Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Littérature française du XXIe siècle'
Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles
Consult the top 50 dissertations / theses for your research on the topic 'Littérature française du XXIe siècle.'
Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.
You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.
Browse dissertations / theses on a wide variety of disciplines and organise your bibliography correctly.
Brière, Emilie. "Ecrire la souffrance de l'enfant au tournant du XXie siècle : le récit à l'épreuve de l'innommable." Lille 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011LIL30051.
Full textThis thesis is dedicated to the analysis of six novels published in France during the last fifteen years that explore childhood suffering : Viol by Danièle Sallenave (1997), L'Enfant éternel by Phiippe Forest (1997), Le Cri du sablier by Chloé delaume (2001), Tom est mort by Marie Darrieussecq (2007), Les Mains gamines by Emmanuelle Pagano (2008) and Un Petit viol by Ludovic Degroote (2009). Although the unhappy childhood has long been addressed in fiction, these novels operate a unique deflection in their treatment of the theme. While acknowledging that this scandal defies reason, the authors of these texts, rather than attempting to explain, seek to invent the linguistic, stylistic and narrative means by which to express childhood suffering, without diminishing its unfathomable nature. In diverse ways, each looks to reproduce within the text is failure of reason, to question where axiology commands definitive judgements. According to these authors, the suffering of the child, before it can be denounced, must first be announced. In this way, the treatment of this theme may be perceived as a touchstone for speech, language, narrative - literature itself. The study of this corpus first requires meticulous analyses that employ tools and concepts drawn from diverse theories and methodes - linguistics, stylistics, rhetoric, pragmatics, semiotics, narratology -, in order to shed light on the semantics and semiotoc displacements operated by the six authors on the lexicon and the usual modes of signification. In the spirit of the sociocritical perspective, the results of these analysis wil lthen be projected upon the French imaginaire social for the purpose of assessing the epistemological pertinence and the uniqueness of these literary strategies in regard to other contemporary discursive practices
Wilson, Jean. "Images du clown dans la littérature française du XXe siècle." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=64067.
Full textIssaiyan, Mokhtar. "Les poètes iraniens du XXe siècle devant la littérature française." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014STRAC010.
Full textThis thesis examines the way Iranian poets of XXth century welcomed French literature and the role it played, first in the modernisation process of Persian poetry and secondly, in the emergence of a new poetics. In this regard, this thesis seeks to analyse and to understand the relationships that Iranian authors developed with French literary works and how its western influence pervaded their own productions. This research relates the story of a literature in search of renewal, which finally leads, through the poet Nima, to the rise of a New Poetry (Še’r-e now). This thesis offers a lecture of this poetry, in the light of the French works that influenced it, and gives keys to comprehend Nimaian poetics and its concepts
Graa, Asma. "L'autofiction au féminin : une relecture de l'identité sexuelle féminine dans la littérature française et francophone au tournant du XXe et XXIe siècle." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016TOU20130.
Full textWhat is a feminine identity and what is a sexual identity? This question was widely discussed in order to settle on a precise definition in the light of different approaches such as sociology, psychoanalysis and epistemology. This fad towards the identity concept keeps growing to be a fashion trend. Nevertheless, besides its moving nature, constantly changes its outlines and criteria. The notion of identity is formed according to social and political contexts proper to each society but more importantly to their use by the individual. Thus, along with this identity ferment, we wanted to analyze a set of self-narratives both motley and heterogeneous at the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The first objective behind this study is to highlight the diversity of women’s writings but also highlight the recursive identity building process through the different approaches used to focus on multiple and federating social contexts in the studies pieces. The multidisciplinary method allowed a permeability to the literature by shifting it further from a holistic to an open and democratic one
Camus, Audrey. "Le pays imaginaire dans la littérature narrative française du XXe siècle." Paris 3, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA030012.
Full textFrom Atlantis to Balkhyrie, all the way through Liliput, we survey, in our reader's life, several countries that are not accounted for by any maps. In our memory, all those imaginary lands form a distinct territory that subsumes the diversity of their cultural and temporal idiosyncrasies, as it does for their disparate vocations and their various contextual meanings. However, the imaginary land, because it transcends generic and chronological borders, has a tendency to evade categorial acknowledgement. This work intends to understand its contemporary existence, which is as indeniable as it is problematic, by analysing the theoretic reasons of its misunderstanding as well as the mecanisms that permits its reading, and ultimately proposing that they result from its fundamental atopy
Gaiotti, Florence. "Les expériences de la parole dans la littérature de jeunesse au tournant du XXIe siècle." Rennes 2, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007REN20020.
Full textChildren’s literature represents an autonomous, though not close on itself, literary realm. All the changes that took place in the early 70’s might be seen as signs of avant-garde trends, but they link the young audience’s demands to this era’s esthical, moral and ideological concerns. One will show in what ways contemporary narratives intented for the young can be considered as speech experiments : these woks, which specifically reflect the metamorphoses of the novel throughout the XXth century and claim for a new type of reader, also propose a new image of children. Through studies of various novels and picture-books intented for readers between the age of six and twelve, which were published between 1984 and 2004, one will see how authors try out original experiments on narrative and enunciation, thus calling for new forms of reading. That is why these works will be explored as tests or adventures for the subject and his speech, under a doublefold perspective : from both the artistic creation and the esthetic reception. Will be first analysed different patterns of creative experiments – those shared by a group of authors, and by publishing companies (e. G. Le Rouergue), as well as those specific to one writer such as Philippe Corentin. This theoretical model will then be confronted to actual and singular readings that pupils can make of them in school
Yuan, Yuan. "Réception et création : les littératures féminines française et chinoise au XXe siècle." Besançon, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010BESA1015.
Full textThis study aims at probing, measuring and describing the relationship between the Chinese and French female literature of the twentieth century. It concentrates particularly on the most representative female writers from both countries and their works that reflect female consciousness. The Chinese female writing in the 1920s-1940s shows strong feminist thought, similar to French female writing of the period. However, there was no direct communication between these two female literatures and the influence of French literature on the first generation of contemporary Chinese female writers came from males writers. The French feminist literary theory formed during the 1970s has become the theoretical pivot and practical model for the Chinese female writing in the 1990s, yet continually influenced by Chinese female writing in the 1920s-1940s. The use of the comparative method helps to show that Chinese contemporary female literature is “the fruit” of the combination of the development of Chinese female literature herself, the influences of western feminist theories and western literature, especially French literature
Hébert, Sophie Clémentine. "Pour une poétique du carnet dans la littérature française du XXe siècle." Thesis, Grenoble, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014GRENL018.
Full textOriginally a medium of genesis, both textual and intellectual, an archetypal memory space, the notebook also develops, thanks to the specific writing conditions it favorises, the poetics of attention and regard from which « incident » (Barthes) style and seizure of the moment style emanate directly. The formal discontinuity that these styles create, World writing rather than writings of Self, seems, on the other hand, to encourage the poetics of the anti-journal – perceptible from both the metatextual and formal points of view. Moreover, in the notebook, specific and complex etha unfold, based upon subtle dialectics situated between the « in » and the « out ». Finally, the question of transforming a notebook into a book has to be asked, from the angle of publication as well as in it's reception : which editorial protocol should be priviledged ? What type of reader for a writer's notebook ?
Baranès-Gorelick, Gisèle. "Permanence du mythe du Minotaure dans la littérature française du XXe siècle." Paris 3, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA030026.
Full textThe myth of the Minotaur is the symbol of the fight of the conscious against the unconscious. We think that M. Yourcenar has used the schema of the Psyche given by Jung, and that she has built each one of her personages according to it. The labyrinth would be the Unconscious, and the Minotaur would represent the Self, that has to be to explore without fear to find in it the hidden energy that will allow us to fight against our human condition and to reach the eternity. Ariane would incarnate the Anima, who, to reach the Unconscious, has to take the bridge of the Animus, (Thesée). But Thesée lack the moral strength to play this role, so Ariane changes her mind and decide to choose the Buddhist way of life that will allow her, with no help, to reach the Nirvana, after having accomplished the necessary purifications. Montherlant has preferred to focuse his play on the personage of Pasiphae. She is the symbol of the right to undifferentiated love; her main revendication is the right to love all of God's creatures without distinction. We think that such an interpretation of this part of the myth reveals the real problem of Montherlant: the desire for incest. With the help of Freud's psychoanalysis, explained by J. Chasseguet-Smirgel, we have studied the perversion of Montherlant. It seems that he has reported his love for his mother on young boys and on animals. The writing of this play was for him a myth therapy because it has given to him a way to realize, in imagination, his forbidden love. For both authors, this myth has offered a model of behaviour, the hope and the mean to realize one's self. Because of that, we can say that this myth is still relevant in the XXth Century
Debaene, Vincent. "Les Deux Livres de l'ethnographe : l'éthnologie française au XXe siècle: entre science et littérature." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA040209.
Full textThis study reviews the history of the relationship between literature and the social sciences in France during the 20th century from the vantage point of a particular discipline, ethnology. It is a striking fact that several members of the first generation of ethnographers published two books, one “literary”, one “scientific”. The most famous cases are those of Michel Leiris, author of L’Afrique fantôme (1934) and of La Langue secrète des Dogons de Sanga (1938), and Claude Lévi-Strauss, who wrote both La Vie familiale et sociale des Indiens Nambikwara (1948) and Tristes tropiques (1955). There is further proof of this inter-disciplinary confrontation between science and literature in the work of Alfred Métraux, Marcel Griaule, and Jacques Soustelle, among others. The first part of this study considers the foundation of the ethnology; a second part locates the discipline in the context of travel-writing in the twentieth century. The central part of the thesis is then devoted to an historical and epistemological investigation which interprets the emergence of the social sciences in terms of a final prolongation of the crisis of “Belles-Lettres”, the crisis which began at the turn of the nineteenth century (during the years in which the opposition between science and literature began to crystallise). What is at stake here is a complex process whereby "the artist was dispossesed by the scientist" (Lanson), whereby the social sciences came to adapt the knowledge of man hitherto reserved to literature and so dissolve the ties between literature and anthropology that had formerly been sustained by rhetoric. A fourth and final part of the thesis qualifies this pessimistic assessment by analysing in more detail the modes of articulation that, in practice, may relate literary writing and scientific speech
Chvedova, Lioudmila. "Métaphores de la cathédrale médiévale dans les littératures russe et française des XIXe et XXe siècles." Paris 4, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA040118.
Full textThis comparative research project is devoted to the study of the system of metaphors for the Medieval cathedral in French and Russian literatures of the XIXth and XXth centuries. The classical metaphors of cathedral as book, cathedral as living being and cathedral as vegetable organism are at the core of the present work. The actual and physical cathedral progressively dematerializes and turns into a mysterious cathedral engulfed in water or into a precarious cathedral of mist. Rehabilitated and valorized by the Romantics, the Medieval building itself starts acting as a model for comparison, entailing a complete reversal of metaphors. A symbol of the holy and a place of worship, the religious building gets completely metamorphisized by the writers' pen. The amazing diversity of literary representations of the cathedral strike and touch by their sheer beauty as a real kaleideoscope of images, surprising the reader by their originality and depth
Furgiuele, Gianpaolo. "La malédiction littéraire et les auteurs maudits au XXe siècle : stratégie éditoriale et usage d'un mythe en régime médiatique." Thesis, Paris 10, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA100120.
Full textThis thesis seeks to examine the persistence and the evolution of Literary damnation into the French literary scene of XIXth and XXth centuries. Using an multidisciplinary approach, French literature, comparative literature and sociology, I will show how this myth remains active and prolific. Far from the perspective of a sacred vision of literature finally I will show how the image of the accursed authors is always inserted in a true editorial strategy. My work shows how a phenomen on which belongs to the literary life was able to exceed this domain to influence other disciplines, like the music, the movies or the comics
Zhou, Jing. "L'image de Pékin dans la littérature française du XXe siècle (Pierre Loti, Victor Segalen,Pierre-Jean Remy, Suzanne Bernard)." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018MON30037/document.
Full textIn this thesis, the subject we wanted to discuss is that of the representation and transfigurations of the foreign city in French writing. We have chosen the works of Pierre Loti, Victor Segalen, Pierre-Jean Remy and Suzanne Bernard, in order to explain the subject with the help of concrete examples, that is to say by analyzing the image of the city of Beijing in different French works of the twentieth century. During this study, we take a deep look at the image of Beijing, and especially at its historical evolution, as described by the authors of the different periods that we have presented. We chose to study this evolution of Beijing's image from three dimensions. The first dimension is that of the city history, as well as that of its presence in the literary text and its influence on representation. This is a rather geocritical approach that examines the relationships between human spaces and literature. The second dimension is the Beijing signs’ dimension. We will study the texts according to an imagological perspective, focusing on how the writer transcribes reality, as well as on the representation of the object of study. Finally, the third dimension is about the evolution of novelistic forms and writing
Hotineanu, Eleonora. "La dimension française dans la poésie roumaine de Bessarabie du XXe siècle." Thesis, Paris 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA030004.
Full textThis comparative research suggests the essential points of French dimension of the Bessarabian poetry in the twentieth century. The explicit example of the French imaging, decisive for synchronization, indeed literary postsynchronisation of the Romanian space (including Bessarabian) with the western world, has always manifested. During this imagological migration receipt of the foreign element involves the concept of time. The historical linear time of a society is against the cyclical time of the image, if not the stereotype. The crisis of time obliges the identity crisis. In the context of local literary quest for identity is changing with the implicit aesthetic research. The borrowed motifs, in most cases of French descent, mythical or paramythical, recurring or occasional - everything is invoked to connect the marginal literature with a coveted center, whether Romanian, French, European ... The work is structured around the reiterative theme (travel, island, city ...) or singular (Cythere, Guernica ...). An important place occupies the themes poetry and painting, landscape and identity research, and the study of cultural anthropology "Myth or Paramyth“. Much of the text is given to monitoring imagological of the French presence in totalitarian regimes. Following a stereotyped mentality, the French image becomes, respectively, symptomatic. Moreover, it represents a cultural outlet. Decisive for the constitution of the Bessarabian aesthetic imagination, the phenomenon of reminiscence and intertextuality contribute to the emergence of a poetic picture varied and disparate
Bahuet-Gachet, Delphine. "L'espace dans les nouvelles fantastiques françaises et italiennes du XXe siècle : 1940-1960." Bordeaux 3, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996BOR30003.
Full textThe space delineated by the texts of the corpus is discontinuous, heteregeneous, it is structured by the opposition between daily space and "different space" : the latter can be an "unusual space" (becoming strangely disquieting) or a fantastic space (belonging to an other universe). The protagonist can enter "different space" as the result of a physical movement (travelling, getting over boundaries) or a lapse of consciousness (sleep, fainting fits): it often happens at a guide's instigation. Coming back into the daily world is impossible or difficult. The new space unveils its difference. A particular light is necessary : the quality of the light and also the symbolic value of the moments play a part in the creation of the fantastic. "different space" causes a sense of anguish which can take two shapes. The fantastic of emptiness is linked to spaces excessively vast, hostile to man or deserted by him : space seems to be dilating. In the fantastic of confinement, on the contrary, space seems to be contracting : the part of the boundary (particularly the walls of the house) is then essential. Very often, "different space" undergoing a metamorphosis reveals a labyrinthine structure, but in fantastic the initiatic progression through the maze is conducive to dysphoria. Fantastic spaces strictly speaking presuppose the existence of a distinct universe, but the latter encroaches upon ours : these spaces can be be enclaves in our three-dimensional space but often their very localization is a supernatural phenomenon
Chassain, Adrien. "Fragments d'avenir : le livre à venir et son annonce aux crépuscules du régime moderne d’historicité (XVIe / XXe siècles) : une poétique sociale du projet." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 8, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA080091.
Full textThis dissertation aims at examining the issue of the imagined book while avoiding its characterization in terms of failure, incompleteness, loss and spectre, which are prevalent in contemporary literary studies. As it approaches the diverse phenomenon of the imagined book on the basis of its deliberate articulations, instead of precluding their discussion, this study is grounded in a formal approach which endeavours to circumscribe a small genre characterized by the announcement of one or several upcoming book(s), thereby coming close to the ars poetica or the manifesto but remaining irreducible to the two genres. The term in use in book and publishing history being that of prospectus, I thus termed the genre I delineated, with a focus on its first-person, autographical form, its typically public, “serious” dimension, whether as an autonomous text or as a part of a larger body of text. The first chapter resorts to poetics, to the pragmatics of language acts and to textual genetics to offer a synchronic poetics of the prospectus and outline its formal possibilities. The following two chapters look at two historical periods: the second half of the 16th century and the early 17th century first, then the second half of the 20th century and the early 21st century. This study therefore explores the edges of the modern regime of historicity with its emphasis on the future and its promises – transition periods marked by the transformation of time imaginaries. It is also grounded in an analysis of forms and discourses. As such, it probes the social expression of a certain sense of the future, as mediated by (present and potential) writing and publishing, as well as by the dynamics of a diverse field of literature
Macé, Marielle. "L'essai littéraire en France au XXe siècle." Paris 4, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA040199.
Full textTari, Bita. "L'inscription de l'épistolaire dans le roman français du XXe siècle : les approches littéraire et didactique." Paris 3, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA030070.
Full textThe central question of this thesis revolves around the analysis of the interaction between epistolary and novelistic forms and the didactic possibilities of this interaction in the context of teaching French as a foreign language. The relationship between text and context implies the study of the enunciation in the exposition scenes. The elaboration of the theory of “scenography” enables us to deal with thoughts, ideas, points of view, ideologies, etc. When they are presented in the epistolary form within the fictional context of the novel. The approach adopted here involves two analyses: the first is an analysis of discourse, inspired by pragmatic theories, which consist in studying the epistolary form as a discursive activity within which the enunciation cannot be dissociated from a system of communication; the second analysis, which is didactic, borrows from social sciences, which deals with the conflation of three elements : the text, the enunciator and the reader/learner. The improvised nature of the epistolary form enables the learner to write freely with the aim of communicating. Through a process of identification, the learner takes the place of the letter writer to enter the fictional universe of the novel and to recognise certain moral and cultural values in the target language. The dialogical, interactive and hyper-generic frame of the letter incites the reader/learner to accept a specific worldview of the author who is positioned in the literary field constituted as “social space”. Acceptance of this “authorial world” is dependent on the expectations and cultural baggage of the learner, those having been formed by his reading habits and the approaches to reading imposed by social norms
LeBouthillier, Myriam. "«Un violon sous la mer» suivi de Réflexion sur l'intégration d'éléments socio-historiques dans l'écriture du roman: l'exemple d'un roman se déroulant en Europe au tournant du XXe siècle." Thesis, Université Laval, 2013. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2013/30344/30344.pdf.
Full textBigault, Agnès. "L'Humaine condition, Thierry Maulnier humaniste du XXe siècle." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA040067.
Full textWho is Thierry Maulnier? The evidence is that he can't be distinguished from the movement of the Action Française. From the documents and interviews, we can construct a biographical synthesis. It replaces Thierry Maulnier in his context. Thierry Maulnier invites to think about the meaning of writing and the link between writer and society. We can observe that recurrent phenomena in his work “ The human condition” justify his reflexion. When reversing the Malraux's formula, he insists upon the deep human caractere of our condition. We will observe, through his theater and his essays, “Les vaches sacrées”, how does he approach the question of human condition, and of god. We also can ask us the question of the modernity of his work. We discover in Thierry Maulnier a paradoxal man but not incoherent. He shares with others his doubts, and also his revolts, and his surprises towards life. With lots of freedom, he asks the world: he is a perpetual searcher who likes to move “quiet consciousness”. No distress in that, but a joy to share the same questions
Jung, Shu-june Cléo. "Contribution à l'étude comparée des systèmes poétiques chinois et français depuis l'époque Zhou jusqu'à l'aube du XXe siècle." Metz, 1993. http://docnum.univ-lorraine.fr/public/UPV-M/Theses/1993/Shu_June_1.LMZ934.pdf.
Full textIt concernes about a poetic study, included in the humain science limite of general and comparative study, with the first ambition to outline the most importants poetic systems of the world, in order to a synthetic comprehension. This study holds essentially the difference and the deviation between chinese and french poetique systems, but it won't renounce their likeness, and try to realize the raison of their difference
Di, Méo Nicolas. "Entre décadence et mise en ordre du monde : le cosmopolitisme dans la littérature française de la première moitié du XXe siècle." Bordeaux 3, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007BOR30039.
Full textMy doctoral dissertation studies the problem of cosmopolitanism in French literature in the years 1890-1950 by relating it to the various manners of conceiving the unity and the diversity of humanity at the time. Cosmopolitanism was often linked to the notion of decadence, many authors holding it responsible for cultural uniformization and for the decline of national identities. To many writers of the period, insisting on diversity by constructing strong differences between nations was a way of criticizing modernity, which they deemed both absurd and chaotic. However, the relationship between nationalism and cosmopolitanism was far more complex and the latter often became a component of patriotic discourses. Indeed, French identity was frequently built on the theme of unity within diversity. This ideological construction was aimed at explaining France’s alleged extraordinary openness to the world, that is to say France’s unique ability to welcome and assimilate foreign influences without losing its own cultural personality. Even those who advocated internationalist or universalistic ideologies also emphasized the importance of cultural diversity. In many attempts to reorganize the world, such as Marguerite Yourcenar’s Mémoires d’Hadrien, published in 1951, cultural differences were used and exploited rather than called into question
Risterucci-Roudnicky, Danielle. "La réception de la littérature française du XXe siècle en RDA (1949-1990) ou l'histoire d'une utopie : contribution à une réflexion sur les transferts littéraires et culturels." Paris 4, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA040113.
Full textTo what extent do the methods applied by literary reception from foreign literature differ from those applied on the national scale? This controversial question led to the investigation of the acceptance of the French literature of the twentieth century (1949-1990) in the GDR by literary reception. The thesis' first aim is to define a method which may be transferred to similar research projects. The data, a bibliography computerized phenix, which has been added to this thesis on cd-rom and which contains all the information on the transposition and spreading of the French literature in the GDR, were subjected to the examination of the three following points of analysis : cultural, peritextual and systemic. This bibliography, constituting the research data, was discussed by taking into consideration "intersystemic anomalies", and has led to results which allow the distinction of different "stages of transfer" and a definition of a body of "problematic" literature, i. E. Literary works which were often subject to controversial discussions ending in non-acceptance in the GDR. Thus, this special situation, the "threefold literary discussion" defined by the country of origin of the literature in question, the country of transfer (GDR) and a third country which influenced by ways of exchange (USSR), i. E, a research context characterized by intrasystemic anomalies, has determined the second part of this thesis. Finally, the analysis of the intersystemic anomalies was based on the different ways of literary publication (reviews, single literary works and anthologies)
Parisse, Lydie. "Modèle mystique et littérature à l'aube du XXe siècle : rupture et perte dans l'œuvre de Léon Bloy." Montpellier 3, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002MON30041.
Full textPaulian, Claire. "Les Métamorphoses d’Ovide, la transmission du perdu et la constitution de l’ovidianisme à la fin du XXe siècle et au début du XXIe siècle : dans les littératures de langue anglaise, allemande et française." Paris 8, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA083252.
Full textStarting from a corpus of English, German and French rewritings and translations, this work aims to interpret the critical and literary revival of which The Metamorphoses of Ovid have been the object over the course of the past 20 plus years. The rewritings of the Metamorphoses are testimonies to their globalization. They evoke a reading of Ovid that privileges an aesthetic of variation which reflects upon the manner in which we now constitute the corpus of world literature. These rewritings also make resonate the mediations which have assured the transmission of Ovid and offer up to reflection the times that come back to us through the ancient translations, in particular that of A. Golding. By exposing the memory from which the obvious continuity of the classical is woven, these rewritings interrogate the often repressed historicity of national languages and literatures. The times which are resurrected through the coming back of secondary and ancient works allow them thus to speak the fragile memory of that which History has forgotten. They likewise allow for the connection between the returning time of literary memories and the elaboration of a post-colonial literature
Girard, Estelle. "Le monstre dans la littérature d'horreur anglo-américaine et franco-québécoise du XXe siècle." Aix-Marseille 1, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002AIX10014.
Full textYounes, Kaddis Youssef Anwar. "La société bourgeoise française au XIXe et au XXe siècle vue par les écrivains contemporains." Strasbourg, 2011. https://publication-theses.unistra.fr/public/theses_doctorat/2011/YOUNES_KADDIS_YOUSSEF_Anwar_2011.pdf.
Full textWriting history by depending on the literature may seem surprising. Thus history can be seen as a human science its purpose is the study of the past, while the literature book written within a culture, age and gender. So we can say that the literature can serve as a literary source as well as any other historical document. Consequently, I do not find its difficult to select some literary works that serve my research and help me to describe the bourgeois community at that time as correct as possible. The study is divided into four parts. The first part is examining the bourgeois community, during the Restoration and the July Monarchy, according to Balzac's Father Goriot. In the second part of the thesis, i discussed the bourgeois community during the Second French Empire through the works of of Georges Feydeau and those of Zola. The third part is entitled « bourgeois community at the beginning of First World War as seen by Roger Martin du Gard. » and the last part of the thesis deals with the French bourgeois community between the two major wars according to the autobiography of Simone de Beauvoir « Memoirs of a willful Daughter ». [. . . ]
Abdulla-Begikhani, Nazand. "La femme kurde dans les littératures européennes principalement française et anglaise du XIXe et du début du XXe siècle." Paris 3, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA030161.
Full textThis thesis turns to the representation of the kurdish woman in the european literature - traveler's account genre - of ninteenth and the beginning of twentieth century. For this purpose, we have favored the two richest literatures of this genre: the french and the english literature. All through the research, this representation is studied, relativised, problematised, and put in text. The work is not considered to be historical or sociological neither purely literary. Nevertheless, some of the texts, present a documentary, historical and sociological - more than literary - interest which justify our approach relatively linked to their representative quality
Knebusch, Julien. "L'ouverture au(x) monde(s) dans la poésie française au début du XXe siècle." Thesis, Paris 3, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA030111.
Full textThis dissertation explores the emergence of a poetics of diversity through an analysis of large and diversified journeys into the world during the first three decades of the 20th century by proceeding in an interdisciplinary way that combines history, geography, and poetics. The corpus concerns at least two generations of poets [1880 and 1900] that comprise a large ensemble of both well-known and unknown poets [such as Saint-John Perse and Levet] whose work hasn’t yet been studied deeply [Larbaud, Nau, Supervielle, Morand, Romains] or remains largely unknown to us [Durtain, Levet, Brauquier, Nau, for example]. The dissertation shows that these poets, interacting within a political, cultural, and literary context, understand the world as a global space-time and open themselves to its diversity, attempting to comprehend it in a creative tension with the « Divers ». The dissertation interrogates the literary geography of this dynamic of extroversion by concentrating on the referent and by exploring space as a modality of a relationship to the world, which makes it possible to render visible a geopoetics of journeys through the world, renewing literary forms by putting them into dialogue with geographical forms, as well as allowing a geocritique of images of the world, diversely constructed by accentuating places, journeys, or landscapes which may become international. Approaching the poem in this way allows one to reevaluate the cosmopolitanism and international culture of these poets who tried, in various ways, to conciliate openness to diversity, rootedness in places and a give culture as well as demand for world unity
Sounac, Frédéric. "Modèle musical et composition romanesque dans la littérature française et allemande du XXe siècle : genèse et visages d'une utopie esthétique." Paris, EHESS, 2003. https://acces.bibliotheque-diderot.fr/login?url=https://doi.org/10.15122/isbn.978-2-8124-3042-8.
Full text"This is my grand piano": these words in themselves, handwritten in french by Thomas Mann on a photograph of his desk sent to his translator, Louise Servicen, betray the dreamy assimilation of a novel writting to musical composing. Why does the author of Doktor Faustus consider his works as "good scores"? A novel, as welle as the full activity of the mind, are they comparable to a brilliant counterpoint exercise, as Hermann Hesse suggests in Das Glasperlenspiel? Did Proust's hypermnesia really had, jusy before turning into writting, to be associated with the redeeming Septuor? Beginning with the literary theory of first german Romantism, contemporary of a stream of "absolutisation" of instrumental music among arts, this work is intended to go back to the sources of a genuine aesthetic utopia: the use of musical devices in fiction. As a paradigm in the idealist and historicist thought that Jean-Marie Schaeffer calls " Speculative theory of art", music becomes an intellectual category, particulary with Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Adorno, Lévi-Strauss and Barhes. The theory concerned, thus, leads the study of french and german texts, including, among those already mentionned, novels by André Gide, Hermann Broch, Hans Henny Jahnn, Michel Butor, and many other contemporary writers. The hypothesis of a musical ideality of the novel, which was actually already noticeable in some of Friedrich Schlegel's analyses (most of all his famous reading of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister), is consequently the purpose of this research. With the help of the concept of meloform, musical ideal is first studied as a key to the romantic modern "Poem"; then as the aim of some novels including a reflexive meditation on musical composition; and eventually as the practice of authors experimenting with the adaptation of musical structures to narrative fiction
Colin, Claire. "L'événement dans la nouvelle contemporaine (domaines américain, français, italien)." Phd thesis, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00951979.
Full textNamane, Farid. "L’écriture de la guerre d’Algérie au XXIe siècle : écrivains français, écrivains algériens, regards croisés sur un événement historique." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2019. http://docnum.univ-lorraine.fr/ulprive/DDOC_T_2019_0215_NAMANE.pdf.
Full textMore than an half-century after its end, "the algerian war" continues to inspire the novelists of the both Mediterranean sides. Considered as such (a war) in 1999 by the French parliament , this war makes noise in every literary return.our thesis subject , is going to be a comparative analysis of the Algerian and French fiction writings concerning the Algerian war : how a common historical event can be interpreted in fictions differently? After the reading of French novels, we noticed that it’s always a story of military who goes to war and the description is characterized by such exoticism and astonishment. On the other hand, the Algerian writer couldn’t go beyond the war; it’s always present , as an important event by which we should go through to enter in literature: it’s a « location of memory ». Because of these différents points of views we suggest the reading of the main corpus composed of a set of novels edited in XXI st: Rachid Boudjedra Les figuiers de barbarie (2010), Anouar Benmalek Le Rapt (2009), Jérôme Ferrari Où j’ai laissé mon âme (2010), Laurent Mauvignier Des Hommes (2009). In order to do this work properly , we will add an other corpus to the novels mentioned above which had been published during the first years of the independence to the beginning of the 2000 and that in order to see the evolution of the french and Algerian fiction writing theme
Touboul, Anaëlle. ""Histoires de fous". Approche de la folie dans le roman français du XXe siècle." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCA123/document.
Full textHaunting our collective imagination, the madman has always been laden with symbolic significance. The myth of madness is abundantly present in literature, however those characters with an actual mental illness are ultimately overshadowed. While mental patients are pushed to the margins of literature, just as they are pushed to the outskirts of society, this particular cultural legend of madness develops during the nineteenth century in Romantic and fantastic literature and stays in the spotlight at the beginning of the following century through the avant-garde artists. In contrast to the aforementioned representation of madness, a number of novelists of the twentieth century, including Georges Duhamel, André Baillon, Julien Green, Henry de Montherlant or Alexandre Vialatte, brought on a literary shift away from “madness” towards “the madman” – from the myth to the individual. The focus of this piece of work is on the modality and logic leading to the emancipation of the figure of the madman and its affirmation as an autonomous subject – in every sense of the world – in the literary field. These fictional stories, where the alienated consciousness is both the focus and the main subject of the narrative, present the reader with an almost familiar madness. They don’t idealize insanity but provide representations of almost ordinary disorders, which affect a banal character living a modest life. Through their semantic, syntactic and pragmatic preferences, these stories form a fictional “sub-genre”, called “histoires de fous”. This research aims at determining the generic features of these novels and at considering the way madness questions the means and powers of fiction. Another purpose is to shed light on how literature helps us understand this inconceivable experience, which represents the other side of the commonly shared human experience of reason and logic, and to study how novelists help to reveal as well as reshape the characterization of this social and cultural topic
Hamdane, Dima. "Victor Segalen et Henri Michaux : deux visages caractéristiques de l'exotisme dans la poésie française du XXe siècle." Paris 4, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA040223.
Full textKefalidou, Charikleia Magdalini. "Mythe, symbole et identité à l’épreuve de l’entre-deux : l’écriture de l’arménité en France et aux États-Unis du début du XXe siècle à nos jours." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019SORUL155.
Full textThe present thesis focuses on the ways that writers from diaspora communities reinterpret and contextualize their Armenian ethnic background, myths ( ancient-historical and new) and symbols, problematizing exile, immigration and trauma in order to find their place in the literary field of their adoptive countries. Drawing on the diversity of Armenian diaspora communities and the variety of diasporic experiences, our aim is to reveal the procedures of reinterpretation of myths, symbols and other elements making up the Armenian ethnic identity, reterritorialized in different social and ethnic contexts, aiming to examine the evolution of this ethnic background though a diachronic perspective. Our comparative analysis deals with French and English-language writers of Armenian origin from two big diaspora communities of the West: the French-Armenian community and the Armenian-American community
Courrèges, Yann. "La ville méditerranéenne dans le roman de langue française au XXe siècle : types et imaginaire, de Marseille et Nice à Alger et Oran." Montpellier 3, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005MON30014.
Full textThe french language novel often evokes the mediterranean town but it is less as a picturesque decor than as particuliar place where an area can be revealed and shows strange and bizarre human way, as oppose to what can be expected. Marseilles and Algiers, to some extend Nice and Oran, were or are privileged places of that peculiarity. From the first XIXth century novelists to Blaise Cendrars, Jean Giono, Albert Cohen, Jean-Marie Le Clézio - for Marseilles and Nice -, from Albert Camus to Boualem Sansal or Yasmina Khadra - for Algiers and Oran -, it is the same fascination for towns which seem to be uncommon. In the novel, that permanence expresses by narrations with stupefying topics with characters who are very far from classical heroes : degradation, dereliction, self hate are the rule, the mediterranean town seeming to lead to them
Vauthier, Eric. "Nouvelle et cruauté dans les lettres de langue française de la fin du Xxe siècle." Toulouse 2, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005TOU2A001.
Full textThis thesis is about the short story genre inspired by cruelty and darkness. We discuss the “cruel short story” main formal and thematic characteristics and show that this kind of fiction is especially suited for the writer to express the social, political, moral and even metaphysical anguishes of his time. We study several diverse short stories published by french, belgian, swiss and quebec french authors during the twentieth century last decades, a particularly rich moment for the “cruel short story” due to the Occident value crisis. We analysed in detail five representative short story-tellers' works of this cruelty movement that has been prominent in short fiction since 1965 : Marcel MARIËN, Jacques CHESSEX, Daniel WALTHER, Hubert HADDAD and Nadine MONFILS
Racine, Noële. "Les poètes au théâtre." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20671.
Full textLesiewicz, Sophie. "Le « livre (typo)graphique », 1890 à nos jours : un objet littéraire et éditorial innommé. Identification critique et pratique." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019SACLV025.
Full textThis thesis was formulated as an investigation into the lake of works treating of iconic scripturality in trough the history of book and publishing, and also the absence of any definition of the category to regroup them equally within this discipline as in literature, history of graphism, semiotic, history of art. Our initial hypothesis is that this category relates to the “graphic book”. It is trough specialist in literature, either in an approach by writer or passing through a close study of visual poetry, that certain of this works have been treated, with lacunae common to the discipline. In order to usefully complete the research work, it would seem essential to take on board a pluridisciplinary approach, emphasizing the technical history. These criteria allowed us to differentiate within the domain of the graphic book, the (typo)graphic book, around the (calli)graphic, (dactyl)graphic, etc., and to elect to focus upon the first subcategory, so as to justify our second hypothesis, that of a convulsion, in reaction to the meccanization of this industry at the end of the nineteen century through the decade of 1980’s. The incunabula typographiae would find its response five centuries later in the (typo)graphic book as ultima typographiae.The first part consists of a theoretical identification of the (typo)graphic book. An historiographical investigation would analyses epistemological barriers of the critical treatment of our object whilst bringing to light our conceptual tools: the thesis of Johanna Drucker and Anne-Marie Christin. Subsequently, establishing an history of (typo)graphic book and then, the definition of a group of generic traits and typologies.The second section is made up of a research into the producers of (typo)graphic books, as seen through the prism of the authors. The first chapter is based upon history of literature and thus proceeds by literary movement. Bearing in mind, this method is prey to tween dangers. First of all, the strictly specific nature of the study, the graphic book, but not text, implies a technical approach but also genetical in the editorial sense which would rather favour from an editor’s angle. Furthermore, it appears that a certain number of authors of (typo)graphic books, quiet paradoxically were not accounted for in this first selection. So, this allows us to articulate two new hypothesis. Firstly the (typo)graphic book seems also to be typified by authors involved in a discourse around art and the changing nature of the appropriation of the later by the poets, in itself one of the causes of the development of our object. Therefore, in the second chapter it would be a matter of highlighting the common thread uniting the productions of Claudel, Segalen, du Bouchet and Tardieu to conclude with the form of literary appropriation of pictorial processes of the (typo)graphic books. Secondly, we shall propose an equivalence between their (typo)graphic books and the literate painting, basing ourselves upon their critical texts and transposition of art and upon the last thesis of A.-M. Christin. At the clothe of the second section, one is still faced by the same difficulties that the great majority of identified typographical books hasn’t being catalogued.The third part would comprise of an overview from the publishers’ perspective. A much more productive result will allow us to formulate our fifth hypothesis: the (typo)graphic book is above all a publisher’s book. The first chapter will concentrate upon five evolutions of this producer. In the last chapter, we shall examine more specifically the production of the “typographic poet”. We shall establish a causal link between the total mastery of the production chain of this worker man of letters and the fact he became the most important contributor of (typo)graphic book.Reaching its conclusion, the thesis seeks to constitute, a counter-history of the illustrated book or a complement of that of the creative book
Józan, Ildikó. "Les poètes hongrois du début de XXe siècle, traducteurs des symbolistes français : esquisse d'une théorie de la traduction." Paris 3, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA030051.
Full textIn the beginning of the 20th century the translation of foreign (western) literature played an important role in the modernisation of Hungarian literature. The renewal of Hungarian literature and the formation of modernist poetry occours in the works and translations of Mihály Babits, Dezső Kosztolányi, Árpád Tóth and Lőrinc Szabó, who are important translators and authors of the review Nyugat (The West). Following their translations and theory of it, literary historians of the second part of the 20th century emphasized two categories, namely fidelity and equivalence when studying translation as creative method, or interpreting and reading translated texts. The main focus of my research is to examine this translation interpretative discourse historically and theoretically. I examined thoroughly to what extent followed the translation theoretical thinking of Nyugat the tradition of earlier periods. Looking for new theoretical frames for translation interpretation, I studied the possible role of intertextuality and the fiction theories in the interpretation of translated texts. I applied and challenged my theoretical claims in interpreting Endre Ady's translations of the poems of Baudelaire
Montrésor, Timpesta Pascale. "L'emploi des mots "noir" et "nègre" dans l'hexagone aux XIXe et XXe siècles." Thesis, La Réunion, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LARE0023.
Full textFrom Toussaint Louverture to Fanny – the heroine of Marie NDiaye novel’s En famille – the use and reception of these words refer either to a struggle for recognition between mas-ters and slaves or to the uprising of the black man who imposes his right to the freedom of speech or the denial of this struggle in order to found a society project which no longer relies on the obliteration of the Other but on an intercultural dialogue. In 19th century, despite the scientific texts reifying the Black man in order to categorize him, literature promotes interac-tion and intersubjectivity by portraying the apprehension of Blacks and Whites. Experiencing each other in France is questioned within a common space. Whereas this century marked by Eurocentrism values denying the humanity of the Black man, the 20th century reveals that the Negro speech puts into question these values by claiming his dignity. After the Second World War however, the independence and the departmentalization brought disillusion, revealing both the limits of Eurocentrism and the word Negro since essentialisms have neither the soli-tude nor the dismay in being. In literature, science and politics, the production of the words « black » and « negro » and its response bears witness to the attempts of the emancipation from the Other’s domination to create a common poetics and society based on a project effi-cient dialogue between culture and genders
Dula-Manoury, Daiana. "Le reve dans la litterature francaise du xxe siecle : queneau, perec, butor, blanchot." Caen, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000CAEN1306.
Full textPiantoni, Antoine. "Les Poètes fantaisistes, un renouveau de la poésie française au début du XXe siècle ?" Thesis, Paris 4, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA040217.
Full textAmong the answers given to the language crisis triggered by Mallarmé, what consideration can we show to the one promoted by the fantaisist poets of early 20th century? This thesis proposes a new reflection on the aesthetical input from a group nothing short of heterogeneous in its composition amid the emergence of literary avant-gardes. First of all, we will recount the steps of the constitution of a short-lived collective entity, as the group’s trajectory is much alike a comet lost in the cataclysm of the Great War. A sociological approach based on seldom browsed archives informs us both about the prolegomena of a collective experience and the ramifications of nostalgic memories long after the group had ceased to exist in its primitive form. We shall then examine the notional content of fantaisie as the primary element of polymorphous poetics which combine respect for the French literary tradition with the rejection of any dogmatism or theory. We observe that fantaisie works as a vacant slate set to welcome speculations from critics who try and compensate the lack of definition claimed by the group, whose production is branded by the hesitation between elegiac melancholy and humoristic dissonance. Do fantaisist poets offer propose a rebuttal to the threat of obsolescence surrounding the very notion of fantaisie or are they only the echo of a centuries-old phenomenon whose last incarnation melts with the appetence for pastiche and forgery?
Rondou, Katherine. "Le thème de sainte Marie-Madeleine dans la littérature d'expression française, en France et en Belgique, de 1814 à nos jours." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210807.
Full textSur la base d'une analyse minutieuse des différentes composantes du thème magdaléen dans la littérature franco-belge d'expression française après 1814, et des incarnations féminines qui s'en dégagent, cette thèse définit les contours du visage de la Madeleine de ces deux derniers siècles, et démontre la raison fondamentale de la permanence de la figure évangélique à travers les siècles :sa rencontre immédiate, et constante, avec le motif de la Femme dans la civilisation judéo-chrétienne.
Doctorat en philosophie et lettres, Orientation langue et littérature
info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished
Dei, Valeria. "L'identité juive inassimilable ˸ récits singuliers d'ascension sociale au XXe siècle. Irène Némirovsky, Albert Cohen et Joseph Roth." Thesis, Paris 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA030013.
Full textThis thesis aims to analyse the representation of the Jewish condition as it emerges from the novels by Irène Némirovsky, Albert Cohen and Joseph Roth, by exploring the theme of diversity in an unstable equilibrium between assimilation and non-assimilation, of which the 20th century Jew can be considered the most emblematic model. The selected corpus of texts, in fact, almost always contemplates as protagonists Jewish figures who have abandoned their original world and tried to integrate in the middle class society, without ever succeeding and therefore remaining perennially poised between assimilation and non-assimilation. Even though the Jewish diversity and assimilation represent very specific subjects, the proposed thesis is that the Jewish matter that permeates my corpus has been elaborated in a way to become the paradigm of universal situations, associated to all mankind. Starting from the two concepts of paria and parvenu theorised by Hannah Arendt, it has been demonstrated a fruitful analogy between the dynamics of the Jewish assimilation and the mechanisms of the social ascent that is typical of the middle class, that is par excellence a class of parvenus. In this context, the “social ascent” French novel of the 19th century becomes a possible model for the novels of the corpus; moreover, this allowed to insert the thematic discourse within an approach of textual type. Through this comparison with the texts of the French tradition, we intended to show how the works by Némirovsky, Cohen and Roth, describing the aporia of the Jewish assimilation process, are able to reveal the contradictions and the illusions of social equality on which the whole modern middle class society lies
Bencze-Rovez, Ludovic. "Le Ludique et l'absurde dans la littérature du XXè siècle : Raymond Devos et Raymond Queneau." Thesis, Cergy-Pontoise, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011CERG0569.
Full textThe absurd along with that of the “ludic” can no longer be confirmed to the domain of literary prose, but are in fact essential elements to twentieth-century intellectual thought at large. The literary fundamentals are based on the observation of the capacity of the absurd and the “ludic” to adapt to inherent constraints of the novelistic, theatrical and poetic. Our first section argue for a re-evaluation of that message focusing on specific writers that critics thus far have failed to appreciate as part of a distinctive “ludico-absurd” form. The second section focus on this emerging capacity based on studies of the work of R. Devos and R. Queneau, whose “ludico-absurd” rhetoric holds in common a surrealism. It remains popular as audiences are ever sensitive to the message of the “ludico-absurd”, while the latters having integrated it intellectually. The third section focus on the socio-cultural dimensions of the literature, concentrating on the position of the artist as well as that of the beholder. Ultimately, this paper look at the way in which the philosophy of the Absurd continue to elaborate and indeed herald a new relationship between the individual and the contemporary world
Coustille, Charles. "Antithèses. Thèses d'écrivains français aux XXe et XXIe siècles." Paris, EHESS, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015EHES0125.
Full textDuring the 20th century, several French authors have written doctoral theses - not without certain difficulties. This dissertation will compare these attempts. Despite their differences, these theses all share the same problem: how can individual writing become compatible with the institutional norms of the dissertation genre? Taking this problem as its point of departure, this study provides a detailed analysis of the theses of Peguy, Paulhan, Barthes and contemporary writers - not only exploring a new corpus, but also attempting to understand how literary and academic writings have converged throughout the previous century. As a matter of principle, the writer is hostile to the dissertation genre. However, even as he writes against the thesis, he remains dependent on it. As the writer criticizes, moves, and appropriates academic norms, the struggle with these limitations stimulates creation. In other terms, the literary is constructing itself as the other side of the academic. Or - more radically - by stretching the dynamic of the theses, the movement of rejection of the university becomes a driving force of literary creation. Reading these hybrid texts also provides an opportunity to think about the structures that constitute and frame academic practices - starting with the norms and forms of the dissertation genre
Izarra, Salomon de. "L'écriture de l'enfermement : de la narration de de l'incarcération aux perspectives et illusions d'évasion et de métamorphose." Thesis, Tours, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017TOUR2020/document.
Full textThe goal of this thesis is to analyze caracteristics of a metamorphosis in the prison literature, by the analysis of works by Jean Genet, Victor Hugo, Jack London and Oscar Wilde. Therefore, it consists in highlighting the different stages of this processus, of understanding its causes and consequences. We focus on the history of prison systems in California, England and France, then to the clichés, which are numerous into the prison literature. Then we look at the causes of the metamorphosis through the mischiefs of prison and the answer accordingly of the detainees. Finally, our last part concerns the unexpected aspects of the imprisonment, and the difficult return to civil life
Mendou, Mendou Véronique. "L'écriture de l'enfance au XXe siècle à travers l'étude de Gide, Montherlant, Green, Bazin et Sartre." Thesis, Mulhouse, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018MULH6751.
Full textThe writing of childhood in the XXth century by Gide, Montherlant, Bazin, Sartre and Green consists in examining the use of the theme in the context of a particular representation. Family relations, the child and the grown-up world, belonging to a social class, a puritanical education or the influence of religion, such are the main subjects which. Whether it is about reporting one’s real-life experience or transposing one’s vision of childhood, it also means a different mode of existence. It is a question of representing oneself by treating the memories. Theories developed by the teachers such as the division, the experimentation, the incompletion, the disorder, the free choice, place childhood in the context of the modernity. Of the autobiography in the fiction, the child is exploited from now on as a subject of speech suffering from a hybridity of kind.The writers fight with techniques of ordinary language and opt for an irrational and misleading speech which partake of the idea of an impossible word. Thus the narrative of childhood is reminiscent of a known etymology. The word comes from the Latin "in fans" and means "the one who does not speak" which echoes the Greek "fémi", that is "the one who cannot show his thought by the word". The study of the theme in the whole of the corpus, shows that these authors choose an approach which aims at presenting childhood as a motive for break. From the fragmentation effect to the unspoken, what is being made manifest is a strong will of renewal which is influenced by the new approaches such as the sociological approach of literature and psychoanalysis. Witnesses of their time, of their environment, these writers act as doctors who point at the problems and at the crises of the nation in the XXth century. In so doing, they give the novels a social relevance, while they make childhood "a motive for writing
Arnold, Markus. "Écritures de violence et d’interculturalité : enjeux identitaires dans le roman contemporain mauricien d’expression française et anglaise." Thesis, La Réunion, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012LARE0002/document.
Full textThis research project explores the different inscriptions of postcolonial identities in an extensive corpus of Mauritian novels written in French and English between 1990 and 2010. Over these last few decades, aesthetic, thematic and poetic innovation can be observed in a young generation of Francophone Mauritian writers, whereas such tendencies are rare among their Anglophone counterparts. While the former can be characterized by their subversive, demystifying and anti-exoticising postures, as well as their complex ways of interrogating issues of identity, the latter rather seem artistically stagnant. The Mauritian literary field clearly reveals itself as unequal as far as quantity and quality are concerned. A postcolonial ‘cross-reading-against-the-grain’ of these different texts, which focuses on leitmotivs of violence and interculturality, allows us to interrogate critically a certain number of literary tendencies currently found in Mauritius. How do the novels negotiate the island’s topographies and temporalities? Which ethno-cultural logics and ideological dynamics can be found underlying these contemporary texts? How do the novels represent complex factors such as ethnicity, class, gender? In other words, how do the Mauritian writers reflect on – or refuse to do so – the complexity of their multicultural nation? This comparative endeavour aims at understanding the dominant characteristics of a very heterogeneous literary field and seeks to analyze to what extent the new aesthetic tendencies offer original perspectives on contemporary issues of identity in Mauritian society as well as its literary production