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Item 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.Item Existentialism as humanism in philip larkin’s poetry(2012) Omar, KamelThis study explores the notions of Existentialism and Humanism in Philip Larkin's poetry. Relying on Jean Paul Sartre's idea that "Existentialism is Humanism", it aims at demonstrating that Larkin incorporated existentialist thought in his poems, which contributed to reinforce the humanist perspective in his poetry. Existentialism and Humanism are thus discussed in the light of Larkin's supposed negativist view of life. Consequently, his pessimism is taken as the starting point of the argument to show that beyond his potentially pessimistic view lies the belief in humanity's potential for transcendence and regeneration. This binary perception of life, which is only one aspect of Larkin's dualistic perspective, is rendered here through the discussion of existentialism, first, and then of humanism. This dichotomous structure of this thesis stems from --but is also intended to shed more light on-- the tension that characterizes Larkin's texts. Larkin employed thus existentialism to show that in order to be 'human', Man needs to confront difficulties, his flaws, his contradictions, his predicament, and even his barbarity. This work assumes that Larkin's dwelling on the negative side of life in general, contributes to highlight what is positive in it. Consequently, pessimism and optimism are examined together in order to allow the exploration of the philosophical view behind this dualistic perception