This thesis argues that representation is the embodiment of erotic thought. It does this by focusing on literary representations of the penetrated male body and challenging the standard approaches to masculine embodiment as a form of denial or absence: the male body - in its always already penetrated state - as a presence, though one which lurks behind representation. It argues that the (penetrated) male body is often characterised as a taboo the breaching of which is traditionally named 'feminine' or 'psychotic'. The dominant representation of this body links it with a chain of equivalences that binds it to a culturally abjected 'feminine paradigm'. Works by Huysmans, Baudelaire, Wilde, will demonstrate how the limits of the male body are mapped within a boundary that both excludes and necessitates an act of penetratioa But it also demonstrates the ways in which this taboo has been challenged. Schreber, Genet and Joyce play with that boundary, push those limits, suggesting that penetrability becomes a condition of the emergence of modern male subjectivity within the rubric of its own logic. For as much as the penetrated male body is marked by 'femininity' and 'psychosis', it in turn marks a discursive 'blind spot' which the thesis terms the 'behind', in order to highlight its links to the anus - a site of anxiety for masculinity. This articulation of a discursive aporia and corporeal liminality is shown to generate a specifically modern 'poetics'. This poetics will help to re-state a logic of the neither/nor as expressed by Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault and Kristeva, in particular. One major consequence of such conditionality is that thought must be seen as in a very real sense 'embodied', and that this process of embodying thought is predicated upon an eroticism that is subsequently denied. The 'behind' names that denial.

Ο Αριστοτέλης μετά την πραγμάτευση της ποίησης και του έπους στην Ποιητική του, προσθέτει ένα κεφάλαιο – το 25ο – όπου πραγματεύεται το ειδικό θέμα των αντιρρήσεων που εκδήλωσαν ορισμένοι κριτικοί ενάντια στην ποίηση την ομηρική και το θέμα των αρχών πάνω στις οποίες θα βασισθούν οι απαντήσεις προς τους κριτικούς του Ομήρου. Η ύπαρξη ενός τέτοιου κεφαλαίου κρίνεται ως χρήσιμη καθώς αντικείμενο της ποίησης δεν αποτελεί μόνο η διδαχή της φύσης της ποίησης, αλλά, επίσης, η ορθή κριτική των ποιητικών έργων. Οι λανθασμένες ερμηνείες πολλών αμφίβολων αποσπασμάτων αυτού του κεφαλαίου οφείλονται στo ότι δεν λαμβάνονται υπόψη από τους κριτικούς του Ομήρου τα Πορφύρια ζητήματα (σχόλια), τα οποία περιλαμβάνουν τα ομηρικά προβλήματα του Αριστοτέλη και των μεταγενέστερων Περιπατητικών. / Aristotle interpretating Homer defends him from Homer's opponents and accusers.

It locally contains or heaven, or hell; There’s no third place in’t. (Webster 1993) Husbandry in its original sense is a ‘being together’, based on dwelling in a particular place. There is an intricate connection between modern science and industrialised agriculture, both of which developed on the basis of particular values associated with Good Husbandry – those which focused on individual innovation, profit-related productivity, quantitative measurement, objective, ‘puritan’ truth and control of nature. Ideals of the earth as a ‘commonwealth’, and of traditional stewardship, were down-played. The writings of Francis Bacon provide an example of a positivist, pioneering attitude which has continued to underpin modern science. In retrospect, however, these ideals sound rather one-sided. Nature herself is not well represented in the modern science relationship. In this thesis, Virgil’s Georgics and Lucretius’ de rerum natura are used to derive a poetics of Being and of Husbandry, which applies not only to the world of poetry, but to events which underlie scientific research. Virgil’s use of verbs verifies that life’s activities are shared by all living things. Lucretius asserts that even inanimate atoms both exist in themselves and are creative. ‘To be’ can be visualised as a dynamic, balancing act between striving to stay in being and longing to engage creatively with another. The basis of this thesis is that a shaping of research towards good husbandry involves a fair relationship with nature, which in turn involves the acknowledgement in writing that nature is active, dynamic and a good collaborator. Husbandry defined as a continually unfolding third place between extremes or between self and other – this holistic, concentric definition – applies at all scales, all levels of experience. This work was derived from practice-led research involving the writing of poetry and therefore the findings exist in parallel as a sequence of poems.

There is increasing interest in the personal benefits of writing poetry and a growing field of practical application within healthcare. However, there is little direct research and a need for practice-based theoretical integration to improve understanding of the specific changes, creative processes and challenges involved. This study investigates the way that writing poetry can affect self-experience. It also contributes to the development of combined modes of creative and critical inquiry. A first-person account of the experiential and creative outcomes of writing poetry over an extended period is presented. The results of this are subjected to reflexive analysis and a critical theoretical explication. Four factors relating self-experience to the experience of writing poetry are identified: a failure of conscious intention; an inhibiting objectification of experience; an implicit assumption of a separate self, and a changed experience of self that felt more embodied and fluid. These findings are the basis of a theoretical examination that utilizes the work of Ignacio Matte Blanco and Michael Polanyi, in conjunction with insights derived from contemporary psychoanalysis, embodied cognition, neuroscience and attention training. An original theoretical integration is developed. It is proposed that poetry has a characteristic bi-logical form that condenses and integrates difference and identity in a simultaneous and concentrated manner. The process of composition requires a reciprocal interplay of conscious and unconscious processes, which can be enhanced by an increase in embodied awareness, a decrease in the exercise of deliberate volition, and the facilitative use of images. This involves a flexible oscillation of awareness that, modulated by the breadth of attention and the degree of identification or separation from experience, directly alters the boundaries and quality of self-experience. This framework avoids the limitations of reductive or eliminative views of the self and allows for the creative operation of what is dubbed the 'nondual imagination'.

Aucun manuscrit d’Ogier le Danois en prose ne nous est parvenu. Nous en conservons néanmoins les trois premiers imprimés : Lyon, Jean de Vingle, 1496 ; Paris, « pour » Antoine Vérard, s.d. ; Paris, Le Petit Laurens, s.d. L’objectif de la thèse est de fournir la première édition critique de cette prose, à partir de l’exemplaire de Paris de l’édition « pour » Vérard, conservé à la BnF. Le texte édité est assorti des variantes offertes par les deux autres témoins, de notes, d’un glossaire détaillé, d’un index des noms propres et d’une liste des expressions proverbiales. La lecture du texte est préparée par une introduction qui traite les points suivants : étude des trois premiers imprimés (description, classement, choix de l’imprimé de base) ; Antoine Vérard ; sources de la prose ; postérité de la prose, à savoir les éditions du XVIe siècle (présentation et classement) et les éditions et traductions ultérieures ; établissement du texte ; étude de la langue (phonétique et graphies, morphologie, syntaxe, lexique), caractéristique du moyen français et marquée par quelques traits dialectaux du Nord et de l’Est ; analyse du texte ; enfin, étude littéraire visant notamment à évaluer le travail de réécriture opéré par le prosateur à partir de sa source (le remaniement en alexandrins daté du milieu du XIVe siècle) et à analyser le style de l’auteur, typique de l’« écriture flamboyante » du XVe siècle. / No manuscript of Ogier le Danois in prose became known to us. However, we conserve the three first printed editions : Lyon, Jean de Vingle, 1496 ; Paris, « pour » Antoine Vérard, s.d. ; Paris, Le Petit Laurens, s.d. The aim of the thesis is to provide the first critical edition of this prose from the exemplary of Paris from Vérard’s edition, preserved in the BnF. The revised text is presented with variants given by the other two printed editions, notes, a glossary, an index of proper nouns and a list of proverbial phrases. The reading of the texte is preparing by an introduction that deals with these following points : study of the three first printed editions (description, classification, selection of one exemplary, revision of the text) ; Antoine Vérard ; prose’s sources ; prose’s posterity with the editions dating from the XVIth century (presentation and classification) and the later editions and traductions ; revision of the text ; linguistic study (phonetic and written forms, morphology, syntax, vocabulary), charactéristic of middle french, with some dialectal traits from the North and the East ; analysis of the story ; finally, literary study aiming in particular at assessing the rewriting work made by the prose writer from the source (the poem in alexandrine dating from the XIVth century) and the style of the author, typical of the flamboyant writing of the XVIth century.

Désireuse de s’affranchir d’une approche essentialiste et figée de la poésie au théâtre ainsi que d’une lecture générique, cette recherche envisage selon une méthodologie intermédiale les relations entre théâtre et poésie. En analysant un corpus témoin composé de créations textuelles et scéniques, elle montre comment la présence active de la poésie travaille le théâtre, et partant, elle les précise tous deux par leursinteractions. La première partie établit une généalogie de l’intermédialité du théâtre et de la poésie, ainsi que des liens dynamiques entre théâtre et poésie. Tout au long du XXe siècle, poésie et théâtre se sont en effet affirmés comme des "hypermédias"(Kattenbelt), mettant respectivement en jeu divers médias, tandis que plusieurs dramaturges ont développé des poésies théâtrales explorant des processus intermédiaux. Sont dégagées et analysées quatre configurations spécifiques à travers les œuvres et réflexions de Mallarmé et Maeterlinck, de Stein et Artaud, de Gauvreau et Novarina et à travers la poésie transmédiale que Cocteau développe entre théâtre et cinématographe. Consacrée au tournant des XXe et XXIe siècles, la deuxième partie élabore une approche théorique du poème théâtral, qui actualise les relations entre théâtre et poésie.Le poème théâtral constitue un dispositif intermédial qui, selon un modèle élaboré par Ortel et Rykner, articule inextricablement trois niveaux : technique, pragmatique et symbolique. Plusieurs traits précisent ce dispositif : sa radicalité dynamique, sa performativité, sa valorisation de l’écriture comme processus, et sa façon de considérer l’impossible comme moteur théâtral. Des analyses d’œuvres textuelles et scéniques de Kane, Malone, Danis, Régy et Lemoine montrent ensuite comment ce dispositif intermédial est activé et ce que le poème théâtral propose au lecteur et au spectateur comme expérience esthétique. Saisir le devenir intermédial de la poésie au théâtre permet de penser un modèle interartial placé sous le signe de l’hospitalité, où les arts, égaux, dialoguent entre eux et échangent, en faisant travailler ensemble leurshétérogénéités et leurs altérités. / In an effort to do away with an essentialist, rigid, and generic approach to poetry in dramatic works, this research looks at the relationship between poetry and drama using an intermedial methodology. By studying a sample corpus made up of textual and theatrical works, this thesis shows how the active presence of poetry is at work in theatre, thereby redefining each of the two concepts through the ways in which they interact. The first chapter traces the genealogy of intermediality within poetry and drama, and that of the dynamic connections between drama and poetry. Throughout the twentieth century, poetry and theatre have come to be seen as « hypermedia » (Kattenbelt), each of them bringing into play various types of media. Meanwhile a number of playwrights started developing dramatic poems exploring intermedialprocesses. This research identifies and analyses four distinct forms in the thought and works of Mallarmé and Maeterlinck, Stein and Artaud, Gauvreau and Novarina, through the transmedial poetry developed by Cocteau at the confines of drama and cinematography. With a focus on works from the turn of the twentieth to twenty-first century, the second chapter offers a theoretical approach to the dramatic poem, that seeks to bring an updated approach to interactions between drama and poetry. The dramatic poem is an intermedial apparatus that, in Ortel and Rykner's view, inextricably combines the technical, the pragmatic and the symbolic. This apparatus is characterised by its dynamic radicalism, its performativity, its focus on the value of writing as a process and the way in which it conceives of impossibility as a dramatic driving force. Analyses of textual and dramatic works by Kane, Malone, Danis, Régy and Lemoine suggest how intermedial apparatuses are triggered and the kind of aesthetic experience the dramatic poem offers to readers and viewers. Contemplating intermedial processes of poetry in theatre allows for the reframing of an interartial model in an inclusive, hospitable fashion, where all art forms are considered equal, engage in dialogue and exchange, and combine their differences towards a common object.