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Leister, Lori, and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Arts and Science. "Closing the circle: A novel with critical commentary." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 1998, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/355.
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There are two parts to this thesis: a novel, Closing
the Circle, and a critical commentary on the process of
writing a novel from beginning to end.
The novel tells the story of Natasha, a young, late
twentieth century woman who searches for her "roots." It
begins in southern Alberta and she eventually travels to
Eastern Europe where she uncovers the voices in her dreams
and from the past. It deals with the metaphysical question
of a collective unconscious that houses past symbols
pertinent to her search as well as the question as to the
validity of dreams and memory in human life.
The critical commentary addresses issues involved in
writing a fiction vis a vis structure and other literary
devices. It also addresses questions that come with taking
personal familial historical events and writing them into
"story."28 cm.
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Klein, Sascha [Herausgeber]. "Skyscraping Frontiers : The Skyscraper as Heterotopia in the 20th-Century American Novel and Film." Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2020. http://d-nb.info/122330986X/34.
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Ross, Frances Pamella. "The gift : a novel." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2000.
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The gift is a research-based novel set in Cambodia in 1993,
during the United Nations - sponsored elections. The central
character is a Brisbane woman who travels to Cambodia to
help run the elections.
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Myers, Tony. "Postmodernism and historicity : narrative forms in the contemporary novel." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1809.
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This study proposes that modernity is constitutively based upon a synchronic temporality which perpetuates the present of the ego. Within this matrix, history is subject to the processes of subjectivization and the 'otherness' of the past disappears. Postmodernism, it is argued, designates the attempt to disinter a properly historical thinking, or historicity, from the recursive temporality of the modern. This attempt is predicated upon the retroactive temporality of the future perfect which, whilst also a synchrony, arises from a productive tension between the past, the present and the future. The self-divisive time of the future perfect expedites the discomfiture of the ego and its concomitant subjectivization of the past and, by so doing, registers the historicity of that past. The relation between the modern and the postmodern forms of temporality is expressed by the Lacanian distinction between the imaginary and symbolic orders. It is argued, moreover, that this distinction is manifest in the narrative forms of the contemporary novel. Whilst the modern form of the contemporary novel replicates the structures of an egocentric repletion of synchrony, the postmodern novel displaces this imaginary problematic to the symbolic. By employing a variety of techniques founded upon retroactivity, postmodern novels are thereby shown to foster a disclosure of the structure of historicity. Within this rubric five novels are given extended consideration: William Gibson's Neuromancer, Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho, Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five and John Banville's Doctor Copernicus.
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Gasiorek, Andrew B. P. (Andrew Boguslaw Peter). "A crisis of metanarratives : realism and innovation in the contemporary English novel." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=74280.
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Critics of the English novel, arguing that it is underpinned by liberalism, frequently claim that the crisis of realism disclosed in the work of many contemporary writers derives from a concomitant crisis of liberalism. Liberalism's dissolution is thus seen to prefigure the death of the novel. This dissertation contends that realism cannot be equated with liberalism and that the contemporary crisis of representation signals a broader crisis of metanarratives.Focussing on selected novels of five post-war English novelists--B. S. Johnson, Doris Lessing, John Berger, Iris Murdoch, and Angus Wilson--I argue that their different responses to the crisis of representation show that it is not a crisis of liberalism alone. Johnson rejects realism for epistemological reasons; Lessing and Berger question it on political grounds; Murdoch and Wilson combine its strengths with a self-reflexive awareness of its weaknesses. I suggest that Murdoch's and Wilson's novels, which argue that fiction does not reflect reality but endows it with meaning and which are at once representational and metafictional, offer the most fruitful ways of acknowledging the crisis of representation while refusing to be paralyzed by it.
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Greenfield, Stacey Amanda Lorraine. "Formal techniques and self/other relations in the novels of Dirk Bogarde." Thesis, University of Gloucestershire, 2006. http://eprints.glos.ac.uk/3149/.
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The thesis foregrounds the distinctive contribution Dirk Bogarde made to contemporary writing in a second career that developed in parallel to his screen commitments. It dispels the notion that Bogarde followed a familiar path as an actor who wrote books. Instead it establishes his reputation as an innovative writer whose formal technique was substantially influenced by the textual systems of cinema and the cross-fertilisation from acting to writing. In examining the formative factors that steered Bogarde towards authorship, the thesis addresses the role of performance as a generative factor in the evolution of the novels, establishing a discursive link with Bakhtinian dialogism, and specifically, transgredience as a formal imperative. Secondly, it affords a critical insight into why the major concerns with staging and performativity preoccupy his writing career. The thesis claims that Bogarde was an empirically dialogical writer whose use of camera-eye narration fostered the proliferation of competing discourses across the fiction. This formal dynamic is centred on the relationship between stages and dialogism, which incorporates the work of Erving Goffinan as a complementary critique to Bakhtinian theory with its emphasis on self-presentation. The concern with socially-constructed behaviour leads the thesis to address the associated issues of stereotyping and 'otherness', which in terms of body politics is articulated by the mono logic drive to confine the sexual 'other' to a fixed representation. Bogarde's ability to draw on cinematic and performance techniques identifies an area of expertise unavailable to most other writers. This is an unusual repository of skills to bring to writing which is why the thesis makes the claim for his singular achievement as a contemporary author. There are fruitful points of intersection to be explored in this respect with the work of Christopher Isherwood, whom Bogarde read and admired, as a basis for further research. It is hoped that the thesis will play its part in opening up new possibilities for Bogarde's writing to be re-visited by future critics.
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Massie, Eric. "Stevenson, Conrad and the proto-modernist novel." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21610.
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This thesis argues that Robert Louis Stevenson's South Seas writings locate him alongside Joseph Conrad on the 'strategic fault line' described by the Marxist critic Fredric Jameson that delineates the interstitial area between nineteenth-century adventure fiction and early Modernism. Stevenson, like Conrad, mounts an attack on the assumptions of the grand narrative of imperialism and, in texts such as 'The Beach of Falesa' and The Ebb Tide, offers late-Victorian readers a critical view of the workings of Empire. The present study seeks to analyse the common interests of two important writers as they adopt innovative literary methodologies within, and in response to, the context of changing perceptions of the effects of European influence upon the colonial subject.
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Dammert, Juan Luis. "Supe: Arguedas’s unfinished novel." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2012. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/79433.
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Tuvo varios nombres: «Harina Mundo», «Mar de Harina», «Jonás», «El pez grande», y fue un proyecto literario que emprendió José María Arguedas después de la publicación de Todas las Sangres (1964). Con él quiso novelar «la transformación del puerto de Supe», lugar donde había pasado los veranos entre 1943 y 1963 y que conocía muy bien. Como sabemos, Arguedas terminó convirtiendo ese proyecto inicial en El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo, una novela límite y relato ambientado en el puerto de Chimbote. Dos capítulos de esta novela sobre Supe fueron publicados en vida del escritor, «Mar de Harina» y «El Pelón». En este artículo recojo información que da luces sobre estos textos y sus personajes, ya que fueron tomados de la realidad. Me baso en fuentes orales, tanto de mi memoria personal y familiar como de las conversaciones tenidas con pobladores actuales del puerto en un conversatorio en 2004 sobre los personajes descritos en el inacabado proyecto novelístico.It had several names, «Harina Mundo», «Mar de Harina», «Jonás», «El pez grande», and was a literary project that José María Arguedas started after the publication of Todas las Sangres (1964). The novel was intended to tell the story of ‘the transformations of Puerto Supe’, a fishing town he knew well, for he spent there the summer of 1943 and 1963. As we know, Arguedas later transformed this project into his last novel called El zorro de Arriba y el zorro de Abajo, which took place in the port of Chimbote.Two chapters of the unfinished novel about Supe were published while Arguedas was still alive: «Mar de Harina» and «El Pelón». In this article I present information about those chapters and the characters they portray, given that they were taken from real life. For this purpose, I draw on oral sources, such as my personal memories and the conversations I held in 2004 with the current inhabitants of Supe, about the characters of this unfinished project.
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Macklovitch, David Nathaniel. "Modalités de lecture du nouveau roman." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=79791.
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In this thesis, we examine theories of reading as they apply to three examples of the French New Novel. We begin with a detailed theoretical expose in which we compare and attempt to reconcile the reading models of Umberto Eco, Wolfgang Iser, Stanley Fish, Bertrand Gervais and Richard Saint-Gelais. The hybrid theory thus obtained is then tested on three works in order to underscore the modalities of reading that are particular to the New Novel, while insisting on these modalities' inherent variability. We focus on the reader's reconstructing of the narrative in L'Emploi du temps , on the impossibility of structuring the plot in La Maison de rendez-vous, and on the paradigmatic mode of reading La Bataille de Pharsale. In so doing, we hope to demonstrate how an analysis of the reading process allows for a heightened appreciation of the essential indeterminacy of the New Novel, of its fundamental otherness. We conclude with tentative remarks on the heuristic function of these texts.
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Little, Michael Robert. "Novel affirmations: defending literary culture in the fiction of David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, and Richard Powers." Diss., Texas A&M University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/366.
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This dissertation studies the fictional and non-fictional responses of David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, and Richard Powers to their felt anxieties about the vitality of literature in contemporary culture. The intangible nature of literature's social value marks the literary as an uneasy, contested, and defensive cultural site. At the same time, the significance of any given cultural artifact or medium, such as television, film, radio, or fiction, is in a continual state of flux. Within that broad context I examine some of the cultural institutions competing with literature for public attention, as well as some of the cultural developments impacting the availability of public attention for literary concerns. With Wallace, I study his efforts in fiction and essays to establish an anti-ironic mode of literary rebellion, in opposition to the culturally pervasive tone of self-protective irony modeled by television. Franzen opens discussion about the transience of cultural authority, a situation in which the imprimatur of the academy, for instance, confers a cultural significance different in kind but not degree from the imprimatur of a popular televised book club. My study of Franzen in particular demonstrates the impact of proliferating sites of cultural authority, addressing the emergence of middlebrow culture and audiences from contested space to authoritative cultural arbiter. The chapter on Franzen also examines the increasing role of corporate interests in the production of cultural artifacts with an eye toward their financial viability more than their cultural impact. And finally, my study of Powers focuses on the animosity between the sciences and the humanities. Powers produces fiction that serves as an indispensable tool for communicating between disparate and otherwise isolated disciplines, and for helping those specialized fields synthesize their information with others.
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王心靈. "現代寓言: 阿來長篇小說研究= A study on Alai's novel as allegory." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2015. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/171.
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阿來(1959- )，生於四川省的嘉絨藏區，曾任教師、編輯、雜誌社社長等，現專事寫作。在長達三十二年的寫作生涯中，阿來經歷了由新詩至短篇小說、散文至長篇小說的文類轉變，他的作家使命在長篇小說階段得以確立，是有意識地書寫西藏的漢語作家。阿來的長篇小說除了表現本民族的興衰，又是人類共同歷史命運的寫照，他以寓言書寫的方式豐富了文本的內涵。 寓言性是當代中國小說一個值得關注的美學特徵，因此，本文以阿來三部長篇小說為研究對象：《塵埃落定》(1998)、《空山》三部曲(2005、2007、2009)、《格薩爾王》(2009)，分析其中的寓言性藝術意義。這三部作品皆以漢藏文化的交匯與碰撞為題材，反面書寫故鄉因歷史的發展、時代的轉變而表現的不同面向：《塵埃落定》寫的是二十世紀五十年代前土司制度和末代土司家族的滅亡過程；《空山》是五十年代至九十年代的一段村莊史；《格薩爾王》是對藏族英雄史詩的重述，以現代觀念探討歷史發展過程中的命運主題。阿來以長篇小說的形式探究歷史轉型期中，文化與人心的困境，有著內在精神的繼承。 本文以〈現代寓言：阿來長篇小說研究〉為題，嘗試以本雅明的現代寓言理論來探討作品的藝術內涵：「破碎」、「廢墟」、「憂鬱」等美學元素於文本的呈現，這些現代性的特質如何在小說的本土經驗裡被細述彰顯，以帶出作品的普世共性。在探究過程中，我們能了解在文學與歷史的互動關係中，作品的真實內涵及說故事的意義。
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Penazzi, Leonardo. "The fellow (novel) ; and Australian historical fiction, debating the perceived past (dissertation)." University of Western Australia. School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2008. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2008.0070.
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Novel The Fellow What is knowledge? Who should own it? Why is it used? Who can use it? Is knowledge power, or is it an illusion? These are some of the questions addressed in The Fellow. At the time of Australian federation, the year 1901, while a nation is being drawn into unity, one of its primary educational institutions is being drawn into disunity when an outsider challenges the secure world of The University of Melbourne. Arriving in Melbourne after spending much of his life travelling around Australia, an old Jack-of-all-trades bushman finds his way into the inner sanctum of The University of Melbourne. Not only a man of considerable and varied skill, he is also a man who is widely read and self-educated. However, he applies his knowledge in practical ways, based on what he has experienced in the
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Coll-Vinent, Sílvia. "The reception of English fictional and non-fictional prose in Catalonia (1916-38), with particular reference to Edwardian literary culture and associated debates concerning the novel in England, France and Catalonia." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e715592b-063c-4a02-9bbb-d89078ec1719.
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The present study opens up the field of Catalan connections with English literature. The importance of Edwardian influences on the general transmission of English authors and works is demonstrated. Original data on the reception of G.K. Chesterton, the Edwardian figure with a most remarkable impact in Catalonia, is brought to light (Chapter 1, Appendix 1), followed by discussion of the presence of H.G. Wells and G.B. Shaw and an account of the reception of Well's early fiction (Chapter 2); their influence sheds new light on the aspiration of an élite to modernise Catalan culture. Catalan translations of English fictional works produced in the period 1918-38 (Chapter 3, Appendix II) are linked to the reception of the roman anglais in the context of the crisis of the roman à thèse, and the meditating influence of French criticism is revealed. The values of romance, adventure, and the common man (from Defoe to Stevenson, from Stevenson to Conrad) constitute the recurrent thread associated with the English tradition and with the Edwardian fictional canon, as these were mediated from France to Catalonia. This panorama of transmission enhances an understanding of Catalan views of the novel, in the light of Edwardian values (Chapter 4), as exemplified in Carles Riba's critical appraisal of two Catalan authors, in the appeal of Joseph Conrad's narrative technique and its influence on J.M. de Sagarra, as well as in the comparison of Frank Swinnerton's Nocturne (a best-seller of 1917) and its Catalan counterpart, M. Teresa Vernet's Les algues roges. This thesis also includes a chronology of the reception of Chesterton and a list of Catalan translations of English works of fiction.
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Berg, Lovisa Ulrika. "Creating a man, a mouse or a monster? : masculinity as formulated by Syrian female novelists through the second half of the 20th century." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22952.
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This literary study examines the formulation of masculinity in Syrian novels authored by women. The thesis covers the period between 1959 and 2000, corresponding to both the development of the female-authored novel in Syria and the creation of the modern Syrian state. This research engages with studies of masculinity in general and literary masculinity studies in particular. Drawing on the seminal work of Raewyn Connell as well as engaging with studies on masculinity and feminine narratology in Swedish, English and Arabic, the thesis analyses the formulation of literary masculinity through the fictional societies’ ideal masculinity on the one hand, and the female characters’ views and reactions to masculinity on the other. From a general survey of the field, 34 novels undertaking the formulation of gendered relations were identified and chosen for this study. From this selection, five themes emerged, forming the foundation of this thesis’ main chapters. The five themes explore, in turn, how stereotypes are utilised to critique gender roles, ways in which male and female characters collaborate to formulate gender norms, how female characters capitalise on patriarchy in order to enhance their lives, male characters as symbols for social and political change and finally, the difficulties included in the performance of masculinity. Each theme is exemplified through one novel, which is analysed in detail. Throughout the five chapters, the main novel chosen for analysis is put into conversation with other novels with similar themes but from different decades. This allows for an examination of changing ideals of masculinity in addition to the theme itself. The first theme, how stereotypes are utilised to critique gender roles, is studied through a close reading of al-Ẓahr al-‘ārī (The Naked back) by Hanrīyit ‘Abbūdī. The analysis illustrates how the expected normative behaviour of men and women is utilised in order to comment on the formulation of gender roles. The chapter further demonstrates ways in which what is seen as gender specific behaviour can be appropriated by the opposite gender. This is further developed through the examination of female writers taking over the male voice through a first person male narrator. The second theme, ways in which male and female characters collaborate to formulate gender norms, is discussed through a close reading of the novel Khaṭawāt fī al-ḍabāb (Steps in the fog) by Malāḥa al-Khānī. This chapter illustrates the similar expectations that both male and female characters have on their sons and fellow male characters. This includes taking on the role of provider and protector, even in the cases where the female characters are able to look after themselves. The third theme, how female characters capitalise on patriarchy in order to enhance their lives, is elaborated through a close reading of Ayyām ma‘ahu (Days with him) by Kūlīt Khūrī. This theme demonstrates how the female character constructs herself and her world around the idea of a perfect male, whom she thinks will save her. The analysis examines what is seen as ideal traits in a man. It further discusses the change of the female character and how her initial utilisation of patriarchal structure transforms into a critique of the same structure. The fourth theme, male characters as symbols for social and political change, is seen through a close reading of Dimashq yā basmat al-ḥuzn (Damascus, o smile of sadness) by Ulfat al-Idlibī. The chapter connects between changing social ideals and ideal masculinity. Through Bayrūt 75 (Beirut 75) by Ghāda al-Sammān, the fifth theme, the difficulties included in the performance of masculinity, is studied. The problematic masculinity presented is then put in contrast with what appears to be a suggestion that a performance of femininity could be an alternative to unsuccessful masculinity. Whereas the novels differ in their presentation of masculinity and the utilisation of ideal masculinity, they agree on a set of core traits summarised in a hegemonic ideal of masculinity as an ability to provide and protect. The ways in which this should be performed is however closely connected to the female characters’ ideas of emancipation and women’s rights. The female writers’ formulation of masculinity can hence be said to mirror the development of the female characters and their awareness of women’s rights. The thesis hopes that its original contribution to knowledge is the identification and examination of constructed masculinities in Syrian female-authored fiction. Moreover, this thesis studies a body of Syrian fiction previously largely unstudied in Western academia, and in a framework of Swedish, English and Arabic secondary sources.
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Reis, Ashley E. "With the Earth in Mind: Ecological Grief in the Contemporary American Novel." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc849760/.
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"With the Earth in Mind" responds to some of the most cutting-edge research in the field of ecocriticism, which centers on ecological loss and the grief that ensues. Ecocritics argue that ecological objects of loss abound--for instance, species are disappearing and landscapes are becoming increasingly compromised--and yet, such loss is often deemed "ungrievable." While humans regularly grieve human losses, we understand very little about how to genuinely grieve the loss of nonhuman being, natural environments, and ecological processes. My dissertation calls attention to our society's tendency to participate in superficial nature-nostalgia, rather than active and engaged environmental mourning, and ultimately activism. Herein, I investigate how an array of postwar and contemporary American novels represent a complex relationship between environmental degradation and mental illness. Literature, I suggest, is crucial to investigations of this problem because it can reveal the human consequences of ecological loss in a way that is unavailable to political, philosophical, scientific, and even psychological discourse.
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Cooke, Stewart J. "Received melodies : the new, old novel." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=75693.
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New, old novels, contemporary fictions that parody the forms, conventions, and devices of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels, form a significant and increasingly popular subclass of postmodernist fiction. Paradoxically combining realistic and metafictional conventions, these works establish an ironic dialogue with the past, employing yet simultaneously subverting traditional fictional techniques.In this dissertation, I subject five new, old novels--John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor and LETTERS, Erica Jong's Fanny, T. Coraghessan Boyle's Water Music, and John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman--to a detailed analysis, which compares the parodic role of archaic devices in each contemporary novel to the serious use made of such devices in the past. I argue that new, old novels, by juxtaposing old and new world views, foreground the ontological concerns of fiction and suggest that literary representation is constitutive rather than imitative of reality. Their examination of the relationship between fiction and reality places them at the centre of contemporary concern.
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Langoureau-Morel, Fabienne. "Quand l'intime devient éthique : du régionalisme à l'universel dans la Trilogie niçoise de Louis Nucera." Thesis, Nice, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014NICE2053/document.
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Dans cette seconde partie du XXe siècle, les écrivains cherchent à déchiffrer les bouleversements du monde. La réflexion de Louis Nucera, dans ce contexte d’après guerre, reste trop peu connue. Elle balaie pourtant plusieurs champs littéraires. L’impression laissée par la musicalité de ce monologue intérieur ne ressemble à rien de connu. Le récit laisse la place à une déambulation labyrinthique dans les dédales de la mémoire, à la recherche de la mère trop tôt disparue. Nourri d’une profusion de petits portraits, le « romancero nucerien » devient un véritable album de famille du petit peuple niçois. Le lecteur s’y découvre des ancêtres auxquels il se sent scellé. Ces voix intimes ne le quitteront plus. Les romans de la Trilogie plongent également le lecteur en plein cœur de l’Histoire et de ses crises. Avenue des Diables-Bleus, Chemin de la Lanterne et Le Kiosque à musique couvrent vingt-trois siècles. A l’heure où s’affrontent littérature de l’engagement et écoles littéraires ambitieuses, Louis Nucera fait le choix d’une voix solitaire et intime. Il peint ce peuple niçois, en ne cessant de le louer pour l’authenticité de ses valeurs humaines. Egalement, se déchiffre, comme sur un palimpseste, une histoire personnelle du communisme français, des illusions à la prise de conscience. L’écrivain en appelle alors à une véritable philosophie de la vie, où les seules entités à valoir encore la peine se nomment amis, famille et couple amoureux. La seule règle à suivre est de retrouver le sens de l’effort et du travail, et de continuer à transmettre les enseignements du passé. Se déploie également une incessante recherche littéraire et une réflexion sur l’acte d’écritureIn the second half of the twentieth century, writers tried to fathom the world’s upheavals. Louis Nucera’s writings in this post-war context are little known. Yet they cover numerous literary genres. The musical quality of his interior monologue leaves us with an impression unlike anything we have ever known. His narrative becomes a labyrinthine meandering through the maze of memory, in search of a mother gone too soon. The “romancero nucerien”, consisting of a plethora of short portraits, becomes a true family album of the ordinary people of Nice. The reader finds traces of ancestors which will never leave him. The Trilogy novels also plunge the reader into the heart of history and its crises. Avenue des Diables-Bleus, Chemin de la Lanterne and Le Kiosque à Musique span no fewer than twenty-three centuries. At a time when committed literature and ambitious literary schools were vying with each other, Louis Nucera chose to resort to a solitary and intimate voice. He depicts the ordinary people of Nice whilst constantly praising them for the authenticity of the human values they embody. Underneath the captivating voice of these intimate family novels, one can also read, as if it were a palimpsest, a personal history of French communism from illusions to awakening. The author draws upon a true philosophy of life, in which the only entities still worth fighting for are friends, relatives and loving couples. The only rule to be followed is to rediscover a sense of endeavour and a taste for hard work and to keep imparting the lessons of the past. Both an endless literary quest and a painful reflection on the act of writing unfold in his novels.Key-words: Louis Nucera, Nice, 20th century French literature, mother, memory, novel, autobiography, auto fiction, poetic narrative, portrait, historical novel, history, communism
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Baglivo, Beatrice. "La genèse de Kaputt : reportage, journal et récit." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université Côte d'Azur, 2022. http://theses.univ-cotedazur.fr/2022COAZ2001.
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Composé et publié à la fin d’une décennie d’expérimentation narrative, Kaputt représente la première épreuve de la maturité artistique de Curzio Malaparte et, dans le panorama plus large du vingtième siècle, un trait d’union encore méconnu entre les expériences littéraires d’avant et d’après la guerre. À travers l’analyse des articles publiés dans La Stampa et dans le Corriere della Sera et des œuvres qui, à partir de la fin des années 1920, ont marqué significativement le parcours de l’écrivain – les recueils de nouvelles publiés entre 1931 et 1940, Le soleil est aveugle, La Volga naît en Europe – nous avons donc analysé l’évolution de l’écriture littéraire de Malaparte. Dans l’examen de la genèse de Kaputt, une place importante est consacrée au Journal secret de l’écrivain, conservé dans le fonds Malaparte de la Fondazione Biblioteca di via Senato de Milan, qui représente le véritable avant-texte de l’œuvreComposed and published at the end of a decade of narrative experimentation, Kaputt constitutes the first sign of Curzio Malaparte’s artistic maturity and, in the broader panorama of the 20th century, a still little-known link between pre- and post-war literary experiences. Through the analysis of the articles published in «La Stampa» and «Corriere della Sera» and analysis of the pieces of work that, from the end of the 1920s onwards, significantly marked the writer’s career – the collections of short stories published between 1931 and 1940, Il sole è cieco, Il Volga nasce in Europa – we have analyzed the evolution of Malaparte’s literary writing. In the study of the genesis of Kaputt, particular importance is placed upon the Giornale segreto, the writer’s diary preserved in the Malaparte collection of the Fondazione Biblioteca di via Senato in Milan, which represents the true foreword to the work
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Wilkins, Wendy. "Images of Italy and Italians in the modern English novel." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2001. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/27857.
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The English literary imagination has been nourished on the experience and idea of Italy for centuries, at least since Chaucer's Italian visits in 1372 and 1378. A combination of survey, critical analysis and theory, the thesis examines the idea of Italy and the Italians in fiction in English from Henry James to the present. The thesis provides an inclusive account of literary themes and motifs about Italy and the Italians in the modern English novel, defining the modem tradition of fiction about Italy established by James, E.M. Forster and D.H. Lawrence, and describing the continuities and discontinuities which extend to postmodern, international fiction in English about Italy and Italians.
No single theoretical model is employed. An eclectic approach is favoured in order to draw together cultural history, literary history, discourse analysis, literary criticism and biography. In addition, the aim has been to recapture and examine the sense of flux and the idea of selfrealisation through art which characterise the Italianate impulse in past and present English fiction. In terms of method and focus, the thesis converses with ideas about Italy and the Italians, literary tradition, recent theories about the representation of place, and the notion of Italy as a favoured site for the development of literary identity and style.
An introduction traces the early development of the Italian image and establishes themes which appear in the succeeding chapters: otherness cultural and self identity; the 'gaze'; 'seeing' as a metaphor for self-knowledge; the importance of place in the formation of identity; and the connections between artistic representation and place. The second chapter, on Henry James, defines some of the main terms of the recent tradition, including the relationship between Italy and the act of imaginative creation. The James chapter examines the influence of Romanticism on his Italian work; the 'Italian' contradictions in his fiction; and his search, expressed in traditional Italianate tropes, for a transcending equilibrium. James's Italian tales are given equal consideration with the novels, and both are discussed in relation to the travel essays collected as Italian Hours. The third chapter, on E.M. Forster, focuses on the conflict between chaos and order in Forster's Italian fiction, and his concern with further perennial 'Italian' themes, including paganism, the Edenic myth, and the importance of art in self-becoming. The Italian motifs in Forster's stories are compared with those in his Italian novels Where Angels Fear to Tread and A Room with a View. A shorter chapter on D.H. Lawrence outlines his problematic place in the tradition. The final section deals with Italianate postmodernism. A lengthy introduction raises general issues and is followed by closer readings of texts which demonstrate the relevance of 'Italy' to postmodern writing in English. The English, American and Australian
authors chosen for closer comment include Robert Coover, Robert Dessaix, Michael Dibdin, Ian McEwan, Michele Roberts, William Trevor and Jeanette Winterson. The final section illustrates
the continuity of the image of Italy, especially the way its reputation as artifice lends itself to elaborate, postmodern metafiction.
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Blanc, Marie Thérèse 1960. "Another face of justice : interpretative debates within the Canadian trial novel after 1970." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=84478.
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This study examines Canadian works of fiction that contain historical trial narratives and that enact an adversarial trial of their own for an implied reader who acts as 'appellate judge.'' Included are four Canadian novels published after 1970 that fictionalize the circumstances leading to notorious criminal trials: Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace (1996), Lynn Crosbie's Paul's Case: The Kingston Letters (1997), and Rudy Wiebe's The Temptations of Big Bear (1973) and The Scorched-Wood People (1977). They represent commentaries on the justice or injustice done to convicted murderer Grace Marks (whose trial took place in 1843), to rebel Cree chief Big Bear and Metis leader Louis Riel (1885), and to serial rapists and killers Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo (1993, 1995).Each work reproduces excerpts from the original trial yet also represents a response to the historical trial's unfolding. This adversarial response takes the form of a trial-like narrative (or counternarrative) that engages with the original trial. Consequently each of these works is what I call a 'trial novel' that raises fundamental questions about justice and citizenship.
Chapter One analyzes Atwood's Alias Grace and lays bare the fictional constructs included in a trial narrative. Chapter Two looks at Crosbie's Paul's Case and pits the judicial system's claim to sober neutrality against a more populist version of justice based on affect and revenge. Finally, Chapter Three, which is devoted to Wiebe's novels, studies the conflict of normative universes implicit in trials for treason and posits that rebel nomoi are as coherent as the dominant ones that quash them.
Three communities are implicit in these novels and enter into a debate with one another: at the core of each work is a historical community of persons (the accused, attorneys, the judge, jurors, and members of the Canadian public) mobilized around an actual crime. This original community and its judgment provide the inspiration for the fictional community of the novel, which grapples with its own version of the crime and trial. Finally, an imaginative community of readers deliberates upon the questions raised both by the original trial and by the 'trial novel'.
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Spear, Peta. "Libertine : a novel and A writer's reflection : the Libertine dynamic: existential erotic and apocalyptic Gothic." Thesis, View thesis, 1998. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/26115.
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This thesis comprises two works: a novel ‘Libertine’ and a monograph ‘A writer’s reflection’. ‘Libertine’contemplates the eroticising and brutalising of being, and sex as currency, as need and as sacrament. It is set in a city where war is the norm, nightmare the standard, and ancient deities are called upon to witness the new order of killing technologies. The story is narrated by a woman chosen to be the consort of the General, a despostic war leader who believes that he has been chosen by the goddess Kali. She journeys deep into a horror which exists not only around her, but also within her. ‘Libertine’, by melding the erotic and the Gothic, tells the story of a woman enacting the role cast for her in the complex theatres of war. ‘A writer’s reflection’ discusses the themes of the novel, introducing the notion of existential erotica. The existential experience particular to the expression of the erotic being is discussed, and the dilemma which arises from a self yearning to merge ecstatically with an/other in order to obtain a heightened or differently valued self. This theme is elaborated in ‘Libertine’ with regard to subjectivity and the broader issues of nausea, horror and choice, drawing on the conventions of Gothic literature and apocalyptic visioning. This visioning, as eroticised death worship, is found in a Sadian credo of cruelty, the tantric rituals of Kali devotion, and the annihilating erotic excess propounded by Bataille. The monograph illustrated that ‘Libertine’ is not a re-representation of these elements, but an original contribution to the literature of erotica.
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Lauret, Sabine. "Voix langues et langage : le métissage du texte dans les romans d'Amitav Ghosh." Thesis, Paris 3, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA030101.
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Cette thèse s’intéresse aux romans d’Amitav Ghosh, auteur d’origine bengalie, écrivant en langue anglaise. Elle les met en regard autour des trois notions de voix, langue et langage. Une analyse croisée des romans selon ces trois axes, qui eux-mêmes se chevauchent, permet de définir une écriture du métissage, une écriture de l’entre-deux. Les notions s’articulent autour d’une problématique axée sur la parole et s’appuie sur la théorie bakhtinienne du roman comme espace dialogique. Dans un premier temps, le métissage pose la question de la parenté de l’écriture, et permet d’interroger l’intertextualité qui y est à l’œuvre. Le métissage est mélange et dispersion, et brouille l’origine. Le métissage, que l’on prendrait dans son acception génétique, fonctionne par ailleurs comme un tissage. Ce travail analyse le tressage narratif du texte et met en évidence l’influence de la tradition orale. Le texte se trame sur un métier qui tisse voix et points de vue. Polyphonie et hétéroglossie permettent d’illustrer les stratégies du mélange déployées par l’auteur. Les langues du texte ainsi mises en perspective permettent de définir le métissage comme stratégie de l’imprévisible. Les romans s’hybrident de langues étrangères et permettent de placer le romancier dans le questionnement du roman contemporain sur la traductionAmitav Ghosh is a Bengali writing in English. This dissertation focuses on his novels from the standpoint of the three following notions: voice, language and speech. An interwoven analysis confronting the novels to these three notions which overlap allows us to define a writing of métissage, a writing of the in-between. Voice and language intersect, and prompts to ground the investigation of the text in a problematic revolving around speech, and based on Bakhtine’s theory of dialogism. First, métissage leads to question the parenthood of Ghosh’s writing and its intertextuality. Métissage means mixing and dispersal, and so, undermines the notion of origin. Then, the biological process of métissage parallels the act of weaving. This analysis shows how the narrative interweaves voices and points of view, and exposes its orality. Polyphony and heteroglossy are the backbones of the narrative. They illustrate the mixing strategies used by the writer. Such an approach of the languages he uses in his novels allows us to define métissage as a strategy of the unpredictable. The novels interweave foreign languages. This shows how Ghosh asserts his voice in the questioning of translation which characterizes the contemporary literary scene
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Young, Erin S. "Corporate heroines and utopian individualism: A study of the romance novel in global capitalism." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11460.
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x, 195 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.This dissertation explores two subgenres of popular romance fiction that emerge in the 1990s: "corporate" and "paranormal" romance. While the formulaic conventions of popular romance have typically centralized the gendered tension between hero and heroine, this project reveals that "corporate" and "paranormal" romances negotiate a new primary conflict, the tension between work and home in the era of global capitalism. Transformations in political economy also occur at the level of personal and emotional life, which constitute the central problem that contemporary romances attempt to resolve. Drawing from sociological studies of globalization and intimacy, feminist criticism, and queer theory, I argue that these subgenres mark the transition from what David Harvey calls Fordist capitalism to flexible or global capitalism as the primary social condition negotiated in the popular romance. My analysis demonstrates that corporate and paranormal romance novels reflect changing ideals about intimacy in a globalized world that is increasingly influenced, socially and culturally, by the values and philosophies that dominate the marketplace. Each of these subgenres offers a distinct formal resolution to the cultural and social effects of a flexible capitalist economy. The "corporate" romances of Jayne Ann Krentz, Nora Roberts, Elizabeth Lowell, and Katherine Stone feature heroines who constantly navigate the dual and intersecting arenas of work and home in an effort to locate a balance that leads to success and happiness in both realms. In contrast, the "paranormal" romances of Laurell K. Hamilton, Charlaine Harris, Kelley Armstrong, and Carrie Vaughn dissolve the tension between home and work, or the private and the public, by affirming the heroine's open and endless pursuit of pleasure, adventure, and self-fulfillment. Such new forms of romantic fantasy at once reveal the tension in globalization and the domination of corporate and masculinist values that the novels hope to overcome.
Committee in charge: David Leiwei Li, Chair; Mary Elene Wood; Cynthia H. Tolentino; Jiannbin L. Shiao
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Peyroles, Aurore. "Roman et engagement : le laboratoire des années 1930 en Allemagne, aux États-Unis et en France. Autour de November 1918 de Döblin, de USA de Dos Passos et du Monde réel d’Aragon." Thesis, Paris 4, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA040256.
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C’est en réinscrivant la notion d’engagement littéraire dans le contexte des années 1930, qui ont vu son émergence et sa mise en pratique, que nous nous proposons de rendre son caractère opérationnel à une expression trop souvent considérée comme contradictoire ou réductrice. Envisagée à travers des textes qui ont précédé la théorisation sartrienne – Le Monde réel d’Aragon, USA de Dos Passos et November 1918 de Döblin –, la notion d’engagement littéraire rend compte d’une écriture littéraire et d’une ambition politique qui ne se conçoivent que dans le rapport simultané de l’une à l’autre. Élaboré comme une réponse en acte à une situation jugée insupportable, le roman engagé des années 1930 apparaît comme le lieu de reconfigurations multiples : reconfiguration du regard porté sur le monde réel, dont le scandale est révélé en plein par la représentation romanesque ; reconfiguration de la langue de la nation et de l’entreprise narrative, redéfinies par opposition aux mésusages et aux manipulations des adversaires, et ainsi rénovées ; reconfiguration d’un espace politique intrinsèquement démocratique, dont la lecture permet l’expérimentationBy inscribing the notion of literary commitment in the context of the 1930’s, which saw its apparition and its practice, we intend to restore the efficiency of an expression which is too often considered as the difficult conciliation between two areas supposedly antagonistic: politics and literature. Approached through novels which preceded Sartre’s theorization – Aragon’s The Real World, Dos Passos’ USA and Döblin’s November 1918 – the notion of literary commitment accounts for a literary writing and a political ambition which are only conceived in relation with one and another. Written as an answer in action to a situation considered as unbearable, the committed novel of the 1930’s appears as the place where multiple reconfigurations take place: reconfiguration of the perception of the real world, which scandal is revealed by the fictional representation; reconfiguration of the national language and of the narrative process, which are redefined by opposition to the misuses and the manipulations of the opponents; reconfiguration of a political space inherently democratic, experimented in the process of reading itself
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Seekins, M. Elizabeth. "L'importance d'autrui : une etude des themes existentialistes dans le roman Tous les hommes sont mortels par Simone de Beauvoir = The importance of others: a study of existential themes in the novel All men are mortal by Simone de Beauvoir /." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2007. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/SeekinsME2007.pdf.
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Nicolas, Delphine. "L’œuvre fictionnelle de Simone de Beauvoir : l’existence comme un roman." Thesis, Paris 4, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA040169/document.
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Les fictions de Simone de Beauvoir constituent le centre de gravité d’une œuvre protéiforme. Encore largement méconnue et nettement dévaluée par rapport aux essais et aux Mémoires, l’œuvre romanesque de l’écrivaine se situe aux limites indécises du littéraire, du philosophique, de l’historique et de l’autobiographique. Son projet littéraire s’enracine dans l’existence, c’est pourquoi nous avons choisi d’étudier la genèse de l’œuvre romanesque et le processus d’invention de soi depuis les années de jeunesse jusqu’à la naissance de l’écrivaine et la reconnaissance publique de ce statut en 1943. Le projet d’écrire un « roman métaphysique », qui détermine des modalités d’écriture spécifiques, a été influencé et soutenu par une conception existentialiste de l’homme et du monde que Beauvoir est une des premières à définir dans l’après-guerre. Ce projet de nature éthique, qui porte l’idée d’une littérature « engagée », n’est pas seulement collectif dans les enjeux et les principes qui le sous-tendent, mais aussi singulier : derrière la permanence d’un éthos d’écrivain, on trouve chez Simone de Beauvoir un constant réajustement du roman à l’Histoire et à son expérience propre, ce qui explique les nécessaires mutations du roman et de l’écriture de L’Invitée à La Femme rompue. Par l’exploration d’un imaginaire et d’une écriture singulière, nous pensons redonner à Simone de Beauvoir la place qui lui revient dans l’histoire du roman français au XXe siècle, entre Gide, dont elle est l’héritière, et les représentants du Nouveau RomanSimone de Beauvoir’s fictions are the center of gravity of a multifaceted body of work. Still relatively unknown and largely underestimated in comparison with her essays and memoirs, her fictional work is situated at the indistinct limits of the literary, the philosophical, the historical and the autobiographical. Beauvoir’s literary project has its roots in existence, which explains why I have chosen to study the genesis of her fictional work and the process of the invention of self from her youth up to her birth as a writer and the public recognition of this status in 1943. Her idea of writing a “metaphysical novel”, one that fixes specific writing requirements, was influenced and buttressed by an existentialist conception of the human being and the world that Beauvoir, one of the first, defined postwar. This basically ethical project, which assumes the idea of a literature of engagement, is not just collective in its stakes and the principles it underpins but is also singular : behind the permanence of a writer’s ethos, there is in Simone de Beauvoir a constant readjustment of the novel to History and to her own experience, elucidating the novel’s and her writing’s necessary mutations from She Came To Stay to The Woman Destroyed. Through the exploration of the imaginary and of a singular style, I wish to give Simone de Beauvoir her rightful place in the history of the 20th century French novel, between Gide, her predecessor, and the representatives of the “Nouveau roman”
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馬若楠. "擺渡的意識 :文學改編的另一種解讀 : 從 "敘事倫理" 角度論小說 "白鹿原" 改編 =;Consciousness of ferrying : another interpretation of literary adaptation : an analysis of the adaptation on the Novel Bailuyuan from the perspective of narrative ethics." Thesis, University of Macau, 2018. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b3954139.
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Diaz, Ruiz Fernando. "Malditismo y subversión en la poética de Fernando Vallejo: un estudio sobre su obra, recepción y estrategia literaria." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209393.
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Este trabajo analiza la gestación, funcionamiento y recepción de la estrategia literaria de Fernando Vallejo, en especial, el malditismo y la subversión que caracterizan su controvertida poética. Para hacerlo, adopta un enfoque metodológico que tiene en cuenta tanto los aportes de la Sociología de la literatura como los de disciplinas como la Estética de la recepción y el Análisis del discurso, sin olvidarse de estudiar los códigos narrativos, afectivos y culturales que favorecen los efectos subversivos de sus textos, entre los que destaca el pacto ambiguo firmado con sus lectores por el autor colombiano, único en la narrativa actual en español. Ante la ausencia de un marco teórico sobre este tipo de obras subversivas o malditas, de manera más específica se intentan desentrañar las claves principales de las poéticas del mal y de la subversión, llegando a proponer un cuadro explicativo con los rasgos que, en base al estudio pluridisciplinar de nociones como la “desviación social”, el “mal” y la “subversión”, presentan los textos literarios subversivos y malditos. En este sentido, los no hispanistas pueden leer esta tesis como un case study o materialización de dicha propuesta
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Ce travail analyse la gestation, le fonctionnement et la réception de la stratégie littéraire de Fernando Vallejo, et plus particulièrement la malédiction et la subversion qui caractérisent sa poétique controversée. Dans ce but, l’étude adopte un point de vue méthodologique qui tient compte tant des apports de la Sociologie de la littérature que de l’Esthétique de la réception et de l’Analyse du discours. Seront également étudiés les codes narratifs, affectifs et culturels qui favorisent les effets subversifs des textes, parmi lesquels ressort l’ambiguïté du pacte signé par l’écrivain colombien avec ses lecteurs, unique dans la littérature contemporaine de langue espagnole.
Devant l’absence de cadre théorique sur ce type d’œuvres subversives ou maudites, il s’agit d’identifier de manière plus spécifique les éléments clés des poétiques du mal et de la subversion, pour arriver à proposer un cadre explicatif. Celui-ci comprend les caractéristiques que présentent, sur base de l’étude pluridisciplinaire de notions telles que la “déviation sociale” et la “subversion”, les textes littéraires subversifs et maudits. En ce sens, les non hispanistes pourront lire cette thèse comme une étude de cas ou comme la matérialisation d’une telle proposition théorique.
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Jain, Rogulski Mira. "Shirley Jackson ou l'écriture de l'inhabitable." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUL184.
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Cette étude analyse les modalités de l’inhabitable dans un monde hostile et instable, ainsi que les stratégies élaborées afin de contrecarrer les effets pervers de l’instabilité. La violence des affects en jeu est à l’image de la cruauté des relations sociales, et ne laisse que peu d’espace viable même au sein du cercle familial, lui aussi soumis à l’entropie de la méchanceté ontologique. Les héroïnes de Jackson, confrontées de diverses manières aux résurgences d’expériences traumatiques que la traversée du présent, odyssée physique et psychique, transforme en obstacles insurmontables, recherchent la demeure idéale où se réfugier et trouver l’ancrage que leur interdit le monde extérieur. Jackson utilise les tropes de la maison gothique, de la hantise et du surnaturel pour illustrer les rouages trompeurs qui se mettent en place dès lors que ses héroïnes pensent avoir trouvé un tel lieu. Le paradoxe du corps maternel, qui fait cohabiter la vie et la mort, sous leurs formes pulsionnelles les plus destructrices, est le principe fondateur de l’effondrement des personnages. La folie apparaît comme un des moyens de comprendre l’incompréhensible, et de contenir la fragmentation. Enfin, l’invention du nom constitue le dernier retranchement où construire une demeure intérieureOur study examines the modalities of the uninhabitable in the work of Jackson, where the characters are imprisoned in a world intrinsically hostile, as well as the strategies they use to thwart the instability it entails. The violence of the feelings at stake mirrors the cruelty of social relationships, leaving but little livable space even within the family circle, also affected by the entropy of ontological evil. Jackson’s heroines, variously confronted to the reemergence of past traumatic experiences that their odyssey through the present time transforms into unsurmountable obstacles, seek the ideal house, the haven that will anchor them into a world that rejects them. Jackson uses the tropes of the gothic haunted house as maternal space to illustrate the deadly deception such a place embodies. The cohabitation the most drastic forms of the death drive and vital impulses is the foundation principle of mental dissolution. Madness is one of the means to both embrace and understand the incomprehensible. We conclude by showing how the invention of one’s name is a way of elaborating an inner house
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Schincariol, Marcelo Tadeu. "A arte complexa de ser infeliz = a ficção de Cornelio Penna." [s.n.], 2009. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/269950.
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Orientador: Enid Yatsuda FredericoTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: Neste trabalho, apresenta-se uma leitura da ficção de Cornélio Penna que privilegia a articulação entre as dimensões religiosa e social, aproximando assim os dois extremos em que grande parte da crítica tem localizado a obra do autor. Trata-se de um percurso de análise em que a noção de Itabirismo, conforme a concebe Cornélio Penna, ilumina o mergulho do romancista no universo de nossa formação social e cultural, como também o diálogo entre sua ficção e o grande romance católico do início do século XX.
Abstract: The present study consists of an analysis of Cornélio Penna's fiction focusing on the intersection between both religious and social dimensions in his work. In its analytical path, the notion of Itabirismo, conceived by the novelist, highlights his journey into the Brazilian cultural background, as well as the dialogue between his fiction and the Catholic novel from the beginning of the 20th century.
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Ferriere, Tamara. "La construction de l'extraterritorialité chez Roberto Bolano : écriture de l'émigration et avant-garde." Thesis, Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012CLF20021.
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Cette thèse doctorale étudie le caractère extraterritorial de l’œuvre de Roberto Bolaño, laquelle est enrichie par le nomadisme de l’auteur (celui-ci ayant notamment vécu au Chili, au Mexique et en Espagne). Il représente l’image d’un écrivain déraciné du fait du découplage de ses textes vis-à-vis de sa terre natale. Ses personnages migrants semblent souvent désolidarisés de leur pays d’origine. Ils errent d’un continent à l’autre sans savoir où leurs périples s’achèveront. Nous verrons que l’expérience de l’exil, chez l’auteur, permet l’identification des relations qui existent entre l’œuvre, la société et le contexte historique. Bolaño met en lumière différents événements tels que des dictatures militaires et des guerres civiles, lesquels frappèrent l’Amérique Latine de 1960 à 1990. Il crée pour cela une sorte de tribunal littéraire. Cela permet à Bolaño d’évoquer les mémoires individuelle et collective, rappelant des instants douloureux à partir desquels le langage devient violent et désolant. Cette étude a aussi pour objet de chercher à dévoiler les éléments avant-gardistes qu’il intègre à son œuvre. Il tente de s’affranchir de toute norme et de s’opposer aux canons littéraires établis. Cela constitue un acte transgresseur qui lui permet d’effacer les frontières afin de construire de nouveaux espaces à travers son écritureThis doctoral thesis studies the extraterritorial nature of Roberto Bolaño’s writing,which is enriched by the nomadic life of the author (having lived in Chile, Mexico and Spain). He represents the image of a writer who has been uprooted an aspect which is reflected in the proportion of the text devoted to his native land. The migrant characters in his writings often seem disconnected from their countries of origin. They wander from one continent to another without knowing where their journey will end. We will see that the author’s experience of exile allows us to identify the links between Bolaño’sliterary works, society and the historical context. The author highlights different events such as military dictatorships and civil wars which occurred in Latin America between 1960 and 1990. He provides a sort of literary judgement on this period. This enables Bolaño to evoke individual and collective memories,recalling painful incidents, which give rise to violent and distressing language. In addition, this study attempts to unveil the avant-garde elements present in his literature. He attempts to go beyond every norm and to oppose himself to the established literary canons. This constitutes an act of defiance whic hallows him to erase the literary boundaries in order to give way to the creation of a new space through his literature
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Becquet, Alexandra. "Ford Madox Ford et les arts : peinture, musique et arts du spectacle dans l'oeuvre romanesque." Thesis, Paris 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA030166.
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Ford Madox Ford est un écrivain impressionniste qui se veut historien de son temps et paraît représenter la vie moderne grâce à un texte envisagé à partir du visuel pour faire voir. Il encourage ainsi le rapprochement de son écriture avec l’art des peintres français du XIXème siècle, mais il engage dans ses récits une multitude d’arts et d’esthétiques afin de produire son impression suivant sa pensée originale et singulière. Celle-ci soutient l’accumulation et l’association artistiques mises en œuvre dans les romans en brisant les cadres esthétiques établis pour fusionner arts et esthétiques dans une forme qui s’adapte au réel afin d’en structurer l’informe et de le révéler pour en offrir une expérience au lecteur. Soumis au pictural et au théâtral pour se donner à voir dans des tableaux et des scènes, le récit dévoile en fait comment la modernité résiste à l’illusion mimétique. Peinture et théâtre figurent donc non le visible mais sa perte, et les romans sont poussés par leur objet à la dé-figuration proprement moderne que l’esthétique fordienne promeut et que le cinéma porte. Celui-ci donne alors accès à la vision d’un monde fragmenté et en mouvement par sa totalisation dans la métamorphose continue du filmique, qui en outre invite l’identification visuelle. Mais le cinématographique n’ouvre pas à la totalisation du roman, ni à ce dialogue que l’auteur entend engager avec son lecteur sym-pathique pour lui transférer son œuvre. Ce transfert se fait bien par le texte et sa structure mais en définitive hors de la figuration, grâce à la musique du roman qui à la fois gouverne, rassemble et abolit la représentation, les arts et le texte pour faire com-prendre l’œuvreFord Madox Ford is an impressionist writer who purports to be a historian of his own time and seems to represent modern life in a text conceived visually to make you see. He thus encourages a parallel between his writing and the nineteenth-century French painters’ art to be drawn ; yet he draws on a vast array of arts and aesthetics in his narratives to forge his impression according to his original and singular conception of art. That conception supports the artistic accumulation and association exercised in the novels while it shatters established aesthetic frameworks to merge arts and aesthetics in a form which adapts to reality to structure its formlessness and reveals it to offer an experience of it to the reader. In obeying pictorial and theatrical norms to be seen as pictures or in scenes, the narrative in fact discloses how modernity resists mimetic illusion. So painting and the theatre do not represent visibility but its loss, and the novels are forced by their object to embrace a thoroughly modern de-figuration which Fordian aesthetics endorses and the cinema realises. The latter then grants access to the vision of a fragmented and moving world totalled by the continuous metamorphosis of film, which besides encourages visual identification. However the cinema does not lead to the totalisation of the novel, nor to the dialog which the writer intends to have with his sympathetic reader in order to transfer his artwork onto him. That transfer does happen by means of the text and its structure but ultimately without figuration, through the music of the novel which at once governs, unites and abolishes representation, the arts and the text so the artwork be com-prehended
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Rafael, Laura. "The role of history in the recent Mexican novel : a study of five historical novels by Elena Garro, Carlos Fuentes, Fernando del Paso, Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Rosa Beltran." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/323.
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This thesis sets out to investigate the development of the recent historical novel in Mexico by examining a corpus of five novels. Elena Garro’s 'Los recuerdos del porvenir' (1963) represents the final point of the novel of the Revolution and it is the link with the recent historical novel. Carlos Fuentes’ 'Terra Nostra' (1975) and Fernando del Paso’s 'Noticias del Imperio' (1978) belong to the group containing the postmodern historical novel. 'Terra Nostra' summarizes all the concerns of postmodernism and can be considered as a paradigm of this current of thought. 'Noticias del Imperio' seeks a reconciliation between history and literature in an attempt to get closer to the historical truth. Paco Ignacio Taibo II’s 'La lejanía del Tesoro' (1992) is a representative novel in the way it melds history with the mystery novel, developing the genre of the historical thriller. Lastly, Rosa Beltrán’s 'La corte de los ilusos' (1995), and in particular its treatment of history is pertinent to this thesis due to the fact that women have been traditionally silenced by official history. This novel gives them a voice. From its beginnings, the historical novel confronted the problem of being questioned for its lack of accuracy when dealing with the past. This skepticism sparked a long lasting debate that initially degraded the historical novel as secondary genre that could never contribute to historical knowledge. However, as a result of recent theories that seek to defend the poetic nature of history, a theory developed initially by Hayden White, the recent historical novel has sought to debunk historiography’s claim to be the only possible way to recount the past. This thesis advances the theory that the recent historical novel in Mexico is the result of a search for a genuine identity, as well as a quest to develop an alternative, yet truthful, interpretation of a past whose true nature has been distorted by decades of historical officialdom. This process is seen in a context of increasing democratisation and globalisation.
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Marion, Annabelle. "Étude d'une « renaissance » d'écrivain. La reconstruction de la figure d'auteur de Jean Giono après la Seconde Guerre mondiale (1945-1957)." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université Paris Cité, 2022. https://wo.app.u-paris.fr/cgi-bin/WebObjects/TheseWeb.woa/wa/show?t=3675&f=43779.
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Cette étude examine la reconstruction de la figure d'auteur de Jean Giono après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, en évaluant ses fondements littéraires et historiques. Écrivain célèbre et reconnu depuis la fin des années 1920, Giono se retrouve au sortir de la guerre dans une situation d'ostracisme : inscrit sur la « liste noire » des auteurs accusés de collaboration, démodé à l'heure de l'existentialisme, Giono doit, à l'âge de cinquante ans, repartir de zéro. Les épreuves de la guerre et de la prison, l'échec de son combat pour la paix et les « vraies richesses », ont en outre fortement ébranlé ses conceptions de la littérature comme de la nature humaine. Cette crise conduit Giono à engager une profonde réinvention de sa figure d'auteur, dans une quête identitaire inséparable d'une entreprise de reconquête. Notre travail interroge les processus et les enjeux de cette reconstruction, qui est portée par l'écrivain lui-même, à travers la refonte de son oeuvre et de sa posture, mais aussi par le public, témoin et sujet actif de cette « renaissance ». Après la guerre, Giono reconfigure son être-auteur par rapport à son propre modèle auctorial d'avant-guerre, mais aussi en relation avec les forces nouvelles qui dominent alors le champ littéraire : celles issues de la Résistance, qui promeuvent le modèle de l'écrivain engagé ; celles des avant-gardes formalistes, qui cherchent à inventer un « Nouveau Roman ». À travers le cas de Giono, il s'agit ainsi de mettre au jour la façon dont se fait, se défait et se refait un auteur, dans une interaction constante avec les réactions du public et les évolutions d'un champ littéraire lui-même traversé par les mouvements de l'HistoireThis study examines the reconstruction of the author's figure of Jean Giono after the Second World War, assessing its literary and historical foundations. A famous and recognized writer since the end of the 1920s, Giono finds himself in a situation of ostracism at the end of the war: registered on the "black list" of authors accused of collaboration, out of fashion at the time of existentialism, Giono has, at the age of fifty, to start again from scratch. The ordeals of war and prison, the failure of his fight for peace and "true riches", have also strongly shaken his conceptions of literature and human nature. This crisis leads Giono to undertake a profound reinvention of his author's figure, in a quest for identity inseparable from an enterprise of reconquest. Our work questions the processes and the stakes of this reconstruction, which is carried by the writer himself, through the redefining of his work and his posture, but also by the public, witness and active subject of this "rebirth". After the war, Giono reconfigures his being-author in relation to his own pre-war authorial model, but also in relation to the new forces that then dominate the literary field: those stemming from the Resistance, which promote the model of the committed writer; those of the formalist avant-gardes, which seek to invent a "New Novel". Through the case of Giono, we thus aim to bring to light the way in which an author is made, unmade and remade, in a constant interaction with the reactions of the public and the evolutions of a literary field itself crossed by the movements of History
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Saldana, Esther. "Concha Espina, du journalisme au roman engagé (1880-1955)." Thesis, Pau, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PAUU1066.
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Du fait de sa trajectoire particulière et d’engagements parfois controversés, la production littéraire de Concha Espina (1869-1955) a été trop souvent oubliée. Ce travail de recherche a pour ambition de se pencher sur l’œuvre de Concha Espina, qui a défendu avec passion ses convictions socio-politiques dans la première moitié du XXème siècle. Son écriture, née dans la presse à la toute fin du XIXème, a été influencée par les nombreux courants littéraires qui ont traversé son temps. Concha Espina s’approprie et fait siennes ces influences.Cette thèse propose de porter un regard nouveau sur les engagements sociaux d’une écriture qui s’inscrit pleinement dans une époque empreinte de bouleversements profonds. Les premières publications dans la presse régionale servent de socle sur lequel prendra appui la production romanesque, fortement tournée vers l’étude du paysage et les revendications sociales qui en découlent dont La Esfinge maragata (1914), El metal de los muertos (1920) et El cáliz rojo (1923) font partie.Les convictions politiques de Concha Espina, son adhésion aux idées fascistes dans les années 1930 et son soutien au régime franquiste résultent de cette trajectoire. Elles sont également à l’origine du silence qui entoure le nom de cette femme écrivain qui a travaillé sans relâche afin de mener une existence libérée de toute dépendance personnelle et professionnelle. Ce travail de recherche prétend contribuer ainsi à la reconstruction de l’image d’un auteur injustement relayé au second plan de la sphère littéraire espagnoleConcha Espina’s literary production has too often been neglected because of her particular background and controversial beliefs. The aim of this piece of research is to highlight the work of a writer who passionately defended her socio-political convictions during the first half of the 20th century. Her writing, which first appeared in the press at the very end of the twentieth century, was influenced by the numerous literary currents of her time. Concha Espina made those currents her own.This thesis proposes a different outlook on the social engagement of her work, which is fully in keeping with en era of deep societal change.The first publications in the regional press formed the foundations of her novels, mainly centered on the observation of the landscape and the resulting social claims as in La Esfinge maragata (1914), El metal de los muertos (1920) and El cáliz rojo (1923).Concha Espina’s political beliefs, her support of the fascist ideals in the 1930s and of the Franco regime, result from her background. They are also at the origin of the silence around the name of a woman who wrote relentlessly in order to lead a life free from any personal or professional dependence.This research work aims at improving the image of an author unjustly relegated to the background of the Spanish literary scene
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Coto-Rivel, Sergio. "Le roman centre-américain contemporain : fictions de l'intime et nouvelles subjectivités." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014BOR30031/document.
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L’Amérique centrale s’est trouvée au centre de l’attention médiatique pendant les années 80 à cause de l’embrasement produit par les conflits armés et du fait de l’intérêt pour les témoignages liés aux revendications politiques. Le temps est venu de s’interroger aujourd’hui sur les voies empruntées par la littérature centre-américaine une vingtaine d’années après la signature des traités de paix. Cette question se trouve à l’origine de la présente étude : nous essayons de comprendre de quelle manière le roman contemporain s’intéresse à la construction des nouvelles subjectivités, quelles sont les nouvelles modalités de représentation propres à la fiction. La littérature centre-américaine contemporaine se présente de manière générale comme un domaine d’une grande diversité ; nous pouvons y lire une remise en question des contradictions, des luttes sociales et des discours dominants des sociétés de l’Isthme. Ces questionnements sont, à notre avis, reliés au texte littéraire du fait de la position privilégiée accordée à la subjectivité. Celle-ci a différentes manières de définir l’individu contemporain afin de renvoyer au lecteur toute une série d’énoncés tantôt intimistes, tantôt politiques et transgresseurs, qui montrent une crise dans la représentation des identités aussi bien personnelles que nationales. Jusqu’à quel point pouvons-nous considérer que la littérature centre-américaine contemporaine présente un renouvellement concernant les positions des sujets représentés dans les romans ? De quelle manière ces changements interagissent-ils dans une région conflictuelle, une région qui peine encore à définir sa propre identité ? Nous nous efforçons dans la thèse d’approfondir l’analyse des positions subjectives et des procédés littéraires ainsi que la démarche philosophique permettant la construction de nouveaux sujets-personnages dans un corpus constitué de romans publiés entre 1998 et 2009 par les écrivains suivants : Horacio Castellanos Moya, José Ricardo Chaves, Maurice Echeverría, Jacinta Escudos, Mauricio Orellana Suárez, Milagros Palma, Roberto Quesada et Uriel Quesada. Nous nous intéressons de manière particulière aux procédés narratifs mettant en rapport l’intimité et la subjectivité, avec la représentation des espaces corporels dessinés dans les romans, ainsi que les espaces géographiques et les lieux de la violence. Ces éléments vont dévoiler de nouveaux engagements et de nouveaux discours à un moment qui paraît dominé par la subjectivitéCentral America attracted greatly the media attention during the 1980s because of the armed conflicts and the increasing interest in testimonies linked to the political vindications. Now is the time to question the paths taken by Central American literature twenty years after the peace agreements were signed in the region. This question is found at the beginning of the present study on which we try to comprehend in what way the contemporary novel is interested in the construction of new subjectivities and in new means of representation specific to fiction. Contemporary Central American literature presents itself generally as a space of great diversity. We can read in it an important questioning of the contradictions, of the social struggles, and of the dominant discourses of isthmian societies. These questionings are, in our opinion, articulated on the literary text thanks to the privileged position given to subjectivity. It uses different ways to define the contemporary subject with the purpose of confronting the reader to a series of statements, intimist as well as political and transgressive, which express a crisis on the representation of national and personal identities. How far can we consider that contemporary Central American literature shows an important displacement related to the positions of the subjects represented in the novels? In what way said displacements interact in a conflictive region, a region which still has difficulties to define its own identity? On this thesis we make an effort to delve in the analysis of the subjective positions and in the literary and philosophical strategies which allow the construction of new subject-characters, in a corpus constituted of novels published between 1998 and 2009 by the following writers: Horacio Castellanos Moya, José Ricardo Chaves, Maurice Echeverría, Jacinta Escudos, Mauricio Orellana Suárez, Milagros Palma, Roberto Quesada, and Uriel Quesada. We are particularly interested in the narrative processes which relate intimacy and subjectivity with the representation of corporal spaces in the novels, as well as the geographical spaces and violence spaces. These elements will demonstrate new commitments and new discourses in a time that seems dominated by subjectivity
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Pino, Cheroni-Fernandez Beatriz Joselyn. "L'oeuvre d'Eduardo Acevedo Díaz et la constitution de l'imaginaire national en Uruguay." Paris 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA030139.
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Cette thèse est consacrée à l’étude des romans historiques de l’écrivain uruguayen Eduardo Acevedo Díaz : Ismael (1888), Nativa (1890), Grito de gloria (1893) et Lanza y sable (1914). Ce travail est organisé en trois parties auxquelles s’ajoutent une Introduction et une Conclusion : 1 - La conception de l’histoire selon Eduardo Acevedo Díaz qui comprend l’étude du traitement des faits réels, ainsi que celle des personnages historiques. 2 - Autres aspects de l’écriture littéraire, à travers lesquels sont analysés les descriptions de la nature, le « costumbrismo », le traitement des personnages fictifs et divers aspects des instances narratives. 3 - L’œuvre : sa portée et ses résultats cette partie traite des conditions de la création de l’Etat uruguayen et des objectifs d’Acevedo Díaz : contribuer à la création d’une identité nationale et par conséquent à la constitution d’un imaginaire national. On y étudie les différents aspects de ce projet, en partant de l’exaltation des éléments naturels et de la geste indépendantiste pour aborder ensuite les différents aspects de la polémique et finir par la réhabilitation d’Artigas. Cette polémique nous a amené à prêter attention à l’œuvre de divers auteurs tant argentins qu’uruguayens qui à l’époque décrièrent la lutte pour l’indépendance et ses héros, en particulier José Artigas. Eduardo Acevedo Díaz s’investit donc dans l’élaboration d’une légende blanche, tout en discréditant ceux qui s’y opposaientThis thesis centres on the study of the historical novels of Uruguayan writer Eduardo Acevedo Diaz: Ismael (1888), Nativa (1890), Grito de gloria (1893) and Lanza y sable (1914). It comprises three parts, in addition to the Introduction and the Conclusion: 1 - Eduardo Acevedo Diaz’s conception of history. This part includes the study of the way in which real facts as well as historical characters are portrayed. 2 - Other aspects of literary writing. In this part the descriptions of nature, the “costumbrismo” and the treatment of different aspects of the narrative instance are analysed. 3 - The works: their scope and significance. This part deals with the circumstances of the creation of the Uruguayan State and Acevedo Diaz’s objectives: contributing to the creation of a national identity and therefore to the shaping of the national imagination. Different aspects of this project are discussed, from the exaltation of geography and the epic of the independence movement, through different controversies, to the rehabilitation of José Artigas. The controversies lead to the examination of various writers – Argentine as well as Uruguayan – who, at the time, violently attacked the fight for independence and its heroes, in particular José Artigas. Thus, Eduardo Acevedo Diaz devotes himself to the creation of a white legend and refutes opposing views
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Laffaille, Claire. "Lourdes Ortiz : l’Histoire au crible de la Littérature, du Franquisme à la Démocratie." Thesis, Pau, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PAUU1068.
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Le présent travail de recherche entend passer au crible l’Histoire contemporaine de l’Espagne grâce à la production romanesque de Lourdes Ortiz. Écrivaine révélée avec son premier roman Luz de la memoria en 1976, dans lequel elle brosse le portrait de sa génération, Lourdes Ortiz cherche à réhabiliter la mémoire des vaincus de la future Transition et à faire émerger les vérités cachées. En ce sens, cette thèse s’attache à étudier exhaustivement trois romans Luz de la memoria (1976), La fuente de la vida (1995) et Andrés (1971) un roman jamais publié, en adoptant une approche à la fois littéraire, historique, sociale et politique. À partir de différentes historiographies, d’ouvrages consacrés à l’écrivaine, d’archives privées, de commentaires de la propre auteure, ce travail vise à analyser quelle est la nature du positionnement idéologique de cette ancienne militante du Parti Communiste Espagnol face à des évènements historiques qu’elle a vécus. Parallèlement, il s’agit d’appréhender dans quelle mesure les dispositifs formels adoptés dans ses récits invitent le lecteur à remettre en question le discours dominant. Ce travail vise à actualiser la connaissance de cette écrivaine engagée, dont la critique politique lucide et clairvoyante propose un autre regard sur les enjeux de l’Histoire contemporaineThe present thesis aims to examine Spain’s contemporary History with a fine-tooth comb thanks to Lourdes Ortiz’ novels production. This author became known because of her first novel Luz de la Memoria published in 1976, in which she paints her generation’s portrait and attempted to redeem the memory of the coming Transition victims, through hidden truths yet to be unearthed. With this in mind, this PhD dissertation endeavours to study three novels exhaustively, Luz de la memoria (1976), La Fuente de la vida (1995) and Andrés (1971) - the latter being unpublished – while approaching literature, history, society and politics at the same time. Through different historiographies, publications dedicated to the writer, private archives and commentaries from the author herself, this study aims to analyse what would be the ideological positioning of this former Spanish Communist Party activist, compared to the historical events she went through. In parallel, this work is about to apprehend how the formal orientations she is using in her novels would tempt the reader to reconsider the dominant thinking. This thesis intends to bring this committed writer to light, whose lucid and clear-sighted political criticism offers another view to the contemporary History stakes
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Torres, Perdigón Andrea. "La littérature obstinée : l’idée et la forme du roman chez Juan José Saer, Ricardo Piglia et Roberto Bolaño." Thesis, Paris 4, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA040066.
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Une idée particulière de littérature est née au cours des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles, période qui coïncide avec la naissance du genre romanesque moderne. L’idée de roman moderne issue de ces transformations à cette époque-là configure un champ virtuel de caractéristiques qui a marqué aussi bien la théorie littéraire du XXe siècle que la production de textes. Cette recherche pose la question de la vitalité de cette idée de roman moderne et, par voie de conséquence, de la notion de littérature qu’elle suppose. Nous proposons donc une étude de l’idée de roman au sein des poétiques de trois auteurs hispano-américains contemporains : Juan José Saer, Ricardo Piglia et Roberto Bolaño. Cette étude tient compte autant d’aspects théoriques que formels et se concentre sur les essais et les entretiens des auteurs, ainsi que sur trois romans : La grande, La ciudad ausente et 2666. Nous postulons ainsi une lecture comparée à partir de l’indétermination, du rapport à l’expérience et de la réflexivité, considérés comme traits principaux de l’idée de roman moderne, ainsi qu’une analyse des trois romans à partir de leurs formes narratives, réflexives et hybridesA particular idea of literature was born during the 18th and 19th centuries, a period that corresponds with the rise of the modern novel genre. The idea of the modern novel, which came about during this time period, constitutes a virtual field of characteristics that has left its mark on both 20th century literary theory and on textual production. This research questions the vitality of this particular idea of the modern novel and, therefore, of the notion of literature it withholds. Our aim then, is to study the idea of the novel as it is expressed in the poetics of three contemporary Latin American writers: Juan José Saer, Ricardo Piglia and Roberto Bolaño. This study considers theoretical aspects as well as formal ones, focusing on essays and interviews of the three authors, as well as on three novels: La grande, La ciudad ausente and 2666.It presents a comparative reading of these poetics according to three main concepts: indetermination, relation to experience and reflexivity, which we think to be central to the idea of the modern novel. In addition, this study analyzes the three novels in terms of their narrative, reflexive and hybrid forms
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PANZANI, Ugo Francesco Mauriz. "“I think, therefore I connect”. Database, connessionismo ed esopoiesi nel romanzo anglo-americano (1995-2011)." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Bergamo, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10446/26702.
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The aim of this doctoral thesis is to analyse how the contents and the structures of the Anglo-American novel have been influenced by the emergence of digital and telematic media during the last two decades. One of the primary targets is to identify the common strategies adopted by electronic and printed novels to analyze the complexity and to try, at the same time, to escape from the “trap” of language. In my introduction I argue about the increasing relevance of the pattern/randomness dialectic into the narrative field. In the first chapter, while analysing the two novels Galatea 2.2 (1995) by Richard Powers and Exegesis (1997) by Astro Teller, I try to show how computational practices are affecting the literary fruition and authorship along with the role that the novel might play as an instrument of knowledge and cultural interaction. In the subsequent chapters I bring together literary analysis and network culture, focusing on different notions such as the database as a symbolic form, the properties of connectionist networks, the idea of transliteracy and the concepts of autopoiesis and exopoiesis. For this very reason, I examined five different works: David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest (1996), William Gibson's Pattern Recognition (2003), Mark Z. Danielewski's Only Revolutions (2006), Kate Pullinger and Chris Joseph's Flight Paths (2007) and The Unknown (1998), developed by Scott Rettberg, William Gillespie, Dirk Stratton and Frank Marquardt. These literary texts propose different strategies to assimilate the structures and the dynamics proper to the networks in order to create new cognitive paradigms. It would seem that, through specific narrative structures and topics, some of the novelists of the last fifteen years are abandoning the self-reflexivity typical of the previous postmodern tradition in order to suggest an idea of fiction as an instrument to connect individual and contingency, reader and text, text and media ecology.
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Piégay, Victor-Arthur. "Contre l'autonomie et la clôture du texte : formes et ambiguïtés de la fiction moderniste européenne : (1910-1939)." Thesis, Dijon, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014DIJOL027/document.
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Concept-clé de la critique littéraire anglo-saxonne depuis plus d’une cinquantaine d’années, le modernism demeure méconnu en France, du fait de sa proximité avec des concepts voisins, telles la modernité et l’avant-garde, qu’il ne recoupe qu’imparfaitement. S’il peut concerner toutes les tentatives expérimentales dans les différents genres littéraires, c’est le roman qui se trouve au cœur de cette étude, laquelle met en perspective des textes de James Joyce, André Gide, Ramón Gómez de la Serna et Virginia Woolf, souvent victimes d’une forme de binarisme critique. Ils ont en effet longtemps été analysés comme des romans encore mimétiques, plus réalistes que les romans réalistes cependant, ou, plus fréquemment, comme des symboles de l’œuvre autoréférentielle définie par les dogmes new criticists et structuralistes. La présente étude cherche à emprunter une troisième voie, par le biais, notamment, de la théorie littéraire des mondes possibles, davantage susceptible de rendre compte du projet moderniste qui ne vise plus en effet à représenter le réel, mais à créer la vie. L’acception traditionnelle du modernisme en tant qu’ensemble de mouvements est ainsi confrontée à une perspective nouvelle qui permet de l’analyser comme une éthique et une pratique particulière de la fiction. Les romans expérimentaux du début du XXe siècle construisent en effet des univers fictionnels ambigus, informés à la fois par la tradition et par une exigence inédite de modernité, le texte moderniste refusant la table-rase avant-gardiste pour mieux se construire en mémoire vivante de la littérature. C’est ainsi une cartographie critique que la présente étude se propose d’établir, afin de permettre au lecteur l’accès à cette terra incognita du comparatisme hexagonalAlthough it has been a key concept of literary criticism in the English-speaking world for more than a half-century, modernism remains a relatively misunderstood notion in France, owing to its proximity to somewhat close concepts such as modernity and avant-garde, which it only partially overlaps. The concept is relevant to experimentation in all literary genres, but this study focuses on the novel, with texts by James Joyce, André Gide, Ramón Gómez de la Serna and Virginia Woolf. Those have often been mischaracterized by literary critics as either mimetic novels — though more realistic than realist novels — or more frequently as emblematic of the self-referential text, as defined by the dogmas of new criticism and structuralism. This study seeks an alternative to those two limited analytical options, particularly by using possible worlds theory, which is more susceptible of accounting for the modernist project of creating life rather than representing the real. The traditional definition of modernism as an ensemble of movements is therefore confronted to a new perspective which allows for its analysis as a particular ethics and praxis of fiction: the fictional worlds built by experimental novels of the early twentieth century are ambiguous, caught between tradition and modernity, since modernist texts, in becoming the living memory of literature, refuse to erase the past completely. This study thus proposes to establish a critical cartography, one that will allow the reader to access a terra incognita of French comparative studies
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Huang, Chunliu. "La relation au monde dans Les Thibault de Roger Martin du Gard." Thesis, Artois, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012ARTO0001/document.
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L’ensemble romanesque Les Thibault de Roger Martin du Gard (publié de 1922 à 1940) est sous-tendu par un témoignage que l’auteur adresse au lecteur sur le monde réel dans lequel l’écrivain français vécut. L’objectif de cette thèse est d’analyser ce témoignage à travers certains aspects des relations multilatérales entre ces trois pôles que sont la société, l’œuvre et l’auteur. L’œuvre romanesque de Roger Martin du Gard informe la société de son époque autant qu’elle est informée par elle, et l’écrivain, façonné par la société, façonne à son tour une société romanesque. La relation au monde des personnages des Thibault puise ses sources dans l’expérience même de l’auteur : relations familiales, relations entre les deux sexes, relations sociales et religieuses, autant de clés pour comprendre l’œuvre mais peut-être aussi la vie de l’auteur. Pour permettre d’apprécier la réception de l’œuvre de Roger Martin du Gard auprès du public chinois, la dernière partie de cette thèse analyse les deux traductions des Thibault publiées dans les années 1980 en Chine, et propose aussi quelques éléments de comparaison avec une fresque romanesque chinoise à portée elle aussi familiale et sociale, la trilogie de Ba Jin (Pa Kin) intitulée Torrent (Famille – Printemps – Automne, 1932-1940). L’étude des analogies entre ces deux œuvres certes très différentes permet de découvrir comment le roman de Roger Martin du Gard et son message dépassent les frontières, trouvent écho dans d’autres cultures, et finissent par rejoindre l’humanité universelleIn the eight novels Les Thibault by Roger Martin du Gard (published between 1922 to 1940), the author addresses the reader and describes the world in which the former lives. The objective of this thesis is to examine Martin du Gard’s discourse with respect to some aspects of the multilateral relationships between society, author and oeuvre. R.M.G’s novels informed society of his time and were themselves shaped by society. The author moulded by society then constructs a fictional world. The relationships in Les Thibault are autobiographical in nature whether familial, gender, social or religious and these constitute the principal means of understanding the oeuvre and the author’s own life.To evaluate the reception of Roger Martin du Gard’s work among the Chinese public, the final part of this thesis analyses the two translations of Les Thibault, published in China in the 1980s. Comparison with a Chinese trilogy, Torrent (Family – Spring – Autumn, 1932-1940), by Ba Jin (Pa Kin), although very different but which also considers family and social relationships, allows consideration of how Roger Martin du Gard’s message crosses frontiers and reflects universal concerns, those of humanity itself
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Avout, d'Auerstaedt Aurélien d'. "Le territoire recomposé. Conscience géographique et expériences de l'espace dans les récits de la France défaite (1940)." Thesis, Normandie, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020NORMR068.
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Cette thèse porte sur les représentations spatiales du territoire français que les récits de la débâcle et de l’exode (1940) tout à la fois révèlent, mettent en forme et reconfigurent. Elle vise à considérer la poétique du récit de guerre sous un angle géographique, ainsi qu’à élargir le champ de la géographie littéraire vers de nouveaux terrains historiques et méthodologiques. Le corpus, mixte, comprend à la fois des textes de fiction (Aragon, Gracq, Merle, Némirovsky, Robbe-Grillet, Simon, Vialatte), des témoignages (Saint-Exupéry, Sartre, Werth), des Mémoires (de Gaulle) et des essais historiques (Marc Bloch). La première partie montre de quelle manière les récits font apparaître la France comme une fiction de territoire et suggèrent l’ambivalence de la zone de guerre traversée. On s’interroge dans un second temps sur la perte de « conscience géographique » éprouvée par les individus ainsi que sur sa traduction littéraire (toponymes, métaphores et allégories, cartes géographiques employées par les auteurs). Les textes remettent notamment en question les conceptions de l’espace national héritées de la Troisième République. On s’intéresse enfin à la manière dont les auteurs recomposent le territoire français en élaborant une « patrie intérieure » de substitution ou en réagençant les dynamiques spatiales du conflit, jusqu’à en influencer la mémoire collectiveThis thesis deals with spatial representations of French territory that accounts of debacle and exodus simultaneously reveal, shape and reconfigure. It aims to consider the poetics of war narrative from a geographical angle, as well as to broaden the field of literary geography to new historical and methodological grounds. The corpus, mixed, includes both fictional texts (Aragon, Gracq, Merle, Némirovsky, Robbe-Grillet, Simon, Vialatte), testimonies (Saint-Exupéry, Sartre, Werth), Mémoires (de Gaulle) and historical essays (Marc Bloch).The first part shows how the stories make France appear as a territorial fiction and suggest the ambivalence of the war zone crossed. The second part focuses on the loss of “geographic awareness” experienced by individuals during May-June 1940, as well as the way in which literary works reflect it (toponyms, metaphors and allegories, geographical maps used by the authors). Finally, we are interested in the logics of recomposing the national space. Many authors react to the collapse of France by developing a substitute “interior homeland”. The later narratives, for their part, rearrange the spatial dynamics of the conflict, to the point of influencing collective memory
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Bréan, Simon. "La science-fiction en France de la Seconde Guerre mondiale à la fin des années soixante-dix." Thesis, Paris 4, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA040125.
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Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, la littérature de science-fiction s’est développée en France sous la forme d’un sous-champ isolé au sein du champ littéraire, avec ses collections, ses critiques et ses lecteurs spécifiques. Cette littérature produit des univers fictionnels en tension entre la réalité conventionnelle et des états alternatifs de cette réalité, selon une modalité dénommée dans la thèse le « régime ontologique matérialiste spéculatif ». Le corpus des romans a été analysé d’abord dans une perspective diachronique, en présentant une histoire des acteurs, des structures éditoriales et des thèmes de la science-fiction en France, articulée à une réflexion sur les conditions et les perspectives d’écriture des auteurs français. Les romans ont ensuite été analysés de manière à permettre une théorisation à plusieurs niveaux de l’écriture de la science-fiction : le mot et le texte de science-fiction, les mondes fictionnels extrapolés à partir du monde réel et enfin la mémoire collective mise en place par l’ensemble des œuvres, que nous nommons le « macrotexte » de la science-fiction. Notre contribution principale à l’histoire littéraire est l’étude de la manière dont évoluent les représentations communes en science-fiction, sous la forme de paradigmes dominants successifs où les écrivains réinterprètent les images et idées de la science-fiction. Nous avons établi selon quelles modalités le corpus des romans de science-fiction fournit à l’analyse du discours narratif, à la théorie de la fiction et à l’étude de l’intertextualité, des exemples remarquables en raison des dispositifs destinés à mettre les univers de science-fiction en concurrence avec la réalitéAfter the Second World War in France, science fiction literature took the form of an isolated subaltern field within the literary field, featuring specific publishing series, critics and readership. In science fiction novels, fictional worlds are created by mixing conventional reality and alternate states of reality, a process I call “régime ontologique matérialiste spéculatif” (“speculative materialistic ontological status”). I have studied French science fiction novels first from a historical perspective, by describing the protagonists, the publishers and the themes of French science fiction, as well as by assessing how and to what end French science fiction writers wrote their novels. I have then studied these novels at several levels: how words and texts are shaped in science fiction, how fictional worlds are extrapolated from the real world and how science fiction texts generate a collective memory, which I call the “macrotext” of science fiction. Our thesis contributes to literary history by studying how the perception of science fiction gradually changes over time, each main paradigm morphing into a new one as writers adapt science fiction images and ideas to their needs. I have also pointed out how science fiction novels may prove of a keen interest to narrative discourse analysis, fiction theory and intertextuality approach, because of various devices meant to allow science fiction worlds to compete with reality
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Bréan, Simon. "La science-fiction en France de la Seconde Guerre mondiale à la fin des années soixante-dix." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 4, 2010. https://www.numeriquepremium.com/content/books/9782840508502.
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Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, la littérature de science-fiction s’est développée en France sous la forme d’un sous-champ isolé au sein du champ littéraire, avec ses collections, ses critiques et ses lecteurs spécifiques. Cette littérature produit des univers fictionnels en tension entre la réalité conventionnelle et des états alternatifs de cette réalité, selon une modalité dénommée dans la thèse le « régime ontologique matérialiste spéculatif ». Le corpus des romans a été analysé d’abord dans une perspective diachronique, en présentant une histoire des acteurs, des structures éditoriales et des thèmes de la science-fiction en France, articulée à une réflexion sur les conditions et les perspectives d’écriture des auteurs français. Les romans ont ensuite été analysés de manière à permettre une théorisation à plusieurs niveaux de l’écriture de la science-fiction : le mot et le texte de science-fiction, les mondes fictionnels extrapolés à partir du monde réel et enfin la mémoire collective mise en place par l’ensemble des œuvres, que nous nommons le « macrotexte » de la science-fiction. Notre contribution principale à l’histoire littéraire est l’étude de la manière dont évoluent les représentations communes en science-fiction, sous la forme de paradigmes dominants successifs où les écrivains réinterprètent les images et idées de la science-fiction. Nous avons établi selon quelles modalités le corpus des romans de science-fiction fournit à l’analyse du discours narratif, à la théorie de la fiction et à l’étude de l’intertextualité, des exemples remarquables en raison des dispositifs destinés à mettre les univers de science-fiction en concurrence avec la réalitéAfter the Second World War in France, science fiction literature took the form of an isolated subaltern field within the literary field, featuring specific publishing series, critics and readership. In science fiction novels, fictional worlds are created by mixing conventional reality and alternate states of reality, a process I call “régime ontologique matérialiste spéculatif” (“speculative materialistic ontological status”). I have studied French science fiction novels first from a historical perspective, by describing the protagonists, the publishers and the themes of French science fiction, as well as by assessing how and to what end French science fiction writers wrote their novels. I have then studied these novels at several levels: how words and texts are shaped in science fiction, how fictional worlds are extrapolated from the real world and how science fiction texts generate a collective memory, which I call the “macrotext” of science fiction. Our thesis contributes to literary history by studying how the perception of science fiction gradually changes over time, each main paradigm morphing into a new one as writers adapt science fiction images and ideas to their needs. I have also pointed out how science fiction novels may prove of a keen interest to narrative discourse analysis, fiction theory and intertextuality approach, because of various devices meant to allow science fiction worlds to compete with reality
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Touboul, Anaëlle. ""Histoires de fous". Approche de la folie dans le roman français du XXe siècle." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCA123/document.
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Figure obsédante de l’imaginaire collectif, le fou a longtemps été chargé de significations qui le dépassent ; le mythe de la folie fait recette sur la scène littéraire mais les malades n’en sont que des figurants. Alors que le fou réel est maintenu dans les marges de la littérature comme de la société, le fantasme culturel de la folie est nourri et modelé au XIXe siècle par la littérature romantique ou fantastique et exalté au début du siècle suivant par les avant-gardes historiques. Un certain nombre de textes de romanciers du XXe siècle, parmi lesquels Georges Duhamel, André Baillon, Julien Green, Henry de Montherlant ou encore Alexandre Vialatte, mettent au contraire en œuvre un décentrement du regard littéraire de la folie vers le fou – du mythe à l’individu. Ce sont les modalités et les logiques de cette émancipation de la figure du fou et de son affirmation comme sujet – au sens de thème comme de subjectivité – autonome dans l’espace romanesque que ce travail s’applique à éclairer. Ces récits fictionnels qui font de la conscience aliénée à la fois le foyer et l’objet principal de la narration mettent en scène une folie presque familière, où l’idéalisation cède le pas à la représentation de troubles intimes et ordinaires, qui atteignent un personnage banal menant une existence modeste. Par leurs affinités sémantiques, syntaxiques et pragmatiques, ils forment un « sous-genre » romanesque, celui des "histoires de fous". L’enjeu de cette thèse est de déterminer le répertoire générique de ces romans tout en examinant la manière dont la folie interroge les moyens et les pouvoirs de la fiction romanesque. Il s’agit également de mettre au jour ce que la littérature nous aide à comprendre de cet impensable, envers de l’expérience partagée de la raison, et d’observer comment les romanciers contribuent à refléter tout autant qu’à remodeler les formes de cet objet social et culturelHaunting our collective imagination, the madman has always been laden with symbolic significance. The myth of madness is abundantly present in literature, however those characters with an actual mental illness are ultimately overshadowed. While mental patients are pushed to the margins of literature, just as they are pushed to the outskirts of society, this particular cultural legend of madness develops during the nineteenth century in Romantic and fantastic literature and stays in the spotlight at the beginning of the following century through the avant-garde artists. In contrast to the aforementioned representation of madness, a number of novelists of the twentieth century, including Georges Duhamel, André Baillon, Julien Green, Henry de Montherlant or Alexandre Vialatte, brought on a literary shift away from “madness” towards “the madman” – from the myth to the individual. The focus of this piece of work is on the modality and logic leading to the emancipation of the figure of the madman and its affirmation as an autonomous subject – in every sense of the world – in the literary field. These fictional stories, where the alienated consciousness is both the focus and the main subject of the narrative, present the reader with an almost familiar madness. They don’t idealize insanity but provide representations of almost ordinary disorders, which affect a banal character living a modest life. Through their semantic, syntactic and pragmatic preferences, these stories form a fictional “sub-genre”, called “histoires de fous”. This research aims at determining the generic features of these novels and at considering the way madness questions the means and powers of fiction. Another purpose is to shed light on how literature helps us understand this inconceivable experience, which represents the other side of the commonly shared human experience of reason and logic, and to study how novelists help to reveal as well as reshape the characterization of this social and cultural topic
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Brito, Luciano. "Les Mondains sauvages ˸ formes de l'apprentissage urbain au vingtième siècle (Proust, Lins, Naipaul, Oates, Bolaño)." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCA127.
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Écrites dans le vague souvenir des romans d’apprentissage du début de l’ère industrielle, les œuvres de Marcel Proust, Osman Lins, Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, Joyce Carol Oates et Roberto Bolaño reviennent avec mélancolie à une question qui marque la modernité : comment tracer l’histoire de l’arrivée dans une grande ville ? À la Recherche du temps perdu et Blonde examinent des rituels mondains au sein des capitales transformées par la guerre. L’absence d’ordre produit des fils énigmatiques, à l’image du kaléidoscope, de la spirale, du labyrinthe et de la cité de sable, ces dispositions s’appliquant à l’écriture de l’espace urbain et du récit qui y conduit. L’Énigme de l’arrivée les relie aux problématiques de la migration, de la langue mondiale et de l’empire multiculturel qui se consolide dans la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle. L’œuvre de Lins fait converger l’urbanité, l’ésotérisme et des mondanités intellectuelles : l’imitation, la citation, la bibliographie. L’urbain devient une satire chez Bolaño : ses arrivistes et ses carriéristes, qui sont des poètes et des professeurs de littérature, appartiennent à la famille des meurtriers de masse. La nostalgie du roman d’apprentissage urbain, désormais sous le signe du regret, demande une réévaluation intégrale. Alors que la métaphore végétale indique des processus stylistiques de décomposition qui joignent la désurbanisation et l’émergence de la vie de l’esprit, l’écriture des plantes peut conduire plus largement à de nouvelles possibilités d’individuation, moins motivées par la pulsion mondaine qui caractérise les récits capitalistes, et plus discrètement marquées par l’inscription non instrumentale et involontaire, autrement violente, dans la natureWritten with the vague memory of the novels of formation of the beginning of the industrial era, the novels of Marcel Proust, Osman Lins, Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, Joyce Carol Oates and Roberto Bolaño return with melancholy to a question that has marked modernity: how do we record the story of the arrival in a big city? In Search of Lost Time and Blonde examine the worldly rituals at the heart of the capitals transformed by war. The absence of order produces enigmatic forms: in the image of the kaleidoscope, the spiral, the labyrinth and the city of sand, these forms arrange the writing of the urban space and the narrative that leads into it. The Enigma of Arrival links those processes to the problematics of migration, global language and the multicultural empire that has taken shape during the second half of the twentieth century. The work of Lins brings together urbanity, esoterism and elements of intellectual worldliness: imitation, quotation, bibliography. The urban becomes a satire in Bolaño: his arrivistes and his careerists, who are poets and teachers of literature, belong to the family of mass murderers. The novel of urban formation, now available only as a lost object, a target for nostalgia under the sign of regret, merits thorough reevaluation. Seeing that the vegetal metaphor points to stylistic processes of decomposition that bring together de-urbanization and the emergence of the life of the mind, the writing of plants may lead to new possibilities of individuation, less motivated by the worldly pulsion that characterizes capitalistic narratives, and bearing more discreet traces of the non-instrumental and involuntary, more violent inscription into nature
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Rae, Ian. "Unframing the novel : from Ondaatje to Carson." Thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/13505.
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This dissertation argues that, since at least the 1960s, there has been a distinguished tradition of
Canadian poets who have turned to the novel as a result of their dissatisfaction with the
limitations of the lyric and instead have built the lyric into a mode of narrative that contrasts
sharply with the descriptive conventions of plot-driven novels. Citing the affinity between the
lyric sequence and the visual series, the introduction maintains that the treatment of narrative as
a series of frames, as well as the self-conscious dismantling of these framing devices, is a topos
in Canadian literature. The term "(un)framing" expresses this double movement. The thesis
asserts that Michael Ondaatje, George Bowering, Joy Kogawa, Daphne Marlatt, and Anne
Carson (un)frame their novels according to formal precedents established in their long poems.
Chapter 2 illustrates the relation of the visual series to the song cycle in Ondaatje's long
poems the man with seven toes (1969) and The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (1970), as well
as his first novel Coming Through Slaughter (1976). Chapter 3 traces the development of the
"serial novel" from Bowering's early serial poems to his trilogy, Autobiology (1972), Curious
(1973) , and A Short Sad Book (1977). Chapter 4 argues that Joy Kogawa structures her novel
Ohasan (1981) on the concentric narrative model established in her long poem "Dear Euclid"
(1974) . Chapter 5 shows how Daphne Marlatt performs a series of variations on the quest
narrative that she finds in Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen (1844), and thereby
develops a lesbian quest narrative in her long poem Frames of a Story (1968), her novella Zocalo
(1977), and her novel Ana Historic (1988). Chapter 6 explores the combination of lyric, essay,
and interview in Carson's long poem "Mimnermos: The Brainsex Paintings" (1995) and argues
that the long poem forms the basis of her novel in verse, Autobiography of Red (1998).
The final chapter assesses some of the strengths and limitations of lyrical fiction and
concludes that a thorough grasp of the contemporary long poem is essential to an understanding
of the development of the novel in Canada.
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Solomon, Wendy June. "The early Sundanese novel : 1914 -1940." Phd thesis, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/133645.
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The early Sundanese novels, the ESN, are a realist narrative genre written in the language
of West Java, and appearing in print from the turn of the second decade of this century up
to the fall of the colonial Netherlands Indies government to Occupation by Japan's
imperial forces in 1942. The novels reflect the intellectual foment of their times in all its
hues, but two ideological streams are dominant: the condition of Islam in West Java and
the rise of secular nationalist politics. The Islamic message is one of an community
attempting to accommodate the challenge of social change, brought about in the main by
the extension of Western-style secular education, through an unwavering affirmation of
moral values. The story of the nationalist struggle is well known: the emergence of
political organisations, of radical hopes culminating in uprising, defeat and fifteen years
of harsh reaction on the part of the colonial government. Romantic novels reflect either
the revolutionary aspirations of the 1920's in their themes of social progress or the voice
of social conservatism in portraying a maintenance of the status quo during the 1930's.
Colonial censorship ruled all literary production during the period.
Didactic ESN tell of wickedness swiftly punished and virtue surely rewarded in the matter
of sexual morality. Novels about the abhorred custom of arranged marriages form a subset.
Romantic ESN are aligned with political developments of the period. The two
discourses are almost completely distinct from one another in the novels, taking
alternative forms in Characterisation (Chapters One and Two), in Narrative Structure,
Fable and Plot (Chapters Three and Four). More commonality between the two is found
at the narrative level of Setting, within the denotation of the material environment of the
novels (Chapter Five), while a variety of representation is found in realisations of Point
of View, novel by novel. Point of View is discussed in concurrence within the other five
narrative levels, throughout the thesis.
There is marked stylistic development in the genre within this short time span of thirty
years, pointed out in the discussion. The social focus of the novels shifts from the
private torments of the feudal aristocrats of West Java, in the Didactic novels, to an
empathy with the little people, the rayat, in the Romantic novels, and on to an obviation
of social difference in a new Sundanese society, founded on ever-expanding education
and social enlightenment. Finally, while the D-novels reiterate their moral warnings to
the last, in the R-novels a kind of measured optimism within the bounds of colonial
control takes over in the last decade to close the period.
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Chang, Yu-Ju, and 張毓如. "Radio Novel: Auditory Culture and Audio Narrative in the Mid-20th Century Taiwan." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/2t8c93.
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