Le présent mémoire vise à étudier les pratiques, les enjeux et les modalités du don diplomatique animalier au XIIIe siècle, notamment sous le règne de Frédéric II, Henri III et Louis IX. Pour cela, on présente les concepts et les théories, sociologiques et anthropologiques, du don, particulièrement celles de Marcel Mauss. Ainsi outillé, on appréhende les particularités des cadeaux animaliers diplomatiques au XIIIe siècle. Ensuite, à l’aide d’une recherche sur les descriptions animalières des bestiaires et des encyclopédies médiévales, on montre la puissance symbolique et les particularités physiques et comportementales de la faune offerte. Enfin, à partir de la combinaison des deux premières parties, plusieurs modalités du don sont développées, parmi lesquelles les critères de choix et les préférences fauniques des rois, le contexte et les règles de la réalisation d’un présent et la circulation des animaux offerts. En outre, on souligne combien les bêtes et les oiseaux offerts ont eu une utilité. En effet, on voit que les rois ont mis en scène leurs animaux afin de s’approprier leur symbolique et d’exacerber leur prestige et leur grandeur, lors d’évènements spécifiques ou dans leurs ménageries. / The main purpose of this text is to study the practices, the issues and the modalities of the animal diplomatic gift in the 13th century, especially during the reign of Frederick II, Henry III and Louis IX. The analysis is based on the presentation of the sociological and anthropological conceptualizations of the gift, particularly those of Marcel Mauss. They are used to understand the peculiarities of the animal diplomatic gift in the 13th century. Then, a research on animal descriptions of medieval bestiaries and encyclopedias is conducted to show the symbolic power and the physical and behavioral characteristics of the offered wildlife. Finally, several modalities of the donation are developed, such as the selection criteria and the wildlife preferences of the kings, the context and rules of the elaboration of a present and the movement of given animals. In addition, it is shown how the beasts and birds had a real use for the kings. Indeed, they staged their animals in order to appropriate their symbolism and show off their prestige and their greatness, at events or in the menageries.

Ce mémoire en recherche-création débute par un récit intitulé Les dents de sagesse du bestiaire inquiétant, qui est formé de dix contes où prennent place dans un monde fantastique les aventures d’un bestiaire. Ce texte qui met en scène l’histoire d’animaux hybrides cherche également l’expérimentation textuelle par l’écriture automatique des surréalistes. Il pratique l’hybridité des genres comme la lettre, l’essai, le poème et la chanson. Ainsi, la nature hybride des créatures des contes s’appuient sur l’esthétique formelle de l’œuvre. La deuxième partie intitulée Le détournement du mythe « femme-enfant » dans les contes fantastiques de Gisele Prassinos, propose une réflexion sur les contes fantastiques de l’auteure surréaliste Gisèle Prassinos, choisie par les surréalistes comme symbole du mythe de la « femme-enfant » quand elle avait quatorze ans. Pourtant, l’auteure rejette ce mythe dans ses écrits (Les mots endormis et Trouver sans chercher) tout en gardant la pratique de l’écriture automatique des surréalistes et le ludisme textuel. Cet essai étudie le détournement de la « femme-enfant » dans les contes de Prassinos grâce à une lecture plus profonde de ceux-ci. / This M.A. Thesis combines both research and creative writing. It starts with a narrative story entitled Les dents de sagesse du bestiaire inquiétant which contains ten tales. These tales take place in a fantasy world of bestiary adventures. This text about hybrid beasts is also an experimental text of the automatic writing process used by surrealists. It merges genres, such as letter, essay, poem and song. Thus, the hybrid nature of creatures in these tales justifies the formal aesthetic of this literary work. The second part entitled Le détournement du mythe « femme-enfant » dans les contes fantastiques de Gisele Prassinos proposes a critical reading of the fantasy tales of surrealist author Gisèle Prassinos, who was chosen by surrealists as a symbol of the "femme-enfant" myth, when she was only 14 years old. However, the author firmly rejects this myth in her own writings (Les mots endormis and Trouver sans chercher), even though she engages in the surrealistic automatic writing process and ludic texts. Through a detailed reading, this essay analyses the deconstruction of the "femme-enfant" myth in Prassinos’ tales.

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Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais / This dissertation aims to reflect upon the presence of animals in Literature, seeking to elucidate compositional elements of selected texts from the work of the writer João Guimarães Rosa in which the bestiary theme, mainly, inserted in new literary writing, can be discussed. In order to do that, firstly we will travel, in a concise way, through Rosa´s biography and also we will privilege a perspective that aims at thinking the presence of animals in the literary journey of Guimarães Rosa. Following that we will present his last work, Ave, Palavra, whose texts portray the animal theme intensely. More than that, we magnified our view to the existing relationship between Man and animal in a modern perspective since Rosa´s texts allow us to reflect those biases because of its contents whose aesthetic procedures dialogue directly with the characteristics of modern literary construction or, at least, renewed textual configurations. After, we reflected upon literary genres, contemplating, specially, the poetic prose in Rosa´s works, enabling better understanding about the issues that round Rosa´s zoopoetic. It was imperatively necessary, before investigating Rosa´s bestiary specifically, a conceptual view and a historical resumption about the bestiary´s genre, focusing on the medieval times, subsequently to a contextualization of zooliterature, revisited and updated; lastly, upon the analysis of the texts Aquário (Berlim) and Aquário (Nápoles) , from Ave, Palavra, we sought to highlight Rosa´s style of bestiary and also the light of the investigative project of ecocriticism. Therefore, we worked with the complexity of Guimaraes´Rosa writings regarding the bestiaries, having as ballast, issues raised on texts from his literary career and, above all, from his posthumous work, Ave, Palavra, reflecting about the boundaries between human and non human, which enables an interpretative eye upon the picture of the modern man. / Esta dissertação se propõe refletir acerca da presença dos animais na literatura, objetivando elucidar elementos composicionais de textos selecionados da obra do escritor João Guimarães Rosa, nos quais a temática bestiário, principalmente, inserida em novos fazeres literários pode ser discutida. Para isto, primeiramente, percorremos, de forma concisa, a biografia de Rosa, e também tratamos de privilegiar uma ótica que espera pensar a presença dos animais na trajetória literária rosiana. Na sequência, apresentamos sua última obra, Ave, Palavra, cujos textos trabalham com a temática sobre os animais de forma intensa. Mais do que isso, ampliamos nosso olhar para relação existente entre Homem e animal em uma perspectiva moderna, uma vez que os textos rosianos permitem reflexões por esses vieses, devido aos conteúdos cujos procedimentos estéticos dialogam diretamente com as características da construção literária moderna ou, pelo menos, com renovadas configurações textuais. Posteriormente, refletimos sobre os gêneros literários, contemplando, especialmente, a prosa poética nas produções de Rosa, possibilitando melhores compreensões sobre questões que circundam a zoopoética rosiana. Fizeram-se impreterivelmente necessárias, antes de investigar o bestiário rosiano especificamente, uma observância conceitual e uma retomada histórica a respeito do gênero bestiário, focalizando o período medieval, subsequente a uma contextualização da zooliteratura revisitada e atualizada; por fim, nas análises dos textos Aquário (Berlim) e Aquário (Nápoles) , de Ave, Palavra, buscou-se evidenciar o bestiário ao estilo rosiano e à luz de algumas premissas investigativas da ecocrítica. Trabalhamos, deste modo, a complexidade da escritura de João Guimarães Rosa com relação aos bestiários, tendo como lastro questões suscitadas em textos de sua carreira literária e, sobretudo, de sua obra póstuma, Ave, Palavra, refletindo sobre a fronteira entre humano e inumano, a qual oportuniza olhares interpretativos sob a figura do homem moderno. / Mestre em Teoria Literária

Comptant parmi les figures les plus éminentes de la littérature arthurienne, célèbre au Moyen Âge comme dans les périodes postérieures, Merlin demeure pourtant un personnage polymorphe et contradictoire. Un double angle d’étude permettra de saisir ses ambiguïtés et de constituer une poétique du personnage. D’abord, dans une perspective relationnelle, le bestiaire, c’est-à-dire la faune littéraire, constitue un élément de sa définition. Dans les Suites rétrospectives du Merlin en prose (la Suite dite « Vulgate » la Suite dite « Post-Vulgate » et le Livre d’Artus), romans qui constituent l’aboutissement des proses arthuriennes du XIIIe siècle, cet axe relationnel rencontre ensuite une perspective intertextuelle. Par son extension et sa nature, le bestiaire merlinien se révèle extrêmement variable et difficilement classable, à l’image du personnage. Présidant aux relations entre le personnage et le bestiaire, les paradigmes de l’incarnation et de la voix, ainsi que la dialectique intus/foris, laissent percevoir une complexification croissante de Merlin, qui allie un rôle de vates responsable de la fiction et du bestiaire prophétique et une dimension proprement romanesque à l’issue du Merlin en prose. Enfin, dans les Suites du Merlin en prose, le bestiaire rend aussi bien compte du (re)développement et de la fin conjoints de ces deux aspects du personnage que de la poétique des textes. Par le biais de relations métonymiques, métaphoriques et analogiques avec Merlin, le bestiaire construit ainsi trois conceptions synchroniquement contrastées du personnage, en adéquation avec la tonalité et les objectifs poétiques différents des Suites. Il participe alors du message moral et des réflexions poétiques que chacun de ces romans, conscient de ses enjeux, véhicule. / One of the most eminent figures of Arthurian literature, renowned in the Middle Ages as in later periods, Merlin remains however a polymorphous and contradictory character. A study focusing on two aspects will allow us to perceive his ambiguities and to form the poetics of the character. Firstly, from a relational perspective, the bestiary, that is to say the literary fauna, constitutes an element of this definition. In Prose Merlin’s retrospective prose sequels (the “Vulgate” Suite, the “Post-Vulgate” Suite and the Livre d’Artus), romances which constitute the apex of thirteenth century Arthurian texts in prose, this relation axis encounters an intertextual perspective. By its extent and its nature the Merlin bestiary reveals itself to be extremely variable and difficult to categorize, as is the nature of the character. The paradigms of incarnation and voice, together with the intus/foris dialectics, that govern the relations between the character and the bestiary, show that Merlin becomes increasingly complex, because he combines a role of vates responsible for the fiction and the prophetic bestiary with a distinctly romantic dimension by the end of the Prose Merlin. Finally, in the Prose Merlin sequels, the bestiary also explains both the (re)development and the end of these two aspects of the character, as well as the poetics of the texts. Through the metonymical, metaphorical and analogical relations with Merlin, the bestiary thus builds up three different synchronically contrasting conceptions of the character, matching the tone and the various poetical purposes in the Suites. It contributes thus to the moral message and the poetical thoughts that each of these romances, aware of their portent, consciously carry.

Text in Afrikaans / During the past decade various studies have been conducted on the medieval bestiary and simultaneously much has been written on the life and work of the medieval scholar and writer, Jacob van Maerlant. Van Maerlant's famous encyclopaedic work, Der Naturen B/oeme (Book of Nature) has been thoroughly investigated in recent literary studies, though little has been done to identify this work as encyclopaedic narrative. The term, encyclopaedic narrative, is relatively unknown in Western literature and therefore demands the research which is conducted in this thesis. In the course of this study, the genre of encyclopedic narrative is investigated and the Naturen 8/oeme is identified as a member of this exclusive genre. Edward Mendelson's article "From Dante to Pynchon" (1976) serves as the starting point for this study, from where it continues its investigation into the works of Jacob Van Maerlant. Van Maerlant's Der Naturen 8/oeme is compared to a unique set of qualities for the encyclopaedic narrative in which corresponding points are identified. From this investigation it is shown that Der Naturen B/oeme qualifies as a member of the genre, encyclopaedic narrative. / Baie navorsing oor die Middeleeuse Bestiarium is reeds gedurende die afgelope dekade gedoen en baie is geskryf oor die lewe en werk van Jacob van Maerlant. Alhoewel sy natuurboek, Der Naturen Bloeme, baie belangstelling in die liter~re w6r~ld ontlok, is daar nog weinig gedoen om Der Naturen Bloeme as ensiklopediese narratief te identifiseer. Die relatiewe onbekendheid van die begrip ensiklopediese narratief in die Westerse literatuur dien as aansporing tot die ondersoeke wat in hierdie skripsie vervat word. In hierdie studie sal die genre van die ensiklopediese narratlef bespreek word. Der Naturen Bloeme word as voorbeeld gebruik. Die ensiklopediese narratief word bespreek na aanleiding van die artikel "From Dante to Pynchon" (1976) waarin Mendelson die term omskryf en riglyne daarstel vir die tipering daarvan as genre. Uit die ondersoek blyk dit dat die ensiklopediese narratief 'n genre is wat erkenning behoort te kry in die literêre wêreld. Die studie ondersoek ook die lewe en werk van Jacob van Maerlant wat as lnformatikus gedurende die MiddeJeeue groot bekendheid verwerf het. Sy omvangryke ensiklopediese werk, Der Naturen Bloeme, word telkens getoets aan die hand van kenmerke vir die ensiklopediese narratief en die raakpunte word uitgewys. Uit die ondersoek word aangetoon dat Der Naturen Bloeme as ensiklopediese narratief erken kan word. / Afrikaans & Theory of Literature / M.A. (Afrikaans)

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Text in Afrikaans / During the past decade various studies have been conducted on the medieval bestiary and simultaneously much has been written on the life and work of the medieval scholar and writer, Jacob van Maerlant. Van Maerlant's famous encyclopaedic work, Der Naturen B/oeme (Book of Nature) has been thoroughly investigated in recent literary studies, though little has been done to identify this work as encyclopaedic narrative. The term, encyclopaedic narrative, is relatively unknown in Western literature and therefore demands the research which is conducted in this thesis. In the course of this study, the genre of encyclopedic narrative is investigated and the Naturen 8/oeme is identified as a member of this exclusive genre. Edward Mendelson's article "From Dante to Pynchon" (1976) serves as the starting point for this study, from where it continues its investigation into the works of Jacob Van Maerlant. Van Maerlant's Der Naturen 8/oeme is compared to a unique set of qualities for the encyclopaedic narrative in which corresponding points are identified. From this investigation it is shown that Der Naturen B/oeme qualifies as a member of the genre, encyclopaedic narrative. / Baie navorsing oor die Middeleeuse Bestiarium is reeds gedurende die afgelope dekade gedoen en baie is geskryf oor die lewe en werk van Jacob van Maerlant. Alhoewel sy natuurboek, Der Naturen Bloeme, baie belangstelling in die liter~re w6r~ld ontlok, is daar nog weinig gedoen om Der Naturen Bloeme as ensiklopediese narratief te identifiseer. Die relatiewe onbekendheid van die begrip ensiklopediese narratief in die Westerse literatuur dien as aansporing tot die ondersoeke wat in hierdie skripsie vervat word. In hierdie studie sal die genre van die ensiklopediese narratlef bespreek word. Der Naturen Bloeme word as voorbeeld gebruik. Die ensiklopediese narratief word bespreek na aanleiding van die artikel "From Dante to Pynchon" (1976) waarin Mendelson die term omskryf en riglyne daarstel vir die tipering daarvan as genre. Uit die ondersoek blyk dit dat die ensiklopediese narratief 'n genre is wat erkenning behoort te kry in die literêre wêreld. Die studie ondersoek ook die lewe en werk van Jacob van Maerlant wat as lnformatikus gedurende die MiddeJeeue groot bekendheid verwerf het. Sy omvangryke ensiklopediese werk, Der Naturen Bloeme, word telkens getoets aan die hand van kenmerke vir die ensiklopediese narratief en die raakpunte word uitgewys. Uit die ondersoek word aangetoon dat Der Naturen Bloeme as ensiklopediese narratief erken kan word. / Afrikaans and Theory of Literature / M.A. (Afrikaans)