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Deroo, Caroline. "Crise du sujet, crise de la représentation dans les nouvelles fantastiques, au tournant du siècle : domaine français, anglais et américain." Lille 3, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003LIL30017.
Full textHenry, Monica Ana. "Vers une Amérique ? : Les relations entre les Etats-Unis et les nouvelles républiques hispano-américaines, 1810-1826." Paris 7, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA070004.
Full textAfter the War of 1812 the United States turned its attention to its expansion towards the West and its relations with Spanish America. Between 1810 and 1826 commercial interests, territorial ambitions, geopolitical considerations and ideological sympathies are all components of the relations between the two Americas. My aim has been to evaluate the importance and the weight of each one of these components throughout the first years of the history of early inter-american relations and to assess the process of creation of an American hemisphere
Garrait-Bourrier, Anne. "Edgar Allan Poe et la modernité du conte : texte et sujet." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997CLF20010.
Full textFabre, Blondel Catherine. "L'image de la femme dans la vie et l'oeuvre d'Edith Wharton." Paris 4, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1986PA040300.
Full textThe originality of Edith Wharton’s novels and short stories lies in her presentation of the image of woman. Partaking simultaneously of the genteel heroine, the realist heroine and the feminist heroine without belonging exclusively to one of these categories, the Wharton heroine is first and foremost the account given by a human being of her fight against the sufferings of woman in a country, a moment and a social clan where it was particularly difficult to be a woman, and what is worse, a woman-writer
Vallier, Elise. "Pour la défense des femmes : étude d’écrits d’Africaines-Américaines, de 1860 jusqu’au début des années 1920»." Thesis, Paris Est, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PESC0090/document.
Full textIn the nineteenth century, African American women’s womanhood was denied and constantly under attack. After emancipation (1865), they crafted their own definition of what it meant to be a woman of color in the United States. At the turn of the century, as Victorianism was gradually yielding ground, the model of the modern, “new woman” emerged. In this context, African American women went on redefining the meaning of black womanhood. This dissertation examines how some African American women activists, clubwomen and intellectuals belonging to the middle and upper-classes reflected upon being a woman and asserted their womanhood between the 1860s and the early 1920s.This study analyzes the attitudes and strategies they adopted, in their life writings, – such as their autobiographies, diaries and letters – their articles, essays and speeches and in their club work, to defend the image of women of color in the rapidly changing society of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This dissertation also explores the importance of the notions of region and nation in the definition of womanhood. This interpretive collective biography particularly examines the lives and thoughts of four major activists of the time period: Fannie Barrier Williams (1855-1944), Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931), the famous crusader against lynching, Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954), and Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964), one of the first black feminists in America
Roudeau, Cécile. "Pays, pages, paysages : écriture du lieu : la Nouvelle-Angleterre de Sarah Orne Jewet, Mary E. Wilkins Freemen, Alice Brown et Rose Terry Cooke." Paris 4, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA040225.
Full textThe thesis argues that New England women writers, and Sarah Orne Jewett principally among them, rewrote New England as a literary locus and territorial muse. Their rewriting is placed within the larger context of New England’s transition from a normative and synecdochic center of the nation to a region among others. By choosing a genre and a literary object which had been classified as minor, these women-writers transformed the place to which they had been assigned in the world of letters into a site of creation (lieu)–that is a site of continuous invention. They used the malleability of the margins to reshape the tropes of the New England imaginary in their own words. In lieu of a New England which has been interpreted alternatively as either a site of local color or, more recently, a deterritorialized region, the thesis reterritorializes the life and shape, history and memory of this locus which both framed the work of women writers at the turn of the twentieth century and was reinvented by them
Durieux, Catherine. "Femmes et genre dans les utopies britanniques et américaines du XIXe sècle." Paris 3, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA030096.
Full textHow did utopians who purported to look sympathetically at the « Woman’s Question » construct gender in their utopias ? Did the women utopians do it differently from the male writers ? What has changed and what has remained the same in the « chain of utopias » throughout the long period under consideration ? Equality would seem to have been the basis of early-XIXth century utopias written by Robert Owen and Owenites such as William Thompson and Anna Wheeler. By contrast, mid-XIXth century Fourierites – Fourier and his American disciples Albert Brisbane, Marie Howland and Jane Appleton – seem to have been preeminently taken with the idea of liberty. American Fourierism both carried on Owen’s tradition of « material feminism » and fed « Free Love feminism ». In the late XIXth century, Edward Bellamy and William Morris – though they reacted against each other on a range of other issues – both based their utopias on the assuption that women were morally superior beings and as such should be confined to their own separate sphere where they could exercise their benevolent influence. At the turn of the century, Charlotte Perkins Gilman provided a synthesis of previous lines of thought and opened the way for some of the issues that defined the XXth century
Chartier, Cécile. "Déplacements, projections, obsessions, l'interprétation des nouvelles de Fitz-James O'Brien." Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030112.
Full textBetween the 1970’s and the early years of the 21st century, Fitz-James O’Brien’s short stories have been analysed with reference to his Irish birth. This dissertation aims to examine the mechanisms of re-nationalisation at work in the interpretation of his stories: by means of semantic displacements and linguistic projections, the critic runs the risk of being haunted by Irish history. It is thus necessary to reconstruct O’Brien’s literary and journalistic career, from his early anonymous contributions to the “correspondence” column of the Irish nationalist newspaper The Nation, to the creation of the American satirical magazine Vanity Fair, and his death from a wound he recieved in a skirmish during the American Civil War. This dissertation will analyse particularly the part that literary Bohemia played in creating an artistic ideal of “borderlessness,” and the part that the press played in circulating this idea, all the while partaking in the construction of a specifically American literary field. I will then examine the reception of O’Brien’s stories and how they were adapted throughout decades in various media. Finally, I will study interpretative mechanisms which place Ireland and Irishness at the centre of text-reading and I will highlight the rhetorical effects allowing such a reading, both in the critical texts and in O’Brien’s stories themselves. Because of the highly referential nature of his magazine writing, the symbolical, sometimes satirical or even allegorical meaning of his stories eludes today’s reader, who has no choice but to embark on a laborious hermeneutic quest
Préveraud, Thomas. "Circulations mathématiques franco-américaines : transferts, réceptions, incorporations et sédimentations (1815-1876)." Nantes, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014NANT3015.
Full textAt the beginning of the nineteenth century, Harvard College, West Point Military Academy and other american institutions teaching, producing and diffusing scientific knowledge sought to reform and modernize their curricula which had failed to keep up with the developing needs of scholars, scientists and engineers. To achieve this, they broke withtraditional educatioanl practices informed by english contents, pedagogical methods and media of diffusion and sought inspiration from french textbooks and school structures. However, the introduction of these new practices represented a rupture in learning methods. To minimize this change, American mathematicians adapted french mathematics, making them more relevant to local uses. As a consequence, in the following decades the United States became the meeting and mixing place of two mathematical styles that barely interacted in Europe. These mutual transformations produced new and original knowledge, which had the potential to be communicated back to France in a process of backward circulation. The ongoing scientific exchange was enabled by the articulation of complementary activities of American institutions (universities, learned societies, journals) and also by diverse individuals at local and international levels. The contribution these librarians, booksellers, students and travelers made to the material process of the transfer of knowledge is highlighted in this thesis. This study of mathematical exchanges between France and the United States therefore investigates te building of mathematics as a discipline, by analysing multiple sources and historical approaches, in order to better understand the complex and interactive processes through which an American research and scientific curriculum emerged
Crebs, Francie. "Tracés de l'arabesque avec Edgar Allan Poe. Histoires à contretemps." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne université, 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023SORUL122.
Full textAlthough Poe scholarship has paid significant attention to his use of the term “arabesque,” there is no consensus on exactly what he means by it, and it remains enigmatic in his writings, especially in the preface to the Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, where it is linked to a “species of writing.” This dissertation aims to read the arabesque in Poe through the lens of expression from the preface. To do so, the first part of my dissertation provides an overview of the decorative traditions of the arabesque (European, “Oriental” and American), as well as of the attempt in Friedrich Schlegel to transpose these traditions onto narrative, an attempt which gives us clues as to what Poe suggests at with his “species of writing.” In particular, the link Schlegel establishes between arabesque and parabasis (a notion appropriated from Athenian comedy, which designates moments when the coryphaeus transgresses the space of the stage and speaks directly to the audience) is identified as particularly useful. Parts II, III and IV are devoted to Poe’s writing practice, zeroing in ever more closely on what might be the “species of writing” that is “arabesque,” and what it might imply for the history of writing. Part two examines practices of framing in Poe, and the transgression of theses frames. Part III examines the effects these transgressions have on temporality in Poe. Part IV, finally, studies how parabasis occurs at the heart of writing itself in certain Poe texts, thus revealing a species of writing that is arabesque through and through. These studies reveal ever more clearly a temporality that is proper to writing, a temporality that also calls for an other history, a history proper to writing
Bourdelais, Marjorie. "La Nouvelle-Orléans : une ville francophone, 1803-1860 : recherche d'histoire urbaine, démographique et sociale." Paris, EHESS, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007EHES0040.
Full textThis study of New Orleans in the 19th century is crossing urban history, social history and history of immigration. The questions of integration in the city, of ethnicity and identity built and its social effects are at the heart of this research. The purpose is here to analyze the processes of integration of the immigrants in their adopted city, to highlight the processes of fusion of ethnic. Groups and their inscription in the economic and urban landscape, to contribute to a social history of immigration, to underscore the family and social processes of integration in the city, thanks to the use of the interactionnists approaches, and the priority given to the individual trajectories and the network analyses. More largely, in the case of New Orleans, it is also necessary to precise the construction and the stakes of the representation of the city as a French city
Dabrigeon-Garcier, Fabienne. "La nouvelle irlandaise moderne : métamorphoses d'un genre (1880-1960)." Dijon, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001DIJOL023.
Full textThis thesis is a diachronic study of the Irish short story from the early definition of the genre by E. A. Poe in America and its much older roots in the Irish tradition of oral storytelling to its prosperous development in the first decades of the twentieth century. With the new poetics of the genre elaborated tentatively at first by George Moore and then much more audaciously by James Joyce, the Irish short story leaves the field of tradition to enter modernism. In the decade following the Irish Civil War, Liam O’Flaherty and Sean O’Faolain turn back to the mythic foundations of the nation – the landscapes of the West, the soil – to reformulate a place-based sense of Irish identity. However, in the aftermath of the Revolution, Ireland takes refuge in self-centredness, bigotry, censorhip, and the former revolutionaries, O’Faolain and Franck O’Connor, give vent in their “war” stories to oppositional melancholy and to sarcasm to demythologize the revolution. A further development of the short story takes shape in the thirties with Samuel Beckett’s first volume, More Pricks Than Kicks : parody and intertextuality used destructively tend to undermine the conventional base of both story-writing and generic distinctions
Barral, David. "Emerson chez Hawthorne : renaissances américaines." Paris 7, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA070097.
Full textThis study aims at creating a dialogical space between the works of two major American authors, writer Nathaniel Hawthorne and thinker Ralph Waldo Emerson. More precisely, it is an attempt to recognize the extent to which Hawthorne's work is an answer to Emerson's, and beyond, to Emerson's call for an American Renaissance. The basis of this Renaissance, in the work of both writers, is the individual, and his/her capacity for an ethical life
Bardot, Jean. "L'influence française dans la vie et l'oeuvre de Kate Chopin." Paris 4, 1985. http://www.theses.fr/1985PA040084.
Full textGonzález, Bernaldo de Quirós Pilar. "La création d'une nation : histoire politique des nouvelles appartenances culturelles dans la ville de Buenos Aires entre 1829 et 1862." Paris 1, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992PA010531.
Full textThis research aims at explaining how the portenos leading community agreed upon the nation as a basic entity which led to the national organisation of 1862. The first point of this investigation shows how this elite from the buenos aires province united in favour of a national representation of the collective being. The feeling of a collective identity specific to a national society then spread out througth a particular type of social relatienships : civility. The second point deals with the correlation between the development of new forms of associations and the building up of a national power. This network of social relations through associative life was then used as a basic to a modern political structure which provided a kind of national representativity to the power of the town leading community
Abramson, Pierre-Luc. "Les utopies sociales en Amérique Latine au dix-neuvième siècle." Paris 4, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA040027.
Full textThe main thesis of this doctoral dissertation is to show that the native bond between the new world and utopia was still alive throughout the 19th century, in Brazil and Hispanic America. Three historical realities lead us to state our thesis : the interest of utopian socialism theorists for America, the far-reaching impact of 1848 European revolutions in Latin America, the attempts to build new worlds in the new world in the form of utopian communities. Each of these points is dealt with in the three parts of this doctoral dissertation
Paturzo, Mariagrazia. "Il conto nella letteratura francese del XIX secolo." Paris 4, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA040004.
Full textOur work traces an historical perspective of the genre of the conte through the presentation of lots of texts of the 19th century, and considers the characteristics which make the conte a particular literary genre, different from the nouvelle. Always keeping in mind that the conte and the nouvelle are almost inseparables in the 19th century, our dissertation aims to present the different kinds of contes existing in this century and, at the same time, to meditate on the idea of conte as a specific genre. Our dissertation is made up of three different parts, namely the Introduction, the General Part and the Conclusions. The introductive part retraces the iter of the short story from the Middle Ages up to the 17th century and also proposes some definitions of conte and nouvelle given by dictionaries of different periods. The General Part proposes an historical as well as literary perspective of the genre of the conte in its different aspects through the analysis of more than a hundred collections of contes of the 19th century. It also analyses the role of the conte in the reviews (ch. V) and in the mélanges (ch. VI) of that age. The Conclusions are entirely consecrated to the reflections on the idea of the conte considered as a specific literary genre, enouncing the theories proposed in the 19th century by Gœthe, Edgar Poe, Baudelaire and Marcel Schwob, and also proposing a definition of the conte in the 19th century through the three categories of Form, Subject and Message
Coulibaly, Oumar. "Les tensions du récit dans les nouvelles de Thomas Hardy." Montpellier 3, 1985. http://www.theses.fr/1985MON30061.
Full textZwicky, Beatrix. "La terreur optique : la peinture dans la nouvelle fantastique de 1813 à 1869." Paris 4, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA040163.
Full textThe study of painting in the fantastic short stories shows that this aesthetics is built on subjectivity of perception: for that very reason, it is a literature of the visible. The composition of the text is making use of the pictorial principle of anamorphosis. The writers of fantastics tales realize (before it historically occurs) the necessary evolution of the art of painting towards impressionism, expressionism and a subjective representation of reality. The fantastic short story is, altogether, a horror story and a very discerning art criticism
Chambost, Christophe. "La Cruauté dans les nouvelles d'Ambroise Bierce : de l'exces à l'aporie." Aix-Marseille 1, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003AIX10048.
Full textBrehier, Ludivine. "La superstition dans les contes fantastiques français du dix-neuvième siècle." Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030031/document.
Full textThis study is dedicated to the potential superstitious part inherent to French fantastic tales of the XIXth century. Within this concise form of storytelling, we outline the impact arising from the collision of fantastic and superstition, two enemies of reason, witness of a time when imagination was in search of a new breath in literature. We return to the origins of the reunion of these two notions by considering their respective etymologies and evolutions, before focusing on their narrative similarities. The second part of our analysis revolves around the precursors, initiators and romantic authors, from J. Cazotte to P. Mérimée. Our third part is dedicated to major works of the second half of the century, which, at the instigation of the particularly famous E.A. Poe and other few realistic authors considered as less influent, benefit from a new form of imagination ending with J. Lorrain’s Decadent movement. This study shows the existence, necessity and evolution of the belief, in a genre dependent on a verve particularly receptive to the disillusion caused by a despised reality. We observe that fantastic and superstition both stand at the point where the ordinary meets an alternative hereafter which is paradoxically source of anxiety and salvation, reflecting the sensibility of the fantastic authors who transcribed it into an increasingly macabre imagination throughout the century, supported by traditional folklore, then by psychiatric pathologies
Naly, Laetitia. "L'écriture du temps dans les nouvelles de Raymond Carver." Paris 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA030010.
Full textWhatever the rhetorical variations from one book of short stories to another, the readers of Raymond Carver remain nonplussed. The gap, not to say the rift between narrative plots and the impact of the stories on the reader, often considered as Carver’s hallmark, is the starting point of this dissertation. The study, that encompasses all of Carver’s stories, aims at producing an approach to the stories of Raymond Caver using the ever-elusive notion of time. ‘‘The writing of time,’’ though in itself an oxymoron, is the privilege of literature, which results in a seminal ambivalence. We will first focus on Carver’s not-so-familiar America. The writing of time not only conjures up a fictional universe for the reader to dwell in, however briefly: it also provides the stories with a structure, either thematic, syntactic or narrative. Unlike the dominant trend in modern literature, Carver’s short stories put forth the predominance of drama over characters in a way that is reminiscent of the epic genre. As they enable the advent of time as a literary subject, the short stories of Raymond Carver not only invite the reader to enjoy the temporal experience of reading, but also to experience time in and for itself
Karpouzou, Panagiota K. "La poétique de l'ironie dans la nouvelle du XIXe siècle." Paris 3, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA030089.
Full textThe aim of the present thesis is the elaboration of a poetics of ironic discourse in short stories and short story collections of the 19th c. , a poetics also applicable to any literary text in general. Our research is based on a corpus of classic short stories from Anglophone (T. Hardy, H. Melville, E. A. Poe), french (G. De Maupassant, P. Merimée, A. De Villiers de l'Isle Adam) and Greek (A. Papadiamantis, G. Vizyenos) literature
Cozic, Alain. "L'art de la nouvelle chez Théodor Storm." Paris 12, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992PA120058.
Full textThe aim of this work is to define the scope of the different aspects of theodor storm's art of the short story- theodor storm considered as one of the 19th century major writers in the german language. The adopted method, instead of holding the notion of short story as an evidence then to try to demonstrate afterwards to what extent these works would confrom to preestablished norms, on the contrary is built upon a precise analysis of the texts - more formal than thematic - and endeavours to induce its organizing rules, its distinctive features. The study includes six main parts : the general form of the works, the narrators and the narration, the actions, the time, the places, the caracters
Omure, Kazue. "Étude d'une nouvelle de Balzac, "Gobseck"." Paris 4, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA040147.
Full text"Gobseck" is the Balzac's novel for a thesis; Gobseck is the usurer of the "Comédie humaine" to be studied thoroughly. The purpose of the first chapter of our thesis is to demonstrate not only how the author produced, for the first time in 1830, this central personage and this small masterpiece which influenced the other works, but also how he developed them to reach the perfection of their last state in 1842. The second chapter is designed for the intensive study of the natural shape of the avaricious hero: Gobseck is "l'or personnifié" as well as "l'insatiable boa". Then, we passed to the third chapter to report on our analysis of each colleague of Gobseck. The result of this study is that all of the usurers of the "Comédie humaine" take after, more or less, Gobseck. We discovered that Balzac decomposed the image of Gobseck, after the description of his death, and used the fragments for the construction of the others usurers. The supplementary chapter is reserved for the research of the sources of two fireplaces described in the novel
Marie, Joséphine. "Les Amériques caribéennes et hispano-américaines dans les narrations de Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda : de la vision romantique aux regards postcoloniaux." Thesis, Paris 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA030121.
Full textThis study focuses on the three pillars of narrative art in the romantic era in the works of Cuban writer Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (1814-1873) dealing with Hispanic-American and Caribbean colonies (Memorias, Sab, Guatimozín, El Cacique de Turmequé, El aura blanca). The images and narrative devices traditionally mobilized in Hispanic-American Romanticism – a literature strongly inspired by European artistic ideals, and yet driven by a desire for political and cultural independence – make it a literature pervaded by paradoxes. Although they tend to share this common feature, the authors’ narratives stand out and surprise. In the light of the evolution of the novelistic forms that followed Romanticism, including modernist writings, and postmodern and postcolonial poetics, these texts appear as already “modern”. The (de)construction of the characters – particularly the “Metis” – and places, together with the polyphonic effect of a myriad of different discourses, challenge many traditional representations concerning the re-writing of the History of the Americas. What emerges is a desire to find a new way to express the various forms of the “real” and to capture the cultural complexity of this geographical area. Without clearly defining any particular literary method or ars poetica, the author explores space, temporality and the interplay of voices, thus laying the bases for an ontological, memory-oriented mode of writing that questions identities. This mode of writing goes through a process of Creolization, as it gathers and recomposes disparate elements, multiplies its literary or oral sources, and makes new linguistic territories, or characters who elude types, materialize
Neves, Lopes Claudia. "Marche editorial entre bresil et portugal. Periode de la republique bresilienne. Les relations editoriales entre le bresil et le portugal." Paris 7, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA070027.
Full textThis thesis tries to show how books and edition could have been used as instruments of cultural domination in the relatioships between an ex-colony and its former metropolis. Of course, they don't lose their roles as cultural means of diffusion but at first, as means of diffusion of a foreign and colonizing culture. The diffusion of this culture is acheived through thecolonizer's domination of the means of production, which have never been those of the colony because of the impositions of the colonial system. Moreover, this system helped to perpetuate links based on dependance, as it gave the parent-state the possibility to diffuse its own culture in the colony, even after its independance. This phenomenon had another consequence too : the cultural production of the colony (or ex-colony) is kept apart from the editorial production process, which is dominated by foreign editors who want to diffuse their own culture among the reading elite of the colony, who had an europeanized way of thinking. Books and edition, used that way by the colonizing countries, could enter the colony by two ways : on one hand, in a cultural way, as they carries the ideology of the colonizer ; on the other hand, in an economical way, as they were a new market for editorial companies that exploited it by setting up subsidiaries and a massive exportation of printed papers. But this study wants to point out the process by which the colony got free from its colonial links and became autonomous in this particular subject of cultural production, achieving the production and diffusion of the national culture at home and through its own means. Here the question is, at first, to point out the moment when the relation ships between two countries, linked by colonial links, went from colonial domination to cultural diffusion in this particular subject of edition
Menet-Genty, Janine. "Théâtre et société en Italie (1860-1915) : un nouveau répertoire et de nouvelles structures théâtrales pour une société en mutation." Nancy 2, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986NAN21023.
Full textThe Italian theater of the late 19th c. And early 20th c. Is little known and neglected by critics, though it contributed to the national revival once political unity was achieved in Italy. Turning away from dialects it chooses the national Italian language ; through its original approach to contemporary social issues it takes an independent stand against the overwhelming influence of French and Scandinavian drama. Hundreds of new plays are written each year by professional or amateur playrights. The plays are produced by dozens of itinerant troups, travelling all over the Italian territory, and even going on tours abroad. Leading actors according to tradition direct their own troup. This period is also a time of experiments : "permanent" theaters are created ; playrights, actors and company directors organize themselves in the defence of their respective interests ; a specialized press develops and increases the theater's impact on a large and enthusiastic audience. Authors deal with subjects that reflect the concerns of a rapidly rising bourgeoisie. Such themes as family and money are part of all plots. Some problem plays stage familiar concerns on the contemporary social scene, like duels and suicide. Others illustrate the new laws, underline the difficulties implied by their enforcement and suggest necessary reforms in the fields of marriage, separation, divorce, heritage, etc. All plays rely on traditional moral standards. The present work pertains to both literature and the sociology of theater. As we study the texts of the plays, the letters exchanged by authors and actors as well as the archives of the theater companies we draw attention to a literary genre which often provides an accurate image of the new Italy while revealing the obsessions of a rapidly transforming society
Eymar, Marcos. "La langue plurielle : le bilinguisme littéraire franco-espagnol dans les lettres hispano-américaines (1890-1950)." Paris 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA030036.
Full textFrench-Spanish bilingualism is an expression of Hispano-Americain literature search for autonomy and legitimacy in the period 1890-1950. The work of Jose-Maria de Heredia, Nicanor della Rocca Vergalo, Ventura Garcia Calderon, Armando Godoy, Victor Manuel Rendon, Jose Maria Cantilo, Adolfo Costa du Rels, Vicente Huidobro, Cesar Moro and Alfredo Gangotena show the importance of this pratice. Either neglected or considered as exceptions of variable significance, these authors participate in a collective mouvement aiming at the formation of an Hispano- Americain literary language through contact with French, both linguistic and imaginary. Several cultural and historical factors, such as the spread of panlatinism ideology, justify this literary endeavour, which reflects the symbolic domination that France exerted on the young Hispano-American republics. Our work displays the main historical and literary elements which prove the existence of a bilingual tradition, insisting on the double reception of these authors. It also intends to understand reasons and modalities of language-switching, as well as litterary manifestations of duality, which results from the symbolic, cultural and grammatical gap between two different linguistic worlds. It examines, at last, bilingual writing specificity by studying interferences, self-translations, and the different aesthetic projects which attempt to materialize a “third language” between Spanish and French
Girard, Gaïd. "Aspects et construction du fantastique dans les nouvelles de Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873)." Paris 4, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA040074.
Full textThis thesis aims at defining the specificity of Le Fanu's fantastic in his short stories. .
Guittienne-Mürger, Valérie. "Jansénisme et libéralisme : les Nouvelles ecclésiastiques de Jean-Louis Rondeau (1806-1827)." Thesis, Paris 10, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA100036.
Full textThe matter of this work is the manuscript scholarly edition of the Nouvelles écclésiastiques pour le XIXe siècle, that still remains unpublished. It was written by the former oratorian Jean-Louis Rondeau: a juror priest, the abbé Grégoire secretary and member of the Saint-Séverin parish from 1801 till his death in 1832. This text is willing to be the continuation of the Nouvelles Ecclésiastiques from the XVIII century, an immeasurably rich periodical paper published by the jansenist movement. More than a diary, this is an account that takes the form of a partisan chronicle about the ecclesiastical affairs, a huge kaleidoscope reflecting interests and convictions from the one who patiently, from Mexico to Constantinople, Naples to London, Saint-Petersburg to Madrid, Paris to Rome, has scrutinised during years a world in mutation. During two decades, the author, with a jansenist look, has sifted out the events and writings of his time. He has assembled information, reading notes, press articles and hearsays with the ambition of following the European and Worldwide history under the rarely studied outlook of the global religious history. Thus he delivers a passionate evocation on the early XIX century through a jansenist and a clearly liberal reading of the religious polemics of his time
Auraix-Jonchière, Pascale. "La mythologie de Barbey d'Aurevilly à travers les romans et les nouvelles." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995CLF20072.
Full textAcoording to the author himself, the prose works of barbey d'aurevilly are anchored in a form of writing whose hidden mechanisms, working in indirect and multivocal ways, both veil and uncover shimmering levels of meaning which do not lend themselves readily to definitive circumscription. . The importance of a mythological code which is syncretic in nature, situated at the heart of this ambiguous language with its interconnected signs, and referring back to both ancient and biblical traditions, is manifest. The aim of this works is to study the pertinence of this code : diffused in the text, does it answer to clear principles of organisation? does it reflect archetypal, and therefore pre-existent, generalised structures? finally, does this code acquire specific characteristics in the course of its reworking by the writer, and is it modelled on the ever-changing demands of collective and individual history? this work sets out to examine how this singular language works within the prose text, and how, conversely, it makes the latter function - that is, how it reveals the elements in which the narrative is grounded as well as the finality towards which the text is bent
Zagha, Muriel. "Figures de la possession dans les nouvelles de Henry James de la dernière période, 1898-1910." Paris 3, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA030088.
Full textIn the late tales of henry james (1898-1910), the architectural "house of fiction" inspired by balzac's monumental oeuvre appears as the result of an aesthetic quest for mastery and self-possession underpinned by a profound concern for the ethics of possession. A keen lover of the arts and of the stage. Henry james nonetheless criticizes the unsettling idolatry of his time, using contemporary types of representation as his tools. At the height of his career as a novelist, james appears more than ever as a consummate "literary cannibal", converting every influence, whether it be proudly celebrated or quietly ciphered into the text, into his own work, thus evolving the figure of the master, the man of letters. The main figure of possession in henry james's fiction may finally be the trace of new england puritanism, with the "province of piety" as sacred fount of a vision of the world as revelatory text and as main inspiration for james's moral concerns with the aftertaste of the fall, the status of the real thing, and the real right way of looking on
Leopoldie, Nicole. "The Franco-American love affaire : transnational courtship and marriage patterns during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCC142/document.
Full textSituated in the methodologies of transnational history, cultural history, and the history of emotions, this work examines and compares courtship and marriage patterns that occurred between France and the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Because the social practices of courtship and marriage became mechanisms through which borders were crossed and new cultural spaces were created, these relationships represent important elements of transnational entanglements. This work, therefore, not only seeks to examine the ways in which observable patterns of transnational marriage emerged out of social spaces of cross-cultural encounter between the two societies but also how the dynamics of those encounters changed over time. While existing scholarship on the subject has pointed to obvious socio economic motivations for these marriages, I contend that such rationalizations are simply too narrow and that greater analytical considerations need to include both cultural and emotional motivations that were always in the background. By locating and identifying transnational spaces that produced marriages, and analyzing the cultural and emotional dimensions of those spaces, I argue that marriage participants were largely driven by a strong emotional attachment to perceived cultural differences that stretched beyond the national polity. Within the shifting global contexts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, these marriages, therefore, provoke important questions regarding family formation, the role of marriage in the making of national cohesion and belonging, and the permeability of national borders during different stages of the national project
Tan, Fang. "La Poétique de la nouvelle fantastique française du tournant des XIXe et XXe siècles et l'enseignement du français dans les universités chinoises." Paris 3, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA030083.
Full textBy its short form and its fascinating content, the French fantastic short story proves itself particularly appropriate to the class of FLE. However, it doesn’t play any role in French teaching in the Chinese universities. This research aims to propose to Chinese teachers of French the introduction of some French fantastic short stories in the class of FLE and to give them some ideas for working with these texts. In this perspective, we try to investigate in the present thesis the fantastic works of some French authors, among them Maupassant, Barbey d’Aurevilly, Villiers de L’Isle-Adam, Jean Lorrain, Marcel Schwob, Apollinaire, in order to sketch a poetics of the French fantastic short story at the turn of the XIXe and XXe centuries and to establish a teaching methodology of fantastic texts in the class of FLE. We consider that teaching activities should be organized for the purpose of the acquisition of linguistic, cultural competence and the fostering of the intercultural competence of the Chinese learners of French
Noaman, Tahani Derhem Ahmed. "Le surnaturel dans l'oeuvre de Margaret Oliphant, à travers six histoires de fantômes : A beleaguered city (1879), Earthbound (1880), The open door (1881), A little pilgrim in the unseen (1882), Old lady mary (1884) et The land of darkness (1887)." Caen, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012CAEN0644.
Full textThis thesis presents an analytical and critical study of the six supernatural stories of Margaret Oliphant in the English literature of the nineteenth century. It looks at various supernatural elements that the author has used in her stories. Our work sheds light on some aspects of the concept of the ghost and the spread of this genre at the time. In addition, it discovers the author's personal desire to enter the unknown and invisible world. It shows us how the writer, through the use of such genre, could to treat a lot of social issues of her century. The thesis is divided into three parts: in the first part; we study the family life of the author and her works as well as the reasons which push her for writing this kind of the stories. We present in this part, the six stories by an abbreviated manner. It appears for us to highlight on the similarities and differences between the stories and to show how the writer has presented and dealt with the supernatural elements in each of her stories. In the second part, which contains the analytical portion of the study, we present a study of various texts in the corpus. In the third part, we interested to show the important issues which concern he author throughout her life and has treated them in her stories of the supernatural as: the conflict between science and religion, the immortality of the soul, the other life, and the places eschatological. Furthermore, we also study the ideology of Mrs. Oliphant and her opinion of spiritualism and materialism
Tanimoto, Michiaki. "La figure du conteur chez Balzac." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCC219/document.
Full text"What is the talent of the 'Conteur', if not that of all talents combined ?" writes Philarète Chasles in his forward to Romans et contes philosophiques published in 1831. Although Balzac is best known as a novelist, he himself greatly admired the genre known as the "conte". Balzac traced a great deal of his own literary identity to the "grands conteurs" he considered his patrons such as Boccaccio, Rabelais, La Fontaine, Sterne and "the anonymous authors of The Arabian Nights". If in La DerniŠre Fee and Contes drolatiques Balzac confronts the traditions of this genre, his Romans et contes philosphiques, Contes bruns and Nouveux Contes philosohpiques represent instead an attempt to reform the "conte" in his own style. This thesis re-examines the "conte" as it was written in the first decades of the 19th century and traces the course of Balzac's literary development vis a vis this genre from his "youthful period" until the first years of the 1830s. Through a survey of books and literary magazines, I give a bibliographic survey of various "contes" published during this time. I also examine the daily work and life of Balzac during these years : a time not only of immense popularity for the "conte" within literary circles, but also one of changing socio-economic conditions for writers in general. Balzac envisaged the "conte" not as fixed genre, but as one of great flexibility and iridescence capable of accommodating a variety of styles, tones, and themes. Through his close identification with this genre, Balzac styled himself above all as a "conteur", an identity which this thesis traces from its earliest formulations until its precocious dissolution near the end of 1832
Issiaka, Diafar. "Scénographies du crime dans quelques nouvelles de Guy de Maupassant." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université Clermont Auvergne (2021-...), 2022. http://www.theses.fr/2022UCFAL009.
Full textThe purpose of this study is to analyze the scenographies of crime in Guy de Maupassant's short stories. The crime being at the heart of Maupassant's short stories, the scenography concept allows a broad analysis in its staging. The ethos makes it possible to identify the criminal in his profile but also in his actions, in his speeches within the text. The study of the scenography of the crime which is articulated around the staging of the crime will allow us to question the enunciative processes and the narrative by interesting us in the polyphony, the monologue and dialogue in order to understand the language of the crime and Maupassantian criminals. The analysis of the news item made it possible to understand the writing of the crime but also showed us the closeness of the link which united the press and literature in the 19th century. The corpus of this study is composed of a brunch of short stories by Guy de Maupassant. All these short stories have in common the staging of the crime. The choice of these short stories lies in this plural staging linked to the main character. This is what made it possible to identify the aesthetic questions and the poetics of crime at the end of the 19th century with Guy de Maupassant
Makki, Sami. "Les métamorphoses de la puissance américaine à l'aube du XXIe siècle : les transformations du système stratégique d'intervention américain et leurs diffusions au sein des systèmes britannique et allié à travers les nouveaux rapports Etats-forces armées-acteurs privés." Paris, EHESS, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008EHES0139.
Full textThis doctoral dissertation of the thoroughgoing change effected in the US defense Industry and in the US military shows that the Pentagon's traditional partners are taking a back seat behind private service providers. These firms, which provide military services and the "information technology" necessary for modem warfare, now play a key role in the American national security system. Among the factors accounting for this unprecedented sharing of government prerogative with private firms are the redefinition of the government’s role, the technological revolution and the strategic environment related to the Global war on terrorism. This role-sharing brings new forces into play. The Department of Defense is outsourcing without restrictions whence the risks of a crisis in the military establishment. The mixed systems coming out of this change are a driving force in altering civilian and military capabilities to intervene in the world. The diffusion of military technology, ideas and doctrine is reinforcing the influence of the US military culture in Europe
Joubert-Fouillade, Véronique. "L'insolite dans les Contes de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA040017.
Full textWe hold our interest for Villiers' tales from the genuine and personal sense of humor, made of scathing mockery and imaginativeness which confers to the short texts all their flavor and modem character. The “insolite” approach means looking at reality from aside, both by showing some interest for modernity and refusing it, on the look for the presence of the fabulous in our daily routine while, at the same time, denouncing the abuses of an era that is entirely turned towards progress and profit. Villiers is a close witness of modernity and plays the part of a literary Daumier. By presenting a different aspect of reality, the “insolite” tales built from daily scenes tend to present a new picture of such places of modernity as the streets and cafes. Villiers is a painter who grows fond of objects by giving them a singular meaning and by distracting them from their current one. To our knowledge, the in-depth study of Villiers' use of colors remains to be done; yet, the presence of such colors as black, red and white contribute to his creation of a symbolic universe. Thus Villiers shakes up certain traditional codes and plays on the blending of colors. The founding “insolite” the typography of the tales is peculiar : Villiers wants to create an instant impact on the reader who will thus be kept in a state of shock. We qualify Villiers' language as “insolite” because of its constant way of going a bit overboard when he imitates the style of a fossilized speech in order to denounce the excesses that can be found in advertising, journalism or scientific exposes. The insolite is at the junction of dream, irony and thought; it enables the dreamer to use imagination, to speak freely and the mocker to use satire and black humor. By challenging the reign of the masses with the thought of the single, creative individual, “insolite” humor shows the strength and importance of ideas and words in a world which is turning more and more towards matter. The insolite approach opens the way to the freedom of thought; indeed, Villiers is a surprisingly modem author
Naïm, Jérémy. "Le Récit enchâssé, ou la mise en relief narrative au XIXe siècle." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015USPCA127.
Full textAt the beginning of the twentieth century, embedded narrative emerged as a concept, thanks to the research that Russian formalists had carried out on a collection of short stories. But the category came into bloom only in the 1960s, under Todorov and Genette's pens. At that time though, the subject was broached rather than dealt with in depth. No definition based on consensus ever arose from narratology; and the seamless persistence of this narrative technique, dating back to Ancient India, has never been well accounted for. Embedded narrative has always been a critical myth rather than a subject to be studied. The aim of this dissertation is to start where the first tentative conceptualization stopped: the feeling that some texts do contain extra narratives. Inserted stories can be enhanced through typography layouts, changes of narratee, time-related alterations, or by sets of specific markings. Embedding might then mean emphasizing rather than inserting. Is it then legitimate to comment on 'embedded narratives' as such? Was there ever a consistent technique to emphasize narratives? By raising these issues, this dissertation aims at getting to the root of the notion, and addresses the topic by drawing on a large number of short stories published between 1800 and 1890. For during the nineteenth century short stories collections came for the first time closer to independent fiction, precisely to short story. Analyzing this rapprochement will enable us to discover how the very notion of 'embedded narrative’ could come up
Pion, Bleuette. "Régionalisme et cultures autochtones : le sud des Etats-Unis dans la nouvelle et le roman américains entre 1910 et 1950." Paris 4, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA040305.
Full textDuring the first decades of the twentieth century, a few american writers launched a regionalist movement in the southwest of the united states. Aware of the fact that peoples with cultures different from their own already lived there before american sovereignty was established over their territory, they considered that the indigenous cultures gave the southwest its originality as a region. A comparative study of a representative selection of novels published during that period or immediately after shows evidence of their influence. The aim of the novel of the southwest is didactic ; the narratives draw heavily on history and the reality of everyday life carefully avoiding distorsions while the plots evolve from situations obviously chosen for their illustrative value. The image of the unaccountably hostile or ludicrously picturesque native, whether indian or mexican, is still present but no longer prevails. A number of novels focussing on native characters and their environment represent a society and the various aspects of its culture with a view to making the reader realize the vicissitudes of the native now a stranger in his own land. The novel both informs the reader and undertakes to rehabilitate the native and this entails a reassessment of american values. Though it does not deny the fact that the native cultures are doomed to extinction, the novel of the southwest claims that they may influence the american in his attitudes and a majority of novelists visualize the southwest as an ideal region-to-be where the american is represented as a newcomer who may take root if he accepts the native
Tavakoli, Aram. "L' image de la femme dans les nouvelles de Paul Morand." Paris 3, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA030022.
Full textEnriquez, Romain. "L’invention littéraire de l’inconscient dans le récit de fiction (contes, nouvelles, romans) entre 1850 et 1895." Thesis, Paris 4, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA040069.
Full textUnlike a set of studies which tack psychoanalytical concepts onto pre-texts, i.e .texts transformed into material for analysis, we study the specific contribution of fiction (novels, tales, short stories, narrative forms…) to the invention of the concept of unconscious. In the second half of the 19th century, the unconscious makes a crucial appearance behind the mask of words (“depth”, “automatic”, “without knowledge”, “obsession”…), topics (dreams, hypnosis, hysteria…), characters (facing personality, behavior or memory disorders…) and narrative voices. Literary history has always gathered writers in “literary movements” embodied in “manifestos”; yet this categorisation collapses under the pressure of this notion or intuition, more difficult to grasp as it proves to be protean. All of them wonder about the depths of artistic creation, the unintended language of the body, the duality or little reality of “ego”; all of them throw a stone without knowing the monument at which they are aiming. From Flaubert to Zola and Huysmans, Barbey d’Aurevilly, Goncourt, Bourget, Maupassant, Dujardin – just to name a few –, we investigate how fiction dialogues with various knowledges (psychophysiology, medicine, philosophy, biology…) and, along with science, how fiction may develop its symbolic arsenal, its hermeneutic register and becomes an epistemological player in its own right. Again, we investigate how literature, in opposition to the speeches skillful with scientific neutrality, operates freely, but not free of ambiguities. Indeed, it involves with reader in the writing of an unconscious not so much described but rather constructed, not so much discovered but rather invented
Planchard, de Cussac Etienne de. "L'Oeuvre romanesque de George Washington Cable (1844-1925) : essai d'interprétation et d'évaluation." Lyon 2, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987LYO20034.
Full textLouisiana-born novelist George Washington Cable (1844-1925) is still listed today in literary histories as a local colorist who wrote about the creoles of Louisiana. The purpose of this doctoral dissertation is to demonstrate that the novelist, a southerner who adopted the democratic values of the union and thus became a heretic in his section, is essentially a political writer, and that the unity, strength and originality of his work derive from his political purpose. This interpretation leaves aside all the fiction he published John March, Southerner, which is his last foray against the south. Because Cable depended on writing to earn his living, his work was deeply influenced by the socio-economic conditions of his time, and especially by the demands of the national monthly reviews and their readers. He gained nation-wide fame through local color fiction, but was able to enlarge the narrow scope of that genre by combining it with the american romance and to infuse the picturesque creole life with the truth of the human heart to confer a universal import to his best novel, The Grandissimes. Then Cable abandoned the "romance" for realism which, to him, seemed a better approach to a picture of society intended to persuade the south to adopt a more democratic attitude. Indeed, by confronting that section with a true image of herself, he hoped to defeat her propensity for creating a mythical image of her experience all the more easily as this image usually went unchallenged by southern public opinion. John March, Southerner, is a good example of this strategy. Eventually Cable bowed to the hostility of his editors and the indifference of his readers, and abandoned his criticism of the south in favor of less scathing fiction. Thus, what he wrote after John March, Southerner, is of little interest. Yet, Cable blazed the trail for the 20th century southern novelists. His main qualities as a writer lie in his exceptional ability to unravel the skein of social intricacies and his unfailing command of the english language, but his work is often marred by sentimentality. Three of his books deserve to be remembered : Old creole days, The Grandissimes and John March, Southerner
Allard, Nicolas. "Le récit court stendhalien." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCA056/document.
Full textThis study is to embrace in the same movement the various short stories Stendhal. It is divided into five times. The first three stages are to analyze separately the anecdotes, news stories and unfinished Stendhal. After these established typologies, the study focuses on the concept of energy, the common denominator of all short stories composed by Stendhal. The last chapter seeks to show both the extent that instead of these heterogeneous texts in the broad set of Stendhal's creation. One of the main interests of this work is to rehabilitate texts that, for reasons both generic editorial, have not yet been subject to a comprehensive study. Our thinking is also intended to show the permanence and unity of the short kind in Stendhal's work, despite the undeniable existence of differences between the texts. Our study also establishes continuity between short stories and long stories, allowing a better understanding of phenomena as essential as Stendhal incompleteness, rewriting or intertextuality
Lolliot, Rachel. "Mécanismes de la fatalité et construction d'un élan vital dans les nouvelles de Theodor Storm et de Guy de Maupassant." Thesis, Reims, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015REIML004/document.
Full textA short story is a brief narrative and therefore can represent the tragic of existence : it catches on the spot all the events of life and presents them in a restricted economy. Theodor Storm and Guy de Maupassant obey the rule and offer narratives marked by fatality, which is the demonstration of fate and/ or chance shown through the description of realistic landscapes and through the emphasis of key objects which pull with them the decline of the characters. The narrative technique also serves the fabrication of this determinism. So, both authors allow themselves to intersperse stories, to go back into the narration, so that the weigh of fate and/ or chance is heavier and works as a spring mechanism taking place tragically. Nevertheless, even if everything suggests the opposite, these short stories are not so pessimistic. Indeed, a life force typical of the philosophical and social thinking of the 19th century arises from this fatality marked with fate and/ or chance. Fate and/ or chance is in fact the blind expression of a will which determines the choice of characters. So these short stories emphasize the illusion of characters' free will who think they can decide of their life. From there, the creative impulse stemming from the writing allows a interruption of this determinism. So, it is those mechanisms of fate that are defused in this work to observe this saving and liberatoring life force, inherent to the philosophic and literary concept of the XIXth century
Girard, Romain. "Portrait des "professionals" en tant que narrateurs dans la fiction courte victorienne et édouardienne : les discours de pouvoir des médecins, des hommes d’église et des hommes de loi dans les nouvelles de Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Wilkie Collins et Arthur Conan Doyle." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015BOR30044/document.
Full textMembers of the middle class, particularly clergymen, doctors, and lawyers occupy a central place in Victorian literature, both as narrators and characters. However, it seems that this prominent place fosters questioning as much as empowerment. This paradoxical position seems to stem from the recurrent appearance of members of the professions in texts within which the principles of truth and meaning are undermined. Therefore, we will show how members of the professions, both as narrators and characters, put forward discursive strategies which allow them to manipulate the notion of truth and to destabilize meaning. In order to do so, we will study predominantly short stories, as this genre was favoured by Victorian writers as the locus of narrative and literary experimentation. Besides, this genre was widely read by Victorian audiences and can be seen as a privileged media for authors to express their doubts and commentaries on contemporary society. We have chosen to study the works of three authors in particular, who played a vital role in the bringing of the middle classes on the forefront of Victorian literary representation. Indeed, we will focus on Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, the son of a clergyman and a man fascinated by the arcana of theology, Arthur Conan Doyle, a doctor himself, before he became a writer and William Wilkie Collins, who had a passion for science and the transformations its growing influence imposed on Victorian society. What is more, these three writers' active role in the establishment of the most popular Victorian periodicals attests to their vast contribution to the development of Victorian values
Colin, Claire. "L'événement dans la nouvelle contemporaine (domaines américain, français, italien)." Phd thesis, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00951979.
Full textBarbu, Andra. "La mort et son cadavre : qu'en dit la littérature ? Lectures du corps mort dans des cuentos hispano-américains contemporains." Thesis, Normandie, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018NORMR113.
Full textThis work explores the dead body as it is represented in a number of contemporary Latin American cuentos in order to establish a typology of the different reactions of human beings in general when faced with death. I suggest that literature reproduces a limited number of universal behaviours in this situation and thus it gives readers a fairly reliable inventory of the attitudes that they, like the characters, are likely to adopt.The corpse as a protagonist of the short stories discussed here has been selected because it is the only concrete and palpable image of death and that, by its repulsive appearance, it represents a terrible source of fear which conditions and alters any intention of peacefully trying to come to terms with it. The theoretical framework of the literary possible worlds whereby fiction is seen as a potential experience, and the formal characteristics of the cuento, such as its reduced, self-contained nature, allow the text to be read as a funerary space where all these fictional dead bodies lie. The reader is thus brought into close contact to the dying/dead, cold, putrid, stinking, dismembered or embalmed body and the literary experiences he/she goes through help him/her to come to grips with the frightening reality of death