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Charles Stewart Parnell was James Joyce's most significant political influence to a degree that has yet to be fully acknowledged or explored. This thesis proposes a "theory of Parnell" in Joyce's works up to the end of Ulysses, arguing that close attention to Parnell's evolution points to a significant shift in the evolution of Joyce's literary forms. In Joyce's juvenilia, political writings, and early fiction, Parnell always appears with a heroic, even Messianic, cast, which the most significant moments in the fiction pair with a strict adherence to dramatic forms. However, significant moments in both "Ivy Day in the Committee Room" and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man lay the groundwork for stylistic and representative transformations in Ulysses. In that novel, the myth of Parnell is deflated, even as Joyce appropriates its most essential qualities in the development of his panoply of styles. Episodes from "Telemachus" to "Wandering Rocks" critically examine the myth of Parnell even as they link it with the constraints of dramatic forms. Later episodes, most notably "Cyclops," "Circe," and "Eumaeus" attempt to make use of elements of "Parnellite" style, training a community of readers in acts of collective imagination that keep the Parnellite spirit alive by moving away from a strict focus on his historical specificity.

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James Joyce é conhecido por seus grandes romances, mas podem-se destacar os contos de Dubliners por integrarem parte fundamental do que se entende por um projeto estético do autor. Cada um dos textos apresenta um aspecto e uma perspectiva específicos sobre a vida em Dublin, a qual Joyce descreveu em minúcia. Esta dissertação procura analisar os diferentes usos da voz narrativa que o autor faz na coletânea e como isso deixa entrever tal projeto estético. Oscilando entre primeira e terceira pessoas, os narradores tentam assemelhar seu estilo à maneira de falar das personagens de cada estória, o que se nota principalmente pelo vocabulário e, no segundo caso, pelas associações mentais que tentam reproduzir em discurso indireto livre. Assim, é como se a voz narrativa dissonante e perfeitamente identificável buscasse progressivamente se harmonizar ao contexto em que se insere. / James Joyce is well-known for his novels, but the short stories in Dubliners are a fundamental part of what can be considered his aesthetic project. Each story reveals a specific aspect and perspective of Dublins life, which Joyce described in detail. This dissertation aims at analysing the different uses the author makes of the narrative voice in his stories, and how this unveils such aesthetic project. From first person to third person narrative, his narrators try to bring their styles close to the way characters speak, which can be identified mainly because of the vocabulary and the mental associations reproduced through free indirect speech. Therefore, it is as if the dissonant and distinguishable voice of the narrator slowly came to be in harmony with the context.

Ce travail a pour pour but d’étudier les œuvres de Raymond Roussel (1877-1933) et de James Joyce (1882-1941). Il consiste à mettre ces auteurs en regard l’un de l’autre, en vue de l’éclairage réciproque de leurs textes, souvent qualifiés d’illisibles. Une pareille étude n’a pas encore été menée à ce jour, bien que le rapprochement de ces écrivains semble d’ores et déjà aller de soi : on range conjointement Joyce et Roussel auprès de Stéphane Mallarmé, quand on n’apparente pas leur usage du langage à celui du schizophrène Louis Wolfson. Il s’agit d’établir quelles sont les stratégies d’écriture propres à Joyce et à Roussel, de confronter l’opacité joycienne, combien problématique, à la difficile transparence – l’apparente clarté – dont témoigne l’œuvre de Roussel. L’étude comparative de Joyce et Roussel ne saurait faire l’économie d’une réflexion sur la place occupée par le commentaire au sein de l’œuvre. Cette opération revient à questionner l’autorité critique de Joyce et de Roussel. Ces auteurs produisent des textes autonomes, lesquels parlent essentiellement d’eux-mêmes. Tout en étant gros de leur projet, ils constituent leur propre objet. L’analogie avec la machine s’impose irrésistiblement. Ces manières de machines célibataires (Michel Carrouges) sont également des œuvres ouvertes (Umberto Eco). L’imaginaire des machines relie Joyce et Roussel tout en les intégrant à un espace plus vaste comprenant aussi bien Jules Verne que Marcel Duchamp. Les machines permettent d’envisager l’écriture de Joyce et de Roussel en termes de surface et de profondeur, mais elles mettent également en lumière les paradoxes du manifeste et du caché. / This thesis aims to examine the writings of Raymond Roussel (1877-1933) and of James Joyce (1882-1941). Both writers are to be put into comparison so as to shed a reciprocal light upon one another’s works, which are often deemed illegible. Such a study has not yet been carried, although connecting the two writers seems already self-evident : Joyce and Roussel are simultaneously ranked beside Stéphane Mallarmé, when their use of language is not linked with that of schizophrenic Louis Wolfson. What is at stake is to define Joyce and Roussel’s writing strategies, to bring face to face Joyce’s opacity - with all the issues it entails - and the problematic transparency - the seeming clarity - displayed by Roussel’s work. The comparative study of Joyce and Roussel could not dispense with a pondering over the weight of commentary deriving from both canons. This amounts to questionning Joyce’s and Roussel’s authority in the field of criticism.These authors generate autonomous texts which essentially deal with themselves. While fortified by their project, they are fed on their own object. An analogy to the machine seems necessary and compelling. These bachelor machines (Michel Carrouges) are also open works (Umberto Eco). The machine imagination binds Joyce and Roussel while incorporating them into a wider space that comprises Jules Verne as well as Marcel Duchamp. Machines thus make it possible to consider Joyce and Roussel’s writings in terms of surface and depth, but they also highlight the paradoxes of the manifest and of the hidden.

James Joyce é conhecido por seus grandes romances, mas podem-se destacar os contos de Dubliners por integrarem parte fundamental do que se entende por um projeto estético do autor. Cada um dos textos apresenta um aspecto e uma perspectiva específicos sobre a vida em Dublin, a qual Joyce descreveu em minúcia. Esta dissertação procura analisar os diferentes usos da voz narrativa que o autor faz na coletânea e como isso deixa entrever tal projeto estético. Oscilando entre primeira e terceira pessoas, os narradores tentam assemelhar seu estilo à maneira de falar das personagens de cada estória, o que se nota principalmente pelo vocabulário e, no segundo caso, pelas associações mentais que tentam reproduzir em discurso indireto livre. Assim, é como se a voz narrativa dissonante e perfeitamente identificável buscasse progressivamente se harmonizar ao contexto em que se insere. / James Joyce is well-known for his novels, but the short stories in Dubliners are a fundamental part of what can be considered his aesthetic project. Each story reveals a specific aspect and perspective of Dublins life, which Joyce described in detail. This dissertation aims at analysing the different uses the author makes of the narrative voice in his stories, and how this unveils such aesthetic project. From first person to third person narrative, his narrators try to bring their styles close to the way characters speak, which can be identified mainly because of the vocabulary and the mental associations reproduced through free indirect speech. Therefore, it is as if the dissonant and distinguishable voice of the narrator slowly came to be in harmony with the context.

L’écriture joycienne se distingue par la conscience aiguë dont elle témoigne de l’histoire des mots. Cette tendance est le produit de l’émergence de la grammaire comparée et de la sémantique historique au XIXe siècle, disciplines qui avaient bouleversé le concept d’étymologie et légitimé, en apparence, la prise en compte du passé de la langue dans son emploi. Pourtant, quand Joyce écrit, cette approche est irrémédiablement dépassée, et ses nombreuses contradictions critiquées. Aussi les œuvres de l’écrivain, loin de constituer un reflet fidèle et stable du discours sur l’étymologie du siècle où il naquit, en mettent-elles à nu les paradoxes et les partis pris. La stratégie d’écriture de Dubliners, si elle repose sur une exploitation fréquente des données mises au jour par les comparatistes et les sémanticiens, prend ainsi le contrepied de toute démarche transcendantale et tire profit de la nature subjective et aléatoire de l’activation des potentialités étymologiques des mots par le lecteur. La volonté affichée par Stephen dans A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man de trouver une justesse supérieure dans la motivation directe puis indirecte des noms fait place, dans le roman suivant, à un rejet amer de « l’imposture des sons ». Mais Ulysses éclaire également les failles des théories linguistiques de son époque : sa mise en lumière du rôle joué par l’étymologie populaire dans le fonctionnement de la langue implique une critique du positivisme saussurien et s’inscrit dans une dénonciation plus large de toute conception pseudo-rationnelle et supra-individuelle de l’histoire. / One of the hallmarks of Joyce’s prose is the acute consciousness it reflects of the history of words. This tendency is the product of the emergence of comparative linguistics and historical semantics in the 19th century, both of which had revolutionized the concept of etymology and seemed to make the history of words relevant to their use. Yet that approach soon became irremediably outdated and its numerous contradictions had been subjected to severe criticism by the time Joyce wrote his books. Accordingly, his works, far from giving a faithful and stable image of the etymological discourse prevalent in the century of his birth, reflect its biases and contradictions. Although the writing strategy of Dubliners relies on a constant exploitation of the data unveiled by linguists, it opposes any transcendental philosophy and makes much of the subjective and random nature of the activation of words’ etymological potentialities by the reader. Stephen’s attempts at finding a superior meaning in the direct and then indirect motivation of names in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man evolves, in the next novel, into a bitter rejection of the “imposture of sounds”. Ulysses, however, also brings into relief the inconsistencies of the linguistic theories of its own time: in highlighting the role played by folk etymology in the use of language, it constitutes an implicit criticism of Saussure’s positivist claims and calls into question any pseudo-rational and supra-individual conception of history.

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L’œuvre dramatique de Tom Stoppard est souvent considérée comme caractéristique du postmoderne. Les techniques d’écriture qui régissent le texte théâtral de Stoppard, étudiés dans cette thèse, participent à une véritable mise en scène de l’écriture. Ils sont aussi, selon nous, un moyen de détourner et parodier les codes du postmoderne. Collages, fragments et réécriture, caractéristiques de l’œuvre de Stoppard, traduisent aussi une vision patrimoniale de la littérature, et permettent une approche originale et critique du postmodernisme, renouvelant ainsi le discours sur le moderne. La présente étude se propose tout d’abord de montrer comment, à travers les références aux œuvres picturales de Magritte et Duchamp, Stoppard met en scène le signe. Puis, elle cherche à mettre en évidence la manière dont Stoppard utilise le collage et l’emprunt musical pour construire et structurer certaines de ses pièces. Elle envisage enfin le collage comme l’expression d’une herméneutique littéraire et philosophique, en examinant notamment l’influence de l’écriture de James Joyce sur le processus scripturaire du dramaturge. Le théâtre, seule forme d’expression artistique qui peut emprunter à tous les autres arts (Beaux-Arts, musique et littérature), est le lieu idéal où se déploient le foisonnement, la complexité et la richesse de l’écriture de Stoppard. Mais l’utilisation de citations et de fragments n’implique pas la fragmentation du sens : le théâtre de Stoppard, loin d’être l’expression d’une vision détachée du monde, propose aussi une véritable réflexion ontologique et politique sur notre société. / Tom Stoppard’s plays have often been viewed as the epitome of the postmodern. The writing techniques which inform Stoppard’s dramatic texts and which are studied in the present thesis play an essential part in the way in which the playwright stages his own writing process. This study also postulates that those techniques stand as a means of subverting and parodying the codes of the postmodern. The collages, fragments and rewriting which inform Stoppard’s works, reflect a patrimonial conception of literature and allow for an original approach and critique of postmodernism thus renewing the discourse on the modern. While considering the various references to the works of Magritte and Duchamp, the present study seeks to unveil the way in which Stoppard stages the sign. It will then shed light on the way in which Stoppard uses musical collages and quotations, which dot the playwright’s work, to shape and construct some of his plays. Finally, this dissertation will envisage collage as the expression of literary and philosophical hermeneutics as it examines James Joyce’s crucial influence on the playwright’s writing technique. Theatre stands probably as the only form of art which can borrow from all the other forms of art (painting, sculpture, music and literature). As such, it is the ideal locus for Stoppard’s subtle and complex writing techniques to proliferate. However, using quotations and fragments does not necessarily imply a fragmentation of meaning. Far from conveying a detached view of the world, Stoppard’s dramatic works provide the audience with an ontological and political thought-provoking view on our contemporary society.