Despite being an equal in the most significant partnership in British cinema, Emeric Pressburger has largely been overshadowed by his long term collaborator Michael Powell in both critical and academic studies. While there have been countless books on Powell and Pressburger as a team, those who have sought to separate the partnership have, until now, focussed almost exclusively on Powell. This thesis will attempt to redress the balance within Powell and Pressburger scholarship and attempt to break away from director-centric film studies. It will aim to examine Pressburger’s morally ambiguous characters, such as the recurring “good German” and his propensity to humanise characters who would normally be termed evil or corrupt, in conjunction with the central themes of displacement and exile within Pressburger’s screenplays and novels. The thesis will also utilise both unpublished and unfilmed material and demonstrate that the study of these works that exist only in archives provide a greater insight into the working practises of authors and filmmakers, while providing a valuable point of comparison to their more widely known works. Specifically, this thesis will address four separate aspects of Pressburger’s canon. First, it will discuss Pressburger’s war films which he made with Powell, which have suffered to an extent from neglect by many Archers’ scholars. It is clear that Pressburger’s key hallmarks and mirroring of his own experiences during the war can be seen to develop within these works and provide an ideal point of comparison with that of his later projects such as his novels. Chapter two will then examine the often overlooked filmed operetta, <i>Oh ... Rosalinda!! </i>(1955) along with Pressburger’s unfilmed screenplay <i>The Golden Years</i> (1951) a biopic of Richard Strauss, and provide a comparison to demonstrate the manner in which Pressburger’s love of opera overlapped with his development of complex characters and response to the war. Chapter three will analyse Pressburger two published novels, both of which have been largely ignored by both cinema and literary critics. Through the study of these novels, the difference in approach after the transition from screenwriter to novelist will be examined, along with the further development of his seeming neutrality in the portrayal of morally unsound characters. Chapter four will then focus on Pressburger’s two unpublished novels, <i>The Unholy Passion</i> and <i>A Face like England</i>, with consideration of Pressburger’s developing ideas of morality and forgiveness in his later years. In conclusion, by closely examining works that have been overlooked by Powell and Pressburger scholars, the thesis will shed new light on Pressburger, both as a filmmaker and an author and demonstrate the complexities of both his characters and his writing.

A presente dissertação analisa os livros sobre o Museu do Prado, A la pintura (1948) e Noche de guerra en el Museo del Prado (1956), ambos do escritor espanhol Rafael Alberti, escritos na Argentina, durante seu longo exílio. A investigação parte da contextualização de Alberti, que nos leva a uma aproximação ao tema, o Museu do Prado, tratado de maneira diferente nas duas obras. Na sequência, é analisado o livro A la pintura e, em seguida, a peça de teatro Noche de guerra en el Museo del Prado. / This study analyzes the books about the Prado Museum, A la Pintura (1948) and Noche de guerra en el Museo del Prado (1956), both of spanish writer Rafael Alberti, written in Argentina, during his long exile. The investigation parts from the context of Alberti, that leads to an approach to the subject, the Prado Museum, treated differently in the two books. In the sequence is analyzed the book A la pintura and then the piece of theater Noche de guerra en el Museo del Prado.

Cette thèse se propose d’apporter un éclairage nouveau sur la pratique des artistes algériens de 1962 à aujourd’hui en examinant les rapports entre écritures et œuvres, qu’il s’agisse d’imbrication avec des mots dans la création artistique comme les titres, d’autonomie avec des écrits d’artistes ou de pratiques collectives dans le cas d’un travail en commun entre artiste et écrivain. À partir d’un corpus constitué de figures tutélaires de la période post-indépendance telles que Mohammed Khadda, Choukri Mesli ou Denis Martinez, d’artistes des années 1990 comme Adel Abdessemed, Kader Attia ou Rachid Koraïchi et de la jeune génération représentée par Yasser Ameur, Walid Bouchouchi ou Souad Douibi, notre objectif est d’interroger les liens entre évènements historiques et écriture dans la pratique artistique. Dans un premier temps, durant les années qui suivent l’indépendance et la volonté de s’émanciper des instituions coloniales, au moment où se met en place un nouvel « art algérien », on observe une manière d’envisager l’écriture, soit comme réactivation du passé (national), soit comme vecteur d’arabisation, soit comme revendication de diversité linguistique, soit comme quête d’abstraction. Il s’agit ensuite, pour la période de 1988 à 2000, de mettre à jour les particularités d’une écriture de l’exil et de l’intitulation des œuvres à l’étranger en insistant notamment sur l’extranéité et la revendication identitaire avec le soufisme. Enfin à partir de 2000, une nouvelle scène artistique se met en place en Algérie. Objet de transmission, l’écriture dans l’art se déploie dans un contexte de globalisation accrue, à un moment où la circulation des artistes et des œuvres change d’échelle. Ce rapport nouveau à l’écriture est envisagé dans une perspective comparatiste avec le Maroc et la Tunisie. / This thesis seeks to shed new light on the practices of Algerian artists from 1962 to the present day by examining the connection between writings and works of art, whether in the interweaving of words in the artistic work such as the titles, the autonomy of the artists’ writing, or the collaborative practices of artists and writers. Drawing from a corpus of work consisting of tutelary figures of the post-independence period such as Mohammed Khadda, Choukri Mesli, or Denis Martinez, of artists from the 1990s such as Adel Abdessemed, Kader Attia, or Rachid Koraïchi, and the young generation represented by Yasser Ameur, Walid Bouchouchi, or Souad Douibi, our objective is to question the connections between historic events and writing in artistic practices. At first, during the years which follow the independence and the will to become emancipated established colonial, as is set up a new "Algerian art", we observe a way of envisaging the writing, either as reactivation of the (national) past, that is as vector of Arabisation, as claiming of linguistic diversity, or as a quest of abstraction. It is then a question, for the period from 1988 to 2000, to examinate the peculiarities of a writing of exile and the naming the works abroad by insisting in particularly on the foreignness and the identity claiming with the Sufism. Finally, from 2000, a new artistic scene emerging in Algeria. As an object of transmission, writing in art is increasingly used in a global context leading to a moment when the circulation of artists and works changes of scale. This new connection to writing is envisaged in a comparative perspective with Morocco and Tunisia.

<p>This study examines the nature and possible causes of the changes in the art and artistry of Abdul Rahim Ghafori, an Afghan artist who has migrated to Sweden. The premise of this paper is that over time a person who migrates to another culture will undergo change. In an artist this change should manifest itself in his art and artistry. The study examines this process of change and how it is manifested in the artistry and art of Abdul Rahim Ghafori. The study intends to increase knowledge and understanding of the changes a person undergoes when experiencing a culture change.</p> / <p>Studien är en detaljerad fallstudie vilken ingående belyser ett konstnärskap och utförligt diskuterar ett antal av konstnärens verk. Studien undersöker vilka förändringar i konst och konstnärskapberoende på kulturbyte som kan skönjas hos den afghanske men till Sverige invandrade konstnären Abdul Rahim Ghafori. Att det över tid sker en förändring hos en person som invandrat till en annan kultur är ett utgångsantagande för studien. Hos en konstnär bör denna förändring visa sig i konst och konstnärskap. I studien undersöks vad som händer och hur detta visar sig i Ghaforis konstnärskap och konst samt vilka möjliga orsaker dessa förändringar har. Studien avser att utöka kunskapen om och förståelsen för de förändringar en människa går igenom när han eller hon byter kultur. </p>

In the years immediately following the Second World War, the main part of Latvian literature was produced by writers living outside Latvia. To this day Latvian literature continues to be written outside Latvia, albeit to a much smaller extent. This study examines those Latvian novels, written outside Latvia after the Second World War, which depict the realities of the early years of exile. The aim of the study is to describe the image of the world of exile as depicted in these novels. Borrowing from Bakhtin's concept of the chronotope, images relating to time and space in these novels are examined in order to discern a mental topography of exile common to all these novels - a chronotope of exile. The novels are read as part of a collective narrative, produced by a particular social group in unordinary historical circumstances. The novels are regarded as this social group’s common perception of its own experience of this historical reality. The early years of exile fall into two distinct periods: first, the period of flight from Latvia and life in and around the Displaced Persons camps of postwar Germany; second, the early years of settling in a new country of residence after emigration from Germany. A model of the perceived world is constructed in order to compare these two periods, as well as their divergence from a standard perception of oneself in the world. This model consists of various time-spaces radiating concentrically out from the individual – ranging from the physically and psychologically near-lying time-spaces of one’s personal and intimate life, through everyday social time-spaces, as well as formal societal time-spaces, to the more distant abstract and conceptual perceptions of one’s place in the universe. Basic human concepts such as home, family, work, intimate relationships, social administration, and most notably the homeland – Latvia – are plotted at various points within these models. Divergences between the models describing the perception of time and space in the two early periods of exile thus become apparent.

Josep Puig Pujades (1883-1949) fou el principal renovador del republicanisme empordanès que entroncà la vella tradició federal amb el catalanisme progressista del primer terç del segle XX. La seva àmplia producció periodística i literària permeten constatar l’important paper ideològic que va desenvolupar com a intel•lectual en l’objectiu de crear un projecte cívicocultural com a eina transformadora de la societat a través del foment de l’educació i la cultura. Els càrrecs de govern que assumí durant la Segona República i les responsabilitats en l’òrgan directori d’Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya contribuïren a forjar-lo com una de les figures més rellevants del catalanisme republicà anterior a la guerra civil. / Josep Puig Pujades (1883-1949) was key to the revival of Republicanism. This movement was a direct inheritor of the long federalist tradition in Empordà combined with Progressive Catalanism seen in the first part of the twentieth century. His extensive journalistic and literary writings show the important ideological role he played as an intellectual in the creation of a civic-cultural project as a means of transforming society through the promotion of education and culture. The government positions he held during the Second Republic and responsibilities on the board of Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya helped to consolidate him as one of the leading figures of Catalanist Republicanism before the Spanish Civil War.

This undergraduate thesis is an examination of the works of Odorannus (c. 985-c. 1046), a monk of the abbey of Saint Pierre-le-Vif in Sens, France. A prominent monk in his community, Odorannus was involved in constructing and celebrating his monastery's prosperity and identity. At times, however, he was at variance with his brethren, even experiencing a brief period in exile. This essay explores aspects of Odorannus' compilation, a collection which the monk himself gathered together in his old age, in terms of the dynamic relationship between self and community in a Benedictine monastery of the central Middle Ages.

Le 11 septembre 1973, un coup d’État orchestré par les Forces Armées chiliennes met fin à trois années de gouvernement socialiste dirigé par Salvador Allende. Augusto Pinochet, à la tête du putsch, installe au pouvoir une violente dictature militaire pour dix-sept ans. Événement synonyme de trauma et instigateur d’une période répressive, ou sauvetage national venant freiner la descente aux enfers socialistes? La mémoire de la société chilienne demeure fragmentée vis-à-vis de son passé récent. Cette étude cherche à définir la transmission intergénérationnelle de la mémoire du passé répressif. Menée sur deux fronts, soit à Santiago et à Montréal, la présente recherche s’applique à établir quelles sont les interprétations du passé récent de la génération « postmémoire », c’est-à-dire des personnes nées peu avant ou durant la dictature. Les représentations, les perceptions, ainsi que les canaux d’apprentissage seront mis en perspective selon le territoire, afin de dégager les discours communs et antagonistes. Prenant assise sur des sources orales, ce mémoire présentera les différentes versions du passé selon vingt-huit témoignages. / On the 11th September 1973 a coup d'État orchestrated by the Chilean Armed Forces brought an end to the three year period of Salvador Allende's socialist government. The leader of this putsch, Augusto Pinochet, established in its place a violent military dictatorship, which was to last for seventeen years. A traumatic event marking the beginning either of a repressive period in Chilean history, or of national salvation from the fiery depths of socialist hell, preventing society's demise? The memory of the Chilean society remains divided in the wake of its recent past. The study seeks to define the inter-generational transmission of the memory of this repressive past. From Santiago to Montreal, this research endeavours to ascertain the post-memory generation's perception of its recent past, that is to say of those born slightly prior to or during the dictatorship. The depictions, the impressions and the learning channels will be compared with regard to the geographical location in order to illustrate the common and conflicting discourses. As the oral sources are the foundation of this master's thesis, we will convey the differing accounts of this past as reported by twenty-eight testimonies.

De la mouvance du récit contemporain fragmenté, labyrinthique, se dégage un rapport significatif entre les personnages du récit et les lieux dans lesquels ils gravitent : lieux comme figures diverses et discontinues de l’histoire et des mythes y étant inscrits. Cette construction interactive entre lieu et sujet fait intervenir l’espace comme primordial, et, ainsi, redéfinit l’importance du temps dans l’écrit. Le temps n’adviendrait plus seulement dans le « raconté », comme le suggère Ricœur, mais dans les strates successives de son inscription dans les lieux : le lieu est vécu comme art combinatoire des expériences qui s’y rattachent. C’est par le projet continuel et imparfait du sujet à se situer, plus spécifiquement ici dans la ville et dans celles auxquelles il s’identifie, que surgit l’expression du récit. À travers trois œuvres de Julio Cortázar, le temps sera pensé comme une modalité de fragments « empilables », inscrite dans les lieux signifiants, qui saura émerger au conscient par l’entremise de la porosité de la ville, de sa capacité à susciter des « sauts », des passages. Ce qui lie les espaces architectoniques et le temps qui s’y imprime au sujet qui doit se dire pour exister, mettre en récit afin d’unifier les parties discontinues de son être, émergera dans le « devenir en mouvement », superposition du récit et de l’expérience réelle, par les tropes cortazariens de l’expérimentation, jeu, passage et langage. Là surgira dans l’acte créatif une dynamique spécifique à la ville qui envahit et guide le sujet: sa singularité plurielle. / From the shift of contemporary literature towards labyrinthine, fragmentary self expression, emerges a meaningful correspondence between the characters of a narrative and the spaces they inhabit : spaces as multiple and discontinuous figures inscribed in history and myth. This interactive construction linking place and subject renders space of primary significance and in so doing, redefines the importance of time in the act of writing. Time does not unfold only in "what is told", as Ricoeur suggests, but in the successive layers of its inscription in place: which is lived through the combining art of experimentation with attachment to place. The expression of the subject of the narrative emerges from the continual and imperfect project of the subject to locate himself in the city, in those places with which he identifies and which construct him. Through three texts by writer Julio Cortázar, time will be considered as a modality of “accumulatable” fragments, inscribed in significant places, from which a consciousness emerges through the city's porousness and its capacity for leaps and passageways. What connects the architectonic spaces and the imprint of time within them and a subject who must express himself to exist and create narratives to unify the discontinuous parts of his being, will emerge through "becoming in action", the addition of narrative and real life experience in Cortazarian figures of experimentation, play, passageway et language. Herein a dynamic specific to the city emerges in the creative act that fulfills and guides the subject: his plural singularity.

Ce mémoire explore l’exil au cinéma et en littérature, en particulier à travers l’œuvre de Marilú Mallet, cinéaste et écrivaine québécoise d’origine chilienne. L’approche choisie emprunte à la fois au champ littéraire et au champ cinématographique, et fait intervenir à la fois théoriciens, écrivains et cinéastes. À travers plusieurs regards croisés entre cinéastes et écrivains, ce mémoire décrit comment les thèmes du dépaysement, de la mémoire, de l’identité, du territoire et de la langue reviennent sans cesse dans les œuvres des auteurs migrants. Il interroge également la place des auteurs migrants au sein de la littérature et du cinéma nationaux, leur apport à l’imaginaire collectif, et plus largement leur place dans le discours social ambiant. À travers son œuvre, Mallet raconte sa propre expérience d’exilée en même temps qu’elle témoigne de ce qui s’est passé après le coup d’État au Chili en 1973, laissant des traces pour contrer l’histoire officielle. / This master thesis explores exile in cinema and literature, especially through the work of Marilú Mallet, a Quebec filmmaker and writter exiled from Chile. The approach chosen borrows both to the literary and cinematographic fields, and lets intervene writters and filmmakers as much as theoreticians. Through crossed views between writters and filmmakers, this master thesis describes how the issues of displacement, memory, identity, territory and language are recurrent in the works of authors in exile. It also questions the place of migrant authors within national literature and cinema, their contribution to the collective imaginative world and social debates and reflections. Through her work, Mallet tells her own experience of exile, as well as she testifies of what went on after the coup of 1973, leaving evidences to counter the official version of history.