Souvent laissée pour contre par les théoriciens, longtemps associée à la littérature populaire, la littérature fantastique a su depuis se tailler une place parmi les grands genres de la littérature. Depuis le milieu du XXe siècle, les chercheurs et le public découvrent ou redécouvrent un genre qui a toujours fait parti du paysage littéraire. Une œuvre majeure contribuera à la redécouverte scientifique du genre : Écrite en 1970 l’œuvre de Tzvetan Todorov Introduction à la littérature fantastique donne tant au néophyte qu’au chercheur un ouvrage qui trouve encore des échos aujourd’hui. Sa définition du fantastique, son approche du rôle du narrateur et du lecteur sont une référence, un point de départ et surtout un incontournable pour ceux et celles qui désirent comprendre et apprendre le fantastique. Dans ce mémoire, nous nous concentrerons particulièrement sur le rôle et la problématique du narrateur dans l’œuvre de deux représentants majeurs de la littérature fantastique de langue allemande du début du XXe siècle : Leo Perutz (1882-1957) et Alexander Lernet-Holenia (1897-1976). Le narrateur semble jouer un rôle prédominant dans la littérature fantastique. En effet, par son discours souvent présenté au « je », il semble créer une dynamique très particulière : il manipule son propre discours, il agit sur le lecteur en étant narrateur et personnage dans le récit, il crée une tension entre les différentes couches narratives par son état instable. Bref, il semble contribuer à l’apparition du fantastique dans le texte et également provoquer une certaine hésitation chez le lecteur. Le texte joue également un rôle : Leo Perutz produit un modèle de texte qui semble marquer aussi son collègue Alexander Lernet-Holenia. La structure presque mathématique des textes de Perutz rappelle que le fantastique peut jouer même à l’intérieur de paramètres rigides avec l’ordre et le chaos, les frontières entre le réel et le rêve. Nous étudierons des œuvres de Leo Perutz et d’Alexander Lernet-Holenia qui ont été publiées entre 1915 et 1937. Les théories qui serviront à appuyer mon travail sont tirées entre autre des études de Tzvetan Todorov et Uwe Durst sur la littérature fantastique et de Gérard Genette sur le narrateur. / Often neglected by theorists and long associated with popular literature, fantastic literature is increasingly considered as an important literary genre. Since the beginning of the 20th century, researchers and the public have discovered or rediscovered this form of literature which is omnipresent in the literary landscape. A major piece of work that led to the scientific rediscovery of the genre is Tzvetan Todorov’s Introduction à la littérature fantastique. Written in 1970, this piece still offers a present-day echo to the scientist as much as the neophyte. Its definition of fantastic and its approach to the reader’s role are a reference, a great starting point for scientific study and a must for anyone desiring to explore fantastic literature. In this thesis, we will mainly focus on the role and problematic of the narrative writer throughout the work of two major representatives Austrian authors of the early 20th century fantastic literature: Leo Perutz (1882-1957) and Alexander Lernet-Holenia (1897-1976). The narrative writer seems to be playing a key role in fantastic literature: By addressing the reader at the first person, the author creates a particular dynamics. He influences the reader by being the narrator at the same time as a character in the story. He also creates a tension throughout the different narrative layers with his fragile state. The writer contributes to the outbreak of fantastic within the text and causes a reader’s hesitation. Leo Perutz produces a text model that also marks his colleague Alexander Lernet-Holenia. The almost mathematical structure of Perutz’s writings reminds that fantastic literature can play with order and chaos as well as with the frontier between dream and reality. We will study pieces by Leo Perutz and Alexander Lernet-Holenia published between 1915 and 1937. The secondary literature sources that will serve to support my work are that of Tzvetan Todorov and Uwe Durst on fantastic literature and Gérard Genette on the narrator. / Sehr oft von den Theoretikern außer Acht gelassen und lange mit der Trivialliteratur verbunden, hat die phantastische Literatur heute ihren Platz innerhalb der großen literarischen Genres gefunden. Seit den fünfziger Jahre haben Forscher und Leser diese literarische Gattung entdeckt oder wiederentdeckt, die immer zur literarischen Landschaft gehört hat. Ein wichtiges Werk trägt zur wissenschaftlichen Wiederentdeckung des Genres bei: Die 1970 von Tzvetan Todorov veröffentlichte Introduction à la littérature fantastique bietet sowohl dem Anfänger als auch dem Forscher eine bis heute gültige Einführung. Seine Definition der literarischen Phantastik, der Rolle des Erzählers und des Lesers sind eine Referenz, ein Ausgangspunkt und ein Muss für diejenigen, die die phantastische Literatur verstehen oder mehr über diese lernen wollen. In dieser Diplomarbeit konzentrieren wir uns auf die Rolle und die Problematik des Erzählers in den Prosawerken von zwei wesentlichen Vertreter der deutschen phantastischen Literatur des Anfangs des 20. Jahrhunderts: Leo Perutz (1882-1957) und Alexander Lernet-Holenia (1897-1976). Der Erzähler scheint eine bedeutende Rolle in der phantastischen Literatur zu spielen. Der Erzähler erzeugt mit einem Ich-Diskurs eine spezielle Dynamik: Er manipuliert seinen eigenen Diskurs, weil er gleichzeitig Erzähler und Figur in der Handlung ist, er beeinflusst den Leser, sein instabiler Zustand bewirkt eine Spannung zwischen den verschiedenen narrativen Ebenen des Textes. Der Erzähler trägt also zur Entstehung des Phantastischen im Text bei und hinterlässt beim Leser Unschlüssigkeit. Der Text spielt ebenfalls eine Rolle: Dazu produziert Leo Perutz ein Textmodell, das auch Einfluss auf die schriftstellerische Arbeit von Alexander Lernet-Holenia hat. Die fast mathematische Struktur der „perutzschen“ Texte ermöglicht es dem phantastischen Text, innerhalb eines strengen Rahmens mit der Ordnung und dem Chaos und mit den Grenzen zwischen dem Realen und dem Traum zu spielen. Wir behandeln Prosawerke von Leo Perutz und Alexander Lernet-Holenia, die zwischen 1915 und 1937 veröffentlicht worden sind. Um unsere Argumentation zu stützen, wird Sekundärliteratur unter anderem von Tzvetan Todorov und Uwe Durst über die phantastische Literatur und von Gérard Genette über den Erzähler verwendet.

La partie création de ce mémoire se veut soutenue par une tension narrative reliée à la curiosité suscitée par le personnage principal, de prime abord énigmatique, qui se dévoile de façon capricieuse par un changement constant de focalisation et de temporalité. Nathan vit à une ère où l’humanité a frôlé l’extinction, et où tout est à repenser après l’annihilation du virus ramenant les morts à la vie. N’ayant pas été témoin de ces horreurs, ses plus grandes préoccupations concernent son cheminement vers l’authenticité. Saltimbanque de métier, il voyage de communauté en communauté, où chacune a fait ses choix pour recréer le monde. Sa volonté de prôner l’art dans un processus de reconstruction sociale et sa poursuite d’une image perdue le pousseront toujours plus loin dans ses pérégrinations; vers des réalités qui le conduiront à redéfinir son univers. La partie essai s’interroge sur les procédés formant la tension narrative des romans d’Émile Ajar, pseudonyme laissant deviner la plume expérimentée de Romain Gary qui se réinvente dans l’anonymat. L’attention est centrée sur les jeux de narration, le rôle actanciel des personnages et l’orchestration formelle des récits, à savoir s’ils sont assez similaires pour lier les opus et les constituer en une série unifiée. Cette réflexion à la recherche de l’essence de l’oeuvre ajarienne, touchante par ses antihéros souvent démunis dans leur quête existentielle, a été une inspiration pour la rédaction de Le jour où la Terre en avait vu d’autres. Les rêves de Nathan sont racontés à la première personne, rejoignant certaines modalités ajariennes où la psyché des protagonistes se révèle par une narration au “je”. Les questionnements sur la tension narrative ont été déclencheurs de cette première démarche d’écriture romanesque, même si elle est située dans un cadre complètement autre et use d’une plume bien différente de celle d’Ajar. / The creative part of this Master’s thesis is based on curiosity about the main character, at first enigmatic, who is to be revealed in an unpredictable way with continuous focal and temporal changes. Nathan lives in an era in which humanity came close to extinction, and where everything is to be rethought after the annihilation of the virus that brings the dead back to life. As a saltimbanco, he travels from community to community, in which each one has made choices to recreate the world. His will to advocate art in the social reconstruction and his pursuit of a lost image will always drag him further in his peregrinations, towards realities that will lead him to redefine his universe. The essay part examines the literary techniques that create the narrative tension of novels authored by Émile Ajar, pseudonym of the accomplished writer, Romain Gary, who reinvents himself anonymously. The attention is centered on the narration, actantial roles of the characters and formal organization of the story, to ascertain if they are similar enough to link them in a unified series. This reflection searches for the essence of Ajar’s work which, along with the moving existential quests of the characters, have been an inspiration for writing Le jour où la Terre en avait vu d’autres. Nathan’s dreams are related in a first person narration, in accordance with some of Ajar’s modalities where the characters’ psyches reveal themselves through that perspective. The ponderings on the narrative tension have been the trigger for this first fiction writing experience, even though it takes place in a completely different setting.

This thesis focuses on the theme of the journey and the changes that occur in the socio-historical context of the Great Depression as well as in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. The thesis is an expository piece on road literature, its features and how the chosen novel has earned its rightful place in the American oeuvre, specifically that of road literature. The thesis is separated into two major parts. The former part provides the reader with a socio- historical context of the Great Depression as well as a background on the historical patterns of the 'journey' in America and how these two aspects are interrelated in the context of this thesis. The latter part constitutes the analysis of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath by including the authorial relationship to the novel and the many aspects of the novel as studied through the scope of road literature. This part is further expanded by a close-up analysis of the changes in identity of characters in The Grapes of Wrath. The primary focus is on the notion of change and how it is connected to the notion of the road, including how the human being stands between these notions and is transformed in the process. Keywords: change, mobility, flight, escape, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, American Dream, hope, depression, 1930s, Great...

The introduction of this diploma thesis summarizes the production of , and it identifies the two following layers of authorship. The first layer is the fictional authorship of Jara Cimrman; the second layer is the authorship of the Cimrmanologists and their so-called (or fictional) reconstructions of Cimrman's work. The introduction further discusses the importance of the radio show , which gave birth to the character of Jara Cimrman. Finally, the introduction analyses various aspects of Cimrman and his mystifying character. The core of this thesis consists of an analysis of Cimrman and his relation to Czech Dream. It also studies the Czech dream and its development. The second chapter provides a study based on the play , which is looking at the relation between Cimrman and Czech history and the national myth. The beginning of this chapter offers an overview of the history of the . The chapter then continues with an analysis of Cimrman's play with a special attention to its unusual political dimension. The third chapter studies the connections between Cimrman, or his creators, and Czech national consciousness and Czech culture as they are reflected in Cimrman's play . The play is set in the context of Kainar's poem , Klusak and Remunda's film , Macura's essay , and Kaspar's book .

Quels sont les principaux acquis de la psychologie médicale de l’époque de Freud qui ont contribué à l’émergence du mouvement psychanalytique ? Comment Freud les a-T-Il repris dans le cadre d’une construction originale ? Malgré l’abondante littérature consacrée à ces questions qui paraissent si simples, les réponses sont loin de faire l’unanimité. Cette difficulté n’est pas récente, elle est perceptible déjà chez Freud qui, en 1914 (dans Contribution à l’histoire du mouvement psychanalytique) et en 1925 (dans Ma vie et la psychanalyse), entreprit de retracer l’histoire de la psychanalyse, tout en évoquant les principaux acteurs qui ont, de manière directe ou indirecte, contribué à l’éclosion de ce corps de connaissances. Cependant, les découvertes faites par des chercheurs contemporains, dans les Archives des centres hospitaliers, où étaient internés certains patients de Freud, tout autant qu’une lecture attentive du contexte historique et des productions intellectuelles sur la maladie mentale, à la fin du XIX ème siècle, laissent planer des interrogations. Freud a-T-Il biaisé l’histoire de la psychanalyse pour en apparaitre comme le père fondateur ? Ces soupçons qui pèsent sur le travail d’historien entrepris d’abord par Freud, puis par ses collaborateurs, nous invite, en tant qu’historien des sciences, à réévaluer un certain nombre d’acquis en psychanalyse, au regard de l’abondance des découvertes récentes. En outre, les travaux de Freud n’entretiennent pas seulement des rapports avec les théories psychologiques de son temps. De nos jours, ils alimentent encore des discussions dans les « théories contemporaines de l’esprit », notamment dans les champs disciplinaires tels que la philosophie de l’esprit et les neurosciences cognitives. C’est ce que démontre la dernière partie de cette thèse qui, à titre de test, confronte la théorie freudienne de l’inconscient aux théories contemporaines. / What where the main types of psychological knowladge used by Freud which contributed to the emergence of psychoanalytic movement? How did Freud use these main types of psychological knowladge in the context of original construction? In spite of the abundant literature concerning these questions which appaer simple, the answers aren't uncontroversial. This difficulty isn't recent, Freud has been already studied this matter in Contribution to the History of Psychoanalysis movement (1914) and My life and Psychoanalysis (1925) retraced the history of psychoanalysis, mentioning the principal actors who have, directly or indirectly, contributed to the building this body of knowledge.However, the discoveries done by contemporary researchers, in the archives of hospitals, where some Freud’s patients were interned, with a careful reading of the historical context and the intellectual productions on mental illness, at the end of 19th century, raises important questions. Did Freud bias the psychoanalysis history in order to be considered as the real founding father? These suspicions have an impact on the historians working on the work of Freud and on his partisans as well. This invites us, as historians of sciences, to revaluate a certain number of hypotheses in psychoanalysis, according to recent discoveries.Besides, the work of Freud doesn’t not only have relationship with psychological theory of his time. In our days, Freud’s work enriches discussions as far it concerns “contemporary Theories of mind”, and in particular, in disciplinary fields such as Philosophy of mind and cognitive neuroscience. This is what the last part of this thesis demonstrates, as a test case, it interacts Freudian theory of unconsciousness with contemporary theories.

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O presente trabalho tem como objetivo analisar como os atentados de 11 de setembro de 2001 foram representados em uma série de histórias em quadrinhos (HQs) do Capitão América, escrita por John Ney Rieber e desenhada por John Cassaday, publicadas entre junho e dezembro de 2002, nos EUA. Essas HQs dialogam com diversos problemas que incomodavam a sociedade norte-americana no período pós-atentados como, por exemplo, os sentimentos de medo, insegurança, vingança e a recém-lançada Guerra ao Terror. Estes são discutidos e interpretados, partindo de dois pontos de vista diferentes, o do Capitão América e o dos terroristas, ou seja, as HQs procuraram expor as justificativas dos dois lados envolvidos. Elas expõem diversas críticas às ações bélicas dos Estados Unidos e também dos terroristas e têm um forte caráter pacifista. Além disso, divulgam uma mensagem de esperança pautada nas ideias do Sonho Americano, que deve ser entendido como uma força de união e mobilização nacional, visando à superação de todos os problemas causados pelos atentados de 11 de setembro / This study aims to analyze how the attacks of September 11, 2001 were represented in a series of Captain America comics, written by John Ney Rieber and drawn by John Cassaday, published between June and December 2002 in USA. These comics dialogue with various problems that bothered the American society in the post-attack period, for example, the feelings of fear, insecurity, revenge and the newly launched War on Terror. These are discussed and interpreted, from two different points of view, that of Captain America and the terrorists, in other words, the comics sought to expose the reasons on both sides involved. They expose several criticisms of the military actions of the United States and also the terrorists and have a strong pacifist character. Moreover, disseminate a message of hope ruled by ideas of the American Dream, which must be understood as a force for unity and national mobilization, aimed at overcoming all the problems caused by the September 11 attacks

O presente trabalho tem como objetivo analisar como os atentados de 11 de setembro de 2001 foram representados em uma série de histórias em quadrinhos (HQs) do Capitão América, escrita por John Ney Rieber e desenhada por John Cassaday, publicadas entre junho e dezembro de 2002, nos EUA. Essas HQs dialogam com diversos problemas que incomodavam a sociedade norte-americana no período pós-atentados como, por exemplo, os sentimentos de medo, insegurança, vingança e a recém-lançada Guerra ao Terror. Estes são discutidos e interpretados, partindo de dois pontos de vista diferentes, o do Capitão América e o dos terroristas, ou seja, as HQs procuraram expor as justificativas dos dois lados envolvidos. Elas expõem diversas críticas às ações bélicas dos Estados Unidos e também dos terroristas e têm um forte caráter pacifista. Além disso, divulgam uma mensagem de esperança pautada nas ideias do Sonho Americano, que deve ser entendido como uma força de união e mobilização nacional, visando à superação de todos os problemas causados pelos atentados de 11 de setembro / This study aims to analyze how the attacks of September 11, 2001 were represented in a series of Captain America comics, written by John Ney Rieber and drawn by John Cassaday, published between June and December 2002 in USA. These comics dialogue with various problems that bothered the American society in the post-attack period, for example, the feelings of fear, insecurity, revenge and the newly launched War on Terror. These are discussed and interpreted, from two different points of view, that of Captain America and the terrorists, in other words, the comics sought to expose the reasons on both sides involved. They expose several criticisms of the military actions of the United States and also the terrorists and have a strong pacifist character. Moreover, disseminate a message of hope ruled by ideas of the American Dream, which must be understood as a force for unity and national mobilization, aimed at overcoming all the problems caused by the September 11 attacks

Cette thèse propose une réflexion comparée entre les littératures des Premières Nations du Québec et celles d’Afrique subsaharienne et afro-descendantes et plus précisément la poésie de Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, Rita Mestokosho et Joséphine Bacon, ainsi que certains des romans de Léonora Miano et de Sami Tchak. Les textes de ces poètes et écrivain.e.s Innu, franco-camerounaise et togolais sont articulés à partir de la notion d’animisme. Au moyen de référents littéraires, anthropologiques et des études autochtones, ce travail questionne donc la présence de l’animisme dans la pratique d’écriture et interroge sa portée décoloniale. Cette réflexion se construit également à partir de séjours de terrains, et ce tenant compte d’une mise en valeur du savoir expérientiel préconisé par les études autochtones. Se construisant selon ce que la chercheuse Renate Eigenbrod nomme « narrative scholarship », à savoir l’alternance entre théorie et narration, cette thèse vise à penser l’être au monde animiste comme une épistémologie.À travers une pensée en deux temps, ce travail met en relief les différents effets de la colonisation sur l’animisme en tant qu’être au monde, ainsi que sa dynamique décoloniale, au prisme de leurs représentation et incarnation littéraires.Le premier chapitre analyse les stratégies d’objectification de l’animisme portées par les politiques coloniales. Le second chapitre s’attarde sur les traits saillants de la représentation littéraire de l’animisme. La question de la relation au territoire et la notion de souveraineté qui lui est inhérente sont examinées dans le chapitre trois. À rebours des mécaniques d’assignation et d’oppression, il s’agit ensuite de réfléchir sur les dynamiques d’émancipation portées par l’animisme au sein des textes du corpus. Le chapitre quatre analyse les enjeux liés à la notion de sujet selon une perspective décoloniale. Puis, c’est la potentialité résistante de l’animisme en tant qu’ontologie relationnelle qui est interrogée dans le chapitre cinq. Enfin, le chapitre six théorise sa dimension pratique et sa constitution en tant que résurgence, à rebours du colonialisme contemporain. L’ensemble de cette thèse travaille la possibilité de penser des savoirs situés, c’est ainsi qu’elle aboutit à considérer l’animisme comme une pratique et une éthique de recherche, un outil poétique et intellectuel à utiliser au sein d’autres champs que les disciplines ici convoquées. / This thesis proposes a comparative reflection between the literatures of the First Nations of Quebec and those of sub-Saharan Africa and Afro-descendants and more specifically the poetry of Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, Rita Mestokosho and Josephine Bacon, as well as some of the novels of Léonora Miano and Sami Tchak. The texts of these Innu, Franco-Cameroonian and Togolese poets and writers are based on the notion of animism. By means of literary referents, anthropological studies and Aboriginal studies, this work therefore questions the presence of animism in the practice of writing and questions its decolonial scope. This reflection is also built from fieldworks, by taking into account the promotion of the experiential knowledge advocated by Aboriginal studies. Building on what the researcher Renate Eigenbrod calls "narrative scholarship", namely the alternation between theory and narration, this thesis aims to think of the animist way of being in the world as an epistemology.Through a two-step thought, this work highlights the different effects of colonization on animism as a way of being in the world, as well as its decolonial dynamics through the prism of their literary representation and incarnation. The first chapter analyzes the objectification strategies of animism carried by the colonial policies. The second chapter focuses on the salient characteristics of the literary representation of animism. The question of the relation to the territory and the its inherent notion of sovereignty are discussed in chapter three. Unlike the mechanics of assignment and oppression, our aim is then to reflect on the dynamics of emancipation carried by animism within the texts of our corpus. Chapter four analyzes issues related to the notion of Subject from a decolonial perspective. Then, this is the resistant potentiality of animism as relational ontology which is questioned in chapter five. Finally, chapter six theorizes its practical dimension and its constitution as a resurgence, against contemporary colonialism. The whole thesis works on the possibility of thinking situated knowledge, this is how it leads to consider animism as a practice and research ethics, a poetic and intellectual tool to use in other fields than the ones carried in this work.

This dissertation offers an analysis of the image of loss in modern American drama at three levels: the loss of physical space, loss of psychological space, and loss of moral space. The playwrights and plays examined are Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie (1945), Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (1949), Marsha Norman's 'night, Mother (1983), and Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive (1998). This study is the first scholarly work to discuss the theme of loss with these specific playwrights and works. This dissertation argues that loss is a central trope in twentieth-century American drama. The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze how the image of loss is modified and transformed in each playwright's work leading these images to reveal an emotional truth that transcends the plight of particular individuals or families and casting a universal appeal to a diverse audience. Chapters examine specific themes related to the theme of loss. As part of the critical methodology, the live spectacle of performance has been acknowledged. This study analyzes how Williams, Miller, Norman, and Vogel modify and transform the image of loss by focusing on the myth of the American dream, illusion versus reality, empowerment, and the complexity of human relationships. Although these plays are meant first and foremost to be appreciated as theater, that is to say "live performance," this study deals with these plays as drama, that is, as written texts. The audience observing the "live" spectacle and the reader of the text are both challenged to define their "own space." Williams, Miller, Norman, and Vogel, modify and transform the image of loss to reveal a common humanity that is not only a force in their work, but also a strong presence in the works of American dramatists as diverse as Eugene O'Neill and Adrienne Kennedy. From domestic drama to the drama of social and political criticism, Williams, Miller, Norman, and Vogel along with a medley of American playwrights, have taken the genre of American drama from backseat status (secondary to the novel and poem) into the forefront of recognized American literature.