In the year 2000 the birthday of Jesus of Nazareth two millennia ago is celebrated. If Jesus was seen as merely a historical figure, the significance of his life would be no different from that of people like Socrates or Alexander the Great. In Greco-Roman culture Alexander the Great, among other heroic figures and emperors, was regarded as son of God. However, since the first century followers of Jesus have worshipped Jesus as God’s son. This study asks questions as to the importance of Jesus within Hellenistic-Semitic and Greco-Roman contexts and his continued importance today. The first aspect is studied from a social-cultural perspective and the second from the angle of both the (Christian) believing community and the (secularized) university. Chapter one deals methodologically with the fact that, as in the case of Socrates, Jesus did not himself put to pen either the message of his words and deeds or the interpretation of his birth and death. Jesus’ vision should therefore be deciphered from what others said about him. Identifying a research gap with regard to existing Jesus research, chapter two will specifically aim at showing that today a new interdisciplinary frame of reference has come into being in the social sciences within which historical Jesus research is carried out. In chapter three it is argued that the starting point of the quest for the historical Jesus could be the nativity stories, despite all their mythological elements. Yet, in taking such a step, one should be aware of historiographical pitfalls when one studies the process of the “historization” of myth. In chapter four, entitled the “Joseph trajectory”, it is demonstrated that Joseph, the father of Jesus, should probably be seen as a legendary figure. With the help of cross-cultural anthropology and cultural psychology chapter five explains an ideal-typical situation of someone in first-century Herodian Palestine who bore the stigma of being fatherless, but who trusted God as Father. In chapter six the tradition about Jesus’ relationship towards “fatherless” children and “patriarchless” women is studied. Chapter seven shows that the “myth of the absent father” was very well known in antiquity. Ovid’s story of Perseus (who was conceived virginally) is retold. The intention is to show why the second-century philosopher Celsus thought that the Christians unjustifiably mirrored this Greek hero, son of Zeus, in their depiction of Jesus. Other examples within Greek-Roman literature are the myths surrounding among others Hercules and Asclepios. In explaining Hercules’ adoption as son of Zeus (which implies his deification), the Greek writer Diodorus Siculus tells the story of an empty tomb and an ascension to heaven. The Roman writer Seneca also tells the story of Hercules’ divine conception and his adoption as child of Zeus. In the New Testament Paul (Seneca’s contemporary) is particularly known for the notion “adoption to become God’s child”. This notion is explained in the light of the parallels found in Seneca’s tragedies about Hercules, his satire on the emperor Claudius and the references by Diodorus Siculus and in the Carmina Priapea to the notion of “adoption” and miraculous conceptions of god-like human figures. Chapter eight focuses on the origins of the church and the development of the dogma of the “two natures” of Jesus as both human and divine. In the last chapter the continued importance of the historical Jesus today is discussed. One of the most urgent social problems of our time is that millions of children are growing up fatherless. This study is about the historical Jesus who filled the emptiness caused by his fatherlessness with his trust in God as his Father. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Ancient Languages / unrestricted

Depuis Platon, la métaphysique est empreinte de la valorisation hiérarchique entre la pensée rationnelle du logos et la pensée esthétique et relationnelle du mythos, par laquelle l’absolu et l’éternel ne peuvent être réellement connus que par le logos. Le mythos, sous-tendant les écrits sacrés et mythologiques, devient l’autre de la raison, relégué dans le domaine de l’irrationnel, voire, de la folie. La hiérarchie de valeurs, fermement établie après le progrès des lumières, crée une division au sein de l’individu qui forme la blessure au cœur de l’imaginaire occidental. C’est cette blessure que la poésie prophétique de William Blake et Friedrich Hölderlin, taxés de folie, cherche à guérir en dépeignant une manière de voir pour surmonter cet état divisé ainsi que la pensée strictement représentative et déterminante qui l’aggrave. Blake et Hölderlin s’efforcent de transformer l’imaginaire collectif issu des mythes qui ont un rôle majeur dans la formation de la perception de l’homme occidental et dont les interprétations ont servi à inculquer la vision de l’être divisé. Ils déforment et remodèlent les images mythiques et métaphoriques des concepts ontologiques devenues figées dans les traditions grecques et judéo-chrétiennes afin de rétablir l’unité de l’homme, mission prophétique qui implique la transformation de la connaissance fixe en reconnaissance active, créant la possibilité de faire évoluer la conscience individuelle et, à son tour, la conscience collective. / From the time of Plato, metaphysics has been marked by the hierarchical relationship which privileges the rational mode of thought of logos over that of the aesthetic and relational mode of mythos, whereby the absolute and the eternal are only knowable through logos. Mythos, underpinning sacred and mythological texts, becomes the other of reason, relegated to the domain of the irrational and even to that of madness. This hierarchy, firmly established after the progress of the Enlightenment, creates a division within the individual that forms the wound at the heart of the occidental imagination. It is this wound that the prophetic poetry of William Blake and Friedrich Hölderlin, both thought to be mad, seeks to heal by depicting a way of seeing in order to overcome this divided state as well as the strictly representative and determinative thinking which deepens it. Blake and Hölderlin strive to transform this perception of the individual which is reinforced by the myths that form the collective imagination, the interpretations of which have inculcated the view of the divided self. The two poets reimagine and recreate the mythical and metaphorical images of ontological concepts which have become solidified in the Greek and Judeo-Christian traditions in order to reestablish the unity of the individual, a prophetic mission that implies the transformation of fixed knowledge into active recognition, creating the possibility for the evolution of the individual and, in turn, collective conscience.

Cette thèse de doctorat vise, à partir de l'exemple que constitue le traitement du mythe d'Œdipe par les trois dramaturges que sont Eschyle, Sophocle et Euripide, à comprendre comment les tragiques grecs, qui traitaient toujours des mêmes histoires, et suscitaient pourtant l'intérêt du public, ont su renouveler la création théâtrale, en parvenant à ne pas faire les mêmes pièces à partir des mêmes légendes. Certes, la matière mythique n'était pas figée en soi ; toutefois, comme la tragédie était un genre très codifié dans sa structure et relativement limité en termes d’effets visuels, c'est surtout sur le texte même que l'auteur pouvait intervenir, au prix d'un travail toujours renouvelé sur sa langue.C'est donc au texte même des tragédies que cette étude s'attache, texte qui est abordé selon une triple perspective, à la fois herméneutique, philologique et comparatiste, ce qui permet de comprendre non seulement les enjeux profonds de chacun d'eux, mais aussi les variations sur le mythe et les effets ainsi créés. Le corpus, restreint mais raisonnable (Les Sept contre Thèbes d'Eschyle, l'Œdipe Roi, l'Antigone et l'Œdipe à Colone de Sophocle, et les Phéniciennes d'Euripide), est analysé avec rigueur et aussi peu d'a priori que possible. Cette étude permet de mieux comprendre le fonctionnement de la tragédie, ainsi que la façon dont une poétique se renouvelait sans cesse et évoluait de la sorte, en explorant les possibilités que lui offrait sa langue et en travaillant sur les représentations et les contenus traditionnels dont le poète tragique héritait. Ce projet vise ainsi à mieux saisir les ressorts de la création poétique dans un contexte culturel qui permet d’appréhender au mieux les limites entre lesquelles elle est mise en œuvre ; il permettra également d'approfondir la compréhension d'une culture qui prenait plaisir à aller voir des pièces dont elle connaissait déjà la fin. / The aim of this PhD thesis, based on Aeschylus’, Sophocles’ and Euripides’ treatments of the Oedipus myth, is to understand how Greek tragic playwrights – who aroused the public interest while always dealing with the same stories – managed to reinvent theatre and write new plays out of the same myths. Admittedly, mythical material was not fixed, yet, tragedy was a genre which structure was highly codified, and quite limited in terms of visual effects. Thus, it was mainly within the text itself that authors could intervene by way of an ever-repeated work on their own language. Therefore, it is the texts of tragedies themselves which are the subject of this study, and which will be explored from three different perspectives; hermeneutic, philological and comparative. This not only allows for an understanding of the deeper issues each text tackles, but also of the variations on the myth and the effects they create. The corpus (Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes, Sophocles' Antigone, Œdipus Rex, Œdipus at Colonus, Euripides' Phoenician Women) – limited yet reasonable – will be analysed rigorously and with as little a priori as possible. What is proposed in this study is a better understanding of how the mechanics of tragedy worked, as well as of how part of a poetics could evolve through perpetual renewal, as tragic poets explored the possibilities of their language, worked on representations and traditional materials they had inherited. The aim of this study is to better grasp the means of poetic creation in a given cultural context so as to gain the best possible understanding of the limits within which it took place. It also allows for a deepened understanding of a culture in which people still enjoyed plays while already knowing how they would end.

Ses principaux lecteurs n’ont cessé de concevoir le Haut Livre du Graal comme un roman des confins de la barbarie. L’éclatement des cadres de l’écriture arthurienne est prégnant dans ses épisodes les plus emblématiques, qui révèlent un hiatus irréductible entre une « haute écriture » et l’exaltation de la matérialité des êtres. Le roman semble soumis à une double postulation vers le haut et le bas, vers les convulsions du monde sublunaire et une mystique aussi présente que ténue. L’étude des manifestations et senefiances de la mort s’applique à saisir l’écriture de cet entre-deux, tout en privilégiant l’approfondissement de deux traits majeurs : la dimension visuelle inhérente à la représentation de la mort et les procédés d’écriture propres à esquisser les linéaments d’une « écriture funèbre ». Le paradigme visuel relaie la puissance évocatoire des morts narrées, tandis que la dominante funeste du récit semble être l’un des gages les plus viables de l’unité d’une œuvre dont les structures narratives se dérobent. Le parcours herméneutique de cette étude considère tout d’abord le vocabulaire de la mort, avant d’aborder les circonstances de l’instant mortel, les deux versants spirituel et temporel de la mort, et le lien toujours puissant qui unit les vivants et les morts. Après des considérations à la fois stylistiques, rhétoriques, historiques et anthropologiques, la deuxième partie déplace vers le champ de la poétique du texte la problématique d’une mort fondamentalement ubiquitaire. / The main scholars always depicted the High Book of the Grail as a novel which borders on barbarism. The bursting of the frames of arthurian writing is significant in its most iconic episodes as well, which reveal a huge gap between "High Scripture" and a glorification of the materiality of beings. The novel seems based on a double postulation up and down, towards materiality and spirituality. The study of events and senefiances of death applies to grasp the writing of in-between, while emphasizing the study of two major elements: the inherent visual dimension to the representation of death and methods of its own writing which sketches the outlines of a "funeral writing." Visual paradigm relays the evocative power of the dead narrated while that fateful dominant narrative seems to be one of the most efficient guarantee of the unit of a work whose structure is relevent to illusion or arcana. The hermeneutic thought process of this study considers at first the vocabulary of death, before addressing the circumstances of the "instant mortel", the two spiritual and temporal sides of death, the always powerful unity of the living and the dead. After some stylistic considerations, as well as rhetorical, historical and anthropological ones, the last chapters move to the field of poetics, in a world where death appears fundamentally ubiquitous.

C’est à l’écart de tous et de tout que s’est toujours tenu Marcel Moreau, écrivain aux chairs habitées d’un corps verbal. Son œuvre en témoigne par sa monstrueuse densité: plus d’une soixantaine de livres en cinquante années. L’objet de cette thèse sera de définir sa poétique du corps tout en prenant en compte ses refus du classifiable et la mise en place d’une mythologie intime le dépassant. Engageant directement le lecteur, son écriture l’insère dans une relation tragique au dehors et au-dedans de lui-même, rendu à un réel libéré de toute passivité. Une approche biographique s’impose donc en ce qu’elle implique étymologiquement le vivant dans l’écriture. Aussi, si son utilisation de la langue française s’ancre profondément dans son organisme, elle forme une voix de l’Étrangeté disloquant toute idée de frontière – littéraire, géographique, générique, ou physique. Le langage devient réappropriation du pulsionnel, réhabilitation de ce qui est perçu comme irrationnel. Rendre leur force aux mots invite à inverser les perspectives et à réaliser que c’est la perception de l’étrange, le concevoir autre, qui ouvre à ce que l’on est, à la complexité panique du monde. Les instincts éclairés, c’est-à-dire acceptés en tant qu’origine des tremblements de la chair et de la pensée, relèvent plus d’une cruelle lucidité face aux chaos de la nature et de soi, que d’un simple amas incontrôlable et mauvais. Lorsque la parole renoue avec sa violence, qui est puissance fondatrice, elle nous renvoie aux structures mythiques engendrant nos littératures, mais aussi à la place de l’écrivain, de la parole poétique faisant lien et liane avec nos représentations du vivant au sein de la communauté. / Marcel Moreau has always stood aside from the dominant thought of his age. He is incarnated and possessed by words, what he calls his “verbal body”. His work indeed shows a monstrous density: more than sixty books in fifty years. This thesis will attempt to define the poetics of the body while taking into consideration the building up of an intimate mythology that goes beyond himself, and beyond his rejection of any label. His writing directly engages the reader and integrates him in a tragic relation with his inner and outer self, sending him back into a reanimated passivity reality. A biographical approach is necessary because the Living is etymologically implied in the act of Writing. Thus, if the way he uses French is deeply embedded in his own organism, it creates a “voice of Strangeness” that dislocates the mere idea of frontiers – in literature, geography, genres, or even biology. Impulses finally express themselves through this poetical language, along with what is considered irrational. Words are living things whose strength can utterly change our cognitive structures. In Marcel Moreau’s mind, one is able to open up to what he is and to the panicked complexity of the world surrounding him thanks to his perception of strangeness and otherness. The writer aims at enlightening his instincts, as they are the origin of trembling flesh and trembling thought, even though they carry a charge of cruel lucidity within them. When speech bonds with its original violence, it brings us back to the mythical structures that created our literatures, but also to the condition of the writer and to the poetical language that binds our community together with its multiplicities.

Cette thèse de doctorat étudie l’image de Venise dans les œuvres d’écrivains vénitiens ou liés à Venise entre 1866 et la Première Guerre mondiale, époque où Venise occupait une place fondamentale dans la littérature mondiale, notamment à travers la littérature de voyage. À partir du constat de la méconnaissance dont pâtissent à l’inverse les auteurs vénitiens de l’époque, on analyse la représentation de Venise chez Camillo Boito (1836-1914), Enrico Castelnuovo (1839-1915), Giacinto Gallina (1852-1897) et Gerolamo Rovetta (1851-1910). Ces auteurs permettent d’engager une réflexion sur la littérature mineure. La première partie livre les jalons nécessaires pour cerner l’objet d’étude. Après avoir traité la question de l’existence d’un mythe littéraire de Venise au XIXe siècle, elle montre la marginalité du point de vue italien sur Venise dans les études consacrées aux représentations littéraires de la ville et dresse un tableau détaillé de sa situation économique et politique. La seconde partie est consacrée à l’analyse du corpus. Quatre chapitres présentent les lignes de force de la représentation que chacun des auteurs fait de Venise en mettant en évidence leur traitement des topoï littéraires vénitiens de l’époque. La troisième partie dresse certaines conclusions : Boito, Castelnuovo, Rovetta et Gallina mettent le mythe littéraire de Venise à distance, en même temps qu’ils illustrent les mutations qui affectent la société vénitienne de leur temps. Elle avance enfin l’hypothèse que leur vision de Venise, qui n’est pas fondée sur la singularité de la ville, permet d’appréhender une forme de modernité vénitienne, rarement mise en avant jusque-là. / This doctoral thesis provides an analysis of the image of Venice in the works of four writers, either born in Venice or strongly attached to the city, between 1866 and World War One, a time when Venice featured prominently in European literature. After having analysed the limited fame of Venetian writers in a literary context focusing on masterpieces which were mainly the results of their writers’ travels to Venice, this works analyses the Venetian works of Camillo Boito (1836-1914), Enrico Castelnuovo (1839-1915), Giacinto Gallina (1852-1897) and Gerolamo Rovetta (1851-1910) and focuses on the question of minor literature. The first part provides a series of benchmarks. It studies the possibility of a Venetian literary myth and details the economic and political history of Venice at the time. It also focuses on the challenges of minor literature when related to cultural history. The four chapters of the second part analyse the four writers’ works, emphasizing the way they deal with the Venetian stereotypes of the time. The third part draws some conclusions: Boito, Castelnuovo, Rovetta and Gallina distance themselves from the Venetian literary myth and their works show the deep changes that affected the Venetian society at the time. It offers the hypothesis that their works may have remained unknown because they didn’t dwell on the Venetian singularity. At the same time, they enable their readers to discover a modern Venice, an aspect rarely taken into consideration in the studies dedicated to Nineteenth Century literary Venice.

Angela Carter (1940-1992) positions herself as a writer in ‘the demythologising business’ (1983b:38). She defines myth in ‘a sort of conventional sense; also in the sense that Roland Barthes uses it in Mythologies’ (in Katsavos 1994:1). Barthes states that ‘the very principle of myth’ is that ‘it transforms history into nature’ (Barthes 1993:129). This process of naturalisation transforms culturally and historically determined fictions into received truths, which are accepted as natural, even sacred. This thesis explores Carter’s demythologising approach in her collection of fairy tales, The Bloody Chamber, and her novel, Nights at the Circus. The readings of these texts are informed by the ideas that Carter discusses in her feminist manifesto The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History, which she describes as ‘a late-twentieth-century interpretation of some of the problems [de Sade] raises about the culturally determined nature of women and of the relations between men and women that result from it’ (1979:1). In The Bloody Chamber and Nights at the Circus, Carter questions the culturally determined roles that patriarchal ideology has ‘palmed off’ on women as ‘the real thing’ (1983b:38), and she scrutinizes the relations between the sexes that have resulted from them. In The Sadeian Woman, the subject-object dichotomy of gendered identity is explored as a predatory hierarchy. The Bloody Chamber explores the same ideological ground, and ‘the distinctions drawn are not so much between males and females as between “tigers” and “lambs”, carnivores and herbivores, those who are preyed upon and those who do the preying’ (Atwood 1994:118). The most discomfiting point that Carter makes in The Bloody Chamber is that patriarchal ideology has traditionally viewed women as herbivores, or ‘meat’, that is, as passive objects of desire and inert objects of exchange. In Nights at the Circus, the subject-object dichotomy is presented in its spectator-spectacle guise. Fevvers, the female protagonist, is a winged aerialiste who articulates an autonomous identity for herself that exists outside of patriarchal prescription. She presents herself as feminine spectacle and, in so doing, becomes simultaneously a spectator, as she ‘turns her own gaze on herself, producing herself as its object’ (Robinson 1991:123). Mary Ann Doane refers to this strategy of self-representation as the masquerade. In ‘flaunting femininity’, Fevvers ‘holds it at a distance’, and in this way womanliness becomes ‘a mask which can be worn or removed’ (Doane 1991:25). Susanne Schmid points out that ‘every act of deconstruction entails a process of reconstructing something else’ (1996:155), and this suggests that Carter, in demythologising, also remythologises. Roland Barthes argues that ‘the best weapon against myth is perhaps to mythify it in its turn, and to produce an artificial myth’ (1993:135). In the characterisation of Fevvers, Carter creates an ‘artificial myth’ that does not present itself as either eternal or immutable. In masquerading as a feminine spectacle, Fevvers temporarily incarnates an archetypal femininity. But this is just a performance, for Fevvers is also an agent of self-representation, and so she is both a real woman and an artificial myth of femininity. / Dissertation (MA (English))--University of Pretoria, 2005. / English / unrestricted

The purpose of this study is to address the way in which several quite varied and often commodified representations of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) express and reproduce shifting notions of national identity within American culture across the twentieth century and at the beginning of our own. This thesis pursues the question of national identity that the American myth perpetuates throughout the twentieth century and examines the shift in citizenship through representations found in popular culture’s re-writings of the Wizard of Oz tale. This thesis evaluates both original and contemporary adaptations of the Oz story and their deconstruction for sociohistorical representations of racial, gendered, class, and national identity. I argue, that the numerous historical and ideological comparisons from the Oz tale reflect our own world in our discussions of identity, race, class, and gender and have become significant reflections of our own imaginations and national identity.

Lorsque les désastres et les catastrophes apparaissent comme des traits marquants de l’existence sociale et collective, notre vision/conception du monde, tant esthétique que cognitive, se voit interpellée, voire prise à défaut. Le monde contemporain est traversé par une crise de nos certitudes de maîtrise de la nature et de la société, crise paradoxale puisqu’elle s’enracine dans nos immenses pouvoirs de transformation, ceux-là mêmes qui entretenaient nos espoirs de progrès et dont les conséquences imprévues nourrissent aujourd’hui nos appréhensions et nos peurs collectives. A travers un regard sociologique, cette recherche interroge le poids des imaginaires sociaux sur la production de l’événement-catastrophe, et, en retour, l’influence de cette dernière sur les opinions, les attitudes et les comportements de prévention du danger et les représentations sociales de la sécurité. Construit sur un corpus d’une dizaine de catastrophe (de la tempête de décembre 1999 en Europe de l’Ouest à la catastrophe de Fukushima en 2011), et soutenu par un travail de terrain (presse, littérature, cinéma, jeux-vidéo mais aussi groupes de préparation aux désastres), ce travail fait apparaitre l’efficience de l’archétypologie durandienne et dévoile de la réactivation d’anciens mythes et l’apparition de nouveaux récits dans le complexe sociétal, introduisant alors une idée neuve en Occident : notre époque est fascinée par sa puissance mais aussi terrifiée par un avenir dans lequel elle ne sait plus lire que des promesses de déclin. / When disasters and catastrophes are prominent features of social and collective life, our aesthetic and cognitive vision or conception of the world is challenged or even overwhelmed. The contemporary world is experiencing a crisis that has shaken our certainties about nature and society’s control. This crisis is paradoxical, because it is rooted in our immense powers of transformation; the very same powers that sustain our hopes of progress. The unexpected consequences of these powers now feed our collective anxieties and fears. This research takes a sociological perspective to assess the influence of the social imaginary on the production of disaster events, and, in turn, the impact of the production of disaster events on the opinions, attitudes and risk-prevention behaviors and social representations of security. Based on a corpus of ten catastrophes (the December 1999 storm in Western Europe to the Fukushima disaster in 2011), and supported by field work (press, literature, cinema, video games and also disaster preparedness groups), this work reveals the effectiveness of the Durandian archetype and reveals reactivation of ancient myths and the emergence of new tales in the social complex, while introducing a new idea in the Occident: our age is fascinated by its power, but also terrified of a future in which it can see only promises of decline. / Quando os desastres e as catástrofes surgem como traços marcantes da existência social e coletiva, é a nossa visão/concepção do mundo, tanto estética como cognitiva, que é interrogada, e mesmo posta em xeque. O mundo contemporâneo é atravessado pela crise das nossas certezas de dominação da natureza e da sociedade, uma crise paradoxal, dado que se enraíza nos nossos imensos poderes de transformação. Esses poderes alimentavam as nossas esperanças de progresso. Mas as suas inesperadas consequências estimulam hoje as nossas angústias e os nossos medos coletivos. Através de um olhar sociológico, esta pesquisaquestiona a força dos imaginários sociais na produção do evento-catástrofe e, em sentido contrário, a influência que o evento-catástrofe tem nas opiniões, atitudes e comportamentos de prevenção do perigo e nas representações sociais da segurança. Construído sobre um corpus de uma dezena de catástrofes (da tempestade de Dezembro de 1999 na Europa Ocidental até à catástrofe de Fukushima, em 2011), e apoiado numa pesquisa de campo (imprensa, literatura, filmes, videojogos, como também grupos de preparação para os desastres), este trabalho torna manifesta a eficiência da arque-tipologia durandiana e revela a reativação de mitos antigos, assim como o surgimento de novas narrações no complexo societal. Uma nova ideia irrompe no Ocidente: a nossa época está fascinada pelo seu poder, mas também se encontra aterrorizada por um futuro em que apenas consegue ler promessas de declínio.

L'œuvre d’Amelia Rosselli entend se dessiner, au sein de la poésie lyrique italienne, comme expérience de subversion du processus de sublimation et de stylisation du corps féminin. A travers la traduction et l’analyse de poèmes choisis contenus dans les recueil Cantilena (1953), La Libellula (1958) et Variazioni belliche (1964), nous avons conduit une tentative d’exégèse critique des textes. L’analyse des poèmes se poursuit à travers une pratique dialogique avec le texte poétique, à partir d'un positionnement critique à l’intérieur du comparatisme féministe.En partant de l'idée pétrarquiste d'élimination et de suppression du corps des femmes nous avons démontré comment la tentative d’apaiser la portée potentiellement dangereuse de l’affection amoureuse a donné lieu au déni de la sensualité. Le langage de la douleur transfigurée se traduit dans une poétique du « dispositif sursensuel », un processus semblable à celui que Gilles Deleuze avait repéré dans la personnalité littéraire de Sacher-Masoch. Le processus de subversion qu’on vient d’évoquer est accompagné du bouleversement des rôles traditionnels au sein du canon poétique européen. Ces déconstructions conduiraient à un rejet du corps organique et au même temps à la révélation d’une subjectivité excentrique. La révision des modèles littéraires du canon passe également par le réécriture d'un ensemble de figures féminines du répertoire mythique et littéraire au sein de l’antiquité gréco-romaine, lesquelles, prélevées de l’imaginaire patriarcal, sont réinterprétées et à nouveau poétisées au sein d'un Sujet poétique qui cherche à faire parler la voix d’une poète femme. / Amelia Rosselli’s work took shape, within Italian lyric poetry, as an experience of subversion of the process of sublimation and of stylisation of the female body. Through the translation and the analysis of the content of poems chosen from the collections Cantilena (1953), La Libellula (1958) and Variazioni belliche (1964), I conducted a critical exegesis of the texts. I performed an analysis according to suggestions of a dialogical practice with the poetical text and with a female subjectivity often hidden, anchored to my critical investment inside feminist comparatism. From petrarchist idea of deletion and “suppression” of women’s body – deletion, of which Pasolini talked already in relation to the genesis of Italian poetry and its characterisation of the lyrical canon – I analysed how the attempt to ease the impact potentially dangerous of love affection has caused the denial of sensuality. The language of camouflaged sorrow is then established as a deliberated choice included in some poetics where it is not the statement that reveals, but the poetical word, which in its cryptic canonical measure, is able to make resonate beyond declarations. We can observe the deployment of a “sursensual device”, similar process to what Gilles Deleuze perceived in Sacher-Masoch's literary personality. The process of subversion does not seem a reconstitution of identity roles, but rather a deconstruction of the traditional model. The starting point for the analysis of those deconstructions is based on the hypothesis that the non-functionality of the desiring organisms (desiring subject and desired object) will lead to a reject of the organic and at the same time to a revelation of an eccentric subjectivity. The revision of the literary model of the canon lies in the hypothesis that a set of female figures of the mythical and literary repertoire in Greco-Roman antiquity are placed in the imaginary practice of Amelia Rosselli's poetical writing, with a view to incorporate the nature of the characters born and conceived inside and by the patriarchal imaginary and to form the body of a subject that aims at making them speak through the voice of a female poet.