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Adroher, Michel. "La stòria del Sant Grasal, version catalane de la Queste del Saint Graal." Perpignan, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PERP0555.
Full textThe author aims to highlight the characteristics which make the originality of the Storia del Sant Grasal (Story of the Holy Grail, 1380), the catalan version of the Queste del Saint Graal (Quest of the Holy Grail), compared to the french original text. The collation of this work with the versions of the Queste del Saint Graal - provided by editions pauphilet and the manuscript fr. 343 of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France - concurs with the view that the catalan adaptation stems from the reading of the french masterpiece, definitely cistercian in inspiration, by a 14th century franciscan cleric, deeply influenced by the millenarist ideas of Joachim de Flore and his followers. The thesis falls into three sections : I- historical background : matter of Britain in Catalonia (12th - 15th centuries). II- critical edition of the Storia del Sant Grasal in manuscript 79 sup. , ambrosium library Milano. III- Essay on the Storia del Sant Grasal, catalan version of the Queste del Sant Grasal
Séguy, Mireille. "Monstrances du graal : l'inscription du signe dans la littérature romanesque des XIIe et XIIIe siècles, du "Conte du Graal" au "Lancelot-Graal"." Paris 3, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA030064.
Full textReading the grail romances of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, two important observations may be made. First, there is a frequent link between late-twelfth- and thirteenth-century romance "literature" and the grail. Second, the grail is essentially an "object" which signifies something other than itself, which appeals to inquiry and meaning. This double observation immediately invites question concerning the nature of the connection between romance and the graal understood as a sign: in the intellectual climate of the period, is this connection fortuitous or, rather, in some way necessary ? my work tests the hypothesis of its necessity. Detailed analysis of scenes in which the grail appears, from the conte du graal to the estoire del saint graal, brings to light the central place of robert de boron's roman de 1'estoire dou graal. This pivotal work is not only at the junction of the rewritings that have modified chretien de troyes inaugural scene, but it also turns the grail into a spiritual sign, simultaneously relic {remembrance} and revelation (demonstrance) in so doing, this work transfers into the realm of romance fiction an image charged with the weighty and complex legacy of christian semiology, i propose that this transferral brings to literature the possibility of stating and representing the ineffably divine in the space of arthurian fiction, as well as the ability to directly confront the model of the scriptures. By laying claim to truth, imitating the efflorescence of the world in their narrative interlaces, and trying to shape human history and divine time, the grail romances attempt to put into place a writing which, because it is both inexhaustible and universal, is potentially infinite
Amiri, Imen. "Le mythe du Graal à la lumière de Babel : la parole dans la Queste del Saint Graal et l`Estoire del Saint Graal." Thesis, Paris 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA030020/document.
Full textThe literary myth of the Grail, created by Chrétien de Troyes, has common roots with thecosmological myth of Babel which explains the plurality of languages. Can we consider themyth of the Grail as a myth of a language lost, sought and finally regained? The adventure of evangelism in Estoire del Saint Grail and the Holy Grail in the Queste, inspired by theCrusades and the Franciscan missions, converge in a dynamic unity symbolized by the Grail,which prevents language . They tend to gather materials of a primordial chaos created underthe aegis of Babel. Chaos, and fragmentation of speech are followed by a unifying voice of aunique origin that orders the world by giving it a meaning. This unification of the speech: aunique speech, God’s speech, for one mouth, that of the Christian people, follows a pattern opposite to Babel. The Estoire does not track the dispersal of a damned people but represents the archetype of a well-managed exodus of a chosen people whose purpose is not to defy butto serve God ; Therefore God grants His people the privilege and the power of words. In the Queste, the beginning of the adventures of the knights of the round table on the day of Pentecost recalls the post-Babel reconciliation offered to the apostles in order to spread thegood word. Pentecost inaugurates the start of the quest for the Holy Grail and also theintroduction of a new voice, the voice of God’s messenger. From the beginning of the story,this new voice as a sign of mystical orientation, destroys any courtly legacy
Freire-Nunes, Irène. "Le Graal ibérique et ses rapports avec la littérature française." Paris 4, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992PA040074.
Full textThe Demanda do santo Graal is a Portuguese translation of the postvulgate Queste del saint Graal, inscribed in the vast mobility of the translatio and re-writing that characterizes the literary activity in the 13th century. The analysis concerning the evolution of marvelous objects and characters reveals, besides the superposition of concepts they condense and the displacements they undergo, the welding of several textual elements that, here and there, let faults come into sight. A sort of duality sets itself up and is articulated through a double discourse that sends back to a duality of sources. The study of time and space of the Demanda leads to the encounter of mythic and textual substrata that it implies, and brings back to the primordial times of the revealed word, of the prophecy and of the book. Through the great spiritual quest of knowledge, the analysis of the adventures leads to the quest of itself, of the origin, of the father. Pride, luxury and incest are the hybris which will release the mechanism, and tragedy will have the last word - under the mask, the inexorable face of Oedipus
Poublan-Couste, Emmanuelle. "L'eau comme élément romanesque dans le "Lancelot-Graal"." Bordeaux 3, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992BOR30036.
Full textThe aquatic element plays a prominant part in the whole lancelot-graal, a thirteenth ncentury novel in prose relating arthur's legend and the feats of the hero lancelot. Participating in the everyday life of the knight or the saint, this elment structures the romantic space as well, giving it its limits and its landmarks. The economic stake representated by water is also important. The hero is sensitive to the aquatic forms which he subjectively describes revealing his admiration or his fear. Each appearance of water is highly connoted. The aquatic element serves the didactic and religious discourse and illustrates the fairy enchantment. It gives its symbolism to the elements which are associated to it : isle, ship, tree, tower, hillok, well, swamp. It enlightens the novel and constitutes the magic place of the mystic ordeal. Tightly linked to the verb and to the narrative, water exalts and gives impulse to the adventures that often arise on its banks. In the novel its function of demiurge brings out aquatic kingdoms and characters, often fairylike
Kuhestani, Cyrus. "Le mythe du Graal : étude comparative sur l’origine de mythe du Graal dans la littérature arthurienne et persane." Thesis, Paris 4, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA040223.
Full textThis thesis is a comparative study of the Arthurian romances on the one side and the Shâh-Nâmeh of Ferdowsi on the other side, referring to the subject of the Grail. The challenge is, to study the origin of the Grail myth and try to explain the similarity between the myth of the Grail and Khvarna, the equivalent myth in Persian literature. In the first part, the thesis focuses on a study of the Grail myth in the work of Chrétien de Troyes, Wolfram von Eschenbach and Ferdowsi. Different manifestations of the myth, the spiritual sense around this myth will be the subject of this research in this part. In a second step, the thesis focuses the analysis on the origin of this myth much disputed among researchers of different schools, either Irano-Aryan or Celtic origin. This thesis defends the theory of Iranian origin, taking into account the Celtic myth too. According to this work, the structure of the Grail novel is based on Alano-Celtic folklore. Thereafter, Catharism, using it as the raw material, built a layer initiation specific to dualistic belief, in order to add the character of Perceval/ Parzival to the story of King Arthur. From this point of view, Parzival is closer to the Persian Kay Khosrow model. The divergence between the French author in relation to his German counterpart depends on their different social situation; Chrétien was an artist close to the religious authority of the Catholic Church and Wolfram, the knight who earned his living by singing, was close to Cathare heresy and the Templers. Finally, this work tries to show that the origin of this Aryan myth is that distorted by religions to achieve their ends and that the true meaning of the quest is not salvation but the “Übermensch”
Joly, Jehanne. "Le Graal, réécriture et représentation : étude des variations d'un motif littéraire (fin du XIIe siècle-XIIIe siècle) et iconographique." Paris 4, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA040073.
Full textBekhouche, Alicia. "A la conquête du Graal ? : Réécritures et avatars du mythe du Graal dans la littérature populaire et la culture de masse contemporaines." Phd thesis, Université de Haute Alsace - Mulhouse, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00704520.
Full textCani, Isabelle. "A qui l'on en sert ? : modernisations du motif du Graal dans la littérature et le cinéma francophones et anglophones (1923 1994)"." Tours, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998TOUR2011.
Full textHow to define the grail motive in order to determinate a corpus? The use of the word "grail" is necessary, or at least a proper name related to the myth, except if those terms have only a metaphoric meaning. At first, a presentation of the 106 works of fiction picked out, revealing the variety of styles and cultural worlds, is followed by a possible classification of these works. The tendancies, fashions and historical stakes related to the grail are found out, from 1923 until nowadays. The authors' postulates and the religious, socio-political or psychological interpretations openly given of the grail in some of the works are pointed out. An interrogation is set on, about what the victorian, wagnerian or post- wagnerian 19th century has changed in our perception of the quest of the grail. How the contemporary authors are they dealing with such a mediaeval material as the quest of the grail? This implies three questions. How these contemporary works are they linked to the mediaeval stories? The answer is found in a reflexion about the medieval notion of "continuation" still existing nowadays. How can the quest of the grail be without knights? An investigation about the knight's image in the works shows that knighthood is often as ideal and unreachable as the grail. How to pass from our profane space and time to this mythic space and time necessary for the quest of the grail? Always distinct from ours, the other world is often closer than one thinks. From the contemporary works, four concrete images of the grail emerge, each one emblematic of a position towards it. Gold refers to the transcendant grail, silver to the negotiable grail, emerald to the evil grail, clay to the common grail. Unless the grail is the place of the conjonctio oppositorum. Finally the mythical aspect of the works is revealed from their conceptions of the quest, which is often impossible to bring to an end, however achieved sometimes
Bozonnet, Camille. "La violence et le Graal dans la littérature arthurienne des XIIe et XIIIe siècles." Paris 4, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA040401.
Full textThe knightly violence consubstantial with the Grail literature allows to formulate the founder paradox of the warriors' class - this class exists only by virtue of a desire that determines its death - and allows also to resolve that paradox. The courtly ethic appears within the arthurian verse romances. This ethic is based on the universal principle of honour and is responsible for refining this rough desire of bloody violence and making it giddy in a ritual celebration synonymous with the perfect community harmony. The religious rule opens out within the predicative offensive of the prose romances. Commending the use of a redeeming and penitential bloody violence, this rule preaches the conversion to the individual salvation dedicated to the dreamlike extolling of a knighthood religion. A metaphysics of violence arises from the myth of the Grail, which branches out into two ways : either the sublimation of knighthood destined for a universal liberating adventure, or a sombre realism testifying to the essential enslavement of mankind to violence
Brunet-Canabady-Rochelle, Anne-Gabrièle. "La Nuit transfigurée : essai sur l'imaginaire de la nuit dans le Cycle du Lancelot-Graal." Montpellier 3, 2009. http://www.biu-montpellier.fr/florabium/jsp/nnt.jsp?nnt=2009MON30060.
Full textConsistent with the traditional elements of classical anthropology, as well as those of Indo-european myths, Celtic legends and Christian theology, night and its corollaries – obscurity, natural or artificial light – are a key to understanding certain important aspects of the vast assemblage formed by the Lancelot-Grail cycle. Contrary to appearances, even though generally feared and frightening, night is a temporal space in which well known, key scenes are played out, scenes such as appearances of the Holy Grail or those where characters may give themselves over to dreams, meditation, love, or performing heroic feats appropriate to a nocturnal setting. The negative features of nighttime disappear, absorbed by the darkness which dominates shadowy places associated with the underworld (prisons, enchanted castles, cemeteries, tombs) or which dominates preternatural situations (characters bound in irons or tortured), all of which set challenges for the knights and represent so many steps in the process of their selection for even greater exploits. Through a methodical gathering of the extremely rich and nuanced vocabulary used in connection with nighttime and crepuscular moments, this study explores the full set of nocturnal or shadowy scenes and concludes with the tranquil space of a fictional night transformed by the magic of the Grail and by the act of writing
Robardet-Deguînes, Marie-Véronique. "Le Graal : épiphanie d'un mythe, symbole de la lutte du bien et du mal." Dijon, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996DIJOL012.
Full textBy christening the grounds for the Graal, Chrétien de Troyes, opens the door to the escathological myth where good and evil fight. Using a reduced corpus, to get closer to the origins, le conte de Graal, by Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot, in prose, la Queste del Saint Graal, and la mort le roi Artu, main strengths are revealed which will lead the Arthurian knights to choose between good and evil. This motive is constantly repeated and puts the work into larger perspective: they seem to christen this dichotomous fight in the medieval literature. Through the symbolism of a rush toward a renewed world, the processes aim to put into light the dichotomous portrait of this Graal literature. The analysis emphasizes more particularly the study of paradoxes and symbols which substend the tales. The end of the Arthurian world announced in the last work is the logical sequel to the action developed in Lancelot and the quest, successfuly completed, in la Queste del Saint Graal. But, through the death of the Arthurian world, a restored world comes out
Sauvêtre, Maïté. "Joseph d'Arimathie et les romans du Graal." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUL176.
Full textIn the early XIIIth century, Joseph of Arimathea starts making an appearance in the Holy Grail stories. When Christ was laid to rest, Joseph of Arimathea is supposed to have collected the Holy Blood in a Vessel whose posterity is well-known. The study of such a historical figure leads us to assess how intertwined the Grail corpus and the Scriptures can be. The biblical figure ushers the Grail into the Sacred History. Through his existence, the literary works mean to highlight some Christian truths while eventually remaining works of fiction. From then on, the status of the character calls for clarification. Does he get bestowed with fictional features ? To what extent does he relate to the time of Passion as well as to the Arthurian legends ? These questions do not always call for the same type of answer. Joseph of Arimathea safeguards the unity of the Grail Romances, while delineating differences between them. His life story and poetic persona vary and these changes reflect the literary intent in each of the literary works. They go to show the distinction between prose and verse and how the Judea matter takes a new shape in the Grail texts. The authors claim responsibility for stating the truth and for recording History, while adjusting to the requirements of the narrative and to their upper-class readership. Thanks to his biblical origin, Joseph of Arimathea is instrumental in giving legitimacy to the story, thereby giving it additional value. He also reveals how the secular aristocracy take up and inflect the clerics’ discourse to their own benefit, in order to grant themselves a new stance in the spiritual real. What is emerging is that this figure invites various levels of analysis, be they of poetic, literary and socio-historical nature, which all need to be brought to light
Bracconi-Giordano, Marie-Christine. "L'écriture du merveilleux : tradition, continuité et innovation dans les textes "historicisants" du Graal." Montpellier 3, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002MON30059.
Full textAs the XIIIth century is marked by the progress of rationality and the development of the romance as a mode of entertainment, the works of Christian persuasion testify to a reaction based on an unlimited use of the institutional Marvellous, meant to raise fiction to the status of an historic, even sacred, production. The style thus shows that the marvellous is to be conceived along the lines of continuation, diversion and innovation, and ensures the didactic quality of the text by narrative strategies stemming from hagiography or chivalry tales. This attempt comes up against the inadequacies of language and the expansion of the marvellous. The marvellous becomes the most important element of the articulation of narratives and sometimes what makes them a source of fascination. Paradoxically, but also maybe voluntarily in the case of the Estoire del Saint Graal, the marvellous is thus instrumental in the blossoming of romance as well as in the success of the secular values it contests
Errecade, Ollivier. ""Par Devers l'Eve" : images et langage de l'eau dans le "Lancelot-Graal"." Aix-Marseille 1, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003AIX10059.
Full textNicolas, Catherine. ""Cruor, sanguis" : approche littéraire, anthropologique et théologique de la blessure dans les romans du Graal en prose (XIIIe siècle)." Montpellier 3, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007MON30073.
Full textWhen we propose, by lexicological methods, to define the conceptual field of injury in prose romances of the Grail in the 13th century, it appears that occurrences are split between two categories: the ones where description of injury uses hyperbole and serves abstract ideas of warring violence and chivalrous deeds, and the ones where it brings forth all the rhetorical resources of hypotyposis to create a picture and produce mental images. The rhetorical split boundary is superimposed on an aesthetic opposition between an aesthetics born out of epic song and previous romances and another one which works on the visual aspect and, in doing this, arouses memory, imagination and, where injury and blood become signs, interpretation. When put back in rhetorical monastic context, this aesthetic invites a reading resembling meditation, or even spiritual exercise, in an Augustinian perspective. Thus, in addition to the "mirabilia", often studied in romances of the Grail, there emerges another category, "miranda" which, thanks to writing aiming towards visibility, allows one to create significant collections and to put to best use feelings and compunction impulses. From there it becomes possible to circumscribe a new hermeneutics born in the flaws of the "senefiance" and relying on memory, to propose a new definition of marvel, between theology and spiritual anthropology, but also to put forward the hypothesis of an aesthetics of charity specific to prose romances of the Grail in the 13th century
Bougie, Karine. "Robert de Boron et l’invention du Saint Graal." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014BOR30043.
Full textThe study of the French romances attributed to Robert de Boron lies within the recent works on self reflexivity in medieval literature and on the rise and spreading of the Holy Grail myth. Robert de Boron has become known as the founder of a new Grail tradition, explicitly related to Jesus Christ and destined to a great popularity. We think that mythopoétique approach, which allows literature to create myths, is consistent with the socio-historical issues of the laity, which is why Robert’s undertaking has spread to the Lancelot-Grail cycle where it served as the foundation of celestial chivalry. This dissertation consists of three main parts. In the first one, we examine the occurrences of the « Holy Grail » expression in the selected books. Furthermore, we go deeper in our analysis of the Grail tradition embodied by Robert de Boron. In the second part of the thesis, we focus of the figure of Robert, by studying some biographical information, his status as a writer and the nature of medieval authority and authorship. The last section of our work gives us the opportunity to set the literary myths in context to show that they are transformed into socio-historical myths through both secular and clerical discourses in the Arthurian romances
Poisson-Gueffier, Jean-François. "La Cathédrale Rouge. Images de la mort dans le Haut livre du Graal." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCA105/document.
Full textThe main scholars always depicted the High Book of the Grail as a novel which borders on barbarism. The bursting of the frames of arthurian writing is significant in its most iconic episodes as well, which reveal a huge gap between "High Scripture" and a glorification of the materiality of beings. The novel seems based on a double postulation up and down, towards materiality and spirituality. The study of events and senefiances of death applies to grasp the writing of in-between, while emphasizing the study of two major elements: the inherent visual dimension to the representation of death and methods of its own writing which sketches the outlines of a "funeral writing." Visual paradigm relays the evocative power of the dead narrated while that fateful dominant narrative seems to be one of the most efficient guarantee of the unit of a work whose structure is relevent to illusion or arcana. The hermeneutic thought process of this study considers at first the vocabulary of death, before addressing the circumstances of the "instant mortel", the two spiritual and temporal sides of death, the always powerful unity of the living and the dead. After some stylistic considerations, as well as rhetorical, historical and anthropological ones, the last chapters move to the field of poetics, in a world where death appears fundamentally ubiquitous
Abaï, Andia. "Héroisme et spiritualité dans les romans du Graal et le Shahnameh [livre des Rois] de Ferdowsi." Thesis, Paris 3, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA030113.
Full textThis comparative work examines the thematic, symbolic and narrative similarities between several texts of the Grail legend written between the late 12th century and the 1st quarter of the 13th century [the Conte du Graal of Chrétien de Troyes, Parzival of Wolfram von Eschenbach, the Troisième Continuation du Conte du Graal of Manessier, le Haut Livre du Graal], and the Book of Kings of Ferdowsi, a Persian epic completed at the beginning of the 11th century. A first part examines the similarities between the Holy Grail and the farr [the Iranian royal Glory]: both are characterized by light, are sources of abundance, have a special relationship with human beings, are linked to the kingship. A second part examines the destinies of the knight Perceval and of the Iranian King Key Khosrow, highlighting the similarities between the key moments of their lives: their lineage, their orphaned youth away from the world, their spiritual and royal qualities, their ordeals, their consecration, their relationship to the sacred [to the Grail for the former, to the farr for the latter]
Serp, Claire. "Identité, filiation et problèmes de parenté dans les romans du Graal en prose." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012MON30013.
Full textThe cycle Lancelot-Graal, and the Perlesvaus, written in the first half of the thirteenth century, are built around a horizontal time, organized around the figure of King Arthur, which makes any idea of succession problematic. But at the same time, society has undergone profound changes. Whether it is about the institution of marriage, rules of transmission of the inheritance, or the anchoring of the lineage in very specific geographic locations, relationships between individuals have slowly changed. Authors should therefore ensure the coexistence of disparate elements, even contradictory. Genealogy get in Arthurian romance through the Vulgate Cycle. The vertical time affect the novel, and relationships are crucial in narrative constructions of characters
Le, Nan Frédérique. "Du lexique au motif du secret dans la littérature arthurienne (1150-1250)." Montpellier 3, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996MON30008.
Full textMichel, Monique. "Julien Gracq et l'écriture dramatique : lecture du Roi pêcheur." Nancy 2, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998NAN21013.
Full textThis study ponders the conditions of emergence of the play Le Roi pêcheur by Julien Gracq in the theatrical context of the fifties and its place in Julien Gracq's work. After showing the fascination of the author for drama in general - already perceptible in the previous texts, Au Château d'Argol, Un beau ténébreux -, and analysing the scenic adventure of Le Roi pêcheur, our reading develops around fundamental dramatic notions. First, it proposes a reflection on the elaboration of the story through its link with the myth of Grail but also with the most important gracquian "intercesseurs", Wagner, Rimbaud, surrealism, Breton. The study, then, tries, to demonstrate the structures of space and time in Le Roi pêcheur as exhibited in the primary and secondary text. It goes on with an analysis of the dramatic personae and dramatic dialogue trying to show the configuration of the characters, their place in the secondary text, and the main form of the verbal communication (polylogues, dialogues, monological tendencies in the dialogues) lastly, it delineates the spell cast by the seduction of its language, of the myth of the quest and of its impossible closure in order to show how Gracq, after the manner of his fictions, was able to find with Le Roi pêcheur an original voice which is probably easier to listen to today
Scubla, Catherine. "La Queste Del Saint Graal. Édition critique et commentée du manuscrit BNF, français 339." Thesis, Paris 4, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA040242.
Full textThis Ph.D. thesis aims to make available a previously unpublished version of La Queste del saint Graal, as found in the French BnF 339 manuscript in Paris. We will attempt to demonstrate that this manuscript is one of the best examples of the β family, one of the two families of manuscripts in which the well-known story has survived to this day. However, despite its high quality, this manuscript has so far never been seriously studied. In order for our transcript to be as correct and reliable as possible we selected five control manuscripts demonstrating the advantage of belonging to the other three groups forming the β family. The six collated texts therefore allow the production of a version of La Queste that is very representative of this family. We used the work of previous editors and scholars to correct our transcript and to highlight the common points between the manuscript being studied, the control manuscripts, and those of the α family. Our edition intends to be as thorough as possible. A literary and philological introduction analyses the interest of the established text, its manuscript tradition and dialectal features - mainly Anglo-Norman, northern and northeastern, and justifies the choice of the manuscript under study. The transcript is divided into numbered paragraphs corresponding to the divisions made by the copyist and the corrections and their sources are included in footnotes. The other versions of the control manuscripts, notes, a glossary and an index of the elements of the story can be found after the transcript
Konuma, Yoshio. "La vengeance et la résurrection : étude sur la structure et le sens dans Le Conte du Graal de Chrétien de Troyes." Phd thesis, Université Rennes 2, 2010. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00551639.
Full textWilk, Beata. "L'orgueil : péché du monde chevaleresque et clérical : étude de la notion d'orgueil dans la littérature religieuse, didactique et quelques œuvres fictionnelles du début du XIIe siècle à 1350." Caen, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003CAEN1370.
Full textFabry-Tehranchi, Irène. "Texte et images des manuscrits du Merlin et de la Suite Vulgate : mise en cycle et poétique de la continuation ou suite et fin d'un roman de Merlin ?" Thesis, Paris 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA030138.
Full textThe Vulgate Sequel to the French prose Merlin was composed in the first half of the XIIIth century and is the last piece of the Grail cycle. It creates a wider story encompassing the life of Merlin and the beginnings of King Arthur’s reign and serves as a prequel to the prose Lancelot. The Vulgate Sequel is the most widespread, but the existence of different sequels demonstrates the poetic dynamism and the rivalry produced by the development of Arthurian prose romances and their cyclification. Our study of the manuscript collections including Merlin and its sequels, of their mise en page and illuminations sheds new lights on the production and reception of works which were copied throughout the Middle Ages. Merlin and its Sequel are mostly transmitted in compilations focusing on the history of the Grail: they have a particular relationship to the Joseph of Arimathia, the Estoire del saint Graal and the Prophecies of Merlin. In some manuscripts, Merlin and its Sequel are copied with texts which do not belong to the Arthurian tradition, such as hagiographies or pastoral works, demonstrating their religious and didactic interest. Other compilations stress their historical and chivalric aspect. The Vulgate Sequel and its illumination accentuate the historical aspect of Merlin while giving an epic flavour to the beginnings of King Arthur's reign. This spirit might contradict the perspective of its integration in the romance Vulgate cycle, but it echoes the missionary dimension of the Estoire del saint Graal and resonates with the military conflicts of Lancelot and of the Mort le roi Artu
Milland-Bove, Bénédicte. "Figures de l'aventure, figures du récit : les demoiselles dans les romans en prose du XIIIe siècle : Lancelot, La queste del saint graal, La mort le roi Artu, Perlesvaus, Tristan." Paris 3, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA030112.
Full textHow can one account for the persistent recurrence of those damsels glimpsed alongside the roads or at different stages of the adventure in 13th century prose romances ? it is possible through a comparative study of the "Lancelot trilogy", of "Perlesvaus" and of the "Tristan en prose", to outline the recurring t aits that define the type of the arthurian damsel. Often anomymous, only briefly described if at all, the damsel is defined by her function : to be in the service of the main characters. However, that very transparency is what enables her to assume a fundamental role in the narrative economy : more than just a figure which announces the irruption of adventure, she is also a figure of the narrative itself, in close relation to a form of writing typical of the prose genre. .
Gomez, Étienne. "Le Don de la parole : Voeux, serments et promesses dans le cycle du Conte du Graal (XIIe-XIIe s.)." Paris 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA030053.
Full textScholars agree that “the gift of one’s word” is of prime importance in the Middle Ages but studies on vows, oaths and promises in French medieval literature often narrow the focus to items with historical referents (e. G. Feudal oath, judicial oath) or used as literary devices (e. G. Ambiguous or equivocal oath, don contraignant or contraint). The aim of this study is to present the reader with a systematical and interdisciplinary approach to the topic in the Conte du Graal Cycle, begun in the second half on the 12th c. By Chrétien de Troyes at the bequest of Philip of Flanders and ended in the first half of the 13th c. By Manessier at the bequest of Joanna of Flanders. Parts I-II stress the duality of the notions of vow and oath, a vow (“a promise made to a divinity”) being a votum or a devotio and an oath (“a promise made before a divinity”) being a sacramentum or a juramentum, as well as the complexity of the notion of promise, represented by prometre, promesse and covent, covenant (“the gift of one’s word”), fiance, (a)fiancier, and creance, (a)creanter (“the gift of one’s faith”), or afier and plevir. Part III presents the oath formulas with si (e. G. Si m’aït Diex) and with se (e. G. Se Diex m’aït) as conventions used in the dialogue or in the polylogue to denote the intentions, conflictual or consensual, of the speaker toward the addressee. Finally, Parts IV-V deal with the “blank promise” and the “promise with an intimation to the divinity” as narrative motifs and with the promises of the two main heroes, Perceval and Gauvain, in relation to the narrative structure of the cycle
Roussel-Meyer, Maryse. "La fragmentation dans le roman : "Rigodon" de Louis Ferdinand Céline, "Le voyeur" d'Alain Robbe-Grillet, "Graal Flibuste" de Robert Pinguet." Bordeaux 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008BOR30013.
Full textMoran, Patrick. "Lectures cycliques : le réseau inter-romanesque dans les cycles du Graal du XIIIe siècle." Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040020.
Full textThe thirteenth-century Arthurian prose cycles (mainly Robert de Boron’s trilogy and the Vulgate or Lancelot-Grail Cycle) are groupings of a peculiar nature. Defined both by the autonomy and the interconnection of their constituent romances, they differ from the individualised verse romances which precede them as well as from the massive yet more homogenous prose narratives which follow. These formal characteristics go hand-in-hand with a coherent world-building project, which aims to formulate a definitive Arthurian canon. The brevity of the production period (ca. 1200-1240) is counterbalanced by the lasting success of these texts throughout the Middle Ages; cyclicity is an experimental form which creates a new take on the matter of Britain, and most of all, gives birth to new modes of reading. Defined by centrifugal as well as centripetal tendencies, cyclical romances generate a network which the reader may explore at will, either partially or completely, in an orderly or disorderly manner. By linking romances which may have different aims yet accept their basic connectivity, cycles allow their readers to navigate them in constantly renewed ways, while at the same time preserving their coherence in spite of localised contradictions. This cross-romance network is the subject of the present study: cyclical romances, far from existing in isolation, thrive in an interconnected narrative environment; in conjunction with the reader’s own structuring powers, they interact to build multifarious narrative worlds
Imperiali, Christophe. "En quête de Perceval : étude sur un mythe littéraire." Thesis, Paris 4, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA040248/document.
Full textAfter having outlined a functional definition of the “literary myth”, and having proposed a new way of approaching this object under the label “myrhoreadings”, the present work is divided into two main parts. The first one is diachronic. Its aim is to analyse the historical construction of the myth of Percival, from Chrétien of Troyes until now. The main purpose of this inquiry is to examine how the myth’s value and meaning were gradually elaborated through its rewritings, and how each period, each author have met the myth as a “mirror” reflecting his personal concerns and allowing him to configure his experience of the world. The main figures along this journey are (among about eighty authors) Richard Wagner and Julien Gracq. The second part proposes two thematic approaches to the myth of Percival: the first one focuses on the family issues and the relational stuctures central to most of the rewritings of the myth (where Oedipus, this “anti-percival”, is rarely far away). The second theme examines the frequent use of this myth as a model for the two poles of the literary activity: reading (quest of meaning) and writing (poetic quest). A few “percivalian poetic arts” thus conclude this study, from Wagner to Proust, Handke or Perec
Bassil, Rita. "Lancelot, Perceval et Baybars : une quête comparable ? : figure du héros dans les romans de Chrétien de Troyes et dans le Roman de Baybars." Paris 3, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA030122.
Full textThis thesis is a comparison between two “types” of heroes, attemting to explain two different traditions that are separated by centuries, genre and culture. On one hand, we have christian knights (Lancelot and Perceval of Chrétien de Troyes), and in the other hand we have muslims warriors (Baybars and Otmân from the Roman de Baybars). In the first part of the thesis, we have point up the initiatory character of the material studied, which is presented as the point of convergence among our heroes. In the second part, we talk more about the content and the literary aspect by going back to the origins of both genres: novel and sīra. In the third and last part of the document, we see how the woman is the motive for knighthood for Chrétien and how she is totally absent in the life of the heroes of the Roman de Baybars. On which image is the hero built, then, in each of these two cultures? Where is his place in the community and where does this community stand in his own life ?
Bouget, Hélène. "Enquerre et deviner : poétique de l'énigme dans les romans arthuriens français (fin du XIIe-premier tiers du XIIIe siècle." Phd thesis, Université Rennes 2, 2007. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00204437.
Full textAmiri, Imen. "Le mythe du Graal à la lumière de Babel : la parole dans la Queste del Saint Graal et l'Estoire del Saint Graal." Phd thesis, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01065738.
Full textGlon, Thierry. "La Littérature bretonne d'expression française, de 1960 a 1980." Rennes 2, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993REN20023.
Full textAssuming that Brittany - probably since the 19th century - has acted as a mediatory myth between the individual and society, one can make out the same literary functioning for some Breton works. This functioning falls into three distinct steps : first the description of a time of deep experience for which one is craving ; then the conjuring up of such a time through a transgression of literary conventions ; lastly the fits of guilty conscience, questioning the validity of that use of illusion
Ilina, Alexandra-Elena. "La hiérarchie entre texte et image dans le Tristan en prose." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCA170.
Full textThroughout our analysis, we have investigated the multiple aspects of the idea of hierarchy within the Prose Tristan and a part of its iconography. Introduced in fiction, the hierarchy becomes an ordering principle that makes the characters search for both a privileged place and a meaning in a continuously expanding world. The hierarchy can be oblique, vertical or horizontal. It goes through the novel and beyond it, chiefly to open a problematic dialogue with other major texts of that time. We tried to understand the way the image functions in connection not only with the main themes of the novel but also with other iconographic cycles
Quevillon, Geneviève. "Le roi et l’ermite : discours et idéologies chevaleresques dans les premières proses du Graal (Perlesvaus, le Haut livre du Graal et la Queste del Saint Graal)." Thèse, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/3483.
Full textSince the turn of the XIIIth century, writers take up the idea of a quest for the Holy Grail, already developed by Chrétien de Troyes in the Conte du Graal. The authors saw in the Holy Grail a great chance to elucidate an ecclesiastical ideology. The first proses of the Holy Grail then present a new way of exposing certain ideals of knighthood through religious convictions. From a socio-historical approach, we initially looked at the figure of King Arthur, who is impossible to circumvent. King Arthur’s behavior is the cause of the search for the Holy Grail. More particularly, this research ponders the question of why the knight’s social position tends to rise above that of the King’s. From the various royal functions to the nature and the goal of the chivalric adventures, we observe why and how the authors of the first proses of the Holy Grail tried to adapt the chivalric ideology to the ecclesiastical one. It appears that the influence of the political discourses from this medieval period will have played a major part in this new approach to knighthood.
Robidas, Justine. "Enjeux poétiques et énonciatifs de la narration à la première personne dans les trois premières Continuations du Conte du Graal." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/24213.
Full textThe Continuations of Chrétien de Troyes' Conte du Graal are a group of texts that has for long obfuscated critics of medieval French literature. The type of narrative coherence emerging from these texts is quite different from the type we associate with the texts of the master from Champagne. However, these texts are interesting because the complexity of their textual relationships can allow us to better understand issues pertaining to literary creation in the medieval era. Not exactly a cyclical type of text nor a literary genre in itself, continuation, in particular for the Continuations of the Conte du Graal, contains traces of its status as an experimental practice. The Continuations of the Conte du Graal thus occupy a moment of transition in the evolution of romance forms in the high medieval period. Each continuator shapes, with the help of the first person, the specific form he intends to give to his tale and steers the reception of his reader in a specific direction. The practice of continuation allows these authors to find a tool for experimenting with the multiple modalities of romance as a genre, which explains the strong heterogeneity, at times disconcerting, found within this group of texts. This master's thesis starts with an exploration of the genre situation of the Continuations of the Conte du Graal. It is followed by a detailed statistical analysis of the use of the first person in the narration of these texts. The final chapter proposes a general interpretative essay of the texts that makes use of the conclusions drawn from the two preliminary steps of this study.
Dagesse, Elyse. "Réécriture des récits bibliques dans les proses du Graal au XIIIe siècle." Thèse, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/3570.
Full textThis MA thesis introduces results of a research which is analysing links between the medieval Bible and the Grail novels written during the 13th century. For that purpose, we had recourse to biblical paraphrases and translations in prose written in old French as a secondary corpus. This dissertation is divided in three chapters. The first chapter introduces the main and secondary corpuses by putting them into context. This chapter also deals with the Bible in the Middle Ages, that is to say with its status and with its diffusion in the society. The following chapter analyses the biblical rewritings found in the corpus by dealing with the questions of allegory and exegesis, mainly in the Legend of the Tree of Life. Finally, the third chapter studies the writing of the dream as a common process of writing found in the Bible and taken back by the Grail novels. In the end, medieval authors took back not only the tales of the Bible, but also its writing processes. The study of this dynamic of resumption also allows demonstrating how texts incorporate biblical material in the specific development of romance, a literary genre in emergence at that time.
Payant, Caroline. "Le découpage narratif dans les romans en prose du XIIIe siècle : l'exemple du Perlesvaus." Thèse, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/7256.
Full textCampbell, Benjamin. "Du Roman au théâtre : le motif du Graal réactualisé dans les textes de théâtre de Jean Cocteau, Julien Gracq et Jacques Roubaud/Florence Delay." Thèse, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/9212.
Full textThis work examines the transformations of the Holy Grail from medieval romances to modern plays. The Holy Grail, which first appeared in the Middle Ages, remains a source of inspiration for modern writers and gained, over time, a legendary status. This important feature of Arthurian literature has evolved significantly since the Middle Ages, where it remained however confined to narrative forms. After the festival (Bühnenweihfestspiel) where Wagner’s Parsifal was first presented in 1882 in Bayreuth, more recent works have renewed the myth by adapting it to the theatre. Jean Cocteau, in 1937, in Les Chevaliers de la Table Ronde, presented an inaccessible and intangible Grail. In 1948, Julien Gracq, in Le Roi Pêcheur, placed the Grail at the core of the opposition between profane and sacred. Jacques Roubaud and Florence Delay, in editions of 1977 and 2005 of Graal Théatre, opted for a rewriting where contradictory representations of the myth coexist. These modern dramas, where the representation of the Grail is at the center of the writing experience, are thus in direct connection with medieval works. They are part of a redefinition of the object that has constantly renewed itself since Chrétien de Troyes’ Conte du Graal. In all three cases, the representation of the Grail shows conflicting relationships with the medieval Arthurian literary heritage. The main hypothesis of this research lies in the idea that rewriting has to do with the transformation of a legacy. More specifically, it comes to understand how the representation of the Holy Grail is dealt with in modern dramas, how it is modulated by the authors in rhetorical, stylistic and dramaturgical terms. The use of parody, anachronisms and new dramatic voices, for example, allows modern authors to revisit and change their relation to this object. The Grail is thus redefined in different historical contexts and in a genre quite distinct from medieval romances.
Santos, Eugenia. "Le «translateur» translaté : l’imaginaire et l’autorité d’un romancier médiéval à travers le cycle post-vulgate et son adaptation portugaise." Thèse, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/4399.
Full textThe Portuguese translation of the Post-Vulgate Cycle completed towards the end of the 13th century and entitled A Demanda do Santo Graal offers an interesting prism to grasp, within the context and through a set of displacement and of reconfiguration, the characteristics of the Queste Post-Vulgate’s imagination, otherwise difficult to access. The Demanda do Santo Grail gives the reader access to the imagination of the Medieval French novel while tracing the different aspects of its evolution outside of its linguistic borders in an era where the writer is no longer a translator, but becomes an auctor. This work mainly shows how the Queste Post-Vulgate, read in conjunction with the Portuguese translation/adaptation, illustrates the evolution of the novel and the concept of author while distinguishing between the translator, the creator and the writer. This important distinction between the different representations of the writer during the medieval period allows one to understand their literary subjectivity in the narrative from the beginning to the end of the Middle Ages.