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Santalucia, Stefania <1974>. "La nuit dans les romans des Lumières Du roman libertin au roman gothique." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2012. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/5031/.
Full textThis thesis has the purpose to analyze the images of the night and its meanings in the novels of the 18th century, from 1730-1740, in the ambit of three literatures: the English, the French and the Italian literature. Two opposite conceptions are compared: the first, to exorcise the night, is typical in the first half of the century and it is represented mainly by libertine novels. The second shows a valorisation of the night that can be found above all in the gothic novels that belong to the second part of the century. The final objective of the following research is to find an explanation to the rejection of the night by some authors and therefore to retrieve the causes of the change of vision. Since the night impedes sight, it has been considered a negation of space; according to the psychological and anthropological profile night would then be the main cause of the loss of orientation. Finally, according to an intellectual interpretation, it would be a sign of ignorance. The situation changes when the night starts to assume an active and necessary role in the learning process. In the literary fiction, the most important encounters happen at night. In the revival of the gothic cathedrals and the medieval castles, it is evident how the night takes possession of the space that is enriched with lights and shades.
Mohler, Daniel. "Roman gothique et statut historique du corps." Paris 8, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA081112.
Full textAt the end of the "classical age", gothic fiction, with its emphatic representation of places dark and clear, extolled values felt as essentially british : feeling, devotion, family. Thereby, it set for its readers a clear "conceptual picture" ("tabula") in which good vanquished evil. But the representation of the "mysteries of the body" (eros, thanatos) worked towards the break-up of the epistemic "tabula". At the time when, in dark gothic places, bodies "brutish" were threatening bodies devoid of "animality", love and death, in the living world, were becoming very violent "natural forces" inspiring terror. Death indeed was no longer always explained in the christian perpective. And with the increasing "process of civilization" and the accompanying refusal of the body, all human "animality" was becoming permanently focused in eros. After the break-up of the classical "tabula" and the coming into force of the following "episteme", gothic characters tended to cease to be "concepts in action" (good victorious over evil) : between matter and figure, the body of these characters was seen as a stricter equivalent of the body as experienced in life, that is to say, as a body acted upon by the "mysterious forces" of sex and death. In the corpus studied (texts by walpole, reeve, lee, radcliffe, lewis, maturin, reveroni saint-cyr), representation of the far-beyond conceals a keen questioning upon death, and "flesh" becomes "sex". In presenting, removing, or distancing the body individual or collective, thus qualifying it for fascination, these novels contributed to the production (and staging) of the "wildness" of the body. Thereby, they played their own part in the literary demise of the classical "episteme"
Mallia, Marilyn. "L'Importance du Roman Gothique Anglais dans les premiers Romans de George Sand." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2014. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/374730/.
Full textLouison, Lydie. "Le roman gothique : analyse des romans en vers des XIIIe et XIVe siècles dits "réalistes"." Lyon 3, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001LYO31016.
Full textAmfreville, Marc. "Charles Brockden Brown : écrivain gothique américain ?" Paris 7, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA070122.
Full textAlthough he repeatedly asserted his aversion for "gothic castles and puerile superstitions, charles brockden brown has been considered a gothic writer from the very start. In 1960, leslie fiedler definitively labelled him "gothic" does not account for the radical shift brown initiated in literature. The english gothic school groups a certain number of authors whose works are all rooted in a definite period in the literary history of a country. The latter invariably place the reader in an unfamiliar context, both geographically and temporally foreign to him. In contrast, the american gothic does not constitute a school in its own right, but rather represents a label attached to certain novels to stress their power of dread and prevailing atmosphere of mystery. So many great american writers (poe, hawthorne, melville, faulkner. . . ) have been thus qualified that the term has completely lost its specific meaning. Our aim here is to show that brown, by reflecting, from work to work, on fictional forms, has launched in american literature the new trend of the psychological analysis of subjectivity. This study consequently focuses on the choice of twins, ventriloquists and sleepwalkers as recorders of their own stories in first-person narratives that endeavour to relate the gradual discovery of their inner dualities and the impossibility to achieve a thourough self-knowledge. Brown's realism, his use of the supernatural which differs radically from that of walpole, radcliffe and lewis, and a philosophical reflexion which contests the empiricist theories of the enlightenment, clearly distinguish him from his english predecessors. Reading his work in the light of his personal correspondance enables us to understand why he turned his back on the novels of terror after the publication of edgar huntly in 1799, and all forms of fictional writing shortly after the turn of the century
Plottier-Poisson, Gaëtane. "Le personnage, l'ordre et la loi dans le roman gothique anglais (1764-1824)." Aix-Marseille 1, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009AIX10119.
Full textLaube, Heike. "Les surréalistes sans le savoir : oder die gothic novel aus surrealistischer Sicht /." Frankfurt am Main : P. Lang, 1998. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37539676w.
Full textFlasdieck, Claudia. "Die Rezeption der "gothic novel" in ausgewählten Werken der viktorianischen Literatur /." Frankfurt am Main : P. Lang, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40022112n.
Full textGeorgieva, Margarita. "The gothic child : a study of the gothic novel in the British Isles (1764-1824)." Nice, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011NICE2013.
Full textIn 1908 H. James wondered about the absence of haunted children in literature. He believes that the idea is underdeveloped and decides to create a gothic amusette, the first of its kind in “a perfectly clear field”. Was he right? On a first glance, gothic is not concerned with the figure of the child. Children are sometimes taken as a residue from the sentimental novel, a residue of which the real gothic novel stands free, and whenever children are present, the genre is labelled “feminine” or “domestic” gothic. Thus, some prefer to write of education and ethics when dealing with children and childhood in such novels. However, some novels set in motion childhood journeys of self-discovery and identity quests. Like the adults, these children are confronted with suffering and death. The accumulation of terrors places them in contact with an omnipresent underworld. Beings crawl out of there to haunt them, writings appear, memories emerge. Gothic children are thus places in contact with the past, with the world of the dead, and stand as symbols of the future. They represent the link between past and present and their characters evolve into more than attributes of the adult persona. The aim of this thesis is to question the presence of children in the gothic novel, to describe and analyse the portraits of children and their representation on social, political and religious level and to, finally, define the typical gothic child. The research spans different aspects of the gothic novel in order to cover as large a period as possible, to demonstrate the evolution of the child character in gothic and to stress the importance of the child within the movement
Durot-Boucé, Élizabeth. "Architecture et nature dans le roman gothique anglais (1764-1820) : continuité ou innovation ?" Lille 3, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000LIL30014.
Full textFournès, Ghislaine. "Du roman au gothique : étude d'une mutation sociale et culturelle (Palencia - XIIIème siècle)." Paris 13, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA131010.
Full textThis thesis analyzes the conditions of the transition from romanesque to gothic art around palencia under alfonso x, and thus contributes to the interpretation of that cultural area. The work attempts to show the direct linkages between artistic production and socio-economic and political factors during the middle ages. .
Louison, Lydie. "De Jean Renart à Jean Maillart : les romans de style gothique /." Paris : H. Champion, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39145471f.
Full textSchwarz, Ellen. "Der phantastische Kriminalroman : Untersuchungen zu Parallelen zwischen roman policier, conte fantastique und gothic novel /." Marburg : Tectum, 2001. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb389944406.
Full textFalco, Magali. "La poétique néo-gothique de Patrick McGrath." Aix-Marseille 1, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005AIX10049.
Full textCorriou, Nolwenn. "Le retour de la momie : du gothique impérial au roman archéologique britannique, 1885 - 1937." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCA137.
Full textTaking Patrick Brantlinger’s definition of late-Victorian imperial Gothic as a starting point, this dissertation considers how Egypt became a literary object in the late nineteenth century through the prism of archaeology. Pertaining as much to science as to imperial adventure, archaeology – and Egyptology in particular – soon entered fiction as a Gothic trope, as is evinced by the great number of novels and short stories that form the genre of mummy fiction. By focussing on texts by Bram Stoker, Henry Rider Haggard, Arthur Conan Doyle and Sax Rohmer, among others, this work examines how the archaeological motif travelled through various popular genres, from the adventure novel to the fantastic, before being taken up by writers of detective fiction. The study of these texts reveals that Egypt’s ancient history, full of magical potential, was an object of fascination as well as fear insofar as it seemed to shatter the certainties of modern science. Meanwhile, the modern political history of Egypt – and its ambiguous position within the British Empire – also engendered a certain anxiety, fuelled by a more general concern about the decline and degeneration of the Empire and British civilisation. The depiction of Egyptian antiquity in fiction – and the figure of the mummy in particular – conveys the growing unease with which the British viewed an Empire which, quite like Egyptian mummies, threatened to rise and wreak its revenge upon the coloniser. Thus, archaeology came to stand for a metaphor of imperial relations and anxieties while the mummy embodied what can be read as an imperial repressed excavated from the depths of the collective British subconscious at the time when Freud was developing the method of psychoanalysis
Leffler, Yvonne. "I skräckens lustgård : skräckromantik i svenska 1800-talsromaner /." Göteborg : Göteborgs Universitet, 1991. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35523795h.
Full textAlmer, Johan. "Variation på götiskt tema : en studie i C.J.L. Almqvists Sviavigamal /." Göteborg : Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen, Göteborgs universitet, 2000. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb409912689.
Full textRodenas, Céline. "Les excès du roman gothique anglais des origines : des maîtres de la terreur aux plumitifs de l'horreur." Le Havre, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011LEHA0010.
Full textRight from its birth in 1764, the English Gothic novel has been characterized by excess. These novels all represent the evil doings of villains drawn by excessive passions they can never control, and ever intent on transgressing the norms etablished by society. Because of its interest in representing such transgressive behaviour, the Gothic novel itself disrupts the social ant literary norms of its own time, as is shown by the numerous negative reactions of some of its contemporaries. Indeed, morbid descriptions and the extensive representations of violent actions, sexual deviance and supernatural events seem to threaten the didactic purpose then assigned to fiction. And yet, the general public, contrary to the literary elites of the time, was deeply fascinated by those novels precisely because of their very excesses. As a consequence, the works of the masters of the genre, Walpole, Radcliffe and Lewis were extensively copied by amateurs of limited talent and dubious motivations. The book market thus became quickly saturated with terrifying and horrifying works, particularly during the late 1790s and early 1800s, at a time when Britain was heavily preoccupied by the political upheavals in France. Such a fascination for excessive, disruptive works at the end of the eighteenth century, traditionnally described as the age of measure and moderation, puzzles the observer and thus calls for an extensive analysis of its causes, and ultimately of its consequences on the political and literary norms of the time
Hayek, Katia. "Folklore, surnaturel et réalité dans quelques romans français et tchèques de la postérité "gothique" au premier XIXe siècle : ètude du lien entre la construction imginaire et l'historicité." Thesis, Lille 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LIL3H053.
Full textFolklore, supernatural and reality, the combination of these words may surprise, but the confrontation is fruitful. The link between folklore and the supernatural seems, in part, evident in the popular novel of Gothic romance posterity at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Therefore, crossing the borders of the real and the unreal, commonly accepted in fictitious writing included supernatural, invites us to reconsider the category of the fantastic, and its vocation to entertain, in their relation to the vraisemblance. How may the supernatural folklore have something to say about the real and therefore, about human history?The comparative perspective that dominates the study of some popular French and Czech romances, which are inherited of the Gothic romances, emphasizes the functioning of folkloric motifs within the fictional frameworks. Beyond the ornamental and entertaining functions that are usually attributed to them, they crystallize the tensions that exist between the fictional construction and reality. Supporting the authors’ inspirations and their originality, the continuous presence of folklore in these narratives, leads to a reassessment of the generic framework related to the supernatural and reconsideration of the relationship of these fictions to the historicity. These so-called popular works, destined for a public which is claimed to be no less so, also illustrates contemporaneous time. The writing of the supernatural finally conceals more than one subversive discourse: social, political but also intimate and aesthetic
Bourgain, Jean-Marie. "Le décor dans les contes d'Edgar Poe." Rouen, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992ROUEL151.
Full textMain features of the Gothic in the literature of the late eighteenth century and the early nineteenth. Definition of the genre considering Poe's short-stories in the literary context at the time. Influence of early "gothic" novels in the development of fantastic fiction. Study of gothic elements in the setting of his tales contributing to the creation of the supernatural. How he manages to give rise to the fantastic through the imaginary and how he succeeds in destabiliing the reader through an outstanding power of imagination. The world in which he makes his characters evolve clearly reflects his wish for self-destruction and this can be found throughout his work. Developing the writer's approach in his way of appealing to the reader's feeling by resorting to descriptive and suggestive language
Forté, Nadia. "L' indicible dans les romans gothiques d'Ann Radcliffe (1789-1826)." Paris 7, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA070067.
Full textThis dissertation aims at examining the realms of the imagination and literary creation in Ann Radcliffe's gothic novels as seen through the lens of the inexpressible. The notion is understood in the twofold meaning of the unspoken and of the genuine incapacity to speek. This work is comprised of three parts : the study the social, cultural, or political elements which determine the different forms of the implicit within the discourse of the novels, the persistent but taboo fascination with catholicism in a protestant author, and finally the epistemological issue which addresses the problematic relation between thought and language
Kleine, Inge. "Dread and exultation : symbolische Männlichkeit und Weiblichkeit im klassischen englischen Schauerroman /." Frankfurt am Main : P. Lang, 2001. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39292962b.
Full textLemercier-Goddard, Sophie. "Les plaisirs de la peur : esthétique gothique et fantastique dans le théâtre de Shakespeare." Paris 3, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA030008.
Full textThe links between Shakespeare and the Gothic Novel are twofold. The Shakespearean intertext in the novels of Walpole, Radcliffe and Lewis is used as cultural and literary capital : the protective presence of Shakespeare is part of a process of recognition which helped to legitimate Gothic writing as genre. At the same time, Gothic supernatural is modelled on Shakespeare's ghosts. Hamlet defines Radcliffe's use of terror while Macbeth exemplifies male Gothic based on horror. In turn, the gothic novelists' reading of Shakespeare reveals an aesthetic of the fantastic in his plays. Gothic motifs such as the infinite space, the labyrinth, the veil are all to be found in his plays while the key image of the sleeping maiden embraced by Death finds its source in Juliet, Desdemona and Imogen. Intertextuality in the Gothic novel lifts the veil and shows the uncanny in Shakespeare's theatre
Wrobel, Claire. "Gothique et Panoptique : lecture croisée des oeuvres de Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) et Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823)." Thesis, Paris 10, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA100110.
Full textWhat do Jeremy Bentham—the father of utilitarianism and the inventor of the Panopticon—and Ann Radcliffe—the founder of the literary Gothic—have in common? Both authors aroused the interest of Michel Foucault (1926-1984), at the time when he was studying the emergent modernity of the end of the XVIIIth century. He linked the desire for transparency which, according to him, the Panopticon embodied to the dark spaces of the Gothic novels. The purpose of this doctoral thesis is to put the validity of this hypothesis to the test by widening the field of investigation. In order to conceptualize the articulation between the works of Bentham and Radcliffe, various approaches have been adopted: the polysemy of Gothic in the literary, historical, political and juridical discourse; the context of penal reform; paranoia and conspiracy theories. The confrontation of two corpuses belonging to different discourse systems inevitably creates some methodological difficulties, which are explored by way of the notion of fiction. Foucault’s thinking about modernity went through a series of evolutions, which it is necessary to take into account in order to assess the relevance of the relation between Bentham and Radcliffe, beyond Discipline and Punish
Prungnaud, Joëlle. "Gothique et décadence : recherche sur la continuité d'un mythe et d'un genre au XIXe siècle, en Angleterre et en France." Paris 4, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA040309.
Full textThe first part of our research paper deals with the continuity of gothic myth and genre in the 19th century. After an attempt to prove the merits of such a notion as "myth" applied to the gothic revival aesthetic movement, we point out how the tradition was transferred from generation to generation, without a gap throughout the century. Then, after having sketched the gothic novel typology, we inquire about the way this genre was received from 1820 onwards, through a study of both parodies and catalogue of new editions and reissues of the original works. The examination of novel titles discloses the literary relationship between the first gothic novelists and their followers. An analysis of chosen works as part of such a continuous stream is then proposed. The second part of our work is devoted to the study of the french fin-de-siècle period and british eighteen nineties. We develop symmetrically the study of both myth and genre. After a review of the conditions in which each was received by public and readers, we organize our reflections in two directions : on the one hand, the constituent elements of gothic myth which are medievalism and praise of cathedrals ; on the other hand, the two main components of gothic genre i. E. The sinister mansion pattern and the hero-villain figure. We bring out the main features of "decadent gothic", which revived the themes and form of a literary tradition that would otherwise have been lost in commonplace imitation or hackneyed expression. Thus we see how decadence keeps the tale of terror alive and fully restores its richness and fruitfulness
Labourg, Alice. "Peinture et écriture : l'imaginaire pictural dans les romans gothiques d'Ann Radcliffe." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013AIXM3084.
Full textThis study will analyse the different links that Ann Radcliffe’s “word-painting”—as her writing has often been called—bears with painting, from a thematic, structural, symbolic and formal point of view. We shall first see how the novels fit into the aesthetical context of the time and its pictorial paradigm—seventeenth century landscape painting as an iconographical model, the rediscovery of Gothic architecture as a pictorial motif, the picture-like vision of the picturesque. Liliane Louvel’s intermedial approach and her definition of the “pictorial” within a text-image problematics will help us see how Radcliffe spins out her pictorial metaphor and implements her own strategies to make the reader “see pictures” in a paragon-esque desire to emulate painting. Full-sized pictures and miniature portraits also play an important role in the unfolding of the narrative. Their diegetic and symbolic functions will be studied in reference to their intersemiotic specificities as literary works of art. Finally, the study of landscape description at the core of the radcliffian iconotext will help us see how two different types of pictoriality interact, one based on figurative representation which aims at making the reader “see pictures”, and another more diffuse form which works on a semiotic level through deconstruction and iconic dissemination, expressing the pictorial signifier in words. It makes “fragments of pictoriality” shine throughout the text by means of pictorial substitutes and a synesthetic experience of “iconorythmic” pictures. We shall thus prove how the pictorial is the specific mode of Radcliffe’s Gothic writing and articulates the problematics of the female Gothic
Dupont, Jocelyn. "Intertextualité et autorité dans l'oeuvre de Patrick McGrath." Aix-Marseille 1, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008AIX10073.
Full textNasri, Chourouq. "L'héroi͏̈ne gothique chez Ann Radcliffe et Matthew Lewis dans The mysteryies [mysteries] of Udolpho, The monk et The Italian." Paris 3, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA030153.
Full textLacôte, Fanny. "Le marché de la terreur : l’exportation, la traduction et la réception critique du roman terrifiant en France, 1789-1822." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LORR0308/document.
Full textOur thesis deals with the export, translation and critical reception of the Gothic novel in France at the turn of the nineteenth century (1789-1822). While politically, France and England maintain conflictual relations, especially at the time of the Revolution, the cultural exchange between the two countries never ceased, as evidenced by the success of French translations of Gothic novels. After a foreword devoted to the history of the adjective "Gothic" and the terminology relating to the Gothic novel and the “roman noir” at the turn of the nineteenth century, the first part of the thesis addresses the historical, political and literary context during the apex of the novel of terror. We then seek to determine the identity of translators, their political implications within the context of the French Revolution and the type of Gothic novel in vogue during the First Republic. The second part of the thesis is devoted to the process of adaptation of the Gothic novel to French language and readership of the turn of the nineteenth century. We look at the strategies of translation, adaptation and publication of the Gothic novel in French language through the analysis of the criteria of editorial choices and methods of translation. For these purposes, we focus on the novels themselves in terms of physical description (format and volumes) and paratext (elements of the title page, epigraphs, dedications, prefaces and illustrations). This second part ends with a comparative study centered on the translation process and more particularly on the cultural and political appropriation of the themes of architecture and the supernatural within Gothic novels. Finally, in the third and last part of the thesis, we seek to determine the influence of the Gothic novel on the French literary production. We first take into consideration pseudo-translations and imitations of the figurehead of English Gothic, Ann Radcliffe, before focusing on parodies of the genre
Pingitore, Gavin Viviane. "Charles Dickens, un auteur de transition à la croisée du gothique et du policier." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018BOR30051/document.
Full textIn order to investigate the transition from the Gothic genre to the detective fiction in Charles Dickens's works, our study will first concentrate on the Victorian social context that led to the collision of two literary genres, the Gothic and the detective fiction. We will define Dickensian Gothic. Actually, Dickens stages a twofold familiar universe. One universe belongs to the past – a real world that is well known to the readers. The second universe shows an insertion in literary history of an intertextual fabric – described as typical and easily shared by his readers. We will then deal with the effects of this violent collision upon the characters' memories and will define the expression of trauma in Dickens's fiction. Trauma primarily rests upon identity confusion. It originates from a sense of failure of identity belonging together with a sense of loss of society bearings that Dickens's characters experience and thought to be immutable. Finally, we will show how Gothic and Detective fictions interact in Dickens's fiction. We will analyse the societal elements that explain this almost against nature meeting for we could assume that the rational explanation that comes at the end of the detective novel should solve the Gothic tensions. But in fact, the solving of the inquests doesn't free the fiction from a Gothic aftermath. We will then study the transfer of powers from lawyers to detective police officers. This transfer of powers is noticeable both in Victorian society and the Dickensian text. We will then conclude with the persistence of Gothic in Dickens's fiction that makes detective police officers some sort of antiquarians of a new genre
Colombani, Elsa. "Contes gothiques, Tim Burton : de Vincent à Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children." Thesis, Paris 10, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA100090.
Full textThe films of Tim Burton can easily be recognized by their thematic codes and identifiable images so much so that the director’s very name has given birth to the adjective “Burtonian”. But what does it qualify exactly? This dissertation proposes to demonstrate that Burton’s signature is particularly recognizable because it inherits from gothic literature and film. Burton tackles and transforms gothic tropes using a double strategy of adherence and reversal. To define what we call the “Burtonian gothic”, we first study the crossing between the humane and the monstrous, an issue directly inherited from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and its film adaptation by James Whale in 1931. We analyze then the geography of the Burtonian landscape and its representation of a cruel and mechanical society from which the characters must escape to survive. Art emerges as an ambivalent means of survival which leads us to consider the artistic creation of the filmmaker himself, built like great gothic works on blurred frontiers, between life and death, past and present, dream and reality
Vervel, Marc. "Mystère et jouissance narrative : enjeux de dramatisation dans la fiction policière émergente." Thesis, Valenciennes, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020UPHF0019.
Full textThis research aims to question the evocative power of the word "mystery" in narrative literature. This word, frequently associated with the fantastic genre, seems to relate more broadly to a literature which centers on the reader at the moment when the media society takes off. To study the power and role of mystery in narrative literature, we focused on its relations to emerging detective fiction. The study begins with the way in which the term has been loaded throughout its history with connotations which have given it a specific profile, in resonance with the set of critics which has gradually developed with regard to the novel. It really enters into narrative literature with the Gothic novel and the popular novel. If it goes from there to fictions affiliated to the fantastic genre, the mystery also takes place in novels dedicated to the elucidation of crime which appear at the time. The study of the mystery sheds light on the diversity of the narrative projects at work, in texts that aim massively to intrigue and interest the reader. It shows the limits of a limited conception of detective fiction considered as a sheer game for the mind. It leads to take an interest in the pragmatic scope of the mystery: the detective fiction which appeals to the mystery seems to aim to play with the expectations of the reader and offer him a narrative in perpetual transformation, so as to make him experience the enjoyment of a loss of control over an essentially deceptive narrative game
Galiné, Marine. "Les représentations de la femme et du féminin dans un corpus gothique irlandais du dix-neuvième siècle : approche générique et genrée." Thesis, Reims, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019REIML011.
Full textThis work aims to explore the various ways in which femininity is constructed in a corpus of texts belonging to the ‘Irish gothic mode’ and published between 1798 and 1889. The literary works under study have been selected according to specific generic criteria with a view to constitute a corpus which would challenge the canon. Those criteria have been organised alongside three axes and take their cue from both Gérard Genette’s genre theory and Richard Haslam’s rhetorical hermeneutics. First, this work will focus on the representations of female characters in terms of thematic characterisation. Next, it will analyse the various processes of feminisation and the ways they participate in the composition of the narratives and in the creation of terror and horror effects. Finally, the question of « female writing », or « écriture féminine » will be addressed, and its potential linguistic imprint in the texts will be discussed. Can we pose the feminine as a constitutive element of nineteenth-century Irish gothic fiction? Even though a genre and gender approach underlies our analytical process, this work will also rely on psychoanalytical theoretical elements and on the new historicism standpoint which most Irish gothic scholars favour in their analyses. As our study conflates both canonical and lesser known texts, Protestant and Catholic narratives, but also female and male writers, it makes a point of highlighting the specificity of the Irish gothic mode in its treatment of the feminine
Dorotte, Juliette. "La naissance du roman américain (1789-1819) : poétique de l’hybridité." Thesis, Paris 4, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA040180.
Full textAlthough critics still widely consider the American novel only emerges in the 1820s, this dissertation invalidates this assertion and suggests that it rises between 1789 and 1819 and has specific aesthetic characteristics. The period that follows the close of the Revolution is not favorable to the development of the novel: the elites fear the fall of the early Republic, and the novel might precipitate the nation into anarchy. The first American authors’ works are fashioned by the social and moral imperatives that influence writing at that time. Despite these measures, the novels published in the 1790s are dark, fragmented and paradoxical and resist any attempt at order and control, as Charles Brockden Brown’s works show. While the 1790s seem to witness the development of a specifically American tradition, the novel undergoes a major aesthetic change at the beginning of the 19th century. Long fictions now depict, with nostalgia and in a smooth, balanced, strongly linear form, an ordered and transparent American nation that is no more or that never existed. Yet these works do not indicate that the American novel has reached its mature form, as their balance is purely artificial and unruly elements are still at work during those decades. We conclude that a specifically American novel emerges during the thirty years following the Revolution: under two different but complementary aesthetics, this genre questions matters linked to individuality, time and writing, and is haunted by a quest for control and balance that never really comes to completion
Prungnaud, Joëlle. "Gothique et décadence recherches sur la continuité d'un mythe et d'un genre au XIXe siècle en Grande-Bretagne et en France /." Paris : H. Champion, 1997. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/37815430.html.
Full textMarceau, Marion. "L'univers romanesque des soeurs Lee." Paris 4, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA040113.
Full textGirard, Gaïd. "Aspects et construction du fantastique dans les nouvelles de Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873)." Paris 4, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA040074.
Full textThis thesis aims at defining the specificity of Le Fanu's fantastic in his short stories. .
Magdi, Fahmi Garas Marianne. "La marque du surnaturel dans un corpus de romans noirs de la fin du XVIIIe siècle." Thesis, Tours, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018TOUR2012.
Full textFour novels of the gothic genre (The Castle of Otrante and the Monk)- or commonly considered of the fantastic literary movement (The Devil in Love and The Manuscript found in Saragossa) allow a better understanding of the staging of the supernatural in the last years of the the eighteenth century and early nineteenth century. This supernatural is manifested in specific spaces, through magical rituals of very different forms, which all refer to a diabolical action. It also adopts seductive appearances to satisfy the secret desires of the characters, that it manipulates at will and risks leading to their loss, even succeeding at times
Simon, Julie. "Big Fish, du roman au film : transécriture et représentation de la relation père-fils." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/34177.
Full textThis study proposes an inter-disciplinary analysis of two versions of thesame narrative: Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportionsnovel by Daniel Wallace (1998) and Big Fish movie by Tim Burton (2003).The plot concerns the dynamics of a complex relationship between a father and his son. Confrontations about Edward’s memories lead both men on a quest for their own identity. Will also discovers the importance of family legacy. By taking on his father’s propensity for storytelling, Will perpetuates the family tradition.The movie is a cinematographed version of the novel. However, Big Fishmust be seen as a work of art on its own. By knowing both versions, the reader-spectator has a better understanding of the central narrative. Invoking the transwriting process, the plot and major themes of the novel are translated into a new medium, a movie. In this study, transwriting is conceptualized as a concrete representation of the legacy developed throughout Big Fish.The double-transmission of narrative is linked to an aesthetic preoccupation rooted in the politics of oral storytelling. To this end, the novel and the movie borrow from the Southern Gothic genre. Analyzing its major characteristics allows for abetter understanding of Big Fish, for the gothic elements carry hidden meanings. The story is also a result of the historical continuity that interweaves literary and filmic genres. From the mythical hero figure and the intense romantic emotions to the nature-loving pastorals, Big Fishaccumulates intertexts that a wide variety of artistic styles have handed down to posterity.The story’s style and content are thus interlinked, which shows that transmission is an unavoidable process. Edward and Will are fictitious representations of narrative process in constant evolution and development: the passing down and inheritance of knowledge. People learn from the past so as to evolve and improve man and his social relationships.
Jain, Rogulski Mira. "Shirley Jackson ou l'écriture de l'inhabitable." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUL184.
Full textOur study examines the modalities of the uninhabitable in the work of Jackson, where the characters are imprisoned in a world intrinsically hostile, as well as the strategies they use to thwart the instability it entails. The violence of the feelings at stake mirrors the cruelty of social relationships, leaving but little livable space even within the family circle, also affected by the entropy of ontological evil. Jackson’s heroines, variously confronted to the reemergence of past traumatic experiences that their odyssey through the present time transforms into unsurmountable obstacles, seek the ideal house, the haven that will anchor them into a world that rejects them. Jackson uses the tropes of the gothic haunted house as maternal space to illustrate the deadly deception such a place embodies. The cohabitation the most drastic forms of the death drive and vital impulses is the foundation principle of mental dissolution. Madness is one of the means to both embrace and understand the incomprehensible. We conclude by showing how the invention of one’s name is a way of elaborating an inner house
Moulinoux, Nicole. "La Tradition gothique dans les romans de William Faulkner." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1989. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37616771g.
Full textFolio, Jessica Joëlle. "La poétique de l'abjection dans la littérature gothique américaine postmoderne : le cas de Stephen King (1947- ), Peter Straub (1943- ) et Chuck Palahniuk (1962- )." Phd thesis, Université de la Réunion, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00716880.
Full textLosowska-Kolenda, Hanna. "Pile romane et son importance dans la formation du pilier gothique." Paris 4, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA040143.
Full textThe research of the origin of the Romanesque compound pier in the antique architecture. The advent and evolution of the articular pillar. The first examples to the seen in Orient and Occident before the year one thousand. The compound pier in occident architecture in the first half of the eleventh century: the importance of catalane architecture; the first examples of the compound support appeared in the Italian, German empire and French monuments. The extension and variants of the Romanesque pier in the monuments erected after the middle of the eleventh century. The aspect of the pier in the beginning of gothic architecture ; their connections with the rib vault ; the new technique facing a structure which was still Romanesque during the first half of the twelfth century in the Île-de-France region. The evolution of the gothic pillar during the second half of the twelfth century in the north of France. The researches and experiences previous to the construction of Chartres cathedral in France and other western countries. The evolution of the gothic pillar in thirteenth century French constructions and in architecture of other foreign countries. The role of technical progress and graphical values in the development of the gothic support and importance of the Romanesque roots in the origin of gothic art
Weber-Maillot, Tatiana. "Le Moyen-Age de Chateaubriand : esthétique, éthique et idéologie." Paris 4, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA040121.
Full textStarting from the presupposition that Chateaubriand rehabilitated the Middle Ages, i examine in his work the evolution of two themes which were treated as rather marginal in the 18th century, but then came to fruition in the Romantic period : the Gothic and chivalry. In doing so, I seek to show how the Revolution, which Chateaubriand despised only for its crimes against ancient France, paradoxically made him into the disseminator of a culture to which he had no innate inclination. Central to a gothic imagination which combines imagery from Breton landscapes and arguments from the Gothic revival, the cliché of the gothique sylvestre, an intuitive theory which prevents one from having to think as a specialist, first serves the purpose of a re-sacralization of a profaned cathedral, and then, after 1830, moves towards a romantic aesthetics of profusion and enormity. Parallel to this, as a model of greatness extended to a world of pygmies. But the ruin determines the emotion. If Chateaubriand brings into his "cathedral autobiography" the commited figure of the knight-writer and integrates courtly ethics into his amorous fantasies, the Middle Ages, set at the distance through irony and emptied out by ghostly stagings from the gothic novel, is denounced as a reactionary aesthetics and ideological model. Torn between honor and freedom, the Gothic and the Classic, Chateaubriand finally stops at the Renaissance which , as conveyed in the figures of Chambord and François Ier, carries out the ephemerical fusion of principles and styles and, above all, by letting the past dye peacefully and by preserving the continuity of history, opposes the bloody advent of modernity with the miracle of a painless Revolution
Boylan, Michael. "Présomption, distorsion et maniérisme dans les nouvelles d'Edgar Allan Poe : Mimésis de l'aliénation mentale, une approche phénoménologique." Thesis, Orléans, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019ORLE1172.
Full textThe aim of the thesis is to submit the fiction of E.A. Poe (1809-1849), in particular his short stories featuring intradiegetic narrators to a phenomenological and textual exploration, the purpose of which is to show how in these works writing becomes mimetic of mental disturbance. In order to thus examine the way in which madness plays a central role in the corpus, shaping it by unfolding rhythms distinctive of psychosis and a credible symptomatology, we adopt a psychopathological and phenomenological perspective, such as inaugurated in psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger’s Daseinsanalyse, developed by a number of disciples,among whom Ronald D. Laing, Bin Kimura, etc. In its approach of psychosis, this phenomenological clinical method is predicated upon three central vectors: presumption, mannerism and distortion, that is to say pathological modes of being in the world that are prevalent among mentally disturbed subjects. The dissertation relies at the same time on the conceptual instruments of literary and textual analysis, to reveal the discursive methods mimetic of mental disorders, namely systems where pathos determines logos and conversely
Salagean, Claudia Sandra. "Enfants des ténèbres : "Gothic wanderers, outcasts and rebels" dans la littérature, au cinéma, dans le jeu vidéo et dans le manga." Thesis, Pau, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PAUU1013/document.
Full textWhat is the link between young wild vampires in New Orleans, a frankensteinian creature with scissors for hands, Alice fighting the Red Queen in a twisted Wonderland and a japanese version of a fallen angel named Cain ? Darkness, rebellion and youth seem to converge in the same stream. The purpose of this thesis is not only to recall that Goth subculture is still fashionable but also to discuss on the dark culture transmedia and transculturalism in four different medias. Divided in four chapters, this study analyses the importance of the first « modern » vampire, Bram Stoker's Dracula's in the coming-up of the vampire outcast in Anne Rice's Vampire Lestat and Poppy Z Brite's Lost Souls. The second chapter focuses on the creature in Tim Burton's movie Edward Scissorhands which presents an original conception while dealing with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein at the same time. The third chapter analyses American McGee's personal vision of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland in the video games American McGee's Alice and Alice Madness Returns. The last chapter explores Yuki Kaori's Cain Goth manga series
Pezard, Emilie. "Le romantisme « frénétique » : histoire d’une appellation générique et d’un genre dans la critique de 1821 à 2010." Thesis, Paris 4, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA040069.
Full textThe name of the “Frénétique” genre was created by Charles Nodier in 1821 and is now an integral part of the vocabulary of Romanticism studies. The genre it designates, however, has experienced diverging definitions, both with regards to the authors associated with this genre and the characteristics that describe it. The present thesis traces the history of the genre known as “Frénétique” as defined by critiques from 1821 to 2010, based on a study of the uses of the genre name in a corpus of close to 630 critiques. In the 1820s and 1830s, the notion of “Frénétique” was used in debates on Romanticism with a polemical purpose. While Nodier invented the “Frénétique” genre so as to distinguish it from Romanticism, numerous critics instead assimilated the two notions in part or in whole —using the “Frénétique” appellation to describe the most violent and excessive dimensions of Romanticism. After disappearing from Romanticism readings for several decades, the “Frénétique” genre emerged again in the early 20th century, when its rising success lead to an increasing complexity of its definitions. The “Frénétique” genre can be the manifestation of a metaphysical revolt, the literary transposition of an èthos, or is generally used to describe the Romantic-era craze for a horrific and excessive genre that inherited its key characteristics from the Gothic Novel. The latter, constituted by the novels of Radcliffe, Lewis and Maturin, spurred two genres that should be distinguished: the French Gothic Novel and the “Frénétique” genre
Dujarric, Florence. "La ville de Rebus : polarités urbaines dans les romans d'Ian Rankin (1987-2007)." Phd thesis, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01015364.
Full textVivier, Fabien. "La collégiale de Saint-Julien de Brioude (Haute-Loire) : Recherches sur les liens entre l’architecture ecclésiale, son agencement iconographique, et la liturgie d’une communauté canoniale au Moyen Âge." Thesis, Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014CLF20005/document.
Full textThis thesis is made up of two statistical analyses which are at the service of the study of Saint-Julien de Brioude’s cultural identity. Having had a lush history, the Brioude Company kept a complex web of relationships. Both, art and liturgy, were the frame for the identity study of this chapter. The study of the Brivadois breviary proved how unique the Brivadois liturgy was. Unlike what was thought at first, such liturgy was not as close as to that of Clermont-Ferrand. Born from the blending of liturgical tradition from Aquitaine and Velay, the Brivadois liturgy was endowed with singing pieces and specific orations. The spatial staging of the relics partook of the collegiate’s specificity the pilgrims visited. Next to Julien’s gravestone, other Saints’ bodies and relics were subjected to devotions.The collegiate’s sculpted program was designed in two times. As they were often faithfully linked with the iconographic subjects used in Clermont’s diocese, Brioude’s capitals were put together in accordance with the areas dividing the ecclesial space. These nested areas were next to one another and highlighted the differences between the relics, the furniture and the images. The chevet intertwined Saint-Sépulcre’s iconography, along with its Crusades, with Julien’s reliquary gravestone and the secondary altars. The sculptures were used as genuine signage livened up around the liturgical tragedy. The images took part in the setting up of history’s liturgical memorial space.This study gives new perspectives which go beyond the monographic frame. Liturgy and arts can provide us with tangible understanding elements regarding the cultural exchanges and the layout of the ecclesial space. The canon’s familial origin determined this area (the Brivadois) located at the confluence of Auvergne’s Aquitaine and the Velay (buffer zone with the Empire). From the Brioude chapter located between these two, without being central, it extracted the cultural benefits as well as a very own standing. The Brioude chapter thus managed to shape its collegiate so as to celebrate the canonical company itself and the Saint whom she possessed the relics from. Attracting the crowd enabled the company to carry own the patron Saint’s memory and to provide themselves with the essential resources to make it operate. The collegiate was undertaken as a landscape’s landmark determining an attractive architectural identity
Jacques-Moyal, Guilaine. "Aimée de Coigny "La jeune Captive", romancière et mémorialiste." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Orléans, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017ORLE3010.
Full textIn 1912, resurfaces Alvare, the novel written by Aimée de Coigny, duchess of Fleury, in 1818. The maiden nicknamed “The Young Captive”, in reference to the ode dedicated by poet André Chénier in 1794, temporarily raises interest of journalists and critics who review the novel and author’s achievement in the light of persistent prejudices. Alvare is presented as one of the numerous literary avatars of a generation influenced by Rousseau-like sensitivity and the novelist as a demoted, reckless and talentless duchess. The study of the work, which main theme is a philosophical reflection about happiness, fundamental issue in the 18th century, proved fruitful on the contrary. The work at the confluence of a whole novelistic production, between romantic accents and gothic features unveils a writer championing liberal and feministic ideas. The journey to discover this duchess and her other work, thanks to her historical Memoirs and her correspondence revealing a young woman of many talents, was enabled by an investigation conducted through unpublished archives.The study aims at depicting the sociability, spirit, intellectual capabilities, eclecticism and the aspirations of the duchess of Fleury, symbol of all these women very engaged into a society in the midst of upheaval which faced the end of the Ancien Régime, the Révolution, the Consulat, the Empire and the Restauration