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Perreur, Carine. "Le rêve américain dans l'oeuvre de Romain Gary." Phd thesis, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III, 2010. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00719429.
Full textSherman, Payet Jeannine. "Le rêve et la magie dans le roman africain et afro-américain." Thesis, Paris Est, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PEST0023.
Full textVatanpour, Sina. "L'argent, signe et symbole du rêve américain et de l'identité nationale, raciale et sexuelle, vu à travers la littérature et le cinéma." Paris 8, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA081592.
Full textSaleban, Ibrahim. "Le rêve américain et la condition humaine dans l'oeuvre de Ralph Ellison." Paris 3, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986PA030132.
Full textIn invisible man, ralph ellison seeks fictional answers to fundamental questions about human existence in general and about the american society in particular. His writings are imaginative responses to the challenge of being black and american in today's complex and chaotic world. With invisible man and shadow and act, ralph ellison strikes out on a new and wonderful course. Audacious and hypnotic, his fiction mingles a variety of tones, of longing and alarm, urban america and primal myth, pastoral nature and modern man, in a passionate exploration of the bittersweet relationships between men and women, old and young generations, and black and white americans. His writings are woven with the pain and pleasure of black america but also of western literature. The works of ralph ellison form an inword quest for the human being : the american dream, the black and the american dream, the racial blindness of the white and the dichotomy of the black, man and myth, the utopia of dreams and the bitterness of the human condition. His art, his borrowings from other writers, the fictional role of his characters, the pervasiveness of history, all these dopict ralph ellison as an intellectual and thinker. His philosophy is that the alternative to a racial rainbow could only be chaos. But pain has always been part and parcel of the american dream. And as andre malraux wrote, "barbaris sacrifices man to mythes" while man has always strived for "a civilization which puts myths at the service of man"
Verger, Romain. "Henri Michaux et le rêve : du récit de rêve à l'onirisme." Paris 3, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA030057.
Full textMichaux, one of the generation of surrealists, establishes his oddity by showing an interest for dream though suggesting a dissident approach : a refusal of automatic writing and gross dreaming. He defines an esthetical project inspirated by oneirism and relying on the literary transfiguration of the dream. His maturation is informed through the relationship with literary and scientific authorities (Breton, Hellens, Freud), an oneiristic family which inspires him, so as to best break away by diverting. From the years nineteen thirty, his application of the " dream style " shows the development of an oneirism poetics based on an inspiration from dreams and from narrative modalities which pertain to the dream relation, so as to give its effect whilst subverting its standards. This oneirism manufacturing alters, firstly, the work dream into a text work animated by the will of mixing the kinds, poetry and narrative prose, strange and familiar facts. Moreover, his textes actualise the psychopathology induces a lack of distinction between reality and imaginary and creates spatial and time disorientations, which are reinvested from a literary point of view by the poet. .
Demarchelier, Elsie. "Le rêve américain dans le discours politique depuis les années 1960 : crises et ruptures." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2020. http://accesdistant.sorbonne-universite.fr/login?url=http://theses.paris-sorbonne.fr/2020SORUL074.pdf.
Full textThis dissertation aims to study how, in a context of economic and social crises, the breach of consensus on the national project expressed by the American dream has triggered some changes regarding the way national values have been expressed in institutional political discourse since the 1960s. The American dream can be defined as a national myth and a national ideology ; it offers a variety of meanings among which are the dream of upward mobility with its relation to the Protestant work ethic, and the dream of freedom and equal opportunities for a chosen people entrusted with a sacred mission to reform the world. Using as a body of research the Democratic and Republican nomination acceptance speeches since 1960, this study applies the methodology of discourse analysis, and especially Antonio Gramsci’s hegemony theory, to the analysis of the expression of the American dream. Indeed, according to Gramsci’s theory, the changes in the way the dream has been expressed may be deemed necessary to the survival of a dominant ideology : faced with a context of crisis, the American dream has thereby been able to maintain its hegemonic position and its role as a tool for legitimizing social order
Abdi, Farah Omar. "Le rêve européen dans la littérature négro-africaine d'expression française." Thesis, Dijon, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015DIJOL003/document.
Full textThe followers of the Negritude accustomed us to the confrontation between Africa and Europe through the staging of a character-dreaming of Europe with stereotyped images of France conveyed by the colonial school-who is confronted with the conditions of exile during his stay in Europe and the remoteness of motherland which bears all his aspirations. But for the writers of Migritude, emigration to Europe takes a different turn; it is no longer motivated by a desire for discovery but an escape from the native land which has become repulsive, while Europe is in the eyes of migrants, an attractive place embellished by the stories of immigrants who, have already made the journey. The present research seeks to reflect on the change that has taken place on the representation of immigration in Europe, from the writers of the first generation to those of the second generation
QUEINNEC, COLAS PIERRETTE. "Rêve et illusion dans le théâtre de Molière." Paris 7, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA070079.
Full textDervieux, Françoise. "Le rêve des Lumières : savoir et suggestion." Paris 4, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA040038.
Full textThe purpose of this thesis is to investigate the status of dreams in 18thcentury narrative and discursive fiction, from Le Diable boiteux (1707) to Le Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse (1804). After first presenting critical discourse on dream, both as a phenomenon and as a form, we will proceed to define the poetics of dream (relationship of the embedded dream to its framing story, use of allegory and myth, formal experiments) before showing how the function of dreams varies according to literary genres, renewing to the core a wide range of existing literary forms : (rococo) sylphic dreams, fantastic or unheard of scientific dreams (Le Rêve de d’Alembert), satires and visionary utopias (L. -S. Mercier). Dreams provide a reflection on the limits of libido sciendi, as well as on the power of imagination and its articulation with reason in the quest for knowledge and pleasure, their apparent contradiction finally giving way to complementarity
Loukam, Saba. "La morale de l'action dans le roman noir américain." Paris 4, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA040118.
Full textBy reducing the art of writing to a factual description of the world, the hard-boiled novel has created new ways of reading, and experiencing reading also leads the reader to new innumerable but limited sapces of interpretation, spaces in wich philosophical concepts, signs, images, anxiety and primary emotions are linked. Its vernacular and visual language which is based upon a realistic and sensitive apprehension of action, uncovers a rich array of moral reflections on the problems of justice, iddentity and the meaning of life and action. This study intends to show that the American hard-boiled novel does not only consist in a thematic presentation of tge morality of action but also in a representation of its modes of expression. I have thus chosen to propose a two-part analysis of the morality, the other one deals with the link between the hero's perception of reality and violence, and his hermeneutical and existential quest. The goal of my study is to demonstrate the improtance of such moral and stylistic concepts in the hard-boiled fiction, and also to analyse the way they are related in order to go beyond the general French critical stance wich considers the American hard-boiled novel solely as a realistic genre dealing with political or social issues
Roux, Valerie. "Le rêve dans l’œuvre de J.-K. Huysman." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012LYO20091.
Full textDreaming is one of the well-known themes of Huysmans’ work. It has been well studied as far as Against nature or En Rade are concerned. However, since his earliest writings, Huysmans has presented dreamers who attempt to be somebody else or try to be somewhere else. When writing sketches and art criticism, he takes an interest in different possibilities or assumptions and abandons what he sees to explore virtuality. His conversion does not put an end to this interest, but emphasizes the rejection of the world and the temptation of the beyond. Thus the dream is not a parenthesis in narrow lives, it is also a way of writing. Huysmans’ attention is focused on what springs up: dreams in the heart of sleep but also the fantastic side of everyday life, memories coming back, and the mysterious aspects of what is already called the unconscious. The purpose of this study is to detect, in a synchronic perspective, the presence of dreams in his work and to consider what form they can take. It also wants to show how dreaming is included in the narrative and to evaluate what it brings to novels which reject the romanesque. However, we will be careful not to show Huysmans as an idealist: his work is strongly influenced by naturalism and constantly claims his rejection of a colourless or sentimental style of writing. The desire to “substitute the vision of a reality for the reality itself” (Against nature) is faced with a permanent will to destroy simulacra, to prevent the characters from escaping the real world. Huysmans’ doctrine of spiritual naturalism allows him to reconcile these two requirements and set him as a forerunner of the modern novel
Idouss, Khalid. "L'espace du rêve dans le roman marocain de langue française." Paris 13, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA131045.
Full textTsukamoto, Masanori. "La recherche sur le rêve chez Paul Valéry." Paris 12, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA120057.
Full textIn the "cahiers" particularly, paul valery writes many notes about the dream - fragments that show some fundamental qualities of his personal writing. His study about the dream reveals at first that his interest is focused on the problematical issue of consciousness. Concerning the oneiric experience, valery thinks of it neither as a revelation of deep life nor as a demonstration of the unconsciousness of the desire but above all as a variation of the consciousness. From that point of view, he tries to precise what transformations the consciousness when awake has to undergo to obtain fluctuations close to consciousness when asleep. Valery tries also to integrate in his study of the dream its significant aspect. The dream is "the state when i do consider myself through symbolic shapes". When he gives accounts of the dream, it appears as a strong desire of writing down that network of significations which ceaselessly perplex him. But theses significant approaches are absolutely set over against any abstract analysis. That one is based upon the "absence" of the dream when awake, meanwhile the interest for the significant invests profitably the intensity of its presence. At full length, in the "cahiers", we can see that there is a tightening interchange between the purpose of creating a theory based upon the absence of the phenomenon and the will to recapture its presence in his writing. This fluctuation expresses thinking fighting against the imperceptible. The dream is not reducible to a principle but this is an experience slipping away any intellectual analysis. The unity of the research consists in the determination of being always logical according to the feature of impenetrability of the phenomenon. That attitude is not limited to the only research to explain the dream. Valery's writing is fulled up with the tension between that will to penetrate secrets with lucidity and its exact opposite : maintenance of the bond with what can not be controllable
Rizo, Antonio. "Expressions narratives du temps dans le "conte" hispano-américain contemporain (1953-1983)." Paris 3, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA030031.
Full textThis study aims at analyzing the time narrative structures specific to contemporary Hispanic-American tales ans short stories. Thse structures will be brought to light thanks to a reading based on the role of the implicit reader and on the narrative progression of each text. The time span chosen (1953-1983) allows -trough a coverage of specific areas of Spanish-speaking Latin America- to focus on the works produced by three generations of authors whose role in the expression of this narrative genre is unquestionable : Asturias (Miguel Angel, Guatemala, 1899-1974), Borges (Jorge Luis, Argentine, 1899-1986), Bosh (Juan, République dominicaine, 1904[?]-. . . . ), Carpentier (Alejo, Cuba, 1904-1980), Onetti (Juan Carlos, Uruguay, 1909-1994), as well as Cortázar (Julio, Argentine, 1914-1984), Rulfo (Juan, Mexique, 1918-1986), Roa Bastos (Augusto, paraguay, 1917-. . . . ),and Arenas (Reinaldo, Cuba, 1943-1990), Bareiro Saguier (Rubén, Paraguay, 1930-. . . . ), Donoso (José, Chili, 1924-. . . . ), Fuentes (Carlos, Mexique, 1928-. . . . ), Garcia Márquez (Gabriel, Colombie, 1928-. . . . ), Hernández (Juan José, Argentine, 1930-. . . . ), Monterroso (Augusto, Guatemala, 1921-. . . . ), Ribeyro (Julio Ramón, Prérou, 1929-1994). The first pârt deals with the time tensions engendered by the diversity of the narrative voices. The second part is centered on the modalities of enunciation, then of action, accessing the effect of verbal aspect on the unfolding of the narratives. The third part, through a trajectory leading from a historical to a mythical reading, aims at a definition of the various forms of tension thus conveyed. This will, in turn, allow the setting up of a typology of the diversity of relations established between characters and events, and eventually permit to identify the incidences of inherited mythical forms
Shi, Zhongyi. "Étude sur les fonctions littéraires du rêve en Chine et en occident." Paris 4, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA040064.
Full textThere are differences between the Chinese works and the occidental works on the literary dream. The differences of the two civilizations affect the interpretations of the dream and their literary functions; the common points, especially the divergence taken from their interpretations and their literary functions make part of the two civilizations and display, between other elements, their different characteristics. The literary dream constitutes, therefore, an aspect of one civilization as in the other one. In my study which is essentially thematical, the establishment of a type of the dream in the ten categories allows the construction of the parallelism of the two vertical lines. The analyses have been developed around the subject and been led to this: the Chinese literary dream is philosophical, political, moral, poetical, delivered and pragmatic; however, the occidental literary dream is more spiritual, metaphysical, poetical, evasive and aesthetical
Rajaonarivelo, Nelly. "La consagracion de la primavera d'Alejo Carpentier comme rêve d'oeuvre totale : système et sacre des arts." Aix-Marseille 1, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008AIX10088.
Full textJoachim, Jean-Louis. "Le rôle social du romancier latino-américain dans l'oeuvre d'Alejo Carpentier." Centre d'études et de recherches caraïbéennes (Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe), 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998AGUY0033.
Full textOur thesis defines, illustrates and criticizes the idea of committment in alejo carpentier. It rests both on his novels and short stories published between 1933 and 1997 and on his three essays and conferences dealing with the active social role of the latin-american novelist : + papel social del novelista ;, + conciencia e identidad de america ; and + problematica del tiempo y el idioma en la moderna no vela latinoamericana ;. With the cuban novelist, literary creation is threefold : an autobiographical, critical and ethical process. Our study deals with each one of these components. In the first part, we stress the close relationship between autobiography, collective experience and literary creation. The writer makes the reader cast a scatling and relentless look at his world. This awareness of history is considered by alejo carpentier as a building block, a cornerstone which carries the hope and aspirations connected to the cuban revolution. The cuban writer invites his readers to be attentive and careful, he wants them to be active and to take part in the change of their time. We are tachling this narrow link between brain-washing of the reader and the author's committment in the third part
Trobat, Yolanda. "Figures de l'inceste dans le roman hispano-américain du XXe siècle." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA040114.
Full textThis research in contemporary literature studies South American narratives written in Spanish. After assessing various aspects of incest in novels and short stories, the ultimate aim of this investigation is to demonstrate that today's novelists criticize humanism, which they carry out a “disconstruction”, that they express the wrill think the relationship between man and interdict, disorder and inhumanity. Two main lines of deconstruction have been set up : the questioning both of moral schemes and of political concepts (such as “the individual”, “the social body”, “freedom”. . . ). Novels and short stories of : Allende, Arenas, Benedetti, Bioy Casares, Cortazar, Garcia Marquez, Eltit, Esquivel, Fuentes, Mastretta, Puig, Sabato, Vargas Llosa, Ocampo. The different aspects of incest demonstrate that all novelists worry about "struggle for recognizability" (Hegel). And, last but not least, that all novels and short stories point out a state of anxiety, of apprehension about identity, in south American Spanish countries and a mental inclination to question identity
Carron, Delphine. "Figures du détective dans le polar américain contemporain." Phd thesis, Université d'Angers, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00961471.
Full textMaufroid, Yannick. "Shimao Toshio et la méthode du rêve." Thesis, Paris, INALCO, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019INAL0010.
Full textOften described as an avant-garde and impenetrable writer, but also as one of the last masters of the shishōsetsu genre, Shimao Toshio (1917-1986) occupies a special place in Japanese postwar literature. His work went through the 20th century in a strange state of isolation, widely acclaimed by his peers, but still insufficiently known and understood. Shimao acquired a near mythical status from the particularity of his war experience (he was the leader of a squad of kamikaze tokkōtai which was mobilized in the Ryūkyū islands) and its aftermath, like the madness of his wife Miho, which inspired his most famous novel, Shi no toge (The Sting of Death, 1960-1976). Along with these life antagonisms, he also endured an inner conflict which drew him towards most modern literary forms, romantism, naturalism, surrealism, without being really satisfied with either of them in the end.However, beyond this tendency to conflict, one of the most constant elements of Shimao's work is his interest in dreams. While dreamlike writing in modern literature often lies at the junction of aesthetic tradition, exploration of the self and contestation of realism, in Shimao's case, its importance is both poetic and existential. As a « method » of (anti-)novel experimentation, attempt at conflict resolution and research of lost time, the use of dreams provide the tools of the understanding of the author's narrative identity. Through the idea that this dream method can be the « royal road » to understand Shimao, this thesis also aims at making his work an example of the way dreams serve literature as a whole
Bernard, Philippe. "L'émergence du rêve dans la littérature romanesque haïtienne, de Jacques Roumain au mouvement spiraliste." Paris 4, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA040049.
Full textThe Emergence of Dream in the Haytian Novel, from Jacques Roumain up to Spiralist Movement presents a study of all the aspects of Dream in the contemporary haytian writing. It is the essential clue for this long walk throughout the novels produced in the last half century on this ancient land with a chaotic history but spirited by a tremendous strength of life. Considering the work of the two great precursors Jacques Roumain and Jacques-Stephen Alexis as the image of an initial Tree, the varied ramifications, grafts, cuttings, trimmings, are the endless work of the gardeners-writers who went after them in the garden. The dream spread around scattering an ideology, anecdotes, stories of hate and love, testimonies, mixing the pastry of real-marvellous, gleaning its colours in the Creole language, collecting its poetry in the voodoo temples or in the fairy tales of the "composes". Dictatorship and terror tried to suffocate these painters with words. Many of them had to flee away, the dream became compensatory. A few of them could remain to struggle, they still flourish through their pens, eyes starting out of their head. All of them are still screaming their words, for us
Martin, Florence. "La chanteuse de blues et le roman féminin noir américain contemporain." Paris 3, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA030109.
Full textClassic blues recordings transcribe the expression of an oral tradition with the means of a written one. This tradition shows a continuity in form: from the african tribal epics or narratives to the work-songs, religious hymns or entertainment songs on american plantations, its songs have always been performed according to a precise musical structure and specific harmonic and rhythmic patterns allowing the soloist to improvise and the audience to participate in the performance. The artist of the twenties, promoted black show-business star, would use the traditionnal oratory devices of her group in her songs (e. G. Reiteration and double-entendre) and deliver a coded message only the initiated could understand. The development of mass culture killed the classic blues; its contents and language were too intimate, too specific for the multi-ethnic audience of the united states. The classic blues singer was no longer heard at the beginning of the thirties. Yet neither the ancestral tradition of black american women's oral transmission, nor the process of encoding -- inherent to the composition and performance of every song -- disappeared. Today, the black american woman novelist draws her inspiration from the classic blues singer and becomes in turn, the present-day incarnation of the spokeswoman or singing woman of her community. The stars of the twenties are revived in her works of fiction while she writes according to a system of codes, giving the access keys only to her attentive readers
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 textCostard, Baptiste Louise Vinca. "L'espace sacré du rêve : perception de la nature dans l'œuvre de Henri Bosco." Paris 4, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA040114.
Full textNature plays a role of prime importance in Henri Bosco's work, and studying his perception of nature comes down to showing that it is the preferred element for expressing all the movements of the narrator's soul and revery. Situated as it is between the visible and the invisible, it represents the fascinating presence of mystery in the world, and its influence constitutes the profound structure of Henri Bosco's narrative. Nature, viewed above all as a space, is perceived on a universal scale. Crossed by a network of forces, it is inhabited by vibrations, which reflect the hidden life of the world and the major thrusts of the soul. At the heart of this movement, we witness the revelation of the sacred, through a clashing of Christian and pagan powers, arousing obscure liturgies aimed at possessing man. However, nature appears also as a mediator beckoning the soul toward the invisible. A passageway between the real and the world of dreams, it provokes the written word and lends it its profound rhythm
López, Amadeo. "La conscience malheureuse dans le roman hispano-américain contemporain." Paris 3, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989PA030142.
Full textPhilosophical and psychoanalytical reading of the spanish-american novel of the second half of the twentieth century. From an analysis of twenty-two novels, the author brings out the essence of the desire which tortures the main characters of the corpus, in other words their manque-a-etre in which the source of their insuperable wretchedness lies. The ever-evanescing object of desire sends the characters back to their absolute dependence on another desire to reach identity. The scatteration of the desiring consciousness finds its literary expression through the open structure in the analysed novels and affects the very nature of fiction writing. S. Sarduy, s. Elizondo, j. Cortazar, j. Donoso, m. Aguinis et m. Mejia vallejo, among others, make this idea patent. The quest of the father who is the origin of the law and the foundation of recognition is a prerequisite for the access to identity. Lacan's concept of la metaphore paternelle makes it possible to show that if there is forclusion du nom-du-pere the consciousness sinks into imaginary disaster, in which it feeds on its own torment. The forclusion du nom-du-pere and de dieu-pere, far from weakening the efficiency of the law, can on the contrary make it more obsessing and rouse parricidal desire. The quest of the father, the discovery of his absence and the parricidal desire are frequent and can coexist in contemporary spanish-american novels. Along with the wretchedness of the individual consciousness the work opens up on a social historical problematique
Mok, Nelly. "L'écriture de la marge dans le récit autobiographique sino-américain féminin au XXème siècle." Bordeaux 3, 2011. https://hal.science/tel-04218363v1.
Full textFive autobiographies/autobiographical novels, written and published by Chinese American women writers in the twentieth century, provide the basis for an exploration of the ways in which marginality has been dealt with in Chinese (/Asian) American literature as a sociopolitical, cultural, ontological and artistic condition and experience. Through their relationships with the dominant political and literary discourse on American identity, these narratives mirror the course of Asian American literature, from the emergence of the first publications in English by writers of Chinese ancestry at the end of the nineteenth century to the current phase of this form of literary expression, originating in the 1970s and developing through the 1990s towards the modern day as American society acquired a multi-ethnic consciousness. Confronted with the “centralizing” dominant injunction of assimilation imposed on minorities, these women writers, whose lives, memories and experience bear the imprint of two territories and two cultures, question the sense of belonging, locating it either in geographical fixity or mobility, and associating it with the question of putting down roots, while still acknowledging its ability to re-emerge and thrive beyond the boundaries of national delineation. Within this perspective, borders – defined by ethnicity, culture, geographical location, nationality, gender and genre – are seen as boundaries imposing categories, which are in turn either reinforced or invalidated in the texts explored here. The women writers use their works as a space in which to express their approval or contestation of the narrative and aesthetic frames into which ethnic literature has been confined by the Euro-American readership, frames which characterize ethnic (immigrant) autobiography, and of the conditions determining the integration of their works into the American literary canon
Magnin, Caroline. "Fragmentation, disruption, contournement : écrire le trauma du 11-Septembre dans le roman américain contemporain." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2020. http://accesdistant.sorbonne-universite.fr/login?url=http://theses.paris-sorbonne.fr/2020SORUL058.pdf.
Full textThis dissertation aims to study four novels from what is commonly referred to as “9/11 fiction” – that is, the works of fiction devoted to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The argument gradually characterizes their aesthetics and questions the notion of inscription, the ways in which trauma seeps into the literary text. This inscription is, first, strictly textual, and reminiscent of traumatic writings in general; the writing is informed by the clinical symptoms of trauma though its three main manifestations: absence and erasure, excess and overflow, fragmentation and splitting. The metaphor of trauma plays the role of a literary thinking path: as an object, trauma signifies the failure of language, and the text therefore becomes a reflection on the difficulty to represent, a symbol of the tension between urgency and impossibility to express oneself. A second part explores the physical scar and involves the sensible. Trauma reveals itself in the visual dimension of the writing – especially through the particular impact that images have on the literary text – as well as in its sonic aspect: the deafening sound of the catastrophe becomes a figure of traumatic effraction. The whole body, as a much too delicate carnal envelope that cannot resist foreign attacks, bears the marks of trauma, thereby turning into a monument to the event. A third part finally focuses on the spatial inscription of trauma in the four novels, which collectively celebrate New York City. The cityscape becomes the locus where what resists its registration into the psyche symbolically finds an alternate mode of inscription
Rous, Jean-Marie. "Jack Kerouac : écrivain : mythes et culpabilités d' un écrivain américain." Paris 8, 1987. http://www.bibliotheque-numerique-paris8.fr/fre/ref/167930/180109111/.
Full textJack Kerouac's experiment of vriting is connected with wandering. Within american writers'tradition, kerouac gets through u. S. A. From east to west, and so physically to recover pioneer's mind. As an american writer, he is induced to re-think and make actual every myth of the time when space was free. Most of his readers has only read his best-seller "on the road" and just know this dimension. This thesis offers on unknown prospect of his work. Kerouac gives evidence it is nowadays completely impossible to be a "real" american man. But writing about this topic does not mean repeating the first commercial success. At the present time, the writer wanders about in the ghostly usa, haunted with remorses as he goes on writing, which means telling lies. Dialectics of motion (journey, truth) and of immobility (writing, lie) is therefore the key of this "wild parade" kerouac is describing us in his novels. As regard the formal aspect, kerouac's work may be considered as an open system. The experiment of wandering gives it periodically sense. This work is unable to be hardened to a definite style, and then foretells postmodernity which is characterized by the crisis of statements
Sow, Ndioro. "Entre la fiction et l'histoire, le personnage de Christophe Colomb dans le roman hispano-américain contemporain." Rouen, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008ROUEL630.
Full textThe dissertation includes four chapters : - The character and/or the person or character under study : several questions related to the concepts of fiction and history and to character theories are analysed. - The historical referent : this chapter investigates the most controversial aspects of Columbus's personal history, in particular those pertaining to his origins, his relationships with the Catholic Kings, his religion. - Christopher Colombus, between fiction and history : the story is built upon the issues of extraneity and loss of identity, on those of discovery and of the discoverer, and finally on that of an enlighted mission oriented toward messianism. - The modes of fictionalization : they range from technico-structural procedures to the writing and narrating strategies
Lambarry, Alejandro. "La voix animale dans la littérature Hispano-américain de la deuxième partie du XXème siècle." Phd thesis, Université Paris-Sorbonne - Paris IV, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00817996.
Full textVerdun, Jean-Michel. "L'héritage mythologique et littéraire américain dans l'oeuvre de Paul Auster : tradition et modernité." Grenoble 3, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001GRE39015.
Full textCabassu, Nicole. "Le récit de rêve dans la littérature française moderne (19ème et 20ème siècles) : Etude thématique et stylistique." Paris 4, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991PA040089.
Full textA textual analysis (thematic and stylistic) of a corpus of 19th and 20 th century autobiographical dream narrations reveals certain constitutive traits specific to such narrations. According to the influences of the time (romanticism or surrealism), the author's tendencies (analyzed through the imagination and style of Flaubert and Char), the constraints of genre (on poetic narrations by Verlaine, Eluard and Leiris), a typical structure remains perceptible. Comparison with narrations of other experiences (madness in Nerval, drugs in Michaux) and with various forms of imitation or exploitation of the dream narration (ludic in the case of Queneau and Butor, fictional in Huysmans and Proust), further confirms its uniqueness
Cimmino, Mirta. "Ces rêves qui font grandir : Le rêve initiatique chez l’enfant et l’adolescent dans le roman d’aventures féeriques au XXIe siècle." Thesis, Université Clermont Auvergne (2017-2020), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017CLFAL012.
Full textYouth fiction often focus on the development of a young hero. Such stories tell us about transformative experiences which work as initiations. Initiation was once a very important moment in human life, marking a passage which was recognized by the community as a whole. However, in the history of Western society official rites of passage has gradually disappeared, as already in 1956 Mircea Eliade announced it. Since then, a compensation for the inner life has become necessary, and the dream has become one of the possible places and times for this compensation. Thus, from Alice in Wonderland and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, contemporary youth fiction has often explored the initiatory potential of dreams, which provides the protagonists with an introductory experience marking a turning point in their lives. In many novels, the protagonist lives an initiatory dream that leads him through a path of symbolic death and resurrection, from which he/she wakes up renewed. This thesis proposes to question the dream as a threshold between two forms of existence and a catalyst for initiation in contemporary European youth literature
Robert, Brigitte. "Espaces et identités dans le roman féminin centre-américain contemporain (1980-2000)." Poitiers, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005POIT5020.
Full textAvignon, Nathalie. "Modèle musical et rêve d'abolition du temps dans le roman contemporain : Helmut Krausser, Léonid Guirchovitch, Richard Powers." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015TOU20092.
Full textMusic is an art of time, since it gives it its matter. It gives it style and recreates the effects of its process confined in a closed period. However, representations commonly associate the art of sound with an attempt to neglect or even to deny the temporal flow. Accordingly, they fit into an idealistic perspective that makes music a consoling utopia, a soothing balm on a subject beset by internal rifts and rupture with the world – as can be seen in Schopenhauer and Proust after him or, later, in Levi-Strauss. This study aims to examine the future of this conception of musical time in the light of three contemporary novels that seem to illustrate it but also challenge it: Melodien (1993), by the German writer Helmut Krausser, Prajs (1998), the work of Leonid Guirchovitch, a Russian writer, and The Time of Our Singing (2003), by the American novelist Richard Powers (2003). Some elements of the musical language, based primarily on the principles of polyphony and organicity, delineate an aesthetic model (here called “ideal éternitaire”) that these three authors, marked by “compositional” temptation, challenge through intersemiotic transpositions. The analysis then turns into what Paul Ricœur defines as the “fictive temporal experience” to see how the dream of abolishing time associated with a musical subject affects both the intimate time of characters and vast chronosophies of the collective time. Finally the “ideal éternitaire” is in turn immersed in time: discredited by the historical bankruptcies of the twentieth century, it now looks upon itself in the light of postmodern times, ironically bound to refer to its anachronistic share and to confront the German Kultur it comes from with the diversity of musical styles
Besson, Alexandra. "Novalis et la théologie négative : le gouffre et le rêve dans le romantisme européen." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015LORR0235.
Full textThis thesis aims to read the German romantic poet Novalis in the light of negative theology.To establish its influence on his work, this thesis begins with a recount of Novalis’ religiosityin the context of his age, based on three hymnals with which he was familiar (respectivelyLutheran, Roman Catholic and Moravian). After outlining Christianity at the end of the 18thcentury, it analyzes the evolution of Novalis’ religious feelings throughout his life, and theperceptible change which occurs from the great Christian year 1799 and beyond. The core ofthe thesis deals with the dialectic, linguistic and poetic strategies inherited from negativetheology in Novalis’ literary works, as well the relationship between speech, imagery and theabsolute. It describes the motives of descent, night, contemplation, reciprocal gazes, andmirrors and dreams as an access to a new form of knowledge, which ceases to be conceived asa way upwards to illumination, but as a gradual darkening downwards. At a crossroadsbetween post Kantian philosophy and Christianity, Romanticism reclaims the inheritance ofGerman mysticism and reverses the path leading to the absolute: this thesis finally argues thatmirrors, dreams and endarkenment are key motives identifying a speculative family of authorsamong Romanticism. Thus it proceeds by comparison to highlight first the paradigmaticchange occurring between Baroque, the Enlightenment and Romanticism, then the persistenceof that very specific mental configuration throughout the 19th Century, in the works ofseveral authors belonging to German, French and English Romanticism
Monnier, Schaffner Isabelle. "La ville et ses représentations dans le roman américain, 1870-1920." Paris 3, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA030090.
Full textThis dissertation explores the modem city in american novels (1870-1920). Fictional representations of new york, chicago and san francisco are analyzed in contrast to a european model: paris. As the modem city develops in the nineteenth century, both in france and the united states, novelists describe the impact of the city on individual and collective destinies and reflect on the future of humanity in the urban environment. The study focuses on novels by frank norris, theodore dreiser, edith wharton, f. Scott fitzgerald, john dos passes, honore de balzac, emile zola, gustave flaubert and louisferdinand celine. The methodology applies on multiple levels of analysis: involving historical and cultural, socio-economical, philosophical and aesthetic approaches. Capitalism, industrialization and population growth characterize the modem city. Despite similarities between the american megalopolis ' in the making' and paris, literary representations diverge. The american attitude toward the city is complex as it contains european, puritan and agrarian overtones. Conversely, the french perspectives reiterate the myth of paris. The first part analyzes the material aspects of the city and how they affect identity. The second part discusses aesthetics and the treatment of creative energies in the city. Confronted with an increasingly mechanized and alienating city, the future of human creativity and imagination captures the novelists' interest and gives birth to distorted figures
Bénaquin, Bertein Danièle. "La Jewish mama dans la littérature judéo-américaine contemporaine : carnavalisation d'un mythe." Bordeaux 3, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991BOR30029.
Full textAfter defining and justifying the choice of carnival as a mode for analyzing comic and after briefly retracing the evolution of judaism and jewishness in the usa, we have dedicated the first part of this study to the jewish historic memory with a double target : identify the role and status of women in the jewish tradition and go back to the sources of jewish literary comic to show the different representations of wives and or mothers. The carnavalization of the pharmakos jewish mama, guarantor of the most sacred institutions of judaism and symbol af an archaic collective conscience which serves as a base to its identity and whose descendants want to free themselves from, has been studied in two successive acts, as they were written within the powerful jewish-american literary movement of the sixties and the seventies. Wether the sons kill the castrating and voracious monster or whether the daughters depict themselves as a mother pursued by mishaps and failures, both acts of the carnival merge and result in the same symbolic destruction of the self. The last part is devoted to the linguistic aspects of the carnivalizing process aiming at the annihilation of the pharmakos
Bouton, Laurence. "Les deux frères, les avatars d'un conte dans le cinéma américain des années 50." Paris 7, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA070074.
Full textBrotherly rivalry (a common theme in tales) represents a good plot in many American films. To examine the genesis and expression of brotherly rivalry in the cinema, we concentrate our research on literature, religion, myths and American civilization. The study of the mythical origins of these two characters, of the religious symbolism they are associated with, and their evolution within literature helps us to understand the issues which are at stake when two opposing brothers are mentioned. Several films use the wealth of the brotherly rivalry in order to illustrate historical, cultural and social conflicts. Four characteristical films of this particular approach to the seventh art confirm this resurgence of ancestral archetypes in a contemporary context: “Duel in the sun” by King Vidor, “Sabrina” by Billy Wilder, “East of Eden” by Elia Kazan, “Home from the hill” by Vincente Minnelli
Laurent-Audiat, Dominique. "La quête d'identité Africaine-Américaine, de l'émergence de la négritude à l'accession au Rêve Américain : "Not without laughter" Langston Hughes, "Jubilee" Margaret Walker, "The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" Ernest Gaines, "Dreams from my father" Barack Obama." Paris 13, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA131010.
Full textFor a long time African Americans have been confronted with a dilemma: how to exist in a society living in contradiction with the Principles of Liberty and Equality enunciated by the Founding Fathers, and how to affirm one‘s personal identity without disavowing one‘s community? This study analyzes, through literature, the long way from denial to recognition of the sacred and unalienable rights included in the Declaration of Independence. Not Without Laughter was published in 1930, at the height of the Harlem Renaissance. Jubilee and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman were written during the second part of the twentieth century, when the Black Aesthetic movement was in vogue. Both literary movements are built on a racial pride that pervades the quest for identity of the heroes. The three novels illustrate the major stages of African American history. Barack Obama‘s autobiography, analyzed as a literary work, throws light on this study in presenting his own quest for identity at the end of the twentieth century: Dreams From My Father bears the burden of the past, but also contains the seed of change which allowed Barack Obama to reach the American Dream. Through its promise of equality, wealth and happiness, embodying the values of courage and work, this dream has developed individualism in the American society; while being inaccessible to the black people, it has developed a strong community link. This individual longing will be called ―personal identity‖, and the belonging to the community will be called ―collective identity. ‖ The African American quest for identity is constantly oscillating between these two poles, the prevalence of the one on the other reflecting historic and social evolution
Aouad, Lahrech Oumama. "La ville et le citadin dans le roman hispano-américain actuel." Paris 10, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988PA100150.
Full textThe aim of this study is to elucidate the image of the present Hispanic American cities and the city dweller through the following novels: Mexico in la region mas transparente and cambio de piel, c. Fuentes; caracas in pais portatil, a. Gonzalez leon; a Columbian metropolis in al pie de la ciudad, M. Mejia Vallejo; Lima in la ciudad y los perros, M. Vargas Llosa, and un mundo para Julius, A. Bryce Echenique; and Buenos Aires both in adan buenosayres, L. Marechal, and sobre heroes y tumbas, E. Sabato. The work is divided into four parts: the geographic frame, the study of the society, the urban communication analysis and the exploration of the poetical narratives. The disorganized and contrasted urban landscapes reflect the innumerable problems of an uncontrolled urban growth. The analysis of the romantic urban society reveals a structure fundamentally tripartite and strongly graded: the floating middle-class mass wavers between the indecent wealth of the oligarchy and the extreme dearth of the people. Violence and indifference prevail in the coded, repressive and off-putting urban space. Some myths and symbols, the narratives baroque and glaring structures, their expressionist styles are the metaphoric expression of the alarming brutality of the urban reality
Grandadam, Fleur. "Mythes, rites et symboles dans la littérature de Patrick White : essai de lecture anthropologique : "Voss", de la quête initiatique au rêve aborigène." Polynésie française, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003POLF0002.
Full textInspired by his experience of the battlefields of Greece and the Middle East during World War II and the cultural and geographical resistance of Australia to European civilization, Patrick White (1912-1990, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973), enlarges on an abortive exploration of the biggest island in the world to build it up into a symbol of introspection, thus broaching upon the themes of human identity, country (town, bush and outback) and love. Voss (1957) unfolds the story of a man and a woman which can only fulfil itself in fantasy, blending at times with the Aboriginal Dreamtime and transcending social classes. In this epic masterpiece, White delivers the message that identity depends on land and that Judeo-Christian traditions must come to terms with Aboriginal mores. Man has to acknowledge his wilderness - Leichhardt as a land explorer, Voss as a circumnavigator - to find out where he belongs, prop up the sky in order to embrace the land, keep both of them at bay, and, tree-like, grow!
Coto-Rivel, Sergio. "Le roman centre-américain contemporain : fictions de l'intime et nouvelles subjectivités." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014BOR30031/document.
Full textCentral America attracted greatly the media attention during the 1980s because of the armed conflicts and the increasing interest in testimonies linked to the political vindications. Now is the time to question the paths taken by Central American literature twenty years after the peace agreements were signed in the region. This question is found at the beginning of the present study on which we try to comprehend in what way the contemporary novel is interested in the construction of new subjectivities and in new means of representation specific to fiction. Contemporary Central American literature presents itself generally as a space of great diversity. We can read in it an important questioning of the contradictions, of the social struggles, and of the dominant discourses of isthmian societies. These questionings are, in our opinion, articulated on the literary text thanks to the privileged position given to subjectivity. It uses different ways to define the contemporary subject with the purpose of confronting the reader to a series of statements, intimist as well as political and transgressive, which express a crisis on the representation of national and personal identities. How far can we consider that contemporary Central American literature shows an important displacement related to the positions of the subjects represented in the novels? In what way said displacements interact in a conflictive region, a region which still has difficulties to define its own identity? On this thesis we make an effort to delve in the analysis of the subjective positions and in the literary and philosophical strategies which allow the construction of new subject-characters, in a corpus constituted of novels published between 1998 and 2009 by the following writers: Horacio Castellanos Moya, José Ricardo Chaves, Maurice Echeverría, Jacinta Escudos, Mauricio Orellana Suárez, Milagros Palma, Roberto Quesada, and Uriel Quesada. We are particularly interested in the narrative processes which relate intimacy and subjectivity with the representation of corporal spaces in the novels, as well as the geographical spaces and violence spaces. These elements will demonstrate new commitments and new discourses in a time that seems dominated by subjectivity
Liny, Marie-Pierre. "Le mythe méditerranéen dans la fiction américaine de l'entre-deux-guerres." Paris 3, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA030022.
Full textAnalysis of the social, historical and cultural causes of a reinforcement of the mediterranean myth in the us fiction between the world wars (tender is the night by f. Scott fitzgerald, the sun also rises, afarewell to arms and for whom the bell tolls by ernest hemingway; the cabala and the woman of andros by thronton wilder). Wuest for a golden age through the text and acknowledgement of the failure of the rituals aiming at the recovery of a lost mythical mediterranean past. Perduration of the myth through this very attempt to destroy its illusion
Silberberg-Lemêle, Sylvia. "Le rêve d’amour à travers la tension des opposés et le phénomène catalytique dans la poésie de S. T. Coleridge." Caen, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006CAEN1446.
Full textBrezinski, Christine. "Variations sur les conduites amoureuses de la séduction à l'amour (Séduction, Amour, Mariage, Adultère) dans le roman français et américain contemporain." Paris 3, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA030032.
Full textThe main subject of this study is seduction and it's counterpart love. Seduction is the starting point of the thematic study of each chapter. Through the study of various contemporary french and american novels, we have to draw the map of the new loving landscape and to point out the literary variations of the loving behaviour. This study is not only based on the thematic of the novels but also on their resemblances and their differences. However, it is not only built on the comparison between the literature of the two countries. It is also based on the opposition, in each country, between two forms of seduction and love. The two forms can be summarized as follows : a destructive and dangerous form, and an idyllic one. These two forms are different in each country but we can find resemblances. In french literature, the theme of seduction is simultaneously represented in an evil and a perverse way and in a romantic form, which provides the apology of hapiness and happy couple. In the american literature, seduction is presented in two differents forms. Firstly, there is a cruel seduction, because it happens essentially in extra-marital love affairs. Secondly, there is an ideal seduction. This seduction appearsin a particuliar type of novels. It can be found in sentimental novels, which can be called harlequin romances, and, thus, in love stories written by danielle steel. Hence, we can define two literary worlds privileging the description of love through seduction. The novels studied are novels of society which are the image of a form of throught and of a way of life. But, before beginnning the study of the corpus, we have to look back upon the sources in order to give some definitions but also to remind who were the great tempters in literature
Caplán, Raúl. "La revolution cubaine dans le roman latino-americain (1959-1995)." Paris 3, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA030165.
Full textThe cuban revolution is perceived in latin-american novels either as a punctual fact, producing radical changes in a restricted period, or as a process towards perfection or degradation. Apart from this distinction, these novels mainly remain popularizing works ; they reduce the revolution to a limited number of historical ranging-poles and to seve ral paradigmatic changes : the transition to communism, the nationalizations, the land reforme, the racial issue, the exile. The revolution becomes a worldwide explanation, providing the thesis which structures the ideological discourse and establishes a more or less marked bipola rity. These novels are closed to autobiographies, testimonies or chronicles, mixing up all these various genres. The thinker is at the centre of the work, but the reflection on his own role usually remains su perficial. This is due to the fact that the revolution was rapidly codified with extreme precision ; thus, this revolution established a narrative programme which novelists adopted with few changes. Reducing these novels to mere weapons has paradoxically undermined their power and impact, in such a way that, most of the time, the alleged "revolutionary novel" contented itself with coming back to obsolete norms
Callios, Edwige. "Le colosse aux pieds d'argile ou l'enfermement du peuple dans l'univers speculaire de la tyrannie : enjeux idéologiques des représentations du peuple, du dictateur et de l'autorité dans les romans de la dictature." Bordeaux 3, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010BOR30032.
Full textThis thesis intends to determine the ideological stakes of the representations of the people, of the dictator and of authority in Latin American dictator novels. After clearing up the misunderstandings that can arise from a misreading of the terms of this research and identifying the social phenomenon accounted for (Part One, People, dictator, authority: definitions of the stakes), we will try our best to understand which writing process enables dictator novels to account for this phenomenon and denounce it. We will analyse the representations of the phenomenon of tyranny under two angles : that of the mechanism of suggestion ( Part two, The idol with feet of clay. The debunking of high-handed authority and the setting forth of the pathology of peoples being tyrannized over) and that of the conditions of emancipation (Part three, From the liberation of the people to that of the reader: a therapy of watchfulness?)
Munguia, Aguilar Rocio. "Encres métisses, voix marronnes : mémoires d'esclaves noires dans le roman antillais francophone et le roman latino-américain hispanophone." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2019. https://publication-theses.unistra.fr/public/theses_doctorat/2019/Munguia_Aguilar_Rocio_2019_ED520.pdf.
Full textDuring the 1990s, in the French and Latin American spheres, new narratives began to emerge seeking to highlight the historical trauma of the African slave trade and of slavery in general. These re-evaluations of the past have uncovered both the issues and the ratios of power upheld in the institution of « national narratives » in these spaces and in the contemporary fiction endeavouring to uncover the voices of those left out of history and of their descendants. Among these works, we note that a number of themes and fictional techniques are shared by writers from both the French Caribbean and from continental Latin America. Using a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, we analyze six novels by Caribbean and Latin American women writers, which give visibility to the female slave’s experience. By investigating the dynamics binding history and fiction in these texts, and by questioning the ways literature helps to redefine history as herstory, our work suggests that a trans linguistic and transnational poetical memory of slavery, led by women, may be emerging, while demonstrating the possibilities of linking texts with fieldwork
Kim, Mi-Jin. "Le langage du rêve dans l'œuvre de Gérard de Nerval (Les nuits d'octobre, Les filles du feu, Pandora, Promenades et souvenirs, Aurélia)." Toulouse 2, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999TOU20096.
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