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Zoghlami, Sabeh. "Etude stylistique de la métonymie chez Zola : l'Assommoir, Nana, Une page d'amour et Pot-bouille." Toulouse 2, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001TOU20015.
Full textIn this thesis, we have undertaken a stylistic study of metonymy in Emile Zola's following four works : L'Assommoir, Une Page d'Amour, Nana and Pot-Bouille. In so doing, we have selected among the various study fields in stylistics those that allow to examine this figure which is permeating Zola's text. Our aim is to demonstrate that the figure constitutes a prevalence. Moreover, it accounts for the author's ceaseless discursive creativity. The metonymy we have found out throughout these texts shows itself under various typological, grammatical and enunciative forms. Besides, inserted into a literary text, it is the object of considerable pragmatic work on the fictional, thematic and symbolic levels and also on the aesthetic and literary plan. We have realised that a real poetic dimension emanates from the text thanks to the figure called metonymy. First, from the thematic point of view, and thanks to this figure, Zola was able to expose the ridicule of society under the Second Empire. He thus made use of this device in a remarkable way in order to relate literature to science and try to explain the relationship of man with his milieu. Second, thanks to metonymy, a number of lyric and poetic qualities animate the text. If metaphor is the device of imaginary, metonymy is that of “truth and light”, therefore of reality as well as of the imaginary. This characteristic makes metonymy an original trope of the “zolian” text, an actual “novel-poem”
Barjonet, Aurélie. "Zola romancier et intellectuel." Paris 3, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA030022.
Full textDue to Zola’s engagement in the Dreyfus Affair, his critical reception is problematic, for it comprises both literary and political fields. In addition, the socially critical content of his works has always encouraged politicized reactions. It is this phenomenon we shall be investigating in Germany whilst bearing in mind contemporary occurrences in France. In both countries the history of the reception of Naturalism’s leading figure is marked by various revisionary readings of his oeuvre and literary project. Rarely are these revisions motivated by purely literary concerns—they always come from the left wing. From the 1950s onwards the German Democratic Republic began to re-evaluate and rehabilitate the French author through the initiative of Victor Klemperer and later of Rita Schober, while the Federal Republic of Germany showed only limited interest in Zola until the 1970s, a phenomenon initiated by the re-politicization of academic criticism. This study allows us to distinguish the principle stages of Zola’s French and German reception based on the predominant understandings of the author and his work, and it enables us to compare the stages of his critical reception in order to highlight their structures and convergences, as well as to bring out their differences. As a result, it offers an original re-reading of Zola’s œuvre: by uncovering recurring points of resistance to Zola in critical approaches, this study retraces the most powerful aspects of the author’s mind and action
Seassau, Claude. "Zola, le réalisme symbolique : lectures de L'Assommoir, Germinal et La Bête humaine." Nice, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987NICE2012.
Full textTritz, Claude. "Du personnage à la personne : contribution à l'étude psychologique de la personne dans les romans de Zola : les Rougon-Macquart de L'Assommoir à Pot-Bouille." Paris 5, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992PA05H038.
Full textBranthomme, Michel. ""Lettres de Paris du Sémaphore de Marseille (1er janvier-1er mai 1874) : Texte présenté et annoté." Aix-Marseille 1, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986AIX10003.
Full textVardon, Dolorès. "Avant-texte, écriture et réécritures : les personnages dans le cycle d'Octave Mouret chez Zola : Pot-Bouille et Au bonheur des dames." Paris 3, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA030074.
Full textThe thesis is about Octave Mouret's "micro-cycle" in Emile Zola's The Rougon-Macquart series (Pot-Bouille and Au Bonheur des dames). The first theme is concerned with the genesis in the two above-mentioned novels : re-writing, adapting and transforming the "avant-texte" to the achieved novel. The second theme deals with characterisation, especially the hero in Zola's works
Belgrand, Anne. "La structure oppositionnelle dans l'œuvre romanesque d'Emile Zola." Paris 4, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA040051.
Full textTo study the notion of opposition in this large fiction corpus implies formal, narrative and thematic points of view. Even if the general organization of Zola’s production is obviously divided into two large cycles that, after some less significant youth novels, throw light upon each other first through the Rougon-Macquart family, then through the Froments, we must however examine how opposition (contrast or antithesis) ramifies and becomes a rule of organization within each cycle and each work. The content of aesthetic, ideological and narrative oppositions is very rich and, starting from the eater eaten pair, which is the basic opposition, secondary oppositions develop. But which meaning can we assign to this structure? The last part will consider some scientific, philosophical or literary influences, which reveal Zola’s ideas, together with the stylistic failures of his last works, due to the exaggerated systematization of the process
Lauraine, Françoise. "Le système des éléments dans l'oeuvre de Zola." Paris 3, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA030086.
Full textPrimary elements system in zola's works the object of this dissertation is to study the system of the four primary elements : water, air, earth and fire, specially used in zola's works and dating back to the first stoician philosophers of the antiquity. We have first examined the system genesis and its own structure, then the part it plays at every stage of the literary creation, from the fore-text to the final text, in all the parts of the fiction work ; for example the structural, dramatical, and referential function of the system. Moreover the system also generates its stylistics, the figurative use of the elements composing it, produces metonymies, metaphors and synestesises. Besides, global syntagms like "all", "it was. . All. . One", "it was. . All", are profuse and in company with the recurrent character of pan, a universal god. From this comes out the semiology of the system, in relation with bachelard's concept of imagination and matter, and still in relation with anthropology that links imagination archetypes to science. The stoician philosophy echoes, in the text, zola's pantheism and globalizing thought. The predominance of the "artist fire", a fire of purification and creation, death felt like a return "to the universal life", evil and pain dominated by the ideal of life in harmony with nature, and "the vital energy", give evidence of a wisdom based, on the idea of an "eternal return", on the greek and latin stoicians' "palingenesis", and also on love for life, a life that should be accomplished with dignity, for the good of people
Anfray-Plantureux, Clelia. "La Bible de Zola : mythocritique des Rougon-Macquart." Paris 4, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA040243.
Full textIn the Rougon-Macquart, Zola suggests the rewriting of pagan or Christian, timeless myths. While the first half of the series is about stories inherited either from classical mythology or from the Genesis, the second half borrows essentially from the Ancient and the New Testament, Christian myths, hagiographic stories, or legends. The story of the Original Sin, which is stretched throughout the first three novels, is followed by ancient beliefs about pagan idols: Diana, Vulcan, Venus, etc. Sacred characters, saints, or prophets, like Jacob, Esther, St. Stephanus, or St Paul. Finally the cycle ends with the eschatological story of the Apocalypse. Thus, in order to explain the origins of the collapse of the Second Empire, the author builds a "modern Bible", and partly respects its chronology and unity. In this work, we adopt Pierre Brunel's method, "mythocritique". It rests on three principles: emergence, flexibility, and irradiation. Any interpretation necessarily rests on the emerging of some explicit, mythical occurrence: a single name, a single object or a single sentence can manifest by itself the mythical print. In addition, these mythical elements are not reproduced as such inside the work. They have to be modulated and adapted by the novelist; literary text inflects them. Our study aims at letting them irradiate
Lemarié, Yannick. "Ventre et manducation dans l'œuvre de Zola." Angers, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996ANGE0023.
Full textStanding from the conceptions of plato and descartes that lay the fondations of the philosophy of the body in 19th century France, this thesis aims to point how Zola turns his back on these trends of thoughts in order to have a better understanding of bodoly reality and turn man into devouring being. The next point is to settle in what way the stomach and manducation constitute the basis of fiction creativeness : portraits, space, social structures are thus analysed on this basis. Lastly, the female character is replaced in this new context. Even, the woman is no longer reduced to her sex but she plays a prominent role again in the cycle eater-eaten
Scarpa, Marie-Rose. "Le Ventre de Paris d'Emile Zola : une lecture ethno-critique." Metz, 2000. http://docnum.univ-lorraine.fr/public/UPV-M/Theses/2000/Scarpa.Marie_Rose.LMZ0001.pdf.
Full textTremou, Catherine. "Le dialogue romanesque dans les Rougon-Macquart d'E. Zola." Paris 3, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA030122.
Full textThe fictif dialogue in "les rougon-macquart" il considered as an independant system with its. Own rules. In the novels we find different types of dialogue with their proper meaning. Such types are the informatif, the argumentatif, the debate and the conversation. The dialogue also belongs to the narrative system, and it is the domain for the expression of an ideology. It is therefore a semiotic system with its own significance in the novel
Licari, Anthony. "Etude stylométrique de l'engagement psycho-social d'Emile Zola dans la série "Les Rougon-Macquart"." Tours, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004TOUR2020.
Full textThis thesis takes as a point of departure three expressions taken from a sentence by Claude in "l'Oeuvre" by Emile Zola : literature, science and democracy. Zola considers these elements as the base of prosperity in society. He admits that his work has no infallible system, however, nor efficient solutions to suggest. It is thus experimental and bases itself on the energy which is indispensible to commitment, this thesis which poses two hypotheses : the psychosocial commitment of Zola and the relation between the social worries of Zola and modern society. To this end, measurement methods inspired by human sciences are applied to the whole corpus of the "Rougon-macquart". The aim of this method of analysis of literature is to reduce the parameters of interpretation, espacially free and intuitive, and to create more discipline in literary analysis
Ngone, Dzene Delphine Dielle. "Les pastiches - Zola : poétique et critique." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Toulon, 2018. http://bu.univ-tln.fr/userfiles/file/intranet/travuniv/theses/lettres/2018/These_Ngone.pdf.
Full textZola-pastiches are a sign of reception of Zola’s literary works. More than a centuryafter his death, his style is still targeted by the authors of this type of rewriting. Our researchposes the problem of mimetic or differential appropriation of Zola-pastiches posterior to hisdeath. How the author of Les Rougon-Macquart is imitated in these pastiches is our mainresearch question. A pastiche is a writing that implies a textual repeat characterized by theexistence of two types of texts: the hypertext (derived text) and the hypotext (source text). Acomparative approach linked to the theories of intertextuality and hypertextuality has enabledus to discover that the imitators of Zola draw inspiration from his writings and also from thewritings of other authors. They thus produce pastiches with single, double or multiplehypotexts. The distinction between Zola-pastiches is also based on their internal (literary) orexternal (political, advertising) aim. The authors of pastiches with external aims documentthe social facts of their era just like Zola did in his novels. Some authors show a literaryengagement by attacking political leaders but indirectly. In addition to their aims, theirrepresentation of Zola’s style diversifies their writings. Each writer conforms to someimitation rules which are generally related to the principles of similarities and differences.Some pastiches are therefore move creative and/or more representative of Zola’s style thanothers. The study of the imitative ways of pastiches’ writers implies a reflection on theconcept of style whose definitions seem unclear. These writers no longer focus only onZola’s thematic which has been highly criticized during his life time and even after his death.They blend themes and stylistic devices, thus acknowledging the poetic quality of the literaryworks of the naturalism founder. The Zola-pastiches written during the 20th and at thebeginning of the 21st centuries therefore appear to be a critical analysis of these works as wellas the criticism of the partial or one-sided criticism that preceded the renewed interest in thereading of the author of Medan’s texts. The imbrication of stylistic devices and themesborrowed from Zola and adapted to new contexts shows that the literary style convokes theidiosyncratic and sociologic dimensions of an author’s specific way of writing, given that,style is not an abstract phenomenon but a series of formal and thematic choices which arehistorically located and whose imitation is highly determined by representations
Mcneil, Arteau Guillaume. "Les documents humains : Émile Zola, le journalisme et la littérature (1865-1893)." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/26155.
Full textEntre 1865 et 1881, Émile Zola est un journaliste actif à la fois dans la presse parisienne et provinciale ; pendant les dernières années de cette période, il est aussi correspondant pour une revue mensuelle russe, Le Messager de l’Europe. Cette vaste production textuelle constituée au fil de ces seize années de journalisme donne à lire les observations quotidiennes que formule Zola sur la vie culturelle française en usant des multiples ressources génériques de la presse : la chronique, le microrécit, le portrait-carte, le compte rendu parlementaire, l’étude sociale, la notice nécrologique, etc. Cette étude retrace ce parcours journalistique où l’activité littéraire zolienne se fait au contact d’une actualité tantôt immédiate, tantôt très dilatée, et interroge le rapport d’influence que l’on observe entre la presse et le roman zolien. Ce rapport s’opère sur divers aspects de l’œuvre littéraire : discursif (propos tenu sur la presse dans le texte critique, d’escorte ou au cœur de l’univers diégétique), romanesque (présence d’un personnel journalistique dans le roman zolien), thématique (publicité et littérature), poétique (la méthode d’élaboration du roman naturaliste partage des consonances très précises avec celle du reportage), réception littéraire (la critique antinaturaliste reproche au roman zolien d’introduire les procédés de la presse dans la sphère des lettres). L’étude de ces influences révèle que le romancier emprunte aux procédures journalistiques, et plus significativement aux procédures documentaires, certains modes de saisie du réel déterminants dans la composition de l’œuvre romanesque en régime naturaliste. En cela, on peut avancer que les pouvoirs cognitifs de la fiction zolienne procèdent d’un imaginaire de la documentation étroitement lié à celui du journal au XIXe siècle.
From 1865 to 1881, Émile Zola is a journalist both in the Parisian and the provincial press; he also is, during the last years of this period, a correspondent for a Russian monthly magazine, The Messenger of Europe. The vast textual production of those sixteen years of journalism gives access to Zola’s daily observations about French cultural life using the many usual forms of the press : the column, the micro-narrative, the « portrait-carte », the parliamentary account, the social study, the obituary, etc. The present literary criticism follows this journalistic career and the contact of zolian literary activity with immediate and not so immediate news, and reflects on the relation and the influence between the press and the zolian novel. This relation can be seen in many aspects of the literary work : discursive (remarks on the press in criticism, in a preface or in the heart of the diegetic universe), fictional (presence of journalistic staff in a zolian novel), thematic (advertising and literature), poetic (the construction of a naturalist novel is very similar to the construction of reportage), literary reception (the antinaturalist critique of zolian novels criticizes its introduction of journalistic methods in the literary world). The study of these influences shows that the novelist borrows, from journalistic methods, and especially from documentary methods, certain ways of grasping reality which are crucial in the composition of a novel in the naturalistic scheme. Thus, we can affirm that the cognitive powers of zolian fiction stem from a documentation imagination closely linked to the imagination of 19th-century press.
Youssef-Bartou, Bahira. "La variabilité et l'invariabilité dans Le Ventre de Paris d'Emile Zola." Toulouse 2, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996TOU20040.
Full textResearch of the organisation of the system of the personage and of the relation's vocabulary in the ventre of paris of emile zola to distinguish the properties of the fonctionnal's discours. A typology of the discours based on the distribution between related words to represent a semantic analysis and clarified some of the aspects of the fonctionnal of language in discours. With a descriptif study of the negation and the writing of zola
Nabli, Moncef. "Les corps feminins dans les rougon-macquart d'emile zola." Paris 4, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986PA040157.
Full textWomen's bodies, in les rougon-macquart, fall into three categories: the mother's, the woman's and that of the young maiden. The first type is essentially concerned with the function of reproduction while the other two belong to the erotic and sexual universe. A dichotomy is noted inside each category whereby beauty is opposed to ugliness, fertility to sterility and good to evil. Through signs and symbols the bodies, especially the woman's and that of the maiden, stand for the incarnation of either good or evil. Those symbols refer to pagan or christian myths which give zola's work a timeless dimension thus, placing it beyond the reign of napoleon iii; they also place it in a space which symbolically refer to the womb, if not to the femele body. Zola's work stands as a new transcription of the female body which proves to be inherent to the literay creation
Lumbroso, Olivier. "Construire l'espace : étude des processus génératifs et schématiques dans les Rougon-Macquart d'Emile Zola et leurs dossiers préparatoires." Paris 3, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA030147.
Full textThe work of art is a part of creation seen through a geometrician's eye. That is how we could summarize this study, which concerns the construction of the novelistic space in the preliminary texts of Emile Zola's Rougon-Macquart, from a point of view which favours the geometrical space figures. The point, the line, the square, the circle, the crossing and the tree, often broached as independant themes in Zola's novel, build a compact and organic imaginative world in the space genesis. From the outline to the plans, to the writer's drawings, a poietics of figurativity, fixed in the novelist's mental imagery, is eleborated, the theory of which this thesis is trying to work out. .
Im, Gye-Young. "La spatialité romanesque dans "Au bonheur des dames" d'Emile Zola (approche sémiotique)." Toulouse 2, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996TOU20046.
Full textIn our semiotic approach to the romantic spatiality in au bonheur des dames of zola, the narrative syntax, constituting the main axis of our work, was the condition for the production of meaning for space. In focusing the analysis on the relationships between the characters of the novel, on the one hand, we have centered our problematics on the actantial status of space. It is in the midst of the notion of value that we have developped the syntactic analysis of space, specifically space as an object of value, as a modal object and subject to act. Thus, the targeted object is only a pretext, only an investment site for values, another place which mediatizes the relation of the subject to itself. On the other hand, syntactic investment is consecrated to the spatial organization of the storystatement, stemming from the spatial disengaging which objectivizes the represented spatiality. Given the imposed methodological frameworks, we have shown the semiotic existence of a minimal story which is dependent on the narrativity. The semantic investment of space is expressed on three levels : figurative, topical and axiological
Amine, Bahira. "La description dans "Le ventre de Paris" d'Émile Zola : analyse de discours, éléments de stylistique linguistique." Toulouse 2, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990TOU20034.
Full textGagné, Nicolas. "Les visages de la République dans l'œuvre d'Emile Zola." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 3, 2023. https://bsnum.sorbonne-nouvelle.fr/files/original/1338/6773/These_en_cours_de_traitement.pdf.
Full textThe Republic as conceived by Zola is a surprisingly difficult object to grasp. Surprisingly, as he wrote extensively on politics throughout his career: his defense of Captain Dreyfus, which he saw as a struggle against the adversaries of the Republic as it should exist, was not an isolated act. For example, he often and harshly criticized the political personnel of the Third Republic and described the “naturalistic” or “scientific” Republic he wanted established in France. However, his critical work is insufficient; the naturalist Republic is defined only in a vague, even tautological way: the scientific republican is the one who treats politicalquestions in a scientific way, who applies in politics the literary method of naturalist writers. The idea is interesting, but it has little follow-up; Zola barely even goes far as to name a politician capable of embodying this ideal. We have to dig deeper. We therefore postulate that it is necessary, to get a full understanding of the question, to look for the Republic within Zola’s novels. He was after all a novelist and not a philosopher. This does not mean these novels are not interesting to analyze in their political dimension, on the contrary: it is in particular in the imaginary that they convey that a republican discourse can be found. A cross-reading of fiction and nonfiction is therefore necessary to grasp the question in all itscomplexity. The main objective of this research is therefore to understand what the Republic represents for Zola and how he represents it, which is not necessarily the same thing
Sabatier, Claude. "Les chroniques parisiennes et politiques d'Emile Zola (1865-1872) : un témoignage historique aux confins du journalisme et de la littérature : laboratoire des Rougon-Macquart." Paris 10, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA100157.
Full textFrom 1865 to 1872 , as a young, ambitious and outraged man who came to Paris from Aix, Emile Zola goes through the basics of journalism and prepares for war thanks to the contacts he established at the publishing house Hachette with writers, critics and journalists. He becomes a contributor to anti-establishment newspapers such as L'évènement illustré, but above all, La Tribune, Le Rappel, La Cloche. He adopts and echoes in his articles the opposition movement against the Second Empire which, with its liberalization in 1868, comes to its end. Similarly, with the advent of the Third Republic, he reflects, as a Parliament columnist in Bordeaux then in Versailles, the political practices and debates of this transition period during which democracy is hard to set up. His columns show a wide range of themes from political gossip to contemplative stroll. They especially display an extensive set of literary forms ( dialogues, speeches, letters ) and styles ( from pamphlet to satire ) we analyse in the main part of our study. The third part of the thesis tries to show through references to four novels: La Curée, Nana, La Conquête de Plassans, Son Excellence Eugène Rougon and some incursions in other works from the Rougon-Macquart saga, how the young journalist tested and worked patterns, situations and characters out, that will be more or less unconsciously reinvested develloped and adapted by Zola as a novelist. In short, the press will have been ( above all? ) a kind of processing room for Zola's major work too. It gave this major work its lively aspect
Al, Azraki Kamel. "Le monde ouvrier dans "L'assommoir" et "Germinal" d'Emile Zola." Limoges, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992LIMO0501.
Full textIn our study, we will focus on two of zola's masterpieces, l'assommoir and germinal. This can be divided into two parts. First of all, we will analyse the working class and bourgeoisy's way of living with, on the one hand, the working conditions of men, women and children, and on the other hand, the study of the rising of the middle classes, their moral standards, their education, and their relationships with the working class. Then, we will exponent zola's political ideas -which he assigned to his characters, and his ideological evolution through his literary work. And we will also study the workmen's actions, like the general strike in his two novels we will try hard to pointout the differences between the middle and working classes, on a trade level, but also on a psychological and physical level, concerning education, housing, food and language. Theses divergences lead our study to its purpose, which is the struggle between the hero 'working class) and the anti hero (the middle class)
Gomes, Mônica dos Santos. "As traduções e recepção de Germinal, de Émile Zola, no Brasil." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UnB, 2013. http://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/13516.
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Esta dissertação tem por objetivo a realização da análise crítica das traduções brasileiras realizadas no século XX do romance Germinal, de Émile Zola, considerando as relações entre tradução e formação do sistema literário em nação periférica. A importância de se realizar esse estudo está na reflexão de como a tradução está inserida no contexto social, cultural e literário de uma nação, pois através de obras traduzidas, tem-se a possibilidade de se conhecer outras culturas, fato que, consequentemente, cria a oportunidade de realização de trocas literárias, com vistas ao enriquecimento da cultura local. A análise das traduções de Germinal no Brasil é relevante por se tratar de um romance canônico, peça-chave de um movimento literário que deixou marcas em importantes escritores brasileiros, como Aluísio de Azevedo. Esta dissertação busca demonstrar, à luz de estudos da crítica de tradução e da crítica literária, a importância da presença desse romance em nosso sistema literário. Para tal, analisaremos comparativamente as traduções e retraduções do romance em português, buscando estabelecer relações entre a primeira tradução portuguesa e as quatro brasileiras do século XX. Antes disso, verificaremos o processo de criação do movimento naturalista na França e sua recepção no Brasil. Analisaremos também os paratextos das obras traduzidas, com o objetivo de examinar a apresentação dessas obras aos leitores brasileiros. ______________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT
This dissertation aims to make a critical analysis of translation and a literary critical analysis of the Brazilian translations of Germinal, the novel written by Émile Zola, made in the 20th century, considering the relations between the translation and the formation of a literary system in a peripheral nation. The importance of this study is on lies in the reflection about how the translation is introduced in the social, economic, cultural and literary context of a nation because, besides the translation work, it is possible to get to know other nations, which consequently creates an opportunity for literary exchanges, aiming to enrich the local culture. Concerning the study of a French naturalist novel at the end of the 19th century, we can say that, even though it is a work produced a long time ago, it is important for the Brazilian literary context because of the influence France had on our literature especially at that period. The analysis of the translation of Germinal in Brazil is relevant because it is a canonic novel, which influenced many important Brazilian writers such as Aluísio Azevedo. This dissertation aims to demonstrate the importance of the presence of this novel in our literary system based on studies on translation critique and literary critique. In order to do this, we will analyze and compare a variety of translations into Portuguese, trying to establish a relation between the first translation into Portuguese and the four other Brazilian translations made in the 20th century. Before this, we will verify the creative process of the naturalist movement in France and how it was received in Brazil. We will also analyze paratexts of the translated works, aiming to examine the presentation of these works to Brazilian readers. ______________________________________________________________________________ RÉSUMÉ
Ce travail a pour objetctif l'analyse critique des traductions brésiliennes réalisées au XX siècle du roman Germinal, d´Émile Zola, dans le cadre des relations entre la traduction et la formation du système littéraire dans les nations périphériques. L'importance de la réalisation de cette étude est de penser la façon dont la traduction est intégrée dans le contexte social, culturel et littéraire d´une nation, car, à travers des œuvres traduites, nous avons l'occasion de rencontrer d'autres cultures, et la possibilité de mener des échanges littéraires en vue d'enrichir la culture locale. L'analyse des traductions de Germinal au Brésil est pertinente, car il s´agit d´un roman canonique, chef- d´oeuvre d´un mouvement littéraire qui a laissé des traces importantes dans l´oeuvre d´écrivains brésiliens tels qu´Aluísio de Azevedo. Ce travail cherche à démontrer, à la lumière des études critiques de la traductologie et de la critique littéraire, l'importance de la présence de ce roman dans notre système littéraire. Pour ce faire, nous allons analyser comparativement les traductions et retraductions du roman vers le portugais brésilien en essayant d’établir les relations entre la première traduction portugaise et les quatre traductions faites au Brésil au XX siècle. Avant cela, nous parcourons ce qui fonde le mouvement naturaliste en France et sa reception au Brésil. Nous analysons également le paratexte des oeuvres traduites dans le but d’examiner le mode de présentation des oeuvres aux lecteurs brésiliens.
Boumbé, Ndirimian. "La société traditionnelle et la société future dans les Evangiles de Zola." Orléans, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989ORLE1003.
Full textAs a matter of fact, he compared the decadent society of the turn of the 20th century with the ideal city planned in the future. Against depolluation largely caused by the application of mal hus'theory, he advocated scientific agriculture, a regulating factor of population increase. He opposed to the exploitation of the workers by the possessing class a reorganization of work based on the association of capital, intelligence and working, adopting thus fourierism; collectivism, anarchism look inhumane to him; but in order to grant total freedom from secular and ecclesiastical authority to society symbolized by woman, society should have access to education, to wide education. Eventually, Zola is wishing to apply his scheme for happiness and peace to the whole humanity, hence the international understanding set up at the end of the gospels, thanks to the balance of terror, but also to morals in whose name he intervened in Dreyfus'case
Solda, Pierre. "Les odeurs dans l'oeuvre romanesque d'Emile Zola jusqu'au "Docteur Pascal"." Bordeaux 3, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000BOR30018.
Full textNakamura, Midori. "Les "annonces" narratives dans les romans d'Emile Zola." Thesis, Paris 3, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA030076.
Full textHow does Émile Zola retain durably the reader’s interest? In this study, we identify one of the author’s frequent narrative techniques: the "announcement", which allows the reader to foresee the outcome, creating both the desire to see if the novel ends as one might have guessed, and the urge to find out how. An essential aspect of announcements in Les Rougon-Macquart is that they are voiced by characters either of secondary importance or belonging to society’s margins. Moreover, their sinister prophecies are often declared "unreasonable" and easily cast aside, in order to throttle the voicing of inopportune truths. Thus, the announcement in Zola’s fiction is not only a narrative issue; it also raises awareness on social hypocrisy. Studying Zola’s manuscripts offers a prime perspective on how the author integrated this process to his novels. His dossier préparatoire for L’Assommoir shows firsthand the programming of the announcement through a secondary character; that of Pot-Bouille shows the same procedure, for a socially marginal character. But in L’Argent, one finds a wavering of these archetypal announcing figures in la Méchain, while Sigismond appears as the sprout of an entirely new type of announcer, which will blossom in the last novelistic series. Indeed, after the transition of Les Trois Villes, the heroes of Les Quatre Évangiles become preachers announcing a better world, and confirming its fruition. The announcement then consists of putting forth an ideal. The system of foretelling therefore undergoes a transformation that parallels the author’s ideological evolution: from the denunciation of current issues to the annunciation of the coming utopia
Laville, Béatrice. "L'éducation et ses enjeux à la fin du XIXe siècle : La Vérité d'Emile Zola." Paris 3, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1992PA03A009.
Full textFirst of all this thesis remains the situation of the educative institution under the third republic, by favouring different aspects : the laws, the scolar assiduity the curriculums, the scolar system, and the reproduction of social classes in this systel. Them, it stresses the problems of the french political life during this period, both in its social movements and in its idiological aspirations. In this historical context, the content of the ostentavious recourse to education emerges in its ideological social and political dimension. In a second part, this thesis tries to analyse the progress of one zola's thought about education, from his journalistic writtings, from his personal experiences (hachette books shop) and from the literary production of this period. Finally, this thesis concentrates on the lessons zola extractes from the dreyfus'affair which became the revailing of the republican failures. The third part studies "travail" and "verite" in their sources, their genesis, their educative spirits and their social propsectives. The fourth part stresses the studie of educator's characters : writting constraints, madelling of a hero, characters'systems and distribution of roles. The thesis ends with the underlining of zola's demonstration limits. The discourses of thesis novel, the dilution of the aim in utopia, the recourse to christic myth, emphasize the parallelism kept between the imagery, the republican discourse and the christian faith
Soubzmaigne, Sandrine. "Croyances, créances, crédulités dans les Rougon-Macquart d'Emile Zola." Paris 3, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA030146.
Full textIn emile zola's work, our research studies the belief as a privileged theme in the nineteenth century (specially in the books of gabriel tarde). We first investigate the litterary process of "make-believe" and the effect of reality as developed in the twenty novels of the cycle : indeed the goal of realistic (or naturalistic) text is to try to create an illusion of reality. Our research, further on, goes to the very heart of the novels, in the development of the stories of the rougon-macquart. This involves here the relationships between the various characters, actions of those who believe or do not believe (or believe more or less) what others say (or say they do), and who express their point of view in the texts. This makes them a part of the wider issue of beliefs in various fields (scientific, religious, daily life. . . ). The analysis of "beliefs, debts and credulities" in the novels of the cycle is also based on the study of the subjects treated by the author. The first considered subject is science which, in the later part of the nineteenth century, became of interest to the general public instead of being a specialists' debate. The numerous scientific discoveries (medical, biological. . . ) exert a fascination on emile zola, who will base the litterary writting of the rougon-macquart on a scientific credo, notably defended by his. "spokesman" in the cycle, doctor pascal rougon. We then look at the issue of religion and the opposition between "belief" and "knowledge", subject of many debates in the nineteenth century. The last part ("credit, debts and information") considers the issue of manipulation and power : belief is here developed in some specific narrative themes, as well as it leads to the creation of specific characters
Ngone, Dzene Delphine Dielle. "Les pastiches - Zola : poétique et critique." Thesis, Toulon, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018TOUL3003/document.
Full textZola-pastiches are a sign of reception of Zola’s literary works. More than a centuryafter his death, his style is still targeted by the authors of this type of rewriting. Our researchposes the problem of mimetic or differential appropriation of Zola-pastiches posterior to hisdeath. How the author of Les Rougon-Macquart is imitated in these pastiches is our mainresearch question. A pastiche is a writing that implies a textual repeat characterized by theexistence of two types of texts: the hypertext (derived text) and the hypotext (source text). Acomparative approach linked to the theories of intertextuality and hypertextuality has enabledus to discover that the imitators of Zola draw inspiration from his writings and also from thewritings of other authors. They thus produce pastiches with single, double or multiplehypotexts. The distinction between Zola-pastiches is also based on their internal (literary) orexternal (political, advertising) aim. The authors of pastiches with external aims documentthe social facts of their era just like Zola did in his novels. Some authors show a literaryengagement by attacking political leaders but indirectly. In addition to their aims, theirrepresentation of Zola’s style diversifies their writings. Each writer conforms to someimitation rules which are generally related to the principles of similarities and differences.Some pastiches are therefore move creative and/or more representative of Zola’s style thanothers. The study of the imitative ways of pastiches’ writers implies a reflection on theconcept of style whose definitions seem unclear. These writers no longer focus only onZola’s thematic which has been highly criticized during his life time and even after his death.They blend themes and stylistic devices, thus acknowledging the poetic quality of the literaryworks of the naturalism founder. The Zola-pastiches written during the 20th and at thebeginning of the 21st centuries therefore appear to be a critical analysis of these works as wellas the criticism of the partial or one-sided criticism that preceded the renewed interest in thereading of the author of Medan’s texts. The imbrication of stylistic devices and themesborrowed from Zola and adapted to new contexts shows that the literary style convokes theidiosyncratic and sociologic dimensions of an author’s specific way of writing, given that,style is not an abstract phenomenon but a series of formal and thematic choices which arehistorically located and whose imitation is highly determined by representations
Meyrat-Vol, Claire. "L'imaginaire végétal dans les Rougon-Macquart d'Emile Zola : le régime nocturne." Reims, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996REIML010.
Full textThis thesis unravels a large network of images related to trees, plants and flowers in Zola’s work and establishes that plant imagery is just a meaningful as the animal images uncovered by previous research. The approach, viewed from a mythocritical standpoint, is based on such categories and paradigms as defined by gilbert durand in les structures anthropologiques de l'imaginaire. Introduction a l'archetypologie generale. This thesis brings the nocturnal system, one favoured by zola, into full light by discussing one of the author's major motifs - the hothouse to which a full first part is devoted. A historical study of this type of construction - typical of the modernity of the 19th century - together with the placing of this motif within a tradition of great novelists such as Eugene Sue, Balzac, Flaubert, Maupassant, Huysmans, mirbeau, testifies that a new sensitivity was in the making. The second part of this thesis deals with the scenes, the figures, the network of images related to the "synthetique" motif of the tree. A careful working out of a particular style, a system illustrating Darwin’s theories, a fantasy of mankind's regeneration and zola's personal reverie combine in the family tree to which doctor pascal, a disqualified alchemist, gives a symbolic meaning. With the perfect paradou tree, whose quest the protagonists all embark upon - through a maze which submits them to vegetable stages - Zola is in keeping with most cosmogonic myths (scandinavian, chinese, indian, greek). Furthermore, specific trees branch off in some novel or other in les Rougon Macquart thus composing - through their bringing into light and their symbolic meanings - a kind of intimate zolian forest of the most original persuasion. A botanical index - backed up with a scientific commentary - covering all twenty novels in the cycle completes this study and provides a precious database
Cnockaert, Véronique. "Itinéraires d'adolescence et de jeunesse dans Les Rougon-Macquart d'Emile Zola." Reims, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000REIML006.
Full textOgino, Fumitaka. "Système, anti-système et clôture dans l'oeuvre d'Émile Zola." Paris 3, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA030123.
Full textThe changes in emile zola's understanding of creation can be described with the 2 schemes of situation in front of x (god, nature), and inrreducibility which enables creation to the creation. Being confronted with the so-called systematic philosophers proudhon and taine, zola considers nature as antisystematic in the processs of works creation. Zola will go further in asserting nature and life as irreducible not only to creation, but also to the history of a given society. The scheme of irreducibility is also at work in zola's involvement in the dreyfus case, case in which the closeness of a religion's history is put under question
Schwartz, Françoise-Nadèje. "Le petit employé de bureau dans les œuvres d'Émile Zola." Paris 10, 1985. http://www.theses.fr/1985PA100023.
Full textOulaï, Monné Caroline. "La représentation de la névrose dans les Rougon-Macquart et Lourdes d’Emile Zola." Thesis, Paris 4, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA040188.
Full textNeurosis is one of the most widespread pathologies under the Second Empire. It highlights both a healthy France and a contorted France. Technical progress, industrial development and the growth of capitalism, encourage greed, which, when poorly fed, is source of imbalance. Three States then characterize the French physiological process: greed, enjoyment and dissatisfaction. Thus, from collective enjoyment, it ends up with a collective neurosis in this decadent society. Emile Zola who then painted contemporary society, depicts in many books such as the Rougon-Macquart and Lourdes, his interest for neurosis. This interest of the writer is not only linked to the fact that his time is neurotic but also because he himself is neurotic. In order to cure himself from the neurotic disease, Zola provides both his individual health project and his social project. The panacea he advises, is on the one hand the law of labour and the law of natural love, and on the other hand the channeling of the passions and the reorganization of society
Viboud, Alexandrine. "Poétique du désir dans "Les Rougon-Macquart" d'Emile Zola." Paris 3, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA030141.
Full textShih, Chiu-Yen. "Le modèle esthétique dans la critique d'art de Zola. Essai de sémiotique syncrétique." Paris 8, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA083313.
Full textThe different arts can move us with a similar intensity as art criticism of Zola and Impressionist painting do. Whence is the power of the arts? It is in our body. And this, because the arts generate a molecular motion in the body. This motion is the cause of every emotion, every feeling, according to Hippolyte Taine. The perception of the arts, of the world, results from this intimate motion, which produces the sensation. This is, according to Zola, the origin of feeling and thought. From there emerges the universal dimension of Zola esthethics, based on sensitive work. And this, because the world exists through the five senses which integrate sensori-motricity. By a semiotic approach, this research, through the analysis of mental images drawn from art criticism of Zola, aims to construct an esthetic model, which will highlight the origin of his critical writing strength based on the visible world and expressed through figurative termes. This will lead us to identify more widely the origin of the strength of the correspondence of various languages, and thus the syncretism of the semiotics of literary language and the semiotics of visual language
Lee, Junghwan. "La foule dans les écrits journalistiques et romanesques : étude de la spécificité de la foule dans l’écriture zolienne." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019SORUL022.
Full textOur interest lies in the treatment of Zola’s crowd questions in adopting a pluridisciplinary methodology and studying the various genres of writings. Our research is conducted under the two following hypotheses. The first hypothesis concerns the application of chronological framing to compare the evolution processes shown in the Zola’s ideas on crowd, published in various newspaper articles (investigations, interviews, private journals released posthumously) and in his fictional works. Our constant focus on his journalistic activities shows us that it was during the so-called “journalistico-literary period” which he could develop his own strategies for the crowd taking shape throughout three chosen fictional works: Thérèse Raquin (1867-1868), Nana (1879-1880) and Paris (1897-1898). The second hypothesis interests in the dialectics of “crowdpublic”, a keyword to summarize the dissertation. This word was inspired by a contrast between an analytical approach and a synthetic approach to and puts an emphasis on the characteristics detected inside the editorial process where the author (Zola), the media editors and readers (a form which the “crowd-public” can take) can communicate with each other. It is the “crowd-public” who contributes to a process called “daily literature” and, as reveals our research, this is realized in certain forms of journalistic and literary poetics in the Nineteenth-Century
Nuk, Myriam-Isabelle. "Émile Zola et la Russie, Histoire d'une conquête littéraire." Thesis, Paris 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA030079.
Full textIn the 1870’s, Émile Zola enjoyed exceptional popularity in Russia, counting among the most read foreign authors. In the context of this thesis, we propose to write the precise story of this extraordinary Franco-Russian encounter, relying on mostly unpublished documents in French.In the first part of this study, we see that Zola was in an awkward situation when he made Ivan Turgenev’s acquaintance in 1872. The Russian writer offered his aid, promising to find a commitment for him in Russia. He negotiated to this end with the director of one of the leading liberal reviews of Saint-Petersburg, Mihail Stasulevič. In 1875, in view of the first Russian critical appreciations which were very favourable to the French writer, Stasulevič was persuaded to recruit Zola in "Вестник Европы" [The Herald of Europe], as Parisian correspondent. Anna Engelhardt, who was one of the first Russian critics to focus on Zola, played a key role in his triumph by becoming his official translator at the Herald of Europe.In the second part, we analyze the correspondence exchanged between Zola, Turgenev and Stasulevič for nearly ten years, which we have entirely reconstituted and translated into French, to establish the detailed story of Emile Zola’s collaboration to the Herald of Europe. The sixty four texts which Zola composed for the Russian readership, the Parisian Letters, are presented chronologically, punctuating our reading of the tripartite correspondence. Regularly, the Russian critical appreciations ventured in response to Zola’s publications come to enrich our reflection.This approach allows us to estimate objectively which was the reception of Emile Zola's work in Russia at this time
Lacroix-Vigier, Danielle. "Poétique de la végétation dans l'oeuvre d'Emile Zola." Paris 10, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA100091.
Full textThe novelist emphasizes the common origin of mankind and plants, from which nature structure works. This poetics in the scenery, landscape, touches the sensibility. The particular use of language evoking or suggesting sensations, emotions and ideas, plays with sonorities, rhythms and images. Metaphors revive myths of eath-mother. Zola reorganizes the botanical symbolism, the meaning calls for decoding. This symbolism draws inspiration from mythology. Yet, the novelist creates a symbolic system of his own. Thus, Zola integrates his vegetable world into fiction by a poetic weaving of the works. « The tall trees » enable the second Empire criticism. The evocation of vegetation allows to push away the limits of what can be said. This is used for bypassing the language resources. The interpretation of the fantasy world becomes possible because of symbols. The go-between nature denounces literary conventions, changes completely the rules of etiquette and the « appearance » being in force. Work of denouncement, each novel is a stand taken up against social institutions, political or religious, the death force is opposed to life. The Zola's writing is new, providing the reader with an impression, a feeling, a sensation, the passing time. He writes: « I have not only supported the Impressionists, but also translated them into literature, by the touches, notes, colours, with my palette of many colorations mine. » Like painters, he rubs out the details, proceeding by plans and masses colours. In the entire works, the vegetation takes an important place: it is an unifying mediator as an universal model to the first harmony. Belonging to this period of prosperity in the novelists, we find a criticism of a deliquescent and vandal society. The birth of the perception of the unconscious comes through the vegetation
Mourad, François-Marie. "Zola critique littéraire." Paris 4, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA040122.
Full textOf the figures that posterity retains from Zola, the most unrecognized one is that of the literary critic. And yet his whole work testifies to its pervasive and rich presence. .
Niel, Sébastien. "Zola et l'inconscient." Paris 8, 2011. http://octaviana.fr/document/159053781#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0.
Full textZola's body of work proves his strength as a great writer of madness. His novels describe the inner workings of the human mind woven within unconscious thoughts. Through his characters, Zola depicts primal energies that pass through the body and drive spirits mad. One would expect that those powers correspond to the Freudian model that opposes the carnal instincts of Eros and Thanatos. It is nothing of the kind. The naturalist writer, Zola, reveals human drives concealed in the different social classes of France's Second Empire. These forces animate the interactions of their social lives. The first force is the germinal drive. It binds the social group together by inhibiting the ego from imperiling survival of the human species. This force of energy never vanishes. Nothing really dies, but all comes to life again. Confronted by this germinal drive, the character turns to his inner lethal power to deny his carnal nature. His psychosomatic nature forces retreat which in turn marginalizes him from the social group. Further influenced by the drive of retreat he can sink to different forms of marginalization such as alcoholism, or even mystical delirium. To set him free of the yoke of the germinal drive and the retreat drive, the character uses his appetites and selfish strengths to determine a way of life that becomes the most radical form of individualism. This new model allows us to understand primal anxieties such as the fear of breakdown, revealed by Jacques Lantier’s secret motivations (The Human Beast), leading to a new point of view on the psychological interactions of the social group. Zola permits us to see the presence of primal forces in modern institutions
Azzane, Lahoussine. "L'enfant dans les Rougon-Macquart d'Emile Zola." Bordeaux 3, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986BOR30030.
Full textThe theme of the child, being only recently explored in the 19th century novel, occupies an important place in the rougon-macquart. This interest is due to the depicting of the childss character, his socialization processes, the acting role and the symbolic value he is given. The portraying of the child is highly striking because of the richness and the diversity of its aspects: lexical (to characterize and differentiate the types), social (groups of children), psychological (characteristics of childhood), genetic (kinds of transmission of hereditary factors). The social influence undergone in the surrounding human and physical environment is variously interlinked to the character so as to amend or degrade the nature of the individual. From the formal point of view, children characters draw attention altogether because of their impressing number, the variety of their cases and the role they play in the developing and undoing of the plot of the novel. Adding to this, children symbolize sacred values for zola: people, fecondity, continuous renewal of life, nature. . . The latter remains linked to science whose benefic effect in uncontested. The representation of the child. Through its realism and poetic characteristic, is an aspect not to be neglected in the novel. The portrait of the adolecent and the child's sexuality mark its originality
Reffait, Christophe. "Le roman de la Bourse dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle, généalogie et logique d'un discours romanesque." Paris 4, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA040130.
Full textThe Paris Stock Exchange was intriguing to 19th century writers. But as it stood for "the democratization of capital", it soon became a major source of controversy. After a period of heated debate (1854-1858) in which the press, comedies of manners and pamphlets played great role, the major theses then developed found their way into a novel of manners (1857-1890) that was widely opposed to the market place. The Stock Exchange was then viewed as the principal cause of the breaking p of ancient Régime society, this rhetoric being closely related to the rise of antiqemitism. While Zola's l'Argent (1890-1891) enhances a counter-notion of progress that evokes the American gospel of wealth as exemplified by Frank Norris and Theodore Dreiser, it also brings the political approach of economics to completion by showing that both democracy and the market place are ruled by abstractions
Yu, Ki-Hwan. "Deux romans ouvriers : Germinal, Le Crépuscule, dimension socio-politique d'une esthétique." Paris 8, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA081347.
Full textThis study examines how the authors, by applying their own socio-political beliefs to the working-class struggles they write about, give form to their novels. The study is composed of three parts: first, an examination of the novels' presentation of social opposition; next, an examination of how ideological indoctrination - motivated by social opposition - is presented, and finally a focus on the working-class hopes born of this ideological teaching. The first part, which treats three of the novels' bases (+character;, +time; and +space;) will show that antagonism completely dominates humans trapped in a capitalistic society: we will emphasize discursive opposition and the temporal order of the episodes. The second part is devoted to the study of the indoctrination model: we will attempt to prove that the crux of these novels of the working class is this teaching of ideology. The third part attempts to explain just how much novels of the working class emphasize the desire to fight and the optimistic belief in a positive result of that fight: if we speak of an "aesthetic of hope" in an "aesthetic of struggle", it is because this hope comes solely from the fight. Throughout this study we will attempt to show that however pertinent the questions asked by a literary work may be, an excessive schematization for its utility will result, ultimately, in a negation of that literary work. From this reasoning we arrive at the following conclusion, posed as a hypothesis: the more a novel of the working class employs artistic qualities, the more its socio-political theses succeed in being convincing
Miyagawa, Akiko. "Réalisme critique et utopie romanesque : l'oeuvre de Zola postérieure aux Rougon-Macquart." Grenoble 3, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003GRE39005.
Full textHabiyakaré, Thaddée. "De "L'assomoir"aux "Bouts de bois de Dieu" : le monde du travail vu par Émile Zola et Sembène Ousmane." Toulouse 2, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999TOU20121.
Full textThe familiar reader of Zola's and Sembène's novels has at least felt the echoes of Germinal in Les Bouts de bois de Dieu, two emblematic works of the two writers. Although separated in the time and backgrounds, Zola and Sembène, nevertheless, share a sensibility towards the worker's world. The intention of this thesis consists in proving, among other points of analysis, that beyond thematic and ideological similarities that are generally testified or surreptitiously evoked by critics, the two author's novels show disturbing affinities on the aesthetic level as well. Although deep-rooted in African land, the fictional work of Sembène heavily draws inspiration – like a number of novels of this young African literature during the rich decade 50/60 – from the Realist style of the 19th century. Being masters of "mimetic writing" and eager to portray as honestly as possible the worker's condition, both writers rely on a rich and varied mine of resources such as narration, description, impressionist and mythic images, the onomastic, lexical or stylistic features, sociological, historical and geographical facts which are necessary for the famous "realist anchorage", etc… Each in his manner and in often variables proportions, the two writers, more or less successfully, tries to shape his palette according to the motif to be depicted. Revolutionary writing for a revolutionary Topic? Nothing is unsurer than this. The outcome of this "alchemist" literary experimentation is balanced. Despite great efforts, Zola and Sembène do not escape classical conformism at all. One finds in their works rhetorical devices inherited from the fictional tradition alternating with some literary daring. This dissertation aims at exploring the whole of the aesthetic tools in order to highlight the game of intertextual relations which rules the fiction built up by both novelists and, lastly, to prove that the underlying meaning of their novels resides namely in the utopic dream of a socialist humanism: this new ideology meant not to solve the social problem which has been the Zola's permanent preoccupation. Could this essay meet the challenge of contributing in the dialogue of cultures, to enrich the debate and above all, to shed more light on to the dark paths of a field worth exploring?
Gosme, Michel. "Litterature et science dans les romans de zola de 1886 a 1902." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA040146.
Full textThis thesis studies the relationships between fictional narrative and science in the novels written by emile zola between 1886 and 1902. It first underlines the gaps between these two domains, which are known to be worlds apart, and zola's position in relation to this problematic. It notes that the speech of physiology is prominent but as zola's relation to science evolved, the fictional vision expanded in keeping with the dominant theory of positivism and shifted from a study of the body to that of society. The next step is to take stock of the main positive elements with an epistemological outlook : the concept of irreversibility together with that of vitalism seem to be pregnant in zola's conception. After delineating a history of the development of the theme of science in zola's thinking, three fundamental contributions will be dealt with more at length : taine's critical thinking, claude bernard's experimental method and the thesis of heredity which constitutes the backbone of rougon-macquart l'oeuvre is seen as a fundamental novel because it was published at a time when naturalism was in peril : this novel is exemplary because it asserts the necessity of science as a weapon against physiological as well as social degeneracy. The use of science-related discourse by zola is analysed throughout the subsequent novels with special emphasis on the emergence of the regeneration theme and the solutions mentioned by zola to overcome degeneracy. Zola's vitalism increasingly asserts itself until, in docteur pascal, it is associated, in theory, to the redeeming quality of science. In the series of trois villes, our study focuses on the processes of man's liberation, then in quatre evangfles and its utopian time-scheme, on the solutions found, through an experimental story, the product of the author's "romantic scientism"
Jittani, Sôichirô. "La pensée littéraire et artistique d’Émile Zola : une esthétique vitaliste." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2020. http://accesdistant.sorbonne-universite.fr/login?url=http://theses.paris-sorbonne.fr/2020SORUL038.pdf.
Full textThe present study was designed to highlight aesthetic thought of Zola in relation to vital energy. Behind his scientism doctrine—to which Zola, a theoretician is too often reduced—the novelist, from his youth, constantly reflected on creative genius. In order examine this side of his writing, we focused on his writings on art. In the 1860s, his formative years, realism declined and a post-realistic current emerged which seemed destined to surpass it. Realism, which was considered a form of materialism presenting “matter” without synthesizing it with the “mind”, was criticized for its supposed lack of creativity. In response, in his writings on Courbet and Manet, Zola proposed the idea of the work as produced not by the “mind”, but by “life”, arguing that the expression of the artist’s life animates all objects around him or her. While he adhered to realism’s endeavour that, by rejecting metaphysics and imagination, he lead art to matter, his theory of the productive notion of “life” went beyond realism, espousing the creativity of “matter”. This attempt echoed the history of aesthetics, which moved with Taine and Guyau—among others—towards the theorization of life as beauty in the positivist era. Through the prism of his belief in vitalism, as understood through the critical and philosophical discourse on art in his time, we offer a new way of reading Zola’s work which reveals his constant efforts to build a creative principle specific to the naturalist regime from his first novels to The Four Gospels
Maire-Varupenne, Anne-Catherine. "Les opéras d'Alfred Bruneau, la collaboration d'Emile Zola et le naturalisme musical." Lyon 2, 2003. http://theses.univ-lyon2.fr/documents/lyon2/2003/varupenne_ac.
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