is that this figure invites various levels of analysis, be they of poetic, literary and socio-historical nature, which all need to be brought to light
Alves, Vaz Paulo. "Imaginaire mythique de l’Afrique subsaharienne à l’âge classique." Thesis, Paris 4, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA040201.
Full textDifferent travellers decided to visit and explore Africa either on their own or because of government, religious or commercial obligations. They had various motivations : some were really interested in this continent and wanted to know more about it, others went there to satisfy a desire of discovery and to share unknown lands for trade. As soon as they arrived visitors were struck by the difference - in physionomy - between the African population and the rest of the world. Travel stories - reports of bygone days - bring back the African peoples who were seing white people for the first time. The discovery of a new world, its exploration and literature are the root of the fascination for Africa. In this context the representation and the enchantment - that Sub-Saharan Africa aroused in the collective imagination of the Classical Age travellers - will be studied. Africa has become over the centuries a name which sounds mysterious, suggesting to the minds of men a stream of unusual landscapes. Myths were born from the observation of unknown lands through writing. In fact thanks to different travellers from previous centuries Africa shows in the collective imagination of Europeans from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries two mythical and real pictures, opposed but complementary. This continent is described as a huge desert territory filled with fabulous beings where precious stones and gold grow or are washed away by the rivers flooded after rain. Africa is then described as a contintent with poor, ignorant, superstitious peoples : savages and cannibals. Everything looks different for travellers : men, civilisations, plants and lands so myths linked with Africa sprouted from them. The symbolic value of the myth is transferred in travel books and provide a common background of marvellous pictures