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Huchet, Dorothée. "La fiction de John Le Carré à l'ère du soupçon : du roman policier au roman d'espionnage." Thesis, Rennes 2, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012REN20063.
Full textMany readings of John le Carré’s spy fiction agree on its particular position within the genre. However, none link the specificity of the le carrean novels and writings, borrowing from the detective novel and the American hard-boiled novel, to the political, philosophical and epistemological context. When the first novels by John le Carré were published, in the 1960s, the world was facing great political and social upheavals. If new elements are then apparent in the spy novel, and if le Carré’s fiction is one of those which embodies these changes, traces of the epistemological break of the 1960s is clear in the author’s works: the flexibility of the moral values within the secret services, the dogmatic, and sometimes ideological, void in the professional agent, or again the reassessment of History, perceived as the result of acts of manipulation in le carrean fiction. Therefore, while his work enters the era of suspicion, as described and magnified in the covert world of John le Carré, it is a reflection of the anxieties specific to postmodernity at the end of the twentieth century. Nevertheless, on the other hand, the novels drift away from this as they do not convey an endless multiplication of meanings or a total absence of truth. The hero has the possibility of evolving and learning in his novels. From a literary standpoint, although le Carré follows the writing pattern of the spy novel, he has also partly reshaped it from the inside when he brought it towards the detective novel and the quest for truth and when he enriched it with postmodern questions. His work therefore occupies an in-between position: it has entered postmodernity without giving way to the excess of multiplicity or chaos, and it has continued to use the genre conventions to make them evolve towards a reflection on the place of the human being
Wheeler, William. "Quelques aspects de l’œuvre d'Agatha Christie." Paris 7, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA070099.
Full textThe point of departure was agatha christie - an autobiography and then representative works from her oeuvre which were analysed along the following lines: - the author's use of i, what is systematically said and what is systematically omitted. - the author's relationships with the various members of her family which lead to her particular view of the family, her "rejection" of love and sexuality and the special emphasis put on marital fidelity. Her obsessive use of hierarchy throughout her work which reflects the importance and her perception of the hierarchy reigning in her family. - the role of societal structures such as marriage, justice, etc; - the notion of determinism. - the notion of destiny in the english society and the end of the victorian era. - some specific aspects of the detective story as a genre: its rules, the personal evolution it takes within agatha christie's oeuvre and her special author - reader relationship which is echoed in her last work, postern of fate
Milléquant-Delage, Elisabeth. "Culture & société dans la littérature policière : les romancières anglophones à la fin du XXe siècle." Pau, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PAUU1004.
Full textEngland, a country urbanised for two centuries, has been playing a part in the creation and the developing of the detective literature. Since 1960, a new generation of woman novelists has given a new spirit to this literary genre. Academics with a large and solid culture in Arts and classics, they introduce original perspectives in the reading of those novels based on a detailed observation of a society and a time. By means of the paintings of the most famous artists, the depth of the field plunges into our western history to meet the myths which compose its foundation. Our work tries to show that, at the end of the millennium, these woman novelists see the wearing effects of the time in our great basic principles, and the disintegration of the primeval thoughts, a thinning down that leads mankind to fall into the abyss
Corriou, 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
Nataf-Fereres, Joyce. "Le roman juif anglais : en quête d'identité (1950-1990)." Paris 10, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA100173.
Full textRozenberg, Akoun Nadine. "L' image du juif dans le roman policier français au XXème siècle : évolution et permanence." Paris 8, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA082539.
Full textBoni, Fausto. "Du roman policier au roman noir : Le polar comme allégorie de la modernité : le cas Scerbanenco." Thesis, Nice, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015NICE2006.
Full textVladimir Giorgio Scerbanenco was born in Kiev in 1911, but moved to Italy as a child and died in Milan in 1969. Author of more than a hundred novels, several short stories and numerous articles, he practiced all literary genres and reached a brief critic and public success only with his hard boiled novels from the late sixties, who see as a recurrent protagonist Duca Lamberti, a young doctor expelled from the Order for practicing euthanasia who becomes a sort of private detective, working with the Milan police. For the first time in Italy, these novels are not only about solving an enigma, but rather representing and understanding the sphere of individual suffering amid its wider social determinations, which inevitably compromise one’s opportunity to rationally experience reality. Scerbanenco added new referential elements to the formal identity of the detective novel that leave us facing the continuous repetition of the dialectic couple « repetition / innovation » paradox. Indeed, thanks to the hyper-realistic accumulation of the most evident elements of contemporaneity, it is with these novels, centered on the character of Duca Lamberti, that mass literature begins to reveal in a violent form the rapid transformation of the Italian daily life
Godet, Pierre. "L'arrière plan thématique et mythique du roman d'espionnage anglais pendant la Guerre froide." Bordeaux 3, 1999. https://extranet.u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr/memoires/diffusion.php?nnt=1999BOR30024.
Full textBoissier, Laurence. "Le roman policier juridique dans l'Amérique contemporaine." Montpellier 3, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001MON30010.
Full textGauyat, Pierre. "De Jean Meckert à Jean Amila (1910-1995) : survivances du roman prolétarien dans le roman policier contemporain." Lille 3, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009LIL30040.
Full textJean Meckert began his literary career by writing novels of a populist kind, such as Les Coups. This literature was quite important in the thirties but became out of fashion after the war and his novels had a very limited success. M. Duhamel, then at the head of the detective series at the Gallimard Editions, La Série Noire, suggested him to write detective stories inspired by the American hardboiled novels. In 1950, under the pen name of J. Amila, he published Y'a pas de bon Dieu ! and became a true reference in the detective literature in France. He remained as such till 1985 with his last novel, Au balcon d'Hiroshima. Within thirty-five years he published twenty-one titles in La Série Noire collection. These books got their inspiration from the working-class literature that Meckert brought to the detective novel kind. As a contemporary of L. Malet and G. Simenon, he heralded the neo-whodunnit of the early seventies, which came to life with J. -P. Manchette, ADG, J. Vautrin or P. Siniac. In the eighties, writers as F. H. Fajardie, T. Jonquet or J. -B. Pouy followed the way opened up by J. Amila. Among them, D. Daeninckx claims his belonging to the trail and thus leads readers to rediscover Amila. Consequently, Amila finds a place again in present-day literature among writers who watch the French society in a crisis as he used to investigate the working class backgroubnd. A writer with many faces, J. Amila also wrote several iconoclastic spy novels, a science-fiction book and an enquiry about the Dominici affair. He worked for the theatre too and took part in the scripts and dialogues of ten films or so. He also novelized two films by A. Cayatte and C. Spaak
Maleski, Estelle. "Le roman policier à l'épreuve des littératures francophones des Antilles et du Maghreb : enjeux critiques et esthétiques." Bordeaux 3, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003BOR30033.
Full textEven though the detective novel does not come under a real literary tradition in the French-speaking regions of the West Indies and the Maghreb, it nevertheless seems to have influenced various authors within theses spaces, wether directly or indirectly, over the last twenty years. Being already complex in essence and declinable in multiple variations that have been explored in different ways since its creation at the fall of the XIXth century, the detective genre, when confronted with the literary spaces of the West Indies and the Maghreb, is affected with new disruptions,which oscillate most of the time between an adaptation more or less dependant on the singularity of the new "setting" it is given and a complete divertion of some of the key principles of the generic frame, which was initially built around a clear codification. The detective novel is reactive to modernity and was very early categorized as a "minor genre. " It acts as a platform for a discourse tuned in to some particular social reality while reflecting a writing that is part of a quite remarkable literary frame. Through a corpus gathering around thirty works from the French-speaking literatures of the West Indies (Guadeloupe and Martinique) and the Maghreb (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia), we will see how the adaptation of the detective story frame to these literatures seems to be an effective test, revealing the multiple potentialities the detective fiction offers, while focussing more particularly on the critical and aesthetic stakes engendered by such an "acclimatation" of the genre
Serre-Rouby, Béatrice. "La tétralogie Mallaussène : du roman policier au conte pour adultes, vers un nouveau roman." Montpellier 3, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004MON30037.
Full textMy study will carry on a contemporary author, Daniel Pennac, and more precisely on the tetralogy Malaussène, allowing four works : to the Ogres Good fortune, The Stiff Fairy, The Child Bargains for of Prose and Mister Malaussène. After to call back the historical dimension of the detective romance, I will search to fix him boundaries and to see how justly Daniel Pennac places in thiscurrent. That will give us the occasion to see by the following how and as far as to what not it drops out. A such study will permit me then to consider this author as belonging to a new romanesque gender, a principal figures of a new specimen of detective romance. I will treat in parallel of the humour and of the irony, who in those romances are that cannot be dissociated of the romance detective aspect
Delorme, Benjamin. "Les énoncés nominaux dans le roman contemporain de langue anglaise: implications sémantiques et pragmatiques de la prédication averbale." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA040195.
Full textBased on a corpus of 20th century novels, this study examines the forms and functions of verbless sentences in contemporary English prose. It first points out the origins of the problem, from Plato to Benveniste, and draws a parallel between verbless sentences and other predicative types, such as apposition or absolute clauses. It then looks at the syntactic characteristics of the occurrences, which feature predicative or existential noun (or adjectival) groups in which the subject almost always remains implicit. In texts, they are regularly used for focusing on the sensory dimension of events, a property due to the absence of conjugated verb form: in an utterance lacking tense and person markers, the predicate may shift from the narrator’s viewpoint to any other perspective relevant in the context. Verbless sentences are to be found in all genres of novels, yet their distribution in the corpus shows they are regularly associated to a limited number of rhetorical functions, e. G. Opening or closure of a paragraph, causal clauses, description of a scene’s layout and protagonists, or mention of a pause in a course of events. The study concludes that the use of verbless sentences supports the hypothesis of a natural metalanguage
Vuillemin, Alain. "La figure du dictateur ou de dieu truqué dans les romans français et anglais de 1918 à 1984." Paris 4, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986PA040041.
Full textThe dictator's figure has an exceptional plasticity in contemporary literature. The fragmentation of its historical, linguistic and mythical expressions reveals an uncommon power of fascination upon authors, even when they denounce dictators as deceivers, false gods, "sham gods". Are we facing an "archetypal" figure, original and primordial, of sovereignty, more religious than political, and of which the absolute equivocal nature would explain the extraordinary ambiguousness of its literary manifestations? Nevertheless, a vast although very diffuse imaginary "testament" describes the continuously beginning again cycle in the writing works of an imposture which seems inherent in hall dictatorial or totalitarian enterprises, whatever their appearances are in these novels, for the writers studied. Beginnings are insidious, proceedings tortuous, triumphs terrifying, declining misleading and recommencements unceasing. That "archetype" would be eternal. Novelists would do nothing but find a millennial intuition and condemnation again
Hannedouche, Cédric. "Construction et déconstruction d'un héros de roman policier du début du XXème siècle : les Aventures extraordinaires d'Arsène Lupin." Thesis, Artois, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016ARTO0009.
Full textThe simple evocation of Arsène Lupin causes the insurance of an entertainment carried out until its hilarious term. He opens in us the doors of imaginary pleasant, made historical mysteries, memorable wealths and adventures. At once the marked fabulous name that a silhouette emerges which approved us, that well-known of a merry, tempting and retributive burglar. A character above laws and of the roofs, out of commun run, critical and whose multiple adventures pose the stones founders of an art nouveau in literature. Appeared for the first time in 1905, within the magazine I know all, the gentleman-burglar knew, since, remarkable and incomparable longevity. Since, the character of Arsène Lupin does not cease fascinating and fertilizing the imagination of his readers until phagocytosing the name even of his creator. Maurice Leblanc is then a name which falls into the lapse of memory while that of Arsène Lupin acquires on his side a certain autonomy. Throughout their multiple publications, the extraordinary adventures of Arsène Lupin deploy a range of texts particularly favourable with new generic and aesthetic explorations, an experimental and fundamental tank with the development of a new reflection on the detective novel in France
Pascaniuc-Caullataille, Oana. "L' univers langagier de San Antonio." Paris 4, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA040063.
Full textWhat relationship have San-Antonio's detective novels with consumer society ? Our analysis of San-Antonio's language at three levels (vocabulary, morphosyntax and semantics), using the tools of serial stylistics, allowed us to identify five massive dominant characteristics : the playful, the new, the variant, the familiar universe, the accumulation or excess. Similarly, these dominant characteristics are major features of consumer society. We also identified two cross dominants, variety and simplicity, as well as a relative dominant, the literary, in contrast to the familiar universe. Consequently, the universe of San-Antonio's language can be represented as a complex network of relations between these various dominant characteristics. San-Antonio's detective novels are real consumer goods which seduce the reader due to their particular use of language. They are a true reconstruction of colloquial French, marked with the multitude of procedures we identified as being typical of San-Antonio
Cheng, Adan. "Cheng Xiaoqing (1893-1976) et son rôle dans l'histoire du roman policier en Chine." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015BOR30060.
Full textThis thesis attempts to present the life and works of Cheng Xiaoqing (1893-1976) as well as to analyze the Huo Sang tan’anji [Investigations of Huo Sang], his detective series and its links with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle on one hand, and with Shi gong’an [Case Decisions by Shi], a traditional anonymous collection, on the other hand. A pioneer and promoter of Chinese stories of deduction and detection, Cheng Xiaoqing was the spearhead of the genre in China. He was the ingenious Jack of all trades of this literary movement: both translator and fiction writer, chief editor and leading writer of magazines specializing in detective stories, he even published essays analyzing these stories with their technical tricks. We can thank him for the creation of the most important series centered on one protagonist: Huo Sang. A true patriot, Cheng Xiaoqing never turned his back on the history of his country nor did he ever leave it. As heir to the tradition of the biji of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and that of the huaben of the Song dynasty, Cheng strove to unite the traditional literary narrative with the ever changing society of his times, by borrowing stylistic devices from foreign sources, but allowing protagonists with clear Chinese identities to take the spotlight. His main character Huo Sang thus turns out to be a kind of link between the Judge Shi Shilun and Sherlock Holmes
Kresge, Delphine. "Perversion et perversité dans les romans à énigme de P. D. James." Paris 4, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA040096.
Full textP. D. James often describes her work as "formula writing". She stresses the importance of construction, which partly explains her choice to write detective fiction. .
Henry, Dorothée. "Arsène Lupin, gentleman-cambrioleur : un nouveau type de personnage?" Paris 3, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA030160.
Full textArsène Lupin, Maurice Leblanc’s character born in 1905, is the figure of the gentleman-thief. But, is this expression, create by the author, the own property of the character or is it a new term for a new literary type? By the observation of the literary origins of the character, of the authors potential inspiration ; by the study of Lupin’s heirs, I try to define if the Leblanc’s character is a new type, original, and, further, underscore the deep originality of Arsène Lupin. An existence of hundred years cant have tailing off the audiences interest for the gentleman-thief, and through the study of the character, of his predecessors (Hornung’s Raffles, Darien’s George Randal), of his heirs (Roger-Francis Didelot’s Samsom Clairval, José Moselli’s baron Stromboli and John Strobbins, Stanislas-André Steeman’s Silas Lord), I want to underline that Lupin is unique, powerful, a myth constantly evolving
Abderrahim-Laib, Sakina. "L'univers romanesque d'Olivia Manning, étude de ses trilogies : The Balkan trilogy et The Levant trilogy." Paris 4, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA040233.
Full textOlivia Manning's trilogies are closely linked to her personal experience of the Second World War. This study is organized around the relation between History and the novel. .
Cadin, Anne. "Le moment américain du roman français (1945-1950)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA040036.
Full textFrom 1945 to 1950, the American Novel promulgates his presence on the French literary scenery and appears as a model beyond compare to renew the French novel. Our thesis is dedicated to this American moment of the French novel that opens at the Liberation. The publication of Americanized novels increases and creates a constant interest from the literary critics, sometimes enthusiast, sometimes outraged by the consequences of this “new-blood” injection in the French novel’s veins. “Legitimate” novelists, such as Sartre, Des Forêts, Vailland, are actually as attracted by this miraculous resource as the detective novel writers, such as Simenon, Malet, Meckert, who are the first willing to benefit from the hard boiled success. Simultaneously, two different ways to seize the American substance are appearing: the “serious” novelists embrace it briefly, but go from fascination to disappointment; as to the detective novel writers, they transform a sheer imitation reflex into fertile assimilation. Yet, all those novels have not often been studied. Our work is aiming to expose this American path, taken by a vast panel of French novelists, in an even more so profitable manner since they used the American material as a starting point, an experimentation opportunity, but also as a way to assert their own fictional identity. By reexamining the French novel’s debt towards the one from across the Atlantic, we hope to confer all its significance to this dazzling American moment that establishes the transition between the changes made by the avant gardes in the twenties and the ones undertaken by the New Novelists
Collado, Michael. "Paco Ignacio Taibo II et le roman policier : de la défaite de la justice à la gloire de l'énigme." Montpellier 3, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003MON30043.
Full textThe crime novel is the imaginary illustration of a constant victorious justice in its fight against crime and its very relative success in Mexico proves that mexican society cannot be the gathering place of such an ideology. Nevertheless, P. I. Taibo II managed, contrary to historical logic, to reconcile the genre with the country. Through Cosa Fácil, La vida misma and Cuatro manos, an axiological jamming, better suited to collective mexican mentalities, gradually replaces crime novel manicheanism. At the same time, the enigma, following the sterilisation course of the investigation theme, disappears from plots. This phenomenon takes place when the enigmatic structure is getting more intricated. Therefore, Cuatro manos represents the defeat of the justice and the structural quintessence of the enigma. It is an attempt to litterary appropriateness and reorganisation of the destructured vision resulting from postmodern communicational abundance
Vida, Marie-Thérèse. "Itinéraires humains dans l'espace urbain à partir de quatre auteurs de romans policiers : Alicia Giménez Bartlett, Antonio Lozano, Juan Madrid, Andreu Martin." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013STRAC040/document.
Full textThe Spanish crime novel that has been written over the last three decades can be essentially defined as an urban social novel. The movements of the detectives reveal the cartography of a Spanish urban space which is in mutation, reflecting the transformations undergone by Spanish society. Based on the work of four authors, Juan Madrid, Andreu Martín, Alicia Giménez Bartlett and Antonio Lozano, this thesis proposes various possible ways of interpreting that urban space, thus enabling a better understanding of the evolution of Spanish society. First of all, we encounter a space of proximity comprising a combination of places - as defined by Marc Augé ; then a space across which visible and invisible frontiers run, hindering mobility for a part of the population ; finally a space in which mobility is widespread, so emphasizing the inequality between those who have access to it and those who are condemned to staying put. This thesis thus proposes a literary and sociological approach to the contemporary Spanish crime novel
Ganteau, Jean-Michel. "David Lodge, romancier catholique." Montpellier 3, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995MON30016.
Full textThe evolution of david lodge's oeuvre seems to correspond strictly to the three phases of the modern catholic novel as defined by the american critic gene kellogg in the vital tradition : the catholic novel in a period of convergence (chicago : loyola university press. 1970). After a first traditional phase as a "separatist" novelist writing for the exaltation of his religion and community, lodge moves towards an "assimilative" attitude and rebels against the religious and communal values which he had hitherto scrupulously respected, before entering a third "interpenetrative" phase which heralds a return towards the same values according to the rules of an aesthetics of indirection. This work is fundamentally based on a thematic analysis and relies on the study of the motifs and topoi characteristic of the catholic novel as a genre. This approach helps establish lodge's hesitation between scrupulous respect of and variations from the generic decorum of the catholic novel. Moreover, alongside a represented attitude of respect and transgression (as is obvious in his treatment of the theme of sexual morality, for instance), lodge offers a representing treatment of the same notions by resorting to decrowning, parodic and comic antitheses, reflexivity, or even comedy. His chronicle of the evolution of a religious community thus associates realism and experiment, and presents the reader with a redefinition of the postmodern catholic novel
Vidaud, Richard. "Fiction et répétition : études des romans d'Anita Brookner de 1981 à 1996." La Rochelle, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999LAROF001.
Full textThis dissertation examines the dialectical relationship between fiction and repetition in the novels of contemporary British novelist Anita Brookner. The notion of repetition has evolved considerably over the ages ; whereas in Plato's times, it was regarded as a totally reliable agent of semantic construction, Jacques Derrida's theory of deconstruction has undermined such confidence in repetition which was held responsible for dismantling the text and placing the reader in a helpless “state of undecidabtlity”. It is our contention that the brooknerian novel makes such a deconstructive use of repetition, be it on the rhetorical level or in the narrative structure, or through the transtextual echoes or in the metafictional manner in which the text refers to its own mechanism
Van, Horne Mary. "CARVING A PLACE IN THE CANADIAN IMAGINATION: (RE)WRITING CANADA'S FORGOTTEN HISTORY IN A SELECTION OF CHINESE CANADIAN HISTORICAL FICTION." Thesis, Université Laval, 2010. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2010/27668/27668.pdf.
Full textPeloux, Gérald. "L' acte de lecture dans l'oeuvre d'Edogawa Ranpo (1894-1965) : une réflexion sur la littérature policière de l'avant-guerre au Japon." Paris 7, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA070123.
Full textEdogawa Ranpo is considered the founder of modem Japanese detective fiction. The analysis of the reader's status and of the act of reading, through the author's original style which seems to include the reader in the text by using different narrative systems, is the main point of this thesis. This study first draws the common ground shared by the readers of detective novels in Japan at the beginning of the 20th century. Then it examines through his programmatic works, a collection of short stories (1925), the reader's contract thus established. A clear intention emerges here and is developed in his serialized novels published from the end of the twenties: he proposes texts that are always on the edge of the genre, with a preference for a format that emphasizes a direct relationship which takes the form of numerous appeals to the reader. Edogawa Ranpo echoed to the reader the image of a voyeuristic reading, marked by a formai monstrosity, through a fantastic story and thanks to techniques of mise en abyme and to the refusai of the referential illusion. The reader is constantly reminded of his status. At the same time, he must accept a reading contract that focuses on the narrative and not on the story. Edogawa Ranpo uses all means of intertextuality to provide the reader with a generic knowledge about the detective story while, at the same time, he places him in a spectator position. The analogy of narrative systems of Edogawa Ranpo's texts with those of popular entertainment, with an extensive use of comments, coupled with the self-reflexivity specular effect, makes his works an example of metafiction based on paraliterary
Magand, Michelle. "La problématique de la masculinité chez David Lodge." Nice, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000NICE2002.
Full textThe male character is at the core of David Lodge's fictional works. But the models of manhood analysed within a realistic framework, undermined by metafictional experimentations, provide a protean vision of both the youth and maturity of man. Taking into account the technical innovations and the grating irony of the narrative voice, we have studied the question of masculinity from a psychoanalytical and philosophical point of view
Bine-Bine, Sebban Laïla. "L'oeuvre romanesque de Beryl Bainbridge." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA040144.
Full textThe novels of Beryl Bainbridge are very close to her own life. Influences on her writing are essentially her theatrical experience, the city of Liverpool where she was born, and the works of Charles Dickens her father read to her when she was very young writing for Beryl Bainbridge was a way to exorcise the neuroses caused by her early suffering from her parents' ill-fitted and unhappy marriage. All these tensions are symbolized by the author through the theme of the war; theme of war that is transformed into other more personal conflicts involving the war between adolescents and their parents, the war inside marital or extra-marital couples, to narrow through the conflicts individuals have to go through facing a society they no longer understand, their environment made of danger and ruins, their own impossible wishes and impulses in their quest for happiness. Loss, failure, loneliness, death, violence, danger, exclusion, racism, neuroses and desperate attempts to escape unbearable situations characterize all Bainbridge’s characters who all belong to the working or lower middle classes. These are the main themes this thesis examines. Beryl Bainbridge’s art of writing, her surreal black humor, her ironic treatment of the facts of life, her disconcerting laying bare of man's most intimate thoughts and behavior, show a writer of great talent and originality. It is the juxtaposition of banality and menace that gives her writing its characteristic tone. Deliberately chocking with a "sharp focus realism" and unbearable descriptions of misery, poverty, ruins, death and violence, Beryl Bainbridge seems to have declared war on the reader. If we take into account this idea of Renan claiming that "war is one of the conditions to ensure progress, the necessary stimulation to stop a nation from falling asleep", then all Bainbridge’s description of chaos and misery would make sense and hope could come back
Williams-Wanquet, Eileen. "Les romans d'Anita Brookner de 1981 à 1992 : l'écriture de la subversion." Montpellier 3, 1996. http://elgebar.univ-reunion.fr/login?url=http://thesesenligne.univ.run/H/99_wanquet.pdf.
Full textAnita Brookner's novels have been called "mills & boon for bluestockings" and are usually set in the tradition of the conventional realistic novel by critics, who qualify them as "pre-modern" and "decidedly non-experimental”. The novels do present the outward signs of classic realist texts by their use of conventional methods to represent reality. However, beneath this deceptive appearance, another text can be discerned, as suggested by the various forms of intertextual ity used. Brookner's novels pose as traditional realism, using the latter's conventions to undermine its philosophical principles from inside. The premises of realism are pushed far enough to remorselessly lay bare the illusions it conveys. This subversive text is "modern" by way of its pessimistic, ironical vision of the world. Brookner's modern parodies denounce the ideology behind traditional realism, showing that christian virtue does not win out in the amoral twentieth century, in which neither god nor reason can be relied upon. But, not content with dismantling the traditional novel's message of comfort, the author lays bare the sterility of a purely ironical vision, which, in its turn, gives way to a metaphorical text, the manifestation of an abstract circular structure which re-introduces a mythical poetic world-view of the unending circularity of life. The novels are postmodern by their metafictionality, by their questioning of the very nature and existence of reality, by their self-reflexivity, which is a direct consequence of their autobiographical aspect. The writer, at one with her narrator focaliser heroine, uses literature itself to explain how her life has been "ruined by literature”. But, even if writing allows her to re-edit her life and to survive, it cannot cure her melancholy and she seems condemned to keep on writing the same novel
Lavault, Maya. "Des secrets à l’œuvre : formes et enjeux romanesques du secret dans À la recherche du temps perdu de Marcel Proust." Thesis, Paris 4, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA040200.
Full textThis investigation about the secret in À la recherche du temps perdu attempts to show that the secret, as a fiction theme involving the very structure of the narrative, allows to seize the tense, within Proust’s work, between a positivist conception, both of the narration and of the meaning, broadly dependent upon the 19th century models of epistemology, and its questioning, which characterizes the fiction production of the 20th century. The analysis of figures and recurring patterns of the secret, related to the success of this notion in the history of ideas and novel writing forms at the turn of 19th and 20th centuries, shows that Proust’s imaginary world in la Recherche is marked by both his own myths and themes inherited from the detective and adventures novel. Then, the analysis of the narrative technique, which gives its enigmatic structure to the novel, makes it possible to identify the “hermeneutic journey” proposed to the reader in the footsteps of the hero-narrator: its dynamic, reflecting the emergence of an evidential paradigm accompanying the renewal of human sciences, is gradually undermined by the emergence of a different logic, based on the indeterminacy of meaning and the multiplicity of viewpoints. Lastly, the analysis of the generic and interpretative “entre-deux” shows that Proust’s work proposes an experience of reading which paves the way for a conception of interpretation based on the consideration of the textual virtualities involved by fictional writing
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
Gaberel-Payen, Sophie. "De la page à l'écran: David Lodge romancier et adaptateur." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA040103.
Full textNovelist, critic, adapter, David Lodge's talent is many-sided. This work offers to analyze the stakes of literary adaptation in Lodge's work while demonstrating that cinematic devices are already at work even in his earliest novels, especially The Picturegoers (1960. ) This study attempts to show how the resolutely postmodernist aspect of this writer (inspired by the realist tradition but favouring the notion of "experimental realism" as early as 1965) and his investigation of a writing mixing metafiction and intermediality are imparted by the choice of the film medium itself. Between novel and film writing, thus appears a new semantic space from which Lodge pursues the issues of representation, the relationships between art and reality
Hita, Michèle. ""The Lord of the rings" : enfance de l'art et grammaire de l'imagination." Montpellier 3, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996MON30039.
Full textThis dissertation analyses the games professor tolkien plays at every level of the creation of the lord ot the rings. Those are both a writer's gates and a philologist's play on words, which lend the tale its wealth and its ambiguity. The first part studies the place of children/childhood in the characters" imag- ination and in their author's as well. It focuses on the symbolical meaning of the ring in such a context as freud's family novel. The second part tries to list all the games involved in the narrative process, highlighting the narrative function of the characters' role playing, of the play of light and darkness, and such play on words as proverbs and riddles. The third part intends to show that tolkien's interplay with voices and signs can be read as a real grammar book for fantasy, while it entails a questioning of the genre of the lord of the rings and a reflection on the tension existing between ethics and aethetics in this work of fiction
Guionnet, Catherine. "Le mystère et le fantastique au service du bien dans l’œuvre romanesque d’Iris Murdoch : The Bell, A Severed Head, The Italian Girl, Bruno’s Dream et Jackson’s Dilemma." Thesis, Paris 4, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA040080.
Full textA number of reviewers have dealt with the fantastic character of Iris Murdoch’s novels, others have mentioned the Good. In this study we have aimed at linking both notions to show, in five of her novels: A Severed Head, The Bell, The Italian Girl, Bruno’s Dream and Jackson’s Dilemma, that through the ‘Fantastic’ Iris Murdoch leads her reader on the way to the “Good”.In the first part, after giving a definition of the word ‘fantastic’ we have selected all the elements that point towards the fantastic features in Iris Murdoch’s writings. Starting with the optical illusion, we have shown that the ‘Fantastic’ originates from a break in reality which gives birth to fear, doubt, dream and madness. We have then analyzed the symbols that characterize the genre. In the second part, we have examined the role of the reader in Iris Murdoch’s novels and we have tried to understand in what way the ‘Fantastic’ could influence readers. In the last part we have shown that Iris Murdoch relies on the “Fantastic” and the unexplainable aspect of human beings to lead her reader on the way to the “Good”. Contingency- that is admitting that not everything can have an explanation- which Iris Murdoch sees as of paramount importance, forces the reader to realize that he cannot master his destiny. Therefore the reader cannot do anything other than let go and stop putting forward a blind ego. He or she then becomes a humble man, able to feel an altruistic love that will take him or her on the way to the Good in which death, love and literature are connected
Nelaupe, Emmanuelle. "Transition politique et production romanesque : l'écriture féminine noire en Afrique du Sud de 1998 à 2011." Thesis, La Réunion, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LARE0036/document.
Full textThe South African political transition from a repressive system to a democratic one opened new spaces to a marginalized part of the population among whom the black woman to express themselves, such as the Truth and Reconciliation hearings. This black feminine voice, made free by the political transition is reflected through the development of a literary female production. It gave way to the emergence of new novelistic forms, analysed in our study through ten novels written by eight different female writers between 1998 and 2011: S. Magona, K.L. Molope, K. Matlwa, A.N. Sithebe, A. Makholwa, H.J. Gololai, Z. Wanner and C. Jele. In a first part, we analyse the way these authors rewrite the novel during the transitional period, moving away from a realistic writing, deeply involved in politics and largely used during the apartheid era, towards a more intimate way of writing which reflect the traumas of a national past haunting the present. Then, we examine in three parts how the writers emerging during the post-transitional period explore new genres, rarely used by black South African women until then, namely the Bildungsroman, detective fiction and chick lit, which reflect their fears in the new South Africa. These authors rewrite these European genres, among which popular ones, through a new feminine perspective, thus innovating the themes they deal with and creating a literature made of mixtures. The European novel becomes a subversive tool to criticise a patriarchal and Europeanised society, which, according to these authors, should not deny the past in order to solve the new challenges coming
Haffen, Aude. "Fiction autobiographique et biographies imaginaires dans l'oeuvre d'Anthony Burgess." Phd thesis, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III, 2010. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00836003.
Full textCarron, Delphine. "Figures du détective dans le polar américain contemporain." Phd thesis, Université d'Angers, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00961471.
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