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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
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'Epistolarity' in the First Book of Horace's Epistles

De Pretis, Anna January 1999 (has links)
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迂迴,延宕與延異:《明信片》的書信特質 / Detour, Deferral, and Différance: Epistolarity in The Post Card

黃惠瑜, Huang , Hui-yu Unknown Date (has links)
在德希達的《明信片:從蘇格拉底到佛洛伊徳之外》(1987)一書中,〈郵寄〉這個文本由許多交換傳遞的明信片所組成。這些收錄於同一文本中的明信片令我們聯想到書信小說中編纂成冊的信件。許多十七、十八世紀的英國與法國書信經典名著構成了書信文類的主要架構,如吉樂哈格的《葡萄牙修女的情書》(1669)、理查生的《潘蜜拉》(1740)與《克萊麗莎》(1747-1748)、葛芬妮的《祕魯公主的情書》(1747)、盧梭的《茱莉,或新伊珞絲》(1761)以及德拉克勞斯的《危險關係》(1782)。面對這些書信文類的前導者,且處於二十世紀傳統書信寫作式微的時代中,是什麼因素促使德希達創作〈郵寄〉這部書信文本呢?〈郵寄〉的書信文本又與傳統書信小說有何不同呢? 關於這個議題,我所提出的論點是,德希達的〈郵寄〉企圖解構書信文類。〈郵寄〉一方面強化了書信文類特有的書信特質,另一方面又以明信片的郵件傳遞效果取代替換傳統書信小說的書信文類特質。明信片的郵件傳遞效果主要呈現出「傳送終點」與「預期的收信者」這兩種特定規範的不可能性。明信片總是暗示信件傳送過程中「被攔截」與「多元收信者」的可能性。這樣的特質使明信片得以打破囿於最初起點與最後終點做為邊界的直線軌道。如此的突破有助於德希達解構西方知識體系的架構。明信片的郵件傳遞效果動搖了源自蘇格拉底的知識遺產直線傳承,顯示出知識遺產是經由多元讀者所傳遞的,且容許眾多不同的詮釋方法參與其中。多樣性的想法損毀了「原作與衍生」,「在場與缺席」以及「公開與隱私」之間的二元對立邏輯。明信片「半私密,半公開」(《明信片》62)的形式在多樣化所隱含的不確定性之間來回擺盪,游移不定。這種不確定性正是德希達藉由〈郵寄〉這個文本所要強調的。因此,即使身處電信通訊網絡遍佈的時代,德希達依然期望引發「不受拘束的明信片化帝國」(《明信片》104)的可能性。明信片化的意義並非加速書信寫作的「衰微」(《明信片》104),而是希望能夠不斷地散佈差異產生的可能性。 在本論文中,我從迂迴、延宕與延異這三項特性來闡述明信片的書信特質。這三項特性同時交織於我對〈郵寄〉這個書信文本的討論中。在第一章〈書信文類:強化與替代〉裡,我提出了〈郵寄〉所呈現的似非而是的矛盾,既強化又替代書信文類的特質。書信文類因此被置於差異的迂迴內,而延遲了其文類身份認同的最後裁定。在第二章〈書信他/她者:欲望投射〉裡,我援引拉岡「小寫他/她者」的概念來闡釋書信寫作行為中的自我建構過程。由於寄信者需要缺席收信者的存在以召喚差異的產生,因此寄信者的自我認同總是不斷地在迂迴的信件傳遞空間中被延宕。第三章〈書信寫作:添補的矛盾〉裡,我將德希達對「添補」的概念與書信寫作中添加與替代的效果作了連結。書信寫作彌補了距離造成的溝通差距,同時也以距離替代了最後與缺席收信者真實相遇的那一刻。第四章〈書信交換:Fort Da消失與返轉的遊戲〉中,我比較了佛洛伊德、拉岡與德希達對於fort da遊戲不同的觀察角度。在書信交換的過程裡,當多元讀者的可能性被納入考量時,書信的傳送與接收便會持續地滯留迂迴於讀者的多元閱讀與詮釋,而延遲了到達預定目的地的時間。在第五章〈書信傳承:知識遺產的明信片〉裡,我探討了德希達對於〈郵寄〉中明信片上蘇格拉底與柏拉圖位置返轉圖所做的種種推敲。這些推測暗示了脫離知識體系直線傳承,迂迴而行的可能性。為了再現知識的意涵而創造出的多元詮釋角度會不斷地延宕知識傳承的最終意義。 / In Jacques Derrida’s The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond (1987), the part of “Envois” is composed of many exchanged post cards. This collection of post cards reminds us of the letters compiled in epistolary novels. There is a lot of prestige attached to many seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English and French epistolary novels, such as Gabriel de Guilleragues’ The Portuguese Letters (1669), Samuel Richardson’s Pamela (1740) and Clarissa (1747-1748), Françoise de Graffigny’s Letters from a Peruvian Woman (1747), Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse (1761), and Choderlos de Laclos’ Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782). These epistolary novels constitute the main frame of the epistolary genre. Then, confronted with the epistolary predecessors, what prompts Derrida to write the epistolary text of “Envois” in the twentieth century, in which the telecommunications networks appear to overpower the importance of writing letters or post cards? What is the difference between “Envois” and the previous epistolary novels? On this issue, I want to argue in my thesis that Derrida’s “Envois” is intended to deconstruct the epistolary genre by paradoxically valorizing and substituting the postal effects of the post card for the generic identities of epistolary novels. The postal effects of the post card primarily invoke the impossibility of the predestined destination and intended receiver. The post card always implies the possibilities of interception and multiple receivers in the process of transmission. In this way, the post card disrupts the linear path confined in the hierarchical opposites between the original departure point and the final destination. This disruption facilitates Derrida’s attempt to deconstruct the construction of knowledge in the Western intellectual genealogy. The postal effects are applied to destabilize the linear succession of intellectual inheritance originated since Socrates. The inheritance is transmitted by multiple readers and hence susceptible to a myriad of interpretations. The binary logic between the original and the derivative, the present and the absent, and the public and the private is undermined in the multiplicity. The form of the post card, which is “half-private half public” (Post Card 62), oscillates in the indeterminacy of multiplicity. The postal effects of indeterminacy aroused in the post card are what Derrida emphasizes in “Envois.” As a result, even in the age replete with the telecommunications networks, Derrida still proposes the possibility of “the unlimited empire of a postcardization” (104). The postcardization does not mean to precipitate the “decadence” (104) of epistolary writing, but it aims to disseminate and recurrently stimulate the possibility of difference. In my thesis, I propose three perspectives to illuminate the epistolarity of the post card: detour, deferral, and différance. They are interwoven in my discussion of Derrida’s “Envois.” In chapter one “Epistolary Genre: Valorization and Substitution,” I propound a paradox that “Envois” simultaneously valorizes and substitutes for the epistolary genre. “Envois” therefore puts the epistolary genre in a detour of difference and defers its determination of identity. In chapter two “Epistolary Otherness: The Object of Desire,” I apply Jacques Lacan’s concept of the object of desire to elucidate the self-construction in the act of writing post cards. The sender’s self-identity is continually deferred in a detour, because s/he requires the absent receiver to evoke his/her difference. In chapter three “Epistolary Writing: Paradox of the Supplement,” I relate Derrida’s concept of the supplement to the paradoxical effects of addition and substitution in epistolary writing. Writing post cards adds to a compensation of the distance, but it also simultaneously substitutes the distance for the final encounter with the absent receiver. In chapter four “Epistolary Exchange: Play of the Fort Da,” I compare Sigmund Freud’s, Lacan’s, and Derrida’s different observations on the fort da game. The fort da movements of epistolary exchanges are interminably deferred in a detour, when multiple readers in the process of transmission are taken into consideration. The multiple readers replenish possibilities of differences with a variety of interpretations. In chapter five “Epistolary Inheritance: Post Card of Intellectual Legacy,” I explore Derrida’s speculations on the scene of reversal copied on the post cards collected in “Envois.” The scene of reversal between Socrates and Plato is speculated to imply possible detours away from the linear succession of genealogy. Different representations of knowledge persistently defer the final determinate meaning of the intellectual inheritance.
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L'épigramme et la lettre d'Ausone à Ennode de Pavie : étude stylistique, littéraire et historique d'une contiguïté générique dans l'antiquité tardive / The epigram and the letter from Ausonius to Ennodius of Pavia : a stylistic, literary and historical study of a generic contiguity in Late Antiquity

Bonnan-Garçon, Camille 16 November 2018 (has links)
D’Ausone à Ennode de Pavie, de nombreux hommes de lettres de l’Antiquité tardive ont conjugué une production épistolaire abondante avec la rédaction d’épigrammes.. Ennode de Pavie a d’ailleurs organisé le recueil complet de ses œuvres autour d’une alternance entre épigrammes et lettres, mettant ainsi en relief la relation étroite, véritable dialogue générique, qui se noue entre l’épigramme et la lettre. Cependant, malgré ces nombreux points communs, les travaux critiques ont dans l’ensemble négligé d’en conduire l’étude de façon parallèle. C’est à ce projet original que nous entendons consacrer notre thèse. Tout d’abord, nous nous penchons sur l’aspect stylistique de cette contiguïté générique, à travers les critères communs de breuitas et d’humilitas, ainsi que sur la prédominance d’une certaine forme de maniérisme. Nous penchant ensuite sur l’aspect social et communicationnel des deux genres, nous les rapprochons en tant que media adoptant un système communicationnel commun et des lieux de créations sociaux identiques. Enfin, comme terme de notre logique comparative, nous incluons la contiguïté entre lettre et épigramme dans une réflexion plus large sur le phénomène général d’hybridation qui sous-tend cette époque. Ce dernier mouvement consiste dans l’étude de formes hybrides, mêlant lettre et épigramme, dans une perspective à la fois stylistique, littéraire et ecdotique, mais également dans l’étude d’une autre forme d’hybridation littéraire présente dans les deux genres : le bilinguisme où grec et latin se mêlent et se réinventent dans une époque de transition culturelle. / From Ausonius to Ennodius of Pavia, including Paulinus of Nola, Symmachus and Sidonius Apollinaris, many men of letters, in late Antiquity, wrote both letters and epigrams. Besides, Ennodius himself has organized his complete work alternating epigrams and letters, and highliting the close connection between those two genres. However, despite theirs numerous common features, the critics did not bother to draw a parrallel between them. Thus, we want to devote ourselves to this original point of view. First of all, we study the stylistic aspect of this generic connection, through two main common criteria. One the one hand, the breuitas and the humilitas, and in the other hand, the predominance of a certain form of mannerism. Then, considering the social and communicational aspects of those genres, we bring them together as medias adopting a common communicationnal system, and using the same places of creation. Finally, we include our reflexion in a broader one, about the phenomenon of genre-switching in Late Antiquity. This final movement consists in a studic of hybrid forms, in an ecdotic, stylistic point of view, but also in the study of latin-grec bilingualism.
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Correspondances avec l'absence : la fiction épistolaire monologique aux XXe et XXIe siècles / Monologic epistolary fiction of the 20th and 21st centuries

Doig, Katherine 06 December 2017 (has links)
La fiction longue entièrement composée d'une lettre ininterrompue – le roman (ou la pièce) épistolaire monologique – représente un cas de figure négligé, souvent même refusé, par la théorie. Son existence est démontrée ici par un corpus de quinze textes en anglais, français, italien et allemand, de Gide (1902) à Norman (2011) via Yourcenar, Coetzee, Celestini, ou Amis.Ce travail mesure dans un premier temps les dimensions de cet inventaire : sa largeur, grâce à la mise en place d'un cadre formel ; sa longueur historique ; la profondeur de ses interactions avec la lettre réelle, le genre épistolaire, et enfin avec les qualités épistolaires de toute fiction, dont la lettre monologique est un miroir aux déformations calculées.Le corpus révèle l'intérêt de ce cadrage technique grâce à des thèmes récurrents, qui interrogent trois caractéristiques-clé de l'écriture épistolaire. Le thème de la mort de soi (Yourcenar, Coetzee, Bernstein, Robinson, Amis) se conjugue à une réflexion sur la structure physique de tout texte que la lettre rend soudainement tangible, établissant une réflexion sur la lettre-cadavre. Une imagerie apocalyptique (Auster, Coetzee, Amis) problématise ensuite cette idée de la lettre qui se résumerait comme manifestation physique de la mort de l'auteur ; il met en scène un portrait de la temporalité qui ouvre à des superpositions et des rencontres. Ces deux chapitres établissent les pôles du débat pour un dernier, qui emprunte l'imagerie du double pour parler de la communication épistolaire (Gide, Coetzee, Bernstein, Celestini). Après l'absence et la correspondance, ce chapitre interroge le problématique “avec” du titre ; le plan narré de la lettre et le plan dramatique de son envoi sont rejoints par un troisième, pragmatique, posant la question de l'éthique de la correspondance épistolaire, et à travers elle, l'éthique de la fiction même. / Long fictions composed of one uninterrupted letter – monologic epistolary fictions – are underrepresented in critical discourse, and frequently shunted more or less overtly beyond its margins. Their existence is brought to light here by one play and fourteen novels in French, English, Italian and German, ranging from 1902 (Gide) to 2011 (Norman) via a cast of authors including Yourcenar, Coetzee, Amis and Celestini.This study aims firstly to fill the critical lacuna, establishing the dimensions of this new sub- genre. It measures the breadth of the formal definitions of the single-letter epistolary novel, the length of its inscription in literary history, and the depth conferred upon it by critical discourse about real letters, the letter-novel genre and a certain epistolary quality to be found in all literature, which our novels set themselves up to reflect and refract.Our rather disparate corpus of texts reveals the interest of this technical framework, haunted as it is by recurrent themes which illuminate the characteristics of monological epistolary writing. Firstly, the theme of one's own death (Yourcenar, Coetzee, Bernstein, Robinson, Amis) shines a light on the physical structure of any text, rendered visible in the format of the letter; this conjunction suggests the idea of the text as corpse. A series of apocalyptic universes complicates this rather empirical portrait, which reads like the symbol of the Death of the Author; novels by Coetzee, Amis and Auster use complex portraits of fictional time to suggest the possibility of coincidence, overlap, meetings both epistolary and literary. These two chapters set up the terms of a final debate concerning literary communication, investigated via the symbol of the double (Gide, Coeztee, Bernstein, Celestini). After the narrative of the text itself and the implied drama of the letter's trajectory, a pragmatic dimension comes to light. This final analysis allows us to investigate the ethics of correspondence, and the letter as one key to understanding those of fiction itself.
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Novas Cartas Portuguesas: o gênero epistolar e a releitura do cânone literário português

Cunha, Paula Cristina Ribeiro da rocha de Morais 28 September 2015 (has links)
Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2016-06-08T13:16:39Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 2477689 bytes, checksum: a9d728b9ec29faf923c3ae254210d0a7 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-08T13:16:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 2477689 bytes, checksum: a9d728b9ec29faf923c3ae254210d0a7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-09-28 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This research questions the canonical marginality of New Portuguese Letters (1972) and the inclusion of female authors in the Portuguese literary narrative, from the observation that the emergence of women authorship in Portugal was not the subject of critical readings that allowed grasping the literary procedures proposed by women's agency. The readings of the Portuguese literary canon that are guided by gynocritical methodologies of female works retrieval put New Portuguese letters as a literary milestone for the writers who start writing after 1972, paving the way for canon revisionist projects focused on gender category. Taking as its starting point the seventeenth-century letters of Mariana Alcoforado, the three Marias use a genre of autobiographical domain associated with the feminine expression to promote a dialogue with the society of the time. Sharing the credits for this collaborative work, they deliberately do not sign each text. Through these formal procedures, New Portuguese Letters implode categories of authorship and authority of the texts. / Esta pesquisa questiona a marginalidade canônica de Novas Cartas Portuguesas (1972) e a inserção da autoria feminina na narrativa literária portuguesa, a partir da observação de que a emergência da escrita de mulheres em Portugal não foi objeto de leituras críticas que permitissem apreender os procedimentos literários propostos pelo agenciamento feminino. As releituras do cânone literário português que se orientam por metodologias ginocríticas de resgate de obras de autoria feminina colocam Novas Cartas como um marco literário para as escritoras que começam a escrever depois de 1972, abrindo caminho para projetos revisionistas do cânone centradas na categoria de gênero. Tomando como ponto de partida as cartas seiscentistas de Mariana Alcoforado, as três Marias utilizam um gênero do domínio autobiográfico associado à expressão feminina para promoverem um diálogo com a sociedade da época. Repartindo a autoria da obra, abdicam de assinar individualmente os textos. Através desses procedimentos formais, Novas Cartas Portuguesas implode as categorias de autoria e de autoridade dos textos.
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A invenção da seca no século XIX: a imprensa do norte e o romance Os Retirantes

Burgardt, Camila Machado 11 March 2014 (has links)
Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T12:39:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1607757 bytes, checksum: b5965eacecf948b43cd86c5011d475ad (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03-11 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This work consists of analyzing how discourses conveyed by letters published in the newspapers of the northern provinces, from 1877 to 1879, as well as the serial novel, The retreatants, 1879, as literary objects, which appear as shared illusions of supposed reality, forged the construction of the history of drought in the nineteenth century, departing from the weather phenomenon that hit the old north from 1877 to 1879. For this, we analyze how discourses conveyed by letters, as well as the writings on drought by José do Patrocínio, romance and letters published in serials column, pedestal newspaper sometimes determines or modifies genres and even more ways to read, which are decisive for the construction of meaning and interpretation of the reading at any time, from the rhetorical arguments used by readers - writers of these letters, with the intention of establishing the readership with broad receptivity, sensitivity and representation on that backcountry area. We have reflected, analytically, with authors such as Chartier (1991, 1998, 2002, 2007), M. Barbosa (2004, 2010); S. Barbosa (2007, 2010a, 2010b , 2011; 2011a, 2011b), Barthes (1974, 1985) , Freire (1823), Roquette (1860, 1997), among others, who have helped us understand how the heterogeneity of the images raised by these objects merged and created, finally, the dominant discourse of the drought that would be established for the northern region of Brazil. / Este trabalho consiste analisar como os discursos veiculados pelas cartas publicadas nos jornais das províncias do norte, de 1877 a 1879, bem como o romance-folhetim Os retirantes, de José do Patrocínio, de 1879, enquanto objetos literários, forjaram a construção da história da/sobre a seca, no século XIX, a partir do fenômeno climático que atingiu o antigo norte de 1877-1879. Para isso, buscamos analisar como os discursos veiculados pelas cartas dos jornais, bem como os escritos sobre essa seca de José do Patrocínio, o romance e as cartas publicadas na coluna folhetins, foram decisivos para a construção de sentido e interpretação dessa seca, a partir do uso de argumentos retóricos utilizados pelos leitores-escritores, com a intenção de instaurar no público leitor, com ampla receptividade, uma sensibilidade e uma representação sobre aquele espaço sertanejo. Refletimos, analiticamente, com autores como Chartier (1991; 1998; 2002; 2007); M. Barbosa (2004; 2010); S. Barbosa (2007; 2010a; 2010b; 2011; 2011a; 2011b); Barthes (1974; 1985); Freire (1823); Roquette (1860; 1871; 1997), entre outros, que nos ajudaram a entender como a heterogeneidade das imagens levantadas por esses discursos se fundiram e criaram, por fim, o dominante discurso que se queria estabelecer para a invenção da seca no século XIX.
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Le De gratia noui Testamenti, synthèse de la doctrine augustinienne de la grâce / The De gratia noui Testamenti, synthesis of Augustine’s doctrine of grace

Descotes, Pierre 03 December 2012 (has links)
Le De gratia noui Testamenti (= epistula 140), lettre-traité composée par l’évêque d’Hippone au début de l’année 412, présente la pensée d’Augustin sur les rapports entre grâce divine et liberté humaine d’une manière remarquablement synthétique – en raison de ses circonstances de rédaction tout d’abord, qui le placent à la croisée de polémiques très diverses, et de son originalité littéraire, qui le rattache simultanément à plusieurs genres. Cette thèse comporte trois parties. Nous proposons tout d’abord une introduction au traité, afin d’en présenter les principaux aspects – dont les problèmes historiques qu’il pose, les questions littéraires qu’il soulève et les aperçus qu’il offre sur la pensée d’Augustin. Nous en avons ensuite, à partir d’une étude de sa tradition manuscrite, établi l’édition (qui corrige celle du CSEL, datant du début du XXe siècle) et la traduction. Enfin, notre commentaire s’attache à éclairer les passages problématiques de la lettre, pour en dégager les principaux intérêts historiques, littéraires et théologiques. / The De gratia noui Testamenti (= epistula 140), which is both a treatise and a letter composed by the Bishop of Hippo Regius at the beginning of year 412, presents Augustine’s thoughts on the connections between divine grace and human freedom in a remarkably synthetic way, first because of the circumstances in which it was written, which place it at the junction of very different debates, and secondly because of its originality on a literary point of view, which links it to several genres. This thesis comprises three parts. First, we propose an introduction to the treatise, which presents its main aspects – among which, the historical problems it poses, the literary questions it raises and the insight it offers into Augustine’s way of thinking. Then we have established the edition (which corrects that of the CSEL, which dates from the beginning of the 20th century) and the translation from a study of its manuscript tradition. Finally, our commentary strives to enlighten the debatable passages of the epistle in order to highlight its main historical, literary and philosophical interests.
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L’École des lettres. Correspondances amicales entre jeunes artistes : Alain-Fournier, Jacques Rivière, André Lhote (1904-1914) / An epistolary art school. Friendship correspondences between young artists : Alain-Fournier, Jacques Rivière, André Lhote (1904-1914)

Carré, Juliette 28 March 2014 (has links)
Alain-Fournier et Jacques Rivière échangent une abondante correspondance de 1904 à 1914. À ce premier échange se joint le peintre André Lhote, en 1907. Cette thèse postule que leurs correspondances, parce qu’elles sont fondées sur une amitié de jeunesse, contribuent à la formation des trois artistes. Les circonstances des rencontres entre les jeunes gens dépendent de ce que Jean-François Sirinelli appelle des « structures de sociabilité » : la classe de Rhétorique Supérieure de Lakanal, où se rencontrent Rivière et Fournier, et le salon bordelais de Gabriel Frizeau, où Rivière rencontre Lhote. Leurs découvertes littéraires et culturelles, représentatives d’une partie de l’offre culturelle de la période, fondent leur amitié et guident la constitution d’un réseau de sociabilités. Une fois ce cadre posé, l’on peut dégager les caractéristiques de l’amitié unissant les épistoliers. Celle-ci répond aux critères de l’amitié parfaite décrits par la tradition : elle naît entre égaux et repose sur l’échange et le partage. Mais la particularité de leur relation est d’être fondée sur une passion commune pour l’art. La nature du pacte amical influe dès lors sur le pacte épistolaire : le style de la lettre d’amitié, caractérisé par sa variété, permet des échanges critiques, des exposés théoriques et l’exercice de l’écriture littéraire. C’est pourquoi les correspondances forment une école pour les trois artistes : ils y élaborent des identités leur permettant de se positionner dans le champ artistique, des principes esthétiques vitalistes et un style propre. Leurs lettres apparaissent dès lors comme le laboratoire d’une écriture du roman, de l’essai et de la critique d’art. / Alain-Fournier and Jacques Rivière exchanged many letters from 1904 to 1914. Painter André Lhote joined them in 1907. This thesis postulates that their correspondences, because they were written out of friendship, played a part in their education as future artists.The context of the encounter between the three youngsters is determined by what Jean-François Sirinelli calls « sociability structures » : the first one is the Rhétorique Supérieure class in Lakanal, where Rivière and Fournier meet, the second one is Gabriel Frizeau’s salon in Bordeaux, where Rivière meets Lhote. Exploring literature and culture, reading and seeing a part of what their time had to offer, gives solid foundations to their friendship, and leads to the extension of their sociability network. This being laid out, one can define the features of the letter writers’ friendship. It obeys the criteria of perfect friendship as it was described by tradition : friends are equals and their relationship is based on trading and sharing. But the three young men are also friends because they have a common passion for arts. Their friendly pact thus influences their epistolary pact : a friendship letter, being defined by its variety, allows writers to criticize each other’s work, to give theoretical exposés and to practice creative writing. That is why these correspondences can be called a school for artists : there, the three young men can build their own identities which allow them to find their place into the artistic field. They also form vitalist aesthetic principles and their own writing styles. Letters thus appear as a laboratory where they can try to write novels, essays or art critic.

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