Academic literature on the topic 'French literature catalog'

This thesis investigates conceptual networks —systems of organising, understanding and explaining thought and knowledge— and the ways in which they underlie both text and its mise en page across a range of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century French and Catalan literary texts and their manuscript witnesses. Each of the three chapters explores a separate corpus of texts, using two of four interrelated network theories: Michel Serres’ notion of parasites and hosts as the basic interconnecting units that combine to constitute all relational networks; the ubiquitous organizational tree; Gilles Deleuze’s concept of the fold as the primary factor in producing differentiation and identity; and Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s unruly, anti-hierarchical and anti-arborescent rhizomatic systems. The first chapter engages primarily with parasites and trees; the second with trees and folds; and the third with folds and rhizomes. However, resonances with the other network theories are discussed as they occur, in order to demonstrate the fundamentally interconnected and often interchangeable nature of these systems. Each chapter includes close analysis of manuscript witnesses of the texts under discussion. The first chapter, ‘Saints Denis and Fanuel: Parasitism and Arborescence on the Manuscript Page’, examines parasitic and arboreal networks in two hagiographic texts: late thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century prose redactions of the Vie de Saint Denis, and the thirteenth‐century hagiographic romance Li Romanz de Saint Fanuel. The second chapter, ‘Ramon Llull’s Folding Forests: The World, the Tree and the Book’, addresses arborescent and folding structures in Llull’s encyclopaedic Arbre de ciència [Tree of Science], composed between 1295 and 1296. The third chapter, ‘Transgender Genealogy: Turning, Folding and Crossing Gender’, considers three characters in medieval French texts who can be read as transgender: Saint Fanuel; the King of Torelore in Aucassin et Nicolette; and Blanchandin/e in Tristan de Nanteuil. The chapter explores the ways in which these characters’ queer trajectories can be understood through conceptions of directionality which relate to the fold and the rhizome.

Ce travail de recherche interroge l’image de Barcelone dans trois langues et cultures différentes et vise à mettre en valeur les processus de constitution et d’écriture d’un mythe littéraire. En effet, Barcelone est une ville palimpseste, support d’une série de mythifications. A partir du XIXe siècle, à l’heure des grandes œuvres réalistes et naturalistes, Barcelone devient une ville incontournable de la littérature hispano-catalane. Cependant, les ouvrages de cette période ne font pas réellement connaître Barcelone au-delà des frontières espagnoles. Il faut attendre les lendemains de la Première guerre mondiale pour que la capitale de la Catalogne acquière un véritable rayonnement international dans le monde des lettres et pour que se renouvellent les topoï qui lui sont liés. Or les écrivains français jouent un rôle de premier plan dans la création et la diffusion d’une nouvelle image de Barcelone, capitale culturelle et cosmopolite. Ils façonnent une image de la ville qui sera reprise et actualisée par les écrivains hispano-catalans. Notre corpus est trilingue et englobe, notamment, des œuvres de Jean Genet, André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Georges Bataille, ou Claude Simon, ainsi que des ouvrages écrits en castillan par Juan Marsé, Juan Goytisolo, Eduardo Mendoza, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Carmen Laforet… et des ouvrages en catalan tels que les romans de Mercè Rodoreda, Victor Mora ou Montserrat Roig. D’un point de vue méthodologique, la teneur imagologique de ce sujet nous invite à recourir à différentes sciences de l’homme – histoire des mentalités, anthropologie culturelle – et à interroger les problèmes liés aux notions d’interculturalité et d’intertextualité<br>This research examines Barcelona’s image in three different languages and cultures, and seeks to highlight the process in which a literary myth was created and expressed in writing. Indeed, Barcelona is a palimpsest city ; a support for a series of created myths. Beginning in the 19th century – the era of major realist and naturalist works – Barcelona became a city impossible to avoid in Spanish and Catalan literature. However, fiction at the time did not project Barcelona’s image beyond Spain’s borders. The capital of Catalonia only gained international literary recognition after World War I, when the topoi associated with it were also renewed. French writers played a key role in creating and spreading Barcelona’s new image as a cultural and cosmopolitan capital. They shaped an urban image which was subsequently taken up and up-dated by Spanish and Catalan writers. The corpus here is trilingual and covers in particular the works of Jean Genet, André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Georges Bataille, or Claude Simon, and fiction written in Castilian by Juan Marsé, Juan Goytisolo, Eduardo Mendoza, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Carmen Laforet, etc. , as well as works in Catalan such as the novels by Mercè Rodoreda, Victor Mora and Montserrat Roig. From a methodological point of view, the imagological content of the subject draws on human sciences – the history of mentalities and cultural anthropology – and raises problems linked to notions of interculturality and intertextuality