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Unger, Bettina. "Das Lied der Liebe bei Jean Genet /." München [u.a.] : Fink, 2007. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2952572&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
Full textPang, Ka-wing Steven, and 彭家榮. "Schizophrenia / androgyny: mapping Jean Genet." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31952793.
Full textDahan, Chantal. "Jean Genet, le captif imaginaire." Paris 7, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991PA070118.
Full textThis essay involves a study of the two first works of jean genet which include, we believe, the work's genesis and the author legend. It studies, in three points, the alchemy consisting in dissolving and recombining, through an esthetical elaboration, the abject of an origine and of a belonging. The first point analyses the different effects of directing the writing act from a prison cell. The second point keeps close to the structure of the "miror" tale, of the writer's imaginary structure. The third point studies the esthetical "conversion" of the abject through the litterary and linguistic stakes. Place of the begetting of a writing subject, these works register the birth of a writer. While giving him a litterary filiation, they are registering him in the symbolical world
Corrado, Jean-Christophe. "Le lyrisme de Jean Genet." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020SORUL112.
Full textThis thesis tackles the task of reading Jean Genet’s works through the notion of lyricism. The defining features of lyricism can be distributed into four main categories through which this thesis addresses Genet’s works. First and foremost, subjectivity and the writing of the I : everything in Genet’s writing directs attention towards Genet himself, so that the diegesis appears to be no more than a mere pretext to write about the feelings of the narrator Jean Genet. The second category encompasses love writing and the expression of desire. Genet claims to walk in the footsteps of Ronsard, but petrarchism and medieval lyrics are relocated in prisons cells and gay cruising areas through books that bring together the most daring pornography and the sappiest sentimentality. The third category consists in laudation, along with the rhetoric devices of exaggeration and magnification, and the last one in the poet ethos that Genet establishes in his books even though he wrote more novels than verses. Genet appears as a poet by means of self-representation strategies, by virtue of a thorough metaliterary effort aiming at presenting his novels as long prose poems, and by the use, in his novels, of several formal characteristics borrowed from the poetic genre
Basri, Aïcha El. "L'écriture carcérale de Jean Genet." Chambéry, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996CHAML003.
Full textThe work of Jean Genet is analysed here in the light of the poetic of the imaginary : description of passage movements of the real prison to the imaginary prison through the metamorphosis of space and the report to the time. Space and time are submitted to centripetal forces (reduction, retraction, descent. . . ) in hillock to centrifugal forces (expansion, ascension. . . ) to the point of rupture between the inside and the outside, the closed and the open, the visible and the invisible, the infinity of the time and the fugacity of the moment. In this experience of limits, all competes with the construction of an imaginary refuge. The body appears as one of the ultimate refuge, cosmos-theater of all these movements. Similarly, the space of the text, in his syntactic arrangement, is wrought by all these movements. From the dynamics of this writing that all spaces, in their contraction, borrow their motives from the prison. That is as well as the being of Genet forges his clean identity of prison life in the confinement of the refuge
Campos, Daniel Correa Felix de. "A paixão segundo Jean Genet." Florianópolis, SC, 2002. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/83694.
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Esta dissertação tem como título: A Paixão segundo Jean Genet: Labirintos e Barroquismos e se estende em dois intentos principais: o primeiro, consiste no estudo da arte e da estética de Genet pelo qual se procura dar fundamentação ou sustentação ao pressuposto de que sua arte revela certa tendência barroquizante. Esse intento contém também duas compreensões a saber: a do processo de escrita denominado - O labirinto de Genet e a análise dessa arte cotejando diferentes conceitos relativos ao Barroco, sobretudo aqueles fundamentados em Walter Benjamin, Heinrich Wölfflin e Eugenio D'Ors e, ainda, contemplando a poética e a estética de Genet sob o pensar filosófico de Hegel, Gaston Bachelard e Herbert Marcuse. Essas duas compreensões correspondem respectivamente aos três primeiros capítulos. O segundo intento, a leitura da paixão, se faz alicerçada em Foucault e em Bataille. Trata-se então do erotismo, da transgressão e da paixão presentes na Arte de Genet, em que os jogos de sedução, desejo e poder se realizam nas relações eróticas, ou simplesmente na intimidade e na cumplicidade entre homens. Considera-se que esse segundo intento atravessa toda a dissertação. E, ainda, no desdobre desse propósito se compõe e se atinge o quarto capítulo, nele se reflete de modo particular o homoerotismo em Genet. Segue-se a conclusão, que se apresenta antes como um descortino da arte, da paixão e do erotismo em Genet do que como concluimento ou mero desfecho.
Bolouki, Mahtab. "Jean Genet et l'architecture du vide." Paris 3, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA030140.
Full textDaviron, Caroline. "Elles : les femmes dans l'oeuvre de Jean Genet /." Paris : l'Harmattan, 2007. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb411912818.
Full textKo, In-Sook. "Aspects de la dramaturgie de Jean Genet." Paris 3, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA030004.
Full textThis dissertation had for ambition the analysis of aspects of Jean Genet's dramaturgy through his plays, including the posthumously published ones : Haute Surveillance, Les Bonnes, Le Balcon, Les Nègres, Les Paravents, Elle, Splendid's, Le Bagne. The originality of this work is found in its inclusion of the posthumous plays which are here given the same weight as those published in Genet's life time. This work brings to light the importance and the role of each and every one of these plays into the Genetian world as well as their contribution to the homogeneity of his theatre. In this light, I proceeded with the study of "Characters", "Space", "Discourse", and "Reception". The analysis of these four aspects highlighted the main characteristics of Genet's theatre and his vision of the world : his refusal of the old moral, social, and aesthetic order, his questioning of the language of the theatre, and his exaltation of theatricality, his exploration of the world of dreams and obsessions, and his despoiling of the image game which is well engraved in our world. .
Lambert, Emmanuelle. "Jean Genet : le travail du texte théâtral." Paris 7, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA070051.
Full textThe works of Jean Genet began with the self-construction of his name and his figure as an author. With the access to the theatrical form, this aesthetic imperative is supposed to be exceeded by the rules of this new poetic genre. But the expression "the theatre of Jean Genet" refers to a moving production, changing during the years, and showing its movements or its processes offered to the act of reading. To observe the differences and the correspondences enable to read what we call a new text - the "working process of the dramatic text"; within this work reappears the supposed outside figure of the author, invading his proper production in a paradoxical way, productive and destructive at the same time, as an image of the fight between Jean Genet and the Theatre
Seys, Elisabeth. "Violette Leduc, Jean Genet : poétique du désastre." Paris 7, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA070059.
Full textMarginalized, Leduc and Genet wanted to shape a new image of themselves, and created an original strategy of self-writing : out of norms, they could not obey any roles, even though literary. Thus they modified autobiography, and such concepts as Time and Subject. There, problematic is existential and poetic since it forces them to shape a new language. Then appear two poetics of disaster, who signify that the gap is not between Leduc or Genet and society, but an always started again gap between reading and text. The last, creating a new language, requires a new reading. Leduc and Genet 'show that it is problematic to read a text that does not obey the common roles, and, more generally, that any reading distorts a text if it uses tools that were prepared yet: on the contrary, it should be isomorphic to the text: the required position is here one df an. Asceticism that keeps words breathing
Cheng, Xiao Mu. "L'écriture de Jean Genet : un baroque moderne." Paris 7, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA070008.
Full text"Style is everything", said Jean Genêt in his last book Prisoner of Love, which has actually a more documentary tone than his fiction. For a number of reasons, although Genêt's style is a strong feature of his writing, it is often neglected by the critics. This dazzling style is manifest in the fierce, enclosed universe of his novels, filled with eeriness, ostentation, sexual seduction and mystical illusion; and also in his plays, which are permeated with disguise and visual fantasy. Studying the style of all his works, we find a scheme of baroque aesthetics, which refers back to the art history in the 16th century and has re-emerged in modem literature. The baroque spirit, characterised by its preoccupation with artistic will and spiritual salvation, applies ideally to the creation and the "sacred " quest of Jean Genêt, as well as to certain of his contemporaries. Exploring the images and the structure of the aesthetic style which has been called "modem baroque", we re-read Genêt and reconsider his most ambiguous themes : evil and sanctity, death and redemption, aestheticism and eroticism, politics and language, disguise and pretence. At the same time, this research into a particular writer, Genêt, will bring us closer to the heterogeneous nature of the baroque spirit and allow us to propose some new hypothesis for its renaissance in modem times
Colle, Jean-Louis. "Le sacré dans l'oeuvre de Jean Genet." Paris 4, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990PA040182.
Full textKongtip, Kanittha. "Jean Genet : la mort et la métamorphose." Toulouse 2, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991TOU20033.
Full textDeath and metamorphosis represent two stages in genet's writing, while expressing antagonist forces fighting each other inside the writer's unconscious. If death stands for the static moment of genet's inner conflict, metamorphosis is a dynamic imaginary endeavour to transcend the helpless limit of human condition. The traumatic experience of an unsurmontable difference between "the self" and "the other" leads genet to no longer perceived the world as "real" but through a paradoxical dialectic (a perverted thinking); a vicious circle which only the powers of imagination can break. Genet's ultimate aim is not to become equal to "the other" but more precisely to invest the other in an imaginary way to reach his own "being"
Alcheikh, Mohamad Andalos. "Le mysticisme du mal chez Jean Genet." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009CLF20005.
Full textBougon, Patrice. "Le récit chez Jean Genet : politique, vision, rhétorique." Paris 8, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA087266.
Full textGenet's writings are studied as examples of poetic narrative. Whether the texts appear as novels, autobiography or historical narrative, all share an enigmatic narrative progression marked by digression. Using the theoretical perspectives of barthes, deguy, derrida and riffaterre, the thesis analyses the motivation of narrative structure in genet's works, focussing on his specific use of rhetorical figures and lexical polysemy. Firstly, the relation between literature and politics is considered, showing that the formal aspects of the texts, their particular use of irony and the generalisation of their political criticism disallow any univocal reading despite their historical referent and polemical concerns. Secondly, the conception of visibility and the image in genet's works is analysed. Genet's aosthetic essays on rembrandt and giacometti show how a dynamic notion of the relation between narration, description and the poetic and visual image influences narrative progression. Finally, the third part of the thesis synthesises the results of the first two concerning the rhetorical and lexical specificity of genet's style, notably his use of polysemy and plays on words as a motor of narrative expansion. Two new aspects are considered: the running metaphor and its relation to dictionary defintions; the textual effects of the use of proper names and cliches. The thesis argues that genet's narrative writings, and his posthumous texts in particular, should be reevaluated from a perspective paying more attention to meaning generated by semiosis than to the simple representational logic of mimesis. Self- reference, digression and the capacity of any single word to generate narrative sequences define the specifity of genet's style whilst enabling his narrative writings to radically reconsider political and aesthetic notions, as well as the writing subject's relation to language itself
Pinguet, Catherine. "Jean genet : poetique et politique de la mort." Paris 7, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA070137.
Full textThis thesis deals with the last period of jean genet's life and work, from the end of 60's until the death of the author. It refers at the same time to the totaly of his work. The study which consists of four parts questions the links between writing and political exigencies : a totality which is incessently being worked on by the idea of death. Also referring to genet's other texts and the interviews with him, the thesis takes as its subjects prisoner of love. The priviledged historical context is the palestinian resistance, particularly the years 70-71 and "sabra and chatila". The present study has faced many difficulties called forth by the subject itself : analysing a work which resists any method of interpretation, circumscribing the unique political position of the author without assuming a polemical stand point
Redonnet, Marie. "Jean genet, le poete travesti portrait d'une oeuvre." Paris 3, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA030113.
Full textTHE STARTING POINT OF THIS THESIS IS "THE GREAT PROBLEM" GENET ENDEAVOURS TO RESOLVE THROUGHOUT HIS ENTIRE WORKS BY EMBARKING ON THE ADVENTURE OF POETRY. TO WRITE SO AS TO SUCCEED IN CREATING HIS OWN LEGEND IS THE FIRST ANSWER THE POET FINDS TO THIS GREAT PROBLEM. GENET CAN ONLY BE A POET BY ADOPTING A DISGUISE. IN THE GUISE OF A NOVELIST WRITING A FAKE AUTOBIOGRAPHY THAT WOULD BE HIS LEGEND, HE CREATES A FAKE LEGEND FROM WHICH HE LAUNCHES FORTH INTO THE ADVENTURE OF POETRY. THIS IS THE REASON WHY HE "LINES" HIS FAKE LEGEND with THAT OF THE TRANSVESTITE DIVINE. LIKE DIVINE, THE POET IS A DISGUISED PERSON, A TRANSVESTITE. LIKE DIVINE, HE BREAKS THROUGH THE MIRROR-IMAGE IN ORDER TO CREATE A NEW SELF-IMAGE. BY BRINGING POETRY AND REVOLUTION TOGETHER THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF THEATRE, GENET ATTEMPS TO FIND YET ANOTHER RESPONSE TO THE GREAT PROBLEM HIS WORKS MUST RESOLVE. SINCE THEATRE CONTAINS THE ACT OF REVOLUTION ITSELF, CAN IT FREE POETRY FROM HISTORY THAT WOULD CONFINE IT IN A ENDLESS SUCCESSION OF FUNERALS ? THE ENCOUNTER OF POETRY AND THEATRE IS A GREAT WEDDING CELEBRATION THAT SUBVERTS THESE FUNERALS. YET NEITHER THE LEGEND NOR THEATRE SUCCEED IN BEING A PROTECTIVE HAVEN FOR GENET; WILLING TO STAY ALIVE AT ALL COSTS, HE GLORIFIES AND TRASHES THEM BOTH BEFORE HE EVENTUALLY FORSAKES THEM. BY GIVING HIS VOICE TO THE DAMNED OF EARTH, GENET FOUND THE WAY TO MAKE HIMSELF LOVED BY THOSE (BLACK PANTHERS AND PALESTINIANS) WHO COULD NOT LIVE WITHOUT A REVOLUTION, EVEN THOUGH REVOLUTION IS IMPOSSIBLE. THE POET WILL BEAR WITNESS AS THEIR DEFENDER, PUTTING THEIR ENEMY ON TRIAL - AN ENEMY WHICH IS ALSO HIS VERY OWN. POETRY ENTERS THE SERVICE OF REALITY, LEAVING THE REALM OF THE FABLE. UN CAPTIF AMOUREUX IS THE POET'S LAST ANSWER TO THE GREAT PROBLEM HE MUST RESOLVE. IN WRITING HIS MEMOIRS ABOUT THE PALESTINIAN REVOLUTION, HE DIVES INTO HIS OWN LOST MEMORY, WHICH IS ALSO THE LOST MEMORY OF HIS TONGUE. HIS LAST BOOK THUS BECOMES THE ADVENTURE OF A BIRTH AND A METAMORPHOSIS ON THE VERY THRESHOLD OF DEATH, IN ORDER FOR A NEW INHERITANCE TO COME ONTO BEING ON BEHALF OF THE CURSED AND THE DAMNED
Lance, Daniel. "La figure de l'ange dans l'œuvre de Jean Genet." Paris 4, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988PA040011.
Full textKlees, Géraldine. "Les thèmes obsessionnels dans l'œuvre romanesque de Jean Genet." Metz, 1992. http://docnum.univ-lorraine.fr/public/UPV-M/Theses/1992/Genet.Jean.LMZ921.pdf.
Full textGenet never unveils himself completely to his readers although he pretends to write narratives with an autobiographicam tendency. By writing, the former child in care takes his revenge on an unjust society which has abandonned him. Writing, instead iof being a confession, is often a means for deveiving. The study of the obsessional themes consists in verifying whether Genet is the person he pretends to be. The first part distinguishes between the real episodes and the fictive episodes: it is the part of the conscious themes. The second part is a psychoanalytical interpretation of the unconscious themes. It ascertains who the man is because the writing is often the unconscious mirror of the writer. The third part verifies the two preceding parts by retracing Genet's moral universe by means of the novelistic structure of the narratives. It establishes a link between Genet as an author and Genet as a narrator in an attempt to answer the question whether the reader can recognize the man throught the heros of the novels. This part treats of Genet's evolution beyween 1946 and 1953
Chédeville, Élise. "Les Poèmes de Jean Genet : la subversion comme style ?" Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2020. http://accesdistant.sorbonne-universite.fr/login?url=http://theses.paris-sorbonne.fr/2020SORUL047.pdf.
Full textThrough an asserted effort to exploit and divert literary traditions in his Poèmes, Genet aims at displaying unusual instances of passion to delight readers, to disrupt their values, and to finally choose subversion as style. This subversion seems to have taken its source in the life of the author – who explores poetry as much by vocation as through a desire to penetrate the literary field; – and was brought to fruition in the history, the reception and the different versions of his Poèmes. If the genetic publication of the complete collection and the draft texts of the Poèmes show a constant will by the author to remodel the ethos as well as a specific, cyclic and rhapsodic genesis style, the analysis of the versions also brings to light the emergence of a style that is directed towards reinventing the self, delighting the reader, reconfiguring language and transfiguring reality. This subversion style could be acknowledged as a play on forms and forces which aims at seduction and the undermining of norms. By being part of a validated and remodeled poetic genre, Genet states a paradoxical relation to metric norms and, by using affected and archaic speech filled with ostentatious figures, he subverts the doxa to weaken its linguistic, aesthetic and social codes. Moreover, Genet's style makes an extensive use of the metaphor in order to better seduce the reader and transfigure reality by rehabilitating a denigrated world and disparaged love. The choice of a forged and exemplary enunciative scenography, be it through its configuration or its register, puts the finishing touch to the construction of a marginal ethos, filled with pathematic force and stylistic singularity
KLEES, GERALDINE Dereu Mireille. "LES THEMES OBSESSIONNELS DANS L'OEUVRE ROMANESQUE DE JEAN GENET /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1992. ftp://ftp.scd.univ-metz.fr/pub/Theses/1992/Genet.Jean.LMZ921.pdf.
Full textVannouvong, Agnès. "Jean Genet ou les revers du genre : esthétique du genre et mise en scène de l' identité dans le théâtre de Jean Genet." Paris 8, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA082792.
Full textInverse, reverse, queer. Boundaries, between-ness, gap. Such terms describe the instability of the subject’s position as represented in Jean Genet’s theatre. In his work, the low brushes against the high, the masculine blends within the feminine —and vice versa—, the sexual flirts with the religious, and opposites mingle. This dissertation, « Jean Genet ou le revers du genre », (Jean Genet or the other side of gender), demonstrates that Genet’s dramatic representation of sexual polymorphism paves its way toward a poetics of ambiguity. First, this study shows how the androgynous and transvestite fictional figures that the playwright brings onto the stage embody the distortion and queerness of the sexualized image he has in mind. The deconstructionist framework within which this research is carried out establishes a criticism of the normative binary system. It begins by focusing on the playful imaginary aspects of the visual element of Genet’s dramatic representation. Secondly, it demonstrates that his theatrical conception relies on a model of surveillance that questions the status of the spectator. Then, the third part of this study gives a more precise definition of what is envisioned here as the expression of a « polysexual », aesthetics, constructing on stage a circulation of sexual, social and imaginary identities through the manipulation and distortion of scenic images. This study then concludes with an analysis of the way in which Genet goes beyond these dramatic games to establish his identity politics and aesthetics as social and cultural constructs. The author seizes the metamorphic quality of identity, bringing the disconnectedness of the subject to the forefront by doing and undoing gender. Jean Genet’s unclassifiable body of work escapes traditional literary categorizations, disturbing us as it interrogates our humanity and exposes the fluidity of each of our identities. It destabilizes our foundations as it embodies our sexual urges before our eyes in an object of desire which may be feminine, masculine or which perhaps stems from a third sex
Bizet, François. "Une communication sans échange : Georges Bataille critique de Jean Genet." Paris 3, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA030072.
Full textGeorges Bataille (1897-1962) did not write on Jean Genet (1910-1986) more than two articles, published respectively in 1949 and 1952. Only the second one went down to posterity, since it also figures in an important essay called Literature and Evil (1957). The terms of Bataille's second critique are irrevocably clear-cut : Genet's work is a " failure ". They contrast with the positive reception Genet had got on the occasion of Bataille's first article. Our research aims at explaining the reasons of such an about-turn. Is it just a consequence of Jean-Paul Sartre's masterful preface, Saint Genet, Comedian and Martyr, written for Genet's Complete Works ? The question should be answered with an exhaustive analysis of Sartre and Bataille's conflictual relationship since 1943. Is it rather a matter of some deeper rejection, or some kind of affect, whose a close examination of Bataille's text should be able to reveal the main symptoms ? This work tries to put both critical systems in their intellectual context : for Bataille, a comprehensive approach, based on the key notion of " communication ", for Sartre, a phenomenological approach, illustrated by the notion of " commerce " (dealings). It also tries to identify the nature of Bataille's fierce and unforeseen resistance. However, what we call " communication without exchange " does not refer to the complex relationship between Bataille and Sartre, it designates the way the poet Jean Genet came to express his own conception of poetical communication, as he probably was weary of quarrels he had given rise to : in the 1960's indeed, he often claimed that a work of art should be offered to " the vast people of the dead "
Asciano, Jean-Luc André d'. "La famille, l'amour, la mort dans l'oeuvre de Jean Genet." Paris 7, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA070120.
Full textBecause Genet was an orphan and had no family of his own. It seems interesting to study the way family works in his books. Using psychoanalysis and anthropology we can try to make apparent the structures of these families. We soon realised that they concern the law the perversion of law and especially death. In Genet's work the family is about the struggle with death - family can be mortifying or rather a possibility to survive death. The family is linked to the name of the father, and the signature of the author. Therefore, through the name and signature, we must deal with the problem of language and the other. That is to say language in addressing the other the reason or the consequences of this address in relation to love and forgiveness. The objective of this thesis is then to define the relationship between family, love and death in Genet's work
Daviron, Caroline. "Le féminin chez Jean Genet : il e(s)t elle." Toulouse 2, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995TOU20014.
Full textThe dissertation is an attempt to delimitate the concept of feminine in jean genet's poetic work of the twentieth century. In his poems, narrations, plays, scripts i tryed to show the fundamental source of the feminine gender and femininity in jean genet's writing as well as the evolution of the topic through his wor. This concept of femininity took various forms among which one of the most prevailent certainly is the ambivalence of his male characters shared between "he" and "she", at once masculine and feminine. I defined the origine of the choice and, indeed, the very mechanisms which make up the feminine character. I then consider childhood, heterosexuality, threesomes, homosexuality, incest, tranvestism, transsexualism which allows me to define the cliches surrounding the notion of gender and hence i show how genet usurps such cliches by pushing back the limits. He roots that sexual transgression is in the process of writing itself and in so doing insidiously imposes the feminine as a tool to reverse social, racial, political barriers. The struggle for the aknowledgment of a gender becomes, to a larger extent that of all the oppressed who, like women, have to suffer from whatever oppression. I analysed how genet shifted from the notion of marginality to the notion of femininity as an other way of an other form of exclusion. Through the poetic and political themes, the author embarks on a search for the "mother", the "woman" he has never known. I have finally revealed this quest of an absolute image
Penrose, Barbara Margaret. "Death and the mother in the life of Jean Genet." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1996.
Find full textMountasar, Rachid. "Le poétique dans "Les bonnes" de Jean Genet : essai d'analyse stylistique." Paris 3, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA030155.
Full textLozier, 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
Bertin, Marjorie. "Le pirandellisme dans le théâtre de Jean Genet. Poétique et esthétique." Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030156/document.
Full textThis thesis highlights and analyzes the Pirandellian themes in Jean Genet's plays. It proposes a redefinition of Pirandellism, which was the subject of much controversy from the time of its first definition, of philosophical inspiration, by the Italian critic Adriano Tilgher, in 1923. The new definition put forward here is based on five main characteristics: dualism between life and form; Pirandellian humourism; the supremacy of the art work over life; the impossibility of being a unified self; and metatheatricality. This new dramaturgical modelling of Pirandellism serves to analyze Pirandello's metatheatrical plays and all of Genet's theatre, with a view to understanding the historicity of the texts, that is, their anchorage – and sometimes absence thereof – in relation to their contexts of production and the relationships they weave between them. One of the theoretical frames of reference taken to analyze the influence of Pirandello's dramatic art and aesthetics on Genet's theatre is historical and precisely relevant to the history of theatre and scenic forms in 20th century Italy and France. This work is closely linked to the question of the author and of influence. Apart from Pirandellism, the deconstruction of realism, the giving up of psychological or gestural imitation and of the effects of illusion, the spatial framing of a new fictional world, and the abundance of varied texts and forms of stage direction that outline and recommend staging with meticulous precision are all characteristics common to these two authors
Lozier, Claire. "De l'Abject et du sublime : George Bataille, Jean Genet, Samuel Beckett." Thesis, University of Kent, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.544028.
Full textVappereau, Marguerite. "Jean Genet, la tentation du cinéma : une oeuvre filmique et scénaristique : genèse, poétique, comparaison." Thesis, Paris 1, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA010507.
Full textIn 1975 in London, Jean Genet begins the writing of Divine, the catalyst for a project which was supposed to unite the producer and manager Christopher Stamp with the young rock star David Bowie. This document, just exhumed, adds to the series of Jean Genet's cinematographic attempts: High surveillance (1947), Mademoiselle (1951), Le Bagne (1952-55), The Blue of the Eye - also known as The Night has Come (1975-1978), The Language of the Walls (1981-83) - conceived as a television series, his famous short movie A Song of Love (1950), as well as his video-book Witnesses (1980-1982) realised for Danièle Delorme. Genet lived in a time where cinema contaminated everything: writers - such as his friend Cocteau, philosophers - like the companion Sartre, live at the hour of cinema. From the 1940's to the 1980's, Genet dedicates himself to cinema writing, going sometimes for more than two years from the rough outlines of the synopsis to the more advanced production phases. These texts are a rendering of this temptation to write a film. Without prejudice, Genet explores ail genres - erotic, film noir, musical, documented fiction - in an incessant displacement, with no respect for any code. This is a reevaluation of an enriched corpus - according to three problematics - historical, genetical and figural - in order to reveal ail the powers at stake and confront them to his novels, his theater and his essays. Genet works the cinema, the cinema works Genet
Bendhif-Syllas, Myriam. "Genet lecteur de Proust : l'influence de "A la recherche du temps perdu" de Marcel Proust sur les récits de Jean Genet." Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) (1971-2008), 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008STR20059.
Full textWhat to write having read Proust’s narrative, A la recherche du temps perdu ? The proustian model is a hidden model for Genet who rarely evoked his reading of Proust. In his work, sometimes he does a pastiche of his predecessor, sometimes he perverts it. Nevertheless behind the blatant rewritings of A la recherche du temps perdu, he tries maybe to create a new version of it, a work which would contain all the others. At first, the beginning writer walks in the tracks of Proust, taking back motives, composition, mixture of the arts and the questioning of the literary genders, to achieve a coherent group of five volumes. But he feels dissatisfied and decides to give up his attempts to dedicate himself exclusively to the theater first of all, to the political action then. The model seems definitively rejected, the writing abandoned. Finally, appears in a posthumous way an unexpected work, Un captif amoureux, where Genet seems to have found the synthesis of his diverse experiments and where re-appears the shadow of the proustian model
Urban, Urs. "Der Raum des Anderen und andere Räume zur Topologie des Werkes von Jean Genet." Würzburg Königshausen und Neumann, 2005. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2906035&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
Full textBushart, Susanne. "L'individu, le sujet et la trahison chez Jean Genet et Heiner Müller." Paris 3, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA030016.
Full textThis thesis talks about the question of betrayal in the works of Jean Genet, a French writer, and in those of Heiner Müller, an author from East Germany, a question which is looked at from three different angles: production, revolution and heritage. Müller's plays from the period of the construction of socialism in the G. D. R. , known as the production plays, are compared to the novels of Genet. His plays and texts which focus on revolution in the works of different authors are put in the comparison with the first plays of Genet. His plays dealing with the war between the sexes, which correspond to the heritage period, are examined in the context of the more mature plays of Genet. This comparative thesis on the works of Genet and Müller and the question of betrayal includes an analysis of the political side of betrayal in those texts which are about political and historical subjects or which become political. Betrayal is first shown as an act of designation, then, in the text by the narrator, as an act of conjuring the image of the traitor. .
Héron, Pierre-Marie. "Esthétique et morale dans les oeuvres de Marcel Jouhandeau et Jean Genet." Paris 7, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA070008.
Full textConsidering the whole corpus of the two writers, the essay means to extract the main data of aesthetics and morals from their experience of murder and homosexuality. Two of the most grievously sensitive scenes of their relationship to the world and their readers. The first part follow s its formulation and evolution about murder, from the "heretical passions" pf the 1920s' tales to the 1966 news in brief (jouhandeau); from the foul crimes of the 1940s' stories to the political murder in the last works (genet). The second part does the same with inversion, felt guilty for long, and to whom the two writers may have given the role of a n aesthetic and moral basis (or at least aesthetic: genet). The first three chapters study the evolution of the type of m. Godeau up to the libertin aesthetics in the carnets de don juan, then the defence of idolatry in the journaliers and the erotic works of the same period, finally the savoir-faire developped in the same decades on the ground of a moral debate. Four chapters devoted to genet follows the representation of male sexuality up to the moral compromise of journal du voleur, its denial in the 1954-1955s' texts to the benefit of an aesthetic logic, lastly the conclusion of the posthumous book, between prostitution and pieta. A last part studies the spiritual extensions of the aethetic and moral processes, which are actually elaborated in a religious climate from which jouhandeau and genet seek to detache ways and ideals of perfection
Cornford, Sharon Mary. "Responses to the human condition in the prose fiction of Jean Genet." Thesis, University of Hull, 1994. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:14330.
Full textBalcázar, Moreno Melina. "Politiques de la mémoire : l'écriture de l'événement dans l'oeuvre de Jean Genet." Thesis, Paris 3, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA030041.
Full textIn the work of Jean Genet (1910-1986), the question of writing – which is that of literariness - is indissociable from political and ethical reflection. One of the most remarkable aspects of Genet’s writing is the way in contends with the imbrication between these two kinds of reflection. This double dimension is addressed here from the vantage point of History as inscribed in Genet’s oeuvre, and through an interrogation into the rapport between the literary on the one hand and the political and ethical on the other. The first interrogation concerns the relation of Genet’s writing to memory and History, and the articulations and disarticulations this entails. These questions are inseparable from a critique of the distinction between the public and the private or intimate, which traverses the whole of Genet’s work. For Genet, writing must be the « work of life », yet how can it without restraining itself to conventions that regu! late each act in classifying it within one of its domains? Indeed, the central question that is raised here is that of the Event. For Genet, it is not enough to commemorate the past. He searches for a writing that conserves the trace of suffering, whilst producing an effect, and thus constituting itself in the Event. His reflection on what might be called the “politics of memory” compels us to examine the notions of trace, materiality, and performativity as they regard the precarity of the living
Neutres, Jérôme. "Genet sur les routes du sud le corps de la politique." Paris 7, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA070024.
Full textPietrobruno, Sheenagh. "Myths of the body : performing identity in Genet." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=56642.
Full textPoitras-Stewart, Sacha. "Les mots de la blessure : l'image poétique au service des arts plastiques." Thesis, Université Laval, 2006. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2006/23783/23783.pdf.
Full textYoon, Jeong-Im. ""Saint Genet, comédien et martyr" : De la préface à la critique littéraire." Paris 10, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991PA100014.
Full textThe saint genet of j. -p. Sartre is a problematical book, at one by its dimensions and the same time by its contents. Considered, in the beginning, as a preface for the oeuvres completes of jean genet, this book offers the ideas indispensable for the studies of that two writers : sartre and genet, and also for the essential problematic in the notion of literature. Throughout the structural analysis, we ascertain that the structure of this text is founded on the concept of temporality. This work reveals one of the senses immanent in the text. By the examination of the statute of the text, - saint genet as a fictionalized biography and as a literary critic - we understand why this book can modify our conception of literary genre, and this contribute to vary the meaning of the text : saint genet, the polymorphous text
Lane, Véronique. "Tenir l'évanouissement : entre maîtrise intégrale et abandon anéantissant : Jean Genet et Antonin Artaud." Thèse, Paris 7, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/7080.
Full textAntonin Artaud and Jean Genet experienced confinement in an asylum and a prison respectively. They both also conceived of writing as theatre, on the same level of tragedy as life, and shared the same conviction that literature, like all forms of art, has the power to do something for us. Despite their many points of contact in terms of biography, poetics, and ethics, their works have never been the object of an exclusive comparative study, a surprising omission that the substantial introduction of this study sets out to elucidate. In fact, if the works of Artaud and Genet are often compared, it is inevitably in a limited fashion: briefly, via a third author, and in terms of the theatre. Yet all their writing is theatrical: it is the premise on which this, the first full-length comparative study of their works, is based. Firstly, I study Artaud and Genet’s conception of theatre from the perspective of the tragic which they both privilege, because above all they value the reanimation of their work performed by the reader. In fact, I engage with Genet and Artaud as both writers and readers, analysing the singular way in which each takes great figures from mythology, literature, and history, in order to introduce them, irrespective of their provenance, into their own works. To demonstrate this work of "reconfiguration" in Artaud and Genet, which is at once biographical, aesthetic, and ethical, I analyse their treatment of Antigone, in "Antigone chez les Français" and "Journal du voleur". Secondly, I examine how Artaud and Genet defy the dialectic of judgement ruling the univocal reading which they oppose. In part, I focus on their defiance in the texts that they composed in 1948 for the same radio broadcast, "Pour en finir avec le jugement de dieu" and "L’Enfant criminel" (both of which were censored). And in part I focus on the defiance they practice by way of a revelation that I call a writing of fainting—which has nothing of the sublime in it, which in fact only retains the structure of the interruption from the Hegelian Aufhebung, that is to say the coup de theatre that it introduces in the deliberation of consciousness. I further analyse the commentaries of Artaud on his drawings and numerous scenes of fainting in Genet’s works. Thirdly, I put forward an ethical way of approaching the troubling terms "cruelty" and "treason" that Artaud and Genet have bequeathed us. More than being notions, I propose, these are methods aiming towards a new mode of reading. By the intervention of these anti-conceptual concepts Artaud and Genet invite us to live in the same way they write and read, that is to say in the same way they "see" the multiplicities of reality. As an exemplification, I advance a close reading of Artaud’s "Théâtre et son double" in relation to Genet’s "La Sentence"—a text whose recent publication confirms the pertinence of the comparative approach taken in this study.
Thèse réalisée en cotutelle (Université de Montréal et Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7)
Cunha, Daniele Azambuja de Borba. "Une analyse de la présence du double dans Les Bonnes de Jean Genet." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/56474.
Full textA presente dissertação tem como objetivo principal analisar a presença do duplo na peça Les Bonnes, de Jean Genet, publicada em 1947. Para tanto, a metodologia que emprego consiste, inicialmente, na breve apresentação da vida e da obra do referido autor, bem como na sintética contextualização da época em que a obra foi produzida. Depois disso, passo à análise propriamente dita, em que estudo, no primeiro momento, os diversos elementos que compõem a peça, como a intriga, o paratexto, o espaço, o tempo, os objetos, os personagens e as relações que se estabelecem entre estes últimos. Por fim nessa análise da peça, exploro as possibilidades de manifestação do duplo em Les Bonnes, apontando alguns aspectos importantes que, levantados na análise, subsidiam a leitura da peça que é proposta nesta dissertação. O último capítulo aborda um outro âmbito, o das dificuldades de compreensão e de tradução do francês. Ele compreende uma breve comparação entre trechos do texto original e sua tradução em português europeu que é acompanhada de uma reflexão sobre as possíveis dificuldades no processo tradutório e as soluções encontradas pelo tradutor para resolver tais problemas, tarefa que se insere nas atividades realizadas pelo grupo de pesquisa do Instituto de Letras da UFRGS sobre as dificuldades de compreensão e de tradução do francês para o português.
Milkoff, Isabelle. "L'influence du style parle sur la narration romanesque de trois romanciers contemporains : l-f celine, jean genet et jean giono." Paris 7, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA070097.
Full textThe adoption of spoken language as the foundation of a literary style involves a rupture with the traditional rules of narration. Just as this spoken style allows the appearance of orality in written discourse, the novel undergoes a number of sudden narrative and discursive transformations, which fragment its course creating the effect of a spontaneous spoken narration. The function of fictional narrative is thus modified. First, telling a story in a direct fashion is no longer the only issue. In addition, the center of gravity of the novel is displaced from the story towards the narrator whose words thus appear to be a living and vital speech. The three sets of works discussed here, all published around 1950 (trois chroniques romanesques by jean giono, feeries i and ii by louis-ferdinand celine, three novels by jean genet), exemplify, each in a different manner, this triple rupturestylistic, narratological, novelistic - and participate in the broader renewal which has characterized contemporary novelistic production
Castelli, Marco-Antonio. "La figure du marginal dans le théâtre de Plinio Marcos et de Jean Genet." Paris 4, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA040327.
Full textThe objective of this thesis is to study the role of the fringe, in Plínio Marcos and Jean Genet's theaters. It includes the application of an analysis through dramaturgic art method which helps to the understanding of the functioning of plays with regards to the link between the dramatical words and the theatrical action. This link defines the personality of the characters whose elements give us a portrait of the fringe's universe theatralised by our authors. In order to locate properly their dramatic art, the third chapter establishes a reflection on theater and reality. The reality of the facts and the reality of theater are the purpose of this analysis. The fifth chapter is related to the present society, from achievement of certain fringe since the Greek and Judeo-Christian mythology. The sixth chapter presents the literary journey of our play writes under the evil perspective. Finally the thesis ends with the confrontation of the characters and leads to the baudelairean clown as an emblematic figure of Plínio Marcos and Jean Genet's theaters
Minemura, Suguru. "Jean Genet et la poétique du bagne : de la cellule pénitentiaire au bagne intime." Paris 4, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA040004.
Full textReddon, Madeleine. "In memoriam : monuments, memorials, and the revolutionary dead in the work of Jean Genet." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/51268.
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Melia, Matthew. "Architecture and cruelty in the writings of Antonin Artaud, Jean Genet and Samuel Beckett." Thesis, Kingston University, 2007. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/20268/.
Full textBisse, 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