Akademisk avhandling--Filosofie doktorseksamen--Umeå, 1990.

Thèse--Lettres--Genève, 1933.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1975. / Typescript. Vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 179-185).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2006. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

In the footsteps of Simone de Beauvoir and André Malraux, Christiane Rochefort develops a social critique on the alienation of the individual in society. The study of two of her novels, Les Petits Enfants du siècle (1961) and Les Stances à Sophie (1963), reveals that this critique is first a denunciation of the system and its mechanics. Thanks to the prevailing ideology of consumption, which permits the standardization of individuals by standardizing their needs, the state machinery can exercise a closer monitoring on the human masses. Personal freedom is also denied on the social and family levels: everyone's own image is sold as a merchandise; there is no real contact anymore (transcendence) between the individuals themselves, and individuals and objects; at the family level, alienation is linked to verbal compliance and to the absence of all authentic speech, free of clichés. Thus, relationships are altered. Just as for their individual happiness, now they are filtered through objects and have lost their humanness. The other side of this social criticism, the critique of the social classes, touches the questions of valorization and status linked to the individual's possessions and not to his heridity. In the first novel the valorization of the proletarian woman depends on her fecundity while the upper middle-class woman (la bourgeoise), in Les Stances is valorized according to aesthetic criterions. Emphasized also is the importance of the woman's fight to maintain her identity and her freedom: a rebellion which deals with her sexuality and brings the end of reciprocal relationships in the couple's dynamics. / Arts, Faculty of / French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies, Department of / Graduate

Notre mémoire intitulé « Le personnage-enfant à la recherche de l'utopie féminine » se proposera d'examiner la manifestation de la figure du personnage-enfant dans Les petits enfants du siècle et La porte du fond de Christiane Rochefort. Nous nous intéressons à la fonction que remplit ce personnage romanesque, en tant que narrateur et personnage principal de l'intrigue, dans les deux romans de Rochefort. Sous cet angle, nous examinerons la relation qui se noue entre le personnage-enfant et son lecteur, ainsi que les stratégies de narration des personnages-enfants de Rochefort. Ce jeune personnage va remplir différentes fonctions dans le texte ainsi qu'il va orienter la réception du lecteur. En effet, mettre en scène un personnage-enfant provoque une adhésion immédiate du lecteur, puisqu'il constitue le garant d'une certaine naïveté et d'une certaine vraisemblance Cette analyse s'appuiera sur les théories de sociocritique que développe Edmond Cros dans son ouvrage La sociocritique pour montrer comment le social influence le littéraire, c'est-à-dire, comment le milieu social va influencer la figuration et le discours narratif du personnage-enfant dans la littérature. En effet, l'univers fictionnel telle que créé par Rochefort est un univers structuré qui nous a transmis une certaine vision du monde d'un certain groupe social à travers la fiction. Dans cette perspective, nous étudierons la relation que noue ce jeune personnage avec sa société s'urbanisant et se trouvant en pleine mutation. De plus, nous examinerons le rapport qui lie le personnage-enfant à sa famille dont le rôle s'affaiblit de plus en plus et aux adultes qui l'entourent. D'ailleurs, le contexte social et la représentation de l'espace vont influencer la personnalité du personnage-enfant et, par conséquent, sa vision utopique de monde.

Nous comptons au total vingt-deux « comédiens-poètes », dont deux sont des femmes, entre le dernier tiers du XVIe siècle jusqu’à la fondation de la Comédie-Française en 1680, soit une période de cent ans environ. Afin de comprendre la naissance puis la montée en puissance de cette pratique d’écriture propre aux comédiens, nous commençons à étudier les conditions de création des pièces de Châteauvieux et Hardy au début du siècle. Dans la première partie, nous étudions l’apparition de cette pratique chez les comédiens parisiens dans les années 1640 à travers Desfontaines et Montfleury. Dans la deuxième partie, nous mettons en lumière l’importance du rôle des commandes et des institutions lors de l’émergence des comédiens-poètes itinérants dans les années 1650 et 1662, à travers des recherches archiviques qui nous révèlent les rapports entre Des Carreaux, Dorimond et Rochefort, comédiens-poètes contemporains de Molière, et les commanditaires de fêtes en province. Dans la troisième partie, toujours selon la même méthode, nous suivons principalement l’activité de Dorimond, Rosidor et Rochefort, dans les années 1660. Nous examinons la concurrence qui se joue entre eux à La Haye et à Bruxelles concernant la création de leurs propres pièces et la reprise de pièces d'auteurs, en particulier celles à machines. Dans l’épilogue, nous mettons en lumière la singularité des habitudes de composition chez les comédiens-poètes, qui sont tout à fait différentes de celle des auteurs, à travers l’analyse des ouvrages de Villiers, Madeleine Béjart, La Thorillière, tous comédiens-poètes occasionnels, et nous perçons à jour le secret de la rapidité de composition des comédiens-poètes en général. / We count in total twenty-two actors-authors, including two women, from the last third part of the XVIth century until the creation of la Comédie-Française in 1680, so upon a hundred years period of time. To understand the birth and then the rising of this actors’ very writting way, we start to study in the prologue Chateauvieux and Hardy’s plays’ first productions’ conditions at the beginning of the century. In the first part, we study the emergence of this practice among parisian actors around 1640 through Desfontaines and Montfleury. In the second part, we light up the important role of plays made to order as well as the institutions while strolling actors-authors emerging in 1650 and 1662. To that purpose we use archivic methods revealing us relationships between Des Carreaux, Dorimond and Rochefort, three contemporaneous actors-authors of Molière, and also provincial parties’ sponsors. In the third part, still with archives’help, we mainly follow Dorimond, Rosidor and Rochefort’s activities around 1660. We study the competition between them in La Haye and Bruxelles regarding their own plays’s first productions as well as authors’plays revival, especially plays with stage effects. In the epilogue, we light up the specificity of the actors-authors writting way, quite different from the authors’way, through the analysis of Villiers, Madeleine Béjart, La Thorillière’s works, all chance actors-authors, and we find out the writting swiftness of actors-authors generally speaking.

Ce travail concerne l'aménagement , dans le cadre du SDAU, de la région au sud de Grenoble . Il aborde les données géologiques, l'hydrogéologie, la géotechnique, la géomorphologie de ce secteur de Pont de Claix et du bassin du Drac inférieur.

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Jacques Demy's Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (1964), Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967), and Peau d'âne (1970), though quite popular with the public at their time of release and continuing to leave an aesthetic stamp on contemporary cinema, have been received by some critics and viewers in general as pure contrivance with little edification. This thesis puts forward, however, that such interpretations of these Demy musicals as primarily saccharine, superficial, and light miss the elemental melancholy belied by the charming varnish. Here, the three are unified as a triptych that thematizes and aestheticizes lack and desire in ways that can speak directly to the queer viewer. This thesis first situates the films among criticism from the 1960s to the present, opening a discourse on the potential for diverse political and aesthetic readings of Demy's work that continues to the present queer reading. Through a method of narratological close reading, I unify the three films as a triptych, each a variation on themes of isolation, absence, and amorous lack. Jean-Pierre Berthomé's Jacques Demy et les raciness du rêve (1982) is a rich resource in presenting these three seemingly distinct films as a totality. Once justified for study as a triptych, my thesis presents a queer reading of the films' ostensibly heterosexual narrative structures. With the buttressing of the queer theory of Harold Beaver, Andrew Ross, and Michael Koresky, among others, this chapter demonstrates how the narratives of longing Demy crafts can speak to the queer viewer and transcend a heterosexual framework. Finally, my thesis moves beyond narrative to another continuity, the aesthetic of camp present throughout the triptych. Through an exploration of the interconnectivity of camp, gender performance, and seduction, drawing on scholars Susan Sontag, Judith Butler, and Jean Baudrillard, respectively, the aesthetic of Demy's triptych is situated in a queer sensibility. Catherine Deneuve, Demy's "princesse idéale," is read as the reification of this sensibility in her potent performance of gender at the confluence of masculine and feminine qualities, as well as the ideal tabula rasa onto which the queer viewer's desire and longing can be projected. Ultimately, the triptych's reconciliation of the visually confectionary and the narratively somber is celebrated, as it points to a victory over tragedy through affective agency. / Master of Arts / Jacques Demy's Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (1964), Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967), and Peau d'âne (1970), French musicals from a masterful director of the New Wave movement in cinema, have been generally received positively by the public, and especially by gay viewers. Yet, these Demy films have been met with a range of skepticism to derision by some critics and even by a number of Demy's contemporaries. The three films' narratives concern a nascent romance thwarted by the Algerian War and economic demands, potential amorous encounters prevented by missed connections and arbitrary social barriers, and a flight from incestuous demands and its consequences of isolation and ridicule, respectively. Though these narratives are fundamentally melancholic, they are aestheticized through kaleidoscopic colors, virtuosic dancing, and the beautiful music scores of Michel Legrand. This thesis reexamines these films as a triptych that, considered together, thematizes lack and desire in a way that can speak directly to the queer viewer. Areas of overlap between the filmic narratives and the queer experience in the West are excavated and explored to demonstrate how the films can carry intimate signification to sexual minorities, as well as other marginalized identities. Finally, the particular and continuous aesthetic of the three films is studied as a queer sensibility embodied by the star of all three, Catherine Deneuve. The ability of this triptych to transcend a singular heterosexual interpretation and to heighten its effects on the viewer through a tension of form and content is celebrated.