The focus of this study is to analyze in what way the historical novel can be convincing and if the interaction between fictional and factual narration within this genre influences the degree to which it can be convincing. The three novels chosen are Les Naufragés De L’Île Tromelin by Irène Frain, Les Enfants d’Alexandrie by Françoise Chandernagor and Bison by Patrick Grainville, for which all three authors received Le Grand Prix Palatine. In the introduction are presented the general characteristics of the genre as well as its capability of being convincing, outlining that there is a possibility for a fictional work to seem more convincing than a purely factual one. Also defined are differences between the contemporary and the classical historical novel. This is done in order to take into account in the analysis what might be learnt from the contemporary historical novel. The theoretical framework consists of the semantic definitions of fictional versus factual narration as presented by Jean-Marie Schaeffer, as well as theory of how the reader’s immersive experience enables ontological crossings. What the analysis is able to show is that all three novels include four types of truth claims, that the reader can be convinced of all four and that this conviction is connected to the context to which the reader associates the historical/literary character. The analysis also brings forth what can be thought of as the historiographical pact, a term analogous with Philippe Lejeune’s term ‘the autobiographical pact’, which establishes a referential link with history. What is in the end considered the most convincing literary device is the inclusion of factual markers referencing real-world sources. In all three novels, it is also possibly to identify truth claims concerning human nature.

Des lettres trouvées dans des portefeuilles d'émigrés (1793) d'Isabelle de Charrière à Quatrevingt-Treize (1874) de Victor Hugo, qui engage une relecture de la période au miroir de la Commune, la Terreur a nourri l'imagination de nombreux romanciers. Déferlement inouï de violence ou expérience démocratique inédite ? La fécondité de ce moment révolutionnaire tient en partie à ses paradoxes et aux tensions que sa mémoire suscite. Au coeur de controverses historiques et idéologiques qui, aujourd'hui encore, ne se sont pas éteintes, la Terreur est pendant tout le XIXe siècle un sujet d'autant plus actuel que les secousses révolutionnaires de 1830 et de 1848, en particulier, en réveillent le souvenir. Excédant le seul genre du roman historique, qui en a fait l'un de ses sujets de prédilection, le traitement romanesque de la Terreur ne résulte pas d'une simple transposition fictionnelle de la réalité historique, mais peut être envisagé comme le fruit d'un système de relations complexes entre l'historiographie, la littérature mémoriale et d'autres genres littéraires. De la Révolution à la Commune, le genre romanesque a été l'un des lieux où s'est inventé ce que nous avons choisi d'appeler, en hommage au grand livre de Daniel Arasse, un« imaginaire de la Terreur» que n'épuise pas l'image de la guillotine. Regarder comment le roman a participé, en complémentarité ou en concurrence avec d' autres types d'écriture, à des constructions discursives et à l'élaboration de cet imaginaire, et comment ces entreprises de figuration romanesque ont pu s'articuler à des enjeux idéologiques et à des choix poétiques, tel est l'enjeu de cette nouvelle enquête. De Ducray-Duminil à Dumas, de Sénac de Meilhan à Barbey d ' Aurevilly, de Germaine de Staël à GeorgeSand, en passant par Ballanche, Nodier, Balzac ou encore Vigny, cet essai de généalogie romanesque prend appui sur un large corpus de textes et entend faire place à des oeuvres méconnues dont le rôle n'a pas été moindre que celui des oeuvres les plus canoniques dans la mise en fiction de la Terreur révolutionnaire. / From Isabelle de Charrière's lettres trouvées dans des portefeuilles d'émigrés ( 1793) to Victor Hugo's Quatrevingttreize(1874), which reinterprets the period in the mirror of the Commune, the Terror fed the imagination of manynovelists. Unprecedented surge of violence or unheard of democratic moment ? The fecundity of this revolutionary moment is in part due to its paradoxes and the tensions triggered by its memory. At the heart of the historical and ideological controversies that, to this day, have not been extinguished, the Terror was, throughout the 19th century, a subject even more topical than the revolutionary tremors of 1830 and 1848, particularly by reawakening the memory.Exceeding the historical nove! genre, the fictional treatment of the Terror is not the result of a simple fictional transposition of the historical reality, but can be envisaged as the fruit of a system of complex relationships between historiography, memorial literature and other literary genres.From the Revolution to the Commune, the fictional genre was one of the spaces where the invention of what we have chosen to call an "imagination of the Terror" - in homage to Daniel Arasse's great book - was not exhausted by the image of the guillotine. Looking at how the novel participated, in conjunction or competition with other types of writing, in discursive constructions and the development of this imagination, and how undertaking fictional figurationrevolved around ideological issues and political choices, is the challenge of this new investigation. From Ducray Duminilto Dumas, Sénac de Meilhan to Barbey d'Aurevilly, Germaine de Staël to George Sand, via Ballanche, Nodier, Balzac and even Vigny, this genealogy of fiction dissertation is supported by a large corpus oftexts and intends to makeway for little-known works, whose role was no less than that of the most canonical works in fictionalising the revolutionary Terror.

Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo primordial apresentar um estudo sobre a vida de Senhime, neta de Tokugawa Ieyasu, que concluiu a unificação do país, após vários anos de contendas, e estabeleceu o xogunato de Tokugawa que dominou o Japão por quase trezentos anos, tendo como base a tradução integral da obra Senhimesama (A Princesa Senhime) de Hiraiwa Yumie. O trabalho é dividido basicamente em três partes: na primeira parte far-se-á considerações sobre a relação entre a obra e o romance histórico; na segunda parte, será enfocada a personagem Senhime baseada na mescla de fatos históricos e fictícios e, na terceira parte, será abordada a relação entre Senhime e os vários castelos para os quais se viu obrigada a se deslocar nos períodos marcantes de sua vida / This research had as its primary aim to present a study on the life of Sen\'hime, granddaughter of Tokugawa Ieyasu, who concluded the country unification after years of strife, and established the Tokugawa xogunate of Japan which ruled for almost three hundred years. This study is based in the full translation of Yumie Hiraiwa work Sen\'himesama (Princess Senhime). This research is basically divided into three parts: the first part will make considerations about the relation between the work and the historical novel; the second part will focus on Sen\'hime character which is based in a mixture of historical and fictional facts and in the third part, we will look at the relationship between Sen\'hime and the several castles towards which she was forced to move on remarkable periods of her life

Orientador: Heloisa Costa Milton / Resumo: Neste trabalho, procura-se estudar a escritura feminina de Juana Manuela Gorriti (1818-1892) e de Martha Mercader (1926). Juana Manuela Gorriti é uma das fundadoras da literatura feminina na Argentina e graças à reelaboração poética de suas obras por Mercader é que se pode reavaliar sua contribuição para a criação dessa modalidade narrativa. Nosso propósito é verificar como o espaço feminino vai-se formando ao longo do século XIX, por meio da análise de quatro obras de Juana Manuela Gorriti - Oasis en la vida (1888), Peregrinaciones de una alma triste (1876), Cocina ecléctica (1890) e Lo íntimo (1892). Os três primeiros livros referendam os espaços exteriores enquanto o último revela os espaços interiores, o lado íntimo, narrado de forma autobiográfica pela escritora argentina nascida em Salta. Em seguida, analisamos o romance Juanamanuela mucha mujer, de Martha Mercader (1980), o qual narra a vida de Juana Manuela Gorriti e relê suas obras. Trata-se de uma obra que consideramos como um romance histórico contemporâneo, que recria a trajetória da escritora saltenha no campo ficcional, revelando, para o leitor, aspectos e idéias que estavam implícitos no discurso da romancista do século XIX. Dessa forma, é possível concluir que a conquista do espaço feminino beneficiou-se das colocações e proposições de Juana Manuela Gorriti, as quais alcançaram um posicionamento explícito sobre as questões e o universo feminino no relato de Martha Mercader, obra que reafirma e solidifica as vitórias e avanços femininos iniciados nos século XIX e assegura a existência de uma escritura feminina que, a cada dia, amplia-se e se torna mais abrangente. / Abstract: In this work we intend to study the feminine writing of Juana Manuela Gorriti (1818-1892) and Martha Mercader (1926). Juana Manuela Gorriti is one of the founders of the feminine literature in Argentina and because of the poetical re-elaboration of her writings done by Mercader is that we can re-evaluate Gorriti's contribution to the creation of this modality of narrative. Our purpose is to verify how the feminine space is built up during the nineteenth century. This is accomplished by us through the anlysis of four books by Juana Manuela Gorriti - Oasis en la vida (1888), Peregrinaciones de una alma triste (1876), Cocina ecléctica (1890) and Lo íntimo (1892). The three first books show to us the exterior spaces while the last one reveals the interior spaces - the private ones -, described in an autobiographical way by the Argentinian writer born in Salta. After that we analyse the novel Juanamanuela mucha mujer (1980), by Martha Mercader, in which she tells the life of Juana Manuela Gorriti and re-reads her writings. This is a book we consider a contemporary historical novel, in which the lifetime of the writer from Salta is recreated in a fiction revealing to the readers aspects and ideas already implicit in the own discourse of this novelist of the nineteenth century. In this way, it is possible to conclude that the conquest of the feminine space benefited itself with the positions and propositions of Juana Manuela Gorriti. It is possible to be said once they reached an explicit position about the questions and the feminine universe in Martha Mercader's narrative, whose book reaffirms and solidifies the feminine victories and advances already begun in the ninenteenth century besides asseverating the existence of a feminine writing which has been amplified and enlarges itself more and more. / Doutor

This study examines Okudzhava’s depiction of the process of documentalization of the past as a defining feature of the novel Puteshestvie diletantov, giving reason to consider it a form of metahistory, or an artistic statement on the subject of historical knowledge. The image of the document plays a central role in the novel Puteshestvie diletantov. Through it, Okudzhava depicts the process of knowing and (re)creating the past, as well as the process of its deformation, supplementation and modification. In the form of a document, the past finds existence in time and space, finds its author and addressee, and becomes submerged in a constantly changing context. Okudzhava does not contest the truth of the past, but rather problematizes it, immersing the reader in its real element – the narrative one, permeated by the creative will of the individual. Within this element, two juxtaposed narrative streams stand out clearly: the fictional and the documentary, each shaping the picture of the past in different ways. By thematicizing the issue of documents as evidence, Okudzhava at the same time thematicizes the influence of narrativity on the process of our recreation of past events, as well as on the course of these same events. The act of compiling a document and the act of narration appear in the novel as the driving force of the action and are treated by the author of Puteshestvie diletantov as a fully fledged manifestation of human will in History. In this way, the metafictionality of the novel (its thematicization and problematization of various narrative forms) becomes the key to its metahistoricality (the thematicization and problematization of knowledge of the past, the composition of History), inasmuch as History itself is represented here in the form of a narrative stream.

This dissertation examines the representation of social memory in British historical fiction from 1810 to 1880. I argue that social memory is crucial to the analysis of historical fiction during this period because it affords us an opportunity to see how authors in the nineteenth century viewed the social dimensions of memory as constructed by communities that envision their pasts in relation to prevailing ideologies and dominant authorities. Specifically, literary representations of social memory are important in understanding how communities come together to achieve common goals or resist dominant authorities through their sense of a common past in one of the most popular genres of nineteenth-century literature, the historical novel. The significance of social memory for the study of nineteenth-century British historical novels centers in the fact that it reveals the processes by which kinship or kindred groups and other social groups can be formed and by which historical consciousness is developed and communicated among those groups within the novel and to the reader. Social memory is defined here as a shared vision of the past, its narratives, and its symbols that embodies the cultural and communal influences on an individual's and broader groups contemporary identity. Social memory can represent a positive, unifying force in an individual's lift and a community's day-to-day lived experiences, a force that can be used to achieve common purposes or resist common foes. The activation of social memory, though, offers a paradox: on the one hand, individuals are united by a powerful sense of togetherness as understood by their relationship to the past and its significance to their present, lived experience; yet, on the other hand, individuals may resist this totalizing or homogenizing sense of the past when it threatens the uniqueness of individual subjectivity, specific characteristics of group culture, or forecloses on the possibilities of social action by those on the margins. This dissertation looks at how social memory is represented in non-canonical and canonical historical novels by Sir Walter Scott, Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, George Eliot, and Philip Meadows Taylor.

The subject of this work is Lithuanian historical novel transformation. (P. Dirgela‘s „Kingdom“) In this work Lithuanian paradigm transformation of Lithianian historical novel is analyzed. Basic attention is commited to P. Dirgela‘s novels cycle „Kingdom“, which was written in 20 century. This influental work hardly ever investigated in Lithuanian literature and criticism. Reviewing Lithuanian historical novel evolution, innovation of „Kingdom“ in Lithuanian prose context is emphasized. „Kingdom“ deconstructs traditional Lithuanian historical paradigm, promoted historical distantion clearness. P. Dirgela‘s work introduces historical implications of Lithuanian past, though author`s and reader`s close time is determined. It is the first decade of independent Lithuania. Historical plane there assumes new literary expression forms. P.Dirgela‘s novel is the complicated „postmodern“ structure work, in which each part is developing new statehood process and it`s present poetic expression aspects. Historical dimension is raised as structure of work, author`s and reader`s found stories and nowadays connection , analogues, phenomenological time providence. „Kingdom“ is the unique piece both in Lithuanian and in the whole historical prose. The work reveals such new prose position, represents open retrospective providence, join modern and postmodern literary expression means. Task of master`s work contains introduction and three sections: „Lithuanian historical novel in... [to full text]

P. Dirgėlos ,,Karalystė“ atspindi istorinio romano virsmus. Procesų cikliškumas (praeities sugrįžimas į dabartį) valstybės istorijoje, vieno proceso ar reiškinio priklausomybė nuo kito – tai P. Dirgėlos literatūrinių vaizdų ir mąstymo esmė. „Karalystę“ galima suvokti kaip dialoginę mito ir istorijos struktūrą, o steigiamą Karalystės erdvę – kaip mitoistorinę realybę. ,,Karalystėje“ pristatyta simbolinės realybės struktūra iš esmės sutampa su mitinės, istorinės, socialinės ar kitokios realybės struktūromis. Pasirinktas tik vienas iš daugelio šiam veikalui reikšmingų jo simbolinės tvarkos epicentrų: mitinė jūra ir iš jos kylantis mitinis jūrinės Lietuvos valstybės vaizdas. Darbo tikslas yra įvardyti mitinę jūrinės (Lietuvos) valstybės realybę ir aptarti jos santykį su kitomis simbolinėmis struktūromis Petro Dirgėlos romane ,,Karalystė“. Rašant darbą buvo remiamasi šiuolaikinėmis mito teorijomis, hermeneutiniu ir psichoanalitiniu mito realybės interpretavimu, istoriniu kultūriniu literatūros aiškinimu, istorijos ir literatūros subjekto struktūros samprata J. Lacano ir kitų autorių veikaluose. / P. Dirgėla’s „Kingdom” reflects the conversions of a historical novel. P. Dirgėla’s literary images and basis of thinking is related with cyclical processes in the history of the state (when the past returns to the present) as well as the interdependence of processes or phenomenon’s. „The Kingdom”can be understood as the interactive structure of myth and history and the set up of the Kingdom’s space as mitohistorical reality. The symbolic structure of reality presented in the „Kingdom” largely coherent with the mythical, historical, social or other structures of reality. There was selected only one of the most significant works of the symbolic epicenter of the procedure: a mythical marine and the rising image of Lithuania as mythical marine state. The aim of this paper is to identify the reality of Lithuania as the mythical marine state and discuss its relationship with other symbolic structures in P. Dirgėla’s novel „The Kingdom”. The writing of the work is based on modern theories of myth, hermeneutical and psychoanalytical interpretation of myth reality, historical and cultural interpretation of literature as well as on the concept of history and literature body structure which is found in J. Lacan and other author’s works.

Dans cette seconde partie du XXe siècle, les écrivains cherchent à déchiffrer les bouleversements du monde. La réflexion de Louis Nucera, dans ce contexte d’après guerre, reste trop peu connue. Elle balaie pourtant plusieurs champs littéraires. L’impression laissée par la musicalité de ce monologue intérieur ne ressemble à rien de connu. Le récit laisse la place à une déambulation labyrinthique dans les dédales de la mémoire, à la recherche de la mère trop tôt disparue. Nourri d’une profusion de petits portraits, le « romancero nucerien » devient un véritable album de famille du petit peuple niçois. Le lecteur s’y découvre des ancêtres auxquels il se sent scellé. Ces voix intimes ne le quitteront plus. Les romans de la Trilogie plongent également le lecteur en plein cœur de l’Histoire et de ses crises. Avenue des Diables-Bleus, Chemin de la Lanterne et Le Kiosque à musique couvrent vingt-trois siècles. A l’heure où s’affrontent littérature de l’engagement et écoles littéraires ambitieuses, Louis Nucera fait le choix d’une voix solitaire et intime. Il peint ce peuple niçois, en ne cessant de le louer pour l’authenticité de ses valeurs humaines. Egalement, se déchiffre, comme sur un palimpseste, une histoire personnelle du communisme français, des illusions à la prise de conscience. L’écrivain en appelle alors à une véritable philosophie de la vie, où les seules entités à valoir encore la peine se nomment amis, famille et couple amoureux. La seule règle à suivre est de retrouver le sens de l’effort et du travail, et de continuer à transmettre les enseignements du passé. Se déploie également une incessante recherche littéraire et une réflexion sur l’acte d’écriture. / In the second half of the twentieth century, writers tried to fathom the world’s upheavals. Louis Nucera’s writings in this post-war context are little known. Yet they cover numerous literary genres. The musical quality of his interior monologue leaves us with an impression unlike anything we have ever known. His narrative becomes a labyrinthine meandering through the maze of memory, in search of a mother gone too soon. The “romancero nucerien”, consisting of a plethora of short portraits, becomes a true family album of the ordinary people of Nice. The reader finds traces of ancestors which will never leave him. The Trilogy novels also plunge the reader into the heart of history and its crises. Avenue des Diables-Bleus, Chemin de la Lanterne and Le Kiosque à Musique span no fewer than twenty-three centuries. At a time when committed literature and ambitious literary schools were vying with each other, Louis Nucera chose to resort to a solitary and intimate voice. He depicts the ordinary people of Nice whilst constantly praising them for the authenticity of the human values they embody. Underneath the captivating voice of these intimate family novels, one can also read, as if it were a palimpsest, a personal history of French communism from illusions to awakening. The author draws upon a true philosophy of life, in which the only entities still worth fighting for are friends, relatives and loving couples. The only rule to be followed is to rediscover a sense of endeavour and a taste for hard work and to keep imparting the lessons of the past. Both an endless literary quest and a painful reflection on the act of writing unfold in his novels.Key-words: Louis Nucera, Nice, 20th century French literature, mother, memory, novel, autobiography, auto fiction, poetic narrative, portrait, historical novel, history, communism.

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