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The Victorian need to compartmentalise and define women’s sexuality in terms of opposing binaries was paralleled by the vague idea that the period’s French and British literatures were at odds with one another. Elucidating the deep connections between, and common concerns shared by, French Naturalist and Realist and British New Woman authors, this thesis shatters the dichotomies that attempted to structure and define women’s sexuality in the mid- to late- nineteenth century. The thesis focusses on novels and short stories by French authors Émile Zola and Guy de Maupassant, and New Woman authors Sarah Grand, Ménie Muriel Dowie and Vernon Lee. In a time during which the feminist movement was gaining momentum, and female sexuality was placed at the heart of a range of discourses, and scrutinised from a number of different angles – not only in literature, but in medicine, psychology, sexology, criminology – the consideration of the female sexual self and her subjectivity brings together the work of authors whose oeuvres have been largely considered as antithetical. Previous work has indeed shown the centrality of female sexuality to both literatures, yet never compared them. This thesis rediscovers the significance of both literatures’ investment in a discourse revolving around female sexuality by contrasting the French male authors with the British female writers, and uncovering unexpected parallels in their claims about the contemporary situation of women. Simone de Beauvoir’s Le Deuxième Sexe’s feminist philosophy frames the thesis’s comparative analysis, questioning and re-examining these authors’ representations of female sexuality. The ideas of sensuality and rationality, motherhood, reproduction, marriage, and prostitution thus become recurring concerns throughout it. The thesis’s first chapter considers the female as sexual subject and/or object of the male gaze, in a range of New Woman and French literature. The second and third chapters are organised around the themes of marriage and prostitution, and the final chapter considers issues of female sexuality within the fantastic short story.

This thesis is concerned with the importance of the gaze in fin-de-siecle Gothic. One of the ways in which the importance of the gaze manifests itself is in the central role of the onlooker like Enfield, Utterson or Lanyon in Robert Louis Stevenson's Stange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Prendick In H.G. Well's Island of Dr Moreau (1896), or Harker in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897). As their appelation suggests, Wells's Beast Men confound the distinction between the human and the animal, which is also the case with 'Beast Men' like Hyde and Dracula. A central concern of the thisis is the perceptual drama that is involved in looking at the spectacle of the monstrous body, for excample, as the onlooker struggles to get to grips with the challenge to representation posed by these 'Beast Men'.

Thèse de doctorat : ETUDES GERMANIQUES : Metz : 1999. / 1999METZ011L. 500 ref.

This dissertation traces the development of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's attempts to find solutions to what he perceived to be the crisis of meaning in his time. I focus primarily on Hofmannsthal's fictional letters and poetological reflections from the post-lyrical phase of his career, also touching on his final drama and political speeches. In the 1990s semiotic, structuralist, and poststructuralist studies of Hofmannsthal's texts allowed critics to uncover the more radically modern dimension of his creative process and work, making possible a poetological turn in the scholarship, with critics becoming far more interested in the poetics and aesthetics of Hofmannsthal's writings. Thanks to this work, a very different image of Hofmannsthal has appeared - one that attempts to overcome the common prejudice against the author as an elitist and cultural conservative who was out of step with his time. This dissertation participates in the latest approach to Hofmannsthal's work inasmuch as it largely focuses on Hofmannsthal's self-reflexive poetological writings from the Erfundene Gespräche und Briefe and on the author's intermedial search for a language that can counteract the reification of language in a positivistic age. The central argument of this dissertation is that the crises of language, of perception, of experience and of identity that Hofmannsthal repeatedly represents in his work fundamentally express a crisis of authorship. Hofmannsthal's preoccupation with these crises reflects his increasing uncertainty about the role of the poet in a modern democratic age, in which not only the social hierarchies but also the hierarchies of knowledge are leveled. I argue that Hofmannsthal radically destabilizes the role of the poet by questioning whether the poet has a necessary role in interpreting experience for the many. But I conclude by suggesting that in an effort to keep this question alive in an age of democratic skepticism about the poet's vocation, Hofmannsthal sees the need to reassert at a rhetorical level the poet's privileged position.

Thèse de doctorat : Littérature française : Metz : 1998. / 1998METZ009L. 925 ref.

La thèse présentée ici a pour objectif de prendre la mesure de la réception sociale des projets expérimentaux d’architecture pour l’habitat du plus grand nombre, en confrontant les conceptions des architectes aux pratiques habitantes. Pour ce faire, nous avons choisi d’étudier deux modèles de logements collectifs emblématiques du second XXe siècle : les « Unités d’habitation de grandeur conforme » de Le Corbusier et les « Etoiles » de Jean Renaudie. Si la pratique architecturale n’est jamais anodine et inspire des manières d’être et de se comporter en société, la pratique d’habiter n’est pas pour autant figée : elle correspond à l’aptitude des agents sociaux à s’approprier l’espace, elle renvoie aux évolutions générales des modes de vie et des représentations sociales. C’est dans ce rapport entre les intentions du projet d’architecture et « l’habiter » que nous nous livrons ici à une analyse sociologique des usages habitants à la Maison Radieuse de Rezé (Le Corbusier, 1955) et dans l’ensemble Casanova d’Ivry-sur-Seine (Jean Renaudie, 1972). / The aim of this thesis is to estimate the social impact of experimental architectural projects on social housing by confronting the architects' projects with the inhabitants' practices. Thus, we've chosen to study two symbolical collective models of the second part of the twentieth century : "les Unités d'habitation de grandeur conforme" by Le Corbusier and "les Etoiles" by Jean Renaudie. On one side, practising architecture is never innocent : it inspires ways of living and behaving in society. On the other side, being an inhabitant isn't a static state : it corresponds to the social agents' ability to become actors of their space ; it is connected to the general evolutions of lifestyles and social representations. To conclue, considering this connection between the objectives of the architectural projects and the reality of living in them, we are led to think that it could be interesting to evaluate the sociological effects of the experiments of Le Corbusier and Jean Renaudie.

Orientador: Márcio Orlando Seligmann-Silva / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-22T09:30:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Melo_NataliaPiresTisode_M.pdf: 1856278 bytes, checksum: d57b053b75ad1149cfaecbfb0c22d9e6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: Esta pesquisa analisa as representações de violência que permeiam a ficção A Casa de Vidro, de Ivan Angelo, um livro plural em seus temas e formatos. Atentando para os tipos de violência representados e a maneira como é construída literariamente, a análise textual se dá num movimento centrífugo que parte dos significantes colocados pela ficção para a sua interelação com outros discursos que tocam a violência, por exemplo, textos literários, filosóficos, historiográficos e jornalísticos. A Casa de Vidro, uma ficção verossímil e com teor historicista aponta-nos, de um lado, representações de violências múltiplas, corpóreas ou não, que se encontram espalhadas de maneira generalizada pelo corpo social. São, por isso, aqui nomeadas violências difusas. De outro, através do símbolo da Casa de Vidro, possibilita problematizar a violência relacionada ao poder de Estado e, principalmente, a vigilância, o controle e os poderes exercidos lateralmente na sociedade, rompendo com as visões dicotômicas acerca da violência (repressiva/revolucionária) e do poder (dominante/dominado). A Casa de Vidro permite, enfim, (re) pensar as acepções da violência (e do poder) no final dos anos 1970, sinalizando algumas continuidades entre aqueles anos e a atualidade / Abstract: This research analyzes the representations of violence that permeates fiction The Tower of Glass, by Ivan Angelo, a book plural in its themes and formats. Paying attention to the types of violence represented and how they are constructed literary, the textual analysis takes place in a centrifugal motion: from the significant of the fiction to its interrelation with other speeches that touch the violence, for example literature, philosophy, historiography and journalism. The Tower of Glass, a verisimilar fiction and with historicist content, show us, on the one hand, representations of multiple violence, bodily or not, that spread throughout society. On the other, through the symbol of the Tower of Glass, makes possible to question the violence of the state and, especially, surveillance, control and the powers exercised laterally in society, breaking, then, with the dichotomous views about violence (repression / revolutionary) and power (dominant / dominated). The Glass House permits finally (re) thinking the meanings of violence (and power) in late 1970, signaling some continuity between those years and today / Mestrado / Teoria e Critica Literaria / Mestra em Teoria e História Literária

Tableau d’honneur de la Faculté des études supérieures et postdoctorales, 2008-2009 / La morue des bancs de Terre-Neuve (Canada) a dès le XVIe siècle attitré les Européens en Amérique, bien que ce ne soit qu’au début du siècle suivant qu’on assiste à l’installation de colonies permanentes, comme celle de Ferryland fondée par les Anglais (1621-1696). L’analyse des macro-restes végétaux (incluant les charbons de bois) prélevés lors des fouilles archéologiques effectuées sur ce site a permis de mieux comprendre les interrelations entre les habitants et leur environnement. Leur alimentation était composée d’une grande variété de fruits sauvages indigènes ainsi que de céréales, de pois, de fines herbes et de fruits séchés d’origine étrangère. On ne sait pas si l’agriculture était surtout pratiquée sur place ou si les denrées étaient principalement importées. Les habitants auraient également utilisé les ressources végétales (bois, branches de conifères, sphaigne) pour la construction et le chauffage. En outre, les activités menées par les habitants auraient pu faciliter l’introduction de nombreuses mauvaises herbes d’origine étrangère. / The rich cod stocks of Newfoundland’s Grand Banks (Canada) attracted Europeans to the Americas from the sixteenth century onwards. However, the establishment of permanent colonies like that of Ferryland, founded by the English (1621-1696), date to the seventeenth century. The analysis of macro botanical remains (including wood charcoal) from this archaeological site shed light on the relationships between settlers and their environment. Their diet included a great variety of native wild berries as well as cereals, peas, herbs and dried fruits of European origin. However, we can not tell if this food grew mostly on or around the site or was imported. Settlers also used other plant resources (wood, conifer twigs, peat moss) for building and heating. Also, the activities of the settlers appear to have facilitated the introduction of many non-native weeds.