thesis

Le mot vide et l'expression lexicale du vide dans l'oeuvre de paul eluard

Defense date:

Jan. 1, 1994

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Lyon 2

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Abstract EN:

The word vide, a term concrete enough to participate in the construction of images and abstract enough not to be bound to the individual character of image but leading to a structure that goes over it, constitute the starting point of a stylistic study concerning more generally the lexical expression of emptyness in paul eluard's work. The analysis of the word's signification and of the terms which are in association with it in his poems - more particularly its synonymalike expressions, such as desert and mur - reveals a process of reformulation and contextual elaboration of meaning.

Abstract FR:

Le mot vide, terme suffisamment concret pour participer a l'elaboration d'images, suffisamment abstrait pour renvoyer a une structure depassant le caractere individuel de l'image, constitue le point de depart d'une etude stylistique portant plus generalement sur l'expression lexicale du vide dans l'oeuvre de paul eluard. L'analyse de la signification du mot et des termes qui lui sont associes dans les poemes d'eluard - plus particulierement ses parasynonymes, comme desert et mur - met a jour un travail de reformulation et d'elaboration contextuelle du sens.