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Tendil, Jean-Luc. "De la conquête territoriale à la conquête sociale : l'homme jouet ou acteur de son évolution dans l'œuvre de Jack London ?" Montpellier 3, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007MON30052.
Full textJack London, traveller and story-teller, was always interested in human freedom as the source of dignity, that treasure of the human mind which social injustice, or more simply the cruelty of life, have often plundered and wrecked. Late-nineteenth-century evolutionism in America probably disturbed conventional opinions about the origin of freedom: instead of an unalienable right given by God, it appeared to be the objective of a painful conquest, which started in the random struggles of the animal kingdom even before it was born as a concept in the human brain. While evolution has made us what we are – intelligent beings -, intelligence in turn compels us to take up the burden of evolution, to determine its path and no longer follow it. However, London appears to have considered evolutionary forces as being conveyed by an irresistible and incomprehensible flux of energy. He even went so far as to present it as a physical illusion whose refinements have never genuinely softened the inherent brutality of the world, always prone to resurface. Telluric forces, which are up to the poet to detect and decipher, keep thwarting the advances of evolution. Nevertheless, in spite of the enormity of these forces, seemingly awakened by the 1890 closure of the Frontier, the tiny creatures of the living world keep growing back again. It is the miracle of this tiny, indomitable spirit, which men must appropriate on their way to freedom
Picot, Jean-Pierre. "Contribution à une étude de l'imaginaire chez quelques écrivains des XIXe et XXe siècles." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988CLF20012.
Full textThis thesis is a corpus centred round jules verne's voyages extraordinaires and its coherence is meant to be psychothematic : travelling is seen as an exploration of death, and writing as an imaginary journey. Thus, travelling is not merely a dream of exhausting what a map of the world may offer, but also a dream of utopias : the utopias of the extraneous, of love, of the future, of a harmony between nature and society - such utopias are forced into the para- doxical exorcism which the various counter-utopias have formed: a moral evil explored by detective of fantastic narratives, a political evil seen as a repre- hension of desires and as the oppression inflicted by history- meanwhile science-fiction tries to see through a hazardous future. Hence our preference for the various aspects of the literature of limits, which, aware that the world is only our weltanschaaumg, is quite heedless of the rules of a reducing pseudo-realism. Therefore, the wonderful, the fantastic, science-fiction, utopias and counter-utopias, poetry and the exploration of death are as many ways of expressing not the preposterousness but the infinite significance of the world. Let transcendency begin with writing, such was, perhaps, our clew, from the first to the last of these texts