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Bobin, Bernard. "Le Paraître chez William Styron." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1988. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37603080k.

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Bobin, Bernard. "Le paraître chez William Styron." Dijon, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987DIJOL011.

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Première partie: Styron insiste sur l'angoisse de l'homme dans un monde dont la "réalité" lui échappe. D'où une double caractéristique: le narcissisme (défense du moi) et des symptômes schizoïdes, moyen de combattre le sentiment dominant de l'absence, cette absence qui génère la culpabilité. L'autre est menace et ou mystère qu'on s'efforce de nier ou de réifier à défaut de se l'approprier intérieurement (rêves par exemple). Seconde partie: elle insiste sur la menace que l'autre représente pour le moi. D'où des rapports violents. Le moi recherche l'admiration ou s'efforce de dominer par toutes sortes de moyens. La révolte devient la dernière étape dans cette affirmation du moi mais elle échoue parce que les héros de Styron portent en eux ce qu'ils veulent détruire. La critique sociale n'est qu'accessoire. Troisième partie: elle étudie les stratégies mises en œuvre par Styron pour satisfaire une ambition (excessive) d'être un écrivain reconnu. Contradictoirement, Styron tente de sonder l'invisible tout en accusant les surfaces. Il affirme (sans toujours convaincre) sa culture et se montre soucieux (même à l'excès) de son style. Inversement, recours au sensationnel (thèmes, utilisation croissante de la violence et du sexe, structures). De ce fait, il règne dans l'œuvre une confusion entre fiction et "réalité". L'autobiographie accroit cette confusion mais l'auteur ne peut y échapper pour cause de fixations infantiles. La fiction de Styron se trouve affaiblie pour toutes ces raisons et à cause d'un aspect trop didactique qui trahit sa foi en la valeur didactique de la littérature et surtout au pouvoir du langage
First part: Styron’s insistence on man's anxiety in a world the "reality" of which escapes him. Such an experience entails a double characteristic: narcissism (defence of the self) and schizoid symptoms (means of fighting back the prevailing feeling of absence). Absence as such generates guilt. The other is felt as a threat and or a mystery and Styron’s heroes tend to deny or to reify others (through dreams for example) when they cannot see others as a part of themselves. Second part: it emphasizes the threat that the other represents for the self. It leads to the violent relations between heroes. The self aims at being admired or at dominating others. The self tries to assert himself using all possible means. Rebellion appears to be the last stage in this self-assertion but is bound to fail because the characters have in themselves what they want to destroy. Social criticism is quite irrelevant in Styron’s work. Third part: it focusses on Styron’s strategies to fulfil; his (inordinate) ambition to become a successful writer. Contradictorily, he tries both to fathom the invisible and to stress the visible. He asserts (not always convincingly) his culture and is a careful (but overwriting) stylist. Conversely, he has recourse to the sensational (themes, increasing use of violence and sex, structures). Because of that, his work offers a confused blending of fiction and "reality". The use of autobiography increases this confusion but Styron cannot avoid it because of infantile fixations. Styron's fiction is weakened for all this and for a didactic vein which betrays his faith in the didactic value of literature and in the power of language

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Herion-Sarafidis, Elizabeth. "A mode of melancoly : a study of William Styron's novels /." Uppsala : Almqvist & Wiksell, 1995. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35769211w.

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Hamade, Akram. "L'Influence du romantisme sur les oeuvres de Khalil Gibran et William Styron." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1986. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb375947975.

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Hamade, Akram. "L'influence du romantisme sur les oeuvres de Khalil Gibran et William Styron." Rennes 2, 1985. http://www.theses.fr/1985REN20010.

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Sacks, Dan. "The historical traditions of Nat Turner." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/1394.

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LaFarge, Albert. "A fine and growing art: Norman Mailer, William Styron, and James Jones in conversation." Thesis, Boston University, 2012. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/33259.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University. Please note: Editorial Studies works are permanently embargoed in OpenBU. No public access is forecasted for this item. To request private access, please click on the locked Download file link, and fill out the appropriate web form.
A Fine and Growing Art is an annotated edition of letters and other documents chronicling the intertwining relationships and careers of Norman Mailer, James Jones, and William Styron, three prominent figures in American literature of the past century. I have endeavored to collect every surviving letter exchanged between the principals; I also include letters of other interlocutors, and published writings in which the principals discuss one another (or are discussed by others), insofar as these collateral documents touch informatively upon the principals' relationships with one another. A Fine and Growing Art is an elaborated three-way conversation, bringing forward expressions of opinion and feeling both public (in the sense of published, and often prominently so) and candid (in the reserved company of friends, or even in the near-secrecy of an unsent draft). Often funny, occasionally outrageous, consistently engaging, A Fine and Growing Art begins to unravel the mysteries long surrounding these three literary titans-about their friendships particularly, their feuds also, their evolving art, and how it all came to pass.
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Lauder, Ingrid May. "'An Ethically Charged Event': Styron, Rushdie and the Right to Speak." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Culture, Literature and Society, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/928.

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In Derek Attridge's J.M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading (2004), the novel is referred to as "an ethically charged event, one that befalls individual readers and, at the same time, the culture within which, and through which, they read" (xii). The ethical positions of individuals, communities and cultures are addressed through one of the most explosive issues in imaginative fiction: "the right to speak." What happens when a novelist not only encroaches on the values of an ethnic group or religion but also speaks on their behalf, as if from within that community or belief? This question has become especially charged with the emergence since the 1960s of "cultural politics": the identification of a political viewpoint within each discrete community in a multicultural society, and the resolute claim by each community to represent its history and values in its own terms. I consider this question by way of the responses to two novels: William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967) and Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses (1988). Both of these novels were highly controversial when they were released, inciting anger among minority groups because they transgressed the limits of representation. Styron's novel challenged the right to speak because, as a White man, he attempted to portray the consciousness of a Black slave. The African-American community, during a time of upheaval, radicalism and assertion of their power, responded with vitriol, arguing that Styron's novel was a racist, stereotypical, appropriation of Black history. The allegedly blasphemous portrayal of Islam in Rushdie's Satanic Verses created even greater controversy throughout the Islamic world and British Muslim community - their anger amplified by a feeling of betrayal by one of their own. These novels illustrate the ethical dilemmas of the representations of minority groups and make urgent the question of whom has the right to speak for them in literature. Increasingly the tensions between individualistic White liberal ideology and communitarian sensitivities about the representation of their cultures, religions, histories and identities are being contested through the site of the novel. Satanic Verses and Nat Turner demonstrate the challenges faced by multicultural societies when liberals and communitarians force themselves into a manufactured binary through which no effective debate can take place. While the novelist's right to speak should be defended precisely because of the ethical dilemmas that can be presented by literature, freedom of speech is never absolute. The "ethical event" of the novel requires a more nuanced response, which recognises both the valuable and the potentially destructive nature of literature.

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Cologne-Brookes, Gavin. "From harmony to history : the shifting patterns of discourse in the novels of William Styron." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.235573.

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Finley, Aaron Solomon. "“Fathomless, Symbolic, and Threatening”: Capital and Identity in Motion in Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and Styron’s Set This House on Fire." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1302536383.

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Dismukes, Reba Carol. "Calvinism Revisited: Predestination and Sterility in William Styron's "Sophie's Choice"." W&M ScholarWorks, 1989. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625526.

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Zetterberg, Pettersson Eva. "The Old World Journey : National Identity in Four American Novels from 1960 to 1973." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis : Uppsala University Library, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-5946.

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Fober, Magdalena [Verfasser]. "Identität und Wissen in ausgewählten Werken Elie Wiesels und William Styrons : (Wissens-)Grenzen des Selbst / Magdalena Fober." Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1127484591/34.

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Harrell, Laura Allison. "âItâs an honorable choice:â Rebellions Against Southern Honor in William Styronâs The Confessions of Nat Turner." NCSU, 2009. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-11052009-205004/.

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When Bertram Wyatt-Brown published Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South in 1982, he established honor as a key to understanding the culture, of the antebellum South, and created a new anthropological framework for analyzing Southern patterns of conduct. This essay describes, through the lens of honor, the attempts of Nat Turner and Margaret Whitehead to rebel against the patriarchal code of Southern honor, and explores their failures to subvert the rigid assumptions of the prevailing system. Disrespected, mistreated, and enslaved, Nat wishes to disrupt the perpetual social system of white honor and black deference; he uses his literacy and the patriarchal models of the Old Testament and his father to rebel against his social condition and to sustain his plan for insurrection and eventual liberation. Emotionally distant from the patriarchal authority of her brother and the influence of her mother, unable to communicate freely with her peers or family, and distraught and torn by her socially unacceptable belief that slavery should be abolished, Margaret rebels against these socially imposed controls and ideologically commits herself to her convictions about equality, tolerance, and Christian love. Though both Nat and Margaret actively rebel against the existing honor system, they fail to consider the influence of the public sphere. This failure to identify the public perceptions of various social communities results in the collapse of Natâs and Margaretâs rebellions, and it contributes to their eventual deaths.

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Lainé-Forrest, Eléonore. "Les notions de temps et d'espace dans l'ecriture styronienne : la faille temporelle de l'existence." Thesis, Paris 3, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA030042.

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Ce travail examine la façon dont l’écriture styronienne met en lumière la faille temporelle de l’existence. Utilisant le mode d’analyse défini par la narratologie, il commence par étudier les variations spatio-temporelles que créent les analepses styroniennes. Puis, il montre comment ces variations permettent de dépasser l’illusion référentielle de l’histoire pour découvrir l’univers opératif du récit styronien. Enfin, il révèle la façon dont ce récit se fait à travers les drames, toujours différents, que donne le théâtre de l’expérience humaine. Se référant aux théories énoncées par la psychanalyse, et plus particulièrement par la psychanalyse lacanienne, ce travail étudie ensuite comment les romans styroniens dévoilent l’aporie temporelle dans laquelle l’homme évolue. Puis, il montre la façon dont ils dépeignent l’effet de cette aporie, l’Autre en l’homme, puis l’homme lui-même, alors qu’il préfère souvent ignorer le Nom-du-Père pour ne pas entendre la loi primordiale de l’existence. La dernière partie de cette recherche examine la manière dont les romans styroniens s’introduisent dans le domaine de l’histoire. Elle met d’abord en lumière le mouvement ternaire qu’adoptent, pour se former, le récit historique et le récit de fiction styronien, et montre que ce dernier procède d’un travail de signifiance et non de « représentance ». Puis, elle analyse comment William Styron décrit les hommes préférer la mémorisation à la re-mémorisation et produire ainsi l’oubli dans leur âme. Apparaît, en conclusion, le rôle que cet auteur propose de faire jouer à l’écriture romanesque comme remède à l’oubli historique aussi bien qu’à son œuvre destructrice
This work examines the way Styronian writing highlights the temporal gap of existence. Using the mode of analysis defined by narratology, it begins by studying the variations of time and space that are created by Styronian analepses. Then, it shows how those variations allow the reader to go beyond the referential illusion of the story to discover the operative universe of the Styronian narrative. Finally, it reveals how the latter is constructed on the ever-changing dramas staged in the theatre of human experience. Then, referring to the theories of psychoanalysis and more particularly of Lacanian psychoanalysis, this work explores how Styronian novels disclose the temporal aporia in which man evolves. It also shows the way they describe the effect of this aporia, the Other in man, then man himself often preferring to ignore the Name-of-the-Father so as not to hear the primordial law of existence. The last part of this research examines the way Styronian novels enter the field of history. It starts by highlighting the ternary movement that both the historical narrative and the fictional narrative of William Styron adopt to construct themselves, and shows that the latter proceeds from a work of significance and not of “representance”. Then, it analyses how William Styron describes men preferring memorization to re-memorization thus creating oblivion in their souls. To conclude, it reveals the part this author offers fictional writing to play as a remedy for historical oblivion as well as for its destructive consequences

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Lauder, Ingrid. "An ethically charged event : Styron, Rushdie and the right to speak : a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in English in the University of Canterbury /." 2006. http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/etd/adt-NZCU20061207.115025.

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Houdková, Veronika. "Rodinná tregédie v románu Williama Styrona Ulehni v temnotách." Master's thesis, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-273312.

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This thesis deals with complicated family relationships of the main characters in William Styron's first novel Lie Down in Darkness. The Loftises only seemingly make a happy, perfect family. The main characters are Milton and Helen Loftis and their daughter, Peyton. The aim of the thesis to delve into the complicated family relationships and analyze the characters in order to discover the reasons behind this family's tragedy, namely Peyton's suicide. The thesis also introduces William Styron and his first novel that has unfortunately been virtually ignored in the Czech Republic.

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Harrell, Laura Allison. ""It's an honorable choice" rebellions against Southern honor in William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner /." 2009. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-11052009-205004/unrestricted/etd.pdf.

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