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Durand, Isabelle. "Aspects de la représentation du Moyen Age dans la littérature romantique : domaines français, anglais, allemand." Nantes, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999NANT3010.
Full textThe romantic period is regarded as the moment of renewed interest for the Middle-Ages, a time the Age of Enlightenment had neglected. This revival can be witnessed in such various fields as history, architecture, musci or literature, which convergence leads us to consider the return to the Middle-Ages as a basic element of rmantic thought. As it is, its presence within new genres that regained favour thanks to rmanticism (the tale, the ballad, the romantic drama, the historic novel) induces us to measure the essential role of the return to the Middle-Ages in the coming out of a new conception of lietrature breaking off with classical rules. These various genres enable to emphasize the image of a largely fantasmatic Middle-Ages period reflecting the romantic expectations and dreams. Its high plasticity also enables it to be emodied in major characters the romantic thought tens to build up into myths (Charlemagne, Louis XI th. , Joan of ARc or Faustus). Containing typical medieval perceptions, they gather the main aesthetic and ideological issues associated with the Middle-Ages. It becomes possible then to put forwards a typology of the various romantic Middle-Ages, underlining the perceptions pertaining to the grotesque aspect of the period, those associating it to the fabulous and the terrifying, and those building it up into a golden age. Yet, difficult to reconcile as they are, these perceptions, seemingly ascribable to a common feature, tend to put forwards the original and the primitive. Thus, the Middle-Ages give birth to a myth, a myth of a primitive time hal-way between history and legend. This mythified past in which romanticism looks both foran an utterly remote otherness and its own identify proves to be a way to escape a devalued present. As a source of new inspiration, the return to medieval past is paradoxically one of the best means of expression of the modernity of the romantic movement
Monneyron, Frédéric. "L'imaginaire androgyne d'Honoré de Balzac à Virginia Woolf." Paris 4, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986PA040261.
Full textThe androgyne can be found in the mythologies of many cultural areas. In the western one, plate uses it as an illustration of his theories of love, then it appears as a major element in Judeo-Christian mystical and theosophical systems. If on the one hand the ethno-religious myth can be easily located and if its patterns are clear, on the other hand it takes time for the literary myth to find its way out. At the beginning of the 19th century, the neo-classical aesthetics, the progress of medical research and the increasing interest in mysticism are chances for the literary myth to develop. In France, during the romantic period, Balzac and Gautier with Seraphita and Mademoiselle de Maupin, in two different ways, found a genuine literary myth. The androgyne becomes in the works of the French and English writers at the end of the century an important character of the decadence. But no perfect symmetry is to be seen anymore and the idea takes form as two opposite characters : the effeminate young man and the boyish woman. This decay of the symbol brings along the expression of a "different" sexuality. Recollection of some of the most significant patterns of the myth is allowed from time thanks to the esoteric tradition of the androgyne which is known by some of the novelists. In the other way, the literary imaginary of the time has strong influence on the doctrin itself. Although psychoanalysis is unable to consider bisexuality but as a hypothesis, the androgyne receives at the beginning of the 20th century a psychological integration. Indeed, the will to androgyny can be read in some of the D. H. Lawrence’s works as an attempt to balance heterosexual and homosexual desires and in the feminist way of V. Woolf's Orlande as the search of the truth beyond immediate appearances. These directions, though close to the patterns of the myth, are nevertheless the witnesses of its death. But they show the strength of the archetype and give way to the rich and diverse imaginary of today
Baudon, Laurence. "Des enfances meurtries : le personnage d'enfant en Angleterre et en France dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle." Toulouse 2, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003TOU20066.
Full text"Bruised children" call to mind the glance about a new character into novels in the nineteenth century : the character of suffering children in France and in England. This study approachs literary movments (realism, naturalism, popular literature) and sets the child's statuts up according to a double viewpoint : the child in society, the child as a person. Child working, stray child along the roads and into the towns are representations of a new glance of novelists about a social class which was not, until now, approached in fiction : the ordinary people. Social structures and family life allows novelists to write about the personal statut of the child, wether he maintains himself against exploitation, wether he becomes a victim of social or family opression. The study is ending with personality of children who are daring to refuse social or family exploitation, children we'll find again in the fiction of the twentieth century
Chiari-Lasserre, Sophie. "L'image du labyrinthe dans la culture et la littérature de la Renaissance anglaise : origines, diffusion, appropriations et interprétations." Montpellier 3, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003MON30086.
Full textIn the Elizabethan period, the image of the labyrinth was being re-appropriated in several ways, all based on an ideal first championed by Horace : discordia concors. Throughout Antiquity, the story related to Theseus and the Minotaur had been retold many times, by authors such as Pliny, Ovid, Plutarch, whose texts were to be digested by translators. Renaissance England could boast, too, of an impressive medieval heritage, which favoured the didactic transmission of the myth : the influence of clerical writings linked to the idea of the unicursal maze, one way leading to God, contributed to the popularization of the legend. Gradually, the symbol was secularized during the sixteenth century. Although mythic multicursal paths proliferated in gardens, representations, danse and poetry, they reached their climax on stage. As an obsessional motif, the labyrinth is a hermeneutic key revealing new interpretative tracks exploring a multisemic theatre, whose possibilities remain to be exploited
Grenet, Sylvie. "Le génie du lieu dans l'aquarelle anglaise (1750-1850)." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA040041.
Full textThe function of the genius of [the] place, whose sacred origin dates back to antiquity, is to preside over a given place and to maintain its sacred and ancient characteristics. The expression "genius of [the] place" reappears in English literature during the 1730s, particularly when the authors describe real places. British watercolours of the Golden Age (1750-1850) also represent real places. The goal of this thesis, based on the study of these watercolours, is to demonstrate that 18th-century artists still keep the sacred alive, even when they represent real places. It also aims to show that the only way for artists to keep the place alive is to deny 18th-century rational thought, which tends to make the place disappear, and to reassert the existence of sacred thought. The study of the relationship between sacred thought and watercolours is divided into two parts. The first is devoted to an overview of 18th-century watercolours (Chapter 1) and of the texts mentioning the genius of [the] place (Chapter 2). The second deals with the analysis of nature (Chapter 3) and history (Chapter 4) in relation to the sacred
Mauré, Cécile. "Héritages et réappropriations du mythe d'Écho dans la littérature élisabéthaine." Montpellier 3, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006MON30027.
Full textAt one and the same time an acoustical phenomenon, a mythological figure and a literary device, Echo offers Elizabethan artists many outlets. The Ovidian myth has been adulterated, moralised, synthesised, and appears in a hybrid form in the 1550's and 1560's. Echo captivates and puzzles artists because it involves representing what cannot in fact be represented. Poets and dramatists find their own way round this paradox. Under French and Italian influence, they follow the pastoral trend and place Echo in a new Arcadia where joy and melancholy are mingled. Frequently quoted in elegies and complaints, Echo is also a tragic figure associated with suffering and lamentation, who no longer praises the gods, but bewails the dead. Hidden in the shade, her voice becomes suspect, leading men on false trails, blurring signs in woods which are suddenly transformed into dangerous labyrinths. In Shakespeare's plays and poems, she stands for disorder, bearing witness to a changing world. Echo is considered a minor figure, yet she incarnates the different aspects of a rich and complex style of writing which delights in taking the reader on roundabout detours
Dupeyron, Françoise. "La scène italienne : roman et théâtralité chez G. Eliot, G. Gissing, H. James et W.D. Howells, 1875-1890." Paris 3, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA030105.
Full textThe aim of this phd is to study the way in wich italy is represented in anglo-saxon literature at the end of the nineteenth century. The novels and works of eliot, gissing, howells, and james, belonf to the period 1875-1890, but the introduction presents an overview of the tradition of the italian journey, and of the representation of italy in fiction and literature from the renaissance onwards. This aims at stressing the various influence still to be felt at the end of the victorian period. The firest chapter is devoted to the study of the italien setting, from a historical and spatial point of view, but also from a pictorial point of view. Indeed, the tradition of painting on italian subjects conditions the writing mode of the works which are being studied in the phd, and gives them a pictorial aspect. Theatricality, to finish with, is the main feature of the italian setting, which is a stage, both materially and psychologically. The second chapter is devoted to comedy in italy, in the novels of gissing, howells, and to some extent in two of james's works. The third chapter deals with the tragic qualities of the italian setting in roderick hudson, and the portrait of a lady by james
Berec, Laurent. "Fête et métamorphose dans la littérature pastorale anglaise de 1579 à 1642." Paris 3, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA030165.
Full textFrom Spencer's Shepherd's Calendar (1579) to Milton's Comus (1637), English pastoral literature is marked by a deep tension between an intellectual adherence to Christian orthodoxy and an instinctive attachment to a metamorphic conception of being which manifested itself in a vast number of archaic rituals and festivals. Nevertheless it seems that the ancestral outlook -a mixture of paganism and mediaeval catholicism- was rather on the wane in early modern England so that Protestant, even Puritan beliefs, were more widespread in the years preceding the Civil War. . .
Besson, Françoise. "Le paysage pyreneen dans les oeuvres d'ecrivains et d'artistes britanniques du dix-neuvieme siecle." Toulouse 2, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994TOU20012.
Full textThe aim of this thesis is the study of the pyrenean landscape as seen by british artists pyrenean landscape are analysed in travel books, novels, short stories, poems as well as paintings and engravings. The first part deals with the influence of cultural references on the travellers' perception of the pyrenean landscape. In the second part, the role of the gradual identification of the vegetable and animal worlds and their function in the aesthetic representation of the pyrenees are exposed. The third part is devoted to the discovery of the pyrenean landscape through the observation of the human world. From the aesthetic and historical observation of architecture to the ethnological perception of pyrenean life, those chapters illustrate the role of the human world in the perception of the landscape. And the link between the landscape and language is analysed at the end of this part. In the fourth part of this thesis, the role of the landscape in poetry and fiction, particularly in gothic novels, is analysed. One chapter explains how some of these writers have used the pyrenean landscape in the structure of their works. Finally the last part deals with the spiritual revelation of the pyrenean landscape for those travellers. The traveller's attitude in front of the mountain, the religious perception of the landscape as well as the mountain-climber's quest are analysed in that part
Le, Reste Anne-Claire. "La question de la réalité dans les romans de la « période médiane » de Henry James (1881-1890) : le réalisme à l’épreuve du hors-texte." Rennes 2, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007REN20031.
Full textBooks on the topic "Littérature anglaise – 19e siècle – Thèmes, motifs"
The body emblazoned: Dissection and the human body in Renaissance culture. London: Routledge, 1995.
Find full textForever England: Femininity, literature, and conservatism between the wars. London: Routledge, 1991.
Find full textLight, Alison. Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars. Routledge, 1992.
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