Au carrefour des cultures: La poesie d'Anna de Noailles.
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Title
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Au carrefour des cultures: La poesie d'Anna de Noailles.
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Identifier
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AAI9530852
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identifier
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9530852
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Creator
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Bargenda, Angela.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Bettina Knapp
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Date
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1995
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Language
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French
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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 | Literature, Modern
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Abstract
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Anna de Noailles (1876-1933), one of the most renowned literary figures of her time, is largely unknown to the reader of today. The goal of my thesis is to restore the feminine voice inscribed in her poetic discourse, with a special focus on the intertextual dimension of her writings.;I first examine the inner mechanisms of the creative process from a historical perspective. In considering various theories about the production of literary texts, Anna de Noailles's thoughts are integrated into a broader context, stretching from Plato to 20th-century poetry. This allows me to define the distinctive features of her poetry, where the psychological momentum is instrinsically identifiable with the literary aspect of her poems. Indeed, the generative source of her creativity lies in a compelling need to set in motion a verbal dynamic, which becomes a self-propelling force, indicative of her emotionally driven writings. Hence, her physical corpus becomes embodied in the textual one, so as to engage an intimate dialogue between the author and the text. Literary phenomena, such as abundance of pastoral poetry, stress on Nietzschean heroism, diverse aspects of death, image of fire and predilection for botanic and oriental sceneries, are protean figures of her creative impulse. This poetry, universal in scope, seeks to disrupt conventional aesthetic patterns by creating an interactive area, in which cyclic structures are predominant. They translate the poet's moral tenets, as well as her perception of space and time. Through underlying centripetal and centrifugal forces, the text receives its multi-faceted dimension, whereby the foregrounding of language itself represents a central component. Diverse syntactic comments show how Anna de Noailles creates new structures of meaning by using a particular order of language. Such is the case in her amoristic pieces, where her critical inquiry opposes any preconceived notion and opens the path for an existential experience. The same is true for the musical register of these verses. The idiosyncrasies of her writings are exemplified by an intertextual approach with Rilke. Her uniqueness consists in the synthesizing and universalistic claim of her poetry, defined as a pluralistic space.
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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.
