Dans les trois ouvrages étudiés Estrella Distante (1996), La pista de hielo (1993) et Amberes (2002) nous révélons la présence, parfois patente, parfois latente, du mythe de la malédiction. Notre étude rend compte d’une lecture à la lumière du mythe littéraire moderne de l’écrivain maudit. L’évolution de l’œuvre de Bolaño, montre que depuis le début le mythe de la malédiction lutte pour prendre une place centrale dans son œuvre.Un seul motif reste constant, inamovible, dans les trois romans en particulier et dans l’œuvre entière en général : l’héroïsme. Nous voyons dans cette valeur inaltérable du mythe de l’écrivain maudit chez Bolaño, le cœur de son éthique littéraire. L’héroïsme du poète maudit n’est pas associé à l’idée romantique d’une mission personnelle fondamentale mais plutôt à la valeur d’incorruptibilité. Les deux mythèmes PURETE-DETRESSE suscitent les deux motifs mythiques INGENUITE-MARGINALITE. Ceux deux motifs, filtrés par le temps et l’écriture conduisent à l’HEROISME et à l’INCORRUPTIBILITE, valeur qui définit le poète maudit dans l’ensemble de l’œuvre.La réécriture de ce mythe n’est pas sans conséquences dans l’univers de la réception. Bolaño se crée dans ses textes une image de lui-même qui prospère ensuite dans l’inconscient collectif ; son image devient l’archétype de l’écrivain latino-américain contemporain. La nouveauté de l’œuvre de Bolaño est d’avoir su placer la figure du poète maudit au cœur de son univers littéraire. Comme il est courant dans la reprise d’un mythe par un écrivain, Bolaño vise par sa réécriture un modèle à vocation universelle, sans que pour autant sa vie soit l’original ou la copie de ce modèle. L’image archétypale de l’homme Roberto Bolaño repose sur un univers symbolique de représentations qui ont un lien intime avec la malédiction.Bolaño insiste sur une autre forme de malheur, la rébellion, la révolte du maudit. Elle a été l’une des premières abordée dans la réception de son œuvre, et traduite comme une tendance antisystème. Bolaño est donc perçu comme un provocateur net, chose qui est absolument vraie. Cependant, c’est à travers la figure du maudit que la révolte littéraire s’effectue vraiment. En s’attaquant aux institutions littéraires, le poète renonce à l’appui institutionnel et déclare conquérir son indépendance à l’égard des pouvoirs littéraires. Pour chercher à être indépendant des pouvoirs littéraires il faut nécessairement en être d’abord dépendant ! Si le poète-type de Bolaño n’écrit presque pas, ou du moins pas comme il devrait le faire en tant qu’écrivain, de quelle sorte d’indépendance littéraire est-il question ? Cela pose un problème de fond celui de la vie comme œuvre (ce fut le cas pour le dandysme), et comme œuvre littéraire. Si la vie peut devenir littérature et si l’existence peut se changer en œuvre d’art, c’est à cette transformation que le poète bolanien se donne corps et âme. Faire de sa vie un objet littéraire est donc la tâche curieuse et très originale que s’impose le poète maudit chez Bolaño.En réécrivant le mythe du poète maudit, Bolaño a ouvert la voix à une nouvelle manière de voir la littérature et d’en faire. Ce mythe, bien connu en Europe depuis Villon jusqu’à Houellebecq, a été ravivé dans l’œuvre de Bolaño, en même temps qu’il a été introduit dans l’imaginaire de la littérature hispano-américaine, pour devenir aujourd’hui un symbole à double effet : consommation de masse d’une icône ou chemin offert au public vers le sens caché de l’expression. / Within the three books studied Estrella Distante (1996), La pista de hielo (1993) et Amberes (2002) we show the underlying- evident presence, of the literary malediction myth. We read Bolaño’s works lightened by the literary modern myth of the damned poet. The evolution of Bolaño’s work reflects, since the beginning the central space this modern myth takes into his imaginary. One of the unchangeable topics in the three novels studied is heroism. This inalterable value of his damned characters represents the central part Bolaño’s literary ethics. The damned poet heroism in this case is not associated to the romantic idea of a personal fundamental mission to be accomplished but rather to the moral value of incorruptibility. We can find two mythic topics PURITY-DISTRESS that produce the mythic patterns INGENUITY-MARGINALITY. The presence of this two patterns lead towards the two moral-ethic values that define Bolaño’s damned poet: HEROISM and INCORRUPTIBILITY.The process of rewriting this myth brings consequences in the reception’s world. Bolaño invents through his literature an image of himself which lives in the collective subconscious. This image is nothing different than archetype of what should be the contemporary Latin-American writer. As it is current in the process or rewriting of a myth, Bolaño aims a figure to universal vocation (archetype), but not with the purpose of making of his personal life the original and of his damned poet the copy. For the community of readers, the archetypal image of the man (Roberto Bolaño) rest upon a symbolic universe of representations directly connected with literary malediction.Bolaño insists on another way of curse; the rebellion of the damned poet. This feature has been translated in the context of the reception as an anti-system tendency. Bolaño is perceived as an agitator. Nevertheless, this feature of the writer comes from the literary rebellion of his characters. The damned poet of his work attacks the literary institutions renounces to the institutional support and declares the conquest of his independence in front of the literary powers.In order to become independent of the literary institutions, the poet must be necessarily dependent of them. As we know the character of the poet in Bolaño’s work do not really write or rather barely writes. So we ask what kind of literary independence is sought by the poet? This question introduce the idea of life a piece of art, (dandyism) and more exactly in this case; life as a literary piece of art. If life can become literature and existence can be transformed in a piece of art, Bolaño’s damned poet does not seek any more than fulfill this possibility of mutation. Make of his life a literary (ethic, moral and esthetic) object is the curious and original task the damned poet force himself on.Throughout the rewriting of the damned poet myth, Bolaño lights the way to an original way of perceiving but above all an original way of making literature. The myth of the damned poet, well know from Villon to Houellebecq, has been brighten up in Bolaño’s work and reintroduce in the Hispano-American literary imaginary. This version of the myth has become today a symbol that can be read in two ways: consummation product of an image or opened possibility of a secret meaning.

O objetivo da presente tese firmou-se na investigação de como se articula a imagem-símbolo da viagem no conto literário O companheiro de viagem, de Hans Christian Andersen, em diálogo com o conto popular norueguês O companheiro e a narrativa mítica nórdica Thor no País dos Gigantes. Para fundamentar o comparatismo literário das três narrativas, buscou-se aporte teórico na taxonomia dos símbolos presente na antropologia do imaginário, de Gilbert Durand (2012), e em outros teóricos da crítica da literatura contemporânea sobre o imaginário, o conto popular e o mito, a produção literária. Verificou-se como cada narrativa do corpus é configurada em imagens-símbolos e que algumas ressoam no conto anderseniano. A imagem compósita da viagem manifestou-se constitutiva de um esquema ascensional pela presença de um simbolismo que remete ao cume, à vitória do herói, à realização do sonho da conquista da amada e do reinado. A viagem é ascensão simbólica. Do ponto de vista da crítica literária pode-se reconhecer ainda que O companheiro de viagem é o palimpsesto no sentido que formula Gèrard Genette: um hipertexto (texto inovador) que narra um hipotexto (um texto anterior), pelo procedimento da transformação que se distingue da imitação. O conto O companheiro de viagem é (re)tecido em imagens-símbolos, configuradas em artifícios picturais, melodiosos, gestuais, visuais pela escrita. A imagem semelhantemente à vida, manifesta-se. / The aim of this thesis is based on the investigation of how is articulated the trip symbol image in the tale The travelling companion, by Hans Christian Andersen, in dialogue with the Norwegian popular tale The companion and the mythic Nordic narrative Thor in the land of giants. In order to support the literary comparatism in the three narratives, the theoretical contribution was made in the taxonomy of symbols present in the imaginary anthropology, by Gilbert Durand (2012), and other theorists of the contemporary literature criticism about the imaginary, the popular tale and the myth, the literary production. It was verified how each narrative of the corpus is configured in symbols-images and that some of them resound in the Andersenian tale. The composite image of the trip has revealed itself as constitutive of an ascended scheme by the presence of a symbolism which refers to the summit, the heros victory, the achievement of the dream of conquering the beloved woman and the realm. The trip is a symbolic ascent. From the point of view of the literary criticism, the literary tale is palimpsest in the sense of the Geràrd Genettes formulation: a hypertext (innovative text) which tells a hipotext (a previous text), by the resource of transformation that differs from imitation. However, the tale The travelling companion is (re)woven in symbols-images, configured in pictorial, melodic, gestural, visual devices by the writing. The image, similarly to life, manifests itself.

This dissertation examines modes of citations in Hermann Broch's work Die Schuldlosen. Focusing on the topoi of romanticism and myth, I discuss tensions between Hermann Broch's theoretical arguments and his last literary work. These tensions are an expression and formal manifestation of an auctorial attempt to implement his self-declared principles of literature, such as the creation of epistemological value, the depiction of world totality, and the creation of a new form of expression, a new language, and a new myth. In each chapter, I focus on a different topos relevant to Broch's work Die Schuldlosen. With the help of close readings and a genetic analysis of the work, I demonstrate how Broch creates the unreliable citations that serve his goals. The first chapter illuminates the tension between Broch's theoretical works and Die Schuldlosen concerning the topos of romanticism. In a case study on stone imagery, I ask whether Broch's modes of citing romanticism can be considered a productive intermediate step to creating a new form. I show that Broch's citations can be qualified as unreliable citations, and how structural correspondences intensify their effect on the reader’s experience. The chapter ends with a discussion of the political function of Broch's citations. The second chapter deals with Broch's concept of myth and discusses the tension between Broch's declared intention to develop a new myth and his actual use of existing myths in his works. In two case studies, I trace Broch's citations of the Faust myth and the Don Juan myth. I show that one can understand Broch's specific citations of myth as an experiment to explore how the interruption of a recurring cultural cycle would allow for a new form to develop.

Este trabalho apresenta uma leitura das manifestações do insólito ficcional, a partir de mitos e do maravilhoso moçambicano, em Vinte e zinco, de Mia Couto. Essas manifestações podem ser vistas como pertencentes ao Realismo Maravilhoso, Mágico ou Animista, uma vez que podem ser observadas através da representação literária de mitos que perpassam o continente africano como um todo, permitindo, assim, repensar a origem de lendas, crenças, folclore, religiosidade e tradições nacionais. Dessa forma, os eventos insólitos presentes em Vinte e zinco são utilizados por Mia Couto com a intenção, explicitada em seus artigos de opinião, de resgatar e recuperar aspectos dispersos da mosaica e híbrida identidade moçambicana, contribuindo para sua construção na contemporaneidade, ultrapassadas as guerras de descolonização -frente a Portugal - e civil -entre os próprios moçambicanos / This paper presents an analysis of unusual manifestations of fiction, from the wonderful myths and Mozambique, in Twenty-Zinc, by Mia Couto. These manifestations can be seen as belonging to Realism Wonderful Wizard Animist or, as can be seen through the literary representation of myths that pervade the continent as a whole, thus allowing rethink the origin of legends, beliefs, folklore, religious and national traditions. Thus, these unusual events in Twenty and zinc are used by Mia Couto with intent, embodied in its articles of opinion, rescue and recover aspects of the Mosaic dispersed and hybrid Mozambican identity, contributing to its construction in contemporary times, exceeded the wars decolonization, against Portugal and civil among Mozambicans themselves

Essa dissertação visa estudar a formação do que veio a ser conhecido como o mito Shakespeariano e sua relação com a produção literária contemporânea, exemplificada pelo romance Wise Children, da romancista inglesa Angela Carter. Tal objetivo pretende ser alcançado por meio uma revisão teórica de elementos relacionados à concepção de mito desenvolvida pelo filósofo francês Roland Barthes, tais quais a concepção tradicional de mito, o Estruturalismo, o Pós-estruturalismo, a crítica ideológica marxista e os Estudos Culturais. Um estudo dos processos históricos que deram origem ao e ajudaram a propagar o mito Shakespeariano também é levado a cabo nessa dissertação: a apropriação da figura e da obra de William Shakespeare feita pelos pré-românticos e pelos românticos em geral; a associação da figura de Shakespeare com a identidade nacional do Império Britânico; o advento da industria Shakespeariana e o papel das adaptações das peças de Shakespeare na propagação do mito Shakespeariano / This dissertation aims at studying what came to be known as the Shakespeare myth and its relation to the contemporary literary production, exemplified by English novelist Angela Carters novel Wise Children. Such objective intends to be achieved by a theoretical revision of elements related to French philosopher Rolan Barthess concept of myth, such as the traditional concept of myth, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Marxist ideological critique, as well as Cultural Studies. A study of the historical processes which led to and helped propagate the Shakespeare myth is also carried out in this dissertation: the pre-Romantic and the Romantic appropriation of the figure and works of William Shakespeare; the association of the figure of Shakespeare with the British Empires national identity; the advent of the Shakespeare industry; and the role the adaptation of the Shakespearean play had in the propagation of the Shakespeare myth

Orientador: José Sterza Justo / Banca: Luiz Carlos da Rocha / Banca: José Artur Molina / Resumo: O mito de Don Juan surgiu em 1630 na peça O Burlador de Sevilha e o Convidado de Pedra, escrita por Tirso de Molina. Desde então o personagem ganhou espaço no imaginário coletivo através de inúmeras releituras que o levou a ser reconhecido como um mito moderno. O objetivo desse trabalho é analisar o mito de Don Juan tal como ele se expressa em obras literárias e cinematográficas, identificando as expressões da subjetividade e suas transformações ao longo desses 400 anos. Para analisar tais representações, importantes para a construção e desenvolvimento desse mito, utilizamos como referência metodológica a análise de conteúdo. As primeiras representações de Don Juan pintavam-lhe como anti-herói. Uma observação detalhada do contexto de seu aparecimento revelou que o mito surgiu como um dispositivo da Contra-Reforma para combater o individualismo e a crise de valores que se irrompeu com a falência dos ideais Renascentistas. Assim, verificamos que a discussão inicial em torno do mito, fundado nas burlas de Don Juan, gira em torno da crise entre indivíduo e sociedade, entre os valores morais da sociedade e a conduta dos seus sujeitos. As subsequentes atualizações do mito deslocam esse conflito do terreno da religião para as instituições sociais emergentes. Em 1821, Lord Byron começa a escrever um Don Juan em conflito com os ideais das revoluções burguesas. Já em 1973, curtindo o legado da revolução feminista, Don Juan vem à tona como uma mulher sedutora e insaciável, interpretada por Brigitte Bardot. Em 1995, o personagem é novamente evocado para relembrar, ao mundo globalizado, o papel da fantasia. Já em 2005 o plot é revisto e ampliado por José Saramago, que lhe imprime, além da falência do inferno como instância punitiva, as características do sujeito atual. Sem a pretensão de esgotar o assunto, este trabalho revela as transformações do sujeito e sua relação com alguns aspectos da sociedade / Abstract: Don Juan's myth first appeared in the 1630's play named El Burlador de Sevilla y Convidado de Piedra, written by Tirso de Molina. Since then the character became popular through many remakes that lead it to be recognized as a modern myth. The objective of the present work is to analyze the myth of Don Juan as it appears on literature and cinematographic works, identifying the expressions of the subjectivity and its transformations throughout these 400 years. To analyze such representations we recurred to Bardin's Analysis of Content. The first artworks about Don Juan made him as a villain. A closer look to the social context of its appearance reveals that the myth was built up as a method of repression against the individualism in attempt to cease the crisis of the Christian's moral codes that burst with the ruin of the Renaissance's values. Therefore, we brought up that the initial subjects on the myth, pictured by the character's tricks, comes to be the crises between the individual itself and the society. However, the subsequent updates of the myth displaced the religious conflict to the emergent social institutions. In 1821, Lord Byron starts to write his Don Juan in disagreeing the Bourgeois Revolution values'. In 1973, tanning the legacy of the feminist revolution, Don Juan is brought up as seductive woman, played by Brigitte Bardot. In 1995, the character is once more evoked to remind the globalizing world of the importance of loving and fantasy. In 2005 the plot is remade by Jose Saramago, who prints to it the failure of Hell as a punishing institution. Without the pretension to deplete the subject, this work discloses to the transformations of the individual and its relation with some social issues / Mestre

Les textes de Mout développent une théologie septentrionale émanant d’Héliopolis, localement adaptée par une mise en parallèle entre le couple démiurgique héliopolitain, Atoum / Témet, et le couple monarchique thébain Amon / Mout, ainsi que par un transfert de géographie sacrée. Mout récupère l’apanage mythico-cultuel de Témet : Mythe de la Déesse lointaine, rituels d’Apaiser Sekhmet et de l’offrande de l’ivresse, qui, en contexte thébain, ont pour finalité la protection de la cité d’Amon et la glorification de Thèbes-la-Victorieuse, assimilée à Mout protégeant Amon. / The Mut’s texts present a local adaptation of a northern theology originated from Heliopolis, based on parallelism between the heliopolitan demiurgic couple Atum / Temet and the theban monarchic couple Amun / Mut, as well as a transfer of sacred geography. Mut recovers Temet’s mythological prerogatives and worship : Myth of the Wandering Goddess, rituals of Pacifying Sekhmet and of the offering of the drunkness, wich, in the theban context, focus on the protection of Amun’s city and the glory of Victorious-Thebes, assimilated to Mut who protects Amun.

L’objectif de cette thèse est de penser le voyage en tant que métaphore absolue de l’existence dans les œuvres de Benjamin Fondane (1898-1944), Adonis (né en 1929) et Roberto Mussapi (né en 1952). Le thème du voyage, commun à ces trois auteurs, est ici étudié travers leur œuvre critique ou théorique, mais surtout poétique. Cette étude prend appui sur les théories du philosophe allemand Hans Blumenberg, et plus précisément sur la métaphorologie, discipline dont il a posé les bases. La thèse étudie le voyage sous ses différentes formes : la navigation maritime, l’envol, l’errance sur la terre, enfin le feu – qui correspondent aux quatre éléments et dessinent les grands axes d’une géographie mentale des auteurs. Il s’agit ainsi d’explorer les différentes potentialités du voyage, réel aussi bien que métaphorique. Le voyage par le feu, étudié dans la dernière partie, correspond à un dépassement des voyages placés sous le signe des trois autres éléments : métaphore de la mort, il pose la question du destin de l’individu dans l’au-delà. Il apparaît alors que l’élément liquide lui aussi peut intervenir pour poser la question des fins dernières : la figure du naufrage comme métaphore de la mort revêt une également une importance capitale pour nos poètes ; la métaphorologie de Blumenberg en fournit une interprétation particulièrement éclairante. Le voyage se révèle dès lors être aussi un thème propre à démontrer l’existence d’une « sagesse poétique », par opposition à l’approche conceptuelle des philosophes. Alors que le philosophe se tient sur la rive et observe de loin le naufrage, le poète est celui qui, par la poésie, fait l’expérience du naufrage et tente de la formuler. Notre thèse se présente donc aussi comme une réflexion sur l’emploi proprement poétique des mythes et des métaphores ; elle vise par là à rétablir le lien entre le logos philosophique et le mythos poétique, traditionnellement opposés. / The set objective of this thesis is to present the travel as the ultimate metaphorical interpretation of life and existence in the works of Benjamin Fondane (1898-1944), Adonis (1929) and Roberto Mussapi (1952). Through their critical and theoretical essays and particularly through their poetic works, we decipher their own perception of travel. This analysis is based on concepts defined by the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg and particularly his theory of ‘metaphorology’. Navigating the elements of land, sea, air and fire – these four quintessential pillars of man’s ‘mental map’– we ultimately discover the different possibilities of the real travel as well of the metaphorical one, a travel which ultimately gets shipwrecked. This work is as much a reflection on the travel as it is a ‘reconstruction’ of the poetic journey. While exposing its most preferred constructs, the myths enriching them and its scope in relation to universal knowledge, the travel becomes not only a metaphor of our existence but also the looking-glass through which ‘poetic wisdom’ becomes revealed. This thesis suggests connecting links between the philosophical “logos” and poetical “mythos”, two traditionally opposing sides with the resulting conclusion that life is indeed a journey and man is its helpless and bound traveler.

Comment une figure antique comme celle de Psyché a-t-elle su trouver une place dans les littératures de langue anglaise? La réponse est multiple car les auteurs anglophones ont multiplié les approches, mais souvent en rapport avec la notion d'idéal. En effet, au fil des siècles, le mythe de Psyché s’est peu à peu inscrit dans une tradition idéaliste faisant de cette déesse une figure à la fois idéalisée, et à laquelle on a fait correspondre différents idéaux. Mais à l’inverse, Psyché a aussi vu son image être ternie. De nombreux auteurs ont voulu rompre avec la tradition idéaliste en cherchant à détourner l’histoire. Cette lecture nouvelle est souvent fondée sur une décomposition physique et morale du personnage. Cette dégradation lui permet alors de s’extraire du carcan que lui imposaient ses formes trop idéalisées, et d’investir de nouveaux champs littéraires plus modernes, dans des versions anti-idéalisées de ses aventures et de son mariage avec Cupidon. / How did an antique character such as Psyche, with a Mediterranean background, find a place within English-language literatures? English-writing authors have in fact multiplied the ways in which they have approached and ceaselessly reinvented the myth, generally around the notion of ideal. Indeed, throughout the centuries, the myth gradually brought about an idealistic tradition whereby this goddess became a figure both idealised and which was made to fit into various ideals.But conversely, Psyche also had this perfect image tarnished. Many writers decided to part with this idealistic tradition, looking for ways in which to distort the story. This rewriting is often based on a physical and moral decomposition of the character. This degradation thus releases her from her previous idealised and constraining forms, and enables her to enter new literary and modern fields, with anti-idealised versions of both her adventures and her marriage to Cupid.

O presente trabalho analisa os debates sobre a escolha do fundador da Cidade de São Paulo, entre os anos de 1953 e 1954, quando ocorreram, na capital paulista, as festividades de comemorações de seu IV Centenário de fundação. Pulularam pela imprensa da época jornais e revistas que naquele momento já circulavam com relativa periodicidade pela Cidade as discussões sobre o mito fundador paulistano e os atributos que davam sentido e significado à paulistanidade. Tais manifestações realçavam os inúmeros símbolos nomeados como ícones da memória social paulistana e da sua identidade. Através da análise de amplo material midiático, chega-se à hipótese nuclear do trabalho: a configuração, nesse momento, de José de Anchieta como mito fundador da Cidade de São Paulo. / This paper analysis the debates about the choice of the founder of the City of São Paulo, between 1953 and 1954, when it was celebrated its IV Century Foundation Anniversary. There were many discussions in the media of that time newspapers and magazines that were published with relative frequency in the city - about the myth of the founder of the City of São Paulo and the attributes that gave sense and meaning to the paulistanidade. These manifestations highlighted the countless symbols nominated as the icons of the paulistana social memory and its identity. Through the analysis of large media material, we get to the core hypothesis of this paper: the configuration, in this moment, of José de Anchieta as the myth of the founder of the City of São Paulo.