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Magni, Stefano. "Détournement des genres dans la production narrative postmoderne en Italie." Paris 8, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA082922.
Full textThis research deals with the study of postmodern narrative literature in Italy. It analyses its reassessment of certain narrative genres such as the "Bildungsroman", the historical novel, the detective novel and the short story, and explores some postmodern texts parodying Italian models from the XIXth and the XXth century. My work is composed of three parts. My aim was first to define the terms of my research and to establish some theoretical principles concerning the notions of postmodernism, literary genres and parodies, as a ground for the reading of the authors included in my corpus (Benni, Folgore, Macchiavelli, Manganelli and Vassalli). Secondly, I have analysed instances of modernism and postmodernism in my corpus and their structural differences. Thirdly, I have examined the different forms of postmodernism, and endeavoured to understand the aesthetic, philosophical and moral strategies which have led to postmodern reclassification
Shcherbakova, Anastasia. "L'œuvre nouvellistique de Haldun Taner. Précurseur de la littérature postmoderne en Turquie." Thesis, Paris, INALCO, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020INAL0021.
Full textThis thesis, entitled "Haldun Taner's short stories. Forerunner of postmodern literature in Turkey ", studies the short stories of Turkish writer Haldun Taner (1915-1986) as a source of inspiration for early Turkish postmodernists. H. Taner, known above all as a playwright, created a prose, which, neglected in Turkey as in the West, presents a wide unexplored field arousing our scientific interest. The problematic of our research is to determine the role of H. Taner’s short stories in Turkey literary landscape, by emphasizing their specificities. Our methodology, based on the work of Western and Turkish researchers, leaves an important place to the theoretical works of Russian scientists, in particular Mikhail Bakhtin. His theory of carnavalisation is widely applied to the analysis of short stories by H. Taner. The corpus is made up of H. Taner's short stories from 1945 to 1986. Our study confirms the initial hypothesis that Haldun Taner's carnival prose paved the way for Turkish postmodernism in the 1980s and 1990s. The originality of the thesis consists in having determined the role of the prose of H. Taner in the development of Turkish literature, by having used Russian written sources not easily accessible to Western researchers, as well as in the application of Mikhail Bakhtin’s carnavalisation theory to Turkish literature
Ben, Slama Kaouther. "Le réel et le simulacre dans l'oeuvre d'Anne Rice : une approche postmoderne." Grenoble 3, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005GRE39037.
Full textVichnar, David. "L'Avant-postman : James Joyce, L'avant-garde et le postmoderne." Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030010.
Full textThe thesis, entitled “The Avant-Postman: James Joyce, the Avant-Garde and Postmodern-ism,” attempts to construct a post-Joycean literary genealogy centred around the notions of a Joycean avant-garde and literary experimentation written in its wake. It considers the last two works by Joyce, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, as points of departure for the post-war literary avant-gardes in Great Britain, the USA, and France, in a period generally called “postmodern.”The introduction bases the notion of a Joycean avant-garde upon Joyce’s sustained explora-tion of the materiality of language and upon the appropriation of his last work, his “Work in Progress,” for the cause of the “Revolution of the word” conducted by Eugene Jolas in his transition magazine. The Joycean exploration of the materiality of language is considered as comprising three stimuli: the conception of writing as physical trace, susceptible to distortion or effacement; the understanding of literary language as a forgery of the words of others; and the project of creating a personal idiom as an “autonomous” language for a truly modern literature.The material is divided into eight chapters, two for Great Britain (from B.S. Johnson via Brooke-Rose to Iain Sinclair), two for the U.S. (from Burroughs and Gass to Acker and Sorrentino) and three for France (the nouveau roman, Oulipo, and the Tel Quel group). Chapter Eight traces the Joycean heritage within the literature after 2000 of the three national literary spaces. The conclusion contextualises the theme of the Joycean post-war avant-garde as a challenge to the notion of “postmodernism.”
Sécardin, Olivier. "Sémiocritique de l'hybridité : du moderne au postmoderne." Paris 4, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA040300.
Full textHybridity is considered here as a text production mode. Characterizing both the objects produced – from Diderot to Madonna – and the interpretative protocols, it is itself interpreted as a hybrid. When summed up, it points itself out as a reflexive thesis: a hybridity about hybridity. But without innocence: it plays all the way down the game of interpretation and language. It capitalizes as much as possible on its presupposition insofar as hybridity is just as well the property of an interpretative system within the limits of which text is continuously created. Thus, hybridity will be what will happen when you read. And, as always with interpretation, only paying a certain kind of attention to this topic will make hybrid qualities emerge. But then how to recognize a hybrid? Most simply: in all conviction. One does not recognize a hybrid when one sees one, but when one thinks seeing one. Does this constitute a thesis? Rather a topic, just as there are Freudian topics: hybridity can be a descriptive framework but does not constitute a “theory” stricto sensu. Theory is not the strongest aspect of hybridity but, when exercising its power, hybridity can use theoretical discourse, at least to know how to produce it, thus making it possible to say, afterwards, that it is there. A semiocriticism of hybridity is neither a semiotics, nor a theory, but rather a critical performance, a rhetoric and, as we live in a rhetorical world, it aims at common sense in all the meanings of the word
Lavigne, Jean-Baptiste. "Entre réaction et utopie : Michel Houellebecq ou le paradoxe postmoderne." Chambéry, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009CHAML013.
Full textThe work of Michel Houellebecq seems to be emblematic of the postmodern literary movement. Indeed, they both share the principle according to which this whole world is nothing but division, paradox and nonsense. Yet, if it is true that Houellebecq's poetic sets out to describe the story of a disappearing universe, it could not be confined to that. Indeed, a whole section of the latter tries to give back hope to the reader and to promise him reconstruction opportunities beyond postmodernity : towards a "post-postmodernity" within which humanity would be reconciled with itself as well as with the outside world. That programmatic speech first establishes itself through the narration of a futuristic universe, the description of a utopian system based on positivism and genetic manipulations : a promise of liberation for a humanity chained to its own inability to improve itself. Moreover, that social reconstruction project involves the radical criticism of our corrupt world, and, at the same time, the sanctification of a number of fundamental values inherent to modernity (love, family, etc. ) and symbolic of human community spirit. However, it is poetry which seems to be remedy to contemporary evils, for the poetic work, deprived of a manichaeism and free of intellectual and rational thoughts, finds itself able to offer the reader o post-logical universe within which paradoxes, sapping the postmodern world, have been transcended. Finally, that polysemous work therefore appears absurd, or, more precisely, postmodern, only in order to describe the monist universe into which it is thrown, in order to understand it better, so that it may be fought, and, possibly, overcome
Chen, Hungyi. ""Formes-Archétypales et idéaltypes du nomadisme postmoderne" : le cas Baudelaire et le road-movie : de Ulysse à Blade Runner." Paris 5, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA05H046.
Full textCertain sociologists such as G. Deleuze and M. Maffesoli has revealed various investigations on the theme of nomadism in the post modern context. Thus in this thesis, i intend to point cut the immanent structure and the essential characteristics of this subject by applying the rfisfchods of 1. Archetype-form, and 2. Idealtype to initiate the research. This method is developped from the theories of Durkheim, Weber, Simmel, Durand and M. Maffesoli. Therefore, 3 archetype-forms (which each partially represented some feature of the nomadism in question) 1. Ulysse - voyage - "egarement", 2. Don Quichotte - rootless wandering, 3. Rimbaud - perpetual escape and Baudelaire - as an archetype-form par excellence with his 3 qualities 1. "Hundred moves, never a trip !" (in J. P. Sartre's words), 2. Trens, 3. "avarice onaniste" and then the road-movie as an idealtype (in the postnodsrn context). This subject will be analysed from 3 standpoints 1. Jack Kerouac and the "beat generation", for its textual justification ; 2. John Ford and this western - archetype of roadmovie, 5. Wim Wenders - apogee of . "Blade runner" - a road-movie's metamorphosis in which we uncover the same behaviours and trajectories of "homo-vagabundus" and "homo-noctambulus" from Baudelaire to blade runner in a symbolic, closed and nocturnal space which reveals further relationships between man and image. This would be at the same time an alternative communication form, one of the postmodernity's "drift" (derive) and "perverse effects"
Pécot, Hélène. "La citation dans tous ses états : analyses linguistiques et stylistiques de l'écriture littéraire postmoderne." Rouen, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005ROUEL592.
Full textOur work of research arises from the desire to articulate a literary writing with a formal analysis. A specificity, whose interest lies in its protean property, has proved to be at the centre of our literary and theoretic concerns: quotation. Postmodern literature paves the way for the study of this specificity since quotations abound in this genre. In our study, we look on their multiple facets in a corpus of eight contemporary French novels. All the quotations reflect the idea of crossbreeding and blending which is typical of the postmodern aestheticism. Thus, our thesis looks through the reported discourse, polyphony, aphorism. . . But first, we have to define postmodern literature, which includes the process of reflecting on the genre. Our main purpose can be detailed as such: we will aim at explaining that the postmodern French literature exists and is characterised by textual and transtextuel properties, in this process, we apprehend a linguistic rethinking of transtextuality
Mbanda, Bakolosso Davy Gildas. "Ecriture et barbarie postmoderne. Lecture poétique de la disgrâce dans « Disgrace » et « Waiting for the Barbarians » de J.M. Coetzee, « Les Ecailles du ciel » et « L’Aîné des orphelins » de Tierno Monénembo et « L’Aube » et « Le cas Sonderberg » d’Elie Wiesel." Thesis, Paris Est, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PEST0033.
Full textThis thesis deals with the unability of literary ambition to faithfully transcribe absolute barbarism. Using the poetics of disgrace, it questions the relationship between writing and extreme experience on the one hand, and brings out the narrative strategies governing the stories attempting a novelization of experiences judged unspeakable on the other. It is then a reflection on the very status of contemporary literature.The poetic analysis leads us to affirm in a first part that tales of catastrophe are built on a dilemma: the unspeakable; based on the powerlessness of rational language to name it and the necessity, despite it all, to transcend the frontiers of the “impossible to say”. And it is the reversal of the writing of disgrace into the disgrace of writing as an aesthetical means which allows this transcendence. The second part allows us to see the recurrence of some invariants presenting themselves as pertinent elements of writing. This engenders a literature of the void, of uncertainty. It is then the notion of the subject’s fragmentation which truly places our works either in western postmodern literature or in African postcolonial literature
Fabre, Marie. ""Tu non devi credere che si possa smettere di cercarla" : utopie et littérature chez Elio Vittorini et Italo Calvino, 1941-1972." Phd thesis, Université de Grenoble, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00932611.
Full textSaubion, Sonia. "Fragmentation et recomposition dans la fiction de John Fowles : vers une résolution de la crise postmoderne ?" Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011MON30051.
Full textThe contemporary imaginary has given rise to an aesthetics of fragmentation which is characterized by the dissolution of the self in search of an identity in a world deprived of stability and landmarks soon after the trauma caused by the war and nuclear threat. The refusal to follow the principle of linearity, together with the play involved in intertextuality and intergenericity, the disruption of representational patterns underlying traditional realistic novels, favour the display of reader responses at the expense of the harmony of utterances. This thesis, which covers the whole of Fowles’s fiction since 1963, aims at diagnosing the symptoms of the aforementioned crisis by means of a study including metatextual, narratorial, linguistic, philosophical, mythocritical and psychoanalytical tools. We will see how the author, the narrators, the protagonists on stage consider coming to terms with their existential conflicts and returning to a reality they have progressively dissociated themselves from. The latter can either choose to disintegrate the « real » in order to get a better apprehension of it and then to put the scattered fragments together again so as to appropriate them, while projecting their selves through an ideal and a fictional identity, which paves the way for their individuation. Such an evolution from dissensus to consensus conveys the humanistic vein of a work which endeavours not only to have the individual take up with his/her more authentic self but also to reconcile him/her with the others within a universe gaining in coherence
Oprea, Denisa-Adriana. "Une poétique du personnage dans cinq romans québécois contemporains au féminin (1980-2000) : métaféminisme et postmoderne." Thesis, Université Laval, 2008. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2008/25096/25096.pdf.
Full textPaquereau, Marine. "Le réalisme social américain à l'ère postmoderne : (Russell Banks, Raymond Carver, Richard Ford)." Thesis, Dijon, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015DIJOL017/document.
Full textHis study focuses on the works of Russell Banks, Raymond Carver and Richard Ford. They started writing during the 1960s and 1970s, at a time when the self-reflexivity and metafictional play of postmodernist writers were drawing a lot of critical attention in academic circles. However, they consider themselves to be realist writers. In “A Few Words about Minimalism,” John Barth suggested that the return to realist fiction in the mid-1970s could be both a reaction against so-called “postmodernist” fiction and a symptom of the social and economic unease of the period. Indeed, Cathedral, Continental Drift and The Sportswriter describe in accurate detail the everyday lives of ordinary American men and women during Reagan’s presidency. This study demonstrates that these authors are part of the American realist tradition, but that their strand of social realism also takes into account the postmodern context in which they write, by dealing with problems of representation that are typical of the period. Their works both use and challenge the literary conventions associated with the realist tradition, by underlining the artificiality of mimetic illusion at a time when reality itself is seen as a linguistic construct
D, Schooley Béatrice. "Personnes, Personnel et Impersonnel dans l’œuvre de Richard Powers." Thesis, Paris 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA030161/document.
Full textRichard Powers’ novels are best known for the diverse and rich quality of their themes, for the density of their historic and socio-economic contents, as well as for the level of technicality with which they handle a variety of scientific themes, yet they also leave a place of choice to the characters. Their role consists in both mirroring a social reality and holding the paramount function of organizing the course of the narrative, as they express Powers’ vision of contemporary America and constitute a space of literary experimentation. These novels focus on the ways human beings who are caught in a world saturated with new technological means and struggling through constant social and political mutations, can fight to preserve and reinvent their personal identity. The author chooses both a sociological and philosophical approach by expressing his vision of the contemporary American society and by putting at the very center of his works the notion of relationship to oneself and to others. The narrative implications of such interests in the increasing complexity of the ontological status of the individual are multiple and lead to the construction of changing and discontinuous characters who refract more than they absorb an energy that can be recirculated at the triple level of the fiction, the readers, and the act of writing. Accounting for the destruction of the unity of the individual in the contemporary American world, the modalities of Powers’ character writing push back the boundaries of the traditional individualistic and personal concept of literary character and substitute to it a paradoxically welcoming, fragmentary and impersonal vision of the human nature
Folio, Jessica Joëlle. "La poétique de l'abjection dans la littérature gothique américaine postmoderne : le cas de Stephen King (1947- ), Peter Straub (1943- ) et Chuck Palahniuk (1962- )." Phd thesis, Université de la Réunion, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00716880.
Full textRamírez, Lámbarry Alejandro. "La voix animale dans la littérature Hispano-américaine de la deuxième partie du XXème siècle." Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040172.
Full textThe animal character and the animal narrator have always played an important role, either in mythology, fables and the epic. In the late twentieth century, the incertitude regarding the metanarratives and the subsequent creation of theories that value the voices that were before silenced, gave the animal voice a new strength. The animal has increasingly been used in different genres and by several authors. Our research intends to analyze this voice in the work of Hispano-American authors from the second half of the XX century. In order to dos this effectively, we have searched for patterns that will help us understand the why and the how of animal literature. Our study is divided in three parts, based on the patterns we have discovered in the texts. The first and second part of this study analyzes the satirical voice. The difference between each voice has to do with the aim of their satire. While the first one criticizes and ridicules human’s ideologies and institutions, the second one questions the relationship of power established between humans and animals. In the third part, we inquire on a voice that focuses itself on the psychology, the world and the adventures of the animal.This study intends to clarify some of the reasons why the animal is used in the XX century Hispano-American literature, and described the manner in which this happens. We hope to create awareness in the Spanish academy about one of the most interesting characters and narrators: the animal
El animal como personaje y narrador ha estado siempre presente,ya sea en los mitos, las fábulas y la épica. En el siglo XX, laincertidumbre ante los discursos legitimadores y el surgimiento denuevas teorías que privilegian la voz de los anteriormentesilenciados, sirvió para dar nueva fuerza al animal. Éste ha sidousado en diversos géneros y por una gran variedad de autores.Nuestro trabajo tiene como objetivo el análisis de esta voz, en laobra de los autores hispanoamericanos de la segunda mitad delsiglo XX. Para ello, proponemos la identificación de patrones, quenos ayuden a entender el porqué y el cómo del animal en laliteratura. El estudio se divide en tres partes, que corresponden alos patrones encontrados en los textos. La primera y la segundaparte analizan la voz satírica. La diferencia entre ambas vocesradica en el blanco de la sátira. Mientras la primera censura yridiculiza las instituciones e ideologías humanas, la segunda hacelo propio con la relación de poder entre el humano y el animal. Enla tercera parte, nos abocamos al estudio de una voz se enfoca en lapsicología, el mundo y las aventuras del propio animal.Este trabajo propone aclarar algunos motivos por los cuales elanimal es usado en la literatura del siglo XX hispanoamericana, ydescribir las maneras en que esto sucede. Con ello, esperamostambién abrir el camino para que la academia hispanoamericana seintegre también al estudio de uno de los personajes y narradoresmás interesantes: el animal
Benkhodja, Ammar. "L’errance à l’œuvre dans la prose et la poésie d’El-Mahdi Acherchour : regards littéraires et anthropologiques." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LORR0199/document.
Full textCombining realism and the sublime, time in nature and in social life, the texts of El-Mahdi Acherchour destroy the boundaries between wild and domestic spaces and continuously link the world of the living to that of the dead, the ancient times to the present, and oral traditions to writing practices. His texts are inscribed in the wake of postmodern aesthetics, presenting not only one plot, but infinite inserted narratives. For these major reasons, we propose to analyze these texts from a perspective that takes into consideration literary texts poetics and symbolic anthropology. In the first part of this research, devoted to the study of Acherchour’s last novel, Moineau (2010), we have endeavored to shed light on the problematics that are posed in the text. Moving from the paratext, to the chronotopes that structure this novel, and through the representation of the different characters that evolve in the narrative, some reflections on the writing of heterogeneous consistencies ( cultural heterology) have imposed themselves. Some questions linked to the wild and to the domestic, to the familiar and the strange(r), to writing and oral tradition, are varied consistencies that “Acherchourian” writing tries to hybridize. In the second part of this work, we have questioned, from the same perspective, two other novels of El Mahdi Acherchour: Pays d’aucun mal (2007) and Lui, le livre followed by l’Autre, l’autre livre (2005). These two novels address the same fictional settings and appeal to the same berber folklore figure (Zalgoum) in an aesthetic surge, which makes “le procès de l’unité”. The last part of this research deals with reading the established cultures in the poetry of El Mahdi Acherchour, notably in L’Oeil de l’égaré (1997) and Chemin des choses nocturnes (2003). At the crossroads of the culture(s) of the Self, and of the culture and language of the Other, the writing of El-Mahdi Acherchour takes an ‘entre-lieu’ position, in -between cultures, establishing his poetic and fictional oeuvre as a setting for ambivalence and coexistence. By appropriating the language and the culture of the Other, which is varied and heterogeneous, the verse and prose of El-Mahdi Acherchour propose a world vision centered on its syncretic reality
Lacharme-Brière, Delphine. "Trilogia de la soledad de Juan José Millas : la quête de soi dans le roman postmoderne." Saint-Etienne, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009STET2213.
Full textThis work is an analysis of "El desorden de tu nombre"(1988), "La soledad era esto"(1990), three major noves by the Spanish writer Jaun Jose Millas wich were together in 1996 in a book entitled "Trilogia de la soledad". This romantic cycle, centered on the topic of the search for identity marks the entry of the millasian writings into postmedernity. The universe of these metafictional works is marked by the millasian romantic narrator. At the same time, the narrator begins to figure out new narative, meaningful expressions through self-organising mechanisms in the novel. He seeks to go past the usual access to reality and meaning by emphasing the illusions of identity and of reality. Thus, a recurrent motive of the search for self underlies "Trilogia de la soledad" and is used as an Ariane's thread throughout this study, strongly inspired by the theories of the philosopher Paul Ricoeur about narrative identity. Consenquently, this analysis attempts to give an account of the density of the novels, wich can be seen as an interface between the poetical, philosophical, cognitive, psychoanalytical dimensions of the millasian writings
D, Schooley Béatrice. "Personnes, Personnel et Impersonnel dans l'œuvre de Richard Powers." Phd thesis, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01064900.
Full textHu, Jing. "Imprégnation des écrivains francophones d'origine chinoise par trois sagesses extrême-orientales : Taoïsme, Bouddhisme et Confucianisme." Thesis, Limoges, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LIMO0015/document.
Full textThe late 20th century saw the emergence of China as an economic power, but the french-speaking world knows the cultural influence of China for much longer. Since the 80s, many Chinese writers have published in France novels written directly in French that have met a great success. Some of them as Dai Sijie, Ya Ding, Wei-Wei, Chen Ying Shan Sa were born in China, where they have lived all their childhood, their adolescence and sometimes the first part of their adult lives. They managed to break into the french literature through the delicately exotic perfume that was exhaled from their novels. Responsible for Chinese traditional and historical baggage, their works converge on topics such as the collective memory of China's turbulent twentieth century, the contact or the collision of Chinese and Western cultures, the emphasis of Taoist thought, Buddhist and Confucianist, etc. With these original voices, the French language was open to new poetic and showed his ability to tell the complex reality of today's world. Based on this we will develop in this thesis three major research areas, each of which will raise their various problems : What is the position of these chinese migrants writers in a western literary context? What is the impact of the postmodern movement on their writing? What are the aesthetic techniques chosen by these writers to adapt to the mixed cultural situation? What is the influence of asian religions (Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism) on chinese migrant writers? Through what channels the spirit of chinese writers is steeped in oriental thoughts? How these writers stand in relation to the ancestral heritage? What role the chinese thoughts play in their literary creation? The quest for the identity of migrant writers. Is there a common route for migrants writers of chinese origin? Where are they in the process of identity reconstruction? What are their literary approaches to a quest for identity? In conclusion we will see how some of the authors of the corpus we studied remained anchored to their origins as part of their literary, and on the contrary how some others knew and even made a point to put the largest possible distance between their origins and literary work. Also some others are on the edge of these two concepts and have a less clear positioning, sometimes even a cyclical one
Svilarova, Emanuela. "Le récit personnel dans l’œuvre des écrivains du Nouveau roman et dans celle d’auteurs bulgares contemporains : étude comparée." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCA082/document.
Full textThe present study is set to make a typological and historical comparison of a very widespread phenomenon in French and Bulgarian literary fields in the last decades of XXth century and the first decades of the XXIst century: the fictionnalised or biased personal story. This phenomenon’s emergence has been our main subject of concern, and for that reason we chose key novels published in different periods: for the French domain it was the « Nouveau roman »’s orientation towards autobiographical writing in the 1980’s; for the Bulgarian domain, the emergence of a « new writing » in the wake of the change in 1989. The introduction in literature of new philosophical conceptions touching other spheres of art such as deconstruction and postmodernism affects greatly the story a subject would make of his own life, moreover if he is already a writer. The questions raised as well by the Bulgarian as by French works: first about reference to reality, historical verisimilitude, then about composition, narrative voices and finally, about taking in charge the story itself as the story of one’s life, are extensively dealt with along the study. The resulting account is that hesitation governs thoroughly the story, and that the sole fact of giving testimony of one’s life is its caution of veracity. The personal story moves away from purely informative genres, ranging to fictional literature’s side
Benkhodja, Ammar. "L’errance à l’œuvre dans la prose et la poésie d’El-Mahdi Acherchour : regards littéraires et anthropologiques." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université de Lorraine, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LORR0199.
Full textCombining realism and the sublime, time in nature and in social life, the texts of El-Mahdi Acherchour destroy the boundaries between wild and domestic spaces and continuously link the world of the living to that of the dead, the ancient times to the present, and oral traditions to writing practices. His texts are inscribed in the wake of postmodern aesthetics, presenting not only one plot, but infinite inserted narratives. For these major reasons, we propose to analyze these texts from a perspective that takes into consideration literary texts poetics and symbolic anthropology. In the first part of this research, devoted to the study of Acherchour’s last novel, Moineau (2010), we have endeavored to shed light on the problematics that are posed in the text. Moving from the paratext, to the chronotopes that structure this novel, and through the representation of the different characters that evolve in the narrative, some reflections on the writing of heterogeneous consistencies ( cultural heterology) have imposed themselves. Some questions linked to the wild and to the domestic, to the familiar and the strange(r), to writing and oral tradition, are varied consistencies that “Acherchourian” writing tries to hybridize. In the second part of this work, we have questioned, from the same perspective, two other novels of El Mahdi Acherchour: Pays d’aucun mal (2007) and Lui, le livre followed by l’Autre, l’autre livre (2005). These two novels address the same fictional settings and appeal to the same berber folklore figure (Zalgoum) in an aesthetic surge, which makes “le procès de l’unité”. The last part of this research deals with reading the established cultures in the poetry of El Mahdi Acherchour, notably in L’Oeil de l’égaré (1997) and Chemin des choses nocturnes (2003). At the crossroads of the culture(s) of the Self, and of the culture and language of the Other, the writing of El-Mahdi Acherchour takes an ‘entre-lieu’ position, in -between cultures, establishing his poetic and fictional oeuvre as a setting for ambivalence and coexistence. By appropriating the language and the culture of the Other, which is varied and heterogeneous, the verse and prose of El-Mahdi Acherchour propose a world vision centered on its syncretic reality
Obron-Vattaire, Candice. "Napoléon, un mythe postmoderne ? Description et analyse de la figure napoléonienne, dans l’imaginaire collectif, à travers la littérature populaire et la culture de masse (bande dessinée, jeux vidéos, publicité)." Thesis, Corte, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015CORT0017/document.
Full textThe aim of this thesis is to question the presence of Napoleonic figure, nearly two hundred years after the death of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), in the popular and francophone cultural production (literature, comics, video games, advertising) of the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century, in terms of mythocritique.In a diachronic approach, are previously mentioned representations of Napoleonic image in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through literature and popular culture (cartoons, songs, images of Epinal) to highlight the creation of the myth of Napoleon and its evolution through the centuries.In a synchronic approach through, first of all, by the comparative study of French novels (uchronies, pastiches...) evoking the figure of Napoleon and then, at the heart of contemporary imagery, through various examples of comics and Japanese manga using the figure of Napoleon Bonaparte, from the years 1969 (bicentenary of his birth), we set ourselves the task of illustrating and documenting as thoroughly as possible the presence of myth in order to analyze and identify the postmodern mythemes that nourish.We are interested not only by popular literature but also other materials which constitute the vector of myth : in fact, we wanted to integrate into our work the advertising analysis; image and video undeniably constitute today a major source of collective representations and myths of postmodernity.In order to make possible the most extensive research, we also wanted in the final chapter of our study, questioning the presence (or absence) of Napoleonic figure in national Education programs or museum collections and exhibitions.Through in-depth study of this corpus, along with a wide panorama including in particular the analysis of the presence of the historical figure of Napoleon Bonaparte in video games and its representation on many websites, the matter was to expose contemporary mythemes and values emerging of the character, which is a myth today, in France, two hundred years after his death
Tremblay, Alexandre. "Giles Lytton Strachey et la "nouvelle biographie" dans un contexte historiographique postmoderne." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017AIXM0485.
Full textThe objective of this thesis attempts to illustrate a series of principles which could potentially lead to a theorisation of biographical writing. By exposing prosaic literary examples of the XIX century and certain theoretical bases of the XXI century, it is possible to depict recurrences that have contributed to the success or failure of various biographical works. Giles Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) as a biographer, essayist and critic appears to be the ideal subject that enables one to analyse the relationship between biographers, biographees and readers. Furthermore, the structural scheme of metahistory, as suggested by Hayden White, brings us one step closer to the assumption that biography can stand as a full-fledged genre both in terms of form and substance
Mapangou, Dacharly. "La fiction romanesque de la postmodernité et ses labyrinthes : l’exemple des textes d’Alain Robbe-Grillet (France, 1922-2008), de Juan José Saer (Argentine, 1937-2005) et de Boubacar Boris (Sénégal, 1946-)." Thesis, Paris Est, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PEST0014/document.
Full textThis study answers the following title: Romantic fiction of postmodernity and its mazes. The example of the texts of Alain Robbe-Grillet (France, 1922-2008), of Juan José Saer (Argentina, 1937-2005) and of Boubacar Boris Diop (Senegal, 1947-). It intends to identify, under authority methodological of poetic text the various modalities by which the pattern of the labyrinth becomes established as privileged substrate of the poetic narrative in three writers belonging to different linguistic and cultural areas. The choice and examination of the texts of these three writers rest on the will to show the deployment of this pattern in the internal organization of the postmodern romantic fiction. Indeed, integrated in the internal dynamic of writing in a very diversified way, the pattern of the maze appears in all the problems which cross the romantic writing. For methodological convenience and scientific rigour, this study deploys according to three complementary axes. While the first is entitled "The labyrinth as obsessive invariant of the romantic fiction of postmodernity" sets out to bring out the different aspects in which this pattern unfolds in dynamic textual postmodern fictional narrative, the second which is entitled "The labyrinth as constitutive modality of the narrativity of the story : romantic fiction of postmodernity to the test of discontinuity", gets down to examine how this pattern is part of a writing project that claims the discontinuity principle as narrative, and the third which is entitled "The labyrinth as a characteristic modality of interdiscursivity and intergenericity textual dynamic : romantic fiction of postmodernity to the test of polyphony" undertakes to show how this pattern is constitutive of polyphony which governs the dynamic of textual postmodern fictional narrative
Zhao, Jia. "Le roman ironique depuis 1980 : Kundera, Echenoz, Chevillard, Toussaint." Thesis, Paris 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA030160.
Full textIrony is back. Today, we are witnessing a burst of literary and artistic productions which are characterized by "thoughtful lightness". The irony is often described as postmodern irony because of his bonds with the entire cultural symptom of the postmodern society. With the rise of writers of a new generation of Editions de Minuit among whom Jean Echenoz, Eric Chevillard and Jean-Philippe Toussaint are predecessors, the postmodern irony has asserted itself in French literary creation to which added Milan Kundera who is a writer of another generation and of another culture. Irony of these writers is not only used as a way to distance from the writing, but also a vision of the world that we would call it the "cheerful disenchantment". We explore the relationship of irony and question of existence in our research. First of all, irony is a cleaved conscience. Such conscience state has come true in a mode of speech as exteriorization of the cleaved conscience and a way of obtaining an overview. In this research, we would like to go into detail the following questions: where shall we be situated is the long process of separation? What have the subject, his action and his way of being become? Which is the mode of speech that is derived of the conscience of this contemporary subject? We try to answer these questions with our reflections brought to the irony phenomenon in the contemporary literary representation
Surbezy, Agnès. "Etre ou ne pas être postmoderne. . . Théâtre espagnol actuel et postmodernité: une étude de cas : Ernesto Caballero, Rodrigo Garcia, Borja Ortiz De Gondra, Alfonso Zurro." Toulouse 2, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003TOU20089.
Full textThe contemporary theatre is studied rather little, but postmodern dramaturgy is less! The postmodernity fed grinds debates but it was explored little in the dramatic writing. The moment seems come forma first location of the Spanish postmodern theatre. This thesis questions the concept of postmodernity in a transverse way to release from the features of definition of the postmodern writings: narcissistic individualism, disability of the métarécits, end of the avant-gardes draw contours of them. The Masters words are the multiplication of the microrécits, fragmentation, eclecticism, rupture of the intergeneric borders, intertextuality, autoreferentiality and humour. Crossing this definition and the reflexions on the postmodern theatre, reading tracks appear which, applied to four significant authors of the contemporary Spanish theatre: E. Caballero, R. García, B. Ortiz de Gondra, A. Zurro, make it possible to outline a first portrait of the postmodern Spanish theatre
Diop, Babacar. "Esthétique des Ruines et Dystopie dans le roman Anglais postmoderne : une lecture de Riddley Walker, (1980) de Russel Hoban, Cloud Atlas, (2004) de David Mitchell et The Book of Dave (2006) de Will Self." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016MON30080/document.
Full textThe concepts of dystopia and postmodernism have taken a new dimension for the past two decades. These conceptshave been explored in multiple studies from both literary and historical viewpoints, to name but these two areas thathave revealed other perspectives, which, to our knowledge, have not yet been addressed. This is the case, for example,of the relationship between dystopia and ruins. The present work explores the concepts of dystopia and ruins as theyappear in the three books (Riddley Walker (1980) by Russell Hoban, Cloud Atlas (2004) by David Mitchell and TheBook of Dave (2006) by Will Self) in the light of contemporary events and in connection with postmodernism. Thiscorpus was used to discover the links between dystopia and postmodernism through the aesthetic, ethical, poetic andpolitical values of ruins, the ubiquity of which brought us to consider the dystopian works as a depiction of the world inwhich we live. The present study has also helped highlight the destructive behavior of Man in relation to the notion ofprogress that is constantly questioned, thus becoming more of an illusion than a reality because of scenes of violencemainly illustrated by the two World Wars with the Shoah and the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,as well as the use of chemical weapons, commonly called mass destruction weapons. Besides being a bridge betweendystopia and postmodernism, ruins stand as witnesses of Man’s sinister past toward which they direct contemplatorswhile reminding them of the vanity of their lives and the evanescence of any existence. The ubiquity of the ruinsrelentlessly plunges survivors and contemplators into a melancholy supplemented by the trauma associated to thefeeling of loss and the threat of a repetition of the past. The ruin thus becomes a form of expression, a language forpostmodern dystopias and through it, the departed speak. The traces of what has been have thus become media through
Alizadeh, Mehdi. "La perception et la représentation des métropoles dans la fiction postmoderne : Paris, New York et Istanbul dans : Au piano de Jean Echenoz, Cité de verre de Paul Auster et Le Livre noir d'Orhan Pamuk." Thesis, Limoges, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LIMO0033/document.
Full textTowns and cities have always taken a central role in literature, and particularly in fiction (novels). The latter half of the 20th century was a turning point, named the Spatial Turn by postmodern critics, whereby space, and particularly urban space, became a favourite object of analysis for thinkers and theorists, including the literary. Jean Echenoz, Orhan Pamuk and Paul Auster are contemporaries of this period, during which the urban novel flourished. These three authors respectively placed Paris, Istanbul and New York at the heart of their writing which was coloured by a postmodern outlook and a questioning of the present. Our study is that of the fictional representation of these metropolises in the works of these three authors. In the light of the contemporary theoretical perspectives of space, and particularly geocriticism, we will study the way in which the writing of these authors takes on board the urban image. By surveying the person-city relationship in particular, our work will strive to define how the fictional representation of a city is affected by the perception of an observer. We will also ask ourselves how this observer, product of an era when ontological uncertainty was the only certainty, projects his identity crisis onto the urban scene drawn by the novel. The reassessment of the global city utopia constitutes an axis around which we propose to study the picture drawn of Paris, Istanbul and New York in the postmodern fictions : Piano by Echenoz, The Black Book by Pamuk and City of Glass by Auster
Touaf, Larbi. "Narration, représentation et lecture dans le roman anglais postmoderne : The French lieutenant's woman de John Fowles, The White hotel de D.M. Thomas, Waterland de Graham Swift, Flaubert's parrot de Julian Barnes." Paris 4, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA040028.
Full textThis thesis is concerned with questions of form, representation and the reading process in the English postmodern novel. The idea is to relate the postmodern novel of the last decades of the twentieth-century to a historical and cultural (post-industrial, postmodern and post-humanist) context characterized by a general feeling of uncertainty and doubt. Related to this is the study of the destabilizing strategies of realist representation and of the common modes of meaning-construction. In fact, postmodern English fiction calls into question the common sense basis of realistic writing be it historical, biographical or fictional. The principal strategy consist in introducing, parallel to a realistic narrative, a version of the uncertainty principle and an outward interrogative discourse that seeks to subvert familiar notions of language, reality and subjectivity. The resulting subversion of the reading (and writing) habits implies a problematizing of the teleological principles that determine our relationships with text and world
Chabrier, Isabelle. "La carnavalisation dans le roman cubain contemporain." Thesis, Paris 3, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA030183.
Full textThis study sets out the Bakhtine “carnival dimension” in the Cuban contemporary novel (El arpa y la sombra by Alejo Carpentier, Paradiso by José Lezama Lima, De donde son los cantantes by Severo Sarduy, Tres tristes tigres by Guillermo Cabrera Infante, El color del verano o Nuevo “Jardín de las Delicias” by Reinaldo Arenas, La piel y la máscara by Jesús Díaz). Our main concern is to demonstrate that “upside down world characteristics” that fixe the “carnavalesque vision” proposed by the Russian theorist is part of the writing in the integration of the carnival’s codes both as literary themes as narrative techniques. In a reading exceeding the baroque concept associated up to now with the Cuban novels of our corpus, we envisage the resurgence of the carnival’s former popular traditions, the mixture between tribute and irreverence, sacralization and deconsecration, as the symptom of the Cuban subject’s crisis, the postmodern expression of the rejection of the idols at the same time as the demonstration of a deep desire to recover a temporary freedom in the carnivalized literary representation and to plunge into a golden age celebrated by the carnival
Farouk, May. "Les Tribulations de la fiction chez Jean Echenoz : le retour du roman d'aventures : formes et enjeux contemporains." Thesis, Paris 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA030128.
Full textSince 1980, the literary scene in France has witnessed a revival of romance once made obsolete by the New Novel (Nouveau Roman). Realistic, social, musical, crime, spy and adventure fiction has thus sprung up again. The current study examines and questions the problematic of “return” especially the return of adventure fiction in the very representative work of Jean Echenoz. Thought reviving a classical genre, the author does not shy away from modifying and remodeling that genre’s configurations and issues. Thus, this survey elaborates a poetic of the postmodern fiction of adventures, revisiting a traditional genre to extract contemporary forms and issues, so to speak. But from a broader perspective, the study underscores the tribulations of Echenoz’s fiction, work which does not mind to collapse plots, oscillate from one genre to another or sway between two space-times, at the risk of presenting itself in a turbulent mode of writing confounding the reader - who fells helpless in the face of the unbridled audacity of the author and his narrative perturbations
Beyeme, Nze Alexis. "Esthétique et théorie de l'errance : regard littéraire et perspective de lecture sur les oeuvres romanesques d'Edouard Glissant, de John Maxwell Coetzee et de Haruki Murakami." Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030078/document.
Full textThe wandering this being phenomenon which is moved and travel (browse) the diégèse of a transgressive literary production. This revolution of the textual language, the first purpose of which is to put to death the tradition of literature. Here still the representative kind (genre) of letters, novel, is pushed aside (knocked down) up to its last cutting off, so much the transformation (processing) is obvious and perceptible in the modern, postmodern thought and postcolonial. The hybridization summons (convenes) so that, the reader is alienated, dumbfounded one more time by a scriptural meshing which pushes him (it) to the transcendence of the basic (basal) analysis. The author so sets up himself as herald who kills the former (old) and subverts the mask with a total freedom. Then, literary genres, characters, temporality and space re-configure indefatigably by the motive for the wandering becomes a singular and central agent which livens up (leads) the current events in a general way of the world of the art and in particular the literature. This united thesis the voice of three writers: Glissant, Coetzee and Murakami, the later respectively accentuate a sought identity, an anomie which affects (allocates) logos, the pathos and ethos and character so singular as hybrid
Darougari, Baharak. "Hyperfiction, creativity and postmodern novel." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018STRAC021/document.
Full textSince Ted Nelson coined the term “hypertext” in 1965, there have been frequent debates on the merits and dangers of digital texts and whether the development of digital technology would outdate the print-based medium. The prophecies were apocalyptic and the future of books seemed bleak. About fifty years later, the doomed print-based medium and the digital hypertexts, their would-be executioners,both still exist. Novels are still popular and so is hyperfiction. Neither outdated or eradicated the other. Instead, the coexistence of books and their digital counterparts has affected ourperception of text, reader, writer and the reading experience. More importantly, the exchange between the two media has resulted in exceptional experimental fiction both on screen and on paper. The conjunction between fiction and digital technology is of concern to this project which attempts to study hyperfiction, its roots in fiction and its printed descendants
Vanhalme, Charlotte. "Citoyenneté postmoderne et didactique des langues anciennes: quel projet d'autonomie intellectuelle pour l'apprenant ?" Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209794.
Full text&9679; Clef :comment les langues anciennes peuvent-elles aider les élèves à s’approprier les concepts de l’éthique citoyenne ?L’autonomie intellectuelle, condition sine qua non de l’éthique citoyenne, ne provient pas ipso facto d’une lecture assidue des auteurs classiques mais elle peut constituer le projet qui sous-tend toute démarche de l’enseignant. Praxéologique à tendance pragmatique, cette recherche ne vise point à un utilitarisme réducteur de leur enseignement mais tente de répondre à un besoin axiologique.
&9679; Objectif :montrer comment une orientation méthodologique et déontologique précise dans l’apprentissage des langues anciennes sensibilise aux problématiques citoyennes du même type que celles qui caractérisent notre société postmoderne
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Pop, Andreea. "L'évanescence du corps chez quelques auteurs postmodernes : domaines francophone et anglophone : Marie-Claire Blais, Pascal Bruckner, Marcel Moreau, John Banville, Ian McEwan, Joyce Carol Oates." Thesis, Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016CLF20012.
Full textThe vanishing body depicts a state of extreme precariousness and reveals a progressive loss of substance and vitality which results in the disembodiment of the conscience. The way from being “all body” to being “out-of-body” is hallmarked by three visual categories, each one being assigned a certain classical element: stone, for opacity (the territory of Thanatos), erotic fire for the flesh representing translucency and air and glass for transparency, reminding Narcissus. In this structure water is always the transversal element. The theme is therefore sustained by a network of thresholds such as: the wall, the organic layer and the transparent or invisible screen. With every threshold comes the idea of transgression. Passing into another state or dimension interrupts the contact with reality which fades swiftly away and makes room for another time-space configuration gradually defined by death and illness, by joy and thrilling giddiness. The vanishing body tends to inhabit a no man’s land ever more present as the first one fades away. It is thus submitted to various temporal regressions which concern the embodied consciousness and evolves as a “crack” finally producing the separation body-conscience. Within the realms of Thanatos and the stone the evanescence concerns the representation of the statue which stiffens and then recovers the “flesh-state” progressively. The marble, the plaster and the sand present themselves as three “stages” of dematerialization. Coming back to life means entering a state of tepidness of the revived flesh. As the sexual temperature increases it reaches a threshold of erotic liquefaction which then diminishes to a new form of symbolic coldness represented by physical decay and loss of sexual interest. In the field of transparency the body suffers several forms of detachment stretching from the mirror reflection as expression of a newly-born ego to the extreme weakening of the reflexivity which alters the sense of self. Window, window display and transparent shield underlie the self-effacement and create the (illusion of) inhabitable space.Peak of the vanishing process, the ethereal body is finally connected to the air as classical element. This ultimate form of corporeality express the disembodiment of the conscience in symbolic projections of both joy and suffering. It shows a state of absolute precariousness which points out the fact that by loosening the grip on the immediate reality the consciousness tends to gradually build up an engram of the body which ensures the reincorporation and by that, the survival. The take-off, the overflight and the landing describe three forms of “aerial” vanishing which states a symbolic return to opacity declined through images of densification: the steam, the fog, and the “polished” opacity of the night represent a comeback to the starting point of reflection. The story of the vanishing body, which starts and ends through images of death, is nevertheless the story of the continuous return to life and its possibilities
Arsac, Marie. "Les prismes de l'illusion dans l'oeuvre d'Alessandro Baricco." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016AIXM3065.
Full textThis thesis intends to study the aspects of the relationship between literature, illusion and meaning in Alessandro Baricco’s corpus, including both essays and novels. We take interest in his collections, from Barnum (1995) to Una certa idea di mondo (2013), as well as his essays such Next or I barbari (2002 and 2008) and his novels from Castelli di rabbia (1991) to La Sposa giovane (2015) – which can be analyzed in various manners, stylistically, thematically, in detail or partially according to the argumentation’s needs. Given the extent of the subject, raising as many philosophical problems as semiotic questions, the study is focused on the dialectic between illusion of (the) reality and fictional truth, through several prisms. We traverse this way the illusions of postmodernity, as a new cultural and literary era, the reassessment of the referential illusion, especially through the figural aspect, that is the exemplary nature of baricchiens characters. Symptomatic of the tension between fiction and reality, they carry themselves themes relating to the illusion, such as desire, dream, the idea of fate. They will enable us to open reflection on the influence, resistance, even the subversion of a narrative voice that responds to reality, contests it or diffracts it until the emergence of another significance
Revial, Gaëlle. "Masque de l’écriture, écriture du masque. Amélie Nothomb et le courant « posthumain »." Thesis, Paris 4, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA040011.
Full textThis thesis proposes to examine the representation of the mask and the influence of this concept in Amélie Nothomb’s work, in particular to throw light on the unproven monstrousness of her writing. Before the description of the Belgian French languaged literature and the different literary currents in which the novelist seems to belong to, it takes an interest in masks used by her characters to deceive their surroundings or deceive themselves, and in the world vision that is proposed to the reader. Secondly it describes mask as a permanent feature of the Amélie Nothomb’s voice, in the novelist’s thematic and stylistic writing or in her public or literary characters. Then, it examines the caricatural and grotesque aesthetic of the Amélie Nothomb’s masks, which can make the story beginning a carnival cycle
Rascle, Floriane. "Écritures dramatiques et romanesques des XXe et XXIe siècles à l’épreuve des arts non verbaux. Modèles et dispositifs." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCA110.
Full textThe observation of the presence of non verbal arts within the works of Marguerite Duras, Lawrence Durrell, Elfriede Jelinek and Péter Nádas leads us to examine the musicality and the iconicity of contemporary dramatic and novelistic writings in terms of model, pattern and devices. Dialogue, hybridization, polyphony, dialogism, intermediality, and what Jacques Rancière calls “impurification” within the “Aesthetic Regime of Art”, display the dreams, desires and longings of verbal art for other arts, but also for representations whose artistic content is arguable. The fact that contemporary writings produce an organic, sexual, erotic, even pornographic body invites us to focus on the interactions between arts and non-arts with regard to their performative devices and to propose a queer reading of the works. In Postmodernism, the fact that writings draw on non verbal forms can be understood as the expression of the failure of Logos – both language and reason – and of representation. Moreover, what is also at stake is an aesthetic and political reform of literature. Whether they tend to impose new verbal models or break into them, non verbal arts contribute not only to reshape literary forms but also to emphasize their political substance and renew their fictional content. This dissertation aims to investigate the crossroads between aesthetics and politics that the various relationships between verbal and non-verbal arts display, from mid-20th century to the beginning of the 21st century, within Literature, the verbal art par excellence
Larivière, Gabrielle. "Poétique de la ville postmoderne : Montréal dans La canicule des pauvres de Jean-Simon DesRochers." Thèse, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/14025.
Full textLa canicule des pauvres (2009) recounts the daily life of twenty-six characters living at The Galant, a former brothel turned into an apartment building in Montreal’s Latin Quartier. This study shows interest in how the novel reveals a particular and complex image of the city. What can this representation of Montreal teach us about Quebec’s society ? What has become of urban civilization in the world of La canicule des pauvres ? How does DesRochers’s writing work with the usual representations of the city that come from the contemporary social imagination or the past literature ? Is there such a thing as postmodern Montreal ? In the spirit of sociocritical perspective, this memoir postulates that from the flow of the text we can understand the complex of meaning related to the representation of Montreal developed by the novel. By the images it gives, by the modes of enunciation and narration, by its way of uniting the effectiveness of brief chapters and extent of novelistic vision, by the multiple life stories described and their interlacing, the novel presents a city that has become foreign and opaque to its own residents. The study is divided into four parts which respectively examine the main features of the text layout, the narrative fragmentation, the recurring smog theme and the way The Galant’s residents interact with each other. In sum, the city appears paradoxical, alive indeed, but offering no vision of a coherent and liberating way of living together.
Brisset, Maxime. "Nakagami Kenji : un projet littéraire et social autour du statut des intouchables japonais." Thèse, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/9072.
Full textThis study addresses the issue of burakumin, Japanese untouchable or social outcast, in the works of the Japanese novelist Nakagami Kenji (1946-1992), who had himself come from this community. Together, A Thousand Years of Pleasure, a collection of six tales based on life stories, and the novel Miracle, form a continuum articulated around the same places, characters and themes. They describe the social condition of a community exiled by the Japanese society in spite of its modernization and stand out as works of the ethnofiction genre. Nakagami tries to rehabilitate the burakumin by the valorization of the religious and folk heritage of which they are the custodians. He draws from the traditional works such as monogatari, the folk tales and legends of Japan. He also draws from contemporary Japanese authors (Mishima, Tanizaki) as well as from foreign ones (Faulkner, García-Márquez). With this intertext as a starting point and to stand against westernization, he elaborates a “hybrid” style worthy of the national literature (kokubungaku). The traditional works are reinterpreted with postmodern aesthetics that introduce an ironic and critical tone against the repressive imperial ideology still feeding discrimination towards burakumin. The analysis bears on the processes underlying the social and literary projects of the author. The thesis is divided in three parts. The first one provides a biographic overview of the author`s life and describes the components of his social project which consisted in changing the image and status of burakumin. The second describes the religious and folk elements of both works and analyzes in context their meaning and their function, which is to emphasize the traditions upheld by the burakumin. The third and last part shows how the traditional repertoire (monogatari) and intertexts are used to support the literary project itself.
Haslam, Bronwyn. "A poetics of apprehension : indeterminacy in Gertrude Stein, Emily Dickinson and Caroline Bergvall." Thèse, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/10627.
Full textThis thesis investigates the poetics of three very different female poets, whose works nevertheless are characterized as both indeterminate and radical: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), and Caroline Bergvall (b. 1962). Dickinson and Stein are Anglo-American, while Bergvall is of French-Norwegian descent yet writes in English, but all three fracture the conventional syntactic structures of the English language in their poetics. This move bears both aesthetic and political implications. In this thesis, I read the indeterminacies of their poetics through Lyn Hejinian’s notion of description as apprehension, which figures writing as a mode of knowing rather than a means of recording something the poet already knows. The temporality of epistemology in their work is thus the present tense of writing; thinking is concomitant with it. Following Hejinian, I contend that it is this temporality that, in making writing open to the vicissitudes, hesitations, reprisals, unexpected events, errors, and the torsions of affect, perturbs determination. The first chapter explores apprehension in Gertrude Stein’s work through her career-long commitment to the present tense of writing: perception occurs concurrently with composition. The second chapter, on Dickinson, hinges on the anxious dimension of apprehension, in which unease, in thwarting or repressing a thought, suspends its understanding. Indeterminacy figures as language claimed by an experience it can’t itself claim. Finally, the last chapter considers the linguistic indeterminacies of Say Parsley, where Bergvall stages the apprehension of language itself in using indeterminacy as a poetic strategy to determinate ends, placing the possibilities, uncertainties and responsibilities of apprehension onto the reader or spectator.
Blustein, David. "Forms of the Postmodern Historical Novel : Christoph Ransmayr, Daniel Kehlmann, Wolfgang Hildesheimer." Thèse, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/16106.
Full textPostmodernism, an aesthetic movement that rejects modernist dogmas, emerged in the U.S.A. in the 1960s and became, over the last decades of the twentieth century, the paradigmatic aesthetic in architecture, literature and the arts. Postmodernism also created the conditions for a renaissance of the historical novel. However, the postmodern historical novel now constitutes a new form of the genre which confronts the dominant discourses with parody, irony and skepticism. This new form does not limit itself to narratives situated in a realist historical setting. Rather, it questions the validity and, consequently, the very nature of historical discourse, problematizing and often foregrounding the process of interpretation and reconstruction of the past. In this manner, contemporary historical fiction reflects current debates about the forms of historiography, debates triggered by the work of Hayden White. The 1980s saw a renewed flowering of historical fiction in the German cultural space and elsewhere. This paper examines postmodern forms of historical fiction through an analysis of three postmodern historical novels in the German language published between 1981 and 2005: Christoph Ransmayr’s Die Schrecken des Eises und der Finsternis, Daniel Kehlmann’s Die Vermessung der Welt and Wolfgang Hildesheimer’s Marbot: Eine Biographie. The analysis is based upon various models of postmodern fiction, in particular Ansgar Nünning’s five level categorization schema of the historical novel. This paper illustrates the extent to which these novels deploy postmodern stylistic devices and comment critically and comically upon German and Austrian history and culture.
Die Postmoderne, eine ästhetische Bewegung, die modernistische Dogmen ablehnte, entstand in den USA in den 1960er Jahren und wurde in den letzten Dekaden des 20. Jahrhunderts die paradigmatische Ästhetik in der Architektur, der Literatur und den Künsten. Die Postmoderne schuf ebenfalls die Voraussetzungen für eine Renaissance des historischen Romans. Jedoch stellt der postmoderne historische Roman eine ganz neue Form der Gattung dar, die herrschenden Diskursen parodistisch, ironisch und skeptisch begegnet. Es handelt sich nicht mehr um eine Erzählung mit einem realistischen historischen Rahmen. Diese neue Form historischer Fiktion stellt das Wesen des historischen Diskurses in Frage und rückt häufig den Vorgang der Sinngebung und die historische Rekonstruktion der Vergangenheit in den Vordergrund. Somit spiegelt diese postmoderne Literaturgattung gegenwärtige Debatten über die Formen der Geschichtsschreibung, wie sie von Hayden White angestoßen wurden. In den 1980er Jahren setzte eine neue Blütezeit des historischen Romans auch im deutschen Kulturraum ein. Das Ziel meiner Arbeit ist, postmoderne Formen des historischen Romans zu untersuchen, und zwar durch eine Analyse dreier deutschsprachiger historischer Romane die zwischen 1981 und 2005 erschienen sind: Christoph Ransmayrs Die Schrecken des Eises und der Finsternis, Daniel Kehlmanns Die Vermessung der Welt und Wolfgang Hildesheimers Marbot: Eine Biographie. Die Romane werden anhand verschiedener narratologischer Modelle analysiert, insbesondere des von Ansgar Nünning entwickelten fünfstufigen Modells des historischen Romans. Meine Arbeit veranschaulicht, in welcher Weise diese Romane postmoderne Stilmittel einsetzen und Geschichte und Kultur Deutschlands und Österreich auf kritische und komische Weise beleuchten.
Seelig, Arnim H. Alexander. ""Quasi eingebettet in die Schrift" Der doppelte Erzählboden popmoderner Oberflächenbeschreibung und der ästhetische Fundamentalismus in Christian Krachts Roman 1979." Thèse, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/3259.
Full textThis master's thesis is an analysis of the subtext immanent in the novel "1979" (2001) by Swiss author, Christian Kracht, who is best known for his debut, "Faserland" (1995). These works are situated in and result from the 1990's movement of German pop literature. In that context, the socio-political climate after the re-unification, most notably the Literaturstreit, plays an important role in my interpretation as the background to Kracht's poetics. I delineate the difficulties that the pop literature discourse carries both, as a literary category and in regard to this author's work, taking into consideration his notoriously problematic statements to the effect that he does not consider his texts to be pop literature, in spite of being commonly regarded as the founder of this literary form in Germany. I shall argue that Kracht engages in a stylistic and more often than not ironic play with pop literature, which transgresses the dominant narrow definition of it. He does so by adopting on the one hand its most-defining feature of extreme descriptive superficiality, yet by conveying on the other hand a moral message of profound dimensions, which renders impossible the classification of his texts as pop, neither in the sense of mere entertainment nor in the sense of Moritz Bassler’s archivism. In fact, the very arsenal of pop signifiers present in Kracht's texts create through their arrangement a web of meaning, which in the post-modern paradigm can be best described with Gilles Deleuze's and Félix Guattari's term “rhizome." By doing so Kracht follows in the footsteps of another tradition which transgresses the boundaries of pop literature, as he reaches back to the aestheticistic décadence and symbolism at the fin-de-siècle of a Hugo von Hofmannsthal, a Stefan George, and a Joris-Karl Huysmans, with their strong undertones of warnings against the shortfalls of modernism, liberalism, and capitalism, in a fashion that is termed “aesthetic fundamentalism” by Stefan Breuer. This research draws on original interpretations of the source texts, on evaluations of secondary literature such as scholarly works in German literary criticism, sociology and history, on book reviews, essays and interviews, and on philosophical texts. The thesis is written in German.
Gegenstand der vorliegenden Arbeit ist der narrative Subtext im Roman 1979 (2001) des Schweizer Autoren Christian Kracht, der vor allem mit seinem Romandebüt Faserland (1995) bekannt wurde. Seine Texte stehen im Zusammenhang mit der Neuen Deutschen Popliteratur der 90er Jahre. In diesem Kontext hat auch das soziokulturelle Klima nach der Wiedervereinigung eine wichtige Rolle, das sich am prägnantesten im Literaturstreit äußerte, weshalb dieser in der hier vorgenommenen Intepretation von Krachts Poetik seinen Platz findet. Außerdem soll aufgezeigt werden, inwieweit die Neue Deutsche Popliteratur sowohl als gattungstechnische Kategorie als auch im Bezug auf Krachts Werk problematisch ist. Dies entspricht den Beteuerungen des Autors, dass er keine Popliteratur schreibe, obwohl er als ihr Gründer gilt. Das Argument dieser Arbeit ist, dass Kracht auf stilistische und oft ironische Weise mit Popliteratur spielt, wodurch er die bestehende enge Definition dieser transgressiert. Da er einerseits das bezeichnenste Merkmal von Popliteratur, nämlich die Oberflächenbeschreibung, übernimmt, andererseits aber dadurch eine tiefe moralische Aussage macht, lassen sich seine Texte nicht als Pop verorten,weder als Unterhaltung, noch im Sinne von Moritz Baßlers Archivismus. Vielmehr ergeben die von Kracht versammelten Pop-Signifikanten in ihrer Vernetzung ein Sinngebäude, das in postmoderner Parlanz mit Gilles Deleuze und Félix Guattari als „Rhizom“ bezeichnet werden kann. Indem Kracht so verfährt, knüpft er ebenfalls an eine Tradition jenseits von Popliteratur an, und zwar an die ästhetizistische décadence und den Symbolismus des fin de siècle eines Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Stefan George und Joris-Karl Huysmans, sowie deren Warnungen vor den Mängeln des Modernismus, Liberalismus und Kapitalismus, wobei diese Einstellung von Stefan Breuer als ästhetischer Fundamentalismus bezeichnet wird.