Le sens de l'espace dans les oeuvres de Christina Stead
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Abstract EN:
La notion d'espace dans les oeuvres de christina stead est traitee tant a un niveau cognitif qu7a un niveau affectif. Nous etudions l'etre, non pas d'une facion abstraite mais en tant qu'etre incarne dans un milieu. Il y a une interdependance entre l'environnement physique et social, aussi bien que psychique. Le cadre physique joue un role structurant dans les phenomenes de la perception et de la representation spatiale de soi dans un lieu et une periode determines. L'espace personnel, qui varie d'un individu a l'autre, est fondamental pour la preservation de la personnalite. De l'espace sensible on passe a l'imaginaire, un sentiment d(immense nostalgie de l'illimite que nous eprouvons, une compulsion a partir sur de vastes oceans tout en contemplant le ciel etoile au-dessus de nous. Cette zone de voyage et d'exploration, ce desir d'aller vers l'inconnu n'est pas un concept theorique mais un etat d'ame qui determine la difference entre moi et le monde. Il y a une dialectique de l'expansion et du repli sur soi-meme que l'on trouve dans tous les personnages de christina stead. Toutefois, on ne peut se replier dans un monde imaginaire et tout elan createur n'a de signification que s'il s'accompagne d'ouvertures au monde ; c'est pourquoi christina stead a ete surnommee "a waker and dreamer".
Abstract FR:
The notion of space in the works of christina stead is being studied on the cognitive and affective level. Man is not analysed from an abstract point of view but as being part of his surroundings. There is an interdependence between his physical, social and psychological environment. His sense of perception and his self-image are largely affected by the physical factors around him, the place and the particular period in which he lives. Each individual creates his own personal space or buffer zone which varies from one individual to the other and is fundamental for the preservation of personality. His field of the perceptive and sensitive is also extended to the imaginary. There is that usual nostalgic feeling of the unlimited space, this compulsion to travel on the wide oceans whilst gazing at the stars. This desire to explore and go towards the unknown is not a theoretical concept but what we call our soul, that which determines the difference between the self and the world. There is a dialectic between expansion and withdrawal which we find in all christina stead's characters, yet one cannot live in his inner space, his imaginary world and his vital impulse has meaning only if it opens up to the world, that is why christina stead has been surnamed "a waker and dreamer".