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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
Saigh, Rachida. "Polysémie et béances des dires dans le roman maghrébin de langue française à partir de 1967 : écriture, mémoire et imaginaire." Paris 13, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988PA131012.
Full textStarting from the elements of the semiotic approach and that of the lacanian psychoanalysis, this study tends towards the elaboration of a reading of polysemie and beances in statements in the north african novel written in french since 1967. In this perspective, the narratives of tahar ben jelloun, rachid boudjedra, nabile fares, mohammed khair-eddine, and abdel khebir khatibi display peculiar aspects regarding the dynamism which writing, memory, and imaginaire conduct. The potential of functional interferences seems, at this stage, to stimulate the symbolic investment and contributes to the production of unfulfilled desire. Plural itinerary which is grafted on written and discursive falling outs. It crosses the expansion of doubles, the drift of semblance, and the instability of parables invested by vacant statements. The density of disjointed narrative tends here towards the impact of the earth-mother in its diverse anchorages in the memory and the imaginaire. Tree and water offer in this field unavoidable pivots concerning the exorcism of the corporal language. The working of the bestiary occurs at the level of the hypothetical desire and contributes to the emphasis of the raving which invests the maternal body in its phantasmal implications. The delight of the double and the ecstacy of the androgyny offer a sublime course towards the unspeakable incest expressed in the instability of the desiring imaginaire and its implicit statements
Labbioui-Harrison, Camille. "Une quête problématique de soi dans le roman maghrébin contemporain : religion, sexualité, altérité." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCA155.
Full textThose undergoing colonization, surviving pre-independence turmoil, and profiting from the colonizer’s withdrawal by adopting its models, are not looking for an identity. Yet those who are not adaptable, blind to opportunity, or old, are prone to reject models requiring giving up clothing or other such aspects of tradition which, they believe, would grant them a sense of identity – if only their community became homogenous again. The pitiful protagonist in ʿAmal-fil (Year of the Elephant), by Morrocan author Laylā Abū Zayd, and three of the four aged protagonists in ʿUššāq Bayya (The Lovers of Bayya), by Tunisian author Al-Sālimī, have a fear of cultural pollution so acute that they make themselves even sicker than they already were, especially when it comes to money which “rots everything”. Zahra is neither softhearted nor sensuous, and her marriage is brought to an end when her suddenly rich husband takes a lover; and the other three secretly nurture a sexual fantasy about the same woman while the son of the fourth, a visiting émigré who grew rich in Germany, decides to marry her. Zahra eventually turns to God to assure a place for herself in heaven whereas the old men agonize in the dread of hell. By dismissing this fear before they die, the two men who had the easiest youth point to the nature of genuine alterity in their community. It is the perversity of a tradition validated by terrifying religious beliefs, which prevents friendships among adolescent boys and girls, then marries them off with no consideration for their tastes and aptitudes, and then invites the men to brutalize wife and children in compensation. Since very few ever recover from their childhood, the cycle starts again and the tradition survives
Benarab, Abdelkader. "Lecture de quelques romans sur et de l'immigration." Paris 4, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA040037.
Full textImmigration from the Maghreb to France originated and developed in the colonial context. The treatment of the migratory issue never equaled that of the extent of its drama. A large number of researches, mostly of a sociological nature, have described it in its most obvious expression, integrating it into an almost banal economic logic: its unavoidable inscription within the conventional corpus, the founder of its unbending definition, immigrant = work force. The discourse made by novelists has shown aspects which had never been revealed before, those of a transplanted human being, torn by exile and the absence of a multidimensional space. These novelists are from the Maghreb and are not immigrants themselves. It is therefore a discourse on immigration. This first instance was then relayed by a second discourse, born this time within immigration, and taken in charge by the subjects themselves. This is the phenomenon called "beur" or "second generation" which suddenly appeared in the 1980s. The issue concerns the way in which it operates and the relation of the two discourses. This leads us to the subject of how to deal with the specificity of the script, the intertextuality, and to question ourselves on the existence or the formation of a new space: a literary, or in more general terms, a cultural one, linked to the "second generation"
Benyekhlef, Djamel. "Une histoire des personnages féminins dans la trilogie de Dib, dans les romans de Djebar et ceux de Boudjedra." Paris 13, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992PA13A001.
Full textMartin, Valérie. "Aspects comparés du roman francophone contemporain : France, Maghreb, Afrique noire." Grenoble 3, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995GRE39028.
Full textThis thesis is divided in two main parts : the study of novelistic patterns and the problems of writing. The first part deals with biographical elements, proving that the chosen authors, nathalie sarraute, mohammed dib, rachid boudjedra, tierno monenembo and sony labou tansi, all felt a desire to break with their original literary style. The composition of the novels, both internally and externally, has been studied in order to prove how the presentation, the introduction and the dedication create a meaningful whole. The division of text (chapters, intertextual references, typography) has also been analysed in terms of its relevance to the novel. The last section of this first part studies the time and space elements within the novel. The second part of this work is focussed on the difficulties presented by writing. The first chapter deals with character study (classification, psychologie and inter-character relationships) and the second chapter deals with the narrator's status (wheter first or third person, etc. ) finally, the third chapter studies the varied uses of the french language through style and above all the reader's responses to this
Dib, Abir. "Étude comparée sur «l'écriture du corps» chez Calixthe Beyala et Ahlam Mosteghanemi." Thesis, Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015CLF20001/document.
Full textThe goal of this thesis is the study of way tow African novelists describe the body ; Ahlam Mosteghanemi from Algéria and Calixthe Beyala from Cameroon. Our analisis traces the writings about the body to a symbolic structure where social discourses meet literary practices. The writings about the body, male or female, are studied from a perspective locked in the problematics of social and literary practices. More than a simple description, the body becomes an esthetic disguise through which the two novelists bypass censorship to tackle all their cultural taboos. Thus the sphere of the body combines discourses of subversion and reversal as well as negotiation and self censorship. What’s more, the body subject of literature bears in itself a tearing, a division and a suffering and seems to only understand and live its existence in pain and difficulty. This literal body that feels and suffers expresses a relationship to the world and to others and is part of a quest for self-affirmation
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. . . )
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
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
Garay, Bernard. "Les Mystères du peuple d'Eugène Sue : roman et histoire." Nancy 2, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992NAN21021.
Full textFirst part : from Martin l'enfant trouvé to Mystères du peuple : presentation of the French political context of the Revolution of February 1848 and of the first months of the Second Republic. Sue's engagement, taking side with the socialist republicans and his participation in the political right, the evolution of his literary output and the perfecting of an original type of novel, the socialist historical novel. Second part : The Mystères du peuple, engagement into the reality of an epoch : the history of the 19th century, its particular status facing the censorship. Sue's documentation collected for the Mystères du peuple, models and bibliography. Sue proceeds with his action towards the public, he chooses his readers and his opponants. The effects of his candidature and his election at the Chamber of deputies upon the evolution of his works. Third part : the original edition of the Mystères du peuple : calendar of the publication, Sue's work on his own text, his publisher's reports. Elaboration of a reflection about the history of the socialist republican idea in France from the Golden Age in the mythical Gaul to the Revolution : mankind and state, liberty and power, importance of instruction, sexuality and reaction, ambition and cupidity. Evolution of the prospects in connection with the contemporary situation. Fourth part : history and ideology : cyclic history, Nation-State-Fatherland, romanticism, christianity and socialism, a work as a whole. Fifth part : diffusion-censorship-posterity : the various issues of the Mystères du peuple, the struggle of the governments against their diffusion, the progressive sinking into oblivion and its causes after the establishment of the Republic in France, a few elements of comparison with the republican histories
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. .
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
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 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
Ibrahim, Magda. "Étude critique du roman de Roger Vailland "Beau Masque"." Paris 4, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA040035.
Full textBeau masque gives in a major part an accurate account of actuality, but it contains a margin of inaccuracies traced by the communist, and the feminist convictions and the artistic preoccupations of its author. The action of the novel is situated in a real context of politic and international events; the social structure and the trade unions are clearly drawed. But, as a communist, Roger Vailland exaggerates certain facts among which the proletarian destitution. As a feminist, he overestimates the readiness of Clusot women to fight, as an artist he makes a choice in his material. Moreover, beau masque is a realistic vision of moral, social and physical world which reveals a lucid man, a free and critical mind where optimism and pessimism are mixed without frontiers. Having confidence in man, Roger Vailland is aware of different fatalities which governs him. Social relations are profaned by him, but rigorously analyzed. Nature is well indeed beautiful, but as a historic materialist, he denounces its neglect to wild state. At last, beau masque is somewhat a free application of its writer's aesthetic. It is a coherent novel where characters are sketched in the realist…
Lecarme, Jacques. "Roman, politique et autobiographie chez quelques romanciers de l'entre-deux-guerres." Paris 4, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA040080.
Full textWe have examined the relation between novel and politics in the work of some prominent writers who have published their first book between 1918 and 1939, and we have followed beyond this period the continuation of their creation. We have first exposed our thesis : the theme of the apocalypse is all-pervading throughout this period full of catastrophes. Then we have examined Drieu la Rochelle's life and work, privileging the problems of revolution, treason and suicide. We have evaluated and re-evaluated him as a writer of short stories and as a novelist. We have drawn a parallel between him and him and his peers or adversaries : Céline, Nizan, Sartre, Malraux. The feverish and violent atmosphere of this interwar period, when everything - too much - was expected from great writers, whose function was exalted and transformed into a heroic myth, is evocated through the conspicuous and deservedly debated character of Drieu la Rochelle. Malraux is praised and described in a more succinct way, through a discussion on novel and autobiography, inspired by the modern "autofiction" theory Paul Morand too is briefly studied, in his literary, political, world-wide and wordly career : our analysis deals mainly with his short stories, we intend to demonstrate that, better than his novels, they show his genius as a novelist. Sartre is viewed, leisurely but somewhat distantly, in relation to the problems of "littérature engagée" (surrealism, communism, fascism, antisemitism, collaboration, resistance), but we have mainly focused on the words, autobiographical work posterior to the period we study. Four monographs on Aragon, Yourcenar, Simenon, Hyvernaud enlarge this quartet into an octet. A broad panorama of novel, short story and autobiography after the 1939-45 war evokes the possible extions of a subject too rich to have been exhausted
Sikalumba, J. K. "Milieu social et création littéraire dans les oeuvres romanesques des romanciers africains francophones et anglophones contemporains : essai d'analyse des pratiques littéraires dans les oeuvres romanesques de quelques romanciers d'expressions française et anglaise." Paris 12, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA120001.
Full textThis thesis turns mainly round the theme of social environment and literary creation. Our interest was to study the literary works mainly at three levels, namely : at the levels of causes and consequences of the duality of the way of life which governs the contemporary african society and at the level of narratology. The study of the first encounter between africans and europeans and the infiltration of the african society by the cultural values of the western society through the new school and the church shows similarity between fiction and reality. The social environment plays the role of a catalyst concerning the imagination of each novelist. The study of the problem of the political power reveals the new leaders' individualistic behaviour in the negative sens. Their insatiable craving for power and richness makes them brutal towards their fellow countrymen. The other major preoccupation of the novelists centres around the economic, linguistic and socio-cultural consequences brought about by the duality of the way of life. And if the novelists have as common denominator the borrowing of constructing materials from the social environment, the study has shown that each novelist has his own way of using these materials. It is especially the study of narratology which has revealed the particularity of each novelist's literary practice. In short, each novelist has his own way of creating a literary work
Grosdanis, Christos. "René Girard et Milan Kundera : connaissance du roman." Paris 7, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA070031.
Full textThis study is about René Girard's and Milan Kundera's essays on the art of the novel. According to these two authors the novel is pre-eminently a source of knowledge. At the first, we attempted to grasp the way in which Kundera and Girard perceive the novel's gnoseological function, as being distinguished, opposed or supplementing to the knowledge within social sciences and philosophy. Secondly, we tried to clarify the prospects that such an idea offers to literary criticism. The dead ends of structuralism and the emergence of the cultural studies force criticism to redefine its own function as well as the function of literature itself. By studying the relations that Girard and Kundera maintain with the literary criticism of the second half of the 20th century, we tried to show that their work can contribute actively to the current debates
Bouby, Sylvia. "Société et roman policier dans l’Angleterre victorienne et édouardienne." Paris 4, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989PA040151.
Full textA cultural phenomenon from the beginning, the English detective novel describes English society's mental representations and main ideals at the end of the nineteenth century. This new literary form was defined by Wilkie Collins' "The moonstone" written in 1868 and definitively settled by Arthur Conan Doyle’s character, Sherlock Holmes. In the English detective novels published from 1868 to 1914, crimes are not committed by the underworld but by upper-classes members, especially upper and middle-middle classes Londoners. In fact these specific groups embody the unsettled feelings toward a very quickly changing world and the answers which they were able to bring. The industrial revolution destroyed old-established references and overthrew many aspects of social and private life. Crime in fiction indicates a general but indefinite fear in front of progress and evolution and is featured in new terms. Modern times evil threatens everybody and is overcome by a lone middle-class man, the private detective, the new hero of late-Victorian and Edwardian literature. English detective novels, in spite of their deadly stories, give a rather optimistic view of the English principles, aims and way of life at the beginning of the twentieth century
Moulin-Civil, Françoise. "Formes et significations du néo-baroque dans le roman cubain contemporain (Reinaldo Arenas, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, José Lezama Lima et Severo Sarduy)." Paris 3, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA030103.
Full textThe intermingling of the baroque with cuban literature constitutes the backbone of a productive creative thought, although the very idea of an aesthetic filiation or intellectual community can hardly be justified in the ideological tensions that cuba is experiencing in this second half of the century. Now, alejo carpentier, jose lezama lima and severo sarduy have concentrated their reflection on the baroque while rating high the novel as a means of expression. We set out to bring into light the neo-baroque through the writings of lezama lima and sarduy and of other novelists as well, actors in the same experience, exile. Even though this kind of novel writing is not alien to its historic model, it is nevertheless deeply embedded in modernity. The debate also lies beyond the mere description of the text. In the same way as the baroque meant, to carpentier, an endogenous search for identity, the neo-baroque is linked today to a quest for recognition. Revealing a breach, baroque and neo-baroque testify to the irreconcilable choice of cuba writers