Thesis (Ph.D.)--Texas Christian University, 2010. / Title from dissertation title page (viewed May. 20, 2010). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis--University of Southern California. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 274-279).

L’auteur dramatique grec Iakovos Kambanellis a connu l’expérience du camp de concentration et en a tiré, vingt ans plus tard, sa seule œuvre narrative, Mauthausen. Prenant ce récit pour pivot, notre recherche interroge les liens qui existent entre une écriture née de l’expérience concentrationnaire et le théâtre chez cet auteur. Pour cela, nous replaçons le texte narratif dans une perspective autobiographique pour la dépasser en rattachant Mauthausen à la littérature concentrationnaire et pour y déceler le dispositif scénique d’un tombeau littéraire. Puis, nous étudions les enjeux thématiques et idéologiques de l’écriture du dramaturge en lien avec son expérience traumatique. Nous nous penchons alors sur des pièces à relier au trauma de l’homme revenu du camp dans un pays livré à la guerre civile. Des motifs et des thèmes de la littérature concentrationnaire sont mis en évidence dans plusieurs pièces. En outre, la figure d’Ulysse, récurrente dans le théâtre de Kambanellis, apparaît comme symbolique de l’identité du rescapé. Enfin, nous observons la façon dont se résolvent les tensions entre diégèse et mimèsis pour se transformer en dynamique littéraire. Ainsi, sont étudiés les statuts du narrateur et du personnage ainsi que l’inscription de ces entités dans un espace fondateur réel/imaginaire où l’emploi du mythe transfigure l’expérience concentrationnaire et lui donne sa dimension politique. Nous revenons aussi sur la notion d’illusion chez Kambanellis qui, finalement, a consacré son talent au jeu et au mystère de l’imaginaire, de l’ὑποτίθεται, dont nous considérons qu’il renvoie en partie à son expérience concentrationnaire. / A Greek playwright, Iakovos Kambanellis drew on his personal experience of the concentration camp to write, two decades later, his only narrative work, Mauthausen. Taking this work as a central point, our research questions the links existing between a text born of the concentrationary experience and the theatre of this author. Our choice is to frame the narrative in an autobiographical perspective, allowing us to explore and connect Mauthausen to the genre of “littérature concentrationnaire” (concentrationary literature) and reveal the stage setting of a “tombeau littéraire” (literary funeral monument). Next we examine the thematic and ideological challenges of the author’s writing as related to his traumatic experience. We review the plays which can be linked to the trauma of a man returning from the camp to a country in the throes of civil war. Motifs and themes of the “littérature concentrationnaire” are revealed in several plays. Ulysses, a recurrent figure in the theatrical writing of Kambanellis, appears to symbolize the survivor’s identity. Finally, we observe how the tensions between diegesis and mimesis achieve a dynamic resolution. The positions of narrator and character are examined and inscribed in a real/imaginary world in which the use of the myth transfigures the concentrationary experience and invests it with its political dimension. We review also Kambanellis’s notion of illusion, and how he devoted his talent to the interplay and to the mystery of the imaginary, of the ὑποτίθεται, which refers in our opinion in part to his concentrationary experience.

The purpose of this thesis was to explore the ways the printed word in James Joyce’s Ulysses opens new and alternative paths towards the interpretation of the text. We show how it induces multiple chains of associations beyond the act of reading, which start at the visual, spatialized sequencing and contiguity of letters, words and sentences, their layout on the page, or the persistence or absence of punctuation. After initial observations of the visual prevalence of the written word over its auditory capabilities as noted in the “Aeolus” chapter (e.g.: puns that can be realized only in writing; meanings that can be accessed not by reading but by observing the spatial arrangement of text), two other chapters of the book—“Ithaca” and “Penelope”— were analyzed to determine if such assumptions could be applied to other sections of the novel. Random passages from yet other sections were used as illustration. Our analysis suggests that throughout “Ulysses” meaning derivation may take place beyond the effect of rhetorical figures, and often can be the result of a visual/spatial associative chain.

While many modernist authors exhibited eugenicist tendencies which I While many modernist authors exhibited eugenicist tendencies which I will detail in this paper, Joyce wrote, implicitly and explicitly, against it. Joyce’s anti-eugenics aesthetic, expressed almost in passing by Stephen Dedalus in A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man (1916), becomes entangled in questions of bodies and national identity in Ulysses. I intend to identify a series of moments in which disgust and bodily difference in Ulysses counter the eugenics trends in elitist modernism while simultaneously criticizing racism in Irish nationalism that, in some ways, drove the movement for Irish independence. It would be impossible to provide and exhaustive exploration of all the anti-eugenics imagery in Ulysses. this project attempts to differentiate Joyce more thoroughly from his contemporaries through readings of Gerty MacDowell and Molly Bloom. Gerty is the disabled granddaughter of a racist nationalist, and she functions as an articulation of Joyce’s search for an Ireland that rejects simplistic, narrow-minded nationalism. Molly, Ulysses’ ultimate heroine, takes ownership of her sexuality, thereby countering the eugenics project. I read both women as counter-eugenics icons who personify an anti-hegemonic ideal through their relationships with their own bodies.

Ce mémoire vise à approfondir l'analyse des nouvelles figures d'Ulysse qui surgissent des littératures francophones, et ce, à travers l'étude de trois romans ancrés dans différents lieux de la francophonie (Europe, Maghreb, Québec) : Le Chien d'Ulysse de Salim Bachi (2001), Ulysse from Bagdad d'Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt (2008) et Heureux qui comme Ulysse d'Alain Poissant (2010). L'objectif de ce mémoire est d'interroger et d'élucider les fins auxquelles est présentée la figure poétique d'Ulysse dans ces textes contemporains. Dans cette perspective, une typologie non-exhaustive est établie afin de distinguer quelques-unes des variations théoriques, conceptuelles et symboliques engendrées par la figure d’Ulysse au cours de l'histoire (chapitre 1) avant de déterminer ses fonctions et ses effets dans les textes francophones en examinant les caractères des protagonistes des romans à l’étude et de leurs déplacements (chapitre 2). La fonction de la poétique de l'errance est, dans le troisième et dernier chapitre, interrogée à la lumière des différents procédés intertextuels utilisés, constitutifs ensemble d'une « poétique des textes en mouvement » (Samoyault 2013). Cette articulation d'une poétique de l'errance et d'une « poétique des textes en mouvement » permet de renouveler l’exploration de la notion d’altérité et de proposer, à partir de ces nouvelles figures d'Ulysse, une lecture des textes francophones ouverte aux mouvements du monde. / This memoire’s thesis aims to deepen the analysis of the new figures of Ulysses that emerge from francophone literature through the study of three novels rooted in different places of the world of the Francophonie (Europe, Maghreb, Quebec): The Dog of Ulysses by Salim Bachi (2001), Ulysses from Baghdad by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt (2008) and Happy, Those Who, like Ulysses by Alain Poissant (2010). The objective of this work is to question and elucidate the purposes for which the poetical figure of Ulysses is presented in these contemporary texts. In this perspective, a non-exhaustive typology is established in order to identify some of the theoretical, conceptual and symbolic variations generated by the figure of Ulysses throughout history (chapter 1) before identifying its functions and effects in the francophone texts by examining the characters of the novels under study and their travels (chapter 2). The function of the poetics of wandering is, in the third and last chapter, questioned in the light of the different intertextual procedures used, which together constitute a "poetics of moving texts" (Samoyault 2013). This articulation of a poetics of wandering and a “poetics of texts in movement” will thus allow us to renew the exploration of the notion of otherness and to suggest, from these new figures of Ulysses, a reading of francophone texts open to the movements of the world.

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This dissertation represents an interpretation of the different forms of negativity in the modernist work that can be understood in terms of that which is unsaid, unsayable, or any other means of refusing to give an affirmative proposition regarding the world the work describes. It explores this negativity as both a representation of that which cannot be represented, and as an operational negativity, or negation, that takes part in the unmaking of the work's figures. The function of this negativity, as interpreted in Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), James Joyce's Ulysses (1922) and Krapp's Last Tape (1959) by Samuel Beckett, is to rewrite the representations of the work. Negativity is then also understood as a transformation and conditioning of elements already present in the literary work, that lead to ambivalent and problematic representations in the work. In this sense, negativity can be understood as a form of rewriting of the work's representations. The interpretations of the works of Proust, Joyce and Beckett are guided by this understanding, as given in the introduction, of negativity. In the analysis of Proust's novel, in "The Unmaking of Proust: Negation and Errors in Remembrance of Things Past", this form of negativity is situated in relation to Proust's handling of epistemological questions and mimetic references to reality in his work. The analysis of Joyce's work in "The Wandering of Language in James Joyce's Ulysses" discusses his treatment of language and the origins of language as being characterized by a negation that increases the difficulty of the language, and attempts to negate its origins. Finally, in the analysis of Beckett's "Krapp's Last Tape", in "Beckett, Proust, and the End of Literature", it is shown that negativity conditions both the reception of the influence of Proust by Beckett, and the play's attempt to suggest the end of writing. In conclusion the dissertation returns to the idea of negativity as a form of rewriting, and briefly indicates that the function of negativity in these novels can be understood as a form of invention. / Thesis (M.A.)--Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, 2000.