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Schultze, Marie-Laure. "Une lecture d'un genre, l'heroïc fantasy : Royaume-Uni, Etats-Unis, 1932-1982." Bordeaux 3, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997BOR30067.
Full textConsidering heroic fantasy as a genre, how can it be defined? medieval romances, epics and fairy tales are among its ancestors. Its heroes are either tragic sadists or comic masochists. Read by teenagers and young adults, heroic fantasy may help them to become more mature; consequently, the stories that it tells can be compared to initiatory rites
Feat, Anne-Marine. "De la mère à la mère-patrie : quête identitaire dans la littérature irlando-américaine féminine." Bordeaux 3, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009BOR30070.
Full textMok, Nelly. "L'écriture de la marge dans le récit autobiographique sino-américain féminin au XXème siècle." Bordeaux 3, 2011. https://hal.science/tel-04218363v1.
Full textFive autobiographies/autobiographical novels, written and published by Chinese American women writers in the twentieth century, provide the basis for an exploration of the ways in which marginality has been dealt with in Chinese (/Asian) American literature as a sociopolitical, cultural, ontological and artistic condition and experience. Through their relationships with the dominant political and literary discourse on American identity, these narratives mirror the course of Asian American literature, from the emergence of the first publications in English by writers of Chinese ancestry at the end of the nineteenth century to the current phase of this form of literary expression, originating in the 1970s and developing through the 1990s towards the modern day as American society acquired a multi-ethnic consciousness. Confronted with the “centralizing” dominant injunction of assimilation imposed on minorities, these women writers, whose lives, memories and experience bear the imprint of two territories and two cultures, question the sense of belonging, locating it either in geographical fixity or mobility, and associating it with the question of putting down roots, while still acknowledging its ability to re-emerge and thrive beyond the boundaries of national delineation. Within this perspective, borders – defined by ethnicity, culture, geographical location, nationality, gender and genre – are seen as boundaries imposing categories, which are in turn either reinforced or invalidated in the texts explored here. The women writers use their works as a space in which to express their approval or contestation of the narrative and aesthetic frames into which ethnic literature has been confined by the Euro-American readership, frames which characterize ethnic (immigrant) autobiography, and of the conditions determining the integration of their works into the American literary canon
Dussol, Vincent. "Thomas McGrath : une allotopie poétique américaine ?" Orléans, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004ORLE1056.
Full textThe work of North Dakota-born poet Thomas McGrath (1916-1990) has consistently elicited partisan responses, most of them aimed at ending its critical and canonical neglect. While contributing its case for an extended readership for McGrath, this study looks at the possible factors of invisibility at work, conjecturing that the diversity of frames of reference - Communism and Irishness most prominent among them - may have stretched expectations rooted in the continuities (isotopies) of political patterns and of American poetry to a near rupture point, here termed 'allotopy', after Goupe µ's neologism. Dissidence in McGrath's work is shown to involve a high degree of consistency, with Romanticism and nature used as multidirectional hinges. The power of poetic form to delineate political alternatives is pointed up, with McGrath's 400 page epic LETTER TO AN IMAGINARY FRIEND kept in central focus throughout
Elaihar-Moulfi, Leïla. "Deux aspects du biculturisme dans la littérature américaine : Saul Bellow et Paul Bowles." Paris 4, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA040306.
Full textSayer, Frédéric. "Le mythe des villes maudites dans les littératures française, anglaise et américaine du vingtième siècle : une esthétique de l’entropie urbaine." Paris 4, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA040240.
Full textThe biblical curse of the city tends to devastate History, turning human culture into a waste land (Henochia, the Tower of Babel, Sodom and Gomorrah, Babylon) in order to settle instead the first ever divine city, that is to say the utopian New Jerusalem of the Apocalypse. At the beginning of the 20th century, rewriting the Bible has become ironic and even self-destructive. The inner fortress of the creative mind does not hold any more and loses itself into the modernistic fragments of the city, in other words the ruins of destroyed Europe. The prophetic word declines, even though it has been reactivated on a political level by dystopian literatures, speculative fiction and crime novel. After 1945, the urban curse has mutated into evil energy, following the laws of entropy. A new kind of apocalypse turns the text of the cityu into mere simulacra, in other words the new idols of mass culture. That’s why entropic metaphors and postmodern aesthetics do shape American urban fiction and also the french nouveau roman. The myth of cursed cities dominates the end of the century in a cannibalistic way, thus becoming the myth of the disappearance of the sacred, raising a wall of silence in the city’s rumble, penetrating the smooth surface of minimalist novels. Literature then performs an act of memorial resistance, even when it follows an asymptotic line to the “hard white empty core of the world. ”
Ferland, Pierre-Paul. "Une nation à l’étroit : américanité et mythes fondateurs dans les fictions québécoises contemporaines." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/25893.
Full textBergeron-Maguire, Myriam. "La «conscience diasporale» en poésie cadienne." Thesis, Université Laval, 2011. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2011/28724/28724.pdf.
Full textWaters, Maureen Eileen. "L'américanité : perspectives états-uniennes, franco-canadiennes et amérindiennes." Paris 3, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA030088.
Full textThe present study consists of a comparative study in North American literature in regards to the notion of l'américanité. As we re-read the classic North American novel, we trace the emergence and evolution of l'américanité in the works of authors such as Jack London, Ralph Ellison and Alain Grandbois. The novels of Scott Momaday and D'Arcy McNickle further our comprehension of l'américanité from the Native American perspective. The final chapters look at the myth of wandering in relation to exile and artistic production in the works of Germaine Guèvremont and Gabrielle Roy. Jack Kerouac, given his French Canadian heritage, serves as a constant bridge between the United States and French Canadian novel. Reader and great admirer of Thomas Wolfe, the famous beat generation writer comes to inspire Jacques Poulin with Volkswagen blues. With this thesis we aim to open up new perspectives on old debates, encourage a more balanced view of l'américanité, and challenge what we consider to be a false discourse on the notion of Americanization
Mabrouki, Driss. "An analysis of Sinclair Lewis' satire in the twenties." Nancy 2, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992NAN21022.
Full textThe subject of the present dissertation is the analysis or Sinclair Lewis' five major novels of the twenties: Mainstreet (1920), Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), Elmer Gantry (1927), and Dodsworth (1929). The opening pages are devoted to a succinct presentation of the U. S. A. In this decade, in order to provide a general idea of the period and to place Lewis within a special literary tradition. Then we move to the core of the study which aims at analyzing and commenting on the characters and aspects of American life that Lewis chooses as his favorite largest. We also remark UN his levels of satire, by classifying the culprits according to their levels of villainy. A further part is allotted to treating Lewis' satiric devices and to attempting to determine his "originality" in this type of fiction. Alongside this, we try to appraise his artistry in comparison to renowned satirists
Meresse, Bastien. "Thomas Pynchon ou les territoires de la faille." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCA110.
Full textAs a picaresque cartographer standing astride the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. stresses the flawed origin and entropic trajectory of the American continent, seven generations after the great Puritan migration to which his forebear William participated. This dissertation aims to recast the way his work defines these latent figures of the American fault, an “inherent vice,” for such is the title of his penultimate novel, in order to recover the lost prairie of the past and recompose an idealized counter-space within the realm of fiction. This work will consider how the notion of phantasmagoria inhabits a cityscape overcoded by optical devices and deceitful distortions that can only be resisted by the flâneur’s politics of loitering. By exposing the dreamworld of this city upon a hill, Pynchon delves into the depths of the continent and starts a stratigraphic study of America: geological fault-lines engage in a dialogue with deficient founding myths and fracture the revered geography of the continent, signaling the defective nature of its space but also of its time, permeated by the cracks of the crisis. To face the failure of founding narratives and the spasms of History, Pynchon’s work unfolds new modalities that, while not essential to narrative, disrupt reading procedures and suffuse his historical novels with the forking paths and counterfactuals of the “Subjunctive” form
Cuadra-Rojas, Alvaro Rodolfo. "Pour lire le fantastique : Huit histoire fantastiques de Julio Cortázar." Paris 4, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA040044.
Full textThis study argues against interpretations of fantastic literature as mere imagination and seeks to define it as distinct kind of language. This study is confined to the effects of the text - that we call crisis - ; and the means of its operation. Characteristic of the fantastic literature is the double bind; that is to say, to receive two messages at the same time. In fantastic literature, the reader cannot interpret the text. The fantastic, then, pushes towards an area of uncertainty. The fantastic texts in Cortazar's short stories show that there is a discursive strategy based on speech acts
Urs, Luminita. "La ville nord-américaine dans la poésie québécoise des années 1980-2000." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA040222.
Full textAmerica stands as a privileged reference in Quebec's poetry today. Dislodging the poetry of the earth and nationalistic-sounding rhetoric, a new American poetry arises with the eighties. It valorises the themes of the city, a cosmopolitan and playful space as well as that of the transcontinental journey. A place of diversity, but also, of violence and solitude, it is the expression of multiculturalism and of the melting-pot. It is mainly defined by its belonging to the North-American continent. The Quebec poet crosses metropolises like Montreal, New York, Los Angeles or San Francisco, in order to account for the changes in the reference of Americanism and in 20th century modernity. Other cities, from Europe or other places, enhance this poetic imaginary. Although written in French, the Quebec poetry of the eighties assimilates the experience of the Beat Generation (Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs) and of the American underground. The importance granted to Americanism is motivated by US cultural references to cinema, to literature, to jazz and rock'n'roll. Quebec poetry of the eighties nevertheless retrieves intimacy, by " small islands " in " liveable " places, with Louise Dupré, Hélène Dorion, Jacques Brault et François Charron
Cordier-Noël, Sophie. "Pour une poétique du lien dans l'écriture fragmentée de David Markson (1927-2010)." Thesis, Paris 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA030125.
Full textThe seeming fragmentation of David Markson’s writing from Reader’s Block (1996) to TheLast Novel (2007) is combined with a form of continuity led by a narrative voice whoseapparent vanishing is merely staged. Despite his claiming to reject all fictional conventions inThis is Not a Novel (2001), Markson proves paradoxically attached to the novel as a form,exploring the multiple possibilities of the genre rather than driving it to exhaustion. His styleis both minimalist and profuse, and leaves much unsaid despite existing – if occasional –metafictional comments. A close reading of the miscellaneous works by David Markson(1927-2010) shows that his extensive use of quotations, making up the main material of hislater works, was a very early hallmark of his writings. For all their apparently radicaldifference, his later texts still bear signs that can be traced back to previous literaryexperiments as varied as detective novels, an anthology, a western, poetry, quasiautobiographyand interior monologue. Malcolm Lowry’s influence on Markson’s workreaches beyond his early study of Under the Volcano and his own « Mexican novel ». Placingthe text under close scrutiny by means of linguistic tools, mainly enunciative and cognitive,provides evidence of the linking role of anaphoric devices and of a subjective handling of adeceitfully disconnected and neutral writing. The search for breaks and breaches has nowbecome conventional, but actually conceals what can be revealed when looking forconnections. Indeed, continuity still underpins sentence, text and work, despite a (partial)splitting of the text into fragments and a (relative) upsetting of linear order
Eymar, Marcos. "La langue plurielle : le bilinguisme littéraire franco-espagnol dans les lettres hispano-américaines (1890-1950)." Paris 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA030036.
Full textFrench-Spanish bilingualism is an expression of Hispano-Americain literature search for autonomy and legitimacy in the period 1890-1950. The work of Jose-Maria de Heredia, Nicanor della Rocca Vergalo, Ventura Garcia Calderon, Armando Godoy, Victor Manuel Rendon, Jose Maria Cantilo, Adolfo Costa du Rels, Vicente Huidobro, Cesar Moro and Alfredo Gangotena show the importance of this pratice. Either neglected or considered as exceptions of variable significance, these authors participate in a collective mouvement aiming at the formation of an Hispano- Americain literary language through contact with French, both linguistic and imaginary. Several cultural and historical factors, such as the spread of panlatinism ideology, justify this literary endeavour, which reflects the symbolic domination that France exerted on the young Hispano-American republics. Our work displays the main historical and literary elements which prove the existence of a bilingual tradition, insisting on the double reception of these authors. It also intends to understand reasons and modalities of language-switching, as well as litterary manifestations of duality, which results from the symbolic, cultural and grammatical gap between two different linguistic worlds. It examines, at last, bilingual writing specificity by studying interferences, self-translations, and the different aesthetic projects which attempt to materialize a “third language” between Spanish and French
Planchard, de Cussac Etienne de. "L'Oeuvre romanesque de George Washington Cable (1844-1925) : essai d'interprétation et d'évaluation." Lyon 2, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987LYO20034.
Full textLouisiana-born novelist George Washington Cable (1844-1925) is still listed today in literary histories as a local colorist who wrote about the creoles of Louisiana. The purpose of this doctoral dissertation is to demonstrate that the novelist, a southerner who adopted the democratic values of the union and thus became a heretic in his section, is essentially a political writer, and that the unity, strength and originality of his work derive from his political purpose. This interpretation leaves aside all the fiction he published John March, Southerner, which is his last foray against the south. Because Cable depended on writing to earn his living, his work was deeply influenced by the socio-economic conditions of his time, and especially by the demands of the national monthly reviews and their readers. He gained nation-wide fame through local color fiction, but was able to enlarge the narrow scope of that genre by combining it with the american romance and to infuse the picturesque creole life with the truth of the human heart to confer a universal import to his best novel, The Grandissimes. Then Cable abandoned the "romance" for realism which, to him, seemed a better approach to a picture of society intended to persuade the south to adopt a more democratic attitude. Indeed, by confronting that section with a true image of herself, he hoped to defeat her propensity for creating a mythical image of her experience all the more easily as this image usually went unchallenged by southern public opinion. John March, Southerner, is a good example of this strategy. Eventually Cable bowed to the hostility of his editors and the indifference of his readers, and abandoned his criticism of the south in favor of less scathing fiction. Thus, what he wrote after John March, Southerner, is of little interest. Yet, Cable blazed the trail for the 20th century southern novelists. His main qualities as a writer lie in his exceptional ability to unravel the skein of social intricacies and his unfailing command of the english language, but his work is often marred by sentimentality. Three of his books deserve to be remembered : Old creole days, The Grandissimes and John March, Southerner
D, Schooley Béatrice. "Personnes, Personnel et Impersonnel dans l’œuvre de Richard Powers." Thesis, Paris 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA030161/document.
Full textRichard Powers’ novels are best known for the diverse and rich quality of their themes, for the density of their historic and socio-economic contents, as well as for the level of technicality with which they handle a variety of scientific themes, yet they also leave a place of choice to the characters. Their role consists in both mirroring a social reality and holding the paramount function of organizing the course of the narrative, as they express Powers’ vision of contemporary America and constitute a space of literary experimentation. These novels focus on the ways human beings who are caught in a world saturated with new technological means and struggling through constant social and political mutations, can fight to preserve and reinvent their personal identity. The author chooses both a sociological and philosophical approach by expressing his vision of the contemporary American society and by putting at the very center of his works the notion of relationship to oneself and to others. The narrative implications of such interests in the increasing complexity of the ontological status of the individual are multiple and lead to the construction of changing and discontinuous characters who refract more than they absorb an energy that can be recirculated at the triple level of the fiction, the readers, and the act of writing. Accounting for the destruction of the unity of the individual in the contemporary American world, the modalities of Powers’ character writing push back the boundaries of the traditional individualistic and personal concept of literary character and substitute to it a paradoxically welcoming, fragmentary and impersonal vision of the human nature
Barón, Jaime. "Le sujet poétique chez Apollinaire et Huidobro : recherches autour du mythe du poète dans le contexte avant-gardiste." Bordeaux 3, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005BOR30047.
Full textSummary : Successive breaking-ups of the oxymoron-subject in Apollinaire from 1907-1908 onwards lead to a stable semiotic definition of the I-as-Poet. The crisis of poetry is taken charge of by this definition that may undergo allotopic returns (scissions) or be projected towards its spatial and calligrammatic opening up. In Huidobro's work, the tmesis-subject responds with a progressively euphemised strategy of disjunction in 1917-1918. In the structure of tmesis, we spot a passage announced by several symptoms (refraction, ostranenie, the theme of clocks) which reread the Apollinarian crisis by acknowledging the absence of a poetic present. Hence the need to deploy an implicit narration of the myth of the poet, dynamised by massive use of quotations from Apollinaire. Altazor redefines this narrative nourished by a post-biblical or “Altazorian” culture, a dialogue with the avant-gardes and oxymoric resurgences from Apollinaire. A parallel between Huidobro and Reverdy from 1915 to 1918 allows us to detect both the specificity of this Huidobrian myth and its continuity with the literary past, while a comparison with Dada and Surrealism (in the 20s) situates it on the background of questions of legitimacy diversely oriented on conflictive pragmatic axes. The representation of the subject as a dual sign reveals its several areas of oscillation (historical, aesthetic and cultural) and confirms in the poetic scripture of the war the wholistic and mediating goal of the oxymoric system, as opposed to the tmesis-subject obliged to re-balance the crisis from a figural and cultural point of view
Mercado, Mendez Maria Guadalupe. "La tragedia del generalismo de Denzil Romero : Un regard du passé vers le présent." Montpellier 3, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998MON30026.
Full textNoriega, Ramiro. "Entre Histoire et mémoire. Un aspect du roman espagnol et hispano-américain à l'aube du XXIème siècle (R. Piglia, R Bolano, J. Cercas)." Phd thesis, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00977958.
Full textEtemad-Kasaeyan, Emilie. "Roberto Bolaño : un auteur comparatiste : une traversée de la république mondiale des lettres et de l’histoire du vingtième siècle." Thesis, Rennes 2, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015REN20045.
Full textBorn in Chile in 1953, Roberto Bolaño spent his youth in Mexico, travelled through Europe and ended up in Spain, where he died in 2003. Writer in motion, Roberto Bolaño seemed to be open to the four winds. Coming from a space both continental and transcontinental – Latin America –, the author cuts with the national belonging and shows a decentred and comparatist point of view in his work. His comparatism is like an opening to otherness, an experience of defamiliarisation, and a system of echoes between spaces and times.This comparatism works also through many literary references: for the writer, the universal Library is a way to read and write the real and a place he belongs to. This literary cosmopolitism goes with a critical point of view upon the market of literature. The author proposes a humoristic and scathing representation of the international republic of letters as an open space of rivalries. In the fictions, the authors fight to gain literary legitimacy, and they are carried away by the flow of collective History. Roberto Bolaño shows the violent development of the twentieth century through a decentred prism. History of Latin America and Europe spread a light on each other and the protagonists of the stories, mixing reality and fiction, are often writers. Our History recomposes itself with imaginary lives, juxtaposition of moments and moving pictures from Europe and America.The present work analyses the formal and thematic dimension of comparatism and questions the commitment linked to it
Schmitter, Gianna. "Estrategias intermediales en literaturas ultracontemporáneas de América Latina. Hacia una TransLiteratura." Thesis, Paris 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA030016.
Full textThe general objective of this thesis is to study inter- and transmedial strategies in emerging Latin American literatures in relation to new technologies. The corpus is composed of books by authors from Argentina, Chile and Peru that have been published in paper format between 2000 and 2015 and that introduce the Internet and/or images photography, video and the own visuality of the text that emulates interfaces. In the first part, a status of the issue reviews the relationship between technology and literature in Latin America and a second one the theories of intermediality in order to develop a model of inter- and transmedial strategies for the corpus. It is postulated that these literatures are TransLiteratures that are written not only with the verbal language, but also with and through the other mediality and its inherent logics. The corpus is classified and analyzed based on: (1) the media combination between text and photography in five publications by M. Bellatin (part II); (2) expanded literature, in other words paper-books that are expanded through videos on YouTube or their own website, therefore artifacts by A. López, T. Rodríguez, and J. Pinos/A. Díaz are considered (part III); (3) the media evocation of the internet in literature through the digital aesthetics of the page (M. Raimon, D. Link, A. López, G. Viñao, I. Elordi, C. Ulloa Donoso, C. Apablaza), the narrative logic of a video game (E. Castromán) and hyperlinks (S. Sebakis, C. Apablaza), and the logic of an uncreative writing that originates in the gesture of copying and pasting and sharing foreign discourses, frequently used on social networks (C. Gradin, A.L. Cauros, L. Lutereau) (part IV)
El objetivo general de esta tesis es estudiar las estrategias inter- y transmediales en literaturas latinoamericanas emergentes en relación con las nuevas tecnologías. El corpus se compone de libros de autores y autoras de Argentina, Chile y Perú que han sido publicados en formato papel entre el 2000 y el 2015 y que introducen internet y/o la imagen fotografía, video y la propia visualidad del texto que emula interfaces. En una primera parte se proponen dos estados de la cuestión: uno, respecto de la relación entre tecnología y literatura en América Latina; el otro, sobre las teorías de la intermedialidad, a fin de elaborar un propio modelo de estrategias inter- y transmediales para el corpus. Se postula que estas literaturas son unas TransLiteraturas que se escriben no solamente con lo verbal, sino con y a través de la otra medialidad y sus lógicas inherentes. Se clasifica y analiza el corpus en torno a: (1) la combinación mediática entre texto y fotografía en cinco publicaciones de M. Bellatin (parte II); (2) la literatura expandida, i.e., libros-en-papel que se expanden mediante videos en YouTube o una página de internet propia, a partir de obras de A. López, T. Rodríguez y J. Pinos/A. Díaz (parte III); (3) la evocación mediática de internet en la literatura mediante la estética digital de la página (M. Raimon, D. Link, A. López, G. Viñao, I. Elordi, C. Ulloa Donoso, C. Apablaza), la lógica narrativa de un videojuego (E. Castromán) y de los hiperenlaces (S. Sebakis, C. Apablaza), y la lógica de un escribir sin escribir que se origina en el gesto del copiar y pegar y el compartir de discursos de una autoría ajena tan habitual de las redes sociales (C. Gradin, A. L. Caruso, L. Lutereau) (parte IV)
Cohen-Cheminet, Geneviève. "L'entretien infini : modernité poétique et tradition appropriée dans l'oeuvre de Charles Reznikoff." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996CLF20093.
Full textThe underlying idea of this research is that the poetical modernity of charles reznikoff's works should be related to the jewish hermeneutical tradition. Great labor allowed reznikoff to delve into the jewish textual heritage and to make the jewish tradition of interpretation consonant with his search for new poetical modes. Therefore the issue of the ethnic representativity of reznikoff's writings is less irrelevant than the relation existing between the jewish heritage of interpretation and reznikoff's aesthetic concerns. An introduction and a prologue lay out the conceptual groundwork and pragmatic approach chosen for this study. Poetical enunciation is analysed both from the point of view of the poet-as-reader (hypertextuality) and from the point of view of the poet-for-a-reader (dialogical seriality). A first part assesses the specificity of reznikoff's writing as evidenced in his relation to space and the american city. Then a second part is devoted to the relation of the poet to history. Our hypothesis is that reznikoff's relation to the past is textual and we use the concept of commentary as his mode of relating to past textual chains either on the basis of rupture or on the basis of a retrieved genealogy. In a third part, the concept of commentary is displaced towards other tragical archivial chains. Charles reznikoff reads them in the messianic context of the reader's coming. Like messiah's coming, the reader's opening of the book is not warranted but, should it happen, it will transform lost traces into meaningful signs. Writing and reading thus constitute the two aspects of an infinite conversation between poet and reader
Maruéjouls-Koch, Sophie. "Le "Théâtre plastique" de Tennessee Williams : du "langage de la vision" à "l'écriture organique." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014LORR0331/document.
Full textWhen Tennessee Williams coined the phrase “plastic theater” in 1944, he described it as a language of “sounds, colors and movements,” a language freed from the limitations of words. His aim was to breathe new life into what he called “the exhausted theater of realistic conventions.” His ability to put the totality of theatrical experience into words manifests itself in the scripts of his plays. Williams is a creator of pictures, a playwright in the true sense of the word who found in painting and cinema the images he needed to elaborate his new language for the stage and move away from a “photographic likeness” he rejected because it was associated with realism. Gauguin, Van Gogh, De Chirico, Hofmann or Pollock are but a few of the many painters mentioned in his plays or essays who provided him with the means to enrich his vocabulary for the stage and lead his “plastic theater” toward “something more abstract.” But cinema also influenced him, giving him the opportunity to explore new possibilities and create a space between words and images where the elusive truth could be revealed. Images thus helped liberate Williams from the literary traditions as well as from the cultural codes that had defined and confined his writing from the very beginning. The writer who felt “wrapped up in literary style like the bandages of a mummy” found in images the subversive power he needed to express his true self and breathe life into words that he had always wanted to be “more than words.” From “the language of vision” to “organic writing,” Williams’s “plastic theater” evinces a desire for images
Barroso-Fontanel, Marlène. "Toni Morrison et l'écriture de l'indicible : minorations, fragmentations et lignes de fuite." Thesis, Université Clermont Auvergne (2017-2020), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019CLFAL003.
Full textToni Morrison’s writing aims at giving their voices back to those who were deprived of words. As a committed writer, Toni Morrison wants to highlight the central role of the black minority in the History of the United States. She then offers a new version of History as she rewrites it through her historical trilogy comprising her novels Beloved, Jazz and Paradise, to which can be added her second novel, Sula, where the seeds of the rewriting of History can already be found. Through the analysis of these four novels, the objective of this doctoral thesis is to excavate the genealogy of the unspeakable in Toni Morrison’s work, and to analyze the dynamic relationship between minoration and writing for an author who’s « insisted – insisted ! – upon being called a black woman novelist. » Women play a central part in the four novels we are studying because, to the racial minoration that already marginalizes African-Americans in the American society must be added for black women the sexual minoration which turns them into a mere body-object. But this double minoration, and the fragmentation it leads to, become in Toni Morrison’s work “lines of flight”, according to Gilles Deleuze’s terminology, which (de-)construct her writing. Minoration is therefore no longer to be understood as subtraction but as creation. Thus, Toni Morrison draws in her texts the lines of flight of creation which leak out of the page towards the outside of language where one can hear the desire for resistance and survival of the minor
Labourey, Marion. "Les écritures de l’histoire dans le récit magico-réaliste des Amériques." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUL138.
Full textThe magical realistic narrative is deeply linked with the writing of history. Between the 1940’s and the 1980’s, throughout the entire America, has been developed and has evolved the magic realism which let the authors of such narratives to transcribe anthropological datas, coming from dominated populations of America (Natives, slaves or former slaves) in novels in which realism and magic can mix without tension. Then, by describing the past periods of the American continent, the authors of magic realism narratives have built a kind of fiction able to imitate, but not replace, the historical investigation : they can, with the help of the specific resources of fiction, give a voice to those who where kept in the dark for so long. We will study how the authors of magic realism narratives write history, et transcribe the representations of people who were not considered before. Such a literary phenomenon is fundamental in the building of an American literary filed. Our trilingual corpus gathers these nine authors : Miguel Ángel Asturias, Alejo Carpentier, Juan Rulfo, Toni Morrison, Wilson Harris, Toni Cade Bambara, Jean-Louis Baghio’o, Jacques Stephen Alexis et Maryse Condé
Couture, Diana Maude. "Se reconstruire après une fin du monde : analyse des sociétés post-apocalyptiques dans trois fictions anglo-saxonne récentes." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/33997.
Full textOudart, Clément. "Les métamorphoses du modernisme de H.D. à Robert Duncan : vers une poétique de la relation." Phd thesis, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III, 2009. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00947767.
Full textPetitjean, 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
Carron, Delphine. "Figures du détective dans le polar américain contemporain." Phd thesis, Université d'Angers, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00961471.
Full textAublet, Anna. "L'oracle en son jardin : William Carlos Williams et Allen Ginsberg." Thesis, Paris 10, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA100083/document.
Full textThe tensions analyzed by Leo Marx in his 1964 essay The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the pastoral ideal in America, between the American Arcadia as a land of original purity and the trope of industrial threat is ghostly present throughout the works of both poets at stake in this dissertation: William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) and Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997). In this research I intend to analyze the processes by which the poets manage to claim ownership of their land in spite of the lurking mechanic apocalypse. Writing, each in his own time, both poets endeavor to reclaim the original historical and spatial meaning of their continent, by devising an autochthonous language that would provide a new “point of view” and a new “point of voice”, as means to prophesy a collective future for the nation from their personal “local” anchorage in their natal New Jersey. Striving to “make a start out of particulars” they intend to escape the vastness of the continent by focusing on the minute details surrounding them in their own garden state. The correspondence between the two poets also questions the periodization of literary movements, too often conceived as a series of breaks and schisms. The Garden State, metamorphic space covered with the remnants of industrialization provides us with a way to break free from the shackles of such categorization : from modernism to the Beat Generation
Cadin, Anne. "Le moment américain du roman français (1945-1950)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA040036.
Full textFrom 1945 to 1950, the American Novel promulgates his presence on the French literary scenery and appears as a model beyond compare to renew the French novel. Our thesis is dedicated to this American moment of the French novel that opens at the Liberation. The publication of Americanized novels increases and creates a constant interest from the literary critics, sometimes enthusiast, sometimes outraged by the consequences of this “new-blood” injection in the French novel’s veins. “Legitimate” novelists, such as Sartre, Des Forêts, Vailland, are actually as attracted by this miraculous resource as the detective novel writers, such as Simenon, Malet, Meckert, who are the first willing to benefit from the hard boiled success. Simultaneously, two different ways to seize the American substance are appearing: the “serious” novelists embrace it briefly, but go from fascination to disappointment; as to the detective novel writers, they transform a sheer imitation reflex into fertile assimilation. Yet, all those novels have not often been studied. Our work is aiming to expose this American path, taken by a vast panel of French novelists, in an even more so profitable manner since they used the American material as a starting point, an experimentation opportunity, but also as a way to assert their own fictional identity. By reexamining the French novel’s debt towards the one from across the Atlantic, we hope to confer all its significance to this dazzling American moment that establishes the transition between the changes made by the avant gardes in the twenties and the ones undertaken by the New Novelists
Lelaidier, Jean. "La France et les romanciers de "l'âge du roman américain" : 1930-1950." Paris 4, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991PA040090.
Full textArami, Sara. "Cartographies : rewriting the body and the nation in Contemporary Middle Eastern American women’s diasporic fiction." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020STRAC004.
Full textThis thesis analyzes the works of fiction written by contemporary Middle Eastern American women from the point of view of literary cartography. The works studied are Mohja Kahf’s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf, Laila Halaby’s Once in a Promised Land and West of Jordan, Susan Muaddi Darraj’s The Inheritance of Exile, Alia Yunis’ The Night Counter and Diana Abu Jaber’s Crescent. The selected works of fiction all contribute to the questioning of the dominant discourses surrounding the Arab-American diaspora. The skepticism of the readers is aroused through presenting counter-histories or alternative versions to the stories and identities that they think they already know. Through a close reading of these works of fiction, the various chapters of the thesis trace an evolution of attempts to reappropriate the American myth to include Arab identity, to a mixture of the two (Western and Arab myths), and the rewriting of Arab stories in line with the American context
Bucher, Vincent. "Une pratique sans théorie. Le très long poème américain de seconde génération." Thesis, Paris 3, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA030135/document.
Full textEver since Emerson the United-States have been expecting the great national masterpiece that would not only celebrate the unique destiny of this young democracy but would also free American language and literature from the European model. However, it did not seem that it was for the epic poem to accomplish this task given that it appeared not only ill-suited to describe the modern world but also incompatible with the demands of a poetic modernity predicated on lyrical intensity. Hence, the planned obsolescence of this “form” has made it all the more difficult to explain the spectacular rebirth of the “American long poem” in the 19th and 20th centuries. It has appeared all the more problematic since, after having been associated to Walt Whitman’s democratic lyricism, the “long poem” was appropriated by T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound making it the symbol of the authoritarian, elitist and systematic tendencies of “high modernism”. It will thus come as no surprise that the critical community has tended to view the “long poem” negatively confirming in a way its illegibility: the “long poem” could only be viewed as a short lyric sequence, an impossible masterpiece or a parody of systematic thought and American exceptionalism. In undertaking this study of Louis Zukofsky’s “A”, William Carlos William’s Paterson and Charles Olson’s Maximus Poems I wish to demonstrate that it is possible to read the “long poem” as such without having to resort to generic categories and to the modern/postmodern dichotomy. I also hope to show that, in these three works, poetry is understood as a kind of ongoing activity which modestly attempts to articulate the poem to the world, time and reading
Ortéga, Julien. "Libérer l'écriture : le projet de la Beat Generation." Thesis, Perpignan, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PERP0020/document.
Full textAmerican literature is a constant flux. It is looking for new paths, exits and stories evoking or transgressing reality. Since the arrival of the first settlers, the influence of European authors on the future natives of this always-expanding country has never waned. As he progressively devoted himself to the discovery and exploration of the interiority of Man, the author has described the multiple evolutions which transformed both the land and the minds. Freeing oneself from commonplace ideas in order to get closer to the ultimate myth – that is, the “Great American Novel” – is a way for the writers of the New World to go down in history by taking full ownership of the language itself. Thanks to Jack London and the Beat Generation, writing has become a byword for testimony, as the language has continuously been reinvented. Freeing writing from its shackles is much more than a simple project, it is a way to liberate the novel. From illegal trips in freight cars to the glorification of a new Word, the road has kept all its promises
Segas, Lise. "Le cycle des pirates dans la poésie épique hispano-américaine (1585-1615)." Bordeaux 3, 2011. https://hal.science/tel-04196941.
Full textThis thesis analyses the American pirate character in epic poems composed in Spanish America and Spain at the turn of the 17th century. It reflects upon the choice of the Italianate literary epic poetry genre, whose apogee is situated in the Renaissance, to narrate the stories of the privateers and pirates’attacks against Spanish-American cities. In order to understand the success in epic poetry of this subversive historical character who challenged the Spanish domination in America, I started by investigating the pirate character’s literary fortune and by questioning the epic genre. With the decline of the Spanish empire, the Protestant States’ increase in power produced different reactions in Spanish America and in the Iberian Peninsula. Indeed, while Lope de Vega wrote a patriotic epic poem, “La Dragontea”, the Spanish American versions of the facts distanced themselves from Spain (Juan de Castellanos, Silvestre de Balboa, Juan de Miramontes, Mateo Rosas de Oquendo’s epic poems) : abandoned by the crown, these Spanish American poets had to face up to an aggressive enemy and a stranger who questioned the legitimacy of the Spanish rule in the New World and through whose contact the political and social crisis that the colonial society was suffering got intensified. Their critical ironic or parodic reactions towards central power and colonial authorities were expressed through epic poetry, which reveals at the same time the poetic and politic import of these epic poems
Belajouza, Ramla. "Deceit, desire and the compsons : a girardian reading of William Faulkner's The sound and the fury." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/23433.
Full textRobache, Delphine. "La matérialité du texte dans Manhattan Transfer et USA de John Dos Passos." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCA075/document.
Full textThe early novels of John Dos Passos are part of the modernist literary movement. They are characterized by an original organization of the words on the page. The text is no longer a monolithic block, but is divided into sections and its separations are highlighted by a vast paratext. It also contains a variety of collages presented in various styles and in different fonts. These observations are the starting point of this research, which focuses on the materiality of the text in the early novels of John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer and the trilogy USA, published between 1925 and 1938. These novels question the gaze of the reader on the text, showing what is placed in front of and around the eye of the observer. The reader becomes aware of what influences his vision. The novel displays its internal structure and various thresholds, allowing the reader to continue or to stop reading, to go backwards and to create connections between the different sections of the text. The novel displays how it has been constructed, highlighting that it is the product of the rearrangement of previous texts. This visible internal structure is also built out of gaps and empty spaces. It reflects the tension between the ambition to be exhaustive, to contain everything and to acknowledge the difficulty to tell a story. The interplay with the blank space on the page, the use of punctuation and phonetic indicators reinforce the written aspect of the text, while at the same time making the words stand off the page and resistant to closure
Cruse, Philippine. "Pour une écriture trans-moderne : parallèles entre littérature française et arts plastiques depuis 1980." Paris 4, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA040015.
Full textThe subject of this dissertation is to examine has the will to investigate French contemporary literature and its connections to art. We chose to study four French contemporary writers : Sylvie Germain, Pascal Quignard, Jean Echenoz et Jean Philippe Toussaint. The choice of novels from the last twenty years is motivated by the need to underline new propositions, symptomatic of a mutation in the literature field. Too many people speak about this period as a time of crisis. We are proposing new perspectives. Concerning our particular choice of those authors, all have personal relations with the image that we wish to analyse. The relations between a text and an image are difficult to analyse because there are as different as fundamentally linked. If the text makes sense, the image gives appearance. However, writing also means making an inscription and continuing the gesture. This anlysis offers a methodology to study a text in literature, motivated by an aesthetical interrogation and based upon a thematic approach. What seems for us interesting in this thesis is that we are asking questions about the contemporary literature with an aesthetical perspective. This analysis wants to underline relations between the text and the image in order to describe two tendencies in contemporary literature : one which makes the report of a disenchanted world and another that tends toward an ideal. Through all this work, our wish is to show how images give keys to the analysis of a text. As a conclusion, this thesis wants testify how relations between art and literature can be creative
Ventimiglia, Sarah. "Cesare Pavese entre poésie et prose : l'enjeu du rythme, entre éthique et subjectivité." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015USPCA165.
Full textIn this thesis, we offer a reinterpretation of the early literary production of Cesare Pavese, in the 1930s. We do so by placing ourselves in a critical horizon that considers the socio-cultural trajectory of the author and by studying his artistic stances, as well as the distinctive qualities of his work.Our choice consists of three works - Ciau Masino, Lavorare stanca and Il carcere - which are among the less studied, excepted for the second one, of his writings (as opposed to his later works), and allows us to move the critical interest toward the genesis of the style of Pavese. Legitimized by his translations of Anglo-American literature, Pavese possesses already, at this stage, an original and pure «melodic vocation» (Mutterle), characterized by the systematic interdependence between poetry and prose.This research aims to show that the poetic work of Pavese is in a close relationship of interaction and correspondence with his narrative prose, through the construction of a possible rhythmic invariant. Reaching beyond the sterile opposition of poetry/prose goes in favour of establishing a piece of work that would stand fully by the side of the subject who writes and the author who expresses himself, by taking in consideration the rhythm as an unifying element, structuring at the same time the textual shaping, the contents and the ethical value of that work
Detue, Frédérik. "En dissidence du romantisme, la tradition post-exotique : une histoire de l'idée de littérature aux XXe et XXIe siècle." Paris 8, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA083824.
Full textThis thesis is a historical enquiry into the idea of literature as invented by early German Romanticism. The Romantic idea of literature, which has informed the cultural system of modernity, delegitimized itself historically when the system engendered World Wars, totalitarianisms, concentration camps and genocides. This cultural system nevertheless continues to exist and dominate, since, as a general rule, people have wanted – and still want – to deny its inherent relationship with barbarism. Yet, confronted with modern forms of terror, dissenting voices have mounted a critique of the culture, sounding the alarm in the hope of carrying out a rescue mission. This thesis focuses on how, in the twentieth century, theoretical inquiry and literary and artistic practice bring about a schism, creating as they do a critical and dialectical relation to the Romantic idea of literature and determining a new mode of being for literature. In the wake of the experience of terror, at a time when the fate of art hangs in the balance, the critical theory of kitsch and the art of testimony are born together, irreversibly. Aside from the ethical need to produce an authentic record of reality, we might distinguish, here, the political desire to transmit something of substance which might inspire a new foundation for life together within the community. As it happens, in the age of testimony, literature and art inherit this mission, and it follows that non-testimonial works take on the role of a wake-up call. It is precisely at the turn of the twenty-first century that it becomes possible to recognize a tradition in retrospect and, following Volodine’s synthesis, to qualify it as post-exotic
Cisse, Ibrahima Ousmane. "La satire de la dictature dans les romans contemporains latino-américains et négro-africains d'expression française." Grenoble 3, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995GRE39034.
Full textMany political scientists perceived the recent history of africa as the exact replica of the political process in south america. Post-independent africa indeed experiences identical sociopolitical difficulties with latin american countries : social inequelities, tremendow debt, political subordination, army-controlled political power, etc. . . And those are signs of the failure of politics in both continent which generated a profuse production of literary works, espacially in the field of novel-writing where the dominant feature invariously comes out to be the military dictators. Every literature is the product and the image of the environnement in which it take rooks. This identity of inspiration is therefore not amazing, and such a community of fate has mather favoured the rise of what is called by some people a "thrid word literature". Somehow, novelists in both contients declaim against established military power and demigrate dictators, for they see their works as a contribution to the life of their respective societies. Moreaver, they continually adopt similar literary attitudes. Indeed, if sembene ousmaner or ferdinand oyono make you think of zola or balzac, it is their latin american countes ports that the 1980 ies' african prose weiters take up
Alexoae, Zagni Nicoleta. "De l'écriture de soi et ses évolutions dans les oeuvres de deux écrivaines sino-américaines : Maxine Hong Kingston et Shirley Geok-lin Lim." Paris 7, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA070124.
Full textThis thesis examines certain contemporary inflections among Asian American self-referential writings. The study of the diptych The Woman Warrior : Memoirs of a Girlhood Ghosts / China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston as well as of Among the White Moon Faces : An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands by Shirley Geok-lin Lim will lead us to delineate conceptualizations of identity that testify to a specific idea of creative filiation, defined in the light of anteriority and otherness, at the intersection of generic plurality and a multiplicity of discursive forms. The first part will thus undertake an assessment of specific discursive and interdiscursive dimensions of Chinese-American texts in a diachronic perspective. In the next two sections we shall seek to identify the lines of force in the functioning of texts that assert a critical dialogism in several respects, the text of the self being written in counter-page to family, history as well as literature as intertexts. This will allow to conclude, in both cases, on an emancipatory evolution : from a mere actor - whose voice is lost in and/or when facing the polyphony of surrounding discourses or when confronted to silences, absences and losses - to auctor, the Chinese American woman writer appropriates an established genre ("nonfiction"), but expands its possibilities by showing a creative and critical intelligence that refuses to subscribe to generic principles and disturbs - as well as reconfigures - interpretative frameworks
Ogarkova, Tetyana. "Une autre avant-garde : la métaphysique, le retour à la tradition et la recherche religieuse dans l’œuvre de René Daumal et Daniil Harms." Paris 12, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA120031.
Full textContrary to a common image of the avant-garde as atheist, revolutionary, progressist, anarchist and liberal project, this thesis focus on metaphysical, religious, counter-revolutionary, anti-progressist and anti-modern aspects of the movement. René Daumal (1908-1944) and Daniil Kharms (1905-1942), a French and a Russian, are two younger representatives of two avant-gardes : French surrealism and Russian futurism. They live at the same time in different countries and don't know each other. Despite all the distance which separate them, they share similar convictions and several common sources. Metaphysical poetry, anti-modern convictions, absurd and religiosity -here is the frame of the research which help to understand the similarities between two authors who represent another image of the European avant-garde
Lemoine, Xavier. "Naissance et développement du théâtre queer aux États-Unis." Paris 10, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA100112.
Full textAlthough the notion of Queer Theater only began to develop in the early 1990s its stretch back to the beginning of the 20th century. Indeed, the portrayal of homosexuality on the stage has been shaped by moral and legal censorship revealing the tensions articulating theater as a whole. Queer theory, based on theoretical intertextuality, enables us to examine the way in which sex, gender, race and class are formed and how they are interrelated. Within this framework, queer criticism interrogates the politics of representation and attempts to grasp the forces that determine the boundaries separating the visible from the invisible. A general survey of drama reveals the variations that define both a history of Queer Theater and its construction as a category. "Homosexual theater," firstly characterized by the trope of the closet, was subsequently developed by a gay and lesbian theater informed by the trope of the coming out. Although this distinction is in itself an epistemological effect, it provides basic markers and explains the emergence of Queer Theater. Rejecting moot issues spawned by identity politics, Queer Theater sets out to utilize strategies against normative impulses perpetuated by a monolithic conception of the subject. Thus, Queer Theater offers a crosspollination that runs counter to the predominance of binary oppositions on stage. It then delves into the reception and production modes and attempts to open up the closure of interpretations and meanings of the text in order to go beyond heteronormativity. The AIDS crisis accelerated this process by questioning the status of the body furthered as well by the practice of camp, pornography and S/M. These aspects of queer performance, made more complex due to their performative effects, illustrate the queer momentum. Queer Theater therefore is a determining force on the stage, both pointing to its limitations and signaling new paths to keep it alive and on the cutting edge
Amauri, Gallegos de Dios Osbaldo. "Regeneración de la ciudad letrada : intelectualidad y participación política en Octavio Paz, Gabriel García Márquez y Mario Vargas Llosa." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018TOU20019.
Full textWe propose in this thesis an analysis and comparison of intellectual paths and political postures of Octavio Paz, Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa, which it allows to understand Latin America’s intellectual history in the second half of the 20th century. During the 1960’s Latin American intellectuals were marked with Cuban revolution and world’s political context: Cold War, Vietnam War, Prague’s invasion and student protests around the world. Paz, García Márquez and Vargas Llosa were part of this period, that’s why with this work we compare them as intellectuals and they have different postures. The main objective of this thesis is to compare their intellectual involvement, within the context of Latin American and French intellectual history (concepts and theories in 20th century). For this reason, we analyze and compare theirs ideological formations, intellectual conjunctions and disjunctions, involvement in four conjunctures (Cuban revolution, Coup d’État in Chile, Sandinism in Nicaragua and EZLN in Mexico) and theirs intellectual figure’s representations. Therefore we show that in Latin America we find intellectual involvement at the end of the 20th century, which allow us to propose a “lettered city’s regeneration”
Con esta tesis proponemos un análisis y comparación de las trayectorias intelectuales y las posturas políticas de Octavio Paz, Gabriel García Márquez y Mario Vargas Llosa, para hacer un aporte a la historia intelectual en América Latina en la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Durante los años sesenta la intelectualidad latinoamericana estuvo marcada por la Revolución Cubana y el contexto politizado a nivel mundial: la Guerra Fría, la Guerra de Vietnam, la invasión de Praga y las manifestaciones estudiantiles en diferentes países. Paz, García Márquez y Vargas Llosa fueron parte de esa época, por lo que por medio de esta tesis se les compara como intelectuales y tuvieron posturas distintas. El objetivo principal de esta tesis es comprender las trayectorias y las participaciones intelectuales de los tres escritores, en el marco de la historia intelectual latinoamericana y francesa (conceptos y teorías surgidas en el siglo XX). Se analizan y comparan sus formaciones ideológicas, conjunciones y disyunciones intelectuales, su participación en cuatro coyunturas (Revolución Cubana, Golpe de Estado en Chile, Sandinismo en Nicaragua y EZLN en México), su representación de la figura intelectual y los matices intelectuales de los tres escritores. Por consiguiente, se mostrará que en Latinoamérica puede observarse una participación activa del intelectual a finales del siglo XX, lo que conduce a proponer una “regeneración de la ciudad letrada”
Hernandez-Marzal, Belén. "L'écriture de Gilberto Owen : une poétique du double." Pau, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PAUU1010.
Full textGilberto Owen (Rosario 1904- Philadelphie 1952) was a Mexican poet and a member of the « Contemporáneos » group. Employed by the consular service, he spent most of his life abroad, in Ecuador, Peru, Colombia and the United States, where he died practically unknown. Long neglected due to his expatriation, he has inspired increasing critical interest in recent years. The analysis of his novels and poetry brings to light one of the figures which structure his poetics: the double. It is manifest on a lexical level in the composite language he creates, which comprises a great diversity of material (loan words from other languages, technical vocabulary, scientific terminology). From a formal point of view, it can be seen in his creation of a singular poetic language (the influence of the European avant-garde, his specific use of metaphor and simile), and in his use of collage technique, which lends a fragmentary aspect to his writing, procured by the "compulsive" use of quotations, so much so that his texts appear to abound with references and allusions. Attention is drawn to his relationship to European and Hispanic authors, notably Antonio Espina, with whom he developed a privileged rapport, but also to De La Serna, Benjamín Jarnés and Max Jacob. His predilection for hybrid poetic forms can be seen in his choice of permeable literary genres, such as the poetic novel (« La llama fría », « Novela como nube ») or the prose poem (« Línea », « Otros poemas »), to which a chapter is devoted. Finally, the motifs of shadow and reflection, as expressions of the theme of duplicity, pertain to the quest for identity (the search for a name, the search for origins), undoubtedly linked to the absence of the father
Pambou, Pambou Ange-Valérie. "Ecriture et paradoxe dans les nouvelles de Grace Paley." Paris 7, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA070109.
Full textThis paper makes the case for paradox as a narrative pattern, an aesthetic paradigm, and a category for interpretation in Grace Paley's fiction. Postulating paradox as always-already present in Paley, it investigates that "always-already" in what it reveals the most of Paley's writing and narrative strategies. It attempts to make clear that if Paley's narrative, just like any narrative, is the repository of the continuity of narrative discourse, then, that continuity, insofar as she is concerned, is predicated upon a host of discontinuous formal processes which ail concur to grant primacy to contingency (narrative openness and dissemination) over teleology (narrative closure) in her stories. It makes the point that it is from what it reveals of the functions of language and of the way her narrative plays out and outplays those functions that the voice, in Paley, may be said to be the key operative category of her fiction, and literature, both pure language and always-already world-containing and world-contained. Lastly, this paper puts forward the conditions under which the fictional in Paley can be construed as a void, dis/misplaced, missing itself and missing at its place -if only to reveal ail its fictionality
Martel, Audrey. "Le criminel asocial dans la littérature américaine de la seconde moitié du vingtième siècle." Phd thesis, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00952972.
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