Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal

Proefschrift--Utrecht.

Pittite politics between the premierships of Pitt and Liverpool has been overshadowed by those long eras of government and by the concurrent Napoleonic Wars. This has particularly caused the neglect of one leading Pittite, the prime minister Spencer Perceval, which is especially surprising given recent scholarly interest in the role of religion in politics and in conservative ideas. He is known either as the 'assassinated Prime Minister', or stereotyped as the 'Evangelical Prime Minister'. This thesis contends that Perceval was a significant, if sometimes unusual, figure in Pittite politics in 1807-12, that this era saw important policies pursued in areas such as church reform, and that Perceval is better understood as an 'Anglican Prime Minister' dedicated to upholding the established Church. Recovering Perceval helps us better understand the Pittites in general. He operated amongst a circle of like-minded politicians who supported church reform and opposed Catholic Emancipation. Each chapter duly recovers a topic which demonstrates the continuities between war-time and peace-time Pittite policies, underpinning the thesis's argument that post-1815 policies need to be understood in relation to the war-time experiences and actions of this generation of Pittites. These arguments are advanced through five chapters. The first chapter shows how Perceval's theological beliefs, contemporary descriptions, and his church patronage emphasise his transcendent Anglicanism. The second chapter stresses Perceval's and his coterie's role in strengthening and expanding the established Churches in England and Ireland. The third chapter highlights the twin importance of theological beliefs and the necessity of upholding the established Church in shaping Perceval's attitude towards Catholics, tithes, and nonconformists. The fourth chapter highlights the pragmatic approach the Pittites took to economic questions, and contrasts Perceval with the later 'liberal Tories' Canning and Huskisson. The fifth chapter illuminates Pittite policies that promoted Christianity in India and suppressed the slave trade.

Après avoir proposé une définition opératoire du mythe littéraire, et suggéré, sous l’étiquette de « mytholectures », un mode d’approche de cet objet, le travail se subdivise en deux grandes parties. La première, diachronique, cherche à sonder le devenir historique du mythe de Perceval, de Chrétien de Troyes à nos jours ; il s’agit essentiellement d’observer comment la valeur et le sens du mythe se sont élaborés progressivement au fil de ses réécritures – comment chaque période, chaque auteur a rencontré le mythe sous un rapport singulier, susceptible de lui fournir un « miroir » qui reflète certaines de ses préoccupations et lui permette, parallèlement, de configurer son expérience du monde. Les principales étapes de ce parcours (qui touche à environ quatre-vingts auteurs) sont Richard Wagner et Julien Gracq. La seconde partie propose deux approches thématiques du mythe de Perceval : l’une d’elles est centrée sur la problématique familiale et les enjeux relationnels qui, de reprise en reprise, ne cessent d’être réinterprétés sous divers angles (dont Œdipe, cet « anti-Perceval » n’est jamais très loin). L’autre axe thématique s’intéresse à la propension marquée du mythe de Perceval à fonctionner comme modèle des deux pôles de l’activité littéraire que sont la lecture (quête de sens) et de l’écriture (quête poétique) : divers « arts poétiques percevaliens » (de Wagner à Perec, en passant par Proust ou Handke) closent ainsi le parcours. / After having outlined a functional definition of the “literary myth”, and having proposed a new way of approaching this object under the label “myrhoreadings”, the present work is divided into two main parts. The first one is diachronic. Its aim is to analyse the historical construction of the myth of Percival, from Chrétien of Troyes until now. The main purpose of this inquiry is to examine how the myth’s value and meaning were gradually elaborated through its rewritings, and how each period, each author have met the myth as a “mirror” reflecting his personal concerns and allowing him to configure his experience of the world. The main figures along this journey are (among about eighty authors) Richard Wagner and Julien Gracq. The second part proposes two thematic approaches to the myth of Percival: the first one focuses on the family issues and the relational stuctures central to most of the rewritings of the myth (where Oedipus, this “anti-percival”, is rarely far away). The second theme examines the frequent use of this myth as a model for the two poles of the literary activity: reading (quest of meaning) and writing (poetic quest). A few “percivalian poetic arts” thus conclude this study, from Wagner to Proust, Handke or Perec.

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Thesis--Université de Paris I. / Published in 1979 under title: La pensée alchimique et le Conte du Graal. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 625-639.

Originally presented as the author's Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Mainz, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 390-404).

O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar e identificar a cristianização da novela de cavalaria portuguesa A Demanda do Santo Graal, na figura de sua personagem principal, Galaaz, em relação a dois outros romances: Perceval, de Chrétien de Troyes e Parsifal, de Wolfran von Eschenbach. Em nossa análise utilizamos os estudos de Mikhail Bakhtin, Walter Benjamin, Tzevetan Todorov, Arnold Hauser, Eric Auerbach e Joseph Campbell. É nosso propósito mostrar de que forma se deu a cristianização da figura do herói do Graal e de que maneira a Igreja estava ligada a esse projeto.

O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar e identificar a cristianização da novela de cavalaria portuguesa A Demanda do Santo Graal, na figura de sua personagem principal, Galaaz, em relação a dois outros romances: Perceval, de Chrétien de Troyes e Parsifal, de Wolfran von Eschenbach. Em nossa análise utilizamos os estudos de Mikhail Bakhtin, Walter Benjamin, Tzevetan Todorov, Arnold Hauser, Eric Auerbach e Joseph Campbell. É nosso propósito mostrar de que forma se deu a cristianização da figura do herói do Graal e de que maneira a Igreja estava ligada a esse projeto.

O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar e identificar a cristianização da novela de cavalaria portuguesa A Demanda do Santo Graal, na figura de sua personagem principal, Galaaz, em relação a dois outros romances: Perceval, de Chrétien de Troyes e Parsifal, de Wolfran von Eschenbach. Em nossa análise utilizamos os estudos de Mikhail Bakhtin, Walter Benjamin, Tzevetan Todorov, Arnold Hauser, Eric Auerbach e Joseph Campbell. É nosso propósito mostrar de que forma se deu a cristianização da figura do herói do Graal e de que maneira a Igreja estava ligada a esse projeto.