Les interactions culturelles dans la Méditerranée ancienne sont de plus en plus au centre des études sur l’Antiquité. Ce travail s’intéresse en particulier aux reflets des contacts entre la Mésopotamie et la Grèce anciennes dans la production littéraire. Sujet central et fil conducteur de la recherche est la temporalité narrative qui structure les textes littéraires, en particulier les compositions poétiques à sujet mythologique. La reconstruction proposée de la découverte de la Mésopotamie de la part de l’Occident moderne et contemporain permet de mettre en lumière les orientations idéologiques et les incohérences méthodologiques qui ont souvent biaisé l’interprétation et la systématisation des sources cunéiformes. Ce travail présente une synthèse et une réorganisation des « dimensions du temps » en Mésopotamie, dans une perspective de comparaison critique avec les analyses développées sur ces mêmes questions pour la Grèce. Le poème akkadien d’Erra a été sélectionné comme cas d’étude, en raison de son articulation narrative complexe, dans laquelle la composante temporelle est particulièrement significative pour la construction syntaxique et pour l’exégèse du texte même. Son analyse permet par la suite de développer un « parcours thématique guidé » à travers une série d’exemples choisis dans la production littéraire grecque des époques archaïque et classique, de l’épopée aux discussions philosophiques, jusqu’à la tragédie, afin de montrer que les parallélismes établis avec le poème d’ Erra révèlent l’encodage littéraire d’un « système de pensée » partagé. / The cultural interactions in the ancient Mediterranean are becoming ever more important in the studies on ancient times. This research focuses on the effects of the contacts between ancient Mesopotamia and Greece on literary texts. Narrative temporality, particularly in mythological poems, is the central argument and theme. The reconstruction here made of the discovery of Mesopotamia by the modern and contemporary Western culture allows shedding lights on the ideological orientations and the methodological incoherence which often distorted the interpretation and systematisation of cuneiform sources. This research proposes a synthesis and a reorganisation of the « dimensions of time » in Mesopotamia, in comparison with the same analyses on ancient Greece. The Akkadian poem of Erra has been chosen as case study, because of the complexity of its narrative, in which the temporal element is particularly relevant for the syntactic reconstruction and the exegesis of the text itself. Furthermore, the analysis of this text allows the development of a « thematic guided journey » through a series of literary examples from archaic and classical Greece, from epic to philosophy and to the tragedy, to show that the parallelisms with the Erra poem exemplify the literary coding of a « common way of thinking ». / Le interazioni culturali nel Mediterraneo antico sono sempre più al centro degli studi sull’Antichità. Questa ricerca si interessa ai riflessi dei contatti tra la Mesopotamia e la Grecia antiche nella produzione letteraria: argomento centrale e filo conduttore è la temporalità narrativa che struttura i testi letterari, in particolar modo le composizioni poetiche di soggetto mitologico. La ricostruzione qui proposta della scoperta della Mesopotamia da parte dell’Occidente moderno e contemporaneo permette di mettere in luce gli orientamenti ideologici e le incoerenze metodologiche che hanno spesso distorto l’interpretazione e la sistematizzazione della documentazione cuneiforme. Una sintesi e una riorganizzazione delle « dimensioni del tempo » in Mesopotamia sono proposte in chiave di comparazione critica con le analisi svolte su questi stessi temi per la Grecia. Il poema akkadico di Erra è stato selezionato come caso di studio per via della sua articolazione narrativa complessa, nella quale l’elemento temporale è particolarmente rilevante per la costruzione sintattica e l’esegesi del testo stesso. La sua analisi permette inoltre di sviluppare un « percorso tematico guidato » attraverso una serie di esempi scelti nell’ambito della produzione letteraria greca di epoca arcaica e classica, dall’epopea alle argomentazioni filosofiche, fino alla tragedia, al fine di mostrare che i parallelismi stabiliti con il poema di Erra esemplificano la codificazione letteraria di un « sistema di pensiero condiviso ».

ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS RE-IMAGINING THE VICTORIAN CLASSICS: POSTCOLONIAL FEMINIST REWRITINGS OF EMILY BRONTË by Yannel M. Celestrin Florida International University, 2018 Miami, Florida Professor Martha Schoolman, Major Professor Through a post-structural lens, I will focus on the Caribbean, specifically Cuba, Guadeloupe, Marie-Galante, and Roseau, and how the history of colonialism impacted these islands. As the primary text of my thesis begins during the Cuban War of Independence of the 1890s, I will use this timeframe as the starting point of my analysis. In my thesis, I will compare Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heightsand Maryse Condé’s Windward Heights. Specifically, I will examine Condé’s processes of reimagining and rewriting Brontë’s narrative by deconstructing the notions of history, race, gender, and class. I will also explore ways in which Condé disrupts the hegemonic and linear notions of narrative temporality in an attempt to unsilence the voices of colonized subjects. I argue that Condé’s work is a significant contribution to the practice of rewriting as well as to the canon of Caribbean literary history. I argue that the very process of rewriting is a powerful mode of resistance against colonizing powers and hegemonic discourse.