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The present thesis studies the representations of the idea of progress within nineteen of Jules Verne's novels, written between 1864 and 1904. It aims at demonstrating that Verne's writing and the topics favored therein constitute an account of the opinions prevailing during the second half of the XIX$ sp{ rm th}$ century. Following an examination of the changes brought by scientific discoveries and their technical applications in French society, as well as of the fears arising from the speedy material progress, it picks out the images that allow the author of the Voyages extraordinaires and the creator of the "scientific novel" to translate and transform the expressions of progress of the period. Finally, the thesis aims to nuance this enthusiastic portrait, and stresses the fact that warnings and ambivalences towards technical progress are not absent from a work that prefers to instruments giving access to progress a moral spirit guiding them.

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While the theatrical works of Jules Verne have gathered some critical attention over recent years, the text of the Voyage à travers l’Impossible has remained an obscure space in the author’s oeuvre or deemed unworthy by Vernian scholars. Jules Verne has predominantly been seen as a writer of adventure novels whereas the fantastic elements in his work have commonly been overlooked by critics. This thesis examines the ways in which the Voyage à travers l’Impossible amalgamates ideas that are representative not only of the Vernian work in general but also of the pre-freudian spirit of the nineteenth century. By viewing the play within the context of theatrical fantasy, this thesis opens up new paths of analysis in the genre. Part of this endeavour consists of a comparison with a seemingly disparate text: Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, which, similarly to Verne’s play, facilitates an exploration of the function of fantasy both in literary and theatrical terms as it was first adapted for the stage in 2003. During the course of this thesis I offer an analysis of the trilogy and proceed to cover new ground by comparing this to an analysis of the adapted text. For the purpose of my examination I establish a connection between the two texts by regarding the Voyage à travers l’Impossible and His Dark Materials as dominated by the literary motif of initiation according to the model introduced by Vernian specialist Simone Vierne. I subsequently interweave an array of theories on fantasy, psychoanalysis, topography and the body as part of my analysis of the literary fantastic. Texts by Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Tzvetan Todorov, Irène Bessière, Mircea Eliade, Judith Butler and Vernian critics such as William Butcher are amply used in my readings of Verne and Pullman before I proceed to examine their relevance to the theatrical experience of the fantastic. An analysis of the adaptation of His Dark Materials offers the opportunity for fresh critical insights by creating new perspectives on the function of fantasy in its fluctuation from page to stage and vice-versa. It is through these different perspectives that I revisit old questions and introduce new ones such as the difference between fantasy and the fantastic, their regressive or progressive character, the modification of ii fantastic elements on the passage from the literary to the theatrical and from pre-modernism to post-modernism. Basing my analysis on stories of initiation, I suggest that fantasy evades exclusive association with either progress or regress and only remains faithful to the notions of passage and blurring of frontiers.

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Submitted by Marco Antônio de Ramos Chagas (mchagas@ufv.br) on 2018-08-23T12:37:11Z No. of bitstreams: 1 texto completo.pdf: 1434490 bytes, checksum: 06a22c19b684fcb1bbbd187caf343a81 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-23T12:37:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 texto completo.pdf: 1434490 bytes, checksum: 06a22c19b684fcb1bbbd187caf343a81 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-03-28 / No ápice das explorações da África, em 1863, Jules Verne publica sua primeira viagem extraordinária, Cinco semanas num balão. Aproveitando-se da onda de interesse crescente do público francês pelas regiões “bárbaras”, o autor elabora um romance inovador, cujo ponto chave se encontra exatamente neste fascínio pelo desconhecido, envolto, pela então, efervescente temática da “ciência moderna”. O principal aspecto a ser aqui abordado seria a possibilidade de representação de uma África desnudada em todos os seus aspectos inconvenientes – etnográficos e geográficos –, os quais são, na maioria das vezes, perpetuados por exploradores, viajantes, naturalistas e literatos. Destarte, à luz de uma abordagem interdisciplinar, no qual os Estudos Pós-Coloniais encontram maior destaque, o presente trabalho objetiva analisar como o texto de estreia de Verne se circunscreve dentro de uma tradição europeia de representação das zonas consideradas “primitivas”, ou seja, demonstrar como representar “o diferente” redunda, sempre, na delimitação de uma clara fronteira entre “nós” e “eles”, com seu correspondente juízo de valor. Essa divisão, de natureza ideológica, estabelece, então, uma hierarquia, na qual o objeto representado se constitui como um desvio a ser identificado. Sendo assim, nota-se que, na obra em questão, a representação adquire uma função absolutamente pragmática, projetando o continente africano de maneira a, sobretudo, reivindica-lo para as potências ditas colonialistas. Estudos tais como de Edward Said, Albert Memmi, Eric Hobsbawm dentre outros, servirão de guia a este estudo. / In the apex of the exploration of the 1860s Africa, Jules Verne publishes his first “extraordinary” journey, Five Weeks on a Balloon. Aware of the growing interest of the French public in the so-called “barbarian” regions, the author elaborates an innovative novel, whose key of interest lies exactly in such fascination with the unknown, intertwined with the appealing thematic of “modern science”. The main focus of this research is rather to reveal another Africa, devoided of all its inconvenient aspects – ethnographic and geographic ones – mostly perpetuated by explorers, travelers, naturalists and writers in general. Therefore, under the perspective of an interdisciplinary approach, in which Post-colonial Studies are projected, the present work intends to analise Verne’s above mentioned début as a writer, showing to what extent it can be framed within the European tradition of representation of world zones considered “primitive”. Thus it intends to show to what extent the process of representing the “different” always ends up in a move of delimitation of a clear cut division between us and them. Such an ideologically- oriented division, establishes a hierarchy in which the represented object constitutes itself as a detour to be identified. By the same token, in Verne’s novel, representation acquires the pragmatic function: of projecting the African Continent with rather the purpose of claiming it to the colonialist enterprise. Studies of Albert Memmi, Edward Said, Eric Hobsbawm among others will guide this dissertation.

The works of Joseph Conrad and Jules Verne share a fascination with geography: concern with geographical issues made explicit in their non-fictional works is also implicit in their fiction. Unfortunately, limited knowledge of or interest in geographic theory on the part of the literary critic has made the relation between literature and geography a relatively unpopular focus; to redress the balance, it is necessary to outline briefly some of the ways in which geographical theory may usefully inform the practice of literary criticism. Areas to be introduced include geography and literature as spatial distribution, as spatial perception, as inscription on and description of the environment, as text, as cultural matrix. The above areas serve as a focus for the comparative analysis of a series of novels by Joseph Conrad and Jules Verne in which three issues are foregrounded: first, the interrelations between concentrated place and surrounding space in the sea-tales The Nigger of the Narcissus and Vingt mille lieues sous les mers; second, the reading and writing of cultural landscape in Heart of Darkness and Voyage au centre de la terre; third, the geopolitics of territory, boundary and landclaim in Lord Jim and L'lle mystérieuse. In each case, relevant geographical theory is drawn upon: in the first instance, the phenomenological notions of Yi-Fu Tuan and Edward Relph; in the second, the landscape evaluations of Carl Sauer and Courtice Rose; in the third, the geopolitical and politico-geographical definitions of Glassner, De Blij and Cohen. The first section (on The Nigger of the Narcissus and Vingt mille lieues sous les mers) explores the spatial notions of topophilia, placelessness and geometricity inherent in the relation between ship and sea. The second section (on Heart of Darkness and Voyage au centre de la terre) discusses the various connotations of landscape: cultural imprint (rewriting), false perspective (mis-reading), textual sign-system (encoding/decoding), which suggest that landscape can be interpreted as a controlling mechanism of and means of access to the text. The third section (on Lord Jim and L' Ile mystérieuse) outlines the geographical motifs of the two novels (division, (dis)possession, ascent and descent, etc.) and infers possible motives behind these motifs, relating topographical issues to personal and political ones and paying particular attention to the implications of island environments and communities and to the connections between imperialism, colonialism and narrative strategy. Finally, the 'literary geography' of Conrad's and Verne's novels is situated in its historical context and related particularly to the late nineteenth-century debate on the relative merits of positivism and phenomenology. In Verne's work, the doctrine of positivism, which has been constituted in terms of an ideology of science, is only celebrated in so far as its limitations are recognized. In Conrad's work, man's struggle to conquer Nature through a physical and verbal mastery of his environment is reinterpreted as an attempt to overcome his own duality. Conrad's predominantly phenomenological geography of the mind serves as a critique of positivist doctrine, but its fractured topography also suggests that the attempt to substitute 'more traditional views of the social and moral order' (Watt, 163) is, perhaps, little more than a saving illusion. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

Theoretical part of this thesis examines the most significant adaptations of Jules Verne´s novels into feature films. From the beginning of cinematography until present days the author describes different artistical approaches during the 20th century around the whole world. The main part of this thesis is an artistic concept of the movie based on Verne´s novel "Ocelové město" (Les Cinq Cents Millions de la Begum). It contains description of the whole idea and author´s proposal for a design introduced in form of paintings based on specific scenes from the novel.