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Gauthier, Patricia. "Littérature et utopie en France sous la règne de Louis XIV." Lyon 3, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991LYO31014.
Full textDo the utopias published in the reign of louis xiv correspond with an anti-establishment movement against the royal politics ? may we consider them as revolutionary texts? a comparative study of cyrano, tyssot, fontenelle, gilbert, lesconvel, foigny, vairasse, fenelon or mlle de montpensier's works shows that their pure literary stakes do not to be sneezed at. These texts take their form from imaginary or real accounts of voyages, from education's novel, sometimes with a picaresque accent, or from philosophical dialogue. So there is no real "utopian genre" but a many-sided matter which favours the finest intellectual subtlety. This fact explains, as much as the aspiration for change, the succes of these works during this period. This subtlety puts the discourse under the sign of figurative, that means ambiguous, speech and belongs to the critical purpous (social, political or religious). The criticism is often virulent ( the texts denounce the collusion between power and religion, they demand liberty of conscience or envisage to abolish property, hereditary nobility or clergy) but it is not necessarily opposed to the prevailing ideology of that time. It reactivates some libertine philosophy's points by subjugating them in a "middle-class" ideal that no one determinism could totaly explain
Méchoulan, Éric. "Economie politique des corps et enchantement de la culture dans la littérature française des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (essais sur le silence)." Paris 3, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992PA030110.
Full textReading different authors (du perier, texts about the "preciosity", mlle du sudery, mme de lafayette, moliere, perrault, galland, sade) enables us to claim that literature, which is at the time in the process of constitution, is a privileged locus to articulate a political economy. When bodies disappear from the public scene, they disseminate in discourses, but only as tropes. Literature is then a political economy of the bodies, which authorizes to divert the "disenchantment of the world" (as a result of a universe produced by the reason and the work of man) in the enchantment of culture, conceived as a separate locus, a distinctive locus in society
Vaillant, Alain. "Perpétuation des oeuvres littéraires françaises du passé et leur réception par la critique non universitaire (1961-1970)." Paris 3, 1985. http://www.theses.fr/1985PA03A105.
Full textOrwat, Florence Michèle. "L'invention de la rêverie dans la littérature française du XVIIe siècle." Paris 4, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA040149.
Full textClosson, Marianne. "L'imaginaire démoniaque dans la littérature française (1550-1650) : genèse de la littérature fantastique." Paris 10, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA100157.
Full textChométy, Philippe. ""Philosopher en langage des dieux" : la poésie d'idées en France, 1653-1716." Aix-Marseille 1, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005AIX10044.
Full textZékian, Stéphane. "Les aventures de la tradition : la référence au "siècle de Louis XIV" dans la France révolutionnée (1795-1820) : formes, usages, enjeuxComplément du titre." Paris 4, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA040110.
Full textIn the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, French public sphere was marked by references to "Le siècle de Louis XIV”. This dissertation focuses on the structural ambiguities of the formula's consecration between Thermidor and the beginnings of the Restoration. "Le siècle de Louis XIV" was more a bone of contention than a memorial elevated by consensus to the glory of the Classics. The conflict in question is not, however, that of the Classicists against the Romantics but rather that of two irreconcilable versions of the Classical Tradition. Disputed between the apostles of the catholic revival and the heirs of the Enlightenment, literature from "le siècle de Louis XIV" was used in the service of contradictory regimes of exemplarity. What are the words and the tools of appraisal that can enable one to name and assess it ? Moreover, to what extent can this category, "le siècle de Louis XIV", bear the process of historicisation as it is de facto both the wavering subject of a sacralization which absolves it from the weight of History, and that of a more secularized admiration ? The present study introduces and analyzes the implications of "Siècle de Louis XIV"'s oscillating nature. Beyond the mere interpretation of Classicism, it is the definition of post-Belles-Lettres "Littérature" itself which is at stake
Gendras, Eva. "Les femmes et la culture à travers la littérature française du XVIIème siècle." Rouen, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994ROUEL193.
Full textThe aim of this thesis is to study the role of women in the seventeenth century through French literature and to analyse their involvement in social, political and artistic matters, as well as their reactions, however limited they may have been. The first part deals with their outward appearance or more precisely with the woman's body. Then their legal status and their status as married women or working women are put under scruting. The third part considers the role women played throughout the two french regencies and the fronde. The fourth part examines how they fought to have access to culture, through education and art. The last two parts are more particularly concerned with the literary aspect of the subject, dealing with female writers and the feminist quarrel among the seventeenth writers. Feminism had developed in a society dominated by men, so that it had to be "tolerated" by them. This supremacy eventually led to the confrontation of opposing forces whose clash brought about the disintegration of the culture of the seventeenth century. This was how a more complete social reality could be grasped and the figure of the female being could enverge from it
Macé, Stéphane. "La pastorale dans la poésie française de l'âge baroque." Paris 4, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA040194.
Full textEsmein-Sarrazin, Camille. "L'avènement d'une poétique romanesque au XVIIe siècle : discours théorique et constitution d'un genre littéraire (1641-1683)." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA040232.
Full textMany changes were made to the prose narrative in the 1660s: the structure was simplified and the subject matter was drawn closer to the readers' interests. Shorter forms called "petits romans", "histoires", "nouvelles" replaced long heroic novels. Around the same period, there were numerous attempts at codifying what a novel was. Highlighting the distinctions between long and short novels, these writings noted the changes and construed them as a shift in the genre. The 1660s can be heralded as a turning point in the theorisation of the genre. This interpretation induces an exhaustive study of the texts dealing with the novel form in the 17th c. In order to compare the poetics and the writing of novels. In the first middle of the century, the theory was apologetic in tone, since the aim was to define the novel against its opponents. A notable characteristic of these writings was that they were either in favour or against it. However the French fiction, progressively seen both as a legitimate literary type and, in the eyes of readers, as a genre, triggered a thorough study of the status and the aim of a prose narrative. The years 1660s witnessed the birth of the poetics of the novel, which went well beyond codification to focus on the impact of a narrative. For the first time the novel was considered as a literary genre. As a consequence the change in the novel had more in common with rhetorics and ethics than aesthetics. The "art de l'éloignement", which reigned as the predominant narrative rule in the first period, was superseded by the art of verisimilitude. This deeply modified the status of both the author and reader and transformed the ideological impressions it made
Mortgat-Longuet, Emmanuelle. "Naissance de l'"histoire littéraire" française : les représentations, au XVIe et au XVIIe siècle, de l'histoire des lettres de langue française." Paris 3, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA030049.
Full textWhereas, in the european republic of letters, the tradition of a learned and neo-latin historiography of letters perpetuates itself, in france, in the 16th and 17th centuries, a purely french tradition of literary history is formed, which defines, characterizes and judges a patrinomy ofletters in the vernacular. This new french literary history is founded upon the idea that letters form a domain of excellence in the kingdom of france. Thus, in the 16th and 17th centuries, in that reflexive soul-searching of men of letters, historiogrpahic schemes and representations are elaborated, which try to consecrate the "modern" french letters and invent the concept of a national cultural identity
Mattéi-Battesti, Toussainte. "Fonctions et représentations de la femme dans l'utopie narrative française : 1677-1765." Aix-Marseille 1, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003AIX10080.
Full textKhoriaty, Georges Gebran. "L'Image de la condition féminine dans la littérature française à la fin du XVIe siècle et au début du XVIIe siècle." Lyon 3, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988LYO3A004.
Full textMercier, Alain. "La littérature facétieuse sous le règne de Louis XIII (1610-1643) : une société dans son miroir." Paris 4, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA040287.
Full textJourde, Michel. "La voix des oiseaux et l'éloquence des hommes : sens et fonction des manifestations sonores de l'oiseau dans la littérature française des XVIe et XVIIe siècles." Bordeaux 3, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998BOR30050.
Full textJaouik, Moulay-Badreddine. "L'Islam et les Lumières françaises, 1624-1789." Rouen, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011ROUEL037.
Full textThis thesis of 994 pages aims at analysing the place of knowledge about Islam and Muhammed in the whole French works in the 17th and 18th century literary world ? It endeavours to show exactly the pray a real "golden age of information about Islam" will emerge in the late 17th century. This was a genuine moment of the Enlightenment, a period when the authors will henceforth favour the Muslim sources to write about Islam. Thus by becoming a subject of knowledge, Islam and Muhammad inspire political, philosophical and religious thoughts and the history and the present of Muslims with a feeling of deep respect. The texts relating to Muhammed, the Kuran, theology and the numerous critical assays are hence published on a new model which breaks with the hostile and controversial tradition related to the approach of Islam and its promoter and reduced by apologetics to their religious dimension, a tradition which will not be abandoned but which will take a renewed form all through the18th century to lead to a radically condemnation of the Muslin world and authors who were supposed to be panegyrist relatively unscrupulous of science. Studying this controversial tradition through its view, its transformation, detecting the moment from whish the premises of a real change in the view of Islam start to emerge showing who the precursors and their continuators are, the methods of research what they use and when exactly "this golden age" tend to fall, explaining the reasons, those are the issues in the study focused on a corpus of almost 250 various books, and which is meant to be a contibution to the history of ideas
Casals, Marie Noëlle. "La représentation du poète dans le premier XVIIe siècle français." Toulouse 2, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001TOU20063.
Full textThe representation of the poet in the French pre-classical age is a good index to the transformations that occured in poetry in the first third of the XVIIe century. The study deals with the images of the poet that can be met in prose writings with a theoretical or apologetic aim, as well as in prefaces, letters and the works of the main poets of the period. Among the latter, Malherbe, Théophile de Viau, Tristan l'Hermite and Saint-Amant typify the various currents and genres that came to be associated with a poetry which has sometimes been described as « baroque » or « mannerisitic ». The figures that haunt the literary imagination of the period fall into several categories ; the mythological or Biblical characters, such as Orpheus, Amphion, Moses or David embody the divine and pragmatic dimension of a poetry that is supposed to have a bearing on reality. But this aspect tends to become less prominent in poetic works which register a major change in the image of the poet, whose action can no longer operate within the realm of the real, but merely in the order of discourse. Similarly, inspiration tends to become second to melancholy, which emerges as the new physiological model in the delineation of the intellectual processes at work in poetic creation. The rhetorical concepts inherited from antiquity and circulated by the Pléïade undergo, in turn, modifications indicative of the pride of place given to the individual poetic subject at the expense of more constraining archetypes. The poet, now viewed as literay object as much as poetic subject, bears witness, through his successive metamorphoses, to the emergence of a new literary field, distinct both from a theological authority that can now be dispensed with, and from a rhetorical apparatus that absorbed poetry into the art of discourse. The figure of the poet, therefore, serves as a reliable guide to the birth of literature as such in the pre-classical age, at a time when poetry has not yet been eclipsed by drama and the novel is still in its infancy
Moreau, Isabelle. "Les stratégies d'écriture des libertins au XVIIème siècle." Saint-Etienne, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005STET2097.
Full textSeventeenth century libertinism does not constitute a single harmonious philosophy, nor does it reduce to mere anti-christianism. Libertine thought is obviously in conflict with christian doctrine, but should not be reduced to this conflict alone : libertinism possesses its own logic and coherence, which it is important to grasp in order to understand authorial strategies. The analysis of the libertine protocol of reading and writing — their complex style, their rhetorical use of quotations, their irony — seems to us the best approach. Gabriel Naudé, François de la Mothe le Vayer, Cyrano de Bergerac and Charles Sorel read a very select library of books which they appropriate before beginning to write their own. To understand what is at stake in this protocol, it is important to determine the philosophical, rhetorical and stylistic coherence of libertine discourse. In the fields of religion, history and natural philosophy, the libertines tackle the question of knowledge from a very critical standpoint. Two domains — historiography and the reading of travelers’ accounts of their journeys — seem especially significant. Our authors elaborate an image of man and the world which competes with christian representations. Man loves myths : he has an inherent tendency to abandon critical distance. The libertines believe that it is most important to analyse the psychological mechanism that gives birth to conviction and belief. Writing strategies are the philosopher’s rhetorical answer to the anthropological analysis of human beliefs
Royé, Jocelyn. "La figure du pédant et le pédantisme de Montaigne à Molière." Paris 10, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA100023.
Full textLaumaillé-Hache, Sophie. "Rhétorique et passion : le sublime au XVIIe siècle." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA040231.
Full textMeeting the great aesthetical interrogations of the XVIIith century, the debates about the notion of sublime are rich in paradoxes and raise many rhetorical questioning. Introduced in the literary world by the polemics on Guez de Balzac, amply developed by the theoricians of the holy eloquence, disclosed to the public by the publishing of the Longin's treatise by Boileau, this thought on the sublime considers the discourse as an +irresistible force ; that ravishes the souls beyond the hierarchy of styles. Using lexical, stylistic, logical and semantical aids, this study intends to determine what are the main theorical requirements proposed by the treatises about eloquence. Then, its aim is to confront these requirements, often based on the tension between the quest of unaffectedness and the art of passions, with the exemplification sometimes associated with them. The matter is to ask oneself to which extend the rhetorical thought on the sublime leads to a renewal of the reception reserved to the literary work. In this viewpoint, the quotations derived from texts written in the XVIIith century by French authors further fruitfully the exploration of a classic pantheon on the way to completion
Feller, Sophie. "Anthropologie de la croyance et analyse des représentations à l'âge classique : l'apport des libertins érudits." Versailles-St Quentin en Yvelines, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012VERS027S.
Full textIn the times immediately following the Religious Wars, at the dawn of the Galilean revolution, the seventeenth century opens on a world without bearings, where theology seems unable to answer all the questions any longer. The only thing man has left is to turn toward himself : subject and object of this new epistemology, he takes the place of God, and of every principle of unity, as a point of reference ; that’s the reason why we see here the birth of some anthropological thought strictly speaking. In the relations that this very thought – still faltering – is having with literature – in many respects its breeding ground – but also with philosophy, the part of the “libertins érudits” is not often put forward ; the critical attitude which defines them however makes them the spearhead of a new way of thinking. So the “anthropological” discourse which emerges in their writings – descendants of Montaigne and Charron – first and foremost characterizes man as a creature fed by believes and representations, and this from the ethical, as well as from the political or aesthetic point of view. We would like to explore these different fields of research through an analysis of representations, especially in La Mothe Le Vayer’s and Cyrano de Bergerac’s works. The choice of such a corpus lies in the multiplicity of the genres it allows to explore, and the diverse influences (scepticism and epicureanism, among others) which feed it, and which make it an enriching gateway to the thought of the “libertins érudits”
Bai, Zhi Min. "L'image de l'empire de Chine sous la plume des voyageurs français des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006CLF20011.
Full textCaron, Philippe. "Aux origines de la notion contemporaine de "littérature" : le lexique et et la configuration idéologique des grands secteurs du savoir profane en langue française de 1680 à 1760." Nancy 2, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987NAN21027.
Full textThis dissertation sheds light on the elaboration of the concept at present carried by the french word litterature. It first studies those signs that are operative in the broad conceptual patterning of encyclopaedia carried out between 1680 and 1760, and casts new light on the birth and triumph of the name belles-lettres - substi- tuted for both bonnes lettres and lettres humaines - in the course of a lexico-semantic approach. It then shows the evolution of the french sign litterature, the denotation of which, by 1680, had gradually ebbed to "what an honnete homme of quality should know of wordly matters". The most frequent predicates associated, in the first half of the eighteenth century, with the signs belles-lettres, litterature and lettres in their new restricted acceptions, are next listed. The investigation substantiates and enhances the hedonistic outlook assumed by knowledge as denoted by those words, while showing how the eighteenth century pictures literature as antithetic in almost every respect to the sciences of computation and observation
Courtes, Noémie. "L'écriture de l'enchantement : magie et magiciens dans la littérature française du XVIIe siècle." Paris 4, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA040073.
Full textIn XVIIth-century France, magic belongs to an ambiguous vocabulary but is a properly literary category since it is stylised. Besides epic and novel, it occurs mainly in theatrical arts (pastoral, ballet, opera). The magician is a type who complies with a proper rhetoric and holds specific positions, ornamental ones in particular. The character of the magician introduces to another order of verisimilitude which heightens the status of his opponents. His "charm" serves as a common reference of a fancy in all the fields of written works ; he can besides be parodied, and even serve to denounce superstition (in comedy). Stemming from everyday life, magic in fact serves as catharsis for the irrationality of the XVIIth-century. From 1581 to 1735 at least, it establishes its permanence by adapting itself to all situations and being compatible with the other types of marvellous (mythological and Christian ones), as is shown by the characters of Circea, Medea and Armide
Testino-Zafiropoulos, Alexandra. "Représentations de l’Espagne en France au XVIIe siècle : du savoir encyclopédique aux récits de voyages." Paris 4, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA040240.
Full textAmstutz, Delphine. "La Fable du favori dans la littérature française du premier XVIIe siècle." Thesis, Paris 4, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA040108.
Full textThe purpose of this PhD thesis is to present the characteristics of the royal favourite as depicted in 17th-century literature. Although the term “favourite” entered the French language at the beginning of the 16th century, the favourite did not become an operating political concept and a topical literary figure until the beginning of the next century. Our intention is to analyse, according to a nominalist and pragmatic method, the “fable of the favourite” during the Baroque period, i.e. the collection of texts relating to favourites written between 1610 and 1664. This study comprises two parts: the first archaeological, the second poetic. It aims first at identifying the genealogy of the favourite by comparing him to other types of political character more present in historical and philosophical tradition – in particular, advisors, secretaries, flatterers and Mignons-, then at exploring the ambivalent political imagination of the favour, before examining the different political theories of the Baroque period that used this concept of the favourite as a touchstone. We will then review in chronological order the different literary genres in which the favourite appeared over the course of the opening decades of the 17th century, demonstrating how the poetic constraints of each genre have shaped the way the favourite is viewed. By extension of an assertion by Curtis Perry in “Literature and Favoritism in Early Modern England”, we suggest that the favourite’s story provided Louis XIII’s contemporaries with a common language in which to address certain “difficult but unavoidable [questions]” and to explore some “grey area[s] in the culture”. Nevertheless, those questions do not only revolve around politics. The “fable of the favourite” does indeed develop during those “cardinal years” where the statist spirit prevailed and upset all references to political theory or practice, however it above all reflected, in a metaphorical and dramatised form, a muffled and stubborn questioning of the conditions and limits of human acting. It marked a desire to understand individuals as they struggled with the world, society and history. As a parvenu, the favourite embodied the omnipotence of individual action driven by will and directed by thought. However, the personal journey of the favourite seems to encompass a determined fate which betrays the unassailable hold of Fortune on human ambitions. Being a dual figure, the favourite embodies an allegory of prudence. The fable of the favourite thus questions the relevance and relativity of fundamental values: personal merit and virtue, favour and value. It implies anthropological and ethical considerations, since it probes into political passions and redefines the limits of privacy, the forms of affection and the boundaries of personal identity at a time when the distinction between the public and private sphere was not yet clear. Finally, the fable of the favourite reinvigorates the historiographical examination of “absolutism” and underpins the assembly of the first literary field: at the end of his political career, the favourite became, under the aegis of Maecenas, a figurehead of the culture of gallantry
Requemora, Sylvie. "Littérature et voyage au XVIIe siècle : (récit, roman, théâtre)." Aix-Marseille 1, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000AIX10012.
Full textTricoche-Rauline, Laurence. "Le Moi libertin : Modalités d'expression de la subjectivité à l'âge classique." Saint-Etienne, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006STET2102.
Full textBourguinat, Élisabeth. "Le "persiflage" dans la littérature française du dix-huitième siècle (1735-1810) : modernité d'un néologisme." Paris 4, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA040219.
Full textThe neologism persiflage was coined in 1735 and became widely used until the end of the 18th century. A survey of the word his usage reveals that it is a key to understand of many texts of that period. Although persiflage is commonly derived from per (intensive) + seiffler (to whistle), its etymology can be reassessed as the "language of persifles" - the hero of an "amphigourique" parody : persiflage originally refers to the oversophisticated and bombastic neological language spoken by the "petits-maitres" in their salons. L later on, the word is construed as ironical, as is suggested by the pseudo-root siffler, and conjures up a derisive attitude towards someone who does not suspect he is made sport of. Addressed with flattery, the interlocutor naively dids up and is therefore made to play a part in the libertine domineering strategy. Persiflage is also an accusation that has been made against some philosophers blamed for their over-variegated style or mystifying purposes - especially in the case of Voltaire. At all events, persiflage is closely linked with the 18th'century reflexion on the origin, value, and power of language, which cleared the way for - among other literary trends - the first person epistolary novel. The French revolution was to bring persiflage to its close, but may also be interpreted as partly rooted in that literary fashion and the whole literary debate shattered the 18th century
Conroy, Jane. "L'Angleterre des XVIe et XVIIe siècles dans le théâtre tragique du XVIIe siècle en France." Paris 4, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA040082.
Full text17th century French tragedy turns its back on the present. There are two exceptions : the small number of turkish and english subjects. .
Chun, Jaemin. "Les personnages de veuves dans la comédie du dernier tiers du XVIIe siècle." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA040082.
Full textThe widow is one of the personages who appear most frequently in the “comedies” at the close of the seventeenth century. The widow is a free woman, and as such possesses an original situation, namely, that of the intermediate status, which permits her to become an independent heroine, responsible for and capable of deciding her future at an age of patriarchy and absolute conjugal “machismo”. Among the widows who want to remarry, some, in a rather advanced age and distinguished both by their coquettish character and their refusal to grow old, show preference for a young husband, while others, bourgeoises, are distinguished by their desire to raise their social standing by means of remarriage with a nobleman. The joyful widows, generally young, refuse, in their widowhood, to submit to the yoke of either their parents or the husband, at least for some time. In comparison to these young and merry widows, who are fascinated by their newly-achieved status, others would worry about their future or a new love affair. Due to the variety in age level, social status, and personal caracters, the range of roles which can be taken on by the widows is wide enough to illustrate, as “protagonists” in an amorous intrigue, they can also act the “ role d'opposant” either by parental authority or as a rival in love, or even the “role de soutien” for young lovers although this may be rare. Most of the young widows, who themselves lead the action, take on a double role, that of “protagonists” and at the same time that “meneurs de jeu”, a far cry from the typical image of a woman, namely weakness and passivity. The comic effect of the personages of these widows is not to be taken for granted, for instance, the widows of an advanced age, or the bourgeoises, create comic situations by their credulity and their vanity, and often become objects of the sarcasm. In fact, such conduct, rebellion and demand of liberty exercise a great influence on young girls and the married women around, thus provoking the familial and social conflicts. In this way, the “milieu” which the widows create as central personages offer to the authors a vast domain to explore
Satapatpattana, Suwanna. "Traduction dramatique de l'amour dans le théâtre français du dix-septième siècle (1620-1640)." Paris 4, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA040227.
Full textThe French theatre in the beginning of the 17th century presents the sentimental adventures which reflect the different ideologies of love. In this dramatic world where love is the principal factor of plot, the characters let themselves be guided by numerous codes of passion and react according to certain conventional procedures. On the way to amorous conquest, some of them idealize their emotion, make the beloved an object of devotion, and in order to deserve it - try to perfect the virtues of faithfulness and bravery. Others, being victims of the ardent passion, do not hesitate to satisfy their instinct, even by committing murderous acts. Some others indulge in flighty love and pass from one sensual pleasure to another. As different as they are, all these lovers make an effort to fulfil their desires. Inspired by the force of love, they apply a typical language full of comparisons and images, which does revive the poetic world of Petrarch
Meiser, Heidrun. "L'hypocrisie de Molière à Marivaux." Paris 4, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA040272.
Full textDanon, Rachel. "Voix de marronnage dans la littérature française au XVIIIé siècle." Thesis, Grenoble, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012GRENL044.
Full textThis dissertation, entitled Maroons’ Voices in 18th-Century French Literature, attempts to understand the various modes of resistance and escape which African slaves have constantly opposed to the colonial system of slavery. In the absence of slave narratives in French, our goal was to hear their lost voices through a close analysis of their echoes within texts written by a number of French authors who staged them, with many diffractions and deformations. Emphasis is put on the agency expressed in these countless forms of resistance, by populations who are too often misrepresented as passive victims.This study being literary in nature, it focuses on the structures and forms of enunciations encountered in these apparently derivative works written between 1730 and 1792, in order to frame the refracted presence of maroons’ voices through their transmission, translation, and deformations. What types of resistance to colonial oppression filter through these indirect and often ambivalent forms of literary testimony? How can a literary sensitivity help us grasp their historical, political and cultural stakes? Such questions are discussed through a series of close readings of selected narratives of escape, denunciations, struggles, rebellion and vengeance, taken from a variety of literary genres, all written in the colonizers’ language. In conclusion, these texts written 300 years ago are revisited in the light of recent developments in Caribbean writings
Rey, Jean. "L'arcadisme, jardin du moi au Grand Siècle, 1630-1682 : du mot à l'objet." Caen, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002CAEN1344.
Full textCernogora, Nadia. "La pensée et l'écriture de la métaphore dans la poésie religieuse de l'âge baroque." Saint-Étienne, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005STET2086.
Full textThe Renaissance and Baroque ages inherited a rich theoretical tradition of metaphoric thought : a tradition both rethorical and spiritual which, from Aristotle to Tesauro, taking in the Church Fathers, tends to consider the trope not only as an distinguished embellishment, but also as a tool for freeing thought to a ‘’ higher meaning ‘’. Far from confining it within the strict use of ornatus, the religious poets of the Baroque age, puffed up with biblical culture, use the metaphor as a favourite instrument for deciphering the Bible and christian mysteries but also as an aid for teaching and emotion, capable of assisting the « devout » reader in his meditation. This peculiar metaphoric writing does not exist without some contradictory aspects : both medieval and baroque in its inspiration, excessive and controlled, educational and ingenious, weak and substantial, it illustrates the contradictory status of image in a spiritual context. This study intends to take in various approaches, both theoretical and practical, in order to define the outlines of the poetic in baroque religious metaphors, through a large corpus of religious poets (Jean Baptiste Chassignet, Jean de La Ceppède, Jean de Sponde, Jean Auvray, Antoine Favre, Pierre Poupo)
Locko, Georges Sédar. "Le temps chez les mémorialistes français du XVIIe siècle (de 1610 à 1643)." Metz, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997METZ019L.
Full textOur study concerns the memors of writer from Henry IV's death to Louis XIII's death. It presents time from a subjective and on objective point view-dealing with the past through memories, genealogy together with the memorialist's behaviour concerning the present and the past. Time passing by is analysed mostly through the architecture and social life of that very period. Time is shown as being the memorialist's tool. The study of space takes into account three levels : the open space including journeys, wars implying the king and his subjects ; the private space concerning the court's life ; the restricted space representing confinement. Our study has highlighted the links between space and time
Merle, Alexandra. "Regards espagnols sur l'Empire ottoman à travers la littérature documentaire à l'époque moderne : une approche ethnographique ?" Paris 4, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA040368.
Full textThe analysis of the Spanish vision of the Ottoman empire through the documentary literature in the sixteenth and seventieth centuries shows that the specificities of Spain’s historical situation have no influence on the representations of human beings. These are similar to those of the whole Mediterranean Europe. We remark a coexistence of many visions, some polemic (not always dogmatic) and others objective, connected with a direct experience, even if a purpose of observation is not expressed. Human beings are at the center of preoccupations, as members of a society that is subject of an ethnographical approach
Billard, Roger. "Les romans français du spiritisme (milieu 19è siècle - début 20è siècle." Lyon 2, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992LYO20031.
Full textSpiritism, a new shift in public opinion supporting the existence of spirits and the possibility of communicating with them, penetrated france in the middle of the 19e century. At that time, it inspired novelists who varied in their positions accor-ding to their source of information. On the one hand, some writers supported the doctrine of spiritism and gave birth to novels which meant to entertain, but also to inform, teach and moralize. On the other hand, other writers merely chose to exploit psychic phenomena. They created flights of fancy which inspired the diffuse trend of fantasy fiction, breaking new grounds for science-fiction with astronomy novels. This shed new lights on history with romanced biographies. Catholic and scientific writers were the leading apparents ; they produced destructive works where burlesque and satire were interwoven. Under these three different forms, the spiritist novel, a highly polymorphic genre, reached its peak between world war 1 and 2 world war 2
Cagnat-Debœuf, Constance. "La mort classique : pour une poétique du récit de mort dans la littérature en prose de la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle." Paris 4, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA040346.
Full textThe aim of this thesis is to study the way of writing death in the elite of the second part of the seventeenth century. Two types of literary testimonies -letters of consolation and narratives of death-have been analyzed. But few exceptions, discourse on death in the letters of consolation is not original: the same themes are developed in every letter; besides, they were already appearing in antic consolations. On the contrary, the narrative of death proved to be a strategic place where are in confrontation the influence of patterns, the writer's tricks and his own sensibility. Thus, the hagiography has seemed to doubly influence the representation of death: on one hand, it explains the constitution of a language of death, in which simple facts became signs of the dead people's godliness; on the other hand, it contributes to explain the permeability of the mentalities to the marvelous facts which arrive at death. But deathbed and public execution are also related through theatric and pictorial forms which are characteristic of their spectacular nature. Sudden death offers two faces: some consider it as the bad death, others as a desirable issue. This double discourse favored a strategical use of the narrative. Finally, two works have been submitted to a particular light: Mme de Sévigné's letters and Mr. De Pontis' memoirs offer a treatment of death narratives which is original and emblematic of the elite's practice
Andringa, Kim. "L'imaginaire des Pays-Bas dans la littérature française du XIXè siècle." Paris 4, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA040231.
Full textThe imagination of the Netherlands comes close to a mythoid aggregate. The corpus transmits a superficial and picturesque imagery, based on tourist, pictorial and historical sources. The tourist conventions reinforce its stereotypical and anachronistic nature. The anachronism is also typical of the images borrowed from paintings of the Dutch school and a few art historians. Realism is most appreciated when poetically tinged, as with Rembrandt who reveals the boundary between dream and reality. History provides the authors with heroic or dramatic episodes, as well as with legends expressing national character and the struggle against the waters. At the dawn of the 20th century, the imagination of the Netherlands becomes more introspective. Societal changes and especially the industrialisation put the place of man in question. We have subjected three groups of images to a symbolical analysis. First, the group of miniaturised dwelling places, that express a unfulfilled desire for intimacy and a refuge out of the time. Then, a group related to the painting as a mirror. These boundary images of an inaccessible space express the same disappointed desire. The sea images express progressive ideas as welle as fear of mechanization at the same time. The illusion of the fantastic and the phantasmagoria make it possible to vanquish the setbacks suffered through the figures of intimacy. Against the industrialisation, against the changes of modern society, as well as against mass tourism, the author will oppose his imaginary experience of the world, and through his description will give a autoreferential image, revealing of his dreams and desires
O'Meara, Leslie. "Le blason animalier dans la poésie française XVIe siècle." Paris 4, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA040125.
Full textLuciani, Isabelle. ""Composer en vers français. . . " : pratiques culturelles et société dans la première moitié du XVIIe siècle." Aix-Marseille 1, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001AIX10038.
Full textBeuvain, Catherine. "L'expérience de l'absolu à travers la musique dans la littérature française." Nice, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995NICE2003.
Full textThis thesis analyses the way in which classical music has been lived and translated since romanticism in several french novelists and poets of the two last centuries. Considered in the light of others approaches of music (textual criticism, musicians' opinions, pictorial references, etc), the literary extracts reveal the quest and the experience of an absolute apprehended in and through music. As music is obiously inexpressible, its circumstances of appearence and perception are emphasized through constant interrogation and exploitation of limits : interspace and silence, personality and reactions of the musician, favoured states of consciousness, space and time thresholds. As for the hero, who lives through music in the herafter (fantastic atmospheres, travels and metamorphosises), for the writer, the mastery of the musical mystery is based on contiguity associations and similes : synaesthesias and metaphors are, like the , transfer and surpassing. So, the expresses the peculiarity of music, the sound experience, its literary translation and the moving forward the absolute. Correlatively, music invomves aesthetic and ethical values, brings intellectual and moral riches. It supposes the search of the essentials : purity, simplicity, interiority are the qualities of the , a typically romanticist notion. By this way, music leads to the sacred, to the mystic and to the absolute. The oxymorons seem to be the privilegied translation of them. They suggest the transcendance by which heroes and writers can pass beyond the limits of the ways to reach the deep truth and take advantage of the contingent to have access to the essence
Bertrand, Dominique. "Histoire du rire à l'âge classique." Paris 7, 1985. http://www.theses.fr/1985PA070021.
Full textLabelle, Mc Iver Jocelyne. "Jean de La Ceppède, lecteur de Saint Thomas d'Aquin : essai sur les théorèmes comme apologie poétique." Aix-Marseille 1, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989AIX10053.
Full textStoeber, Valérie. "Les images de l'ecrivain au temps de moliere." Paris 3, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA030009.
Full textThe classical age, as a social value, represents a decisive moment in the history of literature. From then on, the concept of the writer as a character was given a meaning and his status, still in a shaping state (and therefore ambiguous), was established. This piece of work finds its origin in this acknowledgement. The writer as a character takes shapes in parallel to the making of the literary institutions, and this simultaneity installs a literature of the literary and of the institutions. Asking oneself questions about the images of the writer meant in fact asking oneself a series of questions about literature and about those who take part in it. On the other hand, it allowed us to give an account of the conflicts between writers over the status of their work and functions. Discussing the image of the writer leads to the unveiling of the practice of the literary field and on its relations to the writer-shaping personality. There is a dual image of the writer : it is the result of creation, and it is also a theoric and aesthetic stake. The literary stake remains within the social stake of the literary field. The literary practice carries the mark of social ideals, from which they were born. The image of the writer invents, in its own special way, a new conception of literature but, at the same time, backs up the idea that a writer is a human being and a source of exchange s
Julia, Aurélie. "Frédéric Lachèvre ou le renouveau des études dix-septièmistes." Paris 4, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA040185.
Full textWho remembers Frédéric Lachèvre (1855-1943)? Usually forgotten by encyclopaedias and dictionaries, his name rings no bell anymore although the man devoted himself to what could be called “minor history” and spent many hours bringing out the minors of XVIIth century from dusty archives! Only few specialists may remember the remarquable Bibliographies collectives de poesies du XVIIe siècle which earned Frédéric Lachèvre the nickname of “bibbliographe-bénédictin”. Nothing in this man could predict such a fate: promised to a brilliant career in Finance, it was only when he was forty-five when the autodidact published his first studies on Jacques Vallée Des Barreaux, Théophile de Viau, Saint-Pavin, Claude de Chouvigny. . . Under his pen, it is the world of a little known century which emerges. His commentaries with personal remarks could make one smile: his vision belongs to a particular milieu from a particular time. Recalling the scientific work of Frédéric Lachèvre evokes various notions as bibliophily, bibliography, censorship. . . Along with them reppear erudite persons like Charles Nodier, Jean-Jacques Brunet, Pierre Louÿs, Fernand Vandérem, Georges Mongrédien. . . With a light and pleasant style, sometimes sarcastic and caustic, the work of Frédéric Lachèvre is an invitation to bury oneself in the earthy world of minor poets
Schweiger, Amélie. "Les Lettres de Gustave Flaubert ou la littérature en question." Paris 8, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988PA080264.
Full textThe correspondence of a writer compared to his work is not an heterogenous or minor field as a laboratory, an outlet or a substitut, the letter is for the writer the indispensable and always questionable partner of literature. In his letters, the writing of Flaubert works. In the bosom of a constant confrontation wich is essentialy heuristic, the epistolary and literary pracices allow to catch deeply the content, the evolution and the lines of force of a creative gesture. In this frame of mind the "epistolary space" of Flaubert is questioning literature itself
Chagraoui, Mohamed. "Une dynamique libérale à la fin du XVIIe siècle 1863-1709 (pratique littéraire, idéologies et société)." Rennes 2, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994REN20040.
Full textThe present sudy sets out to chart a late 17th century liberal problematic in the development of ideas, themes and literary representations in france. The mercantile conception of the real, controlling human relationships, produces the evolution of history, of society and of the ideas which convey man's conception of history and society in the form of tendancies: the tendancy to promote exchange, exchange value, motivation based on financial interests, the tendancy to exacerbate egocentricity, the tendancy which leads to the formation of a class of owners and manipulators of money and to the conquest and colonisation of the world. These movements express themselves in a new literary practice opposed to classicism, that is to say opposed to order, to measure, to the respecting of rules within a literature closed in upon itself and upon human psychology. This practice takes the form of remarks, reflections and diverse thoughts, characters, dialogues and dictionaries. These new literary forms can be explained by their critical function in relation to the established order and their reaction to the new human condition is characterised by oppositionned ideas irreductible to the hitherto dominant ideology or to the aesthetic norms which it imposed