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A comparative study of formal and thematic responses to the representation of marriage in victorian literature in john fowles's postmodern novel the french lieutenant's woman and jeffery eugenides's metamodern novel the marriage plot
(Université M'Hamed Bougara : Faculté de Technologie, 2023) Aissa Dilmi, Sabrina; Chouiten, Lynda(Directeur de thèse); Benmezal, Farid(Directeur de thèse)
This thesis is a comparative study of literary responses to the representation of marriage in Victorian literature in John Fowles’s Postmodern novel The French Lieutenant’s Woman and Jeffery Eugenides’s Metamodern novel The Marriage Plot. It aims specifically to examine the different ways in which Fowles and Eugenides respond to the form and content of the Victorian novel in treating marriage in relation to the respective philosophical understanding of truth. In essence, both authors seek a literary tradition that is more fully responsive to the cultural and material impulses of their new worlds. To demonstrate Fowles’s deconstruction and Eugenides’s reconstruction of truth, this thesis draws its methodological foundations on form and content from Bakhtinian, Marxist, Feminist and Metamodern concepts. These theories are pertinent to this research because, despite using various methodologies, they all elicit the Postmodern and Metamodern textual implications that Fowles and Eugenides use to find a valid contemporary voice among the overpowering influence of the classic Victorian marriage plot. The results of this study show how the Postmodern and Metamodern texts reveal a deep crack in the traditional marriage in the Victorian novel. These texts create a rich and valid source from which to examine the development of form. This study simultaneously discusses content, and how its narratives connect to larger cultural narratives of class and gender. The multidisciplinary aspect of this research emphasizes the interconnection between nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century literary works and cultural history. Fowles turns to the Victorian novel to deconstruct the nineteenth-century fiction and marriage, rejecting its objective truth. Eugenides, however, oscillates towards both the Victorian and Postmodern fiction in an attempt to restore truth.
Musical aesthetics in the poetry of T.S eliot and wallace stevens
(Université M'Hamed Bougara Boumerdès : Faculté des lettres et des langues, 2022) Belleili, Hicham Ali; Chouiten, Lynda(Directeur de thèse)
This study demonstrates Eliot’s and Stevens’ use of musical aesthetics in poetry.Previous critics demonstrated to an extent the interdisciplinary experimental musical turn Eliot and Stevens took with regards to the music of poetry. Nevertheless, those same critics limited their investigations to questions of forms and structures, and disregarded the impact such musico- poetical assimilations have in the formulation of themes and poetical meaning. In this thesis, I attempt to go beyond the set of formal analogies already covered by previous critics, in order to consider the thematic and poetical impact musical aesthetics plays in Stevens’ and Eliot’s poetry. To achieve this aim, this study considers Eliot’s and Stevens’ use of musical aesthetics in poetry as a process of literary defamiliarization, as a process of literary misreading, as well as an interdisciplinary process of musico poetical assimilation. Following those different approaches of analysis, this study demonstrates Eliot’s and Stevens’ defamiliarization of musical metaphors, and soundscape descriptions from the Romantics, as an expression of their modernist skepticism. Furthermore, as it concentrates on Eliot’s and Stevens’ misreading of Dante’s use of music in The Divine comedy, this thesis demonstrates Eliot’s and Stevens’ use of music as an expression of their distinct religious sensibilities. In conjunction to the textual analysis of musical metaphors, and soundscape descriptions, this study considers Eliot’s and Stevens’ interdisciplinary use of musical techniques of composition in poetry. As it illustrates logical connections between metaphorical representations of music in poetry, and the interdisciplinary use of music in poetry, this thesis demonstrates that music, under its interdisciplinary and poetical forms, communicates Eliot’s and Stevens’ thematic preoccupations as modernist poets.

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