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Saudo, Nathalie. "La dégénérescence dans le roman britannique de 1886 à 1913." Paris 10, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA100073.
Full textDegeneration may be defined as a set of discourses that warn the middle-class against racial decline, hereditary evils and asocial beings. Although psychiatry, criminology, anthropology and the theories of evolution participated in its elaboration, this notion is mainly ideological. In literature, it consists in transformational heredity : atavistic degenerates undergo constant changes as they live through their personal, family and biological histories again. Their demoralized bodies are both strange and familiar, monstrous and decipherable. But degeneration is a symptom of social unease rather than a sign of objective danger. Some novelists deliver a regenerative message, others tend to blur the degenerate and the moral crusader, moral insanity and the craze for moral purity, morbidity and power. By creating characters which are so unfit and so unworthy that they do not deserve to live, some writers manage to turn degeneration into a creative act
Falco, Magali. "La poétique néo-gothique de Patrick McGrath." Aix-Marseille 1, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005AIX10049.
Full textDurot-Boucé, Élizabeth. "Architecture et nature dans le roman gothique anglais (1764-1820) : continuité ou innovation ?" Lille 3, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000LIL30014.
Full textHustache, Pascale. "Destins de femmes dans le roman populaire en France et en Angleterre (1837-1867)." Lille : Atelier national de reproduction des thèses, 1997. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39973753v.
Full textChamblain-Champseix, Elisabeth. "La mort en ce jardin : étude du thème du jardin dans des romans contemporains (1956-2000) de langue anglaise, espagnole, française, italienne." Paris 4, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA040147.
Full textAyache, Lydie. "L'image de la femme dans le roman anglais, 1836-1876." Paris 4, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA040278.
Full textThe novel, a literary genre which was created in England in the 18th century, developed immensely and became very popular in the 19th century. The great authors were no longer the privilege of the elite, but were read by an increasing number of readers in such a constant way that they were used to improve the morals of the population. A new literary ideal was invented, and it inspired a series of remarkable novels. My work deals with this new feminine ideal, and follows its evolution in the 19th century literary production, through the novels of William M. Thackeray, Charles Dickens, Charlotte, Emily, Anne Brontë and George Eliot. My aim is to show that, thanks to the Victorian ideal, these great authors found new literary devices which revealed a deeper and more authentic image of woman
Roger-Hacyan, Dalita. "La marginalité dans le roman anglais d'après-guerre (1950-1965)." Paris 3, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA030021.
Full textIn the 1950s and 60s prosperity gradually came back in England. Contrasting with the remains of the past, modernity reached even provincial towns. But the trauma of the 30s and of the war was still felt and the bomb was an obsession. Numerous working-class or middle-class boys who could go to university thanks to scholarships remained trapped between two worlds. Postwar fiction focuses both on the state of society (welfare, full employment, permissiveness etc. ) hence its reputation for realism, and on unconventional behaviour, with an arresting range of rebels, déclassés, young hedonists, homosexuals, philistines, hooligans, delinquents, sex perverts, neurotic or psychotic individuals, whose interaction with society at large is worth examining. While most novels are classical in form, a few are remarkable examples of experimental literature. However, all remain faithful to the great English literary tradition
Tran-Gervat, Yen-Mai. "Le roman parodique au XVIIIe siècle en Angleterre et en France : de Marivaux à Jane Austen." Paris 4, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA040260.
Full textSmyth, Orla. "La réhabilitation de l'affectivité et l'évolution du roman 1670-1770." Paris, EHESS, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000EHES0057.
Full textGarnier, Xavier. "La magie dans le roman négro-africain d'expressions anglaise et française." Paris 4, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992PA040212.
Full textThis work is an analysis of the possible status of the magic in a novel by way of an observation of African novels. The first part, which deals with oral narratives (two tales and two epics), shows the strong link between magic and the enunciation context. Concerning the novel, the magic displays itself in three branches: religion, sorcery and witchcraft which are respectively linked to realism, fantastic and marvelous. The aim of this work is to connect the magic efficiency to the debate on truth of African traditional knowledge upon reality. Novels such as the ones of Tutuola and Sony Labou Tansi don't take consideration of this debate since they don't respect the spatio-temporal representations of our reality and adopt the witchcrafts position which unsettles the coordinates of reality to dive in the heart of the magic universe
Vuillemin, Alain. "La figure du dictateur ou de dieu truqué dans les romans français et anglais de 1918 à 1984." Paris 4, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986PA040041.
Full textThe dictator's figure has an exceptional plasticity in contemporary literature. The fragmentation of its historical, linguistic and mythical expressions reveals an uncommon power of fascination upon authors, even when they denounce dictators as deceivers, false gods, "sham gods". Are we facing an "archetypal" figure, original and primordial, of sovereignty, more religious than political, and of which the absolute equivocal nature would explain the extraordinary ambiguousness of its literary manifestations? Nevertheless, a vast although very diffuse imaginary "testament" describes the continuously beginning again cycle in the writing works of an imposture which seems inherent in hall dictatorial or totalitarian enterprises, whatever their appearances are in these novels, for the writers studied. Beginnings are insidious, proceedings tortuous, triumphs terrifying, declining misleading and recommencements unceasing. That "archetype" would be eternal. Novelists would do nothing but find a millennial intuition and condemnation again
Desblache, Lucile. "Les animaux dans le roman d'aujourd'hui : analyse d'une présence contrastée en littératures anglophone et francophone." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005CLF20020.
Full textMechacha, Fatiha. "De l'innocence à la perversité : représentations de l'enfance dans le roman victorien." Paris 3, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA030054.
Full textIyamuje, Bosco Kalame. "Ordre et chaos : symbolisme d'une dynamique créatrice dans le roman africain d'expression française et anglaise." Aix-Marseille 1, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988AIX10040.
Full textThe creative dynamics of the african novel, be it in english or french, is to be found at the crossroads of the symbols of order and chaos. The social and cultural disintegration of african societies and of the african man are contained in the eternal recurrences symbolised by order and chaos. The violence that characterizesthe african novel is the reflection of our impressions over the beginnings of the universe and of our need to domesticate space and time. It is the very same dynamics of recurrences that explains the circular structure of the african novel
Talairach-Vielmas, Laurence. "Le secret et le corps dans le roman à sensation anglais du dix-neuvième siècle." Toulouse 2, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000TOU20047.
Full textLe, Meur Jegou Monique. "Forme et nature comparées de la caricature dans les romans anglais et français du XIXe siècle." Paris 3, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA030107.
Full textSarr, Ndiawar. "Le thème de la solitude dans le roman anglophone d'Afrique de l'Ouest." Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne (UPEC), 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA120028.
Full textIn this study we try to show that the african fits harmoniously in the civilization of mankind. Loneliness which is generally perceived as a concept unknow to africa, appears, through the art of the novel, as an integral reality in the life of the individual. Our analysis can be divided into two parts. Africa of the past and this continually changing africa. The traditional society as a setting, with its insistence on uniformity and its quasi-denial of the individual, constitutes a major problem to the novelist who sets out to write a "realistic piece of work". We have therefore tried to see how the artist does manage to find the balance : through which devices does he happen to respect both the exigencies of his art (characterization) and those of the setting of his story. This is the reason why we have put a particular emphasis on the various techniques of character creation. In this context how can we talk of solitude ? how can a person be alone and why ? in the second part, "africa on the move", the context has changed. New forms of solitude appear with phenomena like the city, imported myths, social pressures etc. They are analysed through techniques used by the novelists. The theme of solitude is also dealt with in relation to the social vision of the novelist. What lessons are to be drawn from the failures of various characters ? is there incompatibility between the group and the individual ? here the functional aspect of african literature comes into consideration. Solidarity seems to be the main goal : recognition of the other within the group
Magand, Michelle. "La problématique de la masculinité chez David Lodge." Nice, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000NICE2002.
Full textThe male character is at the core of David Lodge's fictional works. But the models of manhood analysed within a realistic framework, undermined by metafictional experimentations, provide a protean vision of both the youth and maturity of man. Taking into account the technical innovations and the grating irony of the narrative voice, we have studied the question of masculinity from a psychoanalytical and philosophical point of view
Le, Reste Anne-Claire. "La question de la réalité dans les romans de la « période médiane » de Henry James (1881-1890) : le réalisme à l’épreuve du hors-texte." Rennes 2, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007REN20031.
Full textDJANGONE, BI NGUESSAN. "La problematique de l'independance dans le roman africain d'expression anglaise (1958-1980)." Paris 3, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988PA03A008.
Full text"the problematics of independence in the african novel of english expression" analyses the problems posed by the rupture with the west as weil as the ideological and stylistic implications of such a rupture. In the english colonial novel, africa and africans were most of the time painted in a negative way in accordance with the imperialistic ideology of the time. The african novel rejects such a caricature by laying bare the ugly side of the myth of barbarous and backward africa. The images of independent africa show that the colonist has made a sham exit and that the colonised people have not completely freed themselves. Cultural alienation and economic extraversion are still present. A new form of political dependence is also noticeable. On the level of writing, the african novel has made a judicious synthesis between foreign elements linked to the introduction of the genre in africa and aesthetic elements peculiar to traditional african literature
Parey, Armelle. "Représentations de l'ère victorienne dans le roman des iles britanniques (1969-1995) : "The french lieutenant's woman" de John Fowles, "The last testament of Oscar Wilde" de Peter Ackroyd, "Nice work" de David Lodge, "Possession" de A.S. Byatt, "Clare" de John Mackenna, "Poor things" d'Alasdair Gray." Caen, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000CAEN1290.
Full textGuyénot, Laurent. "La mort merveilleuse : la féerisation des morts dans le roman médiéval français et anglais : essai d'anthropologie littéraire." Paris 4, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA040019.
Full textThis thesis explore the origin and function of fairy lands, fairy damsels and fairy knights in medieval romances in old French and Middle English verse related tho the Matter of Britain. It argues that they stem not from any lost and degraded pagan mythology, but primarily from a living and widespread oral tradition of legend and tales relating to death, the heroic after-life, rescue from the death and earth-bound ghosts. It uses literary motifs as a window into lay concepts of death and dead, and it studies the narrative process by which this folklore of legends and tales gave rise to a fairy mythology which soon took a life of its own. Beside timeless stories of heroes supernaturrally conceived and physically rapt, two types of unquiet dead(or undead) are shown to have been prevalent in medieval folklore, and to have provided the raw material for some of the most influential works(including le conte du Graal and Le Roman de Mélusine) : the murdered dead awaiting healing by vengeance, and the dead maiden seeking union with a mortal
Massei, Marie-Laure. "L'argent dans les romans de Jane Austen." Paris 4, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA040156.
Full textMoney is a central theme in Jane Austen's novels and letters, through its links to the recurring questions of consumption, marriage and inheritance. At a time when women were denied financial power in the gentry, money was both a subject of anxiety and fascination. Handicapped on the marriage market by her position as a relatively poor member of the urban gentry, Austen uses the money motif as a means of exploration in her novels, in which it generates a complex circulation. Money enables her to represent the social mobility characteristic of a period of transformations, as fortunes of different origins competed for power. The novelist's conservatism stands out in her depiction of the management of the estate, since the assertion of moral values helps her confront the increasing pecuniary deviances at the beginning of the 19th century. However, Jane Austen also denounces the sheer violence of patriarchal practices, such as the entailing of estates, and their effects on the female psyche. A deeper level of analysis reveals that money is at the core of a subversive strategy of unveiling, since its metaphorical and symbolical potential leads to a daring exploration of the taboo of sexuality
Dupeyron, Françoise. "La scène italienne : roman et théâtralité chez G. Eliot, G. Gissing, H. James et W.D. Howells, 1875-1890." Paris 3, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA030105.
Full textThe aim of this phd is to study the way in wich italy is represented in anglo-saxon literature at the end of the nineteenth century. The novels and works of eliot, gissing, howells, and james, belonf to the period 1875-1890, but the introduction presents an overview of the tradition of the italian journey, and of the representation of italy in fiction and literature from the renaissance onwards. This aims at stressing the various influence still to be felt at the end of the victorian period. The firest chapter is devoted to the study of the italien setting, from a historical and spatial point of view, but also from a pictorial point of view. Indeed, the tradition of painting on italian subjects conditions the writing mode of the works which are being studied in the phd, and gives them a pictorial aspect. Theatricality, to finish with, is the main feature of the italian setting, which is a stage, both materially and psychologically. The second chapter is devoted to comedy in italy, in the novels of gissing, howells, and to some extent in two of james's works. The third chapter deals with the tragic qualities of the italian setting in roderick hudson, and the portrait of a lady by james
Corriou, Nolwenn. "Le retour de la momie : du gothique impérial au roman archéologique britannique, 1885 - 1937." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCA137.
Full textTaking Patrick Brantlinger’s definition of late-Victorian imperial Gothic as a starting point, this dissertation considers how Egypt became a literary object in the late nineteenth century through the prism of archaeology. Pertaining as much to science as to imperial adventure, archaeology – and Egyptology in particular – soon entered fiction as a Gothic trope, as is evinced by the great number of novels and short stories that form the genre of mummy fiction. By focussing on texts by Bram Stoker, Henry Rider Haggard, Arthur Conan Doyle and Sax Rohmer, among others, this work examines how the archaeological motif travelled through various popular genres, from the adventure novel to the fantastic, before being taken up by writers of detective fiction. The study of these texts reveals that Egypt’s ancient history, full of magical potential, was an object of fascination as well as fear insofar as it seemed to shatter the certainties of modern science. Meanwhile, the modern political history of Egypt – and its ambiguous position within the British Empire – also engendered a certain anxiety, fuelled by a more general concern about the decline and degeneration of the Empire and British civilisation. The depiction of Egyptian antiquity in fiction – and the figure of the mummy in particular – conveys the growing unease with which the British viewed an Empire which, quite like Egyptian mummies, threatened to rise and wreak its revenge upon the coloniser. Thus, archaeology came to stand for a metaphor of imperial relations and anxieties while the mummy embodied what can be read as an imperial repressed excavated from the depths of the collective British subconscious at the time when Freud was developing the method of psychoanalysis
Deswarte, Isabelle. "Les relations sociales urbaines à travers les romanciers français et anglais du dix-huitième siècle (1730-1780)." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA040315.
Full textThe English and French novelists, who live principally in town, where they find publishers and readers, are particularly interested in the representation of the town, and especially of the urban relationship. Since the years 1730, the novelists begin to be more realistic; they particularly describe the capitals and also show the development of the English spas. They describe the urban activities, but they privilege the civilization of leisure to the prejudice of the labor. Consequently, the lower classes are not very present in the novels and are idealized, when the idle noblemen are very numerous. An ideological vision of the town also appears, based on the opposition between the capital and the provincial town, and on the contrast between the city and the country
Grecu, Veronica. "Transparence et ambiguïté de la "semblance" : interpréter et traduire les figures du déguisement au Moyen âge." Poitiers, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006POIT5010.
Full textAbdourahman, Ismaïl Abdourahman. "Aspects du fantastique et romans négro-africains." Perpignan, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PERP0473.
Full textDevoize, Jeanne. "De la realite a la fiction : la mer et les marins dans le roman anglais de la premiere moitie du xviiie siecle." Paris 3, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA030204.
Full textA first volume is dedicated to the evaluation of space overseas according to the travellers' accounts in the first half of the eighteenth century. The notion of empty geographical spaces then acquires a particular importance. The most adventurous travellers, such as dampier, wish to fill in those empty spaces and take the lead in the race to conquer markets. Many novelists adopt the same view and endow their heroes with the spirit of enterprise. But in order to sail and conquer space, one must first get rid of all these crushing fears inherited from the past. For such a purpose, the desert island, enclosed as it is, is the ideal location. Yet all the heroes of the "robinsonnades" do not reach this aim. Following swift, the authors of the "gulliveriades" prefer to bring their heroes face to face with the inhabitants of imaginary countries. What is important is man and his moral reflexion on his own nature. If those different novels borrow much from the accounts of voyages around the world or, in the case of smollett, from reality, the "barbaresque" novels are on the contrary very close to stereotypes. As for the captains, rapists, pirates, fathers or tyrants, they acquire life mostly with smollett who, influenced by the theater as much as by reality, denounces a system and takes up the defense of jack tar. More and more, ethetic preoccupations fill up the novels. Nature refuses to let itself be domesticated. The simplified, down-to-earth language of the travellers becomes more and more elaborate, and the symbolism of the sea returns more and more to its greek sources. Adventure, which had momentarily become somewhat banal, acquires again heroic dimensions
Bine-Bine, Sebban Laïla. "L'oeuvre romanesque de Beryl Bainbridge." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA040144.
Full textThe novels of Beryl Bainbridge are very close to her own life. Influences on her writing are essentially her theatrical experience, the city of Liverpool where she was born, and the works of Charles Dickens her father read to her when she was very young writing for Beryl Bainbridge was a way to exorcise the neuroses caused by her early suffering from her parents' ill-fitted and unhappy marriage. All these tensions are symbolized by the author through the theme of the war; theme of war that is transformed into other more personal conflicts involving the war between adolescents and their parents, the war inside marital or extra-marital couples, to narrow through the conflicts individuals have to go through facing a society they no longer understand, their environment made of danger and ruins, their own impossible wishes and impulses in their quest for happiness. Loss, failure, loneliness, death, violence, danger, exclusion, racism, neuroses and desperate attempts to escape unbearable situations characterize all Bainbridge’s characters who all belong to the working or lower middle classes. These are the main themes this thesis examines. Beryl Bainbridge’s art of writing, her surreal black humor, her ironic treatment of the facts of life, her disconcerting laying bare of man's most intimate thoughts and behavior, show a writer of great talent and originality. It is the juxtaposition of banality and menace that gives her writing its characteristic tone. Deliberately chocking with a "sharp focus realism" and unbearable descriptions of misery, poverty, ruins, death and violence, Beryl Bainbridge seems to have declared war on the reader. If we take into account this idea of Renan claiming that "war is one of the conditions to ensure progress, the necessary stimulation to stop a nation from falling asleep", then all Bainbridge’s description of chaos and misery would make sense and hope could come back
Dupont, Jocelyn. "Intertextualité et autorité dans l'oeuvre de Patrick McGrath." Aix-Marseille 1, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008AIX10073.
Full textZawiślak-Hanotte, Anna. "« Une espèce de Julien Sorel, mâtiné de Rastignac ». L’apparition des personnages d’arrivistes dans le roman français, polonais et anglais du XIXe siècle, 1830-1914." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019SORUL096.
Full textBy the use of the word arriviste, the hero of the Nineteen-Century novels is often reduced to his psychological portrait of a timeless character, ruthlessly seeking his aim. Nevertheless, the role that he plays in the history of literature is more important. The model of the arriviste was created at the same time as the modern realist novel, even if the term itself only appeared in 1893. The arriviste characterises a posteriori a whole generation of heroes, beginning with Stendhal’s and Balzac’s novels. Inspired by the social changes and the now-mythical example of Napoleon, the arriviste is a hero that mirrors the national and contemporary society, as the twenty-six novels of the corpus exemplify it. He is also a figure of displacement that facilitates a panoramic view on the society and a construction of the realist narrative. As a hero of a modern tale, the arriviste follows a course on which his story is based. He becomes a modern Argonaut searching for a new Golden Fleece: social success. The career of a literary arriviste raises questions about narratology and his relationship with the reader. The scene of first appearance of the character enables the narrator to kindle the reader’s first impressions that influence the general comprehension of the protagonist. A triple perspective of the comparative narratology, the effects of the work’s reception and the research in social psychology reveals the narrative schemes used by the narrator. Therefore, the success of the arriviste goes beyond the diegetic world. It means also his longevity in the collective memory as a literary type and as a word that describes him
Termin arywista, używany do określenia postaci z powieści dziewiętnastowiecznej, często redukuje ją do portretu psychologicznego ponadczasowego bohatera, który zmierza do celu bez najmniejszych skrupułów. Jednakże jego rola w historii literatury jest znacznie istotniejsza. Wzór arywisty powstaje w tym samym czasie, co nowoczesna powieść realistyczna, mimo tego, iż sam termin pojawia się dopiero w 1893r. Arywista charakteryzuje a posteriori całe pokolenie postaci literackich, począwszy od bohaterów Stendhala i Balzaka. Inspirowany zmianami społecznymi oraz na wpół mityczną historią Napoleona, arywista jest bohaterem, który ukazuje współczesne społeczeństwo, co widoczne jest w każdej z dwudziestu sześciu powieści z naszego korpusu. Jest on również symbolem przemieszczania się, który ułatwia panoramiczne spojrzenie na społeczeństwo oraz konstrukcję narracji realistycznej. Niczym bohater współczesnej baśni, arywista podąża szlakiem, który stanowi podstawę intrygi powieści. Staje się on współczesnym argonautą, w poszukiwaniu nowego Złotego Runa – sukcesu społecznego. Kariera powieściowego arywisty zachęca również do refleksji narratologicznej oraz stawia problem relacji z czytelnikiem. Scena pierwszego pojawienia się postaci pozwala ona narratorowi na wywołanie pierwszych wrażeń, które wpływają na ogólne rozumienie protagonisty. Potrójna perspektywa narratologii porównawczej, efektów odbioru dzieła i badań z zakresu psychologii społecznej, uwypukla procesy narracyjne używane przez narratora. Tym samym, sukces arywisty wychodzi poza świat diegezy. Jest nim także jego miejsce w pamięci kolektywnej jako typ literacki, jak również kariera lingwistyczna słowa, które go definiuje
Prungnaud, Joëlle. "Gothique et décadence : recherche sur la continuité d'un mythe et d'un genre au XIXe siècle, en Angleterre et en France." Paris 4, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA040309.
Full textThe first part of our research paper deals with the continuity of gothic myth and genre in the 19th century. After an attempt to prove the merits of such a notion as "myth" applied to the gothic revival aesthetic movement, we point out how the tradition was transferred from generation to generation, without a gap throughout the century. Then, after having sketched the gothic novel typology, we inquire about the way this genre was received from 1820 onwards, through a study of both parodies and catalogue of new editions and reissues of the original works. The examination of novel titles discloses the literary relationship between the first gothic novelists and their followers. An analysis of chosen works as part of such a continuous stream is then proposed. The second part of our work is devoted to the study of the french fin-de-siècle period and british eighteen nineties. We develop symmetrically the study of both myth and genre. After a review of the conditions in which each was received by public and readers, we organize our reflections in two directions : on the one hand, the constituent elements of gothic myth which are medievalism and praise of cathedrals ; on the other hand, the two main components of gothic genre i. E. The sinister mansion pattern and the hero-villain figure. We bring out the main features of "decadent gothic", which revived the themes and form of a literary tradition that would otherwise have been lost in commonplace imitation or hackneyed expression. Thus we see how decadence keeps the tale of terror alive and fully restores its richness and fruitfulness
Laryea, Fredline. "La traduction de l'humour et de l'esprit anglais dans le roman et le théâtre depuis le XVIIIe siècle à aujourd'hui : observations, méthodologies et enjeux culturels." Thesis, Paris 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA030178.
Full textEnglish cultural humour is cultural, not only because of the references and opinions it channels or because of its syntax but especially because it is deeply rooted in the British cultural context as well as in the English language. Once it is translated into French, it has to exist in and through French. Due to their different mental programs and cultural conditioning, French readers and spectators will not react to British humour in the same way as British people. This is why translators will often try to make the humour more easily accessible for the French public in translated texts. His decisions will have an impact on the faces of the source language, but they will also affect the British faces the French reader has access to. This research has focused on cultural allusions in an analysis of examples from British texts to see the differing effects each text has on its readers and to see if one can talk about British cultural humour once it is translated into French. The analyses will also make it possible to see how translation can affect the representation of cultural identity and the impression the target text reader will have of the foreign text. If one can understand a nationřs humour, one can start to understand its people. In order to do that, the difference of foreign humour should be seen as a key that can allow the foreign text reader and spectator to establish a dialectical relationship with the foreign humour, rather than as an aspect of Otherness which always has to be overcome
Dupuy, Sonia. "De Robinson Crusoé a Vanity Fair : la figure de lecteur dans les romans britanniques de 1719 a 1847." Thesis, Paris 3, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA030133.
Full textPregnant as it is in 18th and 19thC British novels, the reader in the text is potent with meaning for the history of the novel. Related to the history of the book and the discontinuous act of reading imposed on readers by the publication of novels in different volumes or episodes, the reader figure may also be seen as a more or less faithful representation of actual readers. The reader figure thus retraces the complex history of the relationship between the novel and its readers. Behind what appears as a complacent will to invite the widest audience to the reading of novels, a more systematic tendency to define readership by exclusion can hardly be concealed. Paradoxical as this may be, the novel has much to fear from its readers. Moved by their will to have the genre clearly distinguished from vulgar romances, the authors will repeatedly push those unwelcome readers likely to lead the whole literary edifice to a collapse back to the margins of their texts. But the reader cannot just be a matter of representation: it also is a narrative double, a sort of mirror erected to the self-conscious narrator who uses it to build up the hardly legitimate literary authority he stands for. Thus the reader figure and the self-conscious narrator are linked by an indissolvable bond. The variations in number of reader figures only reverberate the frailty of the authorial voice and the anxiety of reception expressed in a highly symptomatic text-undermining rhetoric
Romero, Holly-Mary. "The doppelganger in select nineteenth-century British fiction : Frankenstein, Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Dracula." Thesis, Université Laval, 2013. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2013/29381/29381.pdf.
Full textThis thesis investigates the representations of the doppelganger figure in three nineteenth-century British Gothic novels: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Using Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man, and Sigmund Freud’s The Uncanny, I argue that the doppelganger symbolizes social conventions and anxieties of British men in the 1800s. By examining the physical and metaphorical representations of duality and the doppelganger figure in literature, I demonstrate that duplicity was commonplace in nineteenth-century London. I conclude that the doppelgangers are physical Gothic manifestations of terror that epitomize nineteenth-century struggles with propriety, repression of desires, and fears of atavism, descent, and the unknown.
Van, Horne Mary. "CARVING A PLACE IN THE CANADIAN IMAGINATION: (RE)WRITING CANADA'S FORGOTTEN HISTORY IN A SELECTION OF CHINESE CANADIAN HISTORICAL FICTION." Thesis, Université Laval, 2010. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2010/27668/27668.pdf.
Full textDelmas, Catherine. "L'Orient dans le roman britannique, 1895-1950 : mythe et réalité." Paris 4, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA040016.
Full textThe way the east is represented in the modern British novel cannot be limited to an exotic or a picturesque description. Beyond the clichés and the limitations imposed by the myth of the fabulous east, most novels offer a vision which comes close to reality - although it may have been influenced by orientalism and the imperialistic context of the time: firstly when such as foster and Kipling turn to the sacred myths of Hindu and Buddhist civilizations and cultures; secondly when the myths that are usually associated with the east reveal various archetypes anchored in man's imagination. The adventure novel becomes the soty of an inner journey into the self. The mythological voyage is then the metaphorical representation of an existential quest undertaken by a hero looking for an eastern refuge where he hopes to forget the outside world and reach transcendence. When the myth of the Garden of Eden becomes a descent into hell, the myth and the reality of the east are ultimately part of a metaphysical representation of the world
Lopoukhine, Juliana. "Poétiques et politiques des espaces urbains dans la fiction féminine des années 1910-1930 en Angleterre : la différence sexuelle à l’épreuve de la ville. Rose Macaulay, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf & Jean Rhys." Paris 10, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA100117.
Full textFrom 1910 to 1930, and in the aftermath of the First World War, history and politics were focused on the city. The city crystallised what was at once a temporal crisis and a period rich in potential. It was, at the same time, a laboratory for a new Modernist aesthetics in literature and the stage on which women at last arrived. The writings of Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, Katherine Mansfield and Rose Macaulay take on the historical and socio-political determinations that, for women, structured urban space like a grid. The subjectivities of their female characters constitute positions which allow a critical reading both to create and unravel spatial configurations determined by the modalities of power. They start the work of resistance that promises to unhinge the spatial and political grids of power. The difficulty the female voice has in finding a place to be heard generates a force that shatters the bonds of community and temporal structures. Space relinquishes its role in the construction of plot so that conventional forms of time and narrative dissolve in the face of a new poetics. From the point of view of this poetics of paradox, the city is recreated subjectively. New images carve out a new city, without precedent, made from fleeting, ephemeral experiences. A new poetics taken in the etymological sense of making, poiein, is created on the thresholds of space, time and language. The power of figurative language to break through convention that is at work in these writings of the city clears the path for the Modernist moment to erupt and create new potentialities in time, through the power of the imaginary that is always part of language’s possibilities
Guilhamon, Lise. "Poétiques de la langue autre dans le roman indien d'expression anglaise." Rennes 2, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007REN20040.
Full textIndian English novelists frequently call attention, within their fiction, to the relation of otherness that links them to the language of their creative work. These authors write in a language inherited from the colonial process, and with a heterogeneous audience in view, whose references are further complicated by the contemporary phenomena of diaspora, migration and globalisation. This is why these novelists place at the heart of their literary creation the deeply intertwined questions of the Other's tongue, and of the other tongue. The question of the « other tongue » in the Indian English novel has given rise to several critical studies, but it has practically never been examined from the point of view of its poetic specificity: this is precisely what this work sets out to do. Indian English fiction examines the modalities of literary creation: in particular, it investigates the way in which literature invents language, and it explores the idea of literature as alterity at work within language
Buis, Emmanuelle. "Circulations libertines dans le roman européen : 1736-1803 : étude des influences anglaises et françaises sur la littérature allemande." Paris 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA030063.
Full textThis dissertation is a study of the influence of “gallant” libertine literature from England and France on German literary creation in the last three decades of the 18th century. The number of translations and critical commentaries which appeared at the time testifies to the successful impact in Germany of four novels of seduction, the very emblems of the genre, namely Clarissa Harlowe, Les Égarements du coeur et de l’esprit, Le Paysan perverti and Les Liaisons dangereuses. It is therefore legitimate to search for echoes of those works in the German production of the late 18th century. The survey of scientific evidence of the attention paid to those novels (openly acknowledged influence, critical comments or explicit marks of intertextuality) results in the selection of six German writers, also enthusiastic readers of the books, whose works display a reflection of the tradition of “gallant” libertine literature, viz. Christoph Martin Wieland, Sophie von La Roche, Wilhelm Heinse, Ludwig Tieck, Clemens Brentano and Jean Paul. The confrontation between the German novels and the “sources” reveals the presence of the main motifs of “gallant” libertine literature: typology of characters, strategy of seduction and key phases in the plot. Yet it is inseparable from a systematic use of distortion. The parody of a series of narrative techniques and the recourse to “perverted imitation” bear witness to a process of distanciation in which both the originality of the literary heirs and the specifically German sensibility of a fast expanding literature assert themselves. By giving new directions to certain fundamental principles of the libertine quest, the latest German works in the corpus alter the initial libertine doctrine and pave the way for new areas of existential questions, thus foreshadowing the disillusioned artistic figures of the 19th century
Hita, Michèle. ""The Lord of the rings" : enfance de l'art et grammaire de l'imagination." Montpellier 3, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996MON30039.
Full textThis dissertation analyses the games professor tolkien plays at every level of the creation of the lord ot the rings. Those are both a writer's gates and a philologist's play on words, which lend the tale its wealth and its ambiguity. The first part studies the place of children/childhood in the characters" imag- ination and in their author's as well. It focuses on the symbolical meaning of the ring in such a context as freud's family novel. The second part tries to list all the games involved in the narrative process, highlighting the narrative function of the characters' role playing, of the play of light and darkness, and such play on words as proverbs and riddles. The third part intends to show that tolkien's interplay with voices and signs can be read as a real grammar book for fantasy, while it entails a questioning of the genre of the lord of the rings and a reflection on the tension existing between ethics and aethetics in this work of fiction
Kany, Laurence. "Le système des personnages dans l’oeuvre romanesque d’Eugène Sue." Paris 3, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA030104.
Full textEugene Sue is an unrecognized writer, however his literary work is signicant and his name was international at his time. Through his thematic of characters system, we can notice the progress of an ideology of this protean writer. The manichean system, who govern Sue's characters, is put in place from the designation of the characters, and strengthened by the portrait. Extrapolating, we will say that the villain will be imperfectly named. In addition, there's no opposition or nearly between be or seem to be. Consequently, ugliness is the attribute of a negative character. The hero found his place in Sue's novel notably by creating a superman with the Rodolphe character's in Les Mystères de Paris. In opposition, we found evilness geniuses who haven’t got any pretext to their malicious intents. Eugène Sue considers his characters as a support to an ideological demonstration. The education and the social background are the first reason evocate to explain the character lowering. Take back the Fournier and Saint Simon theories, he suggests reformation aimed at improve social condition of the poorest, namely the women and the lower class. We can feel the conversion to the socialism of the writer at the end of his career up till the hero’s representation which is from now on plebeian
Arnold, Markus. "Écritures de violence et d’interculturalité : enjeux identitaires dans le roman contemporain mauricien d’expression française et anglaise." Thesis, La Réunion, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012LARE0002/document.
Full textThis research project explores the different inscriptions of postcolonial identities in an extensive corpus of Mauritian novels written in French and English between 1990 and 2010. Over these last few decades, aesthetic, thematic and poetic innovation can be observed in a young generation of Francophone Mauritian writers, whereas such tendencies are rare among their Anglophone counterparts. While the former can be characterized by their subversive, demystifying and anti-exoticising postures, as well as their complex ways of interrogating issues of identity, the latter rather seem artistically stagnant. The Mauritian literary field clearly reveals itself as unequal as far as quantity and quality are concerned. A postcolonial ‘cross-reading-against-the-grain’ of these different texts, which focuses on leitmotivs of violence and interculturality, allows us to interrogate critically a certain number of literary tendencies currently found in Mauritius. How do the novels negotiate the island’s topographies and temporalities? Which ethno-cultural logics and ideological dynamics can be found underlying these contemporary texts? How do the novels represent complex factors such as ethnicity, class, gender? In other words, how do the Mauritian writers reflect on – or refuse to do so – the complexity of their multicultural nation? This comparative endeavour aims at understanding the dominant characteristics of a very heterogeneous literary field and seeks to analyze to what extent the new aesthetic tendencies offer original perspectives on contemporary issues of identity in Mauritian society as well as its literary production
Prévot, Valentine. "L'aventure du masculin : les aléas de la création d'une masculinité idéale dans les romans d'aventures britanniques pour garçons, 1830-1860." Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCC076.
Full textThe main characters in boys' adventure stories between the 1830s and the 1860s are young heroes on a quest to find adventure and remote horizons. Their itinerary through British colonial spaces is an initiatory progress towards a masculine ideal. This imagined fashioning of male identity is located at a crossroads between several traditions and idealized images of what "being a man" meant in the first decades of Queen Victoria's reign: between Christian manliness and muscular Christianity, figures of the gentleman, the knight and the hero, it is the palimpsestic production of an idealised masculinity which is being played out in those narratives. Which images, stereotypes and norms are brought into play? How do they circulate and how are they circulated? How is the progress towards a dominant model of masculinity narrated and illustrated by a grammar? The literary text gives birth to a specific staging of gender, between the imitation and the incorporation of norms, norm which can be otherwise circumvented, or even turned upside down through hybridization processes that these British boys are subjected to in the contact with geographical, cultural and gendered otherness. The reader is rapidly confronted to the fluctuation of novels which are much less rigid than one could anticipate. These novels turn out to be the production site of several masculinities which are experiencing phenomena of friction and interpenetration
Véran, Céline. "Dissimulation et quête d’identité dans les romans de Hue de Rotelande." Thesis, Université Clermont Auvergne (2017-2020), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019CLFAL015.
Full textHue de Rotelande, an Anglo-Norman poet of the late twelfth century, wrote two poetical novels, Ipomedon and Protheselaus, whose heroes strive either to hide their name or to be recognized. The second text is presented as a sequel to the first one, but we understand that unity is also done through the theme of identity. In this period of the Middle Ages, a questioning on identity is not anachronistic. Chapter I shows that, at the moment when the famous Renaissance is developing, the question of identity existed in several fields, both theologically and in terms of the recognition of the individual. Hue de Rotelande’s novels testify to this emergence of the subject. Nevertheless, a person is still defined primarily by the group to which he or she belongs. The reflection on identity thus has nothing to do with the birth of individuality but must be understood in relation to a group. Furthermore, the consciousness of the nation was beginning to be formed at the end of this century in England, stimulated by the action of Henry II. In fact, the king had to unite his kingdom against the oppositions related to its continental origin and against the Welsh protest ; around the king, history was rewritten. With this theme of identity, the works of Hue de Rotelande are therefore a reflection of their time. In chapter II, we find that these novels approach the identity in a paradoxical way since dissimulation is put forward. Nevertheless, a lexical analysis proves that the conceptual domain of dissimulation is that of identity. And Hue de Rotelande truly permeates his works with this double theme by multiplying the processes of dissimulation, by blurring the construction system of the characters and, above all, by presenting this dissimulation of the identity as not being really justified on the narrative level. It thus becomes particularly legitimate to question the choice of this theme. Chapter III reveals that this practice of dissimulation is also found at the level of the narrator who weaves between the need to tell, the silence and the lie, but, who always insists on dissimulation. This theme contaminates the genre itself of texts because they hide behind all the works in fashion in the twelfth century, thus blurring their identity in multiple echoes. Dissimulation is therefore everywhere and, definitely, pushes one to wonder about identity. Finally, by drawing attention to identity, Hue de Rotelande probably wanted to send a message to his audience. Chapter IV shows that the novels were clearly addressed to the Anglo-Norman public of the Welsh Marches and that a political reading was hidden there. Hue de Rotelande would criticize the royal power of Henry II, often in opposition to his barons, and he would flatter the identity consciousness of a group, that of the Cambro-Normans
Ouvrard, Elise. "Expériences pédagogique et salutaire dans les romans des sœurs Brontë : l’engagement féminin." Caen, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006CAEN1453.
Full textSoukaï, Sandrine. "Les Ombres de la Partition dans les romans indiens et pakistanais de langue anglaise." Thesis, Paris 4, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA040138.
Full textPartition inhabits the Indian and the Pakistani novel in English through modernist tropes such as ellipsis and fragmentation, metaphors of mutilation, dislocation and exile, and the symbolic figure of the refugee. The unspeakable violence of this trauma is also embedded within the narrative through the visual and poetic trope of the shadows, which has not been examined yet. In the novel Twilight in Delhi (1940), the shadows are premonitions of the cataclysm of 1947 as they stage the devastating impacts of colonial modernity on the high Muslim culture of India. In four novels published after the division of the subcontinent – Sunlight on a Broken Column (1961), Clear Light of Day (1980), The Shadow Lines (1988), Burnt Shadows (2009) –, the shadows are indelible, porous and unstable memory-traces that permeate the regional cartography and individual psyches. Together with the dual motives of the ghost and the mirror, these shadows subvert the official historiography and open up a discursive space in which the memories of subaltern individuals and families, transmitted over several generations, connect Partition to other international traumas via knots of multidirectional memory. Through their visual dimension, the shadows shape a body memory which involves the reader in an empathic and reflexive semiotics of the gaze
Murat, Jean-Christophe. "Les métamorphoses de Londres dans l'imaginaire romanesque britannique après 1945 (Angus Wilson, Doris Lessing, J. G. Ballard)." Paris 3, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA030100.
Full textSince 1945, the british novel has appeared to build a representation of the city that has made london a meeting-point between a historical and literary past, constituted by a series of antagonisms (the christian dichotomy between the earthly city and the celestial city; the town-country opposition, evolving towards a city-suburb-country relationship in the course of the 19th century; the contrast between the west end and the east end, from 1860 onwards), and a postmodern present, shaped by an unprecedented historical juncture (the trauma of world war 2, the anguish of the nuclear age, the alienation of society by technology and the mass media). In angus wilson's work, the representation of london enables the writer to establish a correspondence between the literary text and its subtexts. Doris lessing's london is initially firmly set in history and institutions, before giving way to an apocalyptic vision and to an architecture of paradise. The dionysian universe of j. G. Ballard manifests in london the reunion of the two extremities of time, in which prehistorical jungles and deserts are unconscious archetypes for the technological jungles and deserts of postmodern london
Ali, Nancy. "Violence et fiction dans le roman contemporain de langue française, arabe, et anglaise (1960-2000)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA040035.
Full textSummaryAs a result of the changes that have occurred in the latter half of the twentieth century, the world has witnessed a noticeable acceleration of history. This acceleration has manifested itself on many fronts – the historic, the scientific, the technological – but also on the literary front changing forever the way we represent our world and our place in it. This paper deals with the new modes of representation or mimesis in the work of art. How have the events happening outside the novel affected the very form, technique and the language of the contemporary novel? How has the violence that has been inflicted on the outside world being replicated and perhaps resolved in the literary narrative? Because narrative form is in itself a way of ordering and “bringing together” the fragmented events and incoherencies of reality, the very traditional form often violently manipulates this reality with the aim of giving meaning to an often inexplicable reality. By bringing into question the natural and given conventions of narrative, the experimental novels of the twentieth century have tried to realize original and unique forms that are able to represent different experiences. Our paper deals with primarily with these new conventions of representing reality and how, despite their fragmentation, experimentation, and violent rupture with the traditions of the past, they have nonetheless successfully produced “representations” of reality that faithfully capture our contemporary history characterized by acceleration as well as fragmentation. In order to justify this argument, we have compared narratives of fiction with the other two domains from which we derive the knowledge of our past, namely history and memory. Where is the place of fiction alongside these two often totalizing and totalitarian pillars of knowledge? Finally, what can literature do to those subjects of history who have systematically excluded from the writing of their dominant History? By taking the pen to write their side of the story, these “others” of the dominant historical document have both inscribed their particular stories on the existing palimpsest of dominant history, but have also forced the literary canons in which they belong to expand both their aesthetic and ethical boundaries