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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
Vielh, Jean-Marie. "Le roman d’aventures aériennes (R. A. A. )." Nancy 2, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990NAN21012.
Full textServille, Michel. "Edition critique du " Polexandre " de Gomberville : édition de 1645." Nancy 2, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000NAN21047.
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
Croisy, 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
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
Aubelle, 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
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
Hardoy, 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
Dast, Stéphanie. "Roman et confluence des genres (1827-1840)." Paris 4, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA040027.
Full textThe study of the output of romantic literature in france between 1827 and 1840 highlights the dominant position occupied during these years by a genre which contemporary critics and the authors themselves defined as universal. The period is remakable in that novels (second-rate novels or recognised masterpieces) appear capable of going beyond and indeed absorbing all other genres. In 1827, the "Préface of Cromwell" affirmed the desire of the "romantiques" to break free of genre-imposed limits. However, the Hugolien thesis triumphed less easily in drama than in fiction, which alone was able to merge all genres, traditional or otherwise. However, in 1840, the novel ceased to be such a "laboratory of genres" where anything goes: firstly, it once again resorted to clichés with the emergence of the serialised novel and mass-produced literature and, secondly, it abandoned genre-related excentricities in order to move towards realism in the novel. However, the hybrid novel of 1830, is multi-faceted in the way in which it merges the various genres, which fluctuate between between anarchy and order. Thence, by incorporating history and drama, the novel gains in terms of credibility and overall unity. However, at the same time, a wave of quietly ironic works mocked the aspirations of this generation to create a "total" novel : absorbing and deforming everything in their path, these fragmented works circumvented and renewed obsolete genres and even sought to go beyond their limits. By tacking all the various genres, they appear to be challenging literature itself, but as part of a movement from which the romantic novel, apparently badly shaken, emerges reinvigorated. This regenerative capacity can be found in novels which are apparently unclassifiable, which, for example, veer first towards dialogue-based genres, the towards poetry, seeking another type of harmony between the genres within a novel, towards whose development they contribute just as much as the ironic novels
Tanaka, Takuzo. "Zola et le roman psychologique." Paris 4, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA040005.
Full textThe aim of this dissertation is to examine the characteristics and the development of the psychological representation in Émile Zola's novels, referring to the “psychological novel” in his time, represented by George Sand and Paul Bourget. From Thérèse Raquin (1867), against the idealism of the “psychological novel” in the manner of George Sand, the Naturalist Zola tries to substitute a physiology of the soul for the psychology; as well as the body, the soul is determined by the surroundings and the heredity. From La Joie de vivre (1884), however, under the influence of the “psychological novel” in the manner of Bourget, Zola progressively separates from the Naturalist determinism. He attaches great importance to the inner life of the characters in his novels and projects his own ideology and philosophy on the inner discourse of these characters. In his later works, the subjectivity of the author finally becomes predominant over the objectivity demanded by the Naturalist theory
Lavergne, Elsa de. "La naissance du roman policier français (1865-1915)." Paris 4, 2007. http://ezproxy.normandie-univ.fr/login?url=http://www.classiques-garnier.com/numerique-bases/garnier?filename=EleMS01.
Full textThis study relates the rise of the French detective novel from late Second Empire to the First World War. It springs up in the judicial novels of Emile Gaboriau (1836-1873), the “father of French detective novel” and of his imitators, unrecognized novelists of the Second Empire and the Third Republic. It ends up with the first great cycles of detective adventures in the Belle Epoque, Arsene Lupin’s ones, written by Maurice Leblanc, and Rouletabille’s by Gaston Leroux. First, the research singles out the historical, literary and social factors which favoured the emergence of this genre: the popular press and serial novel development, the public’s rising interest for criminal topics and the evolution of police methods. It shows how appeared and progressively came into practice a new kind of novel, based on the actions of the character of the detective and on the process of piecing together the crime scenario. Second, the study puts the detective novel back in its connections with the contemporary world and emphasizes the wealth of its content. 19th century detective novels possess a realist vocation and tend to be similar to documents about the functioning of institutions and the rules of society. Their themes reveal the fears and the astonishment of the contemporaries who experienced the deep mutations of the industrial and urban civilization as a trauma and wondered about their consequences. Detective novels mirror the fears of a society who faces new dangers, but they either reflect its hopes, based upon the scientific and technical progress
Garcia, 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
CHEBIL, BEN SALEM AMEL. "Typologie et poetique de l'incipit dans la fiction narrative du xixe et du xxe siecles." Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) (1971-2008), 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999STR20012.
Full textThis thesis is situated in the field of the theory of the text, more precisely in this critical mouvement, specialised in the analysis of the elements of the beginning and the end of the narrative. It is particularly dedicatec to the matter of the beginning of the narrative in the novel of the 2nd half of the 20th century and of the first half of the 20th century. We will first try define the beginning of the novel. It is a field, which vary from a novel to another. It raises the problem of the demarcation of the beginning of the text. In the second part of the thesis, we will try to draw a poetic of the beginning, analysing the different fonctions and strategies : the fonction of the "codification", the fonctions of information and orientation, the fonction of seduction, the fonction of the "dramatisation", finally the fonction of deconstruction and of parody of the traditionnal beginning of the novel. This latter fonction is generally found in the novels written by authors of the rebellious movement of the "nouveau roman". The third part of the thesis is dedicated, on the one hand, to analyse the connection between the different parts of the text, especially the ones that the beginning of a text has with other structures of the novel (elements around the text and the closure) it is dedicated, on the other hand, to situate the beginning of a text in its connections between the different novels of various novelists, to define a poetic of the beginning, which passes through all the novels of the same author (actually emile zola et louis aragon). The conclusion is thematic : it deals with the typology of the beginnings of the tyextx, which still raises a problem and i open on other inaugural schemes, which are not categoried. Beyond the efforts of the theorisation, which ains at reduce the beginning of the text to a normative rhetoric of the inauguration. Each beginning of a text has to be studied in relation to the aesthetic and the stake of its novel. With the evolution and involution of the novel, we are faced to the beginning of the text which passes out to all the attemps of theorisation and typology (confer to novels by claude simon)
Lavocat, Françoise. "Princes et poètes en Arcadie : le roman pastoral en Italie, en Espagne et en France de la renaissance du genre à sa décadence : son rôle dans la transformation du roman." Paris 7, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA070064.
Full textThis study compares the development and the disappearance of the pastoral in prose,codified in the first part of the sixtheenth century,in italy, spain and france between,approximately,1580 and 1630. This essay examines the different ways narration develops. The evolution takes major directions: first,the main character,being at the same time the narrator and the author,is going to prevail in the novel,and to be the center of it through the use of the first person; this trend being assorted with the heroization of the bucolic universe. The way those two directions either combine or exclude one another is different in the three countries. The evolution of the pastoral novel has also been connected with the expression of an ideal of sociability inspired by the academic life,that was both closed and opposed to the utopic model. Those first person narrations, paradoxically associated with the praise of unanimity,are linked with both the change of the representation and the status of the writer,particularly in his relations with power and history. This pattern of the bucolic code reveals a link between pastoral and autobiography in the eighteenth century. Eventually,the novel,in its origin,partly develops through the transformation of the pastoral novel,associated with the disappearance of the
Bejjtit, Réda. "Formes et fonctions intertextuelles de la description dans le nouveau roman." Paris 3, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA03A011.
Full textSag, Mélanie. "Les guerres civiles dans les romans anglais et français de l'époque baroque (1580-1668) : poétique du roman, anatomie du conflit et usages de la fiction." Paris 7, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA070032.
Full textThis work examines the use of civil wars in English and French novels between 1580 and 1668 that is to say during the Baroque period. At this time, France and England were going through a revolutionary political, religious but also social crisis. Our framework is based on genre studies, contemporary theories of fiction and historicity. We aimed at shedding a new light on novel's poetics and analysing the articulation of fact and fiction through the study of a corpus of thirty little-known novels. The comparison between the French novels and the English ones implies to identify what defines the genre of early modern novel and its boundaries for both countries, and determine the genealogy of the narrative models used by the authors. We then establish the poetics of war through the analyses of the narrative functions of war sequences, the way characters are build up and the stylistics of violence (staged or faded). Finally, we suggest an interpretation of the novels. From the remembrance of wars of religion to the record of the English Revolution, Baroque novels constitute a specific form of historical fiction, characterized by the displacement of collective stakes and the metaphorisation of the religious division to the level of the couple or the family but also the recycling of the allegorical writing style. The Baroque novel is dedicated to love as opposed to the epic genre, it offers various and complex representations of civil war, this internai conflict questioning one's identity, faith and sense of belonging, three key concepts of the early modern novel
Ibo, Lydie. "Esthésie et perception dans le nouveau roman français. Sémiotique du sensible." Limoges, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999LIMO2010.
Full textLafon-Viellard, Marie-Hélène. "Du conte au roman dans l'oeuvre d'Henri Pourrat." Paris 7, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA070110.
Full textFrench author Henri Pourrat (1887-1959) wrote several novels and many literary essays. He is best known for his tresor des contes, a 13-volume collection of folk tales. The tales he collected around Ambert in France's massif central provide the basic material for his work. The plot of gaspard des montagnes, his first novel, consists of four intertwining tales. Pourrat expanded these tales inserting others and introducing new characters, inspired by tradition. Even when not derived from oral tradition, the structure of his novel uses the same repetitive devices and variations of themes. Gaspard des montagnes was patterned after traditional story-telling and was henri pourrat(s first attempt to rescue popular heritage from oblivion. Similarly for le chasseur de la nuit, his last novel, inspired by a story first recorded by a friend of him. Pourrat reorganized this around another tale that gives its title to the novel and emphasizes its circular structure. The essence of henri pourrat's work, from Gaspard des montagnes to le chasseur de la nuit, is the endeavor to bring new life to popular culture. Not only was pourrat familiar with the riches of this culture, but he was all too aware of its fragility, especially after world war 1. A world was dying and he wanted to save as much as he could through his writings. To him, it was a question of life or death, and the urgency increased when he learned he had tuberculosis. This raised his eagerness to collect stories and recreate so many different voices, disregarding the accepted frontiers of literary classification
Quaquarelli, Lucia. "Objets de fiction, quelques fonctions narratives de l'objet romanesque (France-Italie 1980-1990)." Paris 3, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA030088.
Full textThis work deals with the study of objects in novels. It lays out a " functional " analytical path of these magical objects, based on the reading of a number of Italian and French novels from the Eighties. Although these fictive objects generally manifest an important utility profile - in a similar way to their cousins in the real world (by the necessity of resemblance and internal motivation) - they equally always possess a fictional and functional role which goes beyond such a profile. It is a role which appears around the relation the objects establish with the characters and the events of the story or, on another level, with the narration. A role which registers constants within the history of the novel, from which it is interesting to measure the distance, rather than the points in common, which mark the most recent production. This is the reason why this study proposes two distinct paths between the objets which punctuate the novels of the Eighties. The first follows the traces of the relation which ties the fictive objects to the characters and the second questions the functions of the fictive objects with regard to the narration. Only two paths are proposed in the vast and complex network of invisible relations at the heart of which the object can be found; two paths which pan out far from the will to taxonomize or be exhaustive. Two analytic itineraries which respond to the necessity to account for the specificity of the corpus of fiction chosen, with for a backdrop a diachronic-dialectic literary dimension from which this specificity can be grasped
Gonçalves, de Vasconcelos Cardoso Margarid Maria. "De Marivaux à Diderot, ou d'une ère du soupçon à l'autre : la prise de conscience des techniques et de l'esthétique romanesques." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA040028.
Full textAmong the novelists who, during the eighteenth century, revealed an acute consciousness of the problems posed by the literary creation, one can mention Marivaux, Duclos, Crebillon fils and Diderot. After situating their production of novels in the context of the novelistic evolution, the analysis of the narrative techniques, used in La Voiture embourbée, Acajou et Zirphile, Le Sopha, L'Écumoire, L'Oiseau blanc and Jacques le fataliste, has as an objective to demonstrate in what way this consciousness of literary aesthetics constitutes a constant factor in all the texts mentioned and manifests itself in all the components of the narrative : the characters, space, time, action and intervening entities in the discourse (author-narrator, reader-narrater and editor). Finally, the study of the relations between literature and painting enables us to verify to what extent the artistic creation is a preoccupation common to Marivaux and Watteau, Crebillon, Duclos and Boucher, or even to Diderot, Chardin and Hubert Robert. In fact, novel texts and paintings portray an identical vision of the world imbued with the spirit of enlightenment
Le, Guillou Philippe. "Figures et rituels initiatiques dans le roman et le récit français : (1970-1980)." Rennes 2, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997REN20005.
Full textThis thesis intends to study the return of rituals and patterns of initiation in a series of works published between 1970 and 1980, essentially in texts written by Tournier, Gracq, Grainville, Farragi and Louis-Combet. These authors and the traditional rules of initiation are presented first, then one deals with narrative forms and characterization in the different texts -particular attention is given to the waning of the figure of the master. The initiatory space is also duly considered and one aims at defining the aesthetics of the texts as a poetry of secrecy. The thesis wishes to replace this literary trend in the decade 1970-80, showing how much these works reflect the mutations and fears of their time. Drawing inspiration from the works of Bachelard, Eliade and Durand on initiation and imagination, the author is ever at pain to link this initiatory constellation to a tradition of mythical literature, beyond the temporal bounds of his study
Delattre, Alexandra. "A contretemps : le roman catholique français du second XIXe siècle : histoire et poétique." Thesis, Nice, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016NICE2014.
Full textThis dissertation explores the constitution of the Catholic novel as a genre in the second half of the 19th century. It aims to show how Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly, Joris-Karl Huysmans and Léon Bloy were misread, partly because of the success of the genre during the 20th century. The popularity of the 20th-century Catholic novelists such as Claude Mauriac or Georges Bernanos has indeed swept away the difficulties encountered by Catholic writers over the course of this anti-clerical period. This work invetigates the reception of the Catholic novel at that time. It is based on historical researches, especially the study of Christian "bibliographies", Catholic press and edition. This provides a better understanding of Barbey d’Aurevilly, Huysmans and Bloy’s conception of Catholic novel as an original theory of art
Colombo, Laura. "La révolution souterraine : voyage autour du roman féminin en France, 1830-1875." Paris 8, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA082599.
Full textNuel, Martine. "La préface dans le roman français de la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle." Paris 4, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA040050.
Full textCallet-Bianco, Anne-Marie. "Le roman cyclique chez Alexandre Dumas." Paris 4, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA040024.
Full textThis analysis is based on three romantic series by dumas: the Valois cycle, the trilogy and the memoirs of a physician. These works are characterized by a cyclic architecture, animated by a double movement, prospective and retrospective, which determines the reading of the whole. The handling of the characters is clearly felt through this singular structure, as is that of time: one finds in dumas two different approaches to time, one linear and another cyclic, which coexist constantly. Elsewhere, the cyclic structure reflects dumas' historical thinking (and its contradictions). On fact he gets his inspiration from Vico and from his conception of a cyclic progression of humanity, based on the ideas of "corsi" and "ricorsi". But above all he adheres, as does Michelet, to the idea of a linear history based on an irreversible progress. Beyond the reversal of similar situations, the dumas' novels illustrate the evolution different represented groups: the royal family and the nobility are heading for disaster, whereas the people are growing in importance. In a parallel way, fiction retraces the mutation of value systems and of philosophies of action. From one cycle to another, the sense of history seems to be more difficult to grasp
Calas, Frédéric. "Etude stylistique du roman par lettres de 1669 à 1782, ou l'imposture épistolaire." Paris 4, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA040220.
Full textConfronted with a hard dilemma around the year 1660, the novel tries to escape this crisis by diversifying its techniques. One of these is the epistolary novel. The analysis deals with the methods of the novelistic illusion, trying to explain how the meeting of the letter and the novel leads to a special communicating structure between the sender and the recipient, and implicates narratives choices. The orientation of the letter towards a special recipient, himself requested by the text, allows to propose a typology of the epistolary novel based on the transmitter voices variations and the sender's part. The typology leads to ask questions about the limits of the epistolary novel and the special part of the letter in the narration. The epistolary novel appears in those years as a double text. Letters are never published by themselves but completed by a copious peritext, with the aim of making people believe that it is a true correspondence. Using of the first personb, of the correspondence as a significant way of writing, using of a publication coupled with a parasite voice, epistolary novel invites to analyze the pragmatic effects of these novelistic techniques on the narratee, part of the. .
Garay, Bernard. "Les Mystères du peuple d'Eugène Sue : roman et histoire." Nancy 2, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992NAN21021.
Full textFirst part : from Martin l'enfant trouvé to Mystères du peuple : presentation of the French political context of the Revolution of February 1848 and of the first months of the Second Republic. Sue's engagement, taking side with the socialist republicans and his participation in the political right, the evolution of his literary output and the perfecting of an original type of novel, the socialist historical novel. Second part : The Mystères du peuple, engagement into the reality of an epoch : the history of the 19th century, its particular status facing the censorship. Sue's documentation collected for the Mystères du peuple, models and bibliography. Sue proceeds with his action towards the public, he chooses his readers and his opponants. The effects of his candidature and his election at the Chamber of deputies upon the evolution of his works. Third part : the original edition of the Mystères du peuple : calendar of the publication, Sue's work on his own text, his publisher's reports. Elaboration of a reflection about the history of the socialist republican idea in France from the Golden Age in the mythical Gaul to the Revolution : mankind and state, liberty and power, importance of instruction, sexuality and reaction, ambition and cupidity. Evolution of the prospects in connection with the contemporary situation. Fourth part : history and ideology : cyclic history, Nation-State-Fatherland, romanticism, christianity and socialism, a work as a whole. Fifth part : diffusion-censorship-posterity : the various issues of the Mystères du peuple, the struggle of the governments against their diffusion, the progressive sinking into oblivion and its causes after the establishment of the Republic in France, a few elements of comparison with the republican histories
Levet, Natacha. "Le genre, entre pratique textuelle et pratique sociale : le cas du roman noir français : 1990-2000." Limoges, 2006. http://www.unilim.fr/theses-doctorat/2006LIMO2002/html/index-frames.html.
Full textDuclos-Mounier, Pascale. "Le roman humaniste : un genre novateur français 1532-1564." Lyon 2, 2003. http://theses.univ-lyon2.fr/documents/lyon2/2003/duclos_p.
Full textWhile during the Renaissance romance is divided, theoretically, between nonexistence and bastardy and, sociologically, between corruption and delectation, writers are enough aware of the formal freedom which defines the genre to confer on it an originality unknown by their contemporaries and only sketched out by their predecessors. These few romancers are characterised by the creation of a new poetics stemmed from usually old linguistic material. This way, they resolve to dissociate their art - that they will never go so far as to "romance" - from the forms of romances handed down by the Middle Ages or imported from abroad as well as from the various narrative collections. Confronted with the flourishing of the language, the reader is invited to think about a problematic composition which gathers as many utterances as contradictory conceptions of the world. The humanistic romance intends to form his mind to a mode of questioning and of dialogue
Phal-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
Zonza, Christian Barthélémy. "La nouvelle historique classique de 1657 à 1703." Paris 4, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA040201.
Full textIn the middle of the seventeenth century, the novel became the target of criticisms concerning its implausibilities and its tedious developments. At the same time, history itself bred doubts as to its capacity to tell the truth : language was hardput to express reality, the historian being subjective and biased. The historical short story thus benefited from the joint difficulties of both genres and sitted in with an aesthetics of brievity and unity, akin to history writing. Not only did it copy the style of that former genre but it also tried to mimic its functioning, bye imagining that the root of all important events laid in very trivial and gallant causes. While staging an ideology in which gallantery and heroi͏̈sm were closely interwoven, doubtesly well-appreciated by those to whom it was dedicated -ie the nobility-, the short story also explained the reasons which had led to the loss of power of the nobility, since from then history was ruled bye the arbitrary. Often presented as a moral work whose aim was to show the havoc wreaked by passion, the historical short story nevertheless aroused numerous criticisms and controversies from people who disapprouved of this blend of fiction and truth
Neboit-Mombet, Janine. "L'image de la Russie dans le roman français (1859-1900)." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002CLF20011.
Full textBentolila, Éric. "Le roman policier français de 1970 et 2000 : une analyse littéraire." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016GREAL013/document.
Full textThe French crime novel from 1970 to 2000The following thesis conducts literary analysis on French crime novels of the late twentieth century. The intention is then to show that if these detective novels can be analyzed with the tools of literary analysis, these novels can then be considered literary works and their authors as writers in their own right. The corpus contains the main novels of four authors spread over the last four decades of the twentieth century: Jean-Patrick Manchette, Frederick H. Fajardie, Didier Daeninckx and Tonino Benacquista. The tools selected for analysis are those related to novels characters, the places in which these novels take place and different types of plots offered by the authors. This is the work of Yves Reuter, Isabelle Krzywkowski and Paul Larivaille. These authors have allowed the analysis of selected texts and also allowed the author to confront these same texts to literary analysis tools in academic use.Thus literary analysis produced by the author allows him to advance the idea that the texts of detective novels, being analyzed with these tools, can be part of the regular corpus of literature
Andréassian, Anne Elisabeth. "Les représentations de l'entreprise dans le roman français au XIXe siècle, 1829-1891." Paris 1, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA010546.
Full textRequemora, Sylvie. "Littérature et voyage au XVIIe siècle : (récit, roman, théâtre)." Aix-Marseille 1, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000AIX10012.
Full textLecarme, Jacques. "Roman, politique et autobiographie chez quelques romanciers de l'entre-deux-guerres." Paris 4, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA040080.
Full textWe have examined the relation between novel and politics in the work of some prominent writers who have published their first book between 1918 and 1939, and we have followed beyond this period the continuation of their creation. We have first exposed our thesis : the theme of the apocalypse is all-pervading throughout this period full of catastrophes. Then we have examined Drieu la Rochelle's life and work, privileging the problems of revolution, treason and suicide. We have evaluated and re-evaluated him as a writer of short stories and as a novelist. We have drawn a parallel between him and him and his peers or adversaries : Céline, Nizan, Sartre, Malraux. The feverish and violent atmosphere of this interwar period, when everything - too much - was expected from great writers, whose function was exalted and transformed into a heroic myth, is evocated through the conspicuous and deservedly debated character of Drieu la Rochelle. Malraux is praised and described in a more succinct way, through a discussion on novel and autobiography, inspired by the modern "autofiction" theory Paul Morand too is briefly studied, in his literary, political, world-wide and wordly career : our analysis deals mainly with his short stories, we intend to demonstrate that, better than his novels, they show his genius as a novelist. Sartre is viewed, leisurely but somewhat distantly, in relation to the problems of "littérature engagée" (surrealism, communism, fascism, antisemitism, collaboration, resistance), but we have mainly focused on the words, autobiographical work posterior to the period we study. Four monographs on Aragon, Yourcenar, Simenon, Hyvernaud enlarge this quartet into an octet. A broad panorama of novel, short story and autobiography after the 1939-45 war evokes the possible extions of a subject too rich to have been exhausted
Commans, Julie. "Le jeu du père : le père-narrateur dans le roman français contemporain." Thesis, Université Clermont Auvergne (2017-2020), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017CLFAL017.
Full textIn the contemporary French novel, the father has few opportunities to be heard. While there have been an increasing number of stories about filiation since the 1980's, giving sons and daughters the possibility of questioning their ancestry, the father figure remains silent. Nothing is new here: literature often shows the father being kept away from the private sphere of family life, the father being a victim of the enduring patriarchal image and of his lost authority. At the turn of the 21st century, however, the humanities and social sciences suddenly began to take an interest in the topic. Looking at the father's silence, sociology, psychology, history, and also literature ask the question: what place, what role, and, in the end, what identity should be given to the father? In the midst of this growing discussion, the key player pressed by questions struggles to make his way into the foreground and take the floor. If eventually he introduces himself as a narrator, this should be noted and the forms of such an emergence in the contemporary novel should be investigated. An analysis based on the novels of four writers – Philippe Forest, Laurent Mauvignier, Gisèle Fournier et Sylvie Gracia – blending fictional and autobiographical works, allows us to define the features of an unprecedented phenomenon leading to new ideas about being a father today in terms of how it reflects the uncertainty of the individual in society, and also about the authorship of the work (“paternity”) and its issues in contemporary writing. This study first lays out historical and generic contexts of fatherhood by addressing the points of view offered by the social sciences and those derived from the literary approach. The structure of the paternal narration is then observed in such a way to allow an understanding of what's behind the father's words and how they work. Finally, the last chapter focuses on the singularity of the paternal voice and on that which, attempting to take account of reality, lends itself to an endless literary game, carrying away author, characters, and readers
Voyer, Marie-Hélène. "En terrains vagues : poétique de l’espace incertain dans le roman français et québécois contemporain." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/25528.
Full textAlaguillaume, Matthias. "Le roman de cape et d'épée d'Alexandre Dumas père." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA040072.
Full textAs a popular kind of historic novel Alexandre Dumas' cloak and dagger novel emerged between history and stories. After describing the way which le Dumas from history to historic novel, we will show - thanks to the theories of Jacques Rancière and Charles Grivel - how historic matter and literary matter melted into a new genre invented by the writer. Afterwards, we will study the fictional aspect of adventure thanks to the works of Vladimir Jankélévitch. Secondly, we will highlight some key elements of the genre such as characters and places. In so doing we will study the themes and the situations developed by the author and we will try and give a definition of Dumas's novelistic expression. The last part will bring under close scrutiny an aspect of Dumas's creation which has often been neglected by critics, that is the relation between Dumas's writing and cinematographic writing. Analysing Dumas' cloak and dagger novel first as a literary representation essentially based on the ability to show pictures and secondly as the expression of a poetics of movement will enable us to have a better grasp of the creative part underpinning dumasian production. Such a power can be construed as an early cinematographic form or, at least, as an esthetical form half way between literature and cinema
Esmein-Sarrazin, Camille. "L'avènement d'une poétique romanesque au XVIIe siècle : discours théorique et constitution d'un genre littéraire (1641-1683)." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA040232.
Full textMany changes were made to the prose narrative in the 1660s: the structure was simplified and the subject matter was drawn closer to the readers' interests. Shorter forms called "petits romans", "histoires", "nouvelles" replaced long heroic novels. Around the same period, there were numerous attempts at codifying what a novel was. Highlighting the distinctions between long and short novels, these writings noted the changes and construed them as a shift in the genre. The 1660s can be heralded as a turning point in the theorisation of the genre. This interpretation induces an exhaustive study of the texts dealing with the novel form in the 17th c. In order to compare the poetics and the writing of novels. In the first middle of the century, the theory was apologetic in tone, since the aim was to define the novel against its opponents. A notable characteristic of these writings was that they were either in favour or against it. However the French fiction, progressively seen both as a legitimate literary type and, in the eyes of readers, as a genre, triggered a thorough study of the status and the aim of a prose narrative. The years 1660s witnessed the birth of the poetics of the novel, which went well beyond codification to focus on the impact of a narrative. For the first time the novel was considered as a literary genre. As a consequence the change in the novel had more in common with rhetorics and ethics than aesthetics. The "art de l'éloignement", which reigned as the predominant narrative rule in the first period, was superseded by the art of verisimilitude. This deeply modified the status of both the author and reader and transformed the ideological impressions it made
Fontaine, Anne-Chantal. "La réception du roman québécois par la presse anglo-montréalaise de 1960 à 1976." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1996. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq21751.pdf.
Full textNovak-Lechevalier, Agathe. "La théâtralité dans le roman : Stendhal, Balzac." Paris 3, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA030131.
Full textTheatricality is frequently mentioned as an effect produced on the reader by the novel. However, the notion remains generally imprecise and consequently hardly operative. A study of theatricality from the perspective of a historical poetics of literary genres is necessary to explain its mode of appearance and its properties in Balzac and Stendhal’s novels. Therefore, this work aims to highlight what the notion meant since Aristotle’s Poetics. We will explain first how the idea of a theatrical effect independent from the dramatic mode appeared in the nineteenth century, and, secondly, why the promotion of the novelistic genre implied a link with drama. This analysis emphasizes a few features operating as theatricality markers, which allows to study how these features, combined together, contribute to produce a theatrical effect in the context of novelistic scenes. It appears that the theatricality effect is based upon the narrative speech which produces the dialogue as on a stage. The variety of the features used by Stendhal or Balzac allows to enlighten the differences that characterize the aesthetics of each novelist. Finally, the adoption of a dramatic pattern by the novel is closely linked to hermeneutic and pragmatic perspectives : by informing the universe represented in the novel, this pattern gives information to the reader about the rules that govern society ; by regulating the connection between the reader and the fiction, it enables to correlate emotional paroxysm with critical distance
Saugues, Sylviane. "L'œuvre romanesque de Lucette Desvignes : une écriture en marge, marge et paysage d'une écriture." Lyon 3, 2006. https://scd-resnum.univ-lyon3.fr/in/theses/2006_in_saugues_s.pdf.
Full textThe object of this doctoral thesis is to enhance the quality of Lucette DESVIGNES's works of fiction. The first step will be to show how this writing is in keeping with the notion of the margin: how it arises out of a university career, breaks free from the strict divisions in the literary genres, and is kept on the fringe of a certain literary recognition, specially in France. This margin writing can then be studied as the poetics of landscape writing through the originality of its engineering: through the analysis of the spatial structures and thematic entries, we propose to examine how and why this writing in its variations succeeds in modifying the significance of landscape as a function. Thus proceeding from the landscape in the page to the page as a landscape, a third step will finally be devoted to examining the margin in the proper sense (its use, its function, from the angle of a genetic approach on the manuscripts) and in the figurative meaning as well, i. E. The study of the border lines between the literary text itself and its critical or esthetical margins
Bouchard, Pierre-Olivier. "Rapport au temps et figures d'écrivains : la fin du XIXe siècle dans les biographies fictives françaises et québécoises parues entre 1980 et 2000." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/28083.
Full textDouchet, Sébastien. "Logiques du continu et du discontinu : Espace, corps et écriture romanesque dans les Continuations du Conte du Graal (1190-1240)." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA040167.
Full textThe medieval space is intrinsically fragmented and heterogeneous, and it is fictionally represented as such in the Continuations of the Conte du Graal. Those narratives make use of the continuity and the discontinuity of the fictional universe in order to shape the connection of the hero with the Other and the Elsewhere. In a world where the Grail is but a pretext to explore otherness and the unknown, the notions of continuity and discontinuity, which are malleable but endowed with a coherent shape and meaning, testify to the existence of a triple bond – a spatial, physical and fictional one. The chasms, ellipses and gaps in space that run throughout the places show how the hero must confront otherness – that otherness being at times political, fantastic or sacred. The relation of the hero to the world is also organized according to the representation of his sensory perception, his gestures, movements and acts – his body organizes the space around him. The entanglement of those spatial and physical elements map out configurations which we will call fictional loci. Those places are determined by the relation of continuity that the Continuations have established with their hypotexts, of which they prolong both the fictional matter and outline. Displaying a “creative memory”, the Continuations circumvent the literary constraints imposed by their genre. It is from a ceaseless dialectics between intertextual continuity and discontinuity that the narratives and the writing as a continuator emerge. The scrutiny of space, body and novel writing thus enables to grasp the logic of the continuous and discontinuous, and the way it organizes the narratives in the Continuations – novels that are oblivious to the passing of time and whose dynamics are essentially spatial
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
Gendrel, Bernard. "Le roman de moeurs en France (1820-1855) : du roman historique au roman réaliste." Thesis, Tours, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010TOUR2015.
Full textAfter having distinguished three explicative aspects of the novel (the psychological, social and plot-driven aspects) and defined three corresponding types of novels (novels of characters, manners and plot), this work focuses on the novel of manners during the Bourbon Restoration and the July Monarchy. Heir to quite an old tradition, this genre is at its peak with the Scottian historical novel and the novel of contemporary manners of the 1820’s. Balzac, first influenced by the novel of manners, develops in The Human Comedy a hybrid form (combining social and psychological aspects, novel of characters and novel of manners), which we may call the realistic novel (characterized by an overloading of verisimilitude). This definition of realism does not erase the differences between the authors; it allows, on the contrary, to appreciate the specific poetics developed by Stendhal, George Sand or Champfleury
Quéruel, Danielle. "Jean d'Avesnes ou la littérature chevaleresque à la cour des ducs de Bourgogne au milieu du 15e siècle." Paris 4, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA040439.
Full textThe doctorat thesis entitled "Jean d'Avesnes" or middle-XVth century chivalric literature of the court of the dukes of Burgundy is a literary study on a document belonging to the library of one burgundy noble man of the entourage of Philippe le Bon, namely Jean de Wavrin. First a study is made of the personality of the bibliophile, both writer and collector lover of manuscripts, followed by a study of the formal and literary characteristics of the text itself, and a reflexion on the type of narrative to which it belongs (the chivalric prose roman) and on the technic of its putting into prose from an older text. This study is accompanied by an edition of a manuscript kept in Paris. The research as a all is a reflexion on the history of workshops and miniature work as well an on the importance of propaganda literature at the court of the dukes of Burgundy at that time