Même pendant l’époque moderne, qui se définit elle-même en opposition à une organisation reli-gieuse de l’univers, la poésie n’a pas cessé de s’identifier, de manière complexe, avec le problème de la transcendance. Nous dirons, dans un premier temps, que c’est bien de cela qui témoigne la situation toujours exceptionnelle de la poésie à l’intérieur de la pensée moderne, qui la caractérise comme une expérience limite, inassimilable à sa propre conception séculaire de l’histoire, du lan-gage et de la littérature, mais indispensable pour la délimiter. La pensée poétique de la modernité, qui insistera sur une interprétation immanente du processus de création en stricte corrélation avec son propre idéal d’autonomie, ne sera pas en mesure d’éviter l’institution du poème comme un espace privilégié et illégitime de réflexion autour de tout ce qui précède ou dépasse les contours de sa figure, les limites de sa raison. Dans ce contexte, il n’est pas surprenant que l’approche moderne au phénomène poétique témoigne d’une prolifération de figures autour de l’indicible, dont la plus décisive sera peut-être celle du poème. Le recours systématique à ce genre de figures relève d’un processus laborieux d’assimilation de la transcendance aux structures de la pensée poétique de la modernité. Ce processus récupère, de manière explicite ou implicite, toute une série des procédés spéculatifs et rhétoriques visant un rapprochement négatif à la divinité absolument transcendante connu, dans la longue durée de l’histoire, sous le nom d’apophase ou via negationis. Ce travail de thèse a pour objectif d’examiner de près la situation et la signification du poème, figure de l’indi-cible, au sein de la pensée moderne, les types des liens qui établit avec la question de la transcen-dance, ainsi que la spécificité de son inscription, qu’on appellera ici « l’expression de l’indici- ble ». Afin de mieux saisir la spécificité de cette inscription, il est capital de revoir la manière dont l’écriture poétique interprète l’héritage apophatique chiffrée dans la figure du poème. A travers la lecture d’un corpus moderne de poésie latino-américaine et arabe, ce travail de recherche propose que le poème, dont l’écriture réclame un corps et une présence pour ce qui est absent, se refusant à séparer l’expression de son objet indicible, résiste à l’assimilation négative de la transcendance à l’intérieur de la pensée moderne. / Throughout modernity, which defines itself in opposition to a religious ordering of the universe, poetry hasn’t ceased to rise questions intricately related to the problem of transcendence. This can be recognized in the exceptional situation of poetry within modern thought, which characterizes it as a limit-experience, necessary to outline its secular conception of history, literature, and language, but not easily assimilated to it. Modernity, while emphasizing the immanent character of both po-etry and the creation process in accordance with its own alleged ideal of autonomy, codifies the poem as a privileged and illegitimate space of reflection about everything that predates or exceeds the margins of its figure, the limits of its reason. In this context, it is not surprising that the modern approach to poetry witnessed a proliferation of figures of unsayability, at the forefront of which is the poem itself, suggesting a laborious assimilation process of transcendence into the conceptual scaffolding of modernity’s poetic thought. Such a process reenacts, implicitly or explicitly, a neg-ative approximation to the absolutely transcendent God known, in the long term of history, as apophasis or via negationis. This thesis aims to examine the situation of the poem as a figure of the unsayable within modern thought, its relationship with the question of transcendence, as well as the specific modes of inscription of the latter, which I call “the expression of the unsayable”. To gain better grasp of this specificity, it is crucial to understand the way in which poetic writing deals with the apophatic heritage of the poem. Through a close reading of a corpus of Latin American and Arabic modern poetry, I will argue that the poem, whose writing claims for a body and a presence for what is absent (and thus refuses to detach the expression from its intended unsayable object), resists the negative assimilation of transcendence into modern thought. / Incluso durante la era moderna, que se define a sí misma en oposición a un ordenamiento religioso del universo, la poesía no ha dejado de identificarse, de manera compleja, con el problema de la trascendencia. De esto rinde testimonio, en primer término, la situación siempre excepcional de la poesía al interior del pensamiento moderno, que tiende a caracterizarla como una experiencia lí-mite, inasimilable a su concepción secular de la historia, el lenguaje y la literatura, pero definitoria de ella. El pensamiento poético de la modernidad, que propondrá una interpretación inmanente del proceso creador en concordancia precisa con su propio ideal de autonomía, no puede evitar instituir al poema como un espacio privilegiado e ilegítimo de reflexión en torno a aquello que precede o excede su figura, los límites de su razón. No extraña, en este contexto, que la aproximación mo-derna al fenómeno poético se encuentre frecuentemente mediada por figuras en torno a lo indecible, de las cuales tal vez la más prominente sea la del poema mismo. El recurso a estas figuras sugiere un arduo proceso de asimilación de la trascendencia al pensamiento poético de la modernidad que recupera, de manera explícita o implícita, una serie de procedimientos especulativos y retóricos de aproximación a la divinidad absolutamente trascedente conocidos, en el tiempo largo de la historia, como apófasis o via negationis. La presente tesis tiene como objetivo examinar la situación y la significación del poema, figura de lo indecible, al interior del pensamiento moderno, el tipo de vínculos que establece con la cuestión de la trascendencia y sus formas específicas de inscripción, a las que me refiero como “la expresión de lo indecible”. En el marco de estas preocupaciones, es crucial revisar la manera como la escritura poética confronta su propio legado apofático. A través de la lectura de un corpus de poesía latinoamericana y árabe moderna, en esta tesis argumento que el poema, cuya escritura reclama un cuerpo y una presencia para lo ausente y por lo tanto se rehúsa a separar la expresión de un indecible objeto, resiste la asimilación negativa de la trascendencia al interior del pensamiento moderno.

Consacré aux Mémoires de la vie de Henriette-Sylvie de Molière (1671-1674) de Madame de Villedieu, ce mémoire étudie la gaieté, omniprésente et protéiforme, de l’œuvre. La gaieté des Mémoires est souvent troublante : tout en répondant à l’impératif incontournable de divertir les lecteur.trice.s, elle révèle la violence du monde et des hommes. Une étude de sa poétique permet alors d’éclairer la perspective singulière et inattendue qui traverse ce roman-mémoires. Le premier chapitre s’attache à analyser certains éléments de la structure narrative de l’œuvre qui, tout en provoquant l’agrément du lectorat, sont aussi porteurs d’un point de vue critique sur l’Histoire, et particulièrement sur l’histoire des femmes. Le deuxième chapitre consiste en une exploration de l’hybridité générique des Mémoires. Ludiques et polémiques, ces nombreuses transgressions à l’égard des codes scripturaires typiquement masculins remettent en question à la fois l’ordre de l’écrit, et les valeurs qui les structurent. La méthode employée est inspirée par l’analyse du discours, et nourrie par plusieurs travaux portant sur la poétique des genres. Finalement, le troisième chapitre examine la gaieté d’Henriette-Sylvie, en tant que narratrice et personnage, à travers le prisme de la rhétorique. Si les mots d’esprit et les réparties ironiques de la narratrice-personnage permettent d’évoquer plus librement plusieurs réalités contraires aux normes de la bienséance, la gaieté inébranlable d’Henriette-Sylvie témoigne aussi de l’obligation qui pèse sur elle de plaire et de divertir. La gaieté est alors envisagée comme faisant partie d’une stratégie énonciative visant à séduire et convaincre. Pour éclairer le contexte, à la fois historique, polémique et générique avec lequel dialogue le roman, ce mémoire s’appuie également sur les travaux ayant pour objet le rire et le comique à l’âge classique, la Querelle des femmes dans l’espace social et littéraire, et le pyrrhonisme des libertins. / Dedicated to the Mémoires de la vie de Henriette-Sylvie de Molière (1671-1674) by Madame de Villedieu, this thesis studies the omnipresent and protean gaiety of the work. The gaiety of the Mémoires is often troubling: while it responds to the inescapable imperative of entertaining the reader, it reveals the violence of the world and of men. A study of its poetics allows us to shed light on the singular and unexpected perspective that runs through this novel-memoir. The first chapter analyzes certain elements of the narrative structure of the work which, while provoking the pleasure of the reader, also carry a critical point of view on History, and particularly on the history of women. The second chapter consists of an exploration of the generic hybridity of the Memoirs. Playful and polemical, these various transgressions of typically male scriptural codes challenge both the order of the written word and the values that structure it. The method used is inspired by discourse analysis, and informed by several works on the poetics of literary forms. Finally, the third chapter examines Henriette-Sylvie’s gaiety, as narrator and character, through the lens of rhetoric. While the narrator-character’s witty and ironic repartee allows for the freer evocation of many realities contrary to the norms of decency, Henriette-Sylvie’s unwavering cheerfulness also speaks to her obligation to please and entertain. Cheerfulness is then seen as part of an enunciative strategy to seduce and convince. In order to shed light on the historical, polemical and generic context with which the novel is in dialogue, this work also relies on works dealing with laughter and comedy in the classical age, the Querelle des femmes in the social and literary space, and the Pyrrhonism of the libertines.

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[pt] A dissertação consiste em uma tradução comentada de Mean Free Path (2010), último livro de poesia de Ben Lerner, poeta e romancista estadunidense contemporâneo. Lerner desenvolve uma poética marcada por colisões e fragmentações, com choques de sentido de um verso para outro, versos fora de ordem, recombinados etc. Tais características dispararam reflexões sobre as escolhas tradutórias, comentadas em notas (relativas aos versos), às quais são entrelaçados conceitos teóricos caros aos estudos de tradução poética, que atribuem ao tradutor um papel ativo. A linguagem do autor se articula com a forma como se dá a comunicação nos dias de hoje. / [en] The thesis consists of an annotated translation of Mean Free Path (2010), the latest poetry book written by the contemporary American poet and novelist Ben Lerner. He creates a poetic language marked by collisions and fragmentations, with disruptions to the meanings from one line to another, lines out of order or recombined etc. These features triggered reflections on the translation choices, which are discussed in notes on specific lines. Theoretical concepts relevant to the study of poetry translation, which give translators an active role, are intertwined with the notes. The author s poetic language is attuned to the way people communicate nowadays.

<p>Building on concepts of the pastoral, the picturesque, the “vernacular ruin,” and frontierism in an American context, this thesis explores the interest in ruin and commodity-oriented refuse within rural, wilderness, and what Leo Marx in <em>The Machine in the Garden</em> calls “middle ground” environments. Chapter one analyzes how “nature” has been conceptualized as a place where human-made objects become repurposed through the gaze of the spectator. Theories surrounding gallery and exhibition space, as well as archaeological practices related to garbage excavation, are assessed to determine how waste objects, when wrested out of context, become artifacts of cultural significance. Chapter two turns to focus on the settler experience of the frontier in order to locate a uniquely American evolution of the interest in everyday waste objects. Chapters three and four return to the rural and the pastoral to focus on Marx’s concept of the “middle ground.” In dialogue with Marx’s theories, I propose a definition of the “neopastoral” as that which evolves from the interjection of domestic waste into these middle spaces to the aesthetic appropriation of everyday, common objects in modernist American poetry. The final chapter focuses on selected poems by modernist writers such as Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, and W.C. Williams to analyze their explicit references to everyday waste in conjunction with the mythologized American pastoral. These poets provide evidence for how the drive to poeticize an abandoned, human-made object’s proximity to a natural environment plays a significant role in the perception of the fragmented object-subject relationship in modernity.</p> / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

This dissertation has two main aims. The first is to describe or specify the poetics of "own" and "foreign" space in literary work in general and in the fairy tales of K. J. Erben, the Grimm brothers, B. Němcová or L. Bechstein; the second is to analyse and compare the poetics in three spatial pairs the "own" and "foreign" spaces in relation to the main character of the above-mentioned fairy tales representing, namely in the spaces of home and journey, the living and the dead or welfare and poverty. The first part of the thesis is mostly theoretical and is primarily focused on the first set goal, i. e. the description and specification of the poetics of "own" and "foreign" spaces as well as on related phenomena, such as the definition of concepts "space", "own", "foreign", "own and foreign space", "place", "character", "subject of own and foreign space", analysis of the character's relationships to space, evolution of humans relationship to space and their perspective on it in history and literature with a special focus on spatial turn etc. The second, predominantly analytical-comparative part of the thesis, connected mainly with the second set goal of the dissertation, focuses with the help of secondary literature in the field of humanities and specifically selected fairy-tale aspects on the...

In this dissertation, I investigate the cognitive processes integral to intertextual readings by referring to the cognitive linguistics framework known as conceptual blending. I refer to different genres of intertextual texts and then explain these intertexts in terms of cognitive principles and processes, such as conceptual blending networks. By applying the framework of conceptual blending to intertexts within different genres, I suggest that the underlying cognitive processes are universal for the interpretation of any type of intertextual text. My findings indicate that conceptual blending underpins intertextuality which is cognitive, creative and dynamic in nature. This means that the meaning we construct from intertexts is dependent on the context in which they appear and cannot be studied in isolation. Investigating intertextual texts from a cognitive linguistics perspective reveals new inferences (such as the influence of implicit knowledge as a type of intertext) and the creativity involved in the meaning-making process. / Linguistics / M.A. (Linguistics)

This thesis examines the traces of theological and broader religious discourses in selected works of three major twentieth-century poets. Each of the texts examined in this thesis encodes within its poetics a distinct, theologically derived conception of the ontological status of the self in relation to the Absolute. Yeats primarily envisions the relation as one of essential identity, Jones regards it as defined by alterity, and Eliot depicts it as dialectical and paradoxical. Critics have underestimated the impact on Yeats’s late work of his final and most sustained engagement with Indic traditions, which issued from his friendship and collaboration with Shri Purohit Swami. Though Yeats projected Theosophical notions on the Indic texts and traditions he studied with Purohit, he successfully incorporated principles of Classical Yoga and Tantra into his later poetry. Much of Yeats’s late poetics reflects his struggle to situate the individuated self ontologically in light of traditions that devalue that self in favor of an impersonal, cosmic subjectivity. David Jones’s The Anathemata encodes a religious position opposed to that of Yeats. For Jones, a devout Roman Catholic committed to the bodily, God is Wholly Other. The self is fallen and circumscribed, and must connect with the divine chiefly through the mediation of the sacraments. In The Anathemata, the poet functions as a kind of lay priest attempting sacramentally to recuperate sacred signs. Because, according to Jones’s exoteric theology, the self must love God through fellow creatures, The Anathemata is not only circular, forming a verbal templum around the Cross; it is also built of massive, rich elaborations of creaturely detail, including highly embroidered and historicized voices and discourses. Critics have long noted the influence of Christian mystical texts on Eliot’s Four Quartets, but some have also detected a countercurrent within the later three Quartets, one that resists the timeless even as the poem valorizes transcending time. This tension, central to Four Quartets, reflects Eliot’s engagement with the dialectical theology of Karl Barth. Eliot’s deployment of paradox and negation does not merely echo the apophatic theology of the mystical texts that figure in the poem; it also reflects the discursive strategies of Barth’s theology. The self in Four Quartets is dialectical and paradoxical: suspended between time and eternity, it can transcend its own finitude only by embracing it.

If from God’s perspective ‘all the world’s a stage’, theology invites one to think and act according to the view afforded from this height. To speak theologically of a ‘world stage’ as many contemporary theologians have done has required rethinking the Church’s long-established antagonism towards the stage. Of late, theology has opened up academic exchange with the drama’s understanding of ‘the great theatre of the world’. Hans Urs von Balthasar’s theo-drama in particular has given Christians a means for entering into discussion with dramatic forms. Contemporary theological engagements with ‘drama’, however, have been limited to its most literary/metaphorical aspects; less attention has been paid to the potentialities in theology’s exchange with the performance aesthetics of live theatre. Pressed to its logical ends, however, von Balthasar’s idea of a ‘theological dramatics’ and its advances made in contemporary theology, suggest the need for sustained engagement with other modes of dramaturgy, including performance theory and the stage. This thesis attempts to instantiate this theological engagement through the aesthetics of theatrical performance.