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Valente, Pierre. "Le sublime chez les stoi͏̈ciens romains de la République au Haut Empire." Lyon 3, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003LYO31018.
Full textPalacio, Marie-France de. "Antiquité latine et décadence." Paris 4, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA040201.
Full textBruna, Carla. "Sublime, néo-sublime, anti-sublime : le "canon" littéraire italien du XXème siècle dans l'oeuvre critique de Edoardo Sanguineti." Thesis, Université Côte d'Azur, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020COAZ2011.
Full textThe present research work, devoted to the critical work of Edoardo Sanguineti, focuses mainly on the definition of “Italian literary canon of the twentieth century” formulated by Sanguineti, and on the relations between this Italian poet and literary critic and the avant-garde poetics of the last century, in relation to the question of the “sublime” in poetry, or rather of its overthrow according to a theme particularly dear to this politically engaged writer and essayist, namely that of criticism of bourgeois society. More specifically, we examine the central role of the first avant-garde of the twentieth century in Sanguineti's critical work, on which he concentrated his studies and reflections with a view to bringing out the movements and the authors who, at his opinion, have contributed the most to renew the poetic language at the turn of the XIXth and XXth centuries. In an exegetical landscape so varied, eclectic, labyrinthine, in many ways broken, constructed by accumulation, without single direction, but multiple and allusive, like that of Sanguineti, the formal experimentation and the content of avant-garde movements between the two centuries represent a continuous and constant interest, especially in essays published in the late Sixties and in the Seventies
Laumaillé-Hache, Sophie. "Rhétorique et passion : le sublime au XVIIe siècle." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA040231.
Full textMeeting the great aesthetical interrogations of the XVIIith century, the debates about the notion of sublime are rich in paradoxes and raise many rhetorical questioning. Introduced in the literary world by the polemics on Guez de Balzac, amply developed by the theoricians of the holy eloquence, disclosed to the public by the publishing of the Longin's treatise by Boileau, this thought on the sublime considers the discourse as an +irresistible force ; that ravishes the souls beyond the hierarchy of styles. Using lexical, stylistic, logical and semantical aids, this study intends to determine what are the main theorical requirements proposed by the treatises about eloquence. Then, its aim is to confront these requirements, often based on the tension between the quest of unaffectedness and the art of passions, with the exemplification sometimes associated with them. The matter is to ask oneself to which extend the rhetorical thought on the sublime leads to a renewal of the reception reserved to the literary work. In this viewpoint, the quotations derived from texts written in the XVIIith century by French authors further fruitfully the exploration of a classic pantheon on the way to completion
Daix, David-Artur. "Les sentences (gnomai) dans la littérature grecque archai͏̈que et classique (d'Homère à Thucydide)." Paris, EHESS, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000EHES0086.
Full textSoler, Joelle. "Ecritures du voyage dans la littérature latine tardive." Paris 4, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA040133.
Full textIn their factual narratives, Roman travelers represent their itineraries as means of foundation, through which they can assert their Greco-Roman identity and that of the landscape they cross. In contrast, the fiction of Apuleius elaborates a very different image of traveling, conceived as an exploration through which the traveler encounters the foreign, at the risk of losing his/her identity. .
Peurière, Yves. "La pêche et les poissons dans la littérature latine des origines à la fin de la période augustéenne." Lyon 3, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000LYO31003.
Full textGouttefarde, Amandine. "L'exil dans la littérature grecque archaïque et classique." Thesis, Paris 4, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA040203.
Full textIn archaic and classical Greek literature, exile is shown to evolve within determining political contexts. From the VIIth to the IVth century B.C., through tyrannical and oligarchical regimes, but also during a period of democracy, it is both a punitive and preventive measure which is used to maintain an authority in power, tending to evolve towards a moderation of expulsions, notably through ostracism, while being more and more regulated by legislation. Exile may also be a deliberate move to flee away from life's woes, escape from a trial or even get away from a corrupt city. Beyond this political anchoring, the representations of exile and of exiled people take part in a rich imagined world which is exploited in all the literary genres at that time. These representations give life to reflection on history and the status of democracy, as well as on the metaphoric dimension of exile. Furthermore, the woes of exile, the grievance or the pollution which are associated with it go along with less expected representations, such as one of an active and vindictive society of exiled people or even one of archetypes of the good or the bad exiled person. Exile often comes to an end when one integrates a host haven or when one is called back to one's country of origin, but may as well be for the rest of one's life and sometimes continue after death. Eventually, the abundance of these representations, as well as the vocabulary associated with it, makes exile become an image suitable for the illustration of the leading political and philosophical concepts in Greek thought
Bisse, Oyono Léonie Clara. "Transgression et sublime dans les œuvres narratives de Georges Bataille et de Jean Genet." Toulouse 2, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008TOU20064.
Full textThe work of Georges Bataille shares several common themes with Genet’s. In 2008, the name of these authors still frightens some people, such is the extent to which they have become synonymous with scandalous litterature and provocation. Both writers indeed tried to shock their readers by their coarse and straight language, as much as by their sulfurous and provocative subjects. Several of their texts were published clandestinely and a lot of time elapsed before they became accessible to a more genral public. Bataille and Genet are also united by their will to subvert standard litterature in ridding themselves of common morality. Their atypical books challenges all the limits, and Bataille as much as Genet is not afraid of excess. Death, sex, and violence fill their books, as many pages of Ma mère, Histoire de l’œil, Journal du voleur or Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs certify. Both of them glorify the body, in even its most trivial manifestations, and they like to speak frankly about what is usually hidden and concealed : incest, rape, dirt, excrement… But these writers are not vulgar pornographs, as theirs disparagers tend to say. On the contrary, they develop an original and personal ethic which can be linked with the notion of sublime that the Treatise attributed to Longin defined. Besides, their stylistic technique shows their high esthetic ambitions. Bataille’s language, like Genet’s, is the fruit of a formal elaboration which makes their reading fascinating, but also sometimes hard. The general public and researcher’s increasing attention to their books over the last twenty or thirty years shows the importance of Bataille and Genet in the literature of the twentieth century
Lafeuillade, Filâtre Annick. "Les animaux qui parlent : essai sur l'anthropomorphisation progressive du règne animal dans l'antiquité." Nantes, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009NANT3047.
Full textDe, Longevialle Agathe. "Le roman de Rome : antiquité et décadence dans la littérature française de la fin du dix-neuvième siècle." Paris 3, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA030104.
Full textCornet, Geneviève. "Les hors-la-loi dans la littérature grecque sous le Haut-Empire : les métamorphoses du mythe." Lyon 3, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004LYO31017.
Full textAllorge-Courtin, Marie. "Les rues de Rome dans la littérature latine." Paris 4, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA040139.
Full textLatin writers give an often negative and stereotypical image of the streets of Rome, out of step with the reality as evidenced by other legal, archaeological or epigraphical sources. Far from being anecdotal, those literary descriptions provide a profund reflection on the city and the brought forth material, societal, political, economical, philosophical, and moral issues. Place of ciculation and encounters, the street is depicted as and ugly, untidy, and violent world despite the control of the authorities. The partial view of the everyday life given by the image of the streets in Urbs mainly contributes to the criticism of the urban civilisation as the journeys within the city symbolise the societal divides that structure the Roman siciety. Among the satirists of the imperial era, this criticism coexists with a personal attachment to the streets, a world of propitious to poetic inspiration
Barsagol-Schmidt, Marika. "Représentations et mythes de la femme dans la Grèce antique : images féminines dans la littérature grecque : orateurs attiques et poèmes homériques." Toulouse 1, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988TOU10042.
Full textThe way women are presented in attic orator's speeches and homeric poems show that, on an institutional as well as a mythical level they only have a minor position in greek society
Triaire, Sylvie. "Une esthétique de la déliaison : Flaubert, 1870-1880." Paris 8, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA081716.
Full textKunieda, Takahiro. "Le mystère dans les romans de Barbey d'Aurevilly." Toulouse 2, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999TOU20093.
Full textCalvié, Julien. "La représentation des riches et des pauvres en Grèce dans la littérature grecque du IVème siècle avant J. -C." Grenoble 2, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000GRE2A011.
Full textPasserone, Léa. "La notion de mineur dans l'oeuvre de Pier Paolo Pasolini." Thesis, Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017UBFCH022.
Full textThis PhD thesis intends to explore how the idea of minor is present throughout Pier Paolo Pasolini’s works, in its linguistic and literary sense (linked to languages and authors called « minors »), in its socio-political sense (presence of the subalterns and the minorities), or even in its spiritual sense (« minor » according to Franciscans). The extensive artistic and critical production of the Italian author who we consider, seems in fact to be guided by the will of highlighting and promoting what is usually depreciated, forgotten and situated at lower levels in every hierarchy : Friulian peasants, Roman sub-proletarians, people from the Third World, outlying languages and cultures, etc. The notions of minor and minorities are particularly significant and relevant, given that they are used and questionned by the writer and the director from his first literary essays to his last articles and scenarios, in key moments of his career. Furthermore, they appear closely associated to the period of deep socio-cultural changes that Italy is experiencing, hence the contradicting images they convey. While the so-called « economic miracle » is triumphal in the sixties, the notion of « minor », centered on the idea of inferiority and humility, is replaced by the more political and polemical notion of minority. If this last notion has some characteristics of the former one, it should also be defined as a radical alterity and contesting power of the dominant models, at the same time keeping the emphasis on the contamination esthetic and poetics, whereby humilis and sublimis are inseparable
Oye, Allogho Régine-Stéphanie. "Le sublime et l'idée d'énergie dans les Natchez et les Martyrs de Chateaubriand." Toulouse 2, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008TOU20002.
Full textThe Nineteenth century is a period which breaks with classical conventions and seems to mark the beginning of the modern age. The most important sign of this rupture is the French Revolution, which brought about a considerable upheaval in society and gave new direction to the work of many writers. That is the case for Chateaubriand, for whom the Revolution produced convulsive images in which the ugly and the beautiful merged into each other, in compliance with the aesthetic of the sublime. The same horrific scenes are found in both Les Natchez and Les Martyrs. We are plunged into a fascinating and enigmatic world, full of characters both disconcerting and upsetting, a powerful world in which all extremes come together. Chateaubriand's novelistic texts are inspired by Milton's and Burke's sublime. Energy, passion and violence override aesthetic taste. Our study consists in showing how the infernal sublime which appears simultaneously in characters, nature and writing, is also attenuated by a supernatural sublime linked to religion. Chateaubriand's characters worship exaltation in the face of misfortune. The author stresses the voluntary experience of crime, even when it is collectively justified by war. The vocabulary of the sublime leads to a theory of action and of individual transgression. The pleasure in evil is no more a paradox but the logic of the desire of power. Through his characters, Chateaubriand fathoms dark energies which animate man, and their explosion produces a sublime of terror. The author introduced the suject of crime to cause an extraordinary and shocking effect, as the notion of sublime requires ; he also tells of the devil's apparition which embodies Evil in his novels, so that the world of Les Natchez and Les Martyrs is a disorded and fantastic one. In Les Martyrs, Chateaubriand tackles crimes that society commits, and which suggest hell beneath our world. The survival of evil shows itself in awful crimes, violent behaviour and the exacerbation of desire. Terror, strength and excess are the driving forces of both our novels. The inexhaustible power of the wicked must always leads them to extreme states of mind : madness and monstrousness. The only means to present these superhuman beings is to use the image of the monster, or else those of fire and hell, which convey quasi-demoniacal characters. This transgression of law and order makes possible the creation of a man absolute in evil, such as Ondouré, and this boundless power constitutes the fondamental feature of the sublime in both works. Les Martyrs and Les Natchez point out in their own way that the most profound truth of man is revealed through emotion and violent pulsions, and not in the use of reason and wisdom. This idea of sublime also appears in nature, first impulsive, then glorified. Horrible and threatening, seas, forests and storms impress and hypnotize because of the sublime forces they contain. This monstruous sublime of nature imposes the desire for power's defeat of man. It expresses the dramatical intenseness in which man is confronted with the vertigo of his weakness and with his helplessness faced with an inhospitable nature. Parallel to this monstruous sublime, a more peacefull sublime can be found in the narration. The sublime comes to be in humbleness and simplicity, as well as in a Christian thought which wants to conciliate humility and sublime, devotion and divine greatness. In Chateaubriand's world, the sublime's poetics are never far from a religious question, in communion with God. This ideal sublime becomes especially apparent in Les Martyrs, where it is lived morally and religiously, and its purpose is to acknowledge divine law. It also leads to the evocation of nature, finally peaceful and welcoming. Chateaubriand becomes a painter, because restful sublime is for him first a delight for the senses, a visual display which causes artistic activity. Chateaubriand thus guided the sublime towards the picturesque. So, this notion does not originate solely in violence and is not always on a par with terror. Nature is the place in which a ceaseless fecondity leads to a particularly sensual reverie : sublime is in league with pleasure and grace as much as with violence and terror. It is so full of humanity that the author gives a moral and sentimental aim to the simplest beings : the flower, the bird, the insect show its vitality and unity. The natural element is perhaps an abyss, but Chateaubriand rejects the thought of chaos, and makes his texts converge at a finality : harmony. Nevertheless, although Les Natchez and Les Martyrs are the privileged crucible of the author's idealism of simplicity, Chateaubriand's thougt remains constantly preoccupied with the problem of evil, which unceasingly ruins the whole structure of humanitarian and religious idealism
Pouyaud, Stéphane. "Parodie et création romanesque dans les littératures européennes (Antiquité-XVIIIe siècle) : essai de poétique historique." Thesis, Reims, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018REIML008/document.
Full textThe aim of this dissertation is to show the decisive role that parody played in the construction of the novel as a genre, that has not been theorized before the end of the XVIIth century (a unique case within the main forms of literatures). Parody is often considered as an easy process, an unfair and merciless way to attack a superior model. However, its defenders can valuably argue for its caustic and regenerative impact : by criticizing the novel’s aesthetic, parody points out its weaknesses and thus shows the way to renew it. By the process of imitation, parody inevitably confines the parodied text into the past; but at the same time it looks towards the future and suggests, in its criticism itself, new territories to explore. This fertile feature of parody explains why it has largely helped to define the novel in the absence of theoricians. At times when the novel was neither theorized, nor even accepted, parody has played a crucial role, concentrating most of the intellectual reflection about the novel. Not only has parody shaken the form of the novel – which by the way helped establishing it as a genre, it has also highlighted how conscious people were of the existence of this genre, the forms it took. Being a reader’s work, parody reflects how an audience considered the novel and how it intended to renew it : in that sense it has a double contribution to theory. Our objective is to see how, from the greek novel to the XVIIIth century, parody has been a think tank for the novel, in a fragile balance between the destruction of former aesthetics and the promotion of new formulas
Goupillaud, Ludivine. "De l'or de Virgile aux ors de Versailles : métamorphoses de l'épopée dans la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle en France." Versailles-St Quentin en Yvelines, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003VERS002S.
Full textThe influence of the Latin poet and in particular of the Aeneid is studied through two angles : the symbolic filiation and the poetical legacy Virgil left to the men of the seventeenth century. In this way, the "heirs" proclaimed this legacy and tried to put it forward with translations, learned theorizations, etc. It's only with certain reservations that the illegitimate sons (the "grand bastards") admitted this legacy - they strove to build up their own patrimony inventing new forms for the epic. Finally, the "parricides" rejected the antic legacy favouring the French culture and the contemporary development of arts. To them, Versailles was like an "architectural epic" which supplanted the Aeneid. To conclude, the Sublime is presented as being in the heart of these inheritance tensions
Simard, Jean-Philippe. "Pour une typologie du sublime dans La Comédie humaine d'Honoré de Balzac." Thesis, Lille 3, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015LIL30054/document.
Full textWhen Edmund Burke and Kant deliberate on the aesthetic of the sublime in the late 18th century, they identified concepts such as the infinity and the “astonishment“ as the beginnings of this aesthetic, linked to an instinct of self-preservation. They identify how the origins of the sublime take form around the violence of an emotion, a landscape or a situation: blood, murders, great but terrifying landscapes are all considered a reason for the communication of this aesthetic. Conversely, in Balzac’s work, the sublime is more complex, showing multiple forms all different from one another; the sublime no longer appears only through the somber lens, characteristic of the Romantic Period. This study suggest reconsidering the sublime as plural. The main objective being the establishment of a typology of Balzac’s novels in order to identify the genius of a man who innovated and differentiated himself from other 19th century writers. The beauty, the good, the exemplary, alongside the out-performance of oneself and more, are all categories which appear in this study and allow a now reading of La Comédie humaine
Lochot, Céline. "L'ironie dans l'oeuvre de Thomas de Quincey." Thesis, Dijon, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014DIJOL029/document.
Full textStudying the works of De Quincey necessarily leads to three concepts almost impossible to define: autobiography, Romanticism, and all-too neglected irony. Whether rhetorical, tragic or “romantic”, irony expresses perfectly the many contradictions of the opium-eater. As the rhetorical tool of conflict and self-derision, claiming both individualistic and community values, sociable and provoking, irony is the way to redemption as much as the expression of deep unease, a way of pushing himself forward, or of withdrawing into the background. Caught between Romanticism and Victorianism, De Quincey questions the limits of his own identity and his status as an intellectual, and exploits reluctantly the potential subversion of parody, so that irony seems to yield to nostalgia and self-derogatory laments. And yet it can be said to underlie the vitality and diversity of the essays, whose modernity has been greatly underestimated by the critics and by De Quincey himself, as well. Finally, irony allows us to re-evaluate the Confessions as the centre of a unified, though diverse, set of writing, rather than as one of many, rather ill-assorted essays of unequal value
Boekhoorn, Dimitri Nikolai. "Bestiaire mythique, légendaire et merveilleux dans la tradition celtique : de la littérature orale à la littérature écrite." Phd thesis, Rennes 2, 2008. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00293874/fr/.
Full textThe author offers a study of the "Celtic bestiary" which is understood here as the sum of the reel species above all; an overall view of the function and role of animals in medieval Celtic literature will be given, analysing especially the mythological, heroic and hagiographical texts. The evolution of the role of antique and medieval cult animals will be dealt with. The symbolism of the other species will be studied as well. The corpus analysed here – medieval Celtic literature - will be presented, references will be made to other civilizations (Indo- European and others). The medieval tradition will be compared with the folklore of premodern times. Several aspects linked with the animal world will be dealt with as well: the complex question of shamanism and totemism and their applicability to Celtic beliefs; animal sounds and music and their relation to human music; animal metamorphosis, animal metaphors, faunal onomastic and anthroponomy including animal terminology as well as the classification / taxonomy of the animal world. The second part is a catalogue of the species known to the medieval Celts; their role and symbolism will be briefly discussed. The third part consists of an analysis of the bestiary contained in a well-known Breton hagiographical text: the Life of St. Malo. Some of the elements studied here clearly show that the medieval Breton literary tradition belongs to the Celtic insular tradition, together with the literature of Ireland, the Isle of Man, Scotland, Wales and Cornwall
Charbonnier, Gil. "Les écritures de la sublimation dans l’œuvre de Valéry Larbaud." Paris 4, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA040229.
Full textThe objective of my study is to demonstrate that sublimation is the principal aesthetic mechanism in the work of Valery Larbaud. In the first part of my work I seek to define a notion that intersects several fields of knowledge : theology, philosophy, aesthetics and psychoanalysis. This initial research enables me to make sublimation a concept with which to analyze literary texts. I will then seek to identify the sublimation characteristic of Larbaud. It emanates from a modern desire to describe, in the interior of the work, the creative act on the basis of the erotic. It results from a connection to the mother that determines the literary vocation. It can be explained also by the Catholicism of the author. These considerations give rise to new elegiac writings through which the notion of the sublime evolves in the first half of the 20th century in France
Laizé, Hubert. "La voix sacrée : fonction du poète dans la Grèce archaïque et le domaine indo-européen." Paris 4, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA040070.
Full textBesides the three indo-european functions of sovereignty, strength and prosperity, a fourth function, of speech, gives structure to these first three functions of administration. This one has the part of celebrating the harmony built by the three others. .
Villard, Pierre. "Recherches sur l'ivresse dans le monde grec." Aix-Marseille 1, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988AIX10033.
Full textGuittard, Charles. "Recherches sur le carmen et la prière dans la littérature latine et la religion romaine." Paris 4, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA040106.
Full textFirst is studied the situation of the prayer in the roman religion (libri, typology) and described the proceeding of the prayer as ritual. Are defined the formulas in the public worship (sacrifice, votum, supplicationes, hymns) and in the private or domestic worship (interjections, daily prayers, genius, prayers form birth to death). Then are considered the problem of the Saturnian verse and its religion with the Latin carmen (accent, prosody), the tradition of the oracles (sibylline oracles) etrusco-italic tradition (carmina marciana, tarquitius priscus, vegoia, haruspices). Philological studies are devoted to the great corpus of prayers preserved in latin literature: bronze tables of iguvium, ritual of devotio and of evocatio, prayers from Cato's De Agricultura, special studies are dedicated to the colleges of fetials, augurs, salians and arvals brothers
Lozier, Claire. "De l'abject et du sublime : Georges Bataille, Jean Genet, Samuel Beckett." Thesis, Paris 3, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA030027.
Full textThis thesis examines the destabilization of the hierarchical relationship between the abject and the sublime in the works [i.e. plays, prose narratives and essays] of Georges Bataille, Jean Genet and Samuel Beckett. Its starting point is Jean-François Lyotard’s observation that the question of the sublime is raised each time there is a crisis within representation [in the age of poetics, of aesthetics, or in the present day] in order to set up a confrontation between art and that which exceeds art, permitting art to renew itself. Subsequently, it is argued that whenever the notion of the sublime appears it moves in proximity to – and sometimes merges with – its opposite : the abject. This is the case in the works of Bataille, Genet and Beckett, in which a doxa that understands the world and organizes values in terms of purely antithetical paradigms is deconstructed. This redefinition of the relationship between the sublime and the abject is analysed on a poetic, stylistic, aesthetic, empirical, psychoanalytic, moral and ethical level in the work of each author. Bataille can be said to interrogate the hierarchical separation of the two notions in defining a new « black » humanism – or « hyperhumanism » – through the use of a notional and literary terrorism which conceives of communication as sacrifice. Genet makes himself the eulogist of the abject in using sublime means and by changing each notion into its opposite, to the point that it is impossible to distinguish between the two. Beckett introduces a poetics of the Vanitas, understood in both its classical and its postmodern aspects, revealing the developing proximity and complementarity of the two notions. Rather than provide definite answers to the questions Lyotard poses, this thesis demonstrates the need to consider the links and affinities between the sublime and the abject in all attempts at artistic renewal
Marinot-Marchand, Delphine. "Le Rhin suisse dans la littérature de voyage européenne du XVe au XIXe siècle." Phd thesis, Université du Maine, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00669625.
Full textDan, Anca-Cristina. ""La plus merveilleuse des mers" : recherches sur la représentation de la mer Noire et de ses peuples dans les sources antiques, d'Homère à Eratosthène." Reims, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009REIML004.
Full textReading the Greek geographical and historical descriptions written before the time of Eratosthenes, one notices that, for all these authors, the Euxine Pontus was not yet a geographical concept : places, peoples and actions, mythical, literary and historical, located in this region from a modern perspective, were situated by the Greeks of the Archaic and Classical times either in the “Beyond”, or in the North of the œkouménè, or in some other non-Aegaean Hellas, or in a “Scythian arc”. The history of this geographical (as well as ethnographic and historical) figure constitutes the main focus of the present research. I begin with some theoretical prolegomena, in which I suggest, amongst other things, a new taxonomy of ancient spatial perceptions, including “hodological”, “topological”, and “oekoumenological” points of view, as well as a definition of ancient geography based upon notions of heterogeneity, transgenericity, conservatism, and determinism. With this terminological foundation established, and employing a combination of evidence (linguistic, ancient and occasionally mediaeval literature, history, iconography, and Pontic archaeology), in the five chapters that follow, I analyse the Pontic references to be found in the Homeric epics, in Hesiod, Eumelus of Corinth, Hipponax, Aristeas of Proconnesus, Hecataeus of Miletus, Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Herodotus’s Histories, Hippocrates’ De aere, Xenophon’s Anabasis, Pseudo-Scylax’s Periplus, and the fragments of Eratosthenes. The dissertation therefore leads to a history of the perceptions and representations of the Black Sea region and, more broadly, of the Greek œkoumene in Archaic and Classical times
Bélanger, Steeve. "La construction de discours d’appartenance identitaire dans la littérature judéenne et chrétienne aux Ier et IIe siècles." Thesis, Paris, EPHE, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015EPHE5043/document.
Full textAs part of a major trend of historical research and of current epistemological discussion on the study of the identity building process phenomena in Antiquity, our research focuses specifically on the building process of identity belonging discourses in the Judean and Christian literature of the First and Second centuries. Restricting the Judean and Christian identities of this period to a unique and unilateral definition would be erroneous, since such a definition would be more utopian than realistic because of the plurality of communities that take part in ancient Judaism and ancient Christianity, and because of the plurality of authors that tried to define and elaborate theses identities in their discourses. Establishing a list of criteria to define these identities and, in turn, to distinguish those who may or may not declare themselves Judeans or Christians, seems inadequate for Ancient times. Therefore, the perspective of this research is rather to rethink how the problem of ancient identities as well as the problem of building process of identity in Antiquity should be addressed, by approaching it at the same time as an object study and a disciplinary approach. Our research is therefore a socio-historical study of Judean and Christian identities of the First and Second centuries as well as a discussion on methodological, epistemological, terminological and historiographical approaches of problems relating to ancient identities phenomena; theses are discussed through “– emic” and “– etic” from diverse elements that take into consideration internal point of view (insiders) and external point of view (outsiders) to these identities
Freu, Christel. "Les figures du pauvre dans les sources italiennes tardives." Strasbourg 2, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004STR20051.
Full textThe figures of the poor are varied in late Latin literature. Different words are used to designate the poor, thus qualifying different degrees of poverty : the egentes are the most destitute, the inopes are the weak, the pauperes are members of the plebs who according to recent statements by historians, formed a "middle class". But this taxinomy is not sufficient, words being sometimes used interchangeably, sometimes totally out of accordance with their usual meanings. To understand this complexity, it was necessary to restore the context in which the vocabulary of poverty was used. Christian authors build the most complex image of the poor, which is not necessarily the most consistant
Cheong, Jang-Jin. "L'écriture autobiographique et le langage de l'inconscient dans l'oeuvre romanesque de François Mauriac." Paris 8, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA081025.
Full textIn mauriac's novels, the desire to confess appears through the autoanalysis form concerning the reason of his incapacity to write his auto-bio-graphy. The auto-analysis concerns the obscure reason which the novelist can not apprehend. But the fiction leads the author to confess under a disquised form, following the movement of the unconscious around three themes : the image of the body, symbolics of names and symbolics of money. These three themes compose the language of the unconscious through which the two fantasies - the virginal birth and the phallic mother - can reach their sublimation. These two fantasies are confronting each other in a psychic antagonism, the connotation of which is expressed in a poetical form in mauriac's novels
Pichon, Emmanuel. "La représentation des personnages historiques dans l'oeuvre de Flavius Josephe." Lyon 3, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003LYO31020.
Full textCornillon, Claire. "Par-delà l'Infini. La Spiritualité dans la Science-Fiction française, anglaise et américaine." Phd thesis, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00869974.
Full textReich, Franziska. "Cadeaux et communication dans les correspondances latines d'Occident (IVe - VIe siècles)." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018STRAG013.
Full textLetters from the 4th to the 6th century A.C. show a significant number of gift-giving situations. These have never been systematically analyzed in late antique history. Interpersonal gifts might be interpretated as acts of communication, not only as objects passed over from hand to hand. In order to determine the interaction between the giver and the addressee, their choices of media and the desire of tansmitting messages throught objects, a differenciated analysis is important. With the help of well-established tools from communication studies, the work at hand presents an alternative method for approching gift-giving in Late Antiquity
Berger, Jean-Denis. "Imago Caeli : l'image de l'Egypte en Occident latin durant l'Antiquité tardive (IIIe-VIIe siècle)." Paris 4, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989PA040013.
Full textIn late antiquity, Egypt is the matter of an idealization that depends sometimes of commmonplaces older that this period (3-7 ct. A. D. ). On the point of view of late Roman geography, Rgypt is described as a border-country, hellenized but also in contact with the Nile-countries of black Africa. The description of Egypt is conditionned by such commonplaces as the description of the river Nile, of its overflowing and the (sometimes emblematic) animals that live by the river. Egyptian civilization is idealized under two aspects, the pharaonic one and the alexandrinic. Ancient Egypt is imagined as the author of an original wisdom that has come to greece and latin west through alexandria, "the summit of all hellas". This wisdom must be linked with solar religion of the 3rd ct. , that that unifies late antique paganism. The iconography of Egypt in west deliveries a comparable message. To the classical nilotic scenes must be added idyllic scenes, that are sometimes reused in Christian repertories. On the contrary, the historiography of late Egypt shows a negative image : Egyptian people are unsteady and violent. On the religious point of view, the isiac cults are the matter of a controversy between pagans and christians. To Egypt defined by its innumerable gods, the christians oppone an egypt converted to monachism. But the latin monastic tells are very oft influenced by mythic structures inherited from old Egyptian beleafs
Demont, Paul. "La Cité grecque archaïque et classique et l'idéal de tranquillité." Paris 4, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986PA040033.
Full textThe introduction discusses the meanings of hesychia, apragmosyne and schole. The first part shows the growth of an ideal of individual and collective tranquility in archaic Greece, with special reference to the traditional praise of activity and to Pindar’s eighth pythian (translated with historical and literary commentary). The second part studies the democratic topos of the quiet citizen who is involved in politics and litigation and shows that it plays a great part in the literature of the classical period, leading to the demand for a new kind of quiet politics (Aristophanes, Euripides, Thucydides). This accounts for the growth of the schole-ideologies which the third part studies in the philosophers of the fourth century (Xenophon, Plato, Isocrates, Aristotle). Schole is no longer a paradise for idleness, but leisure time for the pursuit of higher activities, politics and philosophy, in contrast to both Demosthenes revival of the democratic topoi and the new epicurean and sceptic ideals. The conclusion emphasizes that, when praising hesychia and schole, the archaic and classical literature of ancient Greece is mainly concerned with political aims, namely the safety of the polis
Poignault, Rémy. "L'antiquité dans l'oeuvre de Marguerite Yourcenar : littérature, mythe et histoire." Tours, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993TOUR2002.
Full textBruley, Pauline. "Le "ton antérieur" : rhétorique et style dans la prose de Charles Péguy." Paris 4, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA040239.
Full textBelonging to a generation that had learnt rhetorics, Péguy revolted himself against such formal writing pattern, while remaining faithful to the spirit of ancient humanities. His reaction is mostly interesting, in so far as it takes place among the modern definitions of a style of one's own, even if inspired by the classical taste, but in opposition to the manner of the positivists. Péguy also rejected the eloquence of politicians. He refused the self-assurance of ready-made demonstrations. But his anxiety and perpetual research didn't imply a lack of eloquence. Influenced by the everlasting notion of simplicity, he converted the rhetorical convenance into an ethic as well as esthetic accuracy. Péguy's paradoxical way back to the sources of literature leads to an inventive representation of reality. Then, the style tends to reveal the secret order of reality. Indeed he intends to render its forms and dimensions to a world in which he feels surrounded by platitude and abstraction. The ancient criterium of aptum is induced to convey the hidden greatness of each piece of reality that becomes involved into the dramatic search for the origin and the godly voice. Hence he takes part in the revival of spiritual literature and of the sublime at the beginning of XXth century, in being familiar with the divine. Péguy's style become a figure, really incarned, far from the lethal power of the letter and of an enclosing autonomy
Claret, Jean-Louis. "Le traitement de la révélation dans trois tragédies de Shakespeare : "Hamlet", "Le roi Lear", "Macbeth" : la clairvoyance sublime de l'égarement." Nancy 2, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995NAN21009.
Full textThe heroes of the great tragedies of Shakespeare lose their way and manage, thanks to this drift organized by the playwright, to transcend their nature and attain to a precious knowledge. They leave the darkness of their world and rise to a bright light which enables them to take a new look at the meaning of human experience. Hamlet sinks into the quicksands of his consciousness, Lear is overcome by madness and Macbeth commits himself body and soul to evil. These three characters fascinate owing to the greatness they are endowed with at the end of their course and to the mystery they are shrouded in. Their fates are approached in terms of dramatic writing technique: Shakespeare does not introduce us to men but to 'word creatures' and all that happens to them is nothing but the image of a destiny. The theatre obeys its own rules and the analysis of the words; along with the relation to the spectators are the be-all and end-all of the method the critic must use. The audience attends the disintegration of characters that suddenly grow in stature as they realize how meaningless man's life is. This recognition (anagnorisis in Greek) proves pointless in that the dramatis personae are unable to take advantage of that painful revelation. The public, included in the performance thanks to breathtaking mirroring effects, are the only people who can actually draw
Valette-Cagnac, Emmanuelle. "Anthropologie de la lecture dans la Rome antique." Paris, EPHE, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993EPHEA003.
Full textFar from being a direct and passive consequence of writing, reading forms an independent subject of study and even offers on the roman world a precious standpoint, as it enables us to go beyond the bounds of the traditional opposition between orality and literacy and to analyze the way speech and writing combine their effects. Despite the existence of silent reading, reading aloud is still in use in occidental culture till the 8th century. Why the voice did not abdicate? By studying the different forms of loud reading, we found that vocalization is not only intended to give sense and to communicate, but that it contributes to make writing efficient. Reading aloud is not a simple oral deciphering. It may be used to produce some text (recitatio). As "silent speech", funerary inscriptions institute a fiction, revealing the necessity for the reader to fill the gap that is left by the writer. Lastly, the "double vocalization" process (praeire verbis) characterizing a few types of rituals, answers the double necessity of producing an entirely public statement and of reconciling a paradoxal aspiration of continuity and change
Marzari, Francesca. "Le Pretidi e la follia della vergine nella Grecia antica." Paris, EHESS, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006EHES0119.
Full textThe myth concerning the madness of king Proitos' daughters, reported by many Greek and Latin sources, raises several issues of anthropological interest about the role of the pubescent girl in the ancient Greek world. In my thesis I cover all the most important phases of this myth - the Proetides ' affront to Hera and Dionysos; their divine punishment in the form of madness and, as some sources say, of a kind of wantonness, dermatosis and alopecia; their recovery and marriage to the soothsayer-healer Melampous and his brother Bias - comparing it with other accounts concerning female characters of classical tradition (Minyas’ daughters, Lemniads, Pandareides, Erigone) and stressing the analogies between mythical and medical literature. To sum up, the Proitides, who become mad exactly when they are supposed to be ready for marriage, represent in Greek culture the mythical paradigm of young Virgin's growth crisis during her transition from the status of daughter to that of wife and mother
Romaggi-Trautmann, Magali. "La figure de Narcisse dans la littérature et la pensée médiévales." Thesis, Lyon, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LYSE2143/document.
Full textGreek myths « font signe sans signifier, montrant, dérobant, toujours limpides disant le mystère transparent, le mystère de la transparence2 ». With these words, Maurice Blanchot insists on the very mystery of all myth. It is also the case for the myth of the Narcissus that has known a considerable success in the medieval time but for which it is difficult to … a stable meaning. It is the famous Augustinian poet Ovidius myth that the medieval authors inherited. They added new meanings to the already rich legend, following the footsteps of Ovidius.Narcissus is foremost a figure in love. Narcissus is the unfortunate lover who suffers such a strong passion he dies from it. What he is in love with can be ignored in the medieval versions. Even if he loved a shadow, it is the intensity of his love and the funest consequences the texts insist on. Passion drives Narcissus on the road to death : spiritual death because of Madness et physical death. Narcissus was a prime subject for fin’amor poetry. Troubadours and trouveres made of Narcissus the perfect example of the fin amant between the XIIth and XIIIth centuries. Moreover Narcissus is the deeply linked to the representation of the melancholic that came from the psycho-physiological philosophical and medical theories of love.Moral Reading were also inspired by the myth. Indeed, Narcissus becomes a sinner full of flaws Under the Christian vision of the myth. Pride is the origin of all the flaws: vanity and arrogance are direct consequences. Narcissus becomes the perfect incarnation of these sins. Depending of the point of view the condemnation may vary but the idea is still the same: Narcissus is self-important and is too pleased with himself. Finally the water from the source, one of the most important aspect of the Narcissus mythology, became the meeting point of several traditions which interlaced in the medieval work: biblical water on one side and neoplatonician conceptions of reflection and ancient myth of Narcissus. The ancient fons transforms itself into a medieval fountain and a true mirror. The mirror becomes more and more independent from the surface of water. The phantasmatical dimension of the Narcissus love for his reflection is developed
Jacques, Stéphanie. "La Prière à Isis et à Osiris dans la littérature latine : tradition romaine et innovations isiaques." Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) (1971-2008), 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005STR20003.
Full textThe study deals with the evolution of the Roman prayer, as literary sources allow us to perceive it, since its traditional expression to the isiac and mystic orison. The first part analyses the Roman traditional prayer as regards its structure and expounds first how important the morphological and semantic elements of the invocation stand, then the function and formulation of the precatory request and argument. The prayer dealing with moral matter and the personal prayer in Rome are finally treated. The second part analyses the isiac prayer in the Latin field, emphasing the book XI of Apuleius' Metamorphoses. Poetic extracts from Ovid's, Tibullus' and Claudian's back up the comments relating to the two prayers and Isis' speech which come from the Metamorphoses. The formulated remarks mainly aim at the possibility of distinguishing the exotic pattern prayer which addresses Isis from the initiate's prayer. The third part puts forward parallels between the former studied sources and Greek sources as well as Latin epigraphic texts. Prayers coming from the Ephesiacs of Xenophon of Ephesus and aretalogies lay out themes and eulogistical means which are close to the structure and the ways of expression of the Roman prayer, and more specifically of the mystic prayer. Latin epigraphic inscriptions show how dedicatees, whether they are intiates or not, appropriated caracteristic elements of the isiac cult. The conclusion of the study deals with an interpretation of the mystic prayer from the Metamorphoses as an implicit aretalogy. In conclusion, it seems that the Roman devotee does know, apart from traditional expression, a personal relationship with the gods he prays. He can therefore move towards mystic prayer and adapt the reasoning to new ways of thinking and to a new ritual expression
Lalanne, Sophie. "Héros et héroïnes du roman grec ancien : étude d'une paideia aristocratique à l'époque impérial." Paris 1, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA010675.
Full textHorth, Sophie. "Dire et montrer l'horreur : le sublime par l'ekphrasis au service du fantastique chez H.P. Lovecraft." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/26477.
Full textWesseler, Fedora. "Dramaturgies du Sublime entre théâtre et opéra (1890 – 1939) : présence et métamorphose d’un concept dans l’écriture théâtrale de Romain Rolland, Richard Beer-Hofmann, William Butler Yeats et Hugo von Hofmannsthal." Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040194.
Full textEuropean drama at the beginning of the 20th century was in search of new forms of artistic expression. In this context which coincides with the rejection of materialism, the Sublime as consciousness of human dignity gained in importance. A bulwark against the perpetual and inevitable succession of human life, the Sublime as defined by Schiller more than a century earlier attained equality with the awareness of History, lending to humankind an element of eternity. The efforts of W.B. Yeats to restore a sense of Irish community at the Abbey Theatre, those of Max Reinhardt and Hugo von Hofmannsthal who created the Salzburg Festival, but also Romain Rolland’s project of a « People’s Theatre » as well as Richard Beer-Hofmann’s plays which integrated the memory of the past, all reveal the reconciliatory function newly conferred on drama. These four authors found an answer to the destructive forces of their time by creating a drama of human dignity in which sublime heroism shifts through compassion. Its source, imagination, plays an essential role in the dramaturgy of the Sublime. The examination of the Sublime as a philosophical and dramatic principle elucidates its relationship to both opera and melodrama. The overlapping of genres can already be noticed in Schiller’s plays and proves the intention of raising the audience above the daily round, thanks to a visionary dramaturgy, based on the longing for a higher reality
Coulon, Laurent. "Le discours en Égypte ancienne : éloquence et rhétorique à travers les textes de l'Ancien au Nouvel Empire." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA040060.
Full textThis thesis deals with the discourse in ancient Egypt and the various shapes of valorization which matter is the discourse itself as a social activity as well as a literary shape and topic. The question, thus, relates to the way in which the ancient Egyptians have been picturing to themselves the discourse and its applications, its importance, its functions and its aesthetic value. The method adopted is built upon a pragmatic approach in which the texts from the ancient kingdom to the new kingdom that mention the dimension of the discourse (autobiographies, teachings, royal inscriptions, literary or religious texts) are related to their sociological and historical context. It is then possible to draw out, for each period, the place given to eloquence: thus, in the times of united monarchic power, the existence of court eloquence is stated, which is the means of distinction above all. On the contrary, during the first intermediate period, with the local withdrawal of the provinces, an unprecedented spreading out of political eloquence appears in assemblies where the community's future is committed. The literary discourse forms also the subject of a study in so far as it builds a reflection on the part taken by the discourse. During the middle kingdom, productions such as "the eloquent peasant" or "the lamentations of khakheperreseneb" are questioning deeply the lack of social communication or the loss of reference in an official discourse which fairness is fallacious. During the new kingdom, the literature, which had become more autonomous in the sphere of the discourse, appears as an all-powerful rhetoric that trifles with the truth and the false. The study eventually opens on an endeavor to evaluate the Egyptian rhetoric in itself, especially through what links the latter to the magic discourse