Cette étude analyse la place que les femmes occupent au cœur du phénomène de résurgence que le mythe arthurien va connaître à partir de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle. A l'origine de cette résurgence, nous évoquons l'influence considérable du Seigneur des Anneaux de J.R.R. Tolkien et nous établissons un parallèle entre cet ouvrage et la légende arthurienne.Nous analysons ensuite des réécritures arthuriennes d'auteures féminines et contemporaines, d'origine française, anglaise ou américaine. D'une part, nous nous penchons sur les œuvres qui restent proches de la tradition arthurienne ; d'autre part sur celles qui sont en rupture avec cette tradition.Enfin, nous étudions les similitudes et les divergences entre les réécritures proposées par des femmes et celles de leurs homologues masculins. Nous abordons évidemment la question du féminisme et celle de la féminisation d'une matière essentiellement masculine à l'origine. Différents points liés à la question féminine seront alors abordés, comme la littérature de jeunesse, le recours aux sciences, le rôle des religions et la figure de la femme tentatrice développée par les auteurs masculins, en opposition à la valorisation du corps féminin dans les œuvres de femmes.Ce travail de comparaison entre des réécritures masculines et féminines du mythe d'Arthur a pour but de déterminer la place que les femmes ont su prendre dans la résurgence de cette légende, mais aussi de s'interroger sur la pertinence d'une sexuation systématique de l'écriture des mythes. / This study analyses women's place in the resurgence phenomenon that the Arthurian myth has known from the second part of the twentieth century onwards. At the root of this resurgence, we mention the significant influence of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien and we parallel this novel with the Arthurian legend.Then, we analyse Arthurian rewriting by female French, English or American contemporary authors. On the one hand, we look into works which stay close to the Arthurian tradition; on the other hand, into those which are at odds with this tradition.Finally, we study similarities and divergences between rewritings offered by women and the ones of their male counterparts. We obviously deal with the feminism issue and the one of the feminisation of an essentially and originally masculine topic.Different points related to the feminine question are then tackled, like youth literature, the resort to sciences, the role of religions, and the case of the temptress developed by male authors, in opposition to the valorisation of the feminine body in women's novels.This comparative work between masculine and feminine rewritings of the Arthurian myth aims at determining the place that women have managed to take in the resurgence of this legend and also to question the significance of the systematic sexuation in the myth writings.

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In the Arthurian romances of the Middle Ages, the character of Morgan le Fay was transformed dramatically from her Welsh original, the goddess Modron. The effect was to vilify the enchantress so that medieval Christians would not be sympathetic to her character. This study consults the oldest available Welsh mythological and historical texts as well as the medieval romances surrounding King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Also consulted are some of the top contemporary Arthurian scholars. By unraveling Morgan’s transformation and the reasons for such change, it is revealed that medieval demonizing of old pagan deities was not limited to male deities. Instead, the most ancient deity of all, the Great Mother Goddess slowly became one of the most infamous characters in literature, Morgan le Fay.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Catholic University of America, 1932. / At head of title: The Catholic University of America. Bibliography: p. 176-186.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Catholic University of America.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Catholic University of America, 1932. / At head of title: The Catholic University of America. Bibliography: p. 176-186.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Catholic University of America.

Les romans de Chrétien de Troyes ont suscité beaucoup de réécritures. A partir du XIIIè et jusqu’au XVè siècle, plusieurs romanciers ont repris la trame du Champenois en dépassant l’écriture en vers et en adoptant une écriture en prose jugée mieux garante de la véridicité et de la vraisemblance de l’histoire. Les versions se font concurrence, mêlant différents styles et différentes stratégies et célébrant un phénomène qui s’épanouit surtout dans la prose du Lancelot, l’entrelacement. La langue évolue aussi au fil des siècles. Cette évolution se fait remarquer dans des mises en prose qui sont mieux structurées que d’autres, et ce tant sur le plan narratologique que syntaxique. Cependant, ce souci d’organisation va jusqu’à créer parfois des amalgames sémantiques. Mais dans tous les cas, il révèle la spécificité de chacun des auteurs et leurs choix d’écriture respectifs dans les différentes réécritures des romans de Chrétien de Troyes. / Chrétien de Troyes’ novels aroused many rewritings. From the XIIIth until the XVth century,several novelists resumed the framework of Chrétien’s language by overtaking the writing inverse. They adopted writing in prose considered best granter of truth, similitude andcredibility for the story. The versions would compete through mixing various styles andstrategies and mainly by celebrating a phenomenon which blooms particularly in the prose ofthe Lancelot, the interlacing. The language also evolved in the course of the centuries. Thisevolution is getting noteworthy when used in prose style as such it looks much betterstructured than the other styles in both narration and syntax. Nevertheless, this care fororganization goes as far as creating sometimes some semantic confusion. And yet in mostcases, it reveals the specificity of each author and his own preferences in terms of writingwhen rewriting Chrétien de Troyes’ novels.

Le cycle Lancelot-Graal, et le Perlesvaus, écrits dans la première moitié du XIIIe siècle, sont construits autour d’un temps horizontal, organisé autour de la figure du roi Arthur, ce qui rend toute idée de succession problématique. Mais dans le même temps, la société a subi de profonds bouleversements. Qu’il s’agisse de l’institution du mariage, des règles de transmission de l’héritage, ou encore de l’ancrage du lignage dans des lieux géographiques très précis, les relations entre les individus se sont lentement modifiées. Les auteurs doivent donc faire coexister des éléments disparates, voire même contradictoires. La généalogie entre dans le roman arthurien par le biais du cycle de la Vulgate. Ce temps vertical influe sur le roman, et les relations de parenté sont déterminantes dans les constructions narratives des personnages. / The cycle Lancelot-Graal, and the Perlesvaus, written in the first half of the thirteenth century, are built around a horizontal time, organized around the figure of King Arthur, which makes any idea of succession problematic. But at the same time, society has undergone profound changes. Whether it is about the institution of marriage, rules of transmission of the inheritance, or the anchoring of the lineage in very specific geographic locations, relationships between individuals have slowly changed. Authors should therefore ensure the coexistence of disparate elements, even contradictory. Genealogy get in Arthurian romance through the Vulgate Cycle. The vertical time affect the novel, and relationships are crucial in narrative constructions of characters.

This thesis examines the Lady of the Lake as an active chivalric player in the thirteenth century Lancelot-Grail Cycle (also known as the Prose Lancelot) and in Thomas Malory's fifteenth-century Le Morte Darthur. To study the many codes of chivalry, particularly in regard to women, I use two popular chivalric handbooks from the Middle Ages: Ramon Lull's Book of Knighthood and Chivalry, Geoffroi de Charny'sKnight's Own Book of Chivalry. Traditionally, the roles of women in medieval chivalry are passive, and female characters are depicted as objects to win or to inspire knights to greatness. The Lady of the Lake, I argue, uses her supernatural origins and nature to break with female chivalric conventions and become an instructress of chivalry to King Arthur's knights. As a purely human character, her power would be limited. As a guardian fairy and/or enchantress, the Lady is allowed to exercise more autonomy