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Wang, Yan Hui. "Michel Leiris face au jazz." Paris 7, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA070127.
Full textIn most often cases, my pen expresses in the way of a cold writing", Michel Leiris writes in À cor et à cri (p. 109), "but I like when it sings in a style of warm writing, which is a mutation responding to a raising of the tone or of the tension that whips momentarily my languid blood. " Throughout his life, Michel Leiris lives in a contrastive situation. His nature is cold, hard, indifferent, logic. . . Sometimes terribly anxious, but he likes things rather hot, as he says, the things that can stimulate him and give him the wonderfulness or the enthusiasm such as bullfighting, opera, and jazz. Jazz is an important element in his life. This music style is really the key to understand Michel Leiris. For him, Jazz is not only a pure music, but also anything that is related to the Blacks of Africa and to the Blacks of America, if they are not mixed up: "This precisely makes not only African but also African in America underestimate the value of Jazz, since for Africa, Jazz is a little charming mischief of art; however, for Jazz, Africa consists of a pile of gloomy, flat and flashy things that are nearly always miserable (which, nevertheless, build its unique beauty)" (Miroir de l'Afrique, P362). The research on Leiris face au jazz will allow us to find a new way to approach the writer and also the anthropologist
Taniguchi, Asako. "Michel Leiris : un devenir poésie." Paris 7, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA070073.
Full textTryinq to examine the exact moment when speech turns into poetry : the present study follows the lead on this question put forth by Michel Leiris in À cor et à cri in order to find out how in Leiris's works words cease to be just words, how the text at one point takes on a shimmerinq colour which makes us more alive and more sensitive to the course of time. Startinq from Glossaire j'y serre mes aloses as from a microcosm in which Leiris's work is reflected in its most condensed form, the author undertakes the close and careful decipherment of a set of texts deliberately chosen from a wide range of leirisian works and tries to understand what it actually means that Leiris's deepest ambition was "to be a poet" and that when he was twenty-two he chose "transmuate" as his maître mot. Leiris's writinq is neither lead nor gold, but lead in the process of becoming gold. "Becominq-poetry" : rather than opening a new field of study, this thesis aims at creating a new way of speakinq about Leiris in an attempt to follow as closely as possible the gradual transformation of his texts. Which may be nothing else but the process of reading them, as the author shows by several examples
Molla, Christiane. "La figure héroïque chez Michel Leiris." Montpellier 3, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995MON30047.
Full textReferred by his own author to the bullfighting, Michel Leiris's work illustrate all the facets of an heroic figure onto which the autobiographer projects himself. Fed by myth, delibertly situated in an hyperbolic environment, the subject builts thus his own heroic status. As the works grow, a substituted identity, claimed by his creator, would so be founded. The genesis of the mythic double goes through different stages : aspire to a prestigious lineage, with a poet as gather, a singer as mother, collect the pictures or the scenes that glorify the I as a heroe, alternatly warrior, traveller or dandy, all exhibitions dominated by the figure of the artist. Nevertheless the heroic projection takes part in a general effect of trompe-l'oeil, presentin the decor and the utterance, which aptitude protects her in fact from a petrifiying eternity, and yet perpetuates her in her heroic phases. Played into the text, this subtle game against the death - which is the essential stake in an autobiography - reaches its highest point in the illusion of the whole work miming a never-ending piece of writing as a last challenge to the rules of its genre, and as an absolute accomplishment ofthe textual figure
Saillier, Didier. "Michel Leiris en ses revues (1924-1990)." Paris, EHESS, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003EHESA146.
Full textBeing present in the French intellectual milieux troughout the XX century, Michel Leiris (1901-1990) published a lot in the journals wich aimed to become show-cases of the activities of various literary and artistic movements, of avant-garde in the first place. The autobiographic writings and ethnological work of Michel Leiris have concealed this aspect of his creative activities, and it has not yet been studied systematically. The thesis borrows the approaches from different disciplines - the history of ideas, literary and art history, history of anthropology, sociology and psychoanalysis. The first part analyses the life-path of the writer-ethnologist. The conceptions of Pierre Bourdieu's theory are used to highlight how the logic and constraints of literary field acted in the life of Leiris who had avoided the path predetermined by his family and social class to join the artistic circles. The second part follows chronologically the passages of Leiris in the world of journals and shows the originality of his voice and of his contribution to the following journals : La Révolution surréaliste, Documents, Les Cahiers du Sud, Minotaure, La critique sociale, La Nouvelle revue française, La Bête noire, Les lettres françaises, Les Temps modernes, Présence africaine, Critique, Gradhiva
Berissi, Marianne. "Littérature sans mémoire : lectures d'enfance de Michel Leiris." Aix-Marseille 1, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007AIX10080.
Full textKoné, N'Bégué. "L' émergence de l'Afrique dans l'oeuvre de Michel Leiris." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013MON30047.
Full textThe emergence of Africa in the work of Michel Leiris testifies his willingness to know the other and at the same time to re-evaluate his own self through the encounter with the other. Leiris travels through Africa from the west to the east during the Dakar/Djibouti mission from 1931 to 1933 as the recording archivist of the ethnographic and linguistic mission headed by Marcel Griaule. This mission becomes an occasion for Leiris to get in touch with Africans and to be away from Europe for a moment. His stay in Sanga allows him to enter the sacred universe of Dogon people and to analyse the significance of the masks. As far as that goes, his stay in Abyssinia also gives him the opportunity to be in direct contact with the possessed people and the Zar spirits. Ethiopia is the last country visited by Leiris and it is the country which touches him the most. Blacks do not make any difference between Leiris and the other white colonialists during this particular period of colonisation. His encounter with Africa gives birth to several pieces of work such as Ghost Africa and The Secret Language of Sanga’s Dogons. Leiris hopes that his travel to Africa will help him find a therapy to his problems. In this vast enterprise, he will see the myth of a regenerative travel broken and will not be able to get rid of his obsessions. Ghost Africa is a testimony on the ambiguous position of ethnology of this particular period. Objectively; he tries to say everything on his own self and on what he feels while in Africa. The other becomes his main concern, from Africa to the West Indies; he is interested in the cultures of the black people with often a critical comment on them. He becomes ethnologist himself, questioning the world from the sample of human category that he is, as an external witness somehow, of what is happening in his own self and around him. Africa remains a ghost for Leiris because of the image of Emawayish, the Gondarian of Ethiopia with whom he falls in love during his stay in Abyssinia
Hand, S. "Representation and response in the works of Michel Leiris." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.371656.
Full textTalpin, Camille. "Michel Leiris et l'art de son temps (1922-1990)." Thesis, Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018UBFCH029.
Full textA poet close to surrealism, an autobiographer and an Africanist ethnologist, Michel Leiris (1901-1990) was also the friend of the greatest artists of the twentieth century - André Masson, Joan Miró, Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso, Wifredo Lam or Francis Bacon. The relationships between the writer and painters or sculptors gave rise with the former to the writing of numerous commentaries on the work of the latter. Revealing different writing exercises - poem, review article, preface or essay -, the writings on art express a common singularity of the poet within the scope of art history. Less an expert in art than a lover of art, Michel Leiris has made his writing a place of experimentation and quests towards the artistic creation of his time. By relating the circumstances of the meetings with the artists, then, by studying the friendships maintained with the latter, it can be demonstrated how Leiris embodies a singular and emblematic personality in the specific field of art history. Moreover, his writing will be linked to the ever renewed experiments in which the writer participated throughout the twentieth century - surrealism, ethnography or political commitment. Thus, the expression of his sensitivity can be placed at the centre of the epistemological debates of art history and the Humanities and Social Sciences. Actually, it will be a matter of questioning the quests of "presence", realism, modernity, beauty, sacred and the figure of the otherness in art, through issues inherent in the discipline of art history, while considering Leiris's sensitive and subjective link with the works of art
Sermet, Joëlle de. "Michel Leiris poète surréaliste : de la lyre au miroir." Paris 7, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA070022.
Full textMichel Leiris, a member of the surrealist group from 1924 to 1929, is generally known for his autobiography, however, he considered himself above all a poet : poetry is at the basis of his entire body of work. The aim of this thesis is to shed light on the origins of a poetically oriented oeuvre, by means of a study of Michel Leiris's surrealist texts works which have been neglected by critics. Each of the three parts focuses on one of the poetics that Leiris experimented with, from his early lyrical essays up to the foundations for his autobiographical project in the beginning of the thirties. The first section deals with his attempts at semiautomatic depersonalisation as sketched in Simulacre, Glossaire : J'y serre mes gloses and Le forcat vertigineux. The thesis underlines the definition of a paradoxical lyricism one finds there behind the neutral voice characteristic of these texts which leave the initiative to the words themselves. On the other hand, three oneiric narrations, "le pays de mes reves", Le point cardinal and Aurora, form a triptych where the relating of dreams is a pretext for an introspective and fantasizing quest for the sources of inspiration. Poetic enunciation blurs generic limits and subverts unstable narrative frames. The third path, perceptible in Grande fuite de neige, failles and la Nereide
Séguin, Claire. "Identité et arts plastiques dans l'oeuvre de Michel Leiris." Paris 7, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA070093.
Full textOur thesis invites the reader to follow the route taken by michel leiris, a writer who learned his craft at the elbow of artists and who has, all his life, maintained close friedships with them. Our study seeks to show, through analysing their shared experiences, the role played by painting, and in a more general way by the visual arts in the construction of michel leris's literary idendity. A first part, which concentrates on identifying prictorial motifs in his autobiographical work, and especially in l'age d'homme, analyses the way in which he introduces images into the narrative flow of his text. This first section reveals the existence of a memory process associated with images which dates from childhood, then attempts to describe the lengthy development of the author's personal pictorial culture. In a second part, our attention is drawn to what michel leiris has written about art. His friendships with painters have allowed him to publish works in collaboration with them. He also writes as an art critic, setting out his personal conception of the artist. Here, then, he underlines the similarities and differences he sees between the image and the written word, the artist and the poet. These multiple experiences have all contribued to building up the literary identity of michel leiris. A third part completes the study, examining the imaginary quality of the writer's texts and, looking at the ruban au cou d'olumpia, analyses the very special role played by painting in this work, and particularly the, somewhat secretive, role of surrealist art
Yu, Ho-Shik. "L'identité fantôme dans l'écriture de soi de Michel Leiris." Paris 10, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA100062.
Full textLacoste, Isabelle. "Leiris, Limbour : une influence souterraine." Aix-Marseille 1, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001AIX10069.
Full textGoumegou, Susanne. "Traumtext und Traumdiskurs Nerval, Breton, Leiris." Paderborn München Fink, 2004. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2869255&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
Full textBarberger, Nathalie. "La Règle du jeu de Michel Leiris, l'écriture du deuil." Paris 4, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA040186.
Full textThe Règle du jeu by Michel Leiris, together with the texts following in its wake, attests, while the myth of the "authentic ego" has collapsed that being done with the literature of the self is impossible, that the endgame is endless. As an untimely, out-of-place autobiography, the Règle du jeu comes within Rousseau’s heritage and brings back ancient questions. However, it is also like a deceiving after game. Based upon the figures of mourning and lacuna, it is a suicidal genre where the inaccessible we cannot get rid of always resurfaces, a paradoxical genre haunted by ill-buried corpses. Thus trough Leiris's autobiography, it is possible to trace the successive mourning of which the modern writing bears the print, while the autobiographer becomes a descendant forever indebted to the demanding ghosts that he keeps inside him
Maïllis, Annie. "La tauromachie et ses miroirs dans l'oeuvre de michel leiris." Montpellier 3, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996MON30017.
Full textVilar, Pierre. "Michel Leiris : vestiges des images et prestige de la peinture." Paris 8, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA081005.
Full textThis work is meant to make a contribution to investigation on relationship between writing and painting in xxth century. Michel leiris (1901-1990), aside from being one of the most original creators among french surrealists, devoted an important part of his work to painting criticism. Before analyzing on andre masson, joan miro, alberto giacometti, pablo picasso, wifredo lam and francis bacon - the poet, autobiographer, ethnographist and critic having been for a long time their close friend - , our aim has been to show the recurrent presence of a certain number of imaginary structures in his ethnographic, poetical, autobiographical and fiction work, to study how these structures were protected into his appreciation and poetics on painting. Concentration on images of blood and red colour, lingering assertion of a perspective angle of vision, numerous poetic puns around name and surname, references to translation and foreign artists original languages, are here studied as elements of a writing on vision, visual, and visibility
Goyatá, Júlia Vilaça. "Georges Bataille e Michel Leiris: a experiência do sagrado (1930-1940)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8134/tde-13032013-102759/.
Full textThe sacred has been a central subject of anthropological investigations since its origins. This research proposes an approach to the concept through the eyes of George Bataille (1897-1962) and Michel Leiris (1901-1990) in 1930s France, having in sight the crossing of their intellectual experiences and their theoretical formulations. We assume the sacred sociology, proposed by both authors during the years of the Collège de Sociologie (1937-1939), as a starting point to claim the use of the sacred in a double framing: functioning as an explanatory concept, it would also work as a praxis, a way of seeing and acting upon the world. Amid the debates of the time, undertook by intellectuals and the avant-garde movements about the possible paths of political actions and its connections with art forms, the sacred appears in the works of Bataille and Leiris as a striking alternative. The goal is to retrace a tradition of debates involving the concept through both authors formulations at the same time radical and original , showing how they relate, each in their own way, with the former social theory.
Lambilliotte, Julie. "La question de l'écriture : voix, matière et abstraction chez Michel Leiris." Paris 7, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA070053.
Full textThis thesis aims to define Leiris' notion of writing. Three terms - voice, substance and abstraction - will be used to clarify this and structure our approach. Wanting to "vocalize" one's writing means giving it body, ensuring that it is taken notice of. It also means becoming part of the writing, insisting that each line reveal an aspect of oneself. The result of this preoccupation is an extremely high degree of attention paid to use of language. Leiris has a very concrete relationship with words : they are described as matter with consistency, smell and odor, and even as bodies. An ambivalent relationship with language thus emerges : fascination, desire and violent urges come thick and fast. But the writing turns out to be desperately abstract and fails to reflect reality. Worse, initially a means to live better, it has become an end in itself : the writing is "only" writing, and cannot change our lives
Ferreri, Serge. "L'Afrique fantôme de Michel Leiris quête de l'autre, quête de soi." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1987. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb375947406.
Full textMuller, Claude. "Double lecture de Michel Leiris "L'Age d'homme", "La Règle du jeu." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1987. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb375999043.
Full textMuller, Claude. "Double lecture de Michel Leiris : "L'âge d'homme", "La règle du jeu"." Aix-Marseille 1, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986AIX10028.
Full textThe analysis of leiris's autobiographical works is directed, in the first placem towards its gothics aspects. The presence of medieval rhetorics is manifest in the art of the portrait inspired by sculpture and stained glass windows. The colour scheme is governed by the code of traditional imagery. Observation functions in keeping with principl of inverted perspective. The social liturgy of the middle ages permeates the evocation of the relationship between the anthor and the crowd. A rational explanation brings out the fundamental unity underlying the diversity of his works. Woman is seen as carrying antagonistic or ambigerous forces. Meditation takes precedence over action. The nostalgic longing for martyrdom is linked with the potentiality of becoming self and othes. The text progresses by digressions variations in he settings and exhibition of procedures. Its keys are tripartition, the game of contraries and the quest through circula expression. In another respecte, the psychoanalytical grid one the make out the haunting dread of desintegration. The portraits of other characters express the selfsamedread of taint. The parental imago is inscribed within the evocation of the conventional oedipean triangle held in check by the principle of reality, which creates anxiety in front of death, an early obsession with the anthor. Love and death cannot be dissociated. Woman appears unde the traits of judith and lucretia associated with the theme of dramatic spectacle. The evocation of khadidja synthetises the avowal of the sexual impulse and the search for truth in art. The death urge, the mainspring of leirisian writing,reveals the quest of the hidden meaning and the fundamental void bearing the mark of thanatos
Natsume-Dubé, Sachiko. "Michel Leiris et le monde extérieur : de la communication esthétique comme dépassement de l'égocentrisme." Paris 4, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA040127.
Full textThoroski, Cynthia Dawn. "Re/collective narratives, relational economy in the confessional ethnography of Michel Leiris and Eric Michaels." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ30772.pdf.
Full textSpieldenner, Edith. "Poésie et autobiographie : lecture de "la Règle du jeu" de Michel Leiris." Metz, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988METZ001L.
Full textAn overall view of "la regle du jeu" reveals that its basic aim lies in combining two opposite types of writing, meaning combining the sparkling poetic speech with the rational processes of discourse. We can feel this aspiration in two chapters where it works in different ways, both complementary and representative. In the fifth chapter, from biffures (book 1), the writer is deep in exploring his childhood in search of a basic experience. The investigation resorts to the mythological figure of persephone who supplies the text with a legendary store of paths, scenes, imagery and words. At the same time, rhetorical devices are set up, changing the linear and discursive progression of autobiographical prose into a poetic web. As a result, this chapter offers the mythological basis and the harmonic density of an opera. The second excerpt is the last chapter of fourbis (book 2). Here the poetic work uses the opposite process : no longer does it start from a legendary figure who rules the stages in exploring childhood but transforming a trite event in his life as an adult into an adventure ringing mythical echoes. This chapter, by disclosing "the sacred in everyday life", gives leiris's autobiography the feature of a "mytho-biography"
Spieldenner, Edith. "Poésie et autobiographie lecture de la "Règle du jeu" de Michel Leiris /." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1989. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37618682b.
Full textGarritano, Francesco. "La carte de géogaphie comme carte d'identité dans l'oeuvre de Michel Leiris." Paris 8, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA080116.
Full textThis thesis is an investigation into the work of michel leiris, a work the autor himself sees as an unfinished selfportrait. The thesis adopts neither a historical nor a merelly literary approach, but is based on categories of a semiologic-deconstructionist kind. Since all leiris' work is an attempt at autobiographic reconstruction, an attempt which he sees as bound to failure, the thesis attaches a central role to the analysis of writing and contents. Memory, in fact, makes writing possible but, at the same time, stands as the limit of autobiography. Writing is seen as a formal apparatus where the event is lost, as leveling of all psychical stages, thus as a loss of identity. Paradoxically the end of self-portrait is realized in its incompleteness. Together with the interwined categories of time-memory-autobiography, the thesis stresses freudian unheimliche, which looms in his work in a disquieting and unresolved fashion. Conscience is alwais veiled, representation of the self and the world is never granted; the act of writing is alwais submitted to chance, to what has not surfaced yet, but which should be unveiled. Leiris is well aware of this and he feels guilty. He acknowledges responsability, although he tries to delay its effects. The confession gains value trough delay and reticence
Martelli, Erika. "Une autre forme du moi : l'autobiographie de Michel Leiris à Georges Perec." Paris, EHESS, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007EHES0356.
Full textThe thesis, based on published and unpublished documents, suggests that Leiris and Peric proposed a revolutionary model of realist autobiography: after the crisis of the novel, after Aushwitz, both used a weak form (based on a subject having reached a deep crisis) turning it into epics. In the realist autobiography the subject makes of its private, intimate part, exposed to a deep dout, the Meduse raft trying to translate the particular to the participated history. In this paradigm it's the man, not merely the writer, who needs to expose itself to the extremest risk to give a foundation to a possible realism. The realist aurobiography must be read on the contrary: it has not been written for the subject it has been written to go beyond it. From the reader -from its disponibility to implicate itself in the work, to decrypt the coded message concerved for him- from the Other depends the realisation of the realism
Konaté, Diola. "Réflexions poétiques de l'Afrique dans l'oeuvre d'un écrivain ethnologue surréaliste : Michel Leiris." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993CLF20048.
Full textThe narrator-poet and ethnographer at the same time-in his literary creations and ther works structures around the theme about africa a theory giving a new dynamic value to the authentic reflections expresin, the spiritual and cultural values and the africa heritage-a theory doubly throun into relief in our study on account of michel leiris' double vocation. According to the ethngrapher all aspects described in his travel book as manners and customs, rites and apparent sources of beliefs, exploitation of magic knouledges and resorts to mythical survivals deserve to be taken into account, for they represent basis from which the africa black explains and integrates his naturel environment but also throngh which be states his attachment to his origins. According to the poet the travel throngh the complex circonvolutions of these irrational wealths, beyond the passion for myths and cultures unknoun of that time, becomes a means of being objective towards the rational logic and to reach a better acquaintance of oneself and the then - a poetic experimentation that he carries on even in his dreams (image of the ethnographe
Luc-Grangé, Virginie. "Portrait de Michel Leiris par André Masson, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti et Francis Bacon. ." Paris 4, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990PA040407.
Full textMiraucourt, Julie. "Pablo Picasso face à la littérature française : de Michel Leiris à André Malraux." Dijon, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008DIJOL013.
Full textPablo Picasso maintained bonds of friendship with french literature, I. E with poets from the “Bateau-Lavoir” or members of surrealism. It is then very interesting to analyse – from the painter’s point of view – the nature of these friendships and how efficient they have been on Picasso’s life. Besides, they give the opportunity to understand interction between these two fields of expression. However, this study is based on the relationship between the painter and two french writers : Michel Leiris and André Malraux. It focusses on the notion of “genereation” both writers were borned the same year in Paris, then the three artists will be under the same influence and share points of interest
Prunet, Anne Gwenn Marie. "Victor Segalen, Alain Daniélou, Michel Leiris, Nicolas Bouvier : poétiques du voyage au XXeme siècle." Paris 8, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA083326.
Full textHow to describe traveling on the 20th century? The genre of travel story implies a fundamental paradox: it lies between the expression of a necessary subjectivity and a reference anchoring, which highlights during the century which witnesses the questioning of the definition of the subject. Consequently, a travel work emerges and expresses the need to instill beyond the criteria which have been defining the genre of traveling until now. These four authors contribute to this questioning as well as a remodeling of the constants of the genre of traveling, while expressing in a dialectical way: between native land and the target countries; between oneself and the other. They also propose some patterns consistent with the poetics of traveling: archaism, closed spaces, incompleteness, death – reexamining the concepts of time and space, which influence the structure of the works as well as the language in use
Weavil, Victoria. "Community, women and selfhood in the writings of Michel Leiris and Carlo Emilio Gadda." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:bd528880-e440-47c7-bc14-ec07c77948a0.
Full textGallaire, Jean-Sébastien. "Michel Leiris, la poésie et la mort : pensée de la mort, mort de la poésie ?" Nancy 2, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005NAN21006.
Full textIn all his work, Michel Leiris apprehends poetry according to the obsessing thought of death, making this latter the driving force behind creative activity. It is in the attempt to define poetry much more than in the mere creation of it that Leiris sees a way of fighting this obsession. The thought of death thus involves a redefinition of poetry. The whole work of Leiris can be read as a metadiscourse treating of the poetic tool and tending to answer this single question : what is really poetry ? This search finally leads the author to consider poetry as a "sacred art". Like all forms of religions, poetry rests on the negation of death. Considering this, poetry may be described as religious, but this does not take into account the existence of God. Poetry is sacred in the sense given by Leiris ; through its practise, man can reach salvation : not by overcoming but by forgetting sovereign death. Thus, for Leiris, it is the darkness of death which helps clarify poetry
Santamaria-Barona, Emmanuel. "L'écriture autobiographique de Michel Leiris : de "La Règle du jeu" à la règle d'or : vers une poésie autobiographique." Paris, EHESS, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992EHES0332.
Full text35LEIRIS AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITING COVERS SOME FIFTY YEARS OF HIS EXISTENCE; THEN, THERE ARE THIS ETHNOGRAPHIC TRAVELS AND,LASTLY, A DEEP NEED TO UNCOVER A TRUTH THAT LIES ON THE BOUNDARY OF THE PERCEPTIBLE. LEIRIS'S TEXT ACQUIRES SHAPE PRIMARILY THROUGH THE VERY ACT OF WRITING AND, CONTINUALLY GOVERNED BY THE PRESENT DERIVES THE VIGOUR AND FORCE OF CONVICTION IN THE INNER-SELF OF A MAN WHOSE WISH IS THAT WE SHOULD READ THE EVER-MOVING STORY OF SOMEONE - APPARENTLY A VERY ORDINARY PERSON - WHOSE CONCERN IS NOT with EVERY DETAIL BUT WITH REMAINING IN TUNE AND WORTHY OF THE ACT OF WRITING, RATHER THAN HEAR HIS LIFE-STO RY. AND EVER WHEN NOTHING SEEMS TO BE HAPPENING. . . IT IS FROM THIS SELF WITH NOTHING TO SAY, THAT LEIRIS DISTILS A POETIC ESSENCE. THE GAMBLE OF AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITING THAT IS THE WORK OF LEIRIS'S STYLE, ALTERNATING BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH, SHADE AND LIGHT, IS ROOTED IN A DIFFICULT, HARD TO CONTROL, TO AND FRO MOVEMENT, FILLED WITH MELANCHOLY
Wilks, Thomas. "Experimentation and the autobiographical search for identity in the projects of Michel Leiris and Hubert Fichte." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2003. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.406287.
Full textDemian, Nevine Nabil. "Modernist primitivism: seeking the lost primitive other in works of Georges Bataille, Michel Leiris, and René Char." The Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1069906630.
Full textRyu, Eun-Young. "Michel leiris de la peinture a l'ecriture de l'image de soi : peinture et litterature dans la perspective psychanalytique." Paris 3, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA030035.
Full textThis work throws light on a particular facet of the poetics of michel leiris, in a psychoanalytic perspective based on the concept of representation which can be narrowed down to three fields : (visual) representation of thing, (acoustic) representation of word and psychic representative of impulse. Leiris, a body of impulse, oscillates between thing and word, image and language. His work which, as it moves from painting to image and image to language, is explained by exchange between painting and literature, always asks two-sided questions : painting or poetry, art or image, art criticism or autobiography? art criticism, based on events, admiration and friendship, is identified with self-criticism or autobiography. The emblematic of masson, the realism of picasso, the void of miro, the fetishism of giacometti and the modernity of bacon are voices which not only reveal the essence of leirissian poetics, but also the love life of a narcissistic writer with respect to his lacking image. We went from critical works on art to autobiographies, in our endeavour to extend the notion of painting to bullfighting, the opera, dreams and ethnographic journeys. The autobiography is a discourse of desire which relies on his lacking image as the ego-object - self-image writing, rather than self-writing with oneself as the ego-subject. The autobiography, in its move towards otherness, becomes an erotic text, symptomatic, writing incarnate : a body-of-work (work become human). This body-of-work becomes flesh-coloured. If a literary text produces a visual effect, then reading is seeing. We set out to listen to the speech of the presence of a work, established by the dialectics of the eye and gaze, fantasy, emblematic transfer, fetishism and the metaphoro-metonymy of the body and detail
Budriesi, Laura <1978>. "Sulle tracce di Michel Leiris: possessione e medicina tradizionale nell’Etiopia settentrionale. Dimensione teatrale, religiosa, terapeutica, socio-politica." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2012. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/4907/.
Full textThe thesis is divided into two parts: the first examines the ethnographic experience led by M. Leiris during the Dakar-Djibouti mission (1931-33) with reference to the study of possession in Gondar. The second part gives an account of the fieldwork conducted by PhD student in Wollo in contact with healers. Iconographic and documentary appendices follow.
Pibarot, Annie. "Fragments d'une anthropologie leirisienne (l'entre-deux-guerres)." Aix-Marseille 1, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992AIX10008.
Full textBetween 1924 and 1939 the writer michel leiris has not only published famous works like phanton africa and manhood but also a lot of articles in advanced literary, aesthetic and ethnology revues. These texts contain a fragmentary and conflicting anthropology. This study tries to reconstitute. At the same time it wants to be an anthropology in an another meaning in so far as thinking about the intellectual and artistic way of the man michel leiris in this period
Peifer, Michel. "L'écriture de "la Règle" et la règle de l'écriture : étude styllistique de "La règle du jeu" de Michel Leiris." Nancy 2, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997NAN21035.
Full textThis thesis is about the writing in Michel Leiris'work, “la règle du jeu”. It postulates an interest in and about margins and in discontinuity all along the text. The first part concerns metalanguage-especially the reflexive use of words or token-reflexivity, which process is the fundamental textual output and it allows expressing the role of nominalism in the text. Leiris enjoys digressing. His associative way of writing sometimes produces real departures from the subject. So the writing has to do with guiltiness and that's the reason why Leiris uses gradually more poly-isotopic writing in order to avoid digressions. Thus he becomes a virtuoso of that kind of writing. However in the last volume the fragmentation process is predominant. In fact, fragmentation is a way of avoiding expansive writing. This technique is deliberate and is everywhere exhibited. It allows the writer to delay beginning or ending his discourse properly. The apparent unyielding contrast between digression and fragmentation is, in fact, a way of understanding more easily what is permanent in Leiris'text. Digression and fragmentation are the same, except that one is the obverse of the other| the last part is about the length of his sentences. Leiris can't help writing long sentences. He is governed by his need of totality, which is best expressed in his pattern of summary. It is what originates his long sentences which are analyzed, especially incidental clauses, parenthesis and hyphens. But Leiris'sentence is also a rhythmic one, whose rhythm can be analyzed. At its level the long sentence reflects the same discursive reasons as the rest of the work, so it appears like one important part of his stylistics or even like the proper aesthetics of the author. This work is the first study devoted to the writer's style. It sums up the main acquired principles of Leiris'work. It tries to make a synthesis of the main concepts studied in the thesis
Barbato, Alessandro. "L' alternativa fantasma : l'esperianza africana e la ricerca del sacro nell'opera di Michel Leiris e di Pier Paolo Pasolini." Paris, EHESS, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009EHES0409.
Full textThe subject of this research is a critical comparison between Michel² Leiris and Pier Paolo Pasolini's life and work. They have been two opf the most fascinating and controversial personalities of the last century. These poets, in different historical moments, living a different background, have pushed their artistic and intellectual research excelling literary expression and meeting doctrines like history of religions and ethnology. The chosen connection to virtually bring together two cultural ways examined could only be the African continent: this fact can be explained because of the important role that the "black continent" - mixture of romantic fantasies and regeneration dreams - has played in both authors. The theme of Africa is intimately connected with the reflections that both, Leiris and Pasolini, have developed about the dimension of the holy. Leaving out the different results they reached during their activities, their reflection explain how both authors belong to a specific cultural trend that has been present in a large part of European culture of the last century
Hall, Anne. "Scènes d'enfance : uen représentation de l'expérience musicale infantine chez E.T.A. Hoffmann, Jules Verne, George du Maurier et Michel Leiris." Aix-Marseille 1, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000AIX10110.
Full textDarrieussecq, Marie. "Moments critiques dans l'autobiographie contemporaine : l'ironie tragique et l'autofiction chez Serge Doubrovsky, Hervé Guibert, Michel Leiris et Georges Perec." Paris 7, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA070070.
Full textThe books we study (Doubrovsky, Guibert, Leiris et Perec) are contemporary autobiographies. They are the stories of lives broken by individual crisis which are very often desasters. This crisis, in the center of each book, is characterized by the lexical field of the abyss, and also by interlocking structures around the gulf figur. We studied what announces the crisis in the text, and we codified, under the name of tragical irony, the rhetorics dealing with it; we also studied the literary functionning of the authors' personal superstitions. Our purpose was not to do a generic study; but we considered autofiction as a new way for contemporary autobiography, being a moment of crisis of this genre. The play on words is both what enables the autofictional writing, and what produces certain effects of the tragical irony. The irruption of the tragical in the individual life told on the first person threatens the classical strategies of autobiography, between the inexpressible and the silence of the desaster. We didn't force the texts in order to compare them, but we tried to mark out in each of them the critical moments that question autobiography at the end of this century
Hall, Anne Elizabeth. "Scenes from childhood a representation of childhood musical experience in selected works by E.T.A. Hoffmann, Jules Verne, George du Maurier and Michel Leiris /." Full text available online (restricted access), 2000. http://images.lib.monash.edu.au/ts/theses/Hall.pdf.
Full textEsien, Ingrid Edem. "The politics and poetics of subjective response in the work of Michel Leiris, Antonin Artaud, and the ethnographic films of Jean Rouch." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.624782.
Full textSfar, Gandoura Ons. "La Poétique du rêve dans quelques fictions brèves des XIXe et XXe siècles : Gérard de Nerval, Théophile Gautier, Jules Supervielle et Michel Leiris." Thesis, Université Clermont Auvergne (2017-2020), 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020CLFAL008.
Full textWhen the authentic, or fictitious dream intervenes in the literary text, the vast inconscious question imposes itself. The literary implementation of the dream testifies, not only the interest in the inconscious part of man and his imagination, but also his fruitful links with reality : like reciprocity (exchange), continuity or rupture. These links, make all the dynamic « dream story » of the 19 th/ 20 th centuries. The dream like narration is part of the broader aesthetic, which, in all respects, breaks with progressivism and the supremacy of real, by establishing poetics of the improbable. Thus, chahracters, spaces, time derogate from the usual, (normative), building a different world that does not fail to recall the mythological universe. It is above all, to reflect on the adventure of the literary dream, traversing the different literary and aesthetic movements and enbodying a mirror that reflects the thougts, reflections, poetics of Gérard de Nerval, Théophile Gautier, Jules Supervielle and Michel Leiris
Jang, Ji-Wook. "De l'esthétique comme milieu irréductible." Paris 1, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA010585.
Full textDebaene, 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
Inston, Kevin. "Writing democracy : a comparative study in the light of late twentieth-century theorisations of radical democracy, of works by Jean-Jaques Rousseau and Michel Leiris, with special reference to the discours sur l'inegalit 'Contrat social', 'Reveries du pro." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.406301.
Full textRenouf, Magali. "Surréalisme africain et surréalisme français : influences, similitudes et différences." Thesis, Tours, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013TOUR2004/document.
Full textAfrican Surrealism requires the question from the influence of French surrealism. Terminology implies, indeed, a link between African writing and the French movement. This link is established by both critics and the dialogues between the two worlds. Senghor encouraged to consider independent part of this surrealism evoking a black negro-african surrealism. We disclaim then behind apparent similarities, differences which reveal a surrealism in the service of understanding the world purely African. African surrealism is an expression of the traditional African perception whose shape is similar to that introduced by the Parisian movement without necessarily had influence