Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2004. / Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 179 p. Includes abstract and vita. Advisor: Eugene Holland, Dept. of French and Italian. Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-179).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2000. / Typescript. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 216-227). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2002. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 246-250). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

This thesis applies the analytical psychology of C. G. Jung to the study of films. The thesis is in three parts. Part One forms an introduction to the theory of analytical psychology and makes the initial links to film theory. Part Two involves the development of a model for systematically applying the theory and Part Three is a detailed analysis of one film. Part One: In Chapter One Jung's theories about conscious behaviour are explored, some initial points of contact are made with film analysis, and a variety of films are used to illustrate the relevance of the theory. Chapter Two finds areas of correspondance between Jung's theories of the unconscious and film theory. This is a bridging of what had previously been regarded as separate critical traditions. Chapter Three is a detailed analysis of Tightrope (Dir. R. Tuggle, Warner Brothers, 1984) which demonstrates the applicability of analytical psychology n the analysis of films. Part Two: Chapter Four presents more theory about the nature of archetypes, and from this a model is derived. This model enables the central tenets of analytical psychology to be used for the analysis of films. This is demonstrated in Chapter Five which is an analysis of the detective film Blade Runner (Dir. R. Scott, Columbia, 1982). Chapter Six explores the function of the symbol in film, especially how it relates to the development of the narrative and to the psychological growth of the film's central characters. Chapter Seven is the last of the theoretical chapters and indicates how the individuation process can be applied to films. The figures of the shadow and the femme fatale are regarded as having a particular generic and cultural importance. Part Three: The remaining chapters are a detailed examination of Trancers (Dir. C. Band, Lexyen Productions, 1984), in which the model established in Chapter Four is used to facilitate the analysis of the film. This reveals that beneath the visual and narrative surface of the film there exists a series of mythological and psychological structures. Ultimately the film is regarded as an expression of collective latent unconscious psychological needs.

Ce mémoire offre une relecture de la réception que connurent Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) et son œuvre, dit réaliste, sur la scène artistique parisienne de la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle, et ce, à l'aune de la nouvelle réalité olfactive de cette époque. En effet, depuis la fin du XVIIIe siècle, la place et le rôle des odeurs dans la société française changèrent considérablement. La relation que les Français, et plus particulièrement les Parisiens, entretenaient avec les effluves nauséabondes passa d'une relative indifférence, à une reconnaissance, puis à la crainte de ces miasmes qui conduisit ultimement à une désodorisation profonde de la société occidentale. Inspirée par les méthodes développées par une histoire culturelle du sensible, issues principalement des travaux de l'historien français Alain Corbin, nous avons choisi d'analyser une grande partie de la production de Courbet, ainsi que des nombreuses caricatures dont il fut l'objet, pour mettre de l'avant l'analogie qui existait, selon nous, entre le parcours de l'artiste et les différentes étapes de la révolution olfactive. Pour ce faire, nous avons choisi de diviser notre mémoire en trois grandes parties, chacune traitant d'un stade de l'évolution de la perception olfactive de Courbet. Dans un premier temps, nous verrons donc comment le jeune artiste du début des années 1840 fut relativement ignoré par le public bourgeois parisien, aux yeux duquel il souhaitait faire connaître sa peinture, alors qu'à la même époque, ce même public commençait à s'inquiéter de la question des odeurs qui empestaient l'air parisien. Dans un deuxième temps, nous nous intéresserons à la reconnaissance critique et populaire qui entoura les envois de Courbet au Salon à partir de 1850, ainsi qu'à la crainte que suscita rapidement cette nouvelle peinture « réaliste ». Finalement, nous verrons comment la société parisienne des années 1870 entreprit de se débarrasser du peintre, qui devenait une figure franchement gênante et indésirable, surtout à la suite de son implication politique dans la Commune de Paris. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Gustave Courbet, révolution olfactive, France, XIXe siècle, histoire culturelle.

Fictional characters who mistake reality for fiction can be considered as parodies, beings invented by the author to denounce the illusions of which they are victims. But this viewpoint is not valid if the novels in which those "mistaken readers" exist suggest, to the contrary, that reality is problematic; it is therefore impossible to judge the characters without "afterthoughts", since these characters, in a way, are pointing to the fact that the reality they live in is "unreal". / Such is the case with Madame Bovary and Don Quijote. These two novels, as a result of different "techniques", essentially tell their readers to be suspicious about what is "true" and what is "false". These are novels without a strong authorial voice, novels that speak more about how characters conceive reality than about reality itself, which remains in both cases a complete mystery. / This viewpoint can be extended into a definition of the novel, in terms of what it says (or doesn't say) about the world. And in fact, a novel doesn't say anything about the world, at least not directly. It could be described as "a machine" made from what the characters say. Obviously, such a machine cannot be taken too seriously, since nobody (that is to say no real person) is actually saying what is being said in its pages. But at the same time, by refusing to show the fictional world in itself, (by always showing it through the eyes of fictional characters), the novelist reminds his reader that the real world itself is inescapably ambiguous.

In this paper. I attempt to prove that obscenity as a legal concept is actually a moral judgment made by patriarchal powers and a political tool used to police female sexuality. I analyze James Joyce’s Ulysses as a case study, using Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary as a precedent. While I believe that literature can transfer and inspire ideas, I don’t believe that transferring or inspiring perversity was the intent or effect of these novels. I argue not only that the trials’ prosecutions incorrectly claim that the novels sexually arouse the average or reasonable reader, but also that they do the opposite, or fail to meet expectations to do so. In the case of Madame Bovary, I further argue that the defense incorrectly claims that the novel has and enforces a set of morals, as the novel neither punishes nor lauds its protagonist, or any of its characters for the matter. These so-called obscene novels don’t convert the everyman into a pervert. However, Ulysses and Madame Bovary do reflect and thus reveal a reality that is inconsistent with the censors’ imagined utopia: the characters in the novels’ world as well as the readers in the real word are all sexual beings, women included. I argue that censors banned novels such as Ulysses and Madame Bovary because they wished to police female sexuality under the guise of protecting the public from obscenity. Specifically, they prevented the publishing and distribution of these and other Modernist texts in an attempt to erase realistic representations of female sexuality, thus illegitimating it. Nevertheless, the perseverance of these texts proves that moral values, particularly those regarding sexuality, cannot be enforced by the law (and neither should they be).

The objective of this dissertation is to demonstrate the existence of a prophetic discourse in the work of the French writer J. M. G. (Jean-Marie-Gustave) Le Clezio. Within the period of his first books (1963--1973), from Le proces-verbal (The interrogation) to Les Geants (The Giants), Le Clezio systematically adopts a prophetic discourse conveying his personal view of the world. / We intend to show that these works form a complete cycle within the broader scope of Le Clezio's writings. At the forefront of these earlier works we find a questioning on the nature of language and the process of writing, the latter being at times disputed and scorned, at others celebrated and inflated. We shall see the profound ambivalence that Le Clezio has towards language, the language being perceived both as a degradation of man's being as well as the sole mean to express the "adventure of being alive". / The first chapter recaps succinctly the evolution of the prophetic terminology up to the modern times, in which it is no longer the pure domain of godly matters. In the following chapters, each of which pertains to a specific work according to their sequence, we aim to show that (1) the prophetic discourse in Le Clezio's earlier works operate as a set of literary devices---narrative strategies, addresses, invocations, sacred themes---and that (2) this discourse takes the shape of a trajectory. As for content, we win demonstrate that (3) Le Clezio's prophetic discourse is the expression of a phenomenological approach positing the individual's consciousness in face of the absolute. / It is this threefold dynamic that we will analyze in the first works of Le Clezio and that we have gathered under the notion of prophetic discourse.

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Bibliography: leaves 452-495. / 495 leaves ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / This thesis examines the representation of utopia in the works of Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio. Through the reference to the utopian tradition, it provides a global reading of a diverse range of writings, both fictional and non-fictional, which have hitherto proved difficult to classify as a coherent corpus. While drawing upon the imagery of the quest that has been highlighted by mythocritical, psychocritical and sociopoetical approaches, this study extends their conclusions by linking the diverse images of the quest in Le Clezio's writings to this personal quest for utopia. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Centre for European Studies, 1999