Thèse univ.--Nice--Lettres, 1980. / Bibliogr. p. 221-223. Index.

Texte remanié de : Thèse de 3e cycle : Lettres : Paris 3 : 1985. / Bibliogr. p. [231]-237. Notes bibliogr.

The novel Rimbaud le fils written by Pierre Michon is analysed in this study, using the theoretical model of modalities and modes of media elaborated by Lars Elleström (2010), the typology of intermediality defined by Werner Wolf (2002) and Irina Rajewsky’s (2010) metatheoretical reflections upon the concept of borders. The novel by Michon relates to some famous photos that have become important in creating the understandings of Arthur Rimbaud as a poet and a myth. The guiding question of the analysis has been: How can the intermedial relations to the photos create meaning in the novel?   The theoretical model of Elleström has been applied in order to define the modalities and modes involved in the photography and in the written text of the novel. Thereby the significant differences and similarities between the different media have become distinguishable. The categorization proposed by Wolf and the remarks made by Rajewsky on the concepts of borders, have helped to link together the observations of modalities and modes with the hermeneutic reading of the text. Using the intermedial references has shown to be a possible way to express or to reinforce the literary expression of for instance: the heaviness of the literary legacy and mythology, the absent, the genius, the departure, the silence, the religious language, the unknown, the literary sham, the survival and the protective power of an expressive richness that relates to or implies several semiotic systems.

La présente étude se propose d’éclairer la signification du corps chez Rimbaud par le biais de son combat spirituel contre le christianisme. Sa méthode pour devenir poète, le « dérèglement de tous les sens » et la richesse des descriptions et des évocations du corps montrent l’importance du corps dans sa poésie. Rares sont les études qui se sont interrogées sur la thématique du corps en relation avec la morale chrétienne. Pourtant, chez Rimbaud, la description du corps est un moyen essentiel d’exprimer sa révolte contre la religion catholique. Notre thèseexamine en premier lieu l’idée du corps selon la morale religieuse de l’époque à travers des documents relatifs à l’enseignement religieux. Elle aborde ensuite les textes de Rimbaud en suivant l’ordre chronologique. Dès ses premiers poèmes en vers, la beauté et l’amour sont définis comme deux valeurs principales du corps, alors que Rimbaud n’hésite pas à fouiller la réalité du corps laid et grotesque placé sous le joug de la morale religieuse et bourgeoise. Il découvre ainsi la force subversive dans la violence de l’énergie physique. Le lien entre sa poétiquedu corps et la religion chrétienne se manifeste dans la richesse poétique de la figure de Jésus, être ambivalent, à la fois spirituel et physique, ainsi que dans la redécouverte de la réalité sensuelle à travers le parcours métaphysique à rebours des valeurs chrétiennes dans Une saison en enfer. Dans les Illuminations, le corps est fragmenté et libéré de la raison par la passion amoureuse pour renaître, même si cet état frénétique de renaissance n’est pas éternel. / The present study aims at clarifying the meaning of the body in Rimbaud’s works through his spiritual battle against Christianity. His method to become poet, "the derangement of all senses" and the affluence of descriptions and evocations of the body demonstrate the importance of the body in his poetry. Few studies analyze the theme of the body in relation to Christian morality. The description of the body is an essential way for Rimbaud to express his revolt against the Catholic religion. This work first examines the idea of the body according to religiousmorality during Rimbaud’s era through documents on religious education. It then analyses the texts of Rimbaud in chronological order. From his earliest poems, beauty and love are defined as two main values of the body, while Rimbaud does not hesitate to explore the reality of the body under the restraint of religious and bourgeois morality. He discovers the subversive force in the violence of physical energy. The link between his poetic of the body and the Christian religion is also proved by the poetic richness of the figure of Jesus in his works, his ambivalentexistence, both spiritual and physical, as well as the rediscovery of a sensual reality in the metaphysical journey against Christian values in A Season in Hell. In the Illuminations, the body is fragmented and liberated from the reason by the passion of love, to reborn, although this frenetic time of rebirth does not last forever.

Dans le domaine de l’optique, les savants ont réfléchi, depuis l’Antiquité, aux couleurs. Dans les beaux-arts, par sa nature accidentelle, la couleur a été traitée comme un élément inférieur au dessin. L’enseignement scolaire a suivi cette tendance. Cependant, au milieu du XIXe siècle, apparaissent divers ouvrages de vulgarisation traitant des couleurs. Leur point de vue est alors le savoir-vivre, l’éducation, l’ésotérisme, l’optique, l’art ou la technologie. Notre thèse a pour objectif de comprendre en quoi le traitement des couleurs est original dans les poèmes en vers de Rimbaud, en relation avec l’épistémè du XIXe siècle. Dans les poèmes de Rimbaud, les couleurs parlent du poète ; de son éducation, ses préoccupations, sa pensée politique ou religieuse et même l’enjeu poétique de son œuvre. Nous nous sommes concentré sur le symbole des couleurs, négligé jusqu’à présent, et sur les effets physiologiques et les impressions visuelles dont Goethe ou Chevreul ont traité. Rimbaud n’invente ni les couleurs spectrales, ni les correspondances entre sons et couleurs, ni le symbolisme des couleurs. Il s’inspire d’idées existantes, et les combine pour inventer une nouvelle langue poétique. Il superpose les couleurs symboliques provoquant des associations d’idées, aux couleurs spectrales. Dans « Voyelles », le poète implique sa méthode dans la description de l’arc-en-ciel, dans l’évocation sonore des lettres de l’alphabet grec et dans le symbolisme de cinq couleurs. L’originalité de sa démarche tient à la convergence de ses différents moyens d’expression. C’est cet emploi des couleurs qui contribue à la création d’une nouvelle langue poétique. / In the field of optics, scientists have studied colors since ancient times. In Arts, because of its accidental nature, color is treated as a element lower than drawing. School education has followed this tendency to neglect the color. However, during the mid-nineteenth century appeared various books about colors, in the fields of etiquette, education, esotericism, optics, art and technology. Our objective is to find what makes the use of colors unique in the verse poems of Rimbaud, in consideration of the nineteenth century episteme. In his poems, colors speak of the poet; his education, his concerns, his political or religious thought and his poetics. We focused on the symbols of colors, which was neglected so far, and on the physiological effects and visual impressions treated by Goethe and Chevreul. Rimbaud do not invent neither the spectral colors, nor the correspondences between sounds and colors, nor color symbolism. He draws inspiration from existing ideas, and combines them to invent a new poetic language. He superimposes symbolic colors creating associations of ideas, on spectral colors, which maintain order in optics. In "Voyelles", he introduces his poetics through the description of a rainbow, the sonorous evocation of letter of the Greek alphabet, and the symbols of five colors. The originality of his approach lies in the convergence of its different means of expression. His use of color thus leads to the creation of a new poetic language.episteme. In his poems, colors speak of the poet; his education, his concerns, his political or religious thought and his poetics. We focused on the symbols of colors, which was neglected so far, and on the physiological effects and visual impressions treated by Goetheand Chevreul. Rimbaud do not invent neither the spectral colors, nor the correspondences between sounds and colors, nor color symbolism. He draws inspiration from existing ideas, and combines them to invent a new poeticlanguage. He superimposes symbolic colors creating associations of ideas, on spectral colors, which maintain order in optics. In "Voyelles", he introduces his poetics through the description of a rainbow, the sonorous evocation of letter of the Greek alphabet, and the symbols of five colors. The originality of his approach lies in the convergence of its different means of expression. His use of color thus leads to the creation of a new poetic language.

Ce travail constitue une analyse de la place du pictural dans la poétique de Rimbaud. Il a pour objectif de comprendre la naissance du pictural, cette image particulière qui s’impose au lecteur dans les poèmes de Rimbaud. Le pictural désigne la plasticité de l’image poétique, qui prend la forme d’une image mentale évoquée par l’agencement des mots. Ce travail traite ainsi, non pas du rapport entre un certain poème et une certaine peinture, mais du lien entre la formation du pictural et la forme d’expression. L’auteur cherche à montrer l’importance du pictural qui est ancré dans la poétique de Rimbaud, à travers l’analyse de la formation et de l’évolution de la notion du pictural de ses premiers poèmes aux Illuminations. À cette fin, ce travail explore en premier lieu la connaissance livresque que Rimbaud avait de l’art, la naissance d’une définition personnelle de la peinture qui permettent l’apparition d’une forme primitive du pictural dans les premiers poèmes de Rimbaud. En second lieu, il analyse l’évolution du pictural propre à Rimbaud qui émerge de l’emprunt intentionnel aux formes d’expression déjà établies : les trois chapitres sont consacrés à l’ekphrasis, au pittoresque et à la métaphore dans les poèmes descriptifs des Illuminations. Mettant en relief le rôle de médium du pictural, entre le poète et le lecteur, le lecteur et le texte, et le texte et le poète, l’incorporation du moi du poète dans la poésie est analysée sous l’angle du pictural. La recherche porte finalement sur la correspondance esthétique entre le langage poétique de Rimbaud et le langage plastique de Roger de La Fresnaye autour des dessins de ce dernier pour les Illuminations. / In this analysis of how pictorial takes place in Rimbaud’s poetics, we aim at understanding the birth of pictorial, this particular image which compels the reader of Rimbaud’s poems. Pictorial refers to the plasticity of poetic imaging, when the ordering of words elicits the creation of a mental picture. This study does not deal with the relationship between a given poem and a given painting, but explores the link between the building of pictorial and the wording of expression. We attempt to show the importance of the pictorial that is anchored into Rimbaud’s poetics, through a study of how the elements of pictorial form and develop from his first poems to the Illuminations. We first explore the bookish knowledge of art that Rimbaud had acquired and the emergence of a personal definition of painting which gave birth to a primitive form of pictorial in the first poems of Rimbaud. Secondly, we examine the evolution of Rimbaud’s own pictorial after it had emerged from intentional borrowings from already established forms of expression : three consecutive chapters deal with ekphrasis, picturesque and metaphor in the descriptive poems of the Illuminations. By giving depth to the role of the pictorial’s medium, from poet to reader, reader to text, and text to poet, we analyze the incorporation of the poet’s ego in his poetry, under the pictorial viewpoint. Our research concludes with the esthetical correspondence between the poetic language of Rimbaud and the plastic language of Roger de La Fresnaye in his drawings to illustrate the Illuminations.

No description available.

Cette thèse examine l’œuvre poétique de Rimbaud et de Laforgue du point de vue de la catégorie de « folie ». La notion de folie a très souvent été mobilisée dans la première réception de tout un pan de la poésie écrite dans le dernier tiers du XIXe siècle, pour étiqueter des textes considérés comme illisibles. À tel point qu’avec ses corollaires d’époques (manie, névrose, dégénérescence, hystérie), elle est devenue un véritable paradigme de lecture du texte poétique. La folie est envisagée ici non pas seulement dans sa définition médicale, mais aussi comme objet hybride, construit par une multiplicité de discours et de pratiques. On commence par une archéologie de ce discours médicalisant qui pathologise la poésie, pour montrer ensuite que la « folie » constitue bien une catégorie valide pour l’appréhension de la poésie rimbaldienne et laforguienne, mais qu’elle nécessite pour cela une théorisation nouvelle, indépendante de toute considération biographique ou psychologique. Part essentielle de l’écriture, la folie chez Laforgue, Rimbaud et leurs contemporains n’est plus la folie romantique – qui s’articulait aux catégories du grotesque ou du magisme inspiré. La folie poétique se fait méthode, « raisonné dérèglement » selon la formule paradoxale de Rimbaud, et traverse, en tant qu’expérience-limite, tout le trajet lyrique. En même temps, elle devient immanente aux corps, et au corps du texte. La folie romantique s’est immanentisée et textualisée. Poétique de la folie désigne ici un fait littéral, la manière dont le texte se trouve altéré par la folie, et réciproquement la manière dont en tant que poème ce même texte reconfigure la langue et la lecture, devenant par là un autre nom de la « folie » comme intempestivité, invention de catégories nouvelles, illisible devenant lisible. La folie ne désigne plus alors une pathologie, mais la force d’évènement de l’écriture même. Chez Laforgue et Rimbaud, cette dimension de bouleversement se déploie particulièrement dans trois champs : comme expérience radicale, la folie opère une altération et une aliénation du sujet ; comme effet rhétorique, elle entraîne un trouble généralisé de la syntaxe et du sens ; en tant que contre-discours et résistance à l’ordre établi (hystérie, idiotie, fureur) enfin, elle possède en elle-même une dimension politique, par laquelle elle s’articule à l’histoire comme événementialité. / This dissertation looks at the poetic works of Rimbaud and Laforgue from the point of view of “madness”. The category served as a label that was often applied by contemporary readers, including medics, to a corpus of poetry they considered to be illegible. Madness and its then quasi synonyms – mania, neurosis, degeneracy or hysteria – thus became no less than a general paradigm for reading poetry. We conceive of madness here not as a mere medical concept, but as a hybrid object, one that is constructed through multiple discourses and practices. The thesis first takes an archaeological look at this medicalisation of the reception of poetry. It then moves on to show that the category of “madness” can indeed be valid when it comes to understanding the lyric of Rimbaud and Laforgue, but needs new theorisation as a concept. Madness should no longer be considered as a biographical or even psychological category, but as pertaining to the text itself. A crucial part of the act of writing both for Rimbaud and for Laforgue, madness at the Fin de siècle had moved away from its definition in French romanticism, which saw it primarily as akin to the category of the grotesque or that of transcendent inspiration. Madness became a paradoxical method for poetry, according to the rimbaudian phrase “raisonné dérèglement” (“reasoned derangement”). As a limit-experience, madness proves to be at the core of a new poetic practice, while becoming immanent to the bodies as well as to the body of the text. Talking about a “poetics of madness,” we therefore conceive of madness as being primarily textual or literal. The poetic text is altered and displaced by madness, and conversely the text itself qua poem transforms the language it is written in and the categories of reading that are applied to it. In that sense, the text is necessarily mad in its essential untimeliness, since it invents the categories in which it can become legible. Madness thus no longer refers to a form of pathology, but rather designates poetic writing itself as a force and an event. Such a disruptive force is studied more particularly in three domains. As a radical experience, madness alters and literally alienates the subject. As a rhetorical effect, it brings about a major trouble within syntax and meaning. As a counter-discourse, finally, and a resistance to social order (in the cases of hysteria, idiocy, or fury), madness has an immediate political dimension to it, which connects it to history qua eventiality.

No description available.

During the late 19th century, arts and literature had a surge of sensory awareness, made manifest through sensory analogy, intersensory metaphor, and synaesthesia. This dissertation explores this phenomenon through a study of five poets and artists: Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Barlas, and Julia Margaret Cameron. Using imaginative sensing, these artists transformed the relationship between artist and observer, assigning greater responsibility to their audience while simultaneously asserting artistic control of their work. Their fascination with sensory mixing and multisensory awareness demonstrates unique ideas about perception and embodiment, ideas that have sparked both controversy and imitation. I begin with a brief history of the condition known as synaesthesia, considering its position as an “abnormal” clinical condition, a desired artistic state of transcendence, and a simple transfer of metaphor. Chapter 1 describes how two French poems brought synaesthesia to public consciousness and prompted a literary movement. In Chapter 2, I explore how poet-painter Dante Rossetti used “acts of attention” and unheard music to demand viewers’ embodied participation. Chapter 3 introduces John Barlas, a relatively obscure British poet who crafted exotic, sensory-laden environments that hovered between the actual and imagined, insisting that the reader use his sensory imagination to participate. Moving to the realm of photography in Chapter 4, I consider Julia Margaret Cameron, whose “out-of-focus” pictures changed photography from a mechanistic technology to high art by incorporating the sense of touch. Historically, the senses have been ranked and separated, with priority given to vision, the sense most associated with reason. I argue that considering the senses as bundles of interconnected experiences and through imagination rather than as isolated methods of physical perception can show how the senses function culturally and give us a much greater understanding of how we process the world. While no time period has regarded the senses with the intensity of the late 19th century, the embodied approach of the era can be applied to our current “sensory revolution” and can impact how we regard technology, cultural studies, and interdisciplinarity. Evaluating how 19th century artists blended the senses through imaginative constructs gives a more thorough explanation of the characteristic sensuality of the period and provides a model for how sensing can function more fully in current endeavors.