Cette recherche s'inscrit dans le domaine de la didactique du français, dans la zone de contact entre enseignement de la langue et enseignement de la littérature. Elle a pour objet la glose à thème lexical dans la classe de littérature au cycle 3 de l'école primaire française. Ce que nous avons cherché à caractériser ce sont les échanges autour de certaines unités lexicales du texte à lire (les « épisodes métalexicaux ») et les échanges autour des mots que les élèves utilisent pour leurs propres commentaires (les « mots de la réception »). Que font-ils exactement quand ils parlent des mots d'un texte ou quels sont les mots qu'ils utilisent pour parler d'un texte? Quel lien avec ce qui est prescrit en matière d'enseignement du lexique, d'une part, et en matière d'enseignement de la lecture littéraire, d'autre part ?La méthode d'analyse des données est comparative. Elle concerne trois classes de CM2, deux enseignants expérimentés et un enseignant entrant dans le métier, autour de deux albums de littérature de jeunesse : La Petite fille du livre (Nadja) et Zappe la guerre (Pef). Nous avons mené une étude qualitative appuyée sur les transcriptions des échanges filmés dans les classes, ainsi que sur les transcriptions d'entretiens et de dispositifs d'autoconfrontation (empruntés à l'ergonomie et à l'ergologie).Ce travail s'intéresse au métadiscours dans le sens élargi que lui donne Andrée Borillo (1985) qui inclut les conduites langagières de commentaire, de définition, d'explication, portant sur le code ou sur les faits de discours.Nous avons d'abord appréhendé notre objet sur le plan linguistique et nous avons analysé la diversité des conduites et des procédés langagiers qui en font sa spécificité. Nous avons cherché ensuite à en saisir la particularité dans le cadre d'une activité de lecture littéraire.À partir de travaux de référence en lexicologie et en didactique de la littérature, nous avons construit un modèle distinguant plusieurs catégories de glose (les gloses sur la signification, les gloses sur le sens, les gloses sur les realia et les gloses génériques). Nous avons rangé l'ensemble de ces gloses dans trois paradigmes : un paradigme sémantique, un paradigme générique et un paradigme personnel.Nous avons pu montrer entre autres que le travail sur le vocabulaire en classe de littérature ne se résume pas à la définition, principale catégorie présupposée par les enseignants, mais engage de nombreuses conduites différentes. Nous avons montré aussi que ce travail joue un rôle dans l'activité de symbolisation attendue du sujet lecteur en contexte littéraire. Toutefois, l'analyse de l'action enseignante montre la complexité du pilotage de ces interactions autour du lexique et la nécessité de former les enseignants en matière d'enseignement du lexique en contexte littéraire. / This research joins in the field of French language didactics, in the area of contact between teaching of the language and teaching of literature in the third “cycle” of the French primary school.It covers the gloss around lexical items of the text to be read (the metalexical " episodes ") and the exchanges around the words the pupils use for their own comments (the " words of the reception ").What do they do exactly when they speak about the words of a text or what are the words they use to speak about a text? What link do they make with the prescription regarding teaching of the lexicon on one hand, and regarding teaching of the literary reading on the other hand? The method of analysis of the data is comparative. It concerns three 5th classes of primary school, two experimented teachers and a teacher starting their career, around two albums of youth literature: La petite fille du livre (Nadja) and Zappe la guerre (Pef).We led a qualitative study based on the transcriptions of the exchanges filmed in the classes, as well as on the transcriptions of interviews and plans of self-confrontation (borrowed from the study of ergonomics and ergology).This work focuses on the metadiscourse in its wider sense, studied by Andrée Borillo (1985) who includes the linguistic conducts of comment, definition, explanation, concerning the code or the facts of discourse.We first based our subject on the linguistic plan and we analysed what makes it specific - the diversity of the conducts and the linguistic processes. We then tried to seize its peculiarity within the framework of a literary reading activity.From reference works in lexicology and in literature didactics, we built a model distinguishing several categories of gloss (the glosses on meaning, the glosses on sense, the glosses on realia and generic glosses).We put all these glosses in three paradigms: a semantic paradigm, a generic paradigm and a personal paradigm.We were able to show, among other factors, that the work on the lexical field of literature cannot be reduced to its definition, the main category presumed by teachers, as it leads to many other conducts.We also showed that this work plays a role in the activity of symbolization that is expected from the subject reader in literary context. However, the analysis of the act of teaching shows the complexity of the piloting of these interactions around the lexicon and the necessity of training the teachers regarding lexicon teaching in a literary context.

The topic of this master's thesis is the representation of women in the selected works of Finnish male authors from the perspective of the feminist literary criticism. The thesis examines the selected prose works of Kari Hotakainen (novel Na domácí frontě, orig. title 2002), Hannu Raittila (novel Canal Grande, orig. title 2001) and Juha Seppälä (novel Švihadlo, orig. title 1990), as these three writers form an element opposite to a strong generation of Finnish female writers of the 1980s. I will analyse how these selected authors portray women in their works and how the position of female characters in comparison to male ones can be characterized. The aim is to describe the problematics regarding the portrayal of women in modern Finnish literature from the male perspective. The basis originating from the first, theoretical part, which focuses particularly on feminism and its manifestation in literary criticism, will serve as a stepping-stone for the following feminist research in the practical part of the thesis.

This doctoral thesis approaches literary tourism initially from an historical perspective in order to define the phenomenon through a review of the existing academic literature in the field. The forms of literary tourism are analysed to provide a typology and from this the value of literary tourism is explained both from the visitor's point of view and the destination manager's. Current theories underpinning the existing literature on literary tourism, including Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital are reviewed. To extend the current state of research and to answer the research questions a case study of successful urban literary tourism is identified, in this case in Brittany, France. The uses of French literature in literary tourism are reviewed to provide a sound basis on which to examine French texts and tourist destinations. Novel methods of field research are developed to formalise and to make reproducible the methodology for this study and for future work drawing on, and seeking to combine both literary theory and ethnography. Following a pilot study on the French Riviera the full discovery instruments are designed and applied in fieldwork on the case destination, Concarneau, using the detective novel, The Yellow Dog, which is set in Concarneau. Analysis of the findings from this provide a new contribution to the field of literary theory, in the area of reader interpellation, and answer the research questions in the form of a new set of recommendations for DMOs and tourism stakeholders. From the empirical study that used Web 2.0 social media, only available since 2013, an analysis of which novels do stimulate literary tourism is presented for the first time. Out of the research process new methods have been evolved, and are presented in the conclusion, for the DMO to synthesise and leverage digital resources. This provides DMOs with interpretation processes for its managed heritage to use with its local stakeholders in hotels and in tourism businesses. Finally, an innovative conceptualisation of what constitutes tourism knowledge is proposed.