Thesis--Münster. / Bibliography: p. 98-103.

Zugl.: Magisterarb.

Universiẗat, Diss., 2000--Bonn.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1952. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [524]-543).

Thesis (DPhil)--University of Stellenbosch, 2006. / Bibliography. Also available via the Internet.

Th. 3e cycle--Litt. fr.--Toulouse 2, 1985.

Reelaboración: Tesis doct.--Faculdad de ciencias políticas y sociología--Madrid--Universidad Complutense, 1991. / Bibliogr. p. 271-278.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-03T11:52:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2014-03-24Bitstream added on 2015-03-03T12:06:48Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000806158.pdf: 1289535 bytes, checksum: e7297b0ec6750ef507c5ac71c2d239ca (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / L’étude de Les rêveries du promeneur solitaire (1782), de Jean-Jacques Rousseau, configure le corpus de cette dissertation. L’intérêt de cette recherche est l’analyse des thèmes de la mémoire et de la mort et ses inférences, telles qu'elles apparaissent dans la dernière oeuvre de Rousseau. Le travail métaphorique de la mémoire traverse cette oeuvre inaugurale du Pré- Romantisme français, révélant l’importance de l’inconscient dans la compréhension de l'être. Fondée sur les études psychanalytiques promues par Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), on essaie de dévoiler quelques souvenirs oubliés, ou plutôt masqués par des répressions sociales pour reconstituer, ainsi, la fin de l’existence de Jean-Jacques, dorénavant soutenue par le bonheur. Par ailleurs, l’intersection avec le thème de la mort assure une perspective positive de ce phénomène constituant de l’existence humaine. S’appuyant sur les théorisations suscitées par Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), on examinera la mort et ses implications dans le comportement du promeneur solitaire. Pour le philosophe allemand, l’acte de vivre pour la mort represente le vrai sens de l’existence. Ainsi, la mort est la réalisation de l’homme comme être dans le monde. Littérature, Psychanalyse et Philosophie se conjuguent dans ce travail en vue d' assurer une lecture de la dernière production autobiographique qui a fait de Jean- Jacques Rousseau un précurseur de la pensée moderne, en instituant, dans cette direction, un moyen nouveau de penser la philosophie et la littérature / O estudo de Les rêveries du promeneur solitaire (1782), de Jean-Jacques Rousseau, configura o corpus da presente dissertação. O interesse desta investigação está na análise dos temas da memória e da morte e suas inferências, tais como aparecem na última obra de Rousseau. O trabalho metafórico da memória permeia essa obra inaugural do pré-romantismo francês, revelando a importância do inconsciente no entendimento do próprio ser. Com base nos estudos psicanalíticos promovidos por Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), intenta-se desvelar certas lembranças esquecidas, ou melhor, mascaradas pelas repressões sociais, reconstruindo, dessa forma, o final da existência de Jean-Jacques, daí por diante, sustentada pela felicidade. Ademais, a intersecção com o tema da morte assegura uma perspectiva positiva desse fenômeno constituinte da existência humana. Apoiando-nos nas teorizações suscitadas por Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), examinaremos a morte e suas implicações na conduta do caminhante solitário. Para o filósofo alemão, o ato de viver para a morte representa o autêntico sentido da existência. Desse modo, a morte é a realização do homem como ser-nomundo. Literatura, Psicanálise e Filosofia conjugam-se neste trabalho a fim de garantir uma leitura eloquente da última produção autobiográfica que fez de Jean-Jacques Rousseau um precursor do pensamento moderno, instituindo, nessa direção, uma maneira antes não conhecida de se pensar a filosofia e a literatura

This thesis argues that all literature is subject to ‘afterlife,’ a continual process of translation. From this starting point, this thesis seeks to answer two questions. Firstly, how texts demonstrate this continual translation; secondly, how texts should be read if they are understood as constantly within translation. To answer these questions, this thesis seeks to develop a model of textuality that holds afterlife as central, and a model of reading based on this concept of textuality. Chapter One explores how following through the implications of Walter Benjamin’s and Jacques Derrida’s usages of the term ‘afterlife’ in their writings on translation, language and history necessarily implies a model of textuality. The model of reading that this thesis seeks to develop focuses on language and history, as Benjamin and Derrida define these as the parameters within which translation takes place. This study emphasises textuality itself as a third parameter. Chapter One also describes how, following Benjamin and Derrida, language and history are conceived as inescapable, repressive systems. This, paradoxically, allows for the concept of ‘messianicity’ – the idea that all language, and every historical event, has the potential to herald an escape from language or history. By definition, because language and history are all-encompassing, this potential cannot be enacted, and remains potential. An innovation of this thesis is to understand textuality itself as having ‘messianic potential’; all texts have the potential to escape textuality and afterlife, by reaching a point where they could no longer be translated. Understanding texts as having messianic potential, but always being subject to afterlife, is the basis of the model of reading described at the end of this chapter. Due to the ways Benjamin and Derrida suggest we recognise messianic potential, texts are read with a dual focus on their singularity and their connections to other texts. This is achieved through the ‘text-in-afterlife,’ a concept this thesis develops that understands texts as inextricable from the texts they translate and the texts that translate them. Chapters Two, Three and Four test and complicate this model of reading in response to texts by James Joyce, Aimé Césaire and Jorge Luis Borges. Concepts of textuality and reading are therefore developed throughout the thesis. The three key texts are read with focus on their individual relationships with language, history and textuality, and their connections to the texts they translate. Critics have linked Joyce’s Ulysses to multiple other texts, making it seem exceptional. However, the concept of messianicity shows that Ulysses is important precisely because it is not exceptional. Césaire’s Une Tempête demonstrates how a text can interact with several translations of ‘the same’ text simultaneously, and also that, although language and history are structured by colonialism and are inescapable, there is a huge potential for translation within these terms. Borges’ ‘Pierre Menard, Autor del Quijote’ demonstrates the form of texts’ continual translation in afterlife by describing a text that is verbally identical to the text it ‘translates,’ yet is nevertheless different in ‘meaning’ from its original. Borges’ fiction also highlights the endless potential for translation that is inherent to all texts. Through four chapters, this thesis develops a model of textuality that understands literature as defined by an almost endless potential for translation. The value of reading texts in the terms of ‘afterlife’ is to emphasise literature’s immense potential: all texts are continually translated in relation to language, history and textuality, and continually reveal further texts.

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