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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
Birgy, Philippe. "Les modernistes anglais : du texte litteraire au fait de societe. les mecanismes sacrificiels et les desirs mimetiques dans la societe de l'entre-deux-guerres et leur expression dans la litterature de l'epoque." Toulouse 2, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995TOU20072.
Full textEven more than the turn of the century, the inter-war period has been perceived as a difficult transition from an old world to a new order, when most convictions came under attack of an ambient skepticism. The type of litterature that has been termed "modernist", owing to its often arresting originalty, helps us to account for certain characteristics of the english society over the period. There, we can find the expressions of mimetic conducts (fastly developing at that time), as well as a resistance to their corruptive effects (in the form of a desire to come back to a traditional and strongly hierarchized order partly founded on sacrificial rituals). The study is informed by rene girard's theses. The list of works under study includes thomas sterne eliot ("the waste land", "four quartets", the family reunion), aldous huxley ("the defeat of youth", eyeless in gaza, those barren leaves), james joyce ("couterparts", ulysses), david herbert lawrence (mr noon, lady chatterley, women in love, "the ladybird", the plumed serpent), katherine mansfield ("the garden party" and other short stories), ezra pound (the cantos and some of his early poetry), virginia woolf (orlando a biography, the waves), and william butler yeats
Sayer, 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. ”
Husain, Suzan. "Le drame historique chez les poètes anglais et français à l'époque romantique et post-romantique : : modèles narratifs et structures imaginaires." Tours, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001TOUR2033.
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
Conneely-Allain, Bláithín. "Insularité et décolonisation : une étude de la littérature de Liam O'Flaherty." Rennes 2, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002REN20036.
Full textThe literature of Liam O'Flaherty demonstrates the fine relationship that exists between insularity and decolonisation. Born into an insular and peripheral universe (The Aran islands), his work reveals the complexities of a minority culture. The process of decolonisation is "doubled" on account of the geographical dimension : Ireland is an island situated close to a larger colonising island (England). Furthermore, island cultures, aware of their marginality and fragility, tend to invent identities and subsequently share many features of a post-colonial society. However, the process of decolonisation is more lengthy and violent. We study the neglected aspects of O'Flaherty's work : his short stories in gaelic and their modernist dimension. With their basis in realism they expose historical truths, taboo subjects and the hidden aspects f Irish society. The collection Dúil functions as a master narrative for his subsequent writings in english. It describes life in the Aran community at the beginning of the twentieth century. O'Flaherty's english language writing is equally experimental. He uses popular forms of the novel such as the "thriller" to expose the criminal forces that govern post-colonial Ireland. Historical issues such as famine, war and oppression are also evoked. O'Flaherty's work ultimately calls into question the status of a decolonising literature within the central literary canon. Hence the problem of the classification of his work as major or minor literature
Ganteau, Jean-Michel. "David Lodge, romancier catholique." Montpellier 3, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995MON30016.
Full textThe evolution of david lodge's oeuvre seems to correspond strictly to the three phases of the modern catholic novel as defined by the american critic gene kellogg in the vital tradition : the catholic novel in a period of convergence (chicago : loyola university press. 1970). After a first traditional phase as a "separatist" novelist writing for the exaltation of his religion and community, lodge moves towards an "assimilative" attitude and rebels against the religious and communal values which he had hitherto scrupulously respected, before entering a third "interpenetrative" phase which heralds a return towards the same values according to the rules of an aesthetics of indirection. This work is fundamentally based on a thematic analysis and relies on the study of the motifs and topoi characteristic of the catholic novel as a genre. This approach helps establish lodge's hesitation between scrupulous respect of and variations from the generic decorum of the catholic novel. Moreover, alongside a represented attitude of respect and transgression (as is obvious in his treatment of the theme of sexual morality, for instance), lodge offers a representing treatment of the same notions by resorting to decrowning, parodic and comic antitheses, reflexivity, or even comedy. His chronicle of the evolution of a religious community thus associates realism and experiment, and presents the reader with a redefinition of the postmodern catholic novel
Pelletier, Martine. "Histoires et histoire dans l'oeuvre dramatique de Brian Friel." Rennes 2, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994REN20004.
Full textThis research examines the works of Brian Friel (1929-), the contemporary northern-Irish playwright who co-founded field day, the famous Derry-based theatre company which announced in 1993 that it was putting an end to its activities. Our main object has been the study of the tension between story and history, between storytelling and history-writing. The dramatist is fascinated by the ways in which the past can be manipulated and he observes with lucidity but not without compassion the erratic workings of memory and the creation of myths that operate as consoling fictions but also generate fixity and division. Myth, fiction, lies and fabulation are some of the key words in our analysis of Friel's drama. Though he never stopped focusing on the private world of the family, Friel has gradually succeeded in integrating a more political and historical reflection, largely inspired by the tragic resurgence of violence in Ulster after 1968. Without ever discarding completely the conventions of the so-called realist theatre, but he has sought varied and often innovative dramatic forms that have enabled him to show on the stage the crucial role of language in any representation of the past, whether it be filtered by an individual conscience or by the collective memory of the nation. Our study of the links between Friel and field day will, we hope, shed some light on how the playwright operated within a company that had as its avowed aim, the exploration of the often controversial and complex interaction between politics history and literature in Ireland
Morère-Labay, Julie. "Civilisation et barbarie dans l'œuvre d'Evelyn Waugh (1945-1966)." Montpellier 3, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007MON30039.
Full textAfter the youthful excesses illustrated in the novels of the first period, from 1945 to 1966, Evelyn Waugh’s works continue to condemn the spiritual vacuum that is at the core of the modern world, insisting more and more on the necessity to take up arms against it. The power of the British novelist’s writing comes from his form, his style, and the variety of topics discussed, all revolving around a central concept – the conflict that opposes civilization and barbarism. These notions entertain a chiasmic relationship, in between a civilized barbarism and a barbaric civilization. The diaries, correspondence, articles, essays, reviews and fictional works denounce the ethical and aesthetic contradictions of the modern world, positioning the author contra mundum. Waugh’s writing mirrors the many masks he adopts, a critique and an aesthete in turn, a determined and stubborn war correspondent, a political thinker, a bold observer of the customs of his country and of others, a pious catholic and a ferociously religious writer. What is ultimately at stake for him is the defence of the English language and its literary tradition, while at the same time embodying the spirit of an era that he observed and criticized, constantly measuring its flaws against the values of a bygone age that he deemed superior to the world he lived in
Guilhamon, Lise. "Poétiques de la langue autre dans le roman indien d'expression anglaise." Rennes 2, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007REN20040.
Full textIndian English novelists frequently call attention, within their fiction, to the relation of otherness that links them to the language of their creative work. These authors write in a language inherited from the colonial process, and with a heterogeneous audience in view, whose references are further complicated by the contemporary phenomena of diaspora, migration and globalisation. This is why these novelists place at the heart of their literary creation the deeply intertwined questions of the Other's tongue, and of the other tongue. The question of the « other tongue » in the Indian English novel has given rise to several critical studies, but it has practically never been examined from the point of view of its poetic specificity: this is precisely what this work sets out to do. Indian English fiction examines the modalities of literary creation: in particular, it investigates the way in which literature invents language, and it explores the idea of literature as alterity at work within language
Books on the topic "Littérature anglaise – 20e siècle – Histoire et critique"
Meisel, Perry. The myth of the modern: A study in British literature and criticism after 1850. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.
Find full textBayard, Caroline. The new poetics in Canada and Quebec: From concretism to post-modernism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989.
Find full textGreif, Hans-Jurgen. La littérature québécoise, 1960-2000. Québec: L'Instant même, 2004.
Find full textNepveu, Pierre. L' écologie du réel : mort et naissance de la littérature québécoise contemporaine: Essais. Montréal: Boréal, 1988.
Find full textTessier, Jules. Américanité et francité: Essais critiques sur les littératures d'expression française en Amérique du Nord. Ottawa: Le Nordir, 2001.
Find full textPoets, prophets andrevolutionaries: The literary avant-garde from Rimbaud through postmodernism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Find full textPrungnaud, Joëlle. Gothique et décadence: Recherches sur la continuité d'un mythe et d'un genre au XIXe siècle en Grande-Bretagne et en France. Paris: H. Champion, 1997.
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