Thèse--Paris. / Bibliography: p. [343]-389.

Thesis (doctoral)--Université de Poitiers, 1912. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-204).

Thesis (doctoral)--Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität Strassburg, 1902. / "Verzeichnis häufig citierter Ausgaben und Werke": p. [ii]. "Bibliographische tabelle der in England erschienenen Übersetzungen der Werke des Du Bartas": p. 13-19. Vita. Only a part of the treatise is given here. A second part will be issued under the title: Bemerkungen über den Einfluss des Du Bartas auf die englische Dichtung im Zeitalter der Elisabeth und der beiden ersten Stuart-könige.

Thesis--Leiden.

Que peut la singularité par rapport au film ? Cette thèse évalue la possibilité d'analyser un film à partir des éléments singuliers dont il est composé. La singularité dont il est question correspond aux éléments dissemblables, aporétiques, lacunaires qui ne se conforment pas avec ce qu'on est en droit d'attendre d'une narration, d'une esthétique ou d'une grammaire cinématographique. Cette recherche a dû aborder le concept même de singularité pour diverses acceptions, mais aussi pour des domaines aussi bien scientifiques qu'artistiques. La méthode qui en est sortie a été appliquée à un corpus de film restreint : Nostalghia d'Andreï Tarkovski, Les Harmonies Werckmeister de Béla Tarr et Seven invisible men de Sharunas Bartas. Son application a révélé combien ces œuvres sont infiniment plus complexes et plus ambiguës que l'on a pu le croire. Elle a surtout permis de mettre en évidence que ce que l'analyse figurale nomme figure doit être prolongé par la notion d'anti-figure. La figure seule ne suffit plus à restituer les battements toujours vivaces qui parcourent un film. D'autre part, elle laisse apercevoir combien ces battements répondent en réalité à la confrontation de trois hiatus, l'un figuratif, l'autre représentatif et le dernier psychique, impliquant la mémoire des images, le réel et le pathos. / This thesis evaluates the possibility of analyzing a movie from the singular elements it contains. The singularity in question corresponds to dissimilar elements, of aporias or gaps that does not comply with what we expect from a narrative, from an aesthetic or from a cinematographic grammar. This research has approached the concept of singularity both in science and in the arts by studying the different meanings of this termThe method that was elaborated from the properties of singularities was subsequently applied to a small corpus of movie: Nostalghia by Andrei Tarkovsky, Werckmeister Harmonies by Béla Tarr and Seven invisible men by Sharunas Bartas.Its application has revealed how these works are much more complex and ambiguous than we might believe. He has contributed to highlight that what the figural analysis calls a figure should be extended by the notion of anti-figure. a figure alone is not sufficient to render the beats that cross a movie. On the other hand, it lets see how these beats actually correspond to the confrontation of three hiatus, the first is figurative, the second is representative and the last is psychic involving the memory of images, the reality and the pathos.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2003. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 173-186).

How does the body manifest religious belief? What happens when that belief shatters? These questions were critical in sixteenth-century France when religious conflict rattled many individuals’ faith. A startling—and related—motif in the literature of the period features one part of the body overwhelming the world. These texts, this dissertation argues, manifest religious belief through this motif. While several scholars have examined the role of fragmentation in Renaissance culture, particularly how this fragmentation intersects with cartography and anatomy, the religious dimension of this phenomenon has not been emphasized enough. Through a method of close textual and visual analysis, this study argues that in an era when openly stating one’s personal religious beliefs could have fatal consequences, the digestive tract, heart, and other parts of the body sometimes took on the work of expressing religious belief. This process resembles synecdoche but differs in that, instead of the part representing the whole, the part swallows it. The word “swallows” is indeed appropriate: the mouth appears in several of these texts as the part that consumes, contains, or incorporates the entirety. In Chapter One, the Dutch cartographer Abraham Ortelius’s 1564 map of the world reveals the cartographer’s spiritual inclinations by portraying the world as a heart, or rather, a lung. In Chapter Two, the Huguenot Jean de Léry’s traumatic experiences during the Wars of Religion combine with his time spent among cannibal tribes to force a redefinition of humanness in his memoire, Histoire d’un voyage faicte en la terre de Bresil (1578). In Chapter Three, God’s sensing, digesting body in the Protestant poet Guillaume du Bartas’s hexameron, La Sepmaine (1578), functions as a declaration of Calvinist faith. In Chapter Four, Alcofrybas’s journey into Pantagruel’s mouth in Rabelais’s Pantagruel (1532) veils a distinctly Christian humanist message. In Chapter Five, the monster Quaresmeprenant in Rabelais’s Quart Livre (1552) translates a refusal, or perhaps failure, to reconcile religious differences with a refusal to reconcile the parts of Quaresmeprenant’s body.

This thesis examines the increasing sophistication of sixteenth-century French literary engagement with Virgil's Aeneid. It argues that successive forms of engagement with the Aeneid should be viewed as a single process that gradually adopts increasingly complex literary strategies. It does this through a series of four different forms of literary engagement with the Aeneid: translation, continuation, rejection and reconciliation. The increasing sophistication of these forms reflects the writers' desire to interact with the original Aeneid as political epic and Roman foundation narrative, and with the political, religious and literary contexts of early modern France. The first chapter compares the methods of and motivations behind all of the sixteenth-century translations of the Aeneid into French; it thus demonstrates shifts in successive translators' interpretations of Virgil's work, and of its application to sixteenth-century France. The next three chapters each analyse adaptation of Virgil's poem in a major French literary work. Firstly, Ronsard's Franciade is analysed as an example of French foundation epic that simultaneously draws upon and rejects Virgil's narrative. Ronsard's poem is read in the light of Mapheo Vegio's “Thirteenth Book” of the Aeneid, or Supplementum, which continues Virgil's narrative and carries it over into a Christian context. Next, Agrippa d'Aubigné's response to Virgilian epic in Les Tragiques is shown to have been mediated by Lucan's Pharsalia and its anti- epic and anti-imperialist interpretation of the Aeneid. D'Aubigné's inversion of Virgil is highlighted through comparison of attitudes to death and resurrection in Les Tragiques, the Aeneid and Vegio's Antoniad. Finally, Guillaume de Salluste du Bartas' combination, in La Sepmaine and La Seconde Sepmaine of the hexameral structure of Genesis with Virgil's narrative of reconciliation after civil war is shown to represent the most sophisticated understanding of and most complex interaction with the Aeneid in sixteenth-century France.