La demesure dans salammbo de flaubert
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Abstract EN:
If salammbo may appear, because it demanded such a huge working out and such a slow elaboration process, as a work of excessiveness, it is even so considering the themes running throughout it. Indeed, by means of descriptions in which are prevailing a taste for the colossal and profuseness, flaubert has achieved an aesthetics of excessiveness of his own that goes together with a rhetorical use of barbarism. In the present doctoral thesis, it is our plan to analyse how, although he constantly keeps to his very classical taste for measure, flaubert creates a feeling of excessiveness in his work. Therefore, are studied therein the various processes wich enable him to create either the sublime or the anti-sublime which are the tools of excessiveness. Finally, we try to define the meta
Abstract FR:
Si, par sa preparation colossale et sa lente elaboration, salammbo apparait deja comme une oeuvre de la demesure, elle l'est aussi a travers les themes qui la parcourent. En effet, par le biais de descriptions ou dominent l'aspect monumental et la profusion, flaubert a mis en place une esthetique de la demesure a laquelle se joint une exploitation rhetorique de la barbarie. Le but de cette these est d'analyser comment flaubert, tout en restant fidele a son gout tres classique de la mesure, cree dans son oeuvre une impression de demesure. De ce fait, nous etudions les divers procedes qui lui permettent de creer ce sublime ou cet anti-sublime, outils de la demesure. Enfin, nous essayons de definir la valeur metaphysique de la demesure a travers la dialectique de la plenitude et du neant, du desir et du renoncement, de l'absolu et du relatif.