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Almekdad, Kassem. "Discours du récit mytho-épique." Paris 3, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA030078.
Full textEver since the woork of the russian formalist, particulary that of propp on russian folk-tales and the efforts towords arriving at a clearer understanding of these efforts in this new analitical field have redobled. Thes approches both exploration and creative have put the subject of the analysis of litterary ahead of several methods witch vary according these personal view-point of evry researcher or theori cien based larglly on their evaluations of language-system (langue) language-use (parole); on the subject language in generaly (le langage en general). Briefly put, narrative analysis finds its essential basis in linguistics drawing from its directions and its schools. A work of litterature is in the first place a collection of written (thought sometimes oral) sings combined in such away as to have one or several several meanings or significations witch the author is not of necessity obliged to explain at the time of writing (production). The meaning or significance becomes apparent folwing decoding techniques of the text in a different way from that of its authors, thus the variety of analytical approches each tring to explain the text. In some of these approches the stress is placed on the workings of the text, on its strucruting and its closure others attempt to examine its functions or its inscrip tion in the interaction. In reading the epic of gilgamesh i have tried to avoid basing basing my approche on any speciyfic one of these various systems since they all have nearly the same aim, namely to explore the complex world the story in order to reveal the workings whitch at a given period throught in into being
Delarue, Fernand. "Stace, poète épique." Paris 4, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990PA040018.
Full textBorn in Naples of a Grammaticus, a laureate in the Greek games, for a father, Statius was a real transplant of Greek education into Latin literature. To the latter he brought, apart from Hellenic culture, a thorough grounding in poetic theory and techniques, that enabled him to embed himself in the Latin tradition. At ease in high society, which he celebrated by minor works (silvae), he set out to establish himself, along with homer, Virgil, Lucan, on the summit of poetry, by making of his thebaid a fluvial aeneid, full of echoes from the great preceding poets, from homer to his contemporaries. Using for framework euripi dean tragedies, he rivaled his predecessors in an unusual fashion, without being afraid to point out, sometimes explicitly, to whom he pretends to leave up to - or even to surpass. Setting out epos on a new path, he incorporated gallimachus, the lyric poets, ovid. His conceptions are those of Seneca, his inspiration is defined as sublime. The world appears in chaos where human passions contest, mysterious- ly conducted by successive interventions of the gods, in the four triads of the thebaid. Jupiter, supreme, manages the crisis from the beginning to the end, a crisis which exactly corresponds to the unfolding of the epos. Like homer, according to Aristotle, he wanted to join to his great opus an "ethical" epos, i. E. Achilleid that he left incomplete
Kyriacou, Irini. "Nommer les mères en catalogue : la fonction de la parenté dans la poésie épique grecque." Paris, EHESS, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015EHES0129.
Full textThis dissertation, falling within the framework of kinship anthropology and gender studies, engages with the study of genealogical references as narrative elements in Greek epic poetry. Using the instruments offered by narratology, semantics and pragmatics, this study, focusing on the analysis of the narrative function of genealogical references, examines how and why masculine and/or feminine ancestors are mentioned in the Catalogue of Women, the Theogony, in the Homeric Hymns, the Iliad and the Odyssey. This approach allows studying the use of genealogical references in its poetic contexts with particular interest on the roles attributed to feminine ancestors within the description of kinship relations. The analysis of the fragmentary poem Catalogue of Women which evolves around feminine figures, mostly recalled as ancestors, is at the core of this dissertation, because it challenges us to re-think the use of genealogical references in the corpus of Greek epic poetry
Segas, Lise. "Le cycle des pirates dans la poésie épique hispano-américaine (1585-1615)." Bordeaux 3, 2011. https://hal.science/tel-04196941.
Full textThis thesis analyses the American pirate character in epic poems composed in Spanish America and Spain at the turn of the 17th century. It reflects upon the choice of the Italianate literary epic poetry genre, whose apogee is situated in the Renaissance, to narrate the stories of the privateers and pirates’attacks against Spanish-American cities. In order to understand the success in epic poetry of this subversive historical character who challenged the Spanish domination in America, I started by investigating the pirate character’s literary fortune and by questioning the epic genre. With the decline of the Spanish empire, the Protestant States’ increase in power produced different reactions in Spanish America and in the Iberian Peninsula. Indeed, while Lope de Vega wrote a patriotic epic poem, “La Dragontea”, the Spanish American versions of the facts distanced themselves from Spain (Juan de Castellanos, Silvestre de Balboa, Juan de Miramontes, Mateo Rosas de Oquendo’s epic poems) : abandoned by the crown, these Spanish American poets had to face up to an aggressive enemy and a stranger who questioned the legitimacy of the Spanish rule in the New World and through whose contact the political and social crisis that the colonial society was suffering got intensified. Their critical ironic or parodic reactions towards central power and colonial authorities were expressed through epic poetry, which reveals at the same time the poetic and politic import of these epic poems
Colin, Chloé. "L’œuvre de Nicolas de Vérone : intertextualité et création dans la littérature épique franco-italienne du XIVe siècle." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009LYO20047/document.
Full textNicolas of Verona was a 14th Century Franco-Italian poet, courtier to Nicolas Ist of Estonia, to whom, in 1343, he dedicated one of his works. He wrote 3 epic poems identical in their metrical form but each of profoundly different inspiration: La Pharsale (3166 verses) speaks of the military war between Caesar and Pompey of Thessaly for the control of Rome, la Prise de Pampelune, or Continuation de l’Entrée d’Espagne (6116 verses) is an account which relates to the traditional adventures of Roland and of Charlemagne of Spain prior to the defeat at Roncesvalles and the Passion (994 verses) narrates the last days of Christ.These 3 chansons de geste were written in Franco-Italian, a purely hybrid literary language which was probably never spoken but which enabled Italian authors to adapt la geste and French heroes for a already pre-humanist North Italian aristocratic and bourgeois audience. Each draws its content from clearly identifiable sources: The Fet des Romains, a French compilation of 12th Century ancient history, l’Entrée d’Espagne a Carolingian epic about an anonymous man from Padua, The Chronicles of Turpin and The Gospels to which it would be proper to add certain apocryphal captions commonly used in the middle ages.The set of themes are classical and the military struggle plays an important role but the setting of the adventures which are told is particularly innovative in that it only keeps a minimal and purely ornamental role for the supernatural elements of traditional epic: The divine is reduced to insubstantiality and God is a hidden God.This stems from the fact that the spirit of the chanson de geste was re-interpreted insofar as was possible in the pre-humanist conception. Henceforth the epic hero had similarities to storybook characters and the psychological depth he acquired conferred him a new status that of a man placed in the centre of the world. The political project of Nicolas of Verona was of an astonishing modernity and advocated a true democracy in the image of the freedom of the Roman Republic. The moral sense of the work reserves a central role for caution by making it the foundation of every fair and just action.The philosophical sense of the text is in itself totally original: the author reconciles classical Christian virtues and neo-stoic wisdom. Thus, humility becomes ascesism and the heroic death of the martyr for his faith is allied to that of an ancient sage. The demand for restraint and the determination to be surprised by nothing (nihil mirari), far from the epic fortitudo, as well as the respect for the nature of man appear as new imperatives. Nicolas of Verona doesn’t deny the difficulty of such an ideal and sets it along side that of the absolute virtue of the sage for purely human domestic wisdom and a parenetic. The moral is of the essence
Fournier, Josiane. "Les voix poétiques d'Audiberti : projet épique et écriture dans l'œuvre poétique de Jacques Audiberti." Paris 10, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA100180.
Full textThe purpose of this work is to stress the consciousness of the rhetorical stakes in the work of an author of the 20th century. His poetry work has been published after surrealism. Born in Antibes, Audiberti learnt at school cultural myths inherited from Mediterranean regions and heard about napoleon era. He memories literary models and particularly Hugo. His inheritance comes from several types of the history of epic. . . Arriving in Paris in 1924, he meets the disturbing Parisian literary movements. He is easily surprised by anything and able of all type of cultural assimilation. He persists in his way and makes his all discoveries. Although a friend of Benjamin Peret, he doesn't join surrealism but doesn't neglect it anyway. He has the privilege of conversations with jean Paulhan, helpful to remote poets. Suburbs walks, married life, inspire him poems not at all as a picturesque realism, but mostly as a fantastic and dreamlike world. Views come superimposing. Woman's image crystalizes around a creole type linked with his West Indian wife and mother of his daughters. The "rampart", a metaphorisation of the harbor and military town, already symbolic in relation with the sea and the epic type of the navigator, progressively becomes an allegory of the poetic language. The poet finds here a way to reflect his own speech, brought back to his original setting: the one of a childhood persisting in the person of the writer. White Audiberti's literature moves from poetry and epic novels to theatre (which gave him fame), poetry remain as his constant reference. He eventually defines his work as an epic one, this thought being parallel with a mediation on changes of epic writing
Marechal, Dominique. "Virgile et Michel Butor : de l'épopée mythique au roman épique." Rennes 2, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1994REN20001.
Full textThe conventional epic poem, taking Virgil’s Aeneid as the model, is described in terms of constants. Among these are the hero, defined by his quest, and the world in witch his mythic tale unfolds. Such a description can also be applied to the novel, and in particular to Michel Butor's Emploi du temps and Modification, especially given that the latter is directly inspired by the descent into the underworld in the sixth book of the Aeneid. In each of these works the writer distinguishes a mismatch between the affirmed finality of the epic quest, and the underlying doubt thrown on this quest, apparent in the narrator's style itself. This hiatus leads to an interpretation of the texts which pinpoints a motive theme in each of them : violence in the Aeneid, neurosis in l'Emploi du temps and mythical renunciation in La Modification. The writer then undertakes a new approach to the epic poem, based on the narrative time structures in these three texts. Having identified the failure of the symbolic process, he goes on to propound a hermeneutic approach which explains why Virgil wanted to destroy his work, and why l'Emploi du temps leads to an impasse while la modification on the other hand posits an existential victory identifiable in the use of a metaphorical mode of expression. In the final analysis, the epic is that of the author
Chiarelli, Angelo. "L'Amor di Marfisa de Danese Cataneo dans la tradition du poème épique de la Renaissance italienne." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2021. https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/332072/4/Tesi.pdf.
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Loiseleur-Foglia, Aurélie. "L'harmonie selon Lamartine, dans sa poésie épique et lyrique (1820-1869) : utopie d'un lieu commun." Paris 4, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA040128.
Full textThe publication of the Meditations, written by Alphonse de Lamartine, in 1820, produces the revival of lyricism in French litterature. These verses make a silent revolution in the poetics of the Enlightenment, although they keep carefully the ancient rules, because the notion of harmony proposes another conception of the world and of the words. Harmony consists in semantic diversity, linking together many fields that modernity has now separated : poetry, music, politics and faith. The poem is thus the mirror of History and shows the progress of humanity. Through the life of Lamartine, poet and statesman at the same time, the dream of harmony becomes present and possible and offers a commonplace idea. Utopia ? Maybe it has only taken place into the poem itself, when Lamartine's poetry aims to speak to anybody in the heart's langage, and even to God with the music of the words
Malfait-Dohet, Monique. "Morphologie du héros épique des chansons de geste de langue d'oïl "écrites" au XIVe siècle." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/212000.
Full textCozette, Sandrine. "Hector au Moyen Age : définition et évolution d'un personnage épique et romanesque." Thesis, Lille 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014LIL30002.
Full textIn the Middle Ages, the interest in the Trojan myth focuses particularly on its main character, Hector.Using the Homeric tradition inherited from the late Latin literature ( Ilias latina, Ephemeridos belli troiani by Dictys of Crete, De Excidio Troiae historia by Dares the Phrygian) as a basis to his work, Benoît de Sainte Maure makes Priam’s son the uncontested hero of his novel, The Roman de Troie, in which he praises the feats of this exceptional warrior.This text greatly contributes to the construction of Hector’s myth during the Middle Ages, as shown by its rewritings in prose or verse, although the story of Troy was also transmitted via Dares’ Latin text or its translation.In addition to these two traditions, another one appeared in the 13th century with the Italian Guido delle Colonne whose Historia Destructionis Troiae is a Latin rewriting of Benoît’s novel.However, Hector’s fame also asserts itself in other works in which the character tends to dissociate himself from his city’s destiny and appears alone or associated to other heroes, Trojan or not, to serve as a reference in terms of bravery, which earned him his place among the Nine Worthies.That is why this character continues to evolve independently from Benoit’s novel and its rewritings, as can be seen through epic poetry and Arthurian tales.Both Christine de Pizan and the author of Ovide moralisé take an interest in the values he embodies.Hector is a model, almost an archetypal figure as well as a character whose story never ceased being rewritten by Medieval tradition
Awoundja, Nsata Catherine Marie Ida. "L'inspiration épique dans les oeuvres poétiques d'Aimé Césaire, Jacques Rabemananjara et Léopold Sedar Senghor." Nice, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002NICE2032.
Full textFoucher, Antoine. "Historia proxima poetis : l'influence de la poésie épique sur le style des historiens latins de Salluste à Ammien Marcellin." Paris 4, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA040074.
Full textHistoria proxima poetis: if Quintilian’s assertion (10, 1, 31) expresses quite well a rhetorician's point of view on the historiography of the first century a. D. , it only accounts for the connections between history and poetry, that is to say, in Quintilian’s mind, and in ours, epic, in a very defective way. So, the chief purposes of this thesis are to give a chronological account of these connections, to found the closeness of history and epic in poetics, and especially to study the stylistic occurrences - vocabulary, citations, topics in accounts of battles, epic metrics and rhythm - which are the outcomes of the influence of epic on famous historians' prose, from Sallust to Ammianus Marcellinus
Almásy, Adrienn. "L'influence de la littérature et de la culture grecque sur l'évolution de la littérature démotique épique : le rôle de l'Iliade et de la figure héroïque dans la naissance de l'épopée démotique." Paris, EPHE, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012EPHE4018.
Full textThe thesis deals with the problem of the Greek and Egyptian literary contact in Graeco-Roman Egypt in focusing on the possible effects of the Iliade in the demotic heroic literature. The thesis deals with one aspect of this question, the interaction between the Demotic and Greek literature reflecting in the Demotic epic texts. A series of fictive historical narratives written in Demotic (the Inaros texts) show signs of a possible contact with the Greek epic literature and with the Hellenistic culture. Considering that the Iliad represented the Greek culture and identity in the Greek cities and colonies, we must first review the possible relationship between Iliad and the Demotic epics speaking on the Greek-Egyptian literary contact. The topic of the thesis is a research on the cultural and social situation leading to the birth of the Demotic epic literature and to the spread of the Iliad in Egypt, indicating the extension of knowledge of the Iliad. In the investigation, I took first a Demotic narrative, the Battle for the breastplate of Inaros as basic source. Moreover, the epic texts relating the exploits of Inaros and his successors could not be born before the Ptolemaic period in the form actually known. The development of the texts after the composition of the first version is also very likely in Roman times. The uncanonized Demotic literature basically could not resist the Hellenistic effects due to the education of Greek writing and of general influence of Hellenistic culture
Gallois, Martine. "Étude sur "Lion de Bourges", poème épique du XIVe siècle." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011LYO20027/document.
Full textThe long epic poem Lion de Bourges portrays the personal quest of a hero, first, to set in order a feudal political structure; then his own family structure (through ancestry and parentage); and finally, his personal life; for seeking his origins and father becomes a search for his own identity. The chivalric ideal therefore is seen through three complementary perspectives. Initially, when faced with the instability of social structures and royal power, Lion seeks to re-establish political order, but both Lion’s inability to complete his goals and the constant reappearance of evil cause this quest to remain incomplete. Afterwards, Lion’s effort to bring his family back together is derailed by traitors’ plots and the fortunes of adventure, so there again the hero’s efforts produce only imperfect or unsatisfactory results. It is thus only at the highest level, the quest for personal order, for spiritual perfection, that the private itinerary of Lion de Bourges might find its true goal. However, his last desire, to reach sanctity, leads to failure as well: contact with the Christian supernatural is reserved for the White Knight, a helpful spirit, and the hero must content himself with a lesser form of supernatural, the enchanted marvelous world. Clearly, this poem demonstrates, in an original and highly consistent way, the pessimistic view of the human ideal and of heroic engagement that predominates in late French epic
Jauffred, Virginie. "La dimension épique de l'oeuvre romanesque de Patrick Chamoiseau ou la saga criolla : de la malgeste des mornes au chant de l'émerveille." Grenoble 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008GRE39045.
Full textThe phrase "epic dimension" brings back to the roots of Chamoiseau literacy as well as to the artistic work of the author. One of the special features of the Caribbean literary discourse is a matter for an economy of literary creation as well as for an economy of writing for texts obeying the law of rewriting as well as the law of intertextuality. The topies of rewriting and intertextuality lead to the image of the palimpsest which must be rethought about. It focuses the tension between heterogeneousness and homogeneousness, forgetting and remembering which make any inter textual writing. The palimpsest represents some kind of intertextuality which favors continuity and linking : the writing is part of the building of the continuous tradition, but it also favors innovation and renewal : the creative mind of the writer is called for. Some kind of a work of recreation starts, a work in which movement gets a very important role : it's a movement in which a text renews some other text. Within Chamoiseau literary work, this movement takes place as we witness an actualizing of the epic in the light of the West Indian reality. Our search tends to present a technical, descriptive, analysing and interpreting approach of what epic is, in Patrick Chamoiseau's mind. It focuses, then, on the study the writing clues, which lead us on the way to a renewed epic. If some typical features of the traditional epic hero are used, they, above al] enable to create a new type of epie hero and they enable the bringing to life of West Indian " Ulysses ". To conclude, if the general aspect of the epic can be identified, this is, in a way, to be requalified and redefined. The epic redefined by Patrick Chamoiseau, becomes a " saga criolla ", a " malgeste des mornes ", an " epique monde "
Mbonde, Mouangue Auguste. "L'épopée duala de Jeki la Njambe' A Inono : textes et contexte." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA040113.
Full textLatella, Cecilia. "« Giovane donna in Mezzo 'l campo apparse ». Figure Di Donne guerriere nella tradizione letteraria occidentale." Thesis, Tours, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009TOUR2003/document.
Full textFrom Camilla to Bradamante, from Marfisa to Clorinda, women warriors are fixed characters in epic, chivalric poems and romances. Described from ancient times, they re-emerge in French epic of XII cent. before being integrated by XV cent. Italian poems, where they will know the height of their glory during the Renaissance. Imitations and rewritings of those poems are responsible for the great European diffusion of characters of woman warrior. After an introductory chapter about classical epic, the historical and geographical area of my thesis concentrate on Italian, French, English and Spanish texts dating from Middle Ages to early XVII cent. My research study the notable stages of this intertextual literary filiation and the changing significance of women warriors in the system of power between male and female characters
Da Camilla a Bradamante, da Marfisa a Clorinda, le donne guerriere costituiscono dei personaggi fissi dell’epica, dei poemi e dei romanzi cavallereschi. Presenti dall’età classica, esse riemergono nell’epica francese del XII secolo per poi inserirsi definitivamente nella poesia italiana del Quattrocento, conoscendo infine il loro apogeo nei grandi poemi cavallereschi del Rinascimento. Le imitazioni e le riscritture di tali poemi diffondono questi personaggi in tutta Europa. Dopo un primo capitolo dedicato all’epica classica, lo spazio storico-geografico della nostra tesi è formato da testi italiani, francesi, spagnoli e inglesi che vanno dal Medioevo agli inizi del Seicento. Il nostro studio analizza le fasi fondamentali di tale filiazione letteraria intertestuale e il cambiamento del significato delle guerriere nel sistema di rapporti di potere tra personaggi maschili e femminili
Nguyen, Emilie-Anne. "La reine dans les civilisations égéennes de l'âge du Bronze dans les épopées homériques." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA040205.
Full textThis thesis deals with the Aegean Bronze Age and the queen as one of the rulers. It takes into account Crete in spite of the debate on the Minoan kingship. We have looked for the iconography of the rulers but we can't really distinguish the elite members from gods and godesses. This could be the consequence of a political intention putting women among the religious rulers. In studying the palaces, we notice the links between religion, economy and leadership but we have only few elements about women power contrary to the evidences of the tombs : rich women have an important status. From Myceanean documents, it's difficult too to distinguish godesses from powerful women. Nevertheless, it's clear that economy and religion are under high ranking women's management. Finally, we have to read Homeric poetry because, in the oikos, the queen is of great importance to start and carry on kingship. The queen can marry a man who becomes a king or she gives birth to the next king
Tétrel, Hélène. "L'épisode de la guerre de Saxe dans les Chansons de Saisnes de Jean Bodel et dans la Karlamagnussaga : avatars de la matière épique." Paris 4, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA040139.
Full textFernandez, Matthieu. "Les images dans les Harangues et les Plaidoyers politiques de Démosthène : de la communication politique à la littérature." Thesis, Paris 4, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA040157.
Full textThis work examines how the imagery which Demosthenes takes from nature, medicine and warfare, is a tool of political propaganda and gives a literary shape to his speeches as well. Demosthenes uses this imagery very coherently. In the same speech, he links different kinds of imagery around the same meaning-core. Furthermore, he repeats the same imagery to mean the same thing in different speeches. Demosthenes thus works out true metaphorical slogans so as to promote his main political ideas. Some are taken up by his political friends and fought off by his enemies. Therefore, by studying imagery we can cast a new light on these two fundamental issues in the Ancient Athens of 4th century B.C. : how did the orators use to organise their political propaganda and how might they have collaborated with each other ? But imagery goes beyond this practical aim. Metaphors and similes are literary material which enables Demosthenes to enrich his speeches’ style through different registers. They give them a Homeric or a comical tone and shape, when Demosthenes uses some patterns again to extol his policies or to disparage his adversaries. With metaphors and similes, Demosthenes is also rivaling with the recent trends of Kunstprosa, as it is practised by Plato and Isocrates. From this point of view, the speech On the crown has a special place : in this speech, because of its retrospective point of view, which asseses his overall policies, Demosthenes brings his literary claims to a climax. Nevertheless, such an ambition cannot be separated from his rhetorical and practical aims : imagery is being used to defend his policies, in a real panegyric
McFadden, Audrey. "Ibant obscuri sola sub nocte per umbram : la quatrième fonction dumézilienne dans les récits catabatiques." Thesis, Université Laval, 2012. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2012/28849/28849.pdf.
Full textGrüber, Gauthier. "Explicit la mort de Fromondin : édition et étude linguistique, littéraire et historique du passage correspondant aux vers 13935 à 14795 du ms. A de Gerbert de Mez d'après les douze mss complets ABCDEJMNPRSV et les trois amputés d'une partie de la fin ILQ." Thesis, Valenciennes, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018VALE0014/document.
Full textThis thesis is attached to a particular part of Gerbert of Metz, last part of the original Loherain cycle, the conclusion of the story (from the flight of Fromondin, the last of the Bordelais, until his death). This edition includes a detailed description and a comparative study of all the manuscripts available for this passage (twelve complete manuscripts: ABCDEJMNPRSV, and three amputees of the late IL1Q), a literary study attempting to analyze the originality of this conclusion with a narrative, stylistic and historical point of view, a linguistic analysis as well as a glossary, an index of proper nouns. The edition of the texts is presented in a semi-synoptic form in order to allow a comparative reading of the different families of manuscripts considered for the conclusion. The interest of this thesis is to propose new elements in the knowledge of the rich manuscript tradition of the Geste des Loherains, as well as in the possible writing of its conclusion (sources and interpretations)
Spahiu, Alketa. "De l'épopée au roman: culture et création dans l'oeuvre d'Ismail Kadaré." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA040190.
Full textInfluenced by the epic , the Kadarian universe goes beyond the space/time frame of the novel in order to take on the fabric of the Greek tragedies. In Albania the worlds of oral tradition and that of writing still overlap, even in our modern world. The storyteller becomes writer, and the writer becomes storyteller. Following the example of those bards and storytellers whose work is anchored in the epic tradition, Kadaré gives us, through his constantly shifting writing, an oral litterature with an inspiration born of the epic tradition. In his fiction, story mixes with legend, and dreams with reality so as to capture all the better the essence of this epic world, a world whose roots are not only Greek, but also Albanian and Balkan. This study goes in search of the epic in a Kadarian universe built of stone and rain ; a timeless Kadarian universe which is spoken, listened to and looked at observed from all angles ; a Kadarian universe which is written down so that the epic inspiration can be protected
Fajgelj, Andrej. "Phraséologie et idéologie comparées dans l'art de l'épopée : Homère, chansons de geste, gouslé." Phd thesis, Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier III, 2008. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00351831.
Full textCette comparaison repose sur la linguistique de corpus et l'utilisation des technologies de l'information. Un corpus contenant 3.665.309 mots est établi à cette fin, dont la partie slave est rendue publique sur le site http://guslarskepesme.com. Tout en suivant le sillage de Milman Parry et Albert Lord, je propose un élargissement de leur concept de formule. Je réintroduis le cliché, une unité englobant l'invariant et sa concrétisation variable, et prétendant recouvrir toute récurrence du langage poétique : phraséologique ou autre. En effet, ma thèse montre un réseau de liens établis non seulement entre les clichés d'un même niveau, mais à travers les niveaux, ce que j'explique par une théorie de la résonance.
Les correspondances trouvées intègrent un classement typologique : paroles, lieu, temps, sentiments... Outre cette " morphologie " commune, je démontre que les trois traditions partagent, du point de vue socio-historique, des modèles de développement comparables. Finalement, un cliché particulièrement complexe, la figure de style dénommée " antithèse slave ", sert à examiner l'origine monogénétique ou polygénétique des correspondances.
Dockx, Justine. "Anseÿs de Gascogne : Édition critique et étude de la seconde partie de la mise en prose copiée par David Aubert (à partir du f°320 r°), d'après le manuscrit 9 (Bruxelles, KBR)." Thesis, Valenciennes, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017VALE0038/document.
Full textThe epic tale Anseÿs de Gascogne, which is composed of four reference texts, is one of the best medieval literary achievements. It comes as a conclusion to the Lorraine cycle clearly paying tribute to the counts of the North of France and Philippe le Bon naturally ordered a copy of it in prose. David Aubert’s copy, dating back to 1465, is to be found in a luxurious manuscript kept in Brussels (KBR, 9) in the fourth volume of Histoires de Charles Martel. The second part of the tale – from the Battle of Santerre onwards – on which our study lies should not be considered as a mere conversion from poetry to prose. Indeed, not only does it throw light upon the tastes of the Bourguignon society of the XVth century but it also falls into chapters and modernises the language, the vocabulary and above all, the narrative techniques. The tale is really anchored in the prose tradition rather than in that of verse. This edition gathers a description of the manuscript, a literary study commenting on the connections between prose and verse, a linguistic analysis as well as a glossary, an index of proper nouns and a table of proverbs
Latella, Cecilia. "“Giovane donna in mezzo ’l campo apparse”. Figure di donne guerriere nella tradizione letteraria occidentale." Tesi di dottorato, Tours, 2009. http://opar.unior.it/34/.
Full textFrom Camilla to Bradamante, from Marfisa to Clorinda, women warriors are fixed characters in epic, chivalric poems and romances. Described from ancient times, they re-emerge in French epic of XII cent. before being integrated by XV cent. Italian poems, where they will know the height of their glory during the Renaissance. Imitations and rewritings of those poems are responsible for the great European diffusion of characters of woman warrior. After an introductory chapter about classical epic, the historical and geographical area of my thesis concentrate on Italian, French, English and Spanish texts dating from Middle Ages to early XVII cent. My research study the notable stages of this intertextual literary filiation and the changing significance of women warriors in the system of power between male and female characters
Da Camilla a Bradamante, da Marfisa a Clorinda, le donne guerriere costituiscono dei personaggi fissi dell’epica, dei poemi e dei romanzi cavallereschi. Presenti dall’età classica, esse riemergono nell’epica francese del XII secolo per poi inserirsi definitivamente nella poesia italiana del Quattrocento, conoscendo infine il loro apogeo nei grandi poemi cavallereschi del Rinascimento. Le imitazioni e le riscritture di tali poemi diffondono questi personaggi in tutta Europa. Dopo un primo capitolo dedicato all’epica classica, lo spazio storico-geografico della nostra tesi è formato da testi italiani, francesi, spagnoli e inglesi che vanno dal Medioevo agli inizi del Seicento. Il nostro studio analizza le fasi fondamentali di tale filiazione letteraria intertestuale e il cambiamento del significato delle guerriere nel sistema di rapporti di potere tra personaggi maschili e femminili
Sellami-Khelif, Jouda. "Espace naturel, espace urbain, espace sacré : écriture et perception de l’espace dans le texte épique aux XIIe et XIIIe siècles (Le Siège de Barbastre, La Prise de Cordres et de Sebille, La Chanson d’Antioche et la Chanson de Jérusalem." Paris 3, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA030076.
Full textWe propose to study the representation of space in the epic text through a comparative study between two epics of the Narbonne cycle – Le Siège de Barbastre and La prise de Cordres et de Sebille – and two epics of the first crusade cycle – La chanson d’Antioche and La chanson de Jérusalem. These four texts emanate from the same source of inspiration: the crusades. But if the first two, precisely located in the space of Moorish Spain, refer to the Carolingian period ; the two others, which story takes place nearly entirely in the Middle East, stick very close to historical reality, because less than one century separates their composition from the events that they report. These epics thus make it possible to compare an " Eastern " space born more from the phantasm than from a real knowledge and another space which is meant to be " realistic " as it refers to places actually crossed and mentioned by the warriors of the first crusade. The study of the poetics of space in both types of texts leads back to a reflection on the adaptation to the new spatial data of the crusade epics
Sempéré, Christine. "La recension epsilon du Roman d'Alexandre, traduction et commentaire : L'écriture infinie, ou le " roman " d'un mythe." Montpellier 3, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005MON30050.
Full textThis thesis proposes a translation which is annotated and meant to be faithful to the spirit of the text, as well as a commentary of the Epsilon Recension written by an anonymous Christian in the eighth century. The first part places the text in the history of the Alexander Romance from the start, up to the third century A. D. , as far as its up-to-date developments in the Greek language : it seems that this writing is the most intertextual of the Greek accounts, including in particular traditions from the Old and New Testaments, as well as an apocalypse of Syriac origin. The second part focuses on the features of the Epsilon Recension first through the composite character of its language and shows how the protean work of the Alexander Romance adjusted itself to the political and religious backgrounds of Byzantium. The third part is a literary study which points out the way the Epsilon text, partaking of different literary genres, changes Alexander into a figure who, more than a national hero, becomes the prototype of human experience that only death can stop. The character of the king of Macedonia then gets a universal dimension, so anxious was he to be part of a lineage, as through the variety of countries and wonders he saw, the ultimate aim being the quest for identity : with an incursion into the unknown world, it is the mystery of the self to the world which is meant to be discovered. So, the example of the Epsilon Recension shows how, from historic data, but above all from the imaginings of a society which wants heroes, the change from a legendary biography to the myth of Alexander occurs
Coutier, Élodie. "Partages de l’Iliade dans le roman occidental contemporain." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019SORUL108.
Full textChallenging the social and cultural hierarchies which are still authoritative in our contemporary Western societies has been a long-lasting concern of Cultural Studies ever since their development in the 1960s. As evidenced by the great amount of novels set in the fictional world of the Trojan War, which prove themselves to be genuine rewritings of the Iliad narrative, the Western canon and its relevance are equally scrutinized by contemporary novelists. By studying the dynamic conflicts which underlie the encounter between epic discourse and the genre of the novel, this dissertation intends to dispute the concept of a “Great Divide” between artistic and popular culture, and to prove that literature is a transcultural medium. A close study of a few contemporary novelisations of the Iliad brings to light existing shared narrative techniques and discourses undermining the legitimacy of the Western canon. Through the remodeling of the epic genre and its conventions, the novel assumes a democratic approach to society which stems from a narrative architecture hinging on a multiplicity of generic discourses and cultural references
Beneteau, Olivier. "L’Ascension suprême : poétique de l’épopée mystique de Jean-Baptiste Cousin de Grainville à Victor Hugo (1805-1891) »." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Angers, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024ANGE0003.
Full textFrom the perspective of poetics, the science of the principles of literary forms, the main goal of our study is to enhance the epic sphere in 19th century by studying the structural and thematic development of the heroic genre through the mystical theology. Working from some twenty rare pieces in an abundant corpus (most of them, unfairly forgotten by posterity, are the result of minores), we intend to prove that the epic of the 19thcentury, far from being confined to the classical tradition of the great totemic models from Antiquity, undergoes, after the Revolution, what we consider as a change of paradigm. Moving from a “heroic” epic, referring to Henry Corbin, to a so-called “mystical” epic, influenced by the revaluation of Dante, Milton and Klopstock’s works, the new romantic triad, the epic of the 19th century, supposed to organize society from a founding event, become exclusively prophetic by shifting its perspective from earth to heaven, from politics to metaphysics.Here is to be encountered the keystone of our dissertation, regarding the “critical relation” between literature and mysticism, which demonstrates the evolution of a genre henceforth dedicated to eschatological revelation and reintegration of the fallen soul. Beyond german idealism, we wish to emphasise that the authors of our corpus, educated in the purest catechetical tradition and affected by the new occult and illuminist currents, make the epic no longer a work of war, focused on the historical memory of national battles, but a mystagogic form that draws on mystical concepts to clarify its own running. Related to the revival of mystical studies in Europe since the late 20th century, our subject highlights the dialectic between mysticism, traditionally individual and intimate, and the epic, by global and universal definition, exploring the transformation and limits of the poetic form through the three ways defined by Neo-Platonic theology – purgative, illuminative and unitive– until the ultimate apocatastasis
Leclercq, Armelle. "Portraits croisés : l'image des Francs et des musulmans dans les textes sur la première croisade (chroniques latines et arabes, chansons de geste françaises des XIIe et XIIIe siècles)." Paris 3, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA030158.
Full textThis study focuses on the image of the other in French and Arab texts of the 12th and 13th centuries dealing with the First Crusade (1095-1099). The crusade brought people from East and West into direct contact with each other, and with the new contact came a gradual change in their perception of alterity. Writers from both camps share similar attitudes : they hesitate between curiosity about the enemy, a taste for ideological argument and a predilection for the rhetoric of holy war. After a survey of the conditions of creation of the works, this study gives full analyses oriented in four directions : the discovery of the other, religious polemics, self-sacralisation and alterations of alterity. Finally, it pays close attention to a peculiarly Western development – the creation of a fictional but long-lived figure – the historical enemy transformed into a proselytizing convert
Heckmann, Hubert. "Le profane et le sacré dans les textes épiques médiévaux : 1100-1250." Paris 4, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010ROUEL026.
Full textChanson de geste is secular literature in vernacular language, however it has close links with the sacred, in the eyes of medievals themselves. Secular epic literature and hagiographic literature share not only common sources, but also a social function: the celebration of the community's memory, to give meaning and legitimacy to its present action
Barghi, Oliaee Faezeh. "Derek Walcott's Engagement with creole identity." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCC266.
Full textThis thesis seeks to explore the process and phenomenon through which Caribbean national and cultural identity has been constructed. In order to achieve this goal, two of Derek Walcott’s major poems and one of his dramas have been chosen. The first is his Creole epic poem, Omeros, which concentrates on the issues of Creole identity and the concept of national hero. Since Walcott’s poetry is highly influenced by his personal life and consequently life in his homeland, the island of Saint Lucia, it seems indispensable to study his autobiographical poem, Another Life, which is Walcott’s retrospective review of his artistic journey until the age of 33. Moreover, since Omeros draws parallelswith Homeric epics, it seems highly beneficial to this study to include his other rewriting of Homericepics, The Odyssey : a Play. This study makes an effort to show that these two rewritings are complementary to each other: the West Indian epic poem is the quest for identity seen from the point of view of the colonized subject, whereas the West Indian stage drama is the quest for identity from the colonizer’s perspective. Studying Walcott’s poetry and dramas helps one perceive the ways in which the West Indian poet makes an effort to deconstruct the importance of the Western literary tradition through rewriting the Homeric epics. This tradition perpetuates the binary opposition of superiority/inferiority which plays a seminal role in the construction of individual identity. By displacing the Saint Lucian characters and literature from their place in the margins to the center, Walcott decenters the Homeric epics, and Western literature. Creolisation, Colonialism, Postcolonialism,Deconstruction, , History, Memory, Rewriting
Devard, Jérôme. "Parenté et Pouvoir(s) dans la matière de France et le roman de Renart : approche socio-juridique de la représentation familiale aux XIIe-XIIIe siècles." Thesis, Poitiers, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014POIT5004.
Full textIn spite of the contributions of the legal anthropology, the study of the standard through the medieval narrative sources is even nowadays in the embryonic state. The historians of the law remain attached, very logically, to the study of the formalized and coercive standard, whereas the historians of the social facts remain cautious as for the informative capacity of the literary sources. Wishing to overtake this cultural cleavage, this thesis renews the sources of the legal analysis, by resorting to the medieval fictions of the XIIe-XIIIe century. The normative processes studied in the fault the prism of the kinship in the Matière de France and Le Roman de Renart reveal a coherent representation of the social organization, leaning at the same time on the secular realities of the judicial system. of the XIIe-XIIIe centuries, but also on the poetic anastylose of practices and standards inherited from Merovingian and Carolingian times. The fictional normative system thus bases on the contemporary standards, on the imperfect memory of the previous standards, but also on the plurality of values and codified behavior. So, the medieval fictions are not only " judicial machines ", but also many " normative machines ", which include not only the recognized standard or the accepted ruler, in other words the "juridicité" of the previous and contemporary judicial practice in the XIIe-XIIIe centuries, as well as its representations or reconstructions, but also a system of moral and behavioral references. Besides, ff the texts, both matrix sources of normativity are unmistakably the submission and the kinship, the legal rules which ensue from it, appear very often as being auxiliary of will: their respect or their mistrust depends at the same time on interests, on aspiration and on postures of an individual, but also on fictional constraints which narratives determine between them
Gallo, Pierino. "L'intertexte épique moderne dans la théorie et la pratique de l'épopée chez Chateaubriand." Phd thesis, Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Etienne, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00921107.
Full textCamara, Ansoumane. "Traits épiques et figures du héros dans les récits cynégétiques et agricoles des Maninka de la Haute Guinée (République de Guinée)." Paris, INALCO, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999INAL0012.
Full textThis work collects, translates, and analyses an agricultural and two hunting narratives of the Maninka in Upper Guinea (Republic of Guinea). In the first volume, this community will be described in order to put the works in their socio-cultural context. As a second step, the works will be analysed in terms of style, structure, morphology, and themes. This study points out that the works are of the epic type. The main topics of all the narratives relate to question of death. The heroes have all the qualities of epic heroes : extraordinary origins and childhoods, endurance and bravery, etc. The second volume contains the three texts in the Maninka language and in French translation. This translation tries to stick to the original as closely as possible, to respect the images and the peculiarities of the language, the rhythmic and prosodic units of the oral narrative, which leads to a graphic representation in the shape of verses types
Plagnard, Aude. "Une épopée ibérique : Autour des oeuvres d’Alonso de Ercilla et de Jerónimo Corte-Real (1569-1589)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA040191.
Full textCan we read Spanish and Portuguese epic poetry independently of each other? This study demonstrates that between 1569 and 1589 the Spaniard Alonso de Ercilla and the Portuguese Jerónimo Corte-Real published a series of epic poems through which emerged a common and original practice of the genre. Closely linked to Camões’ Lusiadas (1572), they form a shared epic model built on an intertextual poetic practice. Read throughout the Iberian peninsula, this Spanish and Portuguese epic demonstrates its readers’ interest for the subjects based on recent history. Compared to the chronicles it reveals a formal mimesis through which verse history is authorized by some formal imitations of prose history. Nevertheless, by choosing epic poetry, poets link these narratives to the treatment of war and military conflicts during the long history of the genre. As epic poets since Homer, these modern poets unveil the deep changes that occurred during the Spanish and Portuguese colonial expansion and the union of the two crowns in 1580. Because they deal with current events in modern Iberia, the poets are placed in a competitive situation, coded in the text, in the imitation of common poetic models –Latin, mostly– and in the use of some typical epic motives. Through working on the same motives and dialoguing from one text to another, Ercilla, Corte Real and Camões invent, over the course of two decades, a narrative Iberian pattern that breaks with the Orlando furioso tradition before Tasso’s model became preponderant in the peninsula
Roux, Magalie. "Poétique au féminin dans les épopées flaviennes : évolution esthétique et idéologique d’un genre." Thesis, Paris 4, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA040220.
Full textThe character of the wife is a central feature of the epic genre, for which Homer's poems stand as a model in Greek and Latin literature. The major role the feminine eros, especially towards a husband, plays in those works is one of the aspects on which the evolution of epic genericity relies, evolving from one poem to another. During the Flavian Age, Valerius Flaccus and Statius gave two feminine characters a major part in their poems : one is Medea in The Argonautics, the other Argia in Statius' Thebaid. Besides, both poets also illustrate other aspects of husband and wife eros in the Lemnian episode, which stages Hypsipyle as its heroine. From a philosophical point of view, we can see how this emphasized presence of feminine characters matches contemporary philosophers' theories on ethics within marriage, such as Musonius Rufus' thoughts. From the point de view of literature however, considering its setting in the Age of Silver latinity, we can consider this presence as a questioning of epic generic codes, which shows in the way wives are represented, according to the patterns of tragedy and of the Roman elegy, particularly of Ovid's Heroids. Therefore in the wake of three literary traditions - epic, tragedy, elegy -, the role of feminine characters shows the renewal of the epic, which we can fully study by creating criteria of analysis bearing on the notions of genre, genericity and intergenericity
Bagiag, Aurora Manuela. "Aux pays de la magie : le naïf et la marionnette." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009CLF20007.
Full textDelattre, Aurélie. "L'Afrique dans la poésie latine d'Ennius à Corippe." Thesis, Dijon, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011DIJOL025.
Full textThis thesis is devoted to the study of the representation of Africa in Latin poetry, from Ennius until Corippus. In most cases, allusions to Africa have a mere connotative value and fulfill an amplification purpose. Nonetheless, various characteristics of the stereotypes associated to Africa can be deduced from them. We also describe the methods used by the poets to deal with these stereotypes and we shed light on the characteristics that make Africa different from the other “barbarian” regions of the Roman Empire. The originality of Africa is related to the importance it takes in epic, since Africa is the scene of several poems. The amplification proper to epic, mainly based on these stereotypes, gives Africa a mythic dimension and it plays thus a fundamental role in the structure of epic poems. Consequently, it becomes the metaphor of epic in many other minor genres
Touahri, Ouardia. "Paroles de guerriers avant le combat dans l'épopée latine de Naevius à Claudien." Montpellier 3, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004MON30054.
Full textOur step consisted in searching what the warlike word battle, in the Latin epic, owes, on the one hand, to Homeric tradition, and, on the other hand, to the historiographic one. In Rome, war is realized within the citizenship framework ; for this activity, legal and religious precautions are thus necessary. That's why we can find, in historiography, a rhetoric about the justification befor battle. This rethoric does not exist in the Iliad. In a first part, we are showing that the warlike word before battle, in the Latin epic, for an historical or mythological subject, benefited from that rhetoric about the justification, especially when the poem is about civil war. In a second part, we are showing that the Latin epic poets have given a tragic dimension to war councils and to the preparations for warlike operations. Lastly, in a third part, we are treating of the battlefield exhortation. This speech is the center of a thought about the chief's figure. From Virgil, when foreign war and civil war are mixed, the chiefis not any longer the perfect model that we could find in Naevius' and Ennius' poems. Latin's epic warlike word thus sends us back to the moral tearings raised up, in the Roman consciences, by the warlike violence
Vukasinovic, Milan. "Nicée, Épire, Serbie. Idéologie et relations de pouvoir dans les récits de la première moitié du XIIIe siècle." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019EHES0025.
Full textThe principal objects of this dissertation are narratives produced between 1204 and 1261 in the polities of Nicaea, Epiros and Serbia. Previous studies, for the most part, stress the anomalous character of this period. In their explanations of historical phenomena, historians draw upon fixed modern narratives of the fragmentation of the Byzantine world and the independence of the Serbian state, both seen as consequences of the Fourth Crusade. These arguments are often buttressed by the undefined concept of ideology. Using concepts borrowed from narratology and Marxist theories, this study challenges that line of approach, as well as the notion of an unambiguous nexus between texts and historical ‘realities’. Narratives are defined as resolutions to material contradictions. Ideology is defined as a set of narrative strategies used to constitute the subjectivities of concerned actors and to construct their social space. Analyzing the narrative practices of interpellation in rhetorical, legal, epistolary, and hagiographical contexts opens up the possibility of reinterpreting historical actors, actions and social relations. Examining the narrativization of space in a trialectical matrix sheds light on this important element of sociality, which was previously usually reduced to a passive object at the service of nation-states interests. Finally, the study proposes a concept of heterarchy as a way to replace the unsuitable metaphors of family and hierarchy, frequently used to theorize the power relations both inside and between medieval states. This dissertation offers an interpretation of medieval societies, based on the way their members told stories of their social and political experience. Thus, it has two aims: to diversify the reading of Byzantine and Serbian texts and to prompt modern scholars to rethink their approach to historiographical practice
Noëll, Nicolas. "Les représentations de la forêt en Grèce ancienne : usages et imaginaires de l'espace boisé dans la littérature épique." Mémoire, 2006. http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/3029/1/M9325.pdf.
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