Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1933. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Heinrich-Heine-Universität, 2007. / Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-223) and index.

Proefschrift-Leyden. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of English Language and Literature, June 2000. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Esta tese de doutorado contempla a investigação da impostura ou alazoneia no drama aristofânico. Trata-se de uma proposta de teorização acerca da pertinência do impostor ou alazôn para o enredo das comédias de Aristófanes, na tentativa de superar abordagens que se limitam a apontar a comicidade da figura do alazôn. Analisou-se, primeiramente, a ocorrência do vocábulo alazôn e seus derivados nas peças supérstites de Aristófanes bem como nos escólios e antigos comentários das referidas peças. Analisaram-se, secundariamente, as cenas típicas de alazoneia em que o vocábulo não é usado. A partir dessas análises, estudou-se o impostor na obra de Aristófanes como um todo, levando em consideração o que a literatura antiga e contemporânea postulou sobre esse tipo de personagem. Depois disso, sistematizouse o uso que Aristófanes faz da alazoneia e conclui-se que a impostura é mais importante para sua obra do que se considera geralmente. Finalmente, constatou-se que o alazôn constitui mais do que apenas um personagem típico, sendo, em vez disso, uma função cômica de muitos recursos. / This dissertation looks into dramatic imposture (alazoneia) in Aristophanes plays, trying to theorize how the impostor or alazôn fits the plots of Aristophanes comedies, and to go beyond approaches that just point to that figures comic function. First, it analyzes the use of the word alazôn and its related forms in Aristophanes extant plays as well as in ancient scholia and commentaries about the plays. Secondly, it examines scenes where alazoneia can be found although the word is not actually used. From such analyses, it studies the impostor in Aristophanes plays as a whole, taking into consideration what ancient and modern literature postulated about this stock character. After that, it tries to systematize Aristophanes usage of alazoneia, pointing to the fact that imposture is more important to his work than it has been acknowledged hitherto. Finally, it proposes that the alazôn is much more than a stock character; instead, it is a comic function that our playwright deftly uses in almost all of his plays.

Esta tese de doutorado contempla a investigação da impostura ou alazoneia no drama aristofânico. Trata-se de uma proposta de teorização acerca da pertinência do impostor ou alazôn para o enredo das comédias de Aristófanes, na tentativa de superar abordagens que se limitam a apontar a comicidade da figura do alazôn. Analisou-se, primeiramente, a ocorrência do vocábulo alazôn e seus derivados nas peças supérstites de Aristófanes bem como nos escólios e antigos comentários das referidas peças. Analisaram-se, secundariamente, as cenas típicas de alazoneia em que o vocábulo não é usado. A partir dessas análises, estudou-se o impostor na obra de Aristófanes como um todo, levando em consideração o que a literatura antiga e contemporânea postulou sobre esse tipo de personagem. Depois disso, sistematizouse o uso que Aristófanes faz da alazoneia e conclui-se que a impostura é mais importante para sua obra do que se considera geralmente. Finalmente, constatou-se que o alazôn constitui mais do que apenas um personagem típico, sendo, em vez disso, uma função cômica de muitos recursos. / This dissertation looks into dramatic imposture (alazoneia) in Aristophanes plays, trying to theorize how the impostor or alazôn fits the plots of Aristophanes comedies, and to go beyond approaches that just point to that figures comic function. First, it analyzes the use of the word alazôn and its related forms in Aristophanes extant plays as well as in ancient scholia and commentaries about the plays. Secondly, it examines scenes where alazoneia can be found although the word is not actually used. From such analyses, it studies the impostor in Aristophanes plays as a whole, taking into consideration what ancient and modern literature postulated about this stock character. After that, it tries to systematize Aristophanes usage of alazoneia, pointing to the fact that imposture is more important to his work than it has been acknowledged hitherto. Finally, it proposes that the alazôn is much more than a stock character; instead, it is a comic function that our playwright deftly uses in almost all of his plays.

La première partie de ce mémoire, intitulée « Paradis crépusculaire », est un roman dont la narratrice, une jeune femme, est hantée par les pensées suicidaires. S’exprimant à la première personne, elle décrit elle-même son évolution psychologique provoquée par la rencontre d’un homme et les débuts d’une relation amoureuse. L’amour ravive les tentations suicidaires du personnage principal et l’entraîne dans un univers de peur qui côtoie la folie. L’histoire s’ancre dans la réalité quotidienne des deux personnages. La deuxième partie, « Impostures : Examen d’une démarche créatrice », est un essai qui traite de ma propre démarche d’écriture. Mes réflexions, tout d’abord personnelles, s’ouvrent vers le monde de la création littéraire, plus particulièrement romanesque, et sont reliées aux conceptions de différents critiques. L’essai s’élabore à partir du sentiment de l’imposteur qui m’a hantée durant tout le processus de création. / The first part of this M.A. Thesis, “Paradis crépusculaire”, is a novel. The narrator and main character is a young lady hunted by suicidal thoughts. She describes her own psychological development starting with the meeting of a man and with the beginning of their relationship. Love awakes her suicidal temptations and brings her in a universe of fear and madness. The story takes roots in the daily lives of both characters. The second part, “ Impostures : Examen d’une démarche créatrice ”, is an essay about my own writing experience. My personal thoughts on literary creation, especially about the production of a novel, are linked with different theories of literature. This essay elaborates on a feeling of imposture that has haunted me threw all my writing process.

La première partie de ce mémoire, intitulée « Paradis crépusculaire », est un roman dont la narratrice, une jeune femme, est hantée par les pensées suicidaires. S’exprimant à la première personne, elle décrit elle-même son évolution psychologique provoquée par la rencontre d’un homme et les débuts d’une relation amoureuse. L’amour ravive les tentations suicidaires du personnage principal et l’entraîne dans un univers de peur qui côtoie la folie. L’histoire s’ancre dans la réalité quotidienne des deux personnages. La deuxième partie, « Impostures : Examen d’une démarche créatrice », est un essai qui traite de ma propre démarche d’écriture. Mes réflexions, tout d’abord personnelles, s’ouvrent vers le monde de la création littéraire, plus particulièrement romanesque, et sont reliées aux conceptions de différents critiques. L’essai s’élabore à partir du sentiment de l’imposteur qui m’a hantée durant tout le processus de création. / The first part of this M.A. Thesis, “Paradis crépusculaire”, is a novel. The narrator and main character is a young lady hunted by suicidal thoughts. She describes her own psychological development starting with the meeting of a man and with the beginning of their relationship. Love awakes her suicidal temptations and brings her in a universe of fear and madness. The story takes roots in the daily lives of both characters. The second part, “ Impostures : Examen d’une démarche créatrice ”, is an essay about my own writing experience. My personal thoughts on literary creation, especially about the production of a novel, are linked with different theories of literature. This essay elaborates on a feeling of imposture that has haunted me threw all my writing process.

Ce travail porte sur d’une part l’interrogation sur l’existence de la perversion féminine, rarissime voire inexistante d’après les écrits fondamentaux de la psychanalyse, et de l’autre part sur l’exploration de la dynamique propre au montage pervers au féminin. Si la femme qui se situe du côté de l’amour a amené Lacan a énoncé la maxime célèbre, celle de la femme n’existe pas, puisqu’elle n’est « pas toute » et que la femme ne s’écrit que barrée, la femme perverse se révèlera être l’envers de la femme. De ce fait, la femme perverse prône l’existence de la femme et sa possible écriture. Le montage pervers de la femme perverse bafoue la loi de la différence des sexes en aboutissant à une falsification outrancière des formules de la sexuation. Ainsi, il s’agit d’une perversion féminine comme imposture. En effet, l’imposture perverse de la femme perverse se déploie à travers l’identité factice que la femme perverse se fabrique afin de contrer l’autre femme, celle qui n’existe pas. D’emblée, la prévalence imaginaire chez la femme perverse est le mécanisme qui permet à la perverse d’avoir la foi dans la possession d’un phallus, d’une part largement supérieur à celui de l’homme, puisqu’il n’est pas borné par la détumescence et d’autre part, la relevant au rang de l’exception, puisqu’elle est la seule femme à le détenir. La mise en scène perverse, dont l’ancrage est imaginaire, opère dans les filets signifiant du symbolique. En effet, le symbolique, scène de la loi de la différence des sexes, se trouve bafoué et souillé. Ainsi, c’est ce savoir autre, sorte de « sur-savoir », prôné par la femme perverse qui divise l’autre, -témoin sidéré-, et perdure son illusion, sa foi, dans l’avoir du phallus. Toutefois, derrière cette armure d’invincible se révèle une angoisse à la teinte mélancolique, connectée à l’insignifiance du sexe féminin. Ainsi, c’est ce non-lieu de la femme auquel la femme perverse par imposture et simulacre s’invente un lieu, qui constitue l’angoisse de laquelle la femme perverse se prémunit. / This work concerns on one hand the interrogation on the existence of the even non-existent feminine, extremely rare perversion according to the fundamental papers of the psychoanalysis, and somewhere else on the exploration of the dynamics appropriate(peculiar) to the perverse assembly(editing) in the feminine. If the woman who is situated near(on the side of) love brought Lacan expressed the famous maxim, that of the woman do not exist, because she " is not quite " and because the woman spells only blocked, the perverse woman will turn out to be to the woman(wife). Therefore, the perverse woman advocates the existence of the woman and her possible writing. The perverse assembly(editing) of the perverse woman scoffs at the law of the difference of the sexes by ending in an exaggerated forgery of the formulae of her(it) So, it is about a perversion feminine as imposture. Indeed, the perverse imposture of the perverse woman spreads (displays,deploys) through the artificial identity that the perverse woman makes to counter the other woman, the one who does not exist. Straightaway, imaginary prevalence at the perverse woman is the mechanism which allows the pervert to have the faith in the ownership of a phallus, on one hand widely upper to that of the man, because he (it) is not limited by the détumescence and on the other hand, raising(finding) it to the rank of the exception, because she is the only woman to hold(detain) him(it). The perverse direction (fabrication), the anchoring of which is imaginary, operates in nets meaning of symbolism. Indeed, symbolism, scene (stage) of the law of the difference of the sexes, is scoffed and soiled. So, it is So, it is this other knowledge, kind of " to know ", lauded by the perverse woman who divides the other one, - the bewildered witness(baton), and continues its illusion, its faith, in the credit note of the phallus. However, behind this armor of invincible shows itself an anxiety in the melancholic tint, connected to the insignificance of the female genital organ. So, it is this dismissal of the charges of the woman in which the perverse woman by imposture and enactment invents a place, which establishes (constitutes) the anxiety of which the perverse woman protects himself.

Cette étude propose l’analyse de la figure et des mécanismes de l’imposture dans l’oeuvre romanesque deGeorges Bernanos, dans son lien de contradiction ontologique et d’imitation factice avec la figure et lephénomène de la sainteté. Elle est conduite en trois axes. Le premier tente de dégager ce qui, dans sonitinéraire personnel, a déterminé Bernanos à faire de ces deux thèmes à la fois solidaires et contradictoiresun sujet de roman récurrent, sinon obsédant. Le second prolonge l’étude biographique par un commentairesur la genèse de l’oeuvre en lien intrinsèque avec les deux figures, autrement dit, sur l’élaborationprogressive des deux thèmes, telle qu’elle se dégage des premiers travaux d’écriture et d’inventionromanesques. Le troisième axe se penche plus manifestement sur la réalité et les mécanismes del’imposture, tels que les dévoilent les personnages bernanosiens, particulièrement celui de Mouchette dontle parcours dans Sous le soleil de Satan est typique, annonçant et préfigurant les autres parcoursd’imposteurs de l’oeuvre (particulièrement ceux de l’abbé Cénabre, du faux curé de Mégère et de M.Ouine), puis celui du diable lui-même, menteur et père du mensonge selon le verset de l’Evangile auquelle romancier se réfère, et dont la figuration dans son premier roman représente ce qui constitue finalement,à ses yeux, la seule imposture totale, surnaturelle. / This study offers an analysis of the fraud figure and mechanism in Georges Bernanos’ fiction as it islinked in both contradictory and imitative way with sanctity figure and phenomenon. It is handled by threeaxes. The first axe tries to highlight the reason why, through his personal career, Bernanos decides to usethese two themes, both interdependent and opposed, as a recurring if not obsessive fiction subject. Thesecond axe stretches the biography by a comment on the genesis of his works, essentially linked to the twofigures, in other words, on the development of these two themes, as it appears in his first written worksand fictions. The third axe favours fraud reality and mechanism as Bernanos characters may reveal, mostdistinctively Mouchette, whose path in Sous le soleil de Satan is characteristically announcing the otherimpostors’ paths : in particular those of Abbé Cénabre, the fake priest of Mégère and M. Ouine. Then, thepath of the devil himself, liar and father of lies, following the Gospel verse, which the author is referringto, and whose representation in his first fiction, appears to be the only total supernatural imposture.