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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
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. .
Chin, Man-Yi. "Amitié féminine et écriture épistolaire au XVIIIe siècles." Paris, EHESS, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004EHES0045.
Full textThis thesis on women's friendship such it could be lived at the XVIIIth century in its connection with epistolary writing practice. It proposes to consider the women of the Enlightenment, for those at least for which we still do have written works, like users and actors of the written culture, in this case through their use of the friendship notion in their relations practices and their construction of cultural identity, their appropriation of the memoria of "learned friendship", their romantic writtings bringing into play the women's friendship correspondence and their epistolary exchanges within a long time friendship. Thus this memoria, in our work, establish a central concept for the friendship study as a common inheritance set up by well-read men but where others could have come to draw
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
Doig, Katherine. "Correspondances avec l'absence : la fiction épistolaire monologique aux XXe et XXIe siècles." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCA127.
Full textLong fictions composed of one uninterrupted letter – monologic epistolary fictions – are underrepresented in critical discourse, and frequently shunted more or less overtly beyond its margins. Their existence is brought to light here by one play and fourteen novels in French, English, Italian and German, ranging from 1902 (Gide) to 2011 (Norman) via a cast of authors including Yourcenar, Coetzee, Amis and Celestini.This study aims firstly to fill the critical lacuna, establishing the dimensions of this new sub- genre. It measures the breadth of the formal definitions of the single-letter epistolary novel, the length of its inscription in literary history, and the depth conferred upon it by critical discourse about real letters, the letter-novel genre and a certain epistolary quality to be found in all literature, which our novels set themselves up to reflect and refract.Our rather disparate corpus of texts reveals the interest of this technical framework, haunted as it is by recurrent themes which illuminate the characteristics of monological epistolary writing. Firstly, the theme of one's own death (Yourcenar, Coetzee, Bernstein, Robinson, Amis) shines a light on the physical structure of any text, rendered visible in the format of the letter; this conjunction suggests the idea of the text as corpse. A series of apocalyptic universes complicates this rather empirical portrait, which reads like the symbol of the Death of the Author; novels by Coetzee, Amis and Auster use complex portraits of fictional time to suggest the possibility of coincidence, overlap, meetings both epistolary and literary. These two chapters set up the terms of a final debate concerning literary communication, investigated via the symbol of the double (Gide, Coeztee, Bernstein, Celestini). After the narrative of the text itself and the implied drama of the letter's trajectory, a pragmatic dimension comes to light. This final analysis allows us to investigate the ethics of correspondence, and the letter as one key to understanding those of fiction itself
Vanoflen, Laurence. "La formation de l'individu selon Isabelle de Charrière (1740-1805)." Paris 4, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA040227.
Full textIsabelle de Charrière, a novelist, letter writer, and polemist, shows a strong concern for both educational practice and ideas, which, after 1762, with the publishing of Émile, by Rousseau, and of plans for educational systems, aroused interest, hope and controversy in the intellectual and public spheres, until the revolutionary decade. We first attempt to put back these epistolary relationships in their context, describing their frameworks (epistolary contract and the representation of both master and "pupil"), their motivations, their intellectual contents, and, at last, the literary collaboration with Isabelle’s friends (B. Constant, Henriette, Isabelle, Willem, Thérèse Forster). Then we analyze Charrière's novels in the perspective of the "roman pédagogique": themes, characters, master's speach; in all respects, they tend to confront myths and ideals to life and history, without denying the empiric faith. Containing a dialogue with Rousseau, Fenelon (and Mme de Genlis), they finally raise the questions concerning individual's future and "perfectionnement" : women, ordinary people, aristocrats, or kings
Melcher, Christina. ""Honorez-moi souvent de vos lettres ; servez-moi de guide dans le chemin de la vertu." : les fictions épistolaires de Marie Leprince de Beaumont." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LORR0199.
Full textIn 18th century Europe, the epistolary novel was very popular. In France, a great number of authors used this literary genre to spread, across supposedly real letters, the philosophical, and often critical ideas on society (of the time) between a growing readership.At that time, a significant number of authors, whose works were very appreciated by the public, were (was?) female. Among them were for example Françoise de Graffigny with the Peruvian Letters or Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni with serveral epistolary novels like Fanny Butler’s Letters or Julie Catesby’s Letters.From the 19th century, these authors often disappeared from the cultural memory and have been neglected by literary research for a long time. Amongst them we can find Marie Leprince de Beaumont, a catholic governess, who was, in the 19th century primarily known for her educational works for children, young girls and poor people. However, she has published a surprisingly divers œuvre : it consists of fairy tales for children, the Nouveau Magasin français, one of the first monthly journals edited by a woman, a considerable correspondence and several epistolary novels.The work of this female author who, even though she was catholic and believing, tried to pass on in her books new perspectives on the possibilities women had to live a vertous and simple life in a society that was shaped by male predominance, is only recently in the center of enhanced literary research. This thesis wants to analyse an interpret this tension between a profound christianism and the desire to improve womens acces to knowledge and education in the fictions of Marie Leprince de Beaumont who « had a predilection for the epistolary genre ». We will first range the works in their literary and historical context and place then the idea of „narrated education“ in the center of our research: how does Marie Leprince de Beaumont employ the epistolary genre to communicate philosophical ideas and behavioral patterns to her readers ?This thesis wants to show that in the 18th century it was possible to reconcile christianism with the desire to help developping the society by facilitating women’s acces to education ; that believing in God didn’t obligatorily mean that one rejected new ideas and that Marie Leprince de Beaumont and her epistolary fictions deserve their place among the authors of the Enlightenment
Dachez, Hélène. "Ordre et désordre : le corps et l'esprit dans les romans de Samuel Richardson (1689-1761)." Paris 3, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA030155.
Full textThe complexity and uniqueness of samuel richardson's epistolary novels become apparent through the study of order and disorder in the light of body and mind. Order is thwarted by the troubles affecting the characters' minds and bodies, the body of the text, and the literary corpus. The two principles are united in a dialectical pattern in which the writer underlines the coincidence of contraries. The novels strive after order, which is only contemplated after trials necessary to the purification and sublimation of perturbations. However the quest for order remains incomplete, and the two elements are inseparable. The fusional dialectics influences the novels' aesthetics. Richardson rejects linearity and integrates ellipsis into his works, which revolve around their centre, and mix reality and theatricality. The text progresses at the same time as it regresses, and requires the reader's participation. Inversion and doubleness are at the core of the novels, which become multiple and plurivocal, and avoid any kind of manicheism. Their structure is akin to that of an eighteenth- century english garden. The writer plays with literary conventions to show the paradoxes of the corpus, which seems to escape the control of the various organizing instances and ends on the impossibility to come to a conclusion. The interpenetration of order and disorder is organized by richardson to create a new novelistic order
Adami, Hervé. "L'écrit occasionnel : cohérence pragmatique et cohérence textuelle : étude d'un corpus épistolaire." Nancy 2, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994NAN21026.
Full textIn western societies, writing imposes its order not only on knowledge, memory and social institutions, but also on the relationships between such fields and the individual. The occasional writer is someone who knows the basic techniques for using the written code, but who only enters into the dense network formed by written texts when obliged to do so by a specific set of circumstances. An exchange of correspondence, which is one particular form of written interaction with its own particular characteristics, provides a very interesting angle from which the observer can study the texts produced by occasional writers. Such writers construct a text-object, the objectification of a discursive and pragmatic process consisting of a triggering mechanism, which justifies the existence of the letter, and a discourse aim which justifies the communicative act. The writer reconstructs reality within the framework of the text, and it is precisely this textual construal of reality, rather than any fundamental inability to understand order as such, which gives rise to problems of coherence
Elkaissi, Abdellah. "Roman et cinéma : l'adaptation et ses problèmes." Toulouse 2, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993TOU20058.
Full textCinema is a great "swallower" of stories. To satisfy its audience, it draws copiously on the techniques of novel. When transcribing a literary text into a film, the film-maker prints his own personal reading of that literary that. As a matter of fact, the idea of faithfulness can be approached only in subjective terms. The passage from a literary text into a film implies no act of translation. This kind of adaptation is both a reading and a personal interpretation that bring into contact the film-maker and the novelist. Accordingly, the notion of faithfulness sounds subjective and hard to define. No film can be a faithful copy of the novel that has inspired it; for a film always has something more or less than the novel it has drawn on. However, it would be wise to point out three concepts that have a significant bearing to the passage from the novel to the stage: the first concept is the passive adaptation which seeks uniformity and faithful reproduction of the initial literary material; the second is the free adaptation which seeks to establish a shade of distance between the film and the literary text. Unlike these two concepts, active adaptation seeks a conspicuous detachment, without for that matter, overlooking the specifics of film-making
Huchet, Jean-Charles. "Du poème au roman : genèse et fortune du roman occitan médiéval." Paris 4, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990PA040027.
Full textIn medieval Occitany, there was few novels, as show manuscripts and words used by the writers to designate their texts. We try to explain the reasons of this lack: the dependence on troubadours’ poetry, and we negate the common opinion that believes that medieval novels were born before in Occitania than in France and that most of them were lost. We learn the nature of the strict dependence with the troubadours’ poetry and we show that the novel is a manner of "theoric fiction" of poetry which appears at the beginning of the XIIIth century, a period of literary and cultural crisis. The poetry is also a looking glass in which the novel tries to catch his own identity and clears - throw a fiction - his own theory. Against a common opinion, we maintain that the relations between French and Occitan medieval novels are not imitation but literary struggle (rewriting. . . )
Bédard, Mylène. "Rhétorique et autoreprésentation : la pratique épistolaire des femmes en temps d'insurrections." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/25193.
Full textCette thèse s’inscrit dans la mouvance des travaux qui visent à renouveler l’histoire littéraire (Thérenty, Vaillant, Pinson, Cambron) en tenant compte des enjeux de l’histoire culturelle, dont celui des représentations (Corbin, Kalifa). Elle met en valeur un corpus de 300 lettres écrites par des Bas-Canadiennes liées au mouvement patriote entre 1830 et 1840 et a pour objectif de montrer que la pratique épistolaire des femmes de la première moitié du XIXe siècle n’évolue pas en circuit fermé, mais s’avère perméable à l’actualité et au discours médiatique. Tout en révélant les conditions matérielles, les codes et les relations sociales qui régulent la forme épistolaire, cette étude cherche à faire état des mutations que subissent les usages de la lettre féminine au contact des événements insurrectionnels. Privilégier une lecture culturelle de la décennie 1830-1840 à travers le prisme des correspondances féminines permet d’observer la période insurrectionnelle du point de vue des opportunités qu’elle offre aux femmes. Cette perspective incite à examiner les lettres qu’elles ont écrites, mais aussi à se pencher sur les autres pratiques de sociabilité, dont le salon, de même que sur les pratiques de lecture, principalement celle du journal, qui est accessible aussi bien aux femmes de la bourgeoisie qu’à celles issues de milieux plus modestes. L’étude croisée des lettres et de la presse rend compte des interférences et de la complémentarité entre la correspondance et la culture médiatique au cœur du XIXe siècle, et témoigne d’une politisation progressive des usages et des pratiques culturelles. En plein siècle romantique, l’enchevêtrement entre le politique et le personnel bouleverse les frontières entre le privé et le public et entraîne des tensions dans l’écriture épistolaire, notamment dans la représentation du sujet féminin, mais aussi entre une pratique plus ouverte à une sensibilité de nature romantique et un cadre normatif fondé sur l’idéal classique. C’est pourquoi cette thèse allie les méthodes de l’histoire littéraire et la notion d’autoreprésentation empruntée à l’analyse du discours (Maingueneau, Amossy) pour évaluer dans quelle mesure les femmes s’approprient les représentations culturelles en vigueur pour être entendues, tout en étant fidèles à elles-mêmes et aux possibles de l’époque.
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
Ngandu, Omombo. "Roman et histoire dans l'oeuvre de tchicaya u tamsi." Paris 3, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA030053.
Full textThe tetralogy of tchicaya's novels is a vast panorama of the congolese society before and after the declarations of independance of the african countries. To the numerous historical indications judiciously disseminated and unequally divided up throughout the four volumes, the author has added an ethnological dimension of the traditions and customs of the vili people from whom stem his origins. A chequered style of writing privileges the amalgame of literary genre, articulating around a multiplicity of point of views through delinearary and confused structure heralds the "new wave" of african novelists (since 1968) to which tchicaya belongs, in spite of his long presence on the literary scene of the african continent (since 1955)
Kartal, Tulin. "Le Nouveau roman et la révolution du roman turc à partir des années 1970 : Orhan Pamuk." Lorient, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011LORIL219.
Full textBeginning from the 70s, Turkish novel tended to be pluralist, polyphonic and independent. Orhan Pamuk who had begun to write in 80s, won the Nobel literature prize in 2006 and became one of Turkey’s most prominent novelists. He brought innovations to Turkish literature and is a follower of the New Novel. In this study, a comparison between French and Turkish novel has been made in terms of transformation into the “new novel”. In this context, Turkey’s particular political, economic and social situation which had paved the way for the appearance of new movement has been revealed. The approach of the study has been thematic and narratologic. The major themes which have been handled are Istanbul, melancholy, and mystic and spiritual journey. In fact, his literary works show similarities with the other new novelists in technical aspect. In his novels, the most striking elements are the concepts of original and radical time, and sensorial and imaginary place. The main characteristics of his novels are; the stories narrated with a multidimensional and flexible point of view, significant chaos and intertextuality, identity problem and othering. The study also covers the cultural differences between east and west existing in novels of Orhan Pamuk. Besides the similarities with the other new novelists in technical terms, Pamuk’s progressive style makes him exceptional. He is the master of Turkish literature who plays upon the words, refers to ambiguity and introduces new forms
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
Hervouet-Farrar, Isabelle. "Le roman anglais ou le récit éclaté." Lyon 3, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994LYO31004.
Full textThere are six chapters in this thesis. Each of the first five chapters deals with the study of an english romantic novel. The five novels in question are : the castle of otranto by horace walpole (1764), the monk by m. G. Lewis (1796), frankenstein by mary shelley (1818), melmoth the wanderer by c. R. Maturin (1820), and the private mamoirs and confessions of a justified sinner by james hogg (1824). The study of each novel begins with a detailled analysis of the signifer and of the way the discourse is organized. Amongst other things, this analysis includes a study of the narrative system, and more precisely of the splitting of the text into several levels of narration in four novels out of five; a study of time and the study of how the fantastic is produced within the discourse itself. The analysis of the signifier deals with the most pertinent elements in each novel; these elements may therefore vary from one chapter to another. This analysis of the discourse uncovers contradictions, blanks or obsessive motives. The study of each novel is therefore further developed, based on the theories of psychoanalysis, in order to try and account for these "anomalies", and to uncover the fantasies that led to the urge to write the novel, the sixth chapter tries to bring together the elements uncovered in the other chapters. The first part of this chapter deals with the ways in which, thanks to the narrative system, the expression of fantasies is made possible, the second part with the exact nature of these fantasies, this sixth chapter tries to propose a few elements for the poetics of a literary genre that critics have found hard to define with any accuracy : the romantic npvel
Sicart, Pierre-Alexandre. "Autobiographie, roman, autofiction." Toulouse 2, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005TOU20007.
Full textThis doctoral dissertation studies the question of autofiction, in three parts. The first paints a panorama of autofiction, in intension and in extension, in diachrony and in synchrony (literary and theoretical origins, and related genres). The data thus collected allows the second part to address the problems of autofiction, through an analysis of the notions of fact vs. Fiction (axis of information) and author vs. Reader (axis of the processing of information). Building on the model of Philippe Lejeune's autobiographical pact (1975), it becomes possible to outline an "anti-pact" specific to autofiction ; autofiction is thus defined as an act (a writing process) before its psychoanalytical roots are revealed, in a third part, notably through a study of Serge Doubrovski's Fils (1977). The dissertation concludes with the elaboration of a definition of autofiction as a genre
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
Azerad, Patricia. "Le roman policier israélien : Batya Gour et Shulamit Lapid." Paris, INALCO, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006INAL0015.
Full textPlana, Muriel. "La relation roman-théâtre des lumières à nos jours, théorie, études de textes." Paris 3, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA030050.
Full textCovering the two last centuries of european literary history, this thesis deals with theatre and novel through their relationship from a historical and anti-essentialist point of view. Theoretical synthesis and study of problematical texts (by sade, ann radcliffe, alexandre duval, hugo, balzac, goncourt, zola, dostoievski, camus, duras, aragon and vitez) and theoretical works (by rousseau, mallarme and brecht), it tells and interprets the relationship between two genres which provides each other with more or less explicit borrowings concerning norms and forms (theatrical adaptation, dramatization of the novel, novelistic influences on theatre, brechtian epic theatre) theatre and novel continually define each other; it appears in many examples of + theatrality ; inside the novel or in the increasing fascination that novel inspires to theatre, in writing and on stage. Confronting former (by bakhtine, lukacs, szondi, barthes), recent (sarrazac) or personal concepts to the works under study, this thesis tends to show that theatre and novel overcome the different formal crisis they pass through only by accepting the part of the other within what allows them to evolve and, despite some resistances, to take part in the aesthetic and ideological building of modernity
Loukam, Saba. "La morale de l'action dans le roman noir américain." Paris 4, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA040118.
Full textBy reducing the art of writing to a factual description of the world, the hard-boiled novel has created new ways of reading, and experiencing reading also leads the reader to new innumerable but limited sapces of interpretation, spaces in wich philosophical concepts, signs, images, anxiety and primary emotions are linked. Its vernacular and visual language which is based upon a realistic and sensitive apprehension of action, uncovers a rich array of moral reflections on the problems of justice, iddentity and the meaning of life and action. This study intends to show that the American hard-boiled novel does not only consist in a thematic presentation of tge morality of action but also in a representation of its modes of expression. I have thus chosen to propose a two-part analysis of the morality, the other one deals with the link between the hero's perception of reality and violence, and his hermeneutical and existential quest. The goal of my study is to demonstrate the improtance of such moral and stylistic concepts in the hard-boiled fiction, and also to analyse the way they are related in order to go beyond the general French critical stance wich considers the American hard-boiled novel solely as a realistic genre dealing with political or social issues
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
Karangira, Alexis. "Le roman zaïrois de langue française." Paris 12, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA120041.
Full textThe zairean literary works in french language owe their origin to the combined efforts of five principal factors : the introduction of french in the educational system of the belgian congo, the establishment of public libraries in the colony, the creation of socio-cultural circles with literary competition for the educated natives, the admission of blacks to press writings and finally, the alteration of the colonial literary works by the replacement of their approach to african realities. During the colonial period, the congolese narrative literature was marked by the works of paul lomami-tshibamba, one of the rare belgian congo writers to describe the awful change of the traditional african societies in contact with western civilisation. The extensive work of the traditional novelist exploits the relationship, established by the african mythology, between the visible world and the supernatural forces. Particularly inspired by the myth founders, inspired by the myth fonders, the authors magnified the greatness of traditional african civilisation with an effort to put its values in the modern world. Presently, the remarkable stride in the production of zairean literary works points in two directions : the intellectual writers who question the coming of the west into africa and the realist writers that challenge and condemn the bad management of public affaires by post-independent african leaders. Having attained maturity and autonomy in the mastery of writing, the zairean literary works now look forward to a nationwide spread. Their future is remarkably tied to that of francophony in africa
Gouriou-Rollag, Catherine. "Les débuts de cinquante grands romans anglais et américains (XVIIIe-XXe) : de leur stratégies narratives et variations grammaticales à leur richesse énonciatrice." Paris 4, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA040155.
Full textThis thesis, at the crossroads of literature and linguistics, intends to study the beginning of fifty English and American great novels selected over three centuries for their enunciative richness. In order to put into evidence the triangular correlation between the narrator-author, the text and the reader, two main functions sustained our study: the poetic function (part one) and the seductive function (part two). Three literary techniques; opening the novel, presenting the plot and the characters putting the plot into action, conveyed the narrative tension within the initial, middle, and final phases of an opening and put into evidence the emergence of rhetorics for each century. Three grammatical markers known for showing this author's subjectivity in his literary creation were selected: pinpointing operators such as demonstratives and determiners, comparative structures and modal auxiliaries. Each marker has been categorized according to specific aspects of fictive openings associated with binary linguistic explorative tools. Therefore, we have considered the anaphoric and cataphoric references conveyed by pinpointing operators related to the characters, the place and the plot introduced at the beginning. As for comparative structures, we have organized them according to three standards: the extra-linguistic universal standard identified by both writer and reader, universal references that need to be proven by the rest of the plot and finally the references that cannot be identified by the reader because they depend on the fictive context. The analysis of the modal auxiliaries emphasizes the descriptive, informative and explicative elements opening a novel
Durand-Dastès, Vincent. "Le roman du maître de dhyāna : Bodhidharma et Ji-le-Fou dans le roman chinois en langue vulgaire du XVIIe siècle." Paris, INALCO, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000INAL0006.
Full textThe dissertation studies the transformations of the legends of two popular Chan masters undergone when turned into full-length vernacular novels during the 17th century. The first part deals with a novel entitled "Expelling the devils and restoring proper social relationships, or the Salvation of the East" (Saomei dunlun dongdu ji), published in Suzhou in 1635. While taking the Chan patriarch Bodhidharma's travels from India to China as its narrative framework, the novel develops in 100 chapters an allegory of moral progress through the strict observance of the five cardinal relationships. The Dhyâna master uses his unique awakening techniques in order to lead stray humans towards moral salvation. The second part focuses on the rewriting process affecting the legend of monk Daoji (Crazy Ji), as apparent in the 1668 novel "The Story of Fermented Dhûta" (Qu toutuo zhuan). This text introduces itself as a critical commentary of earlier versions of the saint's legend, and further turns their themes of Dhyâna masters, with their picturesque ways of teachings, are here portrayed as heralds of Confucian ethics. This characterises the above novels as a peculiar moment in the history of Chinese transformation of Buddhism. The dissertation studies not only the discourse of the novels, but also their publishing story, the identity and purpose of their authors as well as their reception. Both works are shown to have emerged at the meeting point between the two genres of literati novel and moral tract
Delestré, Stéfanie. "Le roman noir : littérature "contre", contre-littérature." Paris 10, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA100101.
Full textThe contemporary "Roman Noir" has always been presented by the critic as an avatar of the detective stories. But if detective stories constitute a large part of the genre, justifying in a way a such approach, it uses in fact a very different fictional universe based on the opposition, which makes the “Roman Noir” the expression of an “against” literature. The research done on the main fiveteen American and French productions shows that it widely overflows the limits fixed by the too narrow frame of a generic category. A trivial thematic register inherited from the grotesque literary, a paradoxical description of banality and excess, which shows the essential duality between the human being and the duplicity of the reality, a writing strategy, which scrambles feelings and meanings to seize the reader and makes him/her doubt of his/her own references, are many characteristic elements, which find echoes in other literature fields and increase the subversive character of the “Roman Noir” from its thematic to its esthetic. The “Roman Noir” would be a vision of the humanity, which influences our conception of literature. So it is most as a “counter-literature” that we have to approach it, because it reveals the arbitrary character of the literary institution drawn up frontiers and amends the prevailing conception of the literature
Evdokimova, Ludmilla. "Livre et roman : l'opposition de la forme-vers et de la forme-prose au XIIIe siècle." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA040126.
Full textI study peculiar language of French prose of the 13th century by comparing literary works similar as to their content and the date of appearance but different in form (either prosaic or poetic). I compare several pairs of texts in order to reveal artistic means characteristic of prose and then to form an idea of language of prose and the semantics of prosaic form. In the course of this analysis the opposition of prose and poetry is illuminated, i. E. Various parameters determining the opposition of prosaic and poetic texts to each other are revealed. I study manifestations of this opposition on different levels of the text, as well as changes caused by the +translation; of the text from the prosaic to the poetic language or vice versa. Close similarity of the texts under comparison makes it possible to specify the minimal set of differences between a prosaic and poetic text possessing the same plot or the same source. The following texts were selected for the comparison: 1) “Joseph” by Robert de Boron and its prosaic version; 2) various lives of saint Mary of Egypt; 3)several chronicles; 4) bestiaries by Guillaume le Clerc and Pierre de Beauvais; 5)”Bestiary of love” by Richard de Fournival and its poetic versions. My thesis comprises two parts, the first part discusses in what way various topics were developed into prosaic or poetic texts and what styles were adopted. The second part of the thesis discusses the composition of texts under comparison. Here i look at the position of lettrines in manuscripts of literary works. My researches includes: 1) analysis of the position of lettrines characteristic of the family of manuscripts of a literary work; 2) comparison of different manuscript traditions; 3) comparison of structures of prosaic and poetic texts; 4) general conclusions about types of structural components and functions of lettrines characteristic of various textual forms
Peltier, Anatole-Roger. "Le roman classique lao." Paris 3, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986PA030062.
Full textThe most of lao classic tales are the epic poems. They are principally intended to be read in front of the public, in the evenings. There are more than one hundred stories in palmleaves manuscript forms which are engraved with the old lao characters. Some of these manuscripts have been printed in modern lao characters since1957, especially by the literary committee, the royal academy and the lao national library. The study of these origin tales shows that they were inspired by the indian literature, the yuan literature, the old indochinese fund literary, the siamese literature and the pannasajataka, the collection of apocryphal jataka coming from the mon civilization. The lao classic purely tales which have the original characters, are the historic stories. Although these tales belonged to the laic literature in which "the marvellous" dominated, they are impregnated by the buddhist teaching and the developped topics turned around the dharma and the karma. It concerns, in fact, that the popular buddhism finds to inculcate the basic precepts for the large population. Since 1975, date of the lao people's democratic republic instauration, the most well know tales are recuperated by new government to illustrate the political topics, as the classic tales were widespread for the buddhist teaching by the monks in the past
Meunier, Florence. "Roman et société à Byzance au xiiéme siècle." Toulouse 2, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997TOU2A050.
Full textDespite a nearly total absence of references to christianity, twelfth-century byzantine romances are very much a product of their age. Though they are undeniably influenced by greek romances of the imperial age in their choice of themes such as love, adventure and the gods of mount olympus, one can nonetheless detect in them, through a glass darkly, links to the political realities, culture and society of their time. It shows up in the corpus of literary references, of peculiarities of language and use of a heavy rhetorical machinery ; in the importance given to pathos, virginity, family and birth ; the presentation of court ceremonial, military tactics and strategy, even in the pagan taste for the arts of divination. But the fact that open references to time and location are absent would seem revelatory of the writers' desire for escapism, a flight from too oppressive a concrete reality, taking refuge in an imaginary world. The simplified structure of the romances compared to greek ones, a result of their single plot, makes them closer to our conception of the novel. Were these medieval romances - which also borrow from byzantine hagiography and epic - influenced in any way by the western-european ones, contemporary with them ? despite various theories that have been put forward, the text gives only tiny, very superficial signs of such an influence, if any. But especially for e of the romances, one could find parallels in arabic literature, in view of the heroine's provocative behaviour. As for later imitators, they seem to be non-existent. Twelfth-century byzantine romances give way by the fourteenth to courtly romances on clearly western lines, which have nothing specifically byzantine left in them
Kazi-Tani, Nora Alexandra. "Roman africain de langue française au carrefour de l'écrit et de l'oral : (Afrique Noire et Mahgreb)." Paris 13, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA131033.
Full textThis thesis offers from a litterary history perspective the factors that contributed to the evolution of a type: the french language african novel. In the french language litteratures, its originality has perseveringly been enforced as a result of a new type intertextual work: codes belonging to the oral litterature sphere have been grafted upon classical romantic writing codes. This cross-breeding lead to an innovation writing. After having situated this type of novel in his cultural field, within its expectation horizon perspective, we have analysed the different oral litterature grafts, each element that was considered as a "gap" from the point of view of the french writing rules. Then we have gone into the properly so-called intertextual work, in order to clear up text production and its stakes. This time, the codes cross-breeding and the process by which the writing absorbs and transforms the oral statements fragments have been emphasized. "translation" has a well been put into evidence as an aspect particularly important concerning intertextuality: in the accurate case of the french language african novel, we deal, in fact, with the insertion of statements originating from the traditional oral civilization into a language and a style introduced from europe. The analysis has revealed that it does never mean a simple transfert of signification from the source language to the target language, but the matter is about transpositions and creations. It is this transposition that make possible unprecedented cross-breedings, the creation of what has been called the "bi-language" by a. Khatibi
Montheard, Oriane. "De l’un à l’autre : rencontres et contaminations dans la poésie et la correspondance de John Keats." Paris 3, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA030051.
Full textThis thesis aims at identifying the connection which structures Keats’s twofold writing. Indeed, Keats’s epistolary and poetic writings offer different versions of the same conception of the world, of writing and of the experience of human relationships based on openness. In the poems and letters, the encounter and contamination are the two steps which pave the way to the other, either the interlocutor of the poems, the addressee, the reader, the feminine other or the other literary genre. Hence, according to their specific strategies and motivations, the poetry and the letters provide their own solutions to shared issues. The first part explores the enunciation of addressing which turns the absence of the other into a verbal presence and transforms the text into the locus of encounters and even of contamination between interlocutors. The study then focuses on Keats’s encounter with his readers. Either feared or eagerly wished for, it is best apprehended in the beginnings and endings, the key passages of the texts, and also when, as death approaches, Keats ambiguously bids farewell to his recipients and readers. The third part examines the relations between the feminine and the masculine. In the poems, these relations oscillate between the encounter from a distance and dangerous fusions. This poetic lover’s discourse is then translated into the rhetoric of love letters. Finally, the last part analyses the generic filiation between the poetry and letters through the hybrid discourse and genres they produce
Di, Stefano Nathalie. "Carlo Tenca (1816-1883) : critique littéraire et théoricien, et son influence sur l'évolution du roman historique italien." Aix-Marseille 1, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999AIX10051.
Full textCHEBIL, 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)
Sag, 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
Merlo, Philippe. "Le roman historique de Terenci Moix : de l'histoire au mythe." Saint-Etienne, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997STET2044.
Full textThe thesis studies Terenci Moix's six historical novels : Nuestro virgen de los martires, No digas que fue un sueno, El sueno de Alejandria, La herida de la esfinge, Venus Bonaparte, El amargo don de la belleza. The introduction traces the history of and tries to define the historical novel. It introduces the author - T. Moix - and exposes the dual issue underlying the thesis : the originality of the author in relation with the genre and the time of production and the writing of Moix's historical novels, i. E. The constant return to the sources and the unveiling of a genuine "Moixian" mythology. The thesis consists of three parts. The first one - corresponding to the first chapter - stresses the role played by historical novels where all the other genres tackled by Moix meet : the autobiography, the novel of manners about today's Spanish society, the bildungsroman. . . The next three chapters (part II) focus on time ( highlighting the return to the origins, the time of the origins, a cosmogonic time), space (with a mythical dimension in cities such as Paris, Rome, Alexandria, behind which there is Barcelona) and characters, including actantial ones such as love, solitude, death, who are in constant search of their identity. Through the analysis of the writing of historical fiction, the fifth chapter studies the relation between the story and history as well as the gap between them that humour and irony tend to widen. The last chapter first tackles the various intertexts (the cinema, the opera, the radio, history, egyptology, literatures. . . ) and myths (Isis, Osiris) which nurture fiction through memory and then, taking the reader's point of view, tries to explain the extraordinary success of Moix's "highbrow best-sellers" by studying identification, cultural mediation and seduction processes and stressing the part played by imagination. The procedure adopted is traditionally "narratological" but also semiotic, "mythodological" and includes theories about reception
Vitali-Volant, Maria G. "Aventure, histoire, écriture de soi à la fin du XVIIIe siècle : Giuseppe Gorani (1740-1819), lettres et mémoires." Paris 8, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA082568.
Full textGaray, 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
Ilboudo, Pierre Claver. "Nouveau roman et roman africain d'expression francaise." Cergy-Pontoise, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995CERG0003.
Full textColonna, Vincent. "L'autofiction : (essai sur la fictionnalisation de soi en littérature)." Paris ćole des hautes études en sciences sociales, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989EHES0304.
Full textEchajai, Mohamed. "L'image de la femme dans le roman persan contemporain : analyse du roman Šowhar-e Âhu Xanom (le mari d'Âhu) d'Ali-Mohammad Afghâni." Paris, INALCO, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996INAL0006.
Full textThe novel "Šowhar-e Âhu Xanom" ( the husband of Âhu Xanom) of Ali-Mohammad Afghâni describes the conditions of the Iranian woman in an Iranian town in the South of Iran (Kurdistan). The novel depicts the relations between the husband and his wife and shows the oppression of woman in a traditional society. Marriage is an important question depicted by the novelist in his town (Kerman Shah). Some important traditions of that traditional society are also depicted in the novel : polygamy and temporary marriage. The author shows their bad impact on the life of the Iranian woman
Villatte, Raphaël. "Enquêtes policières et enquêtes politiques : en France et aux Etats-Unis : en littérature et au cinéma de 1970 à 1995." Limoges, 2007. http://aurore.unilim.fr/theses/nxfile/default/a7968ac4-f26b-4b9d-966a-980c751ba69e/blobholder:0/2007LIMO2014.pdf.
Full textRoubaud, Sylvia. "Le roman de chevalerie en Espagne entre Arthur et Don Quichotte : survivances médiévales et renouvellements." Paris 4, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA040257.
Full textThis is a comprehensive study of chivalric literature in Spain from its medieval beginnings up to its last specimens published around 1600. .
Cardinet, Antona Marie-Dominique. "Identité et écriture : le roman sarde contemporain (1950-1990)." Paris 4, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA040013.
Full textFrom Salvatore Cambosu to Sergio Atzeni, a literary and sociological approach to the contemporary Sardinian novel as a reflection of a really specific insular world and of the "sarditude" of the authors
Soulas, Hervé. "Thomas Bernhard : entre roman et autobiographie : un programme comico-philosophique." Bordeaux 3, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001BOR30021.
Full textBinetruy, Pascal. "Le projet littéraire : étude des correspondances d'Alain Fournier (1905-1914)." Besançon, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989BESA1012.
Full textCorreard, Nicolas. ""Rire et douter" : lucianisme, septicisme(s) et pré-histoire du roman européen (XVème -XVIIIème siècle)." Paris 7, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA070065.
Full textPossibly the fînest of all Menippean satirists in antiquity and certainly the most influential from the Renaissance on to the Enlightenment, Lucian of Samosata used to satirize dissenting philosophers. Following his example, Alberti, Erasmus, Quevedo, Cyrano, Swift, Voltaire, Sterne and niany more (Galateo, Vives, Doni, Des Periers, Cunaeus, Saavedra Fajardo, Cavendish, Fontenelle, Prior, Peacock) intended to satirize the scholarly disputes of their time, targeting fanciful metaphysicians, masters of the humanist encyclopaedia, quarrelsome theologians, dogmatizing pedants, minute historiographes, experimental scientists or systematic philosophers. The first part of our study deals with the forms ma functions of satire during the Renaissance period: lucianic incredulity, sceptical doubt, cynical anti-intellectualism and the Christian reproof of libido sciendi ail concur in the jesting criticism of the vanity and uncertainty of science. The second part shows the progressive marginalization of this type of serio-comical writing, now perceived as "literary", during the early-modern period (XVIIth - XVIIIth century). Ultimately absorbed by the novel, this tradition of serio-comical fiction was originally very distinct from it: its main aim was to criticize the excesses of intellectuality and to meditate on the limits of knowledge. Sometimes, authors used it to express an openly sceptical point of view, confessing their ignorance to set an example. Their fanciful creations should not be detached from their epistemological point: when fiction treats knowledge as fables and scholars as fiction writers, laughing and doubting are often the two sides of the same coin
Bejjtit, Réda. "Formes et fonctions intertextuelles de la description dans le nouveau roman." Paris 3, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA03A011.
Full textCherifi, Abdelouahed. "Le héros dans le roman arabe contemporain." Aix-Marseille 1, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994AIX10075.
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