<p> This dissertation problematizes the notion of textuality. Textuality is a virtual object, which each text production actualizes. </p><p> The problem can be formulated as follows: How can one read textuality through one or several text(s)? How can one perceive more than a simple fixed object and appreciate problems that a writer encounters during the process of writing, when the text was still being elaborated, in a battle with virtualities? </p><p> Starting from recent statements of Todorov on how non-fictional texts can be considered as literature, I examine the development of the concept of literarity from the 1960’s in France. I examine three conceptions of the text: as a structure that highlights its own materiality (with Ricardou); as a production undermining the structuralist dichotomy between signifier and signified (with Barthes); as an artwork (with Ricoeur, and Genette). </p><p> Henceforth, I articulate four theoretical problems, giving access to the following conclusions: - Texture is readable in a different way than the search for a meaning. - The world as a text and the world of the text entail two distinct conceptions; texts built as mirrors of themselves change and improve our understanding of textuality. - Reading should not be conceived as totally predetermined by writing and by the author’s mastership. - Reading can be conceived as a virtualization (and not just an actualization) of the text. Virtualization is a “rise” from an actuality (such text) towards the problematic field where it emerged. </p><p> Those conclusions are supported by comparative studies and analyses of specific works: Mallarmé’s poems and especially <i>Un coup de dés</i>…, the relationship between some of his works and Edgar Allan Poe’s, Godard’s filmography as opposed to Bresson’s, Ponge’s poems in comparison with an poetical essay by Le Clézio, a play by Sarraute in the light of a text co-authored by Derrida and Leiris. </p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:PROQUEST/oai:pqdtoai.proquest.com:3712148 |
| Date | 29 August 2015 |
| Creators | Caille, Antoine Constantin |
| Publisher | University of Louisiana at Lafayette |
| Source Sets | ProQuest.com |
| Language | French |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | thesis |
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