L'esthétique du genre court chez Maupassant
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Abstract EN:
The objective of this thesis is to describe how maupassant tales a moral approach to this end. The thesis focuses on the narrative specific procedures to the tale as well as to the choice of the topics. Thus, the first part deals with the enonciative mechanisms and to characters considered as narrators. This part is divided into narrative presentation used by maupassant; the second one deals with the motivations that the author confers to his narrator; the third one considers the charaterization of the teller while the fourth tries to describe the story-teller art. The second part is a thematic review of the tales based on the recurrent themes in maupassant works. Finally, the third part consists of the study of orientation and description.
Abstract FR:
Le but de cette these est de montrer comment le conte de maupassant vehicule une pensee moralisatrice. Pour y parvenir, elle se concentre sur les procedes narratifs particuliers au recit "conte" ainsi que sur le choix des themes. La premiere partie se consacre au mecanisme enonciatif et au statut du personnage auquel l'auteur deleque la parole. Cette partie comprend quatre chapitres: le premier examine les differents modes de presentation du recit exploites par maupassant, le second se penche sur les motivations que l'auteur prete a son narrateur, le troisieme s'interesse a la caracterisation du conteur et la quatrieme tente de definir l'art du conteur represente. La seconde partie est un recensement thematique des contes qui s'effectue autour des themes recurrents chez maupassant. Enfin, la troisieme partie etudie deux composantes du conte: la concentration narrative et la description.