Date : 1996
Editeur / Publisher : [S.l.] : [s.n.] , 1996
Type : Livre / Book
Type : Thèse / ThesisLangue / Language : français / French
Résumé / Abstract : LE RECIT DE GENET EST ETUDIE COMME ETANT ESSENTIELLEMENT POETIQUE. SE DISTINGUANT DES APPROCHES GENERIQUES, THEMATIQUES ET, NARRATOLOGIQUES, NOTRE DEMARCHE VISE A RENDRE COMPTE DE LA MOTIVATION DES ENCHAINEMENTS NARRATIFS SOUVENT ENIGMATIQUES. EN SOLLICITANT L'APPORT THEORIQUE DE BARTHES, DEGUY, DERRIDA, FREUD ET RIFFATERRE, NOUS ANALYSONS L'USAGE SPECIFIQUE DE CERTAINS TROPES ET, PLUS GENERALEMENT, LA MANIERE DONT LE MOT EST L'OBJET DE NOMBREUSES SEQUENCES REFLEXIVES ET LA FACON DONT IL DECLENCHE DES EXPANSIONS NARRATIVES IMPREVISIBLES. EN UN PREMIER TEMPS, NOUS MONTRONS COMMENT LA RELATION ENTRE LA LITTERATURE ET LA POLITIQUE EST L'OCCASION D'UN RENOUVEAU STYLISTIQUE CHEZ GENET. CELUI-CI DEFAIT LA LOGIQUE DU DISCOURS ENGAGE PAR UN TON IRONIQUE ET UNE CRITIQUE GENERALISEE QUI MODIFIE LA RELATION ENTRE L'AMI ET L'ENNEMI. EN UN SECOND MOMENT, LA VISION ET L'IMAGE SONT ABORDEES DE MANIERE A INDIQUER EN QUOI LA RELATION ENTRE LE VISIBLE ET L'INVISIBLE EST TRANSFORMEE PAR UN RECIT QUI PRATIQUE UNE ANALOGIE INTENSIVE. LES ESSAIS DE GENET CONSACRES A REMBRANDT ET A GIACOMETTI SONT ANALYSES COMME DES EXEMPLES PRIVILEGIES DU RAPPORT AU VISIBLE DANS L'OEUVRE COMPLETE. NOTRE TROISIEME PARTIE SYNTHETISE LES COMMENTAIRES STYLISTIQUES PRECEDENTS EN LES PROLONGEANT A PARTIR DE DEUX NOUVELLES PROBLEMATIQUES : CELLE DE LA METAPHORE FILEE DANS SA RELATION AU DICTIONNAIRE ET CELLE DU NOM PROPRE DANS SON RAPPORT AUX CLICHES. L'ENJEU DE LA THESE EST DE MONTRER QUE LES RECITS, NOTAMMENT POSTHUMES, SONT A REEVALUER AFIN D'EN DEGAGER LA DIMENSION POETIQUE ET DE DONNER A LIRE L'EXPERIENCE DU SUJET DE L'ECRITURE DANS SON RAPPORT A LA LANGUE.
Résumé / Abstract : GENET'S WRITINGS ARE STUDIED AS EXAMPLES OF POETIC NARRATIVE. WHETHER THE TEXTS APPEAR AS NOVELS, AUTOBIOGRAPHY OR HISTORICAL NARRATIVE, ALL SHARE AN ENIGMATIC NARRATIVE PROGRESSION MARKED BY DIGRESSION. USING THE THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES OF BARTHES, DEGUY, DERRIDA AND RIFFATERRE, THE THESIS ANALYSES THE MOTIVATION OF NARRATIVE STRUCTURE IN GENET'S WORKS, FOCUSSING ON HIS SPECIFIC USE OF RHETORICAL FIGURES AND LEXICAL POLYSEMY. FIRSTLY, THE RELATION BETWEEN LITERATURE AND POLITICS IS CONSIDERED, SHOWING THAT THE FORMAL ASPECTS OF THE TEXTS, THEIR PARTICULAR USE OF IRONY AND THE GENERALISATION OF THEIR POLITICAL CRITICISM DISALLOW ANY UNIVOCAL READING DESPITE THEIR HISTORICAL REFERENT AND POLEMICAL CONCERNS. SECONDLY, THE CONCEPTION OF VISIBILITY AND THE IMAGE IN GENET'S WORKS IS ANALYSED. GENET'S AOSTHETIC ESSAYS ON REMBRANDT AND GIACOMETTI SHOW HOW A DYNAMIC NOTION OF THE RELATION BETWEEN NARRATION, DESCRIPTION AND THE POETIC AND VISUAL IMAGE INFLUENCES NARRATIVE PROGRESSION. FINALLY, THE THIRD PART OF THE THESIS SYNTHESISES THE RESULTS OF THE FIRST TWO CONCERNING THE RHETORICAL AND LEXICAL SPECIFICITY OF GENET'S STYLE, NOTABLY HIS USE OF POLYSEMY AND PLAYS ON WORDS AS A MOTOR OF NARRATIVE EXPANSION. TWO NEW ASPECTS ARE CONSIDERED: THE RUNNING METAPHOR AND ITS RELATION TO DICTIONARY DEFINTIONS; THE TEXTUAL EFFECTS OF THE USE OF PROPER NAMES AND CLICHES. THE THESIS ARGUES THAT GENET'S NARRATIVE WRITINGS, AND HIS POSTHUMOUS TEXTS IN PARTICULAR, SHOULD BE REEVALUATED FROM A PERSPECTIVE PAYING MORE ATTENTION TO MEANING GENERATED BY SEMIOSIS THAN TO THE SIMPLE REPRESENTATIONAL LOGIC OF MIMESIS. SELF- REFERENCE, DIGRESSION AND THE CAPACITY OF ANY SINGLE WORD TO GENERATE NARRATIVE SEQUENCES DEFINE THE SPECIFITY OF GENET'S STYLE WHILST ENABLING HIS NARRATIVE WRITINGS TO RADICALLY RECONSIDER POLITICAL AND AESTHETIC NOTIONS, AS WELL AS THE WRITING SUBJECT'S RELATION TO LANGUAGE ITSELF.