AUTEURS EN QUETE D'AUTORITE: LE CONFLIT ENTRE L'AMOUR ET L'HONNEUR CHEZ CHRETIEN DE TROYES, PASCAL, RACINE, SADE ET PROUST. (FRENCH TEXT).
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Title
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AUTEURS EN QUETE D'AUTORITE: LE CONFLIT ENTRE L'AMOUR ET L'HONNEUR CHEZ CHRETIEN DE TROYES, PASCAL, RACINE, SADE ET PROUST. (FRENCH TEXT).
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Identifier
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AAI8601694
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identifier
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8601694
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Creator
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SMOLARSKI, IREN SOLANGE.
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Contributor
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Frederick Goldin
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Date
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1985
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Literature, Romance
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Abstract
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In this dissertation, using touchstones of French literature, (1) I evaluate the concepts of love and honor, and I examine how their conflicting relationship affects the reading--one's perception and one's perspective--of the works considered. (2) I show how this conflict between love and honor defines the form and the meaning of the interplay between the personal and the social. (3) I explore the ways in which the forces underlying the conflict are the forces that can authorize forms of expression, of which the chief here primarily considered is authorship.;Thus, more specifically, through the study of works very different from one another and, conjointly, the study of a motif common to all of them, analogies between the diverse mental realities that govern these works appear. At the source of the conflict of love and honor, or between the person and the world, lies a feeling of guilt shown to be the sign and consequence of sexual repression. From Chretien to Proust the relationship of guilt and sexual repression grows more and more clear. While Le Chevalier de la Charrete, the Pensees, Phedre, Les crimes de l'amour constitute an impasse in the creative destiny of their respective authors, Proust, the inheritor of the literary history of the conflict of love and honor, solves the problem. The narrator of A la Recherche du Temps Perdu achieves his creative destiny. Proust demonstrates how the liberation of the creative force depends on the destruction of all the forms that the repressed and guilty self has projected onto the world in order to appropriate it and integrate itself in it. Violence, tyranny, lying, jealousy, idolatry are the forms which, in the other authors studied, constitute the content of the feeling of honor perverted by its function as repressor of love. In Proust, the resolution of the conflict coincides with the process of the birth of authorship.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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French
