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Silicani, Christian. "Le roman d'aventure et le 'roman d'outre-mer' de langue allemande, de Charles Sealsfield à B. Traven." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCA004/document.
Full textThere are many German travel stories as well as works of fiction focusing on overseas territories, in the first place on the United States of America. These texts that were written in the course of the nineteenth century and during the first half of the twentieth century represent a noteworthy phenomenon that has been little commented on and lends itself well to a historical approach. Indeed, these pieces of writing accompany, comment on and vilify the German mass migration to the American continent, especially to North America. The present work attempts to account for the German adventure novel the plot of which takes place overseas. In so doing it tries to define the specificity of the German perspective. Twelve novels have been selected that were written by several german-speaking authors very different from one another: the German Friedrich Gerstäcker (1816-1872), Karl May (1842-1912), Ernst Friedrich Löhndorff (1899-1976), the Austro-American Karl Postl aka Charles Sealsfield (1793-1864), The Austrian Franz Kafka (1883-1924), the Germano-Mexican B. Traven (1882-1969). Following an introductory chapter dealing with the horizon of aspirations in nineteenth-century Germany are eleven chapters each devoted to the study of one selected novel.The analysis of these works shows some striking features that belong to the genre either at the level of the aesthetics, logic, set of themes and ideological patterns or at the level of axiological confrontations between a rational, civilized world and the so-called "savageness". Other items in the study are the figure of the literary adventurer, the different approaches to the alterity phenomenon, the recurrent temptation of transgression, the insertion of the text in a pre-existent codes and stereotypes system
GUILLAUME, ISABELLE MARIE. "Le roman d'aventures depuis treasure island." Paris 3, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA030006.
Full textA comparative analysis of treasure island, moonfleet by j. M. Falkner, les clients du bon chien jaune and l'ancre de misericorde by pierre mac orlan, heart of darkness by j. Conrad, and the sea-wolf by j. London has established the laws of the adventure novel. The spatiotemporal framework is defined by the actions of the hero: a repeated quest for escape that is a rejection of immobility and boredom, whether this be due to confinement or observance of imposed limits. This quest is accompanied by a gesture of betrayal that plays a role in making discontinuity a law of existence. Transgression and betrayal underscore the singularity of the heroes, who find affirmation in this distinction. Their engagement in the action determines a requirement: the self-control of both the unconscious and the body. The adventure enables the definition of a personal identity. The adventure novel emphasizes that the action constitutes the hero's opportunity to secure the approval of the other and be recognized as singular. Such insight into the importance of transgression and betrayal eliminates any possibility of an ideology specific to the adventure novel, which focuses solely on the question of the development of the self. The ethical emerges as the aesthetic: the adventure is the mirror that the hero holds before himself. This aesthetic dimension is made evident by novels in which the narrator recounts his adventures in a retrospective mode. These stories are built on a plan to speak about the self. However, the modalities of the stories bear witness to the workings of dishonesty in the confession. Both a sentiment of guilt and a temptation to construct the story as an apology for the self come into play, suggesting a contradictory line of force. The scope of this work of definition is provided by the establishment of a corpus of adventure novels published since treasure island
Vielh, Jean-Marie. "Le roman d’aventures aériennes (R. A. A. )." Nancy 2, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990NAN21012.
Full textGarcia, Marie-Thérèse. "Le territoire d'Arturo Pérez-Reverte : entre littérature populaire et littérature érudite." Toulon, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005TOUL3002.
Full textThis thesis, devoted to historical romances, detective stories, novels of adventure of Arturo Pérez-Reverte aims at highlighting the way the author bridges the gap between popular and scholarly fiction. Starting from a definition of both these literary genres, the background which favoured the emergence of this new form for a new reading public serves as introduction. Next, the way the novelist, in the tradition of popular fiction, blends the artifices of cinema and soap opera in his historical romances, on the one hand and the devices of quest and enquiry in his detective stories on the other, is examined. Then the covert or overt element of intertexuality available to the reader capable of deciphering the various layers of meaning and rewriting is referred to. The influence of Borges and Eco— labyrinthine construction, delight in mystification, and constant swing between realism and phantasy — constitutes the fourth and final part
Serville, Michel. "Edition critique du " Polexandre " de Gomberville : édition de 1645." Nancy 2, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000NAN21047.
Full textMasse, Marie-Sophie. "La description dans les récits d'Antiquité allemands (fin du XIIe-milieu du XIIIe siècle)." Amiens, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001AMIEA011.
Full textPhal-Bellessort, Marie-Christine. "L'évolution du roman épistolaire au début du XIXe siècle en France, en Allemagne et en Angleterre : d'Oberman (1804) aux Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées (1842)." Paris 4, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA040236.
Full textThis thesis consists in a comparative study : its purpose is to present results and show how the epistolary novel developed at the beginning of the XIXth century in three European countries : France, Germany and England. In the course of her study, the author of this survey endeavored to raise a certain number of questions and bring out answers to these questions. In the first part, after a short historical outline, she made an inventory and examined the alleged disappearance of that type of novel. In the second pat, she wondered under which forms the epistolary novel had survived and whether a new definition of the genre was made necessary. At the same time, she laid stress on the limits, paradoxes and narrative options at stake. Finally, in the third part, the author's aim was to analyze the continuity of the genre as well as to study why it is so modern. Thus, she delineated the themes tackled in the epistolary novels; she studied now these themes adjusted to the new forms of the novel, such as the historical novel and the private diary. She also defined the part they played in the emergence of new modes of writing such as the monologue. The epistolary novel is a genre which has kept changing and moving. It evolved thanks to its multifarious Romanesque forms. The XIXth century novelists succeeded in the epistolary novel. It is much later, at the beginning of the century that this mode of writing would be operated by writers, as a literary technique in itself. Even if it is impossible to ignore the fact that the epistolary novel wasn't equally successful in France and England in the one hand, and in Germany on the other hand, it can't be denied that it lived through the whole romantic period and that this very ability to resist enabled the genre to live to this day
Andersen, Peter Hvilshøj. "L'Alexandre du "Grosser Seelentrost", l'Alexandre" de Wernigerode, l'Alexandre de Wichbolt : trois adaptations allemandes du roman du Pseudo-Callisthène." Amiens, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000AMIE0014.
Full textPalewska, Marie. "Un romancier d'aventures à la Belle Epoque : paul d'Ivoi (1856-1915) et ses "Voyages excentriques"." Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030013.
Full textPublished in volumes between 1894 and 1917 by the former bookshop Furne, Paul d’Ivoi’s "Voyages Excentriques" made up a collection which was very much valued by the youth of the Edwardian Era.These adventure novels, in the tradition of Jules Verne, were highly representative of their time with plots deeply rooted in the political ideas pervading then. They were anxious to contribute to the patriotic and moral moulding of their readers and applied to support the colonial work of France while promoting the values of the French Republic and celebrating its influence all over the world. The action, which often deals with international diplomatic stakes, sends the characters abroad to meet other nationalities whose visions reflect their relationships with France, whether friendly or of conflict.However the "Voyages Excentriques" swing from reality into fiction using the various means that adventure novels, then at their peak, offered them. Exotism and scientific extravagance are the main themes, often accompanied with detective stories or spy fiction as secondary sorts. When writing his adventure novels, Paul d’Ivoi carefully paid attention to differentiating himself from his predecessors, asserting his own manner by inventing wonderful scientific gadgets or giving a preponderant role to women. His books were a great success at the turn of the 20th century as New Year’s gifts, school prizes, popular manuals or cheap serials which were adapted on stage or even in movies.He is most original in his dealing with eccentricity which is to be found all through his collection of Belle Epoque novels
Kawczak, Paul. "Le roman d'aventures littéraire de l'entre-deux-guerres français : le jeu du rêve et de l'action." Thesis, Besançon, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016BESA1006/document.
Full textIn the beginning of the 20's, literary France knows a craze for the adventure novel. After whatMichel Raimond called “la crise du roman” this new production of adventure novel offers ananswers to the poetical and philosophical questions of the first XXe century. From 1918 to 1939,from Pierre Mac Orlan's Le Chant de l'équipage to Roger de Lafforest's Figurants de la mort, thisstudy follows the history of the literary adventure novel and analyses a group of novels that allshare this modern adventurous mystic
Clot, Cécile. "Kleist épistolier : le geste, l'objet, l'écriture." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA040075.
Full textThe aim of this dissertation is twofold : to demonstrate the literary dimension of Kleist's letters and to determine their status within Kleist's works while examining the communicative aspects of his epistolary texts. Analyzing the communicative perspective inherent to epistolary texts indicates the way in which Kleist is revealing himself to his correspondents, and it creates an epistolary portrait of the poet. The particularity of an epistolary portrait is its contradictory and fragmented nature based on the incompleteness of epistolary works. The analysis of the ambivalence of Kleist's letters (an absence's discourse yet aspiring to immediacy) displays the coexistence of monologic and reflexive passages on the one hand, which are used by the writer as a way of forming his thoughts, and of a dialogic determination on the other hand on which the act of writing is based. The conscious forming of the image, the process of dramatisation of style, the reflective use of the word and of signs, the use of rhetoric figures, the intense observation, the transformation of reality into words are constituent components of a literary work. The purpose of the stylistict analysis of the study is to bring these aspects to light. But the singularity of this study lies in the careful examination of the epistolary object through the method of genetic critic, which proposes to analyze the manifestation of the elaborative process of writing within the manuscripts. In the poet's letters the unfolding of the enunciation is not restricted to the syntactic construction of the utterance, but also manifests itself in the addition of lines and signs - like the dash - which convey a metalingual level. On the borderline between semiotics and semantics, the study of the manuscripts reveals a fundamental field of investigation for Kleist's epistolary works and his writing
Méry, Marie-Claire. "Louise von François : (1817-1893) : lecture du passé et sagesse humaniste." Nancy 2, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989NAN21001.
Full textThe purpose of this doctoral thesis is a thorough study of the complete works by louise von francois (novels, stories and essays). The first part presents an analysis of the contents and structures of louise von francois's historical novels, and points out the fact that these works are written in both an historical and an ethical perpectives, which confers a character other than plainly picturesque or documentary to the historical facts or events dealt with. The second part contains a study of the psychological studies by louise von francois. These various texts offer constant themes which enable the reader to define louise von francois's etical ideals, mainly based on the concept of "bildung" and on the principles of classical humenism. The third part shows how louise von francois is actually linked with a way of thinking already anachronistic in the second half of the 19th century, which makes problmeatic nowadays the reception of this author, while it suggests what aspects of her works may still deserve to be aknowledged
Farouk, May. "Les Tribulations de la fiction chez Jean Echenoz : le retour du roman d'aventures : formes et enjeux contemporains." Thesis, Paris 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA030128.
Full textSince 1980, the literary scene in France has witnessed a revival of romance once made obsolete by the New Novel (Nouveau Roman). Realistic, social, musical, crime, spy and adventure fiction has thus sprung up again. The current study examines and questions the problematic of “return” especially the return of adventure fiction in the very representative work of Jean Echenoz. Thought reviving a classical genre, the author does not shy away from modifying and remodeling that genre’s configurations and issues. Thus, this survey elaborates a poetic of the postmodern fiction of adventures, revisiting a traditional genre to extract contemporary forms and issues, so to speak. But from a broader perspective, the study underscores the tribulations of Echenoz’s fiction, work which does not mind to collapse plots, oscillate from one genre to another or sway between two space-times, at the risk of presenting itself in a turbulent mode of writing confounding the reader - who fells helpless in the face of the unbridled audacity of the author and his narrative perturbations
Chartier-Bunzel, Andrea. "La Trilogie de Josèphe, de Lion Feuchtwanger : histoire et écriture romanesque." Montpellier 3, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001MON30028.
Full textPrévot, 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
Houdebert, Aurélie. "Le Cheval d'ébène à la cour de France : Cléomadès et Méliacin." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCA028.
Full textCléomadès by Adenet le Roi and Meliacin by Girart d’Amiens are both an enigma in the literary history of the Middle Ages. Both originate from the same oriental tale but they are actually two different, exactly contemporary novels. The research work in this thesis aims at understanding part of the mystery of the twin nature of the texts. The research on the sources and the conditions in which these novels were written takes us to the court of France, under the patronage of Marie de Brabant, and leads us to assume that the poets may have been deliberately led to compete with each other. The literay study of the two novels tries to establish the way the tale became a novel, and to understand how an oriental tale was adapted to the tastes of an aristocratic society of the late thirteenth century. In these two works submitted to the same constraints, two distinct poetics appear. The last part of the thesis examines the fate of the two novels, looking for clues on the history of their reception
Vuillet, Hélène. "Les métamorphoses d'Hermès : Motif secret et secrets d'un motif dans la tétralogie romanesque de Thomas Mann, Joseph et ses frères." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA040137.
Full textEven if his name does not appear anywhere, Hermès has his place in the novel of Thomas Mann Joseph and his brothers. But only Hermès, the Greek god, had been seen up to now. This study shows that another Hermès haunts the tetralogy, Hermès-Trismégiste, the father of the hermetic or alchemical tradition. After having revealed the presence of this other Hermès and the function of the hermetic metaphor in the framework, the analysis explores the reasons for the fascination of the author for this theme. It would appear that this one is systematically invoked in the creative imagination of the writer whenever there is a question of education. Because Joseph is the only education novel that Mann managed to write, a novel which examines all the meanings of generic designation: education of the hero, education of the reader, education of the author to the benefit of the formation of the work. Why then is the hermetic metaphor, in spite of its extraordinarily expressive quality, so discrete in this novel?
Fouquet, Catherine. "Les romans de Jorg Wickram recherches sur une écriture et ses stratégies." Paris 4, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA040210.
Full textCroisy, Marion. "La prison dans la littérature française du XIXe siècle. Représentations romanesques et imaginaire social de la modernité carcérale." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCA145.
Full textIn the 19th century, there were many representations of the prison in literature. Studies of customs and parisian paintings explore the prison and novels describe scenes of imprisonment (Sue, Les Mystères de Paris, Balzac, Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes, La Fille Élisa). The fascination of prisons achieved popularity well beyond literary people : investigators, hygienists, theorists of the penal system, also questioned the issue of imprisonment. Contemporary historiographical views see the 19th century as a pivotal moment in penal history. Since the Revolution, the prison has been perceived as being the corner stone of a new system of punishment. In light of this historical change, this study analyses the literary representations of prisons from an outside point of view, the view of someone who is not imprisoned, and, the narrative using the third person in novels. Forging links with the areas of knowledge that accompagny the introduction of criminal prison, literature plays an important part in the social narrative that represents the modernity of prison life. In this seminar, the reader will not fail to recognize the ambivalences and contradictions. Novels of adventure and romance, social commentaries and moralistic novels, works of realism and of naturalism will all in turn be explored to reflect the diversity of representations. The political and moral implications, but also aesthetic and poetic figuration by the fiction of the experience of incarceration, are a major challenge of this study
Durand, Jacques. "Le roman d'actualité, reflet des réalités weimariennes." Lille 3, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999LIL30019.
Full textColson, François. "Réalité et idéal dans l'œuvre romanesque de Friedrich Maximilian Klinger : particulièrement Voyages avant le déluge, Histoire d'un allemand et Fragments (Reisen vor der sundfluth, Geschichte eines deutschen der neuesten zeit,Bbruchstucke aus einer handschrift das zu fruhe erwachen des genius der menschheit : contribution à l'étude du roman allemand a la fin du XVIIIe siècle (spataufklarung)." Paris 4, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA040020.
Full textAubelle, Marie. "Retour à la maison. Le motif de la maison dans l’œuvre romanesque de J.M.G. Le Clézio, Pascal Quignard, Sylvie Germain et Marie NDiaye." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCA001/document.
Full textThe history of home and that of the novel have crossed paths more than once, but hardly ever more so than in the nineteenth century, when literature and architecture began exploring new forms, the similarities of which were aptly pointed out by Philippe Hamon. At the time, both house and home were subjected to deep societal changes, and their worth as literary object was called into question: thus, home, which had long been a favourite topic of the realists, was shaken to its foundations. The very notion of representation lay at the crux of the crises the novel was going through. Around the 1980s, however, the novel began pivoting back towards fiction, thus reviving its core characteristic. Did this return to home promote new building permits, so to speak? Did it make home, as a literary trope, inhabitable once again ? This dissertation shall explore the motif of home in the complete works of four contemporary authors, namely J.M.G. Le Clézio, Pascal Quignard, Sylvie Germain and Marie NDiaye, as analyzed through the prism of sociological changes, as well as of novel-related problematics. By so doing, I hope to demonstrate that home still bears a slew of new perspectives for the fiction genre. I will put forward the notion of a ‘home novel’, which, just like the ‘adventure novel’, is endowed with its very own set of spaces, plots and characters. By delving into various domestic spaces, I shall bring out some of its key aspects, be they aesthetic or poetic, and wonder whether the novel might have become, in the times we live in, the safest and most hospitable haven at our disposal
Fitzpatrick, Mark. "R.L. Stevenson, Joseph Conrad and the adventure novel : reception, criticism and translation in France, 1880-1930." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015USPCA160.
Full textThe English adventure novel of the nineteenth century, descending from a tradition shaped by the writings of Defoe, Scott, and Dumas, was to find its masterpieces in Tresaure Island and Kidnapped! by Robert Louis Stevenson. These texts represent both the high-point of the genre, and its rewriting and subversion. Joseph Conrad, in his adventurous fiction, responds to this problematizing of the conventions of the genre. Both authors had to situate themselves in relation to the literary debates of their era, and the soon-to-end dominance of realism. In France, at the turn of the twentieth century, literary critics were seeking an alternative in foreign fiction to the moribund novel that they had inherited. In the face of the this “crisis of the novel”, Marcel Schwob was to find, in Robert Louis Stevenson, the author who seemed to give form, in his fiction, to a novel of adventure which transcended the stale oppositions which had fed the debate on the future of the novel in France. This literary encounter is the starting point for a discussion which continued into the 1900s in the literary reviews, where critics led by André Gide begin to develop a theory of the roman d’aventures. This concept of adventure permits us to examine the reception of the works of Stevenson, and those of Conrad, in the literary culture specific to France at the beginning of the twentieth century. In writers’ correspondence, in literary reviews such as the Revue des Deux Mondes, the Mercure de France, or the Nouvelle Revue Française, in translations and French editions of the two authors, a literary phenomenon takes shape, a cultural transfer between the great cosmopolitan writers of the period
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
Braun, Stefanie. "Le discours romanesque de Clara Mundt alias Luise Mühlbach (1814-1873) face à l’histoire : représentation de l’ère napoléonienne, historiographie popularisée et modernité scientifique en Allemagne autour de 1850." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018TOU20068.
Full textThe thesis deals with popular historiography and scientific modernity in Germany between 1850 and 1862 – namely after the revolution of 1848 and before Otto von Bismarck became Minister President of Prussia – through the study of three historical novels, Königin Hortense (1856), Napoleon in Deutschland (1858/1859) and Kaiserin Josephine (1861) by Theodor Mundt’s wife Clara Mundt (1814-1873) alias Luise Mühlbach. She was one of the most successful historical novelist of her time, and belongs to the first generation of professional female writers. The main focus of this study is on the literary discourse on the history of relationships between France and Germany. The purpose is to demonstrate how the transmission and the popularization of historical knowledge could be used for education to female patriotism and women citizenship. The study of the use of testimonies and documentary sources borrowed from recent historians shows how L. Mühlbach proceeded to appropriate historical material and to upgrade female figures of the past. Besides the dissertation deals with the analysis of the several historical, political, social and literary mechanisms which explain the success of Clara Mundt’s historical novels between 1850 and 1860. The study puts emphasis on the continuities between L. Mühlbach’s social novels of the Vormärz and the historical novels, like the social and religious issues and the topic of women’s emancipation, in order to question the idea of a split in her work before and after 1848
Bertrand-Rettig, Eva-Susanne. "Les enfants et l'enfance dans la littérature de jeunesse contemporaine à visée réaliste de langue allemande et française." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1996CLF20086.
Full textHardoy, Maitena. "Femmes en fuite : la dame errante dans la littérature médiévale (XIIe-XVe siècles)." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015BOR30050.
Full textIn medieval adventure novels, the theme of escape is not treated in an balanced manner but depends on the gender of the main character. The man who flees is a dishonored coward while the fleeing woman represents a new prototype of heroin. It appears that being on the run involves wandering into an unknown world full of territories which are not always domesticated by men and which are largely unexplored by women, because, traditionally, this outer space represents a male hunting territory. Their changing identities betrayed by the disguise and by the instability of their names, laborious steps marked by the need to earn a living, and sometimes a virility in every challenge, this is what defines these young women who go across the countries as seekers of themselves The feminine at flight which implies an admitted and spoken rebellion, is the only defense against suicide. Thus, giving voice to women in proven narrative patterns, making them coexist alongside the errant knights, it is a perfect way which allows them to settle, or to rediscover, the basis of their identity. Even though they are sometimes assisted in their brutal steps, henceforth they assume the responsibility upon themselves, and gradually acquire an independence which, hitherto, was impossible within the walls of their androcentric fortress. Fleeing gives them also a completely new control of themselves. The women running in the novels of the Middle Ages represents a challenge not only from a narrative aspect but also from a social, private, and human view point. At the time of the rediscovery of the great adventurers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the emphasis falls on a new mobility of women. Our thesis looks further away and examines nomadic women in medieval romance fiction. This unifying pattern is likely to bring together some known topoi from ancient mythological sources, retrieved by the literature of the Middle Ages. Our aim is to decrypt the architecture of this pattern in order to determine its origins as well
Gille, Comte-Sponville Aurélie. "Modernité et archaïsme des lieux dans les romans d'enquête et d'aventure pour la jeunesse pendant les Trente Glorieuses en France." Thesis, Artois, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016ARTO0008/document.
Full textPost-World War II France experienced a period of outstanding economic growth known as the “Thirty Glorious Years”, which ended with the 1973 oil crisis. Publishing benefitted greatly from the rise of the consumer society in this period of prosperity, and scores of children’s books and novels for young people were published immediately after the Second World War and soon became very popular. It was the heyday of a few book series such as Bibliothèque rose, Bibliothèque verte, or Signe de Piste. But while most households were gradually getting more and more modern, many novels for children and young adults involved children going off in search of adventure or leading investigations in places anchored in the past – castles, caves, forests, etc. – or in timeless, ideal places recreated within their own daily lives – heterotopias. The present research dissertation delves into a broad corpus of literary series and Boy Scout novels and explores both their literary aspects. By questioning the interaction between modernity and archaism in post-war children’s literature, it shows that both concepts are part of a narrative tension that shapes the logical development of the story and paves the way for an initiatory process reminiscent of primitive rites of passage, the narrative patterns of fairy tales and Bildungsroman. The initiation itself, however, is never completed for it is not the actual purpose of the novel. The places are significant only insofar as they belong to the quest for the utopia of eternal childhood, in which the ageless heroes as well as the places are set in perfection, in a form of ideal euchronia