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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
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
Girard, Estelle. "Le monstre dans la littérature d'horreur anglo-américaine et franco-québécoise du XXe siècle." Aix-Marseille 1, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002AIX10014.
Full textLe, Cam Pierre-Yves. "Peake, Gormenghast et le fantastique." Rennes 2, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993REN20022.
Full textBy offering a fantastic syncretism in his Gormenghast trilogy, which is set in an imaginary ritual bound world, the contemporary English writer Mervyn Peake proposes an original definition of the literary fantastic. The literary fantastic is no longer seen as a genre but as a mode, where the sensorial aspect of fantastic realism, which is perceived as dynamic and subjective penetration of reality, helps to harmonize the other traditional gothic, fantastic and fantasy readings. Peake's fantastic embraces any kind of irrational expression which can be visualized, whether it is a metaphor or a monster. The value of this mosaic is first of all artistic. As the pictorial dimension shows, Peake is a formalist who explores the strata of creation from a thematic as well as a stylistic point of view. But he also focuses on his fellow men. The trilogy of Gormenghast is a dystopic mirror of contemporary society and it reflects the difficult condition of man. Who can only find salvation in himself. Peake, however, goes beyond the mere reality of violence and trouble to present an optimistic truth about man and life which is placed under the sign of benevolent comedy
Vuillemin, Alain. "La figure du dictateur ou de dieu truqué dans les romans français et anglais de 1918 à 1984." Paris 4, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986PA040041.
Full textThe dictator's figure has an exceptional plasticity in contemporary literature. The fragmentation of its historical, linguistic and mythical expressions reveals an uncommon power of fascination upon authors, even when they denounce dictators as deceivers, false gods, "sham gods". Are we facing an "archetypal" figure, original and primordial, of sovereignty, more religious than political, and of which the absolute equivocal nature would explain the extraordinary ambiguousness of its literary manifestations? Nevertheless, a vast although very diffuse imaginary "testament" describes the continuously beginning again cycle in the writing works of an imposture which seems inherent in hall dictatorial or totalitarian enterprises, whatever their appearances are in these novels, for the writers studied. Beginnings are insidious, proceedings tortuous, triumphs terrifying, declining misleading and recommencements unceasing. That "archetype" would be eternal. Novelists would do nothing but find a millennial intuition and condemnation again
DJANGONE, BI NGUESSAN. "La problematique de l'independance dans le roman africain d'expression anglaise (1958-1980)." Paris 3, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988PA03A008.
Full text"the problematics of independence in the african novel of english expression" analyses the problems posed by the rupture with the west as weil as the ideological and stylistic implications of such a rupture. In the english colonial novel, africa and africans were most of the time painted in a negative way in accordance with the imperialistic ideology of the time. The african novel rejects such a caricature by laying bare the ugly side of the myth of barbarous and backward africa. The images of independent africa show that the colonist has made a sham exit and that the colonised people have not completely freed themselves. Cultural alienation and economic extraversion are still present. A new form of political dependence is also noticeable. On the level of writing, the african novel has made a judicious synthesis between foreign elements linked to the introduction of the genre in africa and aesthetic elements peculiar to traditional african literature
Latino, Piero. "La Rose initiatique. Des Fidèles d'Amour à la littérature européenne des XIXe et XXe siècles." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne université, 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023SORUL150.
Full textThis thesis focuses on the relationship between literature and esoteric currents, through the study of the symbol of the rose in European literature, more specifically in French and English literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This research is based on a transversal and interdisciplinary approach, bringing together different fields of literary and historical study, as well as a variety of literatures and authors from different periods. The initiatory dimension of the rose, coupled with the topos of love, is the basis of my research, whose starting point is a forgotten work from the nineteenth century: Il Mistero dell'Amor Platonico nel Medioevo by Gabriele Rossetti, father of the Pre-Raphaelite painter and poet Dante Gabriele Rossetti. In this work, for the first time Gabriele Rossetti revealed the esoteric dimension of the work of Dante and the Fedeli d’Amore (Faithful of Love) – the Italian love poets of the Middle Ages who, through their poetic compositions, conveyed mystical and initiatory ideas, as well as religious and political ones. According to Rossetti and the critical movement he initiated, this doctrine of esoteric love was also present in the love poets in a number of European contexts, such as the French troubadours and trouvères, the English minstrels, the German Minnesänger and the Scandinavian scaldes, handed down through the centuries until the nineteenth century. This aspect is the focus of my research: transmission of this alleged esoteric knowledge, in the form of love, to later centuries. In his Mistero dell’Amor Platonico, Gabriele Rossetti pointed out that the most important symbol for understanding the esoteric doctrine of love is the rose, and this thesis is devoted to the symbolism of this flower. The study of the initiatory dimension of the rose in literature involves two themes linked to the concept of initiation: one concerns mysticism and the other, initiatory Orders. In the first case, initiation is linked to a mystical dimension involving an ontological transformation of the being, while in the second, the symbolism of the rose refers to esoteric and initiatory Orders which have more or less directly played an important part in the history of ideas. These two themes are often connected and can be found in European writers such as Gérard de Nerval and William Butler Yeats. The first part of this thesis is devoted to Dante and the poets of the Middle Ages, as well as to authors of the Renaissance. I then move on to nineteenth and twentieth century authors, such as Honoré de Balzac, Gérard de Nerval, Joséphin Péladan, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ezra Pound, William Butler Yeats and Umberto Eco. Most of the writers and poets featured in this thesis are directly or indirectly linked to Dante and the love poetry of the Middle Ages, to the Fedeli d’Amore, and even to Gabriele Rossetti. Thus, this research proposes a rethinking of literature – one in which esoteric culture and thought are of particular importance, as many literary works throughout history are imbued with elements and motifs referring to the esoteric tradition. The study of the esoteric and initiatory dimension of the rose symbol provides the opportunity to explore a field of research where literature is closely linked to esoteric currents, particularly in French and English literature (and more generally, in European literature) of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: from the rose of the Fedeli d’Amore in the Middle Ages to the Secret Rose by William Butler Yeats, who affirmed that “no man or woman from the beginning of the world has ever known what love is”
Ogoula, Ndoki Yolande. "De quelques aspects de l'imaginaire à travers l'oeuvre romanesque d'Amos Tutuola." Montpellier 3, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986MON30008.
Full textTutuola's work of fiction reveals an abundant imaginary brought up on thecolours of the africain tale or mythology. The analysis af this imaginary universe reveals that its consists in a mingling of utterances by the author as heir to an oral culture, and as creator of images and significances. These images are chiefly steeped in animist symbolism believings. Thanks to them one can see the marvellous and anthropomorphizing aspects of imaginary. In addition, the study of the representation data and structures allows us to state that imaginary is the symbolic display of rites of passage and unconscious desires
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
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
Books on the topic "Littérature anglaise – 20e siècle – Thèmes, motifs"
Forever England: Femininity, literature, and conservatism between the wars. London: Routledge, 1991.
Find full textJean Genet: Traces d'ombres et de lumières. Saint-Georges-d'Oléron: Les Éditions libertaires, 2016.
Find full textUniversité Paul Valéry. Groupe de recherche études germaniques et centre-européennes. Représentations du corps dans les arts du spectacle et la littérature des pays germaniques: Darstellungen des Körpers. Montpellier: Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, 2004.
Find full text1959-, Chassay Jean-François, ed. Promenades littéraires dans Montréal. Montréal: Éditions Québec/Amérique, 1989.
Find full textThe body emblazoned: Dissection and the human body in Renaissance culture. London: Routledge, 1995.
Find full textLight, Alison. Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars. Routledge, 1992.
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