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Tsakou, Effrosyni. "Femmes de parole. Les courtisanes dans l'épistolographie de l'époque impériale (Alciphron, Philostrate, Aristénète)." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université de Lille (2022-....), 2024. https://pepite-depot.univ-lille.fr/ToutIDP/EDSHS/2024/2024ULILH016.pdf.
Full textThe thesis examines the identity of hetairai (courtesans), their literary roles, and their voice by engaging with the production of rhetorical discourses in the erotic letters of the Imperial period, specifically focusing on works such as Alciphron's Letters of Courtesans, Philostratus' Letters, and Aristaenetus' Erotic Letters. The content of these letters not only portrays the personal relationships between the courtesans and their clients, narratives situated in a historical context, but also explores the underlying connections between the epistolographers and their readership. These connections are influenced by the cultural context in which they lived, namely the Second Sophistic. The primary focuses of the research are the construction of the epistolary erotic discourse, the gendered portrayal of the courtesans as literary figures, and the reception of seduction and manipulation techniques at a fictional level. My aim is to investigate how, during the Imperial period, relations of allusion and rewriting contributed to the re-evaluation and consolidation of the figure of hetaira
Pierre, Christine. "L'imaginaire de la montagne dans le monde antique." Perpignan, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PERP1094.
Full textAntique world is confronted with a territory which it does not master: the mountain. By its nature, this anxiogenic place belongs to the divine world and gives off supernatural energies. The man who climbs his slopes is confronted with this essential savagery for which the created world tries to regulate in plain. This repulsion which generates this locus tremendum arouses paradoxically an attractiveness maintained by the myths and legendary narratives. By its axial shape, the mountain connects the different worlds, from the infernal world to the celestial space. As for its layering, it is lived as an initiatory course. The presence of an interzone facilitates this traffic of the mortal and the immortal. During the meetings, marked with the nostalgia for a lost gold age, games of power are going to bind and to untying the fates. So this territory so rejected becomes an object of greed and sees itself instrumented little by little by the poets and mythographes. Become an archetype, the mountain is going to stand out as a space of the origins of Rome
Lee, San-Ho. "La Grèce antique dans Les Martyrs de Chateaubriand." Paris 8, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA081067.
Full textChateaubriand's thorough knowledge of antiquity and the impressions of his travel in the old land of europe are really t he constituent parts of the picture of greece of les "martyrs". This picture remains, in a sense, in line with the classical tradition; chateaubriand has followed close on the heels of the ancients, and found, through them, ideas, literary tricks. Themes and poetic language. By his writting he has revived the homeric world at the expense of the historical authenticity. He didn't understand the antiquity like the classics had felt it : they had tryed to find the principle of eternity and of universality, and he stuck to the exterior elements. With his state of mind and his feelings, very well expressed in prose, the hero is more like a romantic character that a man living at the end of the third century. Chateaubriand has revealed magnificently, with the undeniable magic of his style, the charm of the meridional landscape that the classics had often neglected or described badly. His literary ideas are not a retreat or a full return to the classical aesthetics, they are constructed by the search of harmony between two aesthetics, classical and romantic
Marignac, Lucie. "La conquête de la Toison d'Or, des origines à la fin du XVe siècle : essais." Paris 4, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA040304.
Full textThe conquest of the Golden Fleece is a myth which on the one hand has deep roots in tradition, and on the other hand cannot be grasped easily because of the great number of his transformations. The works the myth has inspired are actually countless. Facing so many texts, images and commentaries, our work concentrates on the works prior to the renaissance, lays emphasis on some aspects of the identity and the evolution of the myth. It aims at bringing to light some mechanism of the west creation, through the study of the successive distorsions of a mythical model. The first part exhibits the geographic and chronological articulations of the myth, as they can be reshaped from the works of poets and mythographs that have dealt with the whole of Jason and his companions' adventures : Pindar, Apollonius Rhodius, Diodorus Siculus Ovid, Seneca, Valerius Flaccus - and also with the help of all the antique allusion s to the myth. The second part of our work is split in four essays devoted to the main questions raised par the myth and its evolution. The first essay searches for the improbable if not impossible, typological, genetical and political, unity of the myth. The second analyses the ambivalence of the significance of the mythical story, and of its protagonist s. The third studies the new favor of the argonauts' myth during the middle ages, while the myth of Medea was much more famous at the beginning of the middle ages
Katuszewski, Pierre. ""Ich war Hamlet" : recherches sur les fantômes dans les théâtres antique et contemporain." Paris 3, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA030116.
Full textIn Rome, where theatre is a theatre of pure play, ghosts appearing in Seneque’s tragedies are no anthropological ghosts but pure images with a theatrical operator purpose : within a prologue they have a performing function lying in starting the show, and within the narration they release the characters from the “dolor” so that the show can be genuinely started. In Greece, ghosts appearing in Eschyle’s and Euripide’s plays have a mixed function : informative, for the stories originate in mythology but get modified by dramatists, and performing for they act on the course of the show. In contemporary theatre (Pasolini, Gabily, Bond, Koltès, Müller) which, unlike the other two, is not a ritual and codified theatre but a theatre of representation, phantoms are built after signifying images. However, dramatists systematically release themselves from these original images in order to set up specifically theatrical space and time, proper to ghosts, especially by using different forms of meta-theatre. Meetings with the living do not ever reproduce extra-theatrical patterns but occur, within each play, as unprecedented meetings taking place concurrently to the theatrical narrative. They are used for defining the theatrical space as a space of play where, thanks to the ghosts, a specific relations created between the stage and the audience, based on recognition and taking the place of the classical relation of identification. Ghosts are pointers of playfulness and allow the director to consider playful stagings, sequences in which they intervene, establishing an ephemeral but real sociability between the actors and the audience
Monluçon, Anne-Marie. "La Rome antique revisitée par le roman européen d'après-guerre." Caen, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995CAEN1184.
Full textResemblances between h. Broch's der tod des vergil, m. Ourcenar's memoires d'hadrien, cl. Simon's les georgiques, p. Handke's der chinese des schmerzes and ch. Ransmayr's die letzte welt inspired a comparative study of these novels. All were published in france or austria since world war two, and in each, ancient rome, the rome of augustus, virgil and ovid, is" revisited", but how, and why, do contemporary novelists write about the first century? these writers have drawn analogies between the first and the twentieth centuries, establishing parallels between the age of augustus and facism in europe in the ' thirties or ' forties, eastern block totalitarianism after world war two, or prostwar hopes and disillusion in the west. In view of such correspondences, one can interpret these novels politically, what distinguished them from other antifascist novels about rome and political involvement? moreover, in drawing analogies between ancient rome and the twentieth century, these authors reveal differing philosophies of history. Are archaic patterns permanently ingrained, or can the repetitiveness of history be transcended? religious beliefs account for some major - and unexpected-divergences. These novelists emerge from a context of political and philosophical pessimism with regained confidence in the craft of writing: for some, a "creative rewriting" of history is both necessary and urgent (these choose plutarch over caesar); basing their works on, or alluding to, those of virgil and ovid, all of these writers determine what is of value in the heritage of antiquity. In their works, rome appears as historical material and as the source of poetic inspiration
Bretin-Chabrol, Marine. "La naissance et l'origine : métaphores végétales de la filiation dans les textes romains de Caton à Gaius (stirps, propago, suboles, semen, satus, inserere)." Paris 12, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA120078.
Full textBefore the image of the genealogical tree became common in the West, Latin language already compared the family to a tree. Lineage is described as a stirps (a stump, trunk or plant). Descendants are called "offspring" (stirps, suboles, propago) or "seed" (semen, satus). Family develoment is described in vegetal terms : to layer (propagare), to prune (recidere), to graft (inserere). Adoption - the process of establishing a legal family unit comprising members who are not biologically related - is sometimes referred to as grafting (insitio). Across societies, human lineage is established by a system not limited to biological breeding. Paradoxically, vegetal images are used to describe social units as elements of nature. Despite their common use, these metaphors convey a strongly ideological conception of lineage. While early Roman texts show the existence of a complementary maternal filiation, the vegetal representation focuses primarily on patrilinear descent and corporate group. Individuals receive their identity from the group ; they also serve as temprary representatives of the lineage to outsiders. Vegetal metaphors establish a strict boundary between legitimate members of a lineage and those who are not included in it. This border is extrapolated to society at large. The same metaphors distinguish between members of the nobilitas who are endowed with a stirps and those who are not. Therefore, the order observed in nature is used as a model for legitimising social order
Gontero, Valérie. "Parures d'or et de gemmes, l'orfèvrerie dans les romans antiques du 12e siècle : Roman de Thèbes, Roman d'Eneas, Roman de Troie de Benoit de Sainte-Maure, Roman d'Alexandre d'Alexandre de Paris." Aix-Marseille 1, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000AIX10076.
Full textMengue, M'oye Alexis. "La femme dans la littérature latine de 50 à 150 ap. J. -C." Reims, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987REIML005.
Full textEven, the world of women seems to be very complex and subtle. In the roman antiquity, that complexity and those subtleties were in existence and were given different names to refer to what we consider to be the woman today. She was defined according to her family or social status, her age or even according to other criteria. Femina, puella, vxor refer to the "woman" relegated to the weaker sex, but each of these words has something to do with the specific peculiarity of the person it's dealing with. It's not easy to understand the various aspects of the image of the woman through literary texts in which the authors themselves an different as for their birth, social status, relationship, and their respective literary genres. In spite of all these differences there is same homogeneity in all speeches delivered by men of letters b. C. From this, a non-uniform stereotype is prevailing, whichsome striking aspects, this doctoral dissertation strives to describe owing to literary texts
Bizzini, Chantal. "Le recours à la tradition antique chez deux poètes américains contemporains : Ezra Pound et Hart Crane." Paris 3, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA030018.
Full textDan, Anca-Cristina. ""La plus merveilleuse des mers" : recherches sur la représentation de la mer Noire et de ses peuples dans les sources antiques, d'Homère à Eratosthène." Reims, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009REIML004.
Full textReading the Greek geographical and historical descriptions written before the time of Eratosthenes, one notices that, for all these authors, the Euxine Pontus was not yet a geographical concept : places, peoples and actions, mythical, literary and historical, located in this region from a modern perspective, were situated by the Greeks of the Archaic and Classical times either in the “Beyond”, or in the North of the œkouménè, or in some other non-Aegaean Hellas, or in a “Scythian arc”. The history of this geographical (as well as ethnographic and historical) figure constitutes the main focus of the present research. I begin with some theoretical prolegomena, in which I suggest, amongst other things, a new taxonomy of ancient spatial perceptions, including “hodological”, “topological”, and “oekoumenological” points of view, as well as a definition of ancient geography based upon notions of heterogeneity, transgenericity, conservatism, and determinism. With this terminological foundation established, and employing a combination of evidence (linguistic, ancient and occasionally mediaeval literature, history, iconography, and Pontic archaeology), in the five chapters that follow, I analyse the Pontic references to be found in the Homeric epics, in Hesiod, Eumelus of Corinth, Hipponax, Aristeas of Proconnesus, Hecataeus of Miletus, Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Herodotus’s Histories, Hippocrates’ De aere, Xenophon’s Anabasis, Pseudo-Scylax’s Periplus, and the fragments of Eratosthenes. The dissertation therefore leads to a history of the perceptions and representations of the Black Sea region and, more broadly, of the Greek œkoumene in Archaic and Classical times
Cournoyer, Jessica. "Les Amazones entre deux mondes : sur l’ambiguïté de la caractérisation des Amazones dans la littérature antique." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/26099.
Full textFleury, Pascale. "Un rhéteur latin à l'âge de la seconde sophistique : recherches sur l'utilisation des genres et motifs littéraires dans l'oeuvre de Fronton." Paris, EPHE, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002EPHE4019.
Full textThe Frontonian corpus is heterogeneous. In his works, we have identified three types of literary expressions traditionally associated with the epistolary genre (recommendation, health news, letters of wishes), the other, motives at the same time close to letter-writting and having an independent utilisation (fable, consolation), the last type having no connection with the epistolary form (paradoxical praise, éroticos, practical oratory, historiography). We have chosen to leave aside in our analysis the sub-genres of the letter and to lay down a binary structure : the first part of our work is devoted to ludic genres (paradoxical praise, éroticos, fable), the second to serious genre (practical oratory, historiography, consolation). This division seemed more fit to bring fertile conclusions. As a matter of fact, the elements of each group must go through the same type of analysis : Front, in the ludic genre, plays with tradition, with the limits of the genres to reveal his conception of life and rhetoric ; conversely, in the serious genre, the rules of the genre are in general obeyed. However, in the ludic and in the serious genre, Fronto favours an epidictic expression of reality
Schneider, Pierre. "La confusion entre l'Inde et l'Ethiopie (VIIIème s. Av. J. -C. - VIème s. Ap. J. -C. )." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA040254.
Full textThe ancient texts, either geographical or not, offer us many cases of confusions between India and Ethiopia i. E. Anything relating to Africa is often named Indian and inversely. These many confusions whose a systematic inventory has been established appear in different fields: geography, history, mythology, fauna, flora and mineralogy. A careful study of all these texts allows us to understand much better the nature of this phenomenon. There is not a simple kind of confusion and the confusion is rarely a simple error. Particularly, it seems that Greek and roman people, contrary to the moderns, did not feel the confusion between India and Ethiopia as a problem. In others respects, this is not an uniform phenomenon. It has developed during the antiquity different evolutions, but it has been never really flagged. This analysis is completed with a thorough study of the texts written by authors who were inclined, more than others, to make confusions. The research of the causes of this phenomenon leads us to several directions. The Mesopotamian influence (the two meluhha) does not seem to be proved, but the Greek and roman way of thinking has led an important part. The geographical knowledge during the antiquity is a cause of confusion as well as the Indian Ocean trade which has fostered it. Finally, in certain cases, this phenomenon does not find its explanation in general causes but in individual causes which originates often in literature
Michaut, Cécile. "Gémeaux, androgynes, hermaphrodites, Narcisse : unité et dualité du corps politique, 1562-1676." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008CLF20008.
Full textThe double monsters (creatures with two sexes, two bodies or two heads, such as androgynes, hermaphrodites, joint Gemini) were, in the 16th and 17th centuries, notable figures because there were many them and because they raised distressing issues. The double monster is, on the one hand, a sign announcing schims and civils wars, a sick or deviant figure ; but it is also sometimes announcing reconciliation and is a symbol of concord, peace and love. This study aims at reflecting on the meaning of these double monters. Our hypothesis is that they hold a discourse of a political nature on the Other (among a corpsb or a city). But that discourse, from the first religious conflicts (1562) to the publication of The Southern Land Known by Foigny (1676), evolved. The first part of this study is devoted to the definition of the single family of myths, including Hermaphrodite, the Androgyne, Janus, the Gemini and Narcissus. It shows how, from Antiquity onwards, those figures have been questioning the relation to the other. The second part reveals how those figures have become, in the 16th and 17th centuries, the ambivalent political emblens of war as well as peace, of order as well as disorder. The third part explains how novelists and poets have concentrates on the hermaphrodite. It analyses how and why that equivocal and hunted monster became, in the 17th century, the mouthpiece of a new State that does no longer tolerate otherness, and yet needs it
Séjourné, Emmanuelle. "Récits mythiques -récits modernes : la mythologie antique dans le roman contemporain de langue allemande." Tours, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004TOUR2005.
Full textAfter the Second World War as in the 80's, the resurgence of Greek and Latin myths in about thirty novels of the German language led to new experiments with narration and writing. Considered as creation and also re-creation, the rediscovery of a myth gives rise to innovative ideas about an essential cultural foundation and about the contemporary world as well. But behind the interest in the myth, there is also a reflection on the chosen literary genre. How far can a contemporary novel go when transmitting a myth? Four novels (Der blaue Kammerherr by Wolf von Niebelschütz, Amanda by Irmtraud Morgner, Die Ästhetik des Widerstands by Peter Weiss and Medusa by Stefan Schütz) bring the experience forward to the resurgence of a genre, the epic, coordinating theme and form in a far more consequent and audacious way than in the order novels. From myth to epic, the singularity of a contemporary writing of mythology comes into view through this study
Baume, Philippe. "Henry de Montherlant et l'Antiquité." Paris 4, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA040409.
Full textThe influence exerted on Montherlant's personality and works by antiquity is clearly revealed by the perusal of his biography and above all of the main themes as well as the pieces of writing dealing with antiquity, should they be confronted with their antique sources. Henry de Montherlant is thus emerging as one of the contemporary writers that would have demonstrated in the most obvious way the permanence of greco-latin civilization in French literature
Mary-Trojani, Cécile. "De l'éthique à l'industrie : représentations et exercices de l'amitié, en Espagne, au temps des Lumières (quelques exemples)." Toulouse 2, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001TOU20072.
Full textOur questioning is organized around the interactions between two elements of the sensitiveness of the so called enlightened century : privacy and sociability. We studied the representations of friendship which convey a discourse upon friendship and fictional works, studying first a few old texts, then a sampling of “theatrical” readings that the Spanish of the XVIIIth century could do around the topic of friendship. We dealt with original texts (Olóriz, Marchena, Cadalso), and original texts back to reading in the XVIIIth century (Nieremberg), but also with translated texts (Sacy, Caraccioli, Wieland). Then we enlarged our approach of the universe of representations by considering the fictionalisation of friendship, and then studied the romance-like writing of the friendly feeling from the point of view of the epistolary form and of the complex links which appear between love, friendship and parentality (La Leandra, La Serafina, La Filósofa por amor), and eventually we evinced the quest for exemplarity and the sociable dimension of friendship in brief tales (El heroísmo de la amistad, El Amigofingido, El fiel amigo). Our second part deals with exercising friendship. This is perfectly illustrated in friendship socialisation that an institution emblematical of the enlightened Spain brings about : the Royal Basque Society of the Friends of the Country. We first identified the friends who were to become Friends of the Country, the links that existed between one another and their projects, then surveyed the change from the trato and the tertulia into a society built upon the invocation of friendship. As friendship had by then become Friendship for the Country, we concomitantly studied the way mail (Peñaflorida / Álava) enabled the interaction between the two notions and two practices, as well as the incidence of the very interaction on the expression of the actual experience of a friendly feeling. Leaving apart the institutional aspects, we privileged the social-cultural aspect of the phenomenon as well as the epistolary sources enabling to understand the attitudes of the men and the circumstances that would influence their decisions
Coulon, Laurent. "Le discours en Égypte ancienne : éloquence et rhétorique à travers les textes de l'Ancien au Nouvel Empire." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA040060.
Full textThis thesis deals with the discourse in ancient Egypt and the various shapes of valorization which matter is the discourse itself as a social activity as well as a literary shape and topic. The question, thus, relates to the way in which the ancient Egyptians have been picturing to themselves the discourse and its applications, its importance, its functions and its aesthetic value. The method adopted is built upon a pragmatic approach in which the texts from the ancient kingdom to the new kingdom that mention the dimension of the discourse (autobiographies, teachings, royal inscriptions, literary or religious texts) are related to their sociological and historical context. It is then possible to draw out, for each period, the place given to eloquence: thus, in the times of united monarchic power, the existence of court eloquence is stated, which is the means of distinction above all. On the contrary, during the first intermediate period, with the local withdrawal of the provinces, an unprecedented spreading out of political eloquence appears in assemblies where the community's future is committed. The literary discourse forms also the subject of a study in so far as it builds a reflection on the part taken by the discourse. During the middle kingdom, productions such as "the eloquent peasant" or "the lamentations of khakheperreseneb" are questioning deeply the lack of social communication or the loss of reference in an official discourse which fairness is fallacious. During the new kingdom, the literature, which had become more autonomous in the sphere of the discourse, appears as an all-powerful rhetoric that trifles with the truth and the false. The study eventually opens on an endeavor to evaluate the Egyptian rhetoric in itself, especially through what links the latter to the magic discourse
Parent, Catherine. "Ondées suivi de La mélancolie amoureuse du sujet épistolaire contemporain dans Folle, de Nelly Arcan." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/33351.
Full textLiosi, Marilia. "La maison des Atrides dans le théâtre tragique français du XVIe et du XVIIe siècles : la question du crime." Rouen, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012ROUEL017.
Full textThis research aims to show how and under what conditions is carried out in the French tragic theatre of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries, the transposition of such a horrible and atypical ancient theme as the crimes of the Atreus clan. It presents the various aspects of its evolution which is difficult to define, under an anthropological and dramaturgic angle, due to its size. - It examines the definitions of crime and proposes a typology from texts of the mythical tradition and of the tragic theater, both greco-roman and french. -It remains attentive to the ways and configurations which show the cruelty of the crime and of its authors. -It presents, in a synchronic and historical approach, the French theatre plays that have adapted the theme of the House of Atrides, in order to give the reader the most accurate and complete possible perception concerning their affiliations and their differences
Rolland, Marie-Claire. "La peau humaine dans la litterature romaine : physiologie, pathologie, thérapeutique, esthétique, sémiologie." Thesis, Rennes 2, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018REN20022.
Full textThe aim of this thesis is to observe and analyse representations of human skin in Latin literature from the 2nd century B.C. to the 2nd century A.D. Starting with a detailed lexical and semantic study of the vocabulary pertaining to the skin, the notion of skin is examined in various fields, allowing us to address implicit allusions to skin along with the associated vocabulary, images and meanings. A physiological approach, based on anatomical knowledge inherited from Greek philosophers, brings us to a definition of normal skin in terms of its nature, functions and changes. Rarely represented in its normal, healthy state, skin is subject to assaults and ill health in various ways. Analysing skin trauma in epic poems and skin pathology, which is referred to in Celsus’ De Medicina, reveals a prevailing representation of damaged and even fatally wounded skin, this being of utmost importance in clinical diagnosis, a means of measuring the health - and particularly illness - of the body as a whole. Therapeutics and cosmetics, in Celsus’ texts, aim to heal whereas in Pliny’s Naturalis Historia, the aim is to care for and mask imperfections. These often cause as much harm to the skin as good. This damaged skin coexists with ideal skin, mainly in elegiac poetry, a skin meant to be seen and touched, from an aesthetical and erotic perspective. Finally, human skin in Roman society acts as an interface, indicating to which social group anindividual may belong as much as one’s identity within that group, according to ethnical, social, biographical, moral and psychological criteria
Laüt-Berr, Sylvie. "Flaubert et l'Antiquité : itinéraires d'une passion." Paris 4, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA040169.
Full textMontana, Jean-Marie. "Le spectaculaire dans la tragédie romaine." Paris 3, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA030105.
Full textRoman tragedy is a show which can be aptly compared with traditional stage productions such as those from the Far-East. It does not aim at reproducing reality, but is essentially connected with the non-realistic pattern of "ludi" i. E. Games, which the Romans are fond of, for entertainment as well as for collective experiences of great passions, or "motus animi", as different from Greek pathos. Topics are borrowed from Greek mythology, which is part and parcel of Roman culture, and which the Romans are first acquainted with through the plastic arts. The transition from the characters of the Greek stage to those of the Roman stage takes place through imagery, which is basically narrative in Antiquity. Tragedy then turns into a live ekphrasis, an image brought to live by the actor's words and gesture. Through his usage and abusage of the techniques of rhetoric, the actor stirs up "motus animi" in the audience. .
Grivel, Ian. "Psyché, le mythe et l’idéal : ou les métamorphoses d'une figure antique dans les littératures de langue anglaise." Thesis, Perpignan, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PERP0039.
Full textHow did an antique character such as Psyche, with a Mediterranean background, find a place within English-language literatures? English-writing authors have in fact multiplied the ways in which they have approached and ceaselessly reinvented the myth, generally around the notion of ideal. Indeed, throughout the centuries, the myth gradually brought about an idealistic tradition whereby this goddess became a figure both idealised and which was made to fit into various ideals.But conversely, Psyche also had this perfect image tarnished. Many writers decided to part with this idealistic tradition, looking for ways in which to distort the story. This rewriting is often based on a physical and moral decomposition of the character. This degradation thus releases her from her previous idealised and constraining forms, and enables her to enter new literary and modern fields, with anti-idealised versions of both her adventures and her marriage to Cupid
Bizien, Tanguy. "La lettre et la relation épistolaire dans le film de fiction depuis 1940." Thesis, Paris 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA030174/document.
Full textThis work is a pluri- and interdisciplinary approach to epistolary phenomena in movies from 1940 to today. Since its earliest days, cinema has integrated the letter motif and depicted the epistolary process. As talking movies emerged, letters became genuine audiovisual objects cherished by film-makers.They have continued to use this motif by inventing ever new expressive terms. On the one hand, cinema allows us to see and hear the characteristics of epistolarity; on the other hand, the letter motif establishes particular aesthetics while influencing the discourse and meaning of the movie. As a medium, the letter motif generates specific writing, reading and delivering processes. It also develops a network of visible and audible addresses, which fuels a particular relationship with the spectator. These phenomena contaminate the movie on a symbolic level as the materiality and address of the letter stand for more than their primary signification. The letter motif thus leads us to think about complex interconnections involving its representation, discourse and meaning in movies
Bataille, Sylvaine. ""Wealthy stones enchac't" : références odyséennes dans le théâtre de la Renaissance anglaise et réinvention humaniste d'Homère." Montpellier 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008MON30074.
Full textThis study is about the use of proper names originating from the Odyssey, or Odyssean references, by English playwrights between 1558 and 1642, in a cultural context where Homer was being reinvented by the humanists. Two modes of relating to Homer’s poem characterize Renaissance England: one is founded on an attempt to return directly to the text while the other is based on a conventional utilization of the characters. I first retrace the efforts made by certain scholars to “revive” Homer and I show how the humanist appreciation breaks with the depreciatory judgements in the medieval tradition. As a translator Chapman took up the Petrarchan ideal and introduced Homer as the author of a personal and singular work. However such a relationship to Homer was far from being shared by the playwrights, including Chapman in his work as a dramatist. The comparative study of Odyssean references in a wide theatrical corpus reveals that the connection with the Odyssey is loose and greatly influenced by language norms and cultural values inherited from pedagogical humanism. It follows that the ostentatious and ornamental use of Odyssean proper names refers more to the “classical treasure-trove” than to a particular work with clearly identified and perceived narrative and diegesis. This cultural basis provides playwrights with a frame from which they can give vent to their creativity, each in their own way. Shakespeare’s originality stands out as a remarkable feature: far from staying inside commonplaces, his use of Odyssean figures sparks the expression of personal poetry
Laffon, Amarande. "L’ἀναρχία (anarchia) en Grèce antique." Thesis, Paris 4, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA040218.
Full textThe term anarchia refers literally to the absence of power, in the military sphere (that caused by the loss of a commander), and the political sphere (the absence of archontes, specifically the eponymous archon). The concept quickly generalised, coming to designate in the figurative sense the lack and want of power or the rejection and negation of power. It approaches the meanings of insubordination, rebelliousness, unruliness, licentiousness and disorder. The actual experience of power vacuum in the cities of Ancient Greece and how the Greeks represented it and conceptualised it are the three main lines of this research. Anarchia is conceived not only in the city but also in the soul of the individual, in the family, or even in the universe. It demands reflection on the articulation between two seemingly antagonistic principles, the desire for freedom and the necessity of order, and consequently upon the foundations of legitimate authority. This work relies on a precise analysis of the term anarchia in the epigraphic, historical, literary and philosophical sources. The first part deals with actual periods of power vacuum in the ordinary course of political life or in the context of institutional disruption and the implemented remedies. The term anarchia is employed in the cities of Athens, Thasos, Teos, Syros and Berenike. One must add the problematical use of the terms acosmia by Aristotle regarding the Cretan regime and atagia in the Thessalian inscriptions. The second part deals with the semantic evolution of the term from the absence of ruler to anarchy in the work of historians and tragic poets and the role of anarchia in the theory of leadership developed by Xenophon, Plato and Aristotle
Lalanne, Sophie. "Héros et héroïnes du roman grec ancien : étude d'une paideia aristocratique à l'époque impérial." Paris 1, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA010675.
Full textBlaineau, Alexandre. "Chevaux, cavaliers et cavaleries dans l’oeuvre de Xénophon : sociologie, technique et théorie de l’équitation militaire dans le monde grec au IVe siècle avant J.-C." Rennes 2, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010REN20015.
Full textThe works of Xenophon provide a thorough analysis of the world of horses and riders in classical Greece. Particularly, the study of two of his books, the Art of Horsemanship and the Cavalry Commander, reveals the different aspects of horse breeding, technical riding, and the use of cavalry in battle. Influenced by the Persian world, Xenophon also offers innovative ideas aimed at providing a central role for the Greek rider, in war and society
Kyriacou, Irini. "Nommer les mères en catalogue : la fonction de la parenté dans la poésie épique grecque." Paris, EHESS, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015EHES0129.
Full textThis dissertation, falling within the framework of kinship anthropology and gender studies, engages with the study of genealogical references as narrative elements in Greek epic poetry. Using the instruments offered by narratology, semantics and pragmatics, this study, focusing on the analysis of the narrative function of genealogical references, examines how and why masculine and/or feminine ancestors are mentioned in the Catalogue of Women, the Theogony, in the Homeric Hymns, the Iliad and the Odyssey. This approach allows studying the use of genealogical references in its poetic contexts with particular interest on the roles attributed to feminine ancestors within the description of kinship relations. The analysis of the fragmentary poem Catalogue of Women which evolves around feminine figures, mostly recalled as ancestors, is at the core of this dissertation, because it challenges us to re-think the use of genealogical references in the corpus of Greek epic poetry
Lebdiri, Davilla. "La religion dans le roman grec ancien." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 1, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA010662.
Full textGreek literature is a possible source of information that may enlighten our understanding of the first centuries of the Sophiste era. Born between 100 A.D. and the beginning of the second century in the heart of Hellenic western Greek provinces of the Roman Empire, Greek literature was further developed in the second and third centuries. For a long time, Callirhoé by Chariton, the Ephésiaques by Xenophonof Ephesus, the Pastorales by Longus, Leucippé and Clitophon by Achille Tatius and Ethiopiques by Heliodore were considered as works of art purely Roman and fictional that were far from interesting historians. However, after so much liretary topoi, we can note a social and religious background that corresponds with historical context the writers lived in. Greek literature is interesting as a discource on religious realia. In all these literary works, gods accompany heroes in their adventures : callings, offering, prayers and religious celebrations that mark a daily devotion and piety. Although Greek authors put forward traditional aspects of the Greek religion, they also shed light on Greek society’s evolution and local specialities. This study aims to give a perspective on early Greek cultural practices in order to better understand the era’s typical structural dynamics
Demont, Paul. "La Cité grecque archaïque et classique et l'idéal de tranquillité." Paris 4, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986PA040033.
Full textThe introduction discusses the meanings of hesychia, apragmosyne and schole. The first part shows the growth of an ideal of individual and collective tranquility in archaic Greece, with special reference to the traditional praise of activity and to Pindar’s eighth pythian (translated with historical and literary commentary). The second part studies the democratic topos of the quiet citizen who is involved in politics and litigation and shows that it plays a great part in the literature of the classical period, leading to the demand for a new kind of quiet politics (Aristophanes, Euripides, Thucydides). This accounts for the growth of the schole-ideologies which the third part studies in the philosophers of the fourth century (Xenophon, Plato, Isocrates, Aristotle). Schole is no longer a paradise for idleness, but leisure time for the pursuit of higher activities, politics and philosophy, in contrast to both Demosthenes revival of the democratic topoi and the new epicurean and sceptic ideals. The conclusion emphasizes that, when praising hesychia and schole, the archaic and classical literature of ancient Greece is mainly concerned with political aims, namely the safety of the polis
Howaldt-Bouhey, Alice. "La guerre dans les récits de Troie allemands en vers (XIIe-XVe siècles)." Amiens, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006AMIE0018.
Full textThe present work deals with a corpus of texts that relate a crucial conflict in the eyes of Middles Ages populations, namely the Trojan war – the ancient city of Troy being regarded as the cradle of Western civilisations. From the adaptation into french of two medieval-latin narratives by Benoît de Ste-Maure in the XIIth century, the Trojan motive spread to the territories of the Empire where the verse narratives about Troy, directly or indirectly derived from the French Romance, where transmitted between the XIIth and XVth centuries. The war, hardly an attractive topic today when it is mostly presented, as is the case in these texts, as an alternation of one-to-one combats and mêlées narrated over thousands lines, seemed in those days, on the contrary, to appeal to the medieval public. So we have studied the significance and the representation of the war in the Trojan narratives in order to work out what made the merits and therefore the success of that motive in the Middle Ages
Ferdinand, Patrice Malik. "Omeros, Aimé Césaire, la mer : Paysages antillais du détour dans la poésie de Derek Walcott." Thesis, Paris 3, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA030126.
Full textOmeros, the long poem written by the Saint-Lucian Derek Walcott is analyzed in relation with the poetic collection Moi, laminaire… by the Martiniquan Aimé Césaire and with the Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas’s novel Otra Vez el mar. In their works, the focus on Ancient Greece enables the authors to reinvest the West Indian landscape. This common practice of the detour creates a common West Indian aesthetics: the use of Greek motifs gives birth to original textual constructions of Caribbean landscapes. In the first part, we are studying the strategies set up to portray the landscape through Greek sculptures and characters involved in the landscapes. In the second part, we are showing how the Greek imagination nurtures the art of the metaphor in Walcott’s work. In Omeros, the fishing craft [the cutting of the gommier trees, the sawing and the hollowing out of their trunks, for the building of the canoes, navigation and net fishing] reveals the techniques at work in Walcott’s writings. The function of the sea in Arenas’s novel confirms the West Indian aspect in the aesthetic process of Omeros. In the third part, the relations between discourse and landscapes are brought into light. In Walcott’s work the mangrove allows the renewal of the Caribbean memory of the slave trade. In Césaire’s work, this lagoon environment constitutes a metaphoric response to the Martiniquan political background. Then, in Omeros, the representation of creole orality is linked with the motif of the ashes and the Saint Lucian forest. Finally, we assert that the diversity of Caribbean landscape sets in motion Walcott’s poetics
Fournis, Jean-Yves. "Le sacrifice humain dans la littérature latine, mythes, légendes, historicité, représentations." Phd thesis, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00841691.
Full textRomaggi-Trautmann, Magali. "La figure de Narcisse dans la littérature et la pensée médiévales." Thesis, Lyon, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LYSE2143/document.
Full textGreek myths « font signe sans signifier, montrant, dérobant, toujours limpides disant le mystère transparent, le mystère de la transparence2 ». With these words, Maurice Blanchot insists on the very mystery of all myth. It is also the case for the myth of the Narcissus that has known a considerable success in the medieval time but for which it is difficult to … a stable meaning. It is the famous Augustinian poet Ovidius myth that the medieval authors inherited. They added new meanings to the already rich legend, following the footsteps of Ovidius.Narcissus is foremost a figure in love. Narcissus is the unfortunate lover who suffers such a strong passion he dies from it. What he is in love with can be ignored in the medieval versions. Even if he loved a shadow, it is the intensity of his love and the funest consequences the texts insist on. Passion drives Narcissus on the road to death : spiritual death because of Madness et physical death. Narcissus was a prime subject for fin’amor poetry. Troubadours and trouveres made of Narcissus the perfect example of the fin amant between the XIIth and XIIIth centuries. Moreover Narcissus is the deeply linked to the representation of the melancholic that came from the psycho-physiological philosophical and medical theories of love.Moral Reading were also inspired by the myth. Indeed, Narcissus becomes a sinner full of flaws Under the Christian vision of the myth. Pride is the origin of all the flaws: vanity and arrogance are direct consequences. Narcissus becomes the perfect incarnation of these sins. Depending of the point of view the condemnation may vary but the idea is still the same: Narcissus is self-important and is too pleased with himself. Finally the water from the source, one of the most important aspect of the Narcissus mythology, became the meeting point of several traditions which interlaced in the medieval work: biblical water on one side and neoplatonician conceptions of reflection and ancient myth of Narcissus. The ancient fons transforms itself into a medieval fountain and a true mirror. The mirror becomes more and more independent from the surface of water. The phantasmatical dimension of the Narcissus love for his reflection is developed
Diatta, Micahel Syna. "L'image de l'homme à la peau foncée dans le monde romain antique : constitution, traduction et étude d'un corpus de textes latins." Thesis, Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017UBFCC033/document.
Full textBy its difference and its similarity, the man with the dark skin appeals to the elders who, from the Greek scientists, wanted to find geographical and climatic reasons, that is to say “scientific reasons”, to his otherness. It is the ancient Roman world that was chosen as the framework of this research. A corpus of literary, historical and philosophical Latin texts is used in a wide chronological range (from the 2nd century BC to the 5th century AD), however, in comparison with the Greek referents. The work is based on a lexicological approach, with the study of the Latin words of color and their different connotations, to investigate the interactions between evocation of skin color 'other' and social, philosophical, religious of the ancient Roman world. What are the dark-skinned men with whom the Romans came in contact, who came to the city, and what place they held, restricted between what limits and what functions, with what impact on their new environment - and on themselves. If necessary, the iconographic documentation is also requested. The field of patristic literature is explored, in which the dark-skinned man occupies a certain place, and we try to characterize the symbolic dimension that he acquires in the early Christian writers. The contributions of the foregoing experts (Fr. M Snowden Jr., L. S Senghor) are critically taken into account, taking into account the difficulty experienced by moderns in abstracting from their own cultural, conceptual and intellectual study these realities of contact between people with different skin color in the Roman world of antiquity
Müller, Frank. "Poétique des objets chez Sophocle : fonctions dramatiques et valeurs symboliques." Paris, EHESS, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015EHES0083.
Full textThe thesis provides an analysis of the role of objects in four tragedies (Ajax, Trachiniae, Electra, Philoctetes) and a Satyr play (Ichneutai) by Sophocles. The purpose is to investigate the initial observation that objects have a key function in the general economy of each of the plots and the specificity of this function in Sophocles. The introduction highlights the emergence of the material turn in the humanities, the flexible and operative nature of the category "object', the link with the question of the sign and non-verbal language and points to the absence of the category in Ancient Greek, The object is not discussed as a theatrical prop, but as an entity within theatrical fiction. A distinction is made between the moments when objects are likely to appear on stage and moments when they do appear in a narration or evocation. Within the fictional world of each plot and in the context of the theatrical genre, which combines speech and actions, the focus is on the textual and poetic modes of appearance of intra-fictional objects. Metaphors and images play a major role. Five chapters offer a detailed analysis of objects and their functions and leed to the conclusion in which several overarching observations are made: by means of objects, Sophocles plays on presence and absence, shifts between speech and actions as well as between verbal and non-verbal communication, alludes to absent characters, time frames and spaces, plays on the misuse of their functions, the modalities of giving, sharing and deprivation, personification and reification. In Sophocles, objects play a key role in the expression of the fulfillment of destiny
Mignacca, Oriana. "Fugienda petimus : la Phaedra di Seneca come sistema complesso di antitesi." Thesis, Lille 3, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012LIL30063/document.
Full textSeneca's Phaedra as a complex system of antithesis
La Phaedra di Seneca all'incrocio di tradizioni antitetiche : antitesi spaziali, "naturam sequere" e vita contro natura, conflitto parentale, parola e silenzio
Dachez, Hélène. "Ordre et désordre : le corps et l'esprit dans les romans de Samuel Richardson (1689-1761)." Paris 3, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA030155.
Full textThe complexity and uniqueness of samuel richardson's epistolary novels become apparent through the study of order and disorder in the light of body and mind. Order is thwarted by the troubles affecting the characters' minds and bodies, the body of the text, and the literary corpus. The two principles are united in a dialectical pattern in which the writer underlines the coincidence of contraries. The novels strive after order, which is only contemplated after trials necessary to the purification and sublimation of perturbations. However the quest for order remains incomplete, and the two elements are inseparable. The fusional dialectics influences the novels' aesthetics. Richardson rejects linearity and integrates ellipsis into his works, which revolve around their centre, and mix reality and theatricality. The text progresses at the same time as it regresses, and requires the reader's participation. Inversion and doubleness are at the core of the novels, which become multiple and plurivocal, and avoid any kind of manicheism. Their structure is akin to that of an eighteenth- century english garden. The writer plays with literary conventions to show the paradoxes of the corpus, which seems to escape the control of the various organizing instances and ends on the impossibility to come to a conclusion. The interpenetration of order and disorder is organized by richardson to create a new novelistic order
Vespa, Marco. "Les singes dans l'imaginaire culturel de la Grèce ancienne : Une étude zooanthropologique du singe dans les différentes représentations culturelles des sources grecques." Thesis, Université Côte d'Azur (ComUE), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017AZUR2048.
Full textDespite being an exotic animal and coming from elsewhere, monkeys have been the subject of special attention from Greek and Greco-Roman culture. The animal that the contemporary imagination considers the closest to man by virtue of its morphotypical and ethological characters was, on the contrary, conceived by the ancients as the most aberrant living being when compared to man precisely because of such a failed similarity. Ancient Greek imaginary about monkeys feeds on relational practices largely different from those that may concern human beings nowadays: ancient Greeks indeed did not know any great apes and the prototypical representative of the non-human primates was the Barbary ape. By analysing the information that zoological and medical sources give us concerning both the anatomy and the ethology of monkeys, it is possible to understand other seemingly more obscure aspects that are part of the cultural representations conceived by the Greeks for this animal.In particular, monkeys enter into the same symbolic configurations as other figures in ancient Greek imagery especially when associated with imperfectly virile or masculine figures such as children or eunuchs as well as effeminate homosexuals. The association with elite social circles very often linked to a life considered debauched and their condition marked by physical imperfection in addition to a submission to the master always considered as precarious, make the monkey be considered a real geloion mimēma, a laughable counterfeit of the human being and of his perfect prototype, namely the adult male of free condition
Belkheir, Nadia. "Connaissances et perceptions de l'Arabie et des Arabes chez les Anciens : (VIIIe siècle av. J.-C. - IVe siècle apr. J.-C.)." Thesis, Paris 10, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA100179.
Full textThe dissertation provides a corpus of Graeco-Latin literary sources concerning Arabia and Arabs followed by a commentary. More precisely, the corpus opens in the Archaic period with some Homeric verses and ends in the 4th century C.E. with excerpts from the Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus. The words “Arabia” and “Arab” in the ancient textual tradition do not have the same meaning as they do today. On the contrary, after questioning the corpus on what is Arabia as space and on the identity of Arabs, we come to the conclusion that we cannot propose a unique definition because ancient authors vary in their perception. Likewise, the issue of ethnicity is equally complex. Ancient sources refer to tribes as “Arabs” who do not present themselves as Arabs in their inscriptions : Nabateans are referred to as Nabateans Arabs in the texts while this self-definition is unknown in Nabatean inscriptions
تقدم الأطروحة مجموعة من المصادر اليونانية-اللاتينية المتعلقة بالجزيرة العربية والعرب، مشفوعةبتعليق. على نحو أكثر دقة، تفتتح المجموعة في العصر القديم مع بعض أبيات هوميروس، وتنتهي في القرنالرابع الميلادي بمقتطفات من التاريخ الروماني لأميان مارسلين.لا يحمل مصطلحا "الجزيرة العربية والعرب" في التقاليد النصية القديمة معناهما نفسه اليوم، بل علىالعكس فعندما نسائل هذه المصادر عن ماهية الجزيرة العربية بوصفها مساحة جغرافية وعن هويةالعرب، نتوصل إلى استنتاج مفاده أننا لا نستطيع اقتراح تعريف واحد؛ لاختلاف المؤلفين القدامى فيتصوراتهم.المسالة الإثنية معقدة بالقدر نفسه، فالمصادر القديمة تصف بالعروبة القبائل التي لا تقدم هي نفسها فينقوشها على أنها عربية، فمثلا يشار في هذه النصوص إلى الأنباط بأنهم عرب مع أن هذا التصنيف الذاتيغير معروف في النقوش النبطية
Al-Zaum, Abdulmalek. "La part de la Syrie dans la littérature de voyage dans les pays du Levant du XIXe siècle." Thesis, Tours, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011TOUR2026/document.
Full textThe a priori anti-Ottoman position, developed by philosophers such as Volney and Montesquieu, in Syria, was largely shared by travelers in the 19th century. This preconceived philosophy was reinforced and "completed" by the entire collection of works written throughout the 19th century. Traveling scientists, philosophers, consuls, journalists, and even poets were almost all involved in developing and circulating ideas and clichés regarding Syria and the idea that Turkish rule in Syria was tyrannous. Travelers, as well as their writings, directly or indirectly perpetuated the vision of "Oriental tyranny." This vision, developed by predecessors, was first communicated in writing by Volney. In 1783, he had barely just arrived in Syria, when he began denouncing the misery he encountered, forwhich he held Turkish officials immediately responsible. Other travelers almost all supported the idea of "Oriental Tyranny" and agreed with the author of Voyage en Egypte et en Syrie in their writings.Generally speaking, Syria makes travelers think of their forefathers and reminds them of the past (in both a historic and religious context) that is in reality not that distant from the present. Moreover, those in search of getting back to the basics and the exotic; traveling writers, tourists, and scientists, took a particular interest in the exotic, mythic or picturesque Syria
Burghgraeve, Delphine. "De couleur historiale et d'oudeur de moralité ˸ poétique et herméneutique de l'histoire antique dans la Bouquechardière de Jean de Courcy (1416)." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019USPCA029.
Full textThe Bouquechardière is a moralized universal history written from 1416 by Jean deCourcy, a Norman knight. Despite this rather unusual appropriation of a historical genreparticularly rooted in theology, Jean de Courcy's text has not aroused much critical interest. Ourpresent work fills this gap by questioning the way in which the lay author revisits the historicaland homiletic codes that were until then the prerogative of clerics. On a broader level, our studyalso makes it possible to better identify the variability of an auctorial panorama and a literarycommunication in full evolution at the end of the Middle Ages. Coming from a secular culture,Jean de Courcy must impose his intellectual and moral credibility in the field of writing.Without usurping the roles of the cleric or the intellectual, he creates his own « fonctionauteur »: an amateur writer who bases his legitimacy on an experience acquired in the world,an accumulation of knowledge through reading and a devotional attitude. His Christian andedifying approach to reading determines the choice to write an Ancient History at a time whenwriters tend to react to current events. Indeed, the way in which he ordered, compiled, selectedand recomposed the material reveals a strong submission of history to the eschatologicalperspective. Tracing a historical continuum from the actors of Antiquity to the contemporaryreader, the compiler creates the necessary conditions for its actualisation. The spiritual purposeof the reading then allows the surprising insertion of Ovidian fables into the historicalframework. Historicalized mythological fiction contains a hermeneutical potential : it is offeredas a sign of God to be deciphered by using an analogical and allegorical method. It. As a modelreader, Jean de Courcy teaches his own reader to fix the meaning of words and things, so thatwhen the book is closed, the process of « refiguration » of history is born. In other words, thereading leads to spiritual conversion
Ordynski, Rémi. "Montaigne et les traditions de consolation, « pour moy, ou pour un autre »." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 3, 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023PA030055.
Full textRecent research has opened the way to a better understanding of ancient consolatory traditions and the forms of their revival during the Renaissance. This dissertation aims at studying how they may have influenced Montaigne’s writings from the edition of works by La Boétie (1571-1572) to the publication of the Essais in 1595. This legacy does not only involve the reading and re-writing of ancient texts, it also establishes a dialogue with some practices that were contemporary to the author, whether they be social, philosophical or literary. The essay on consolatory traditions displays a critical analysis of these practices but also a shifting and protean experience and it singles itself out as a real assessment of these procedures. While constantly referring to the consolatory thesaurus, Montaigne also devotes himself to bending and altering these traditions which he questions without dismissing them altogether. A rhetorical analysis based on the treatises on letters (Erasm, Fabri), poetry (Scaliger) or speeches (Vossius, Keckermann) reveals the actual use, up to the last chapters and on the Bordeaux Copy, of a type of parenesis that irony alone cannot invalidate. This mode of expression connects an "I" and a "You" that do not correspond exactly to the author and the reader. In this in-between area, we can find the search for an autonomy and a singularity in the way of expressing oneself and experiencing life, a process that can only become meaningful if it calls upon and appeals to the other
Chazal, Benoît. "La rhétorique du blâme dans l'"Histoire Auguste"." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCA151.
Full textRhetoric of Condemnation in the 'Historia Augusta' intends to study the collection of imperial biographies known as Historia Augusta as a literary object. The biographies were officially written by six authors at the end of the 3rd Century A.D. and at the beginning of the 4th Century A.D., but they were actually produced through the imagination of a single writer who lived at the end of the 4th Century A.D. according to the 19th Century thesis of the German historian Hermann Dessau. Through analysing a text that intricately mixes reality and fiction, this thesis will examine the different strategies intended to depict the sombre images of both legitimate and usurping emperors throughout the historical period that begins with Hadrian's reign and ends with the fall of Carin (2nd to 3rd Centuries A.D.). Observing the lexical, stylistic, thematic and structural methods reveals the importance of utilizing epideictic rhetoric as well as numerous intertextuality phenomena, particularly based on Suetonius's Vitae XII Caesarum, which is the main model of the collection. This inquiry drives to widen the thought interested by the target of the critic. If, behind the figures of bad princes, the writer tries to castigate the principate system that enables princely transgressions, he also tries to enhance his own writing. The writer tries to be different from other historiographers in a style that grants a large place to fantasy, self-mockery and raillery. This thesis endeavours, therefore, to study the representation of historical characters and events while underlining articulations between poetics and rhetoric in a major text of late Antiquity Latin literature
Mignacca, Oriana. "Fugienda petimus": la "Phaedra" di Seneca come sistema complesso di antitesi"." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2012. https://hdl.handle.net/11572/368452.
Full textBerra, Aurélien. "Théorie et pratique de l'énigme en Grèce ancienne." Phd thesis, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), 2008. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00674183.
Full textFernandez, Cecilia. "Les motifs mythologiques antiques et bibliques dans la poésie de RDA : günter Kunert, Sarah Kirsch et Uwe Kolbe." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010LYO20088/document.
Full textThis work explores how antique and biblical mythological motives are integrated into GDR poetry. First, the notions of myth, mytheme and socialist “cultural heritage” are clarified. After that are studied Marx’s theories on how we relate to the culture of the past centuries. The latter focuses on how to integrate dialectically and then surpass the cultural heritage, but with no intention to abolish it. By showing outward contempt for the myths, the East German cultural authorities overinterpret Marx’s positions. If the cultural policy shows a schizophrenic attitude by manipulating the myths to consolidate the power, while depreciating them because of their non rational nature, in fact one can observe the great success of the mythological material in GDR literature, especially in poetry. The study of the mythological motives in the work of Günter Kunert, Sarah Kirsch and Uwe Kolbe highlights the fact that resorting to this tradition in poetry has paved the way for modernity, then for postmodernism. The reference to myths implies the notions of liberty and restraint, that we relate to Julia Kristeva’s concepts of semiotic and thetic. Indeed, the aim is to show that, when referring to the myths, GDR poetry develops an aesthetics of resistance to doxa in every way. The recourse to myths in GDR poetry places it in a postmodern aesthetics, but a constrained, negative one, for it attests both the difficulty to understand the contemporary world, exposed to the splitting of sense, and the self-destroying absurdity of the East German regime. Finally, the fact that myths in GDR poetry from the eighties have almost disappeared can be read as the failure of the utopian idea of an improvable world