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A QUEST FOR HAPPINESS WILLIAM MORRIS’S NEWS FROM NOWHERE AND WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS’S A TRAVELER FROM ALTRURIA AND THROUGH THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE
(University of Algiers. Faculty of Arts and Languages, 2008) Bensaou, Selma; Amrane, Nadjia (Directeur de thèse)
This research work entitled A Quest for Happiness is a comparative study of the utopian romances of the English writer, William Morris (News from Nowhere), and his American counterpart, William Dean Howells (A Traveler from Altruria with its sequel Through the Eye of the Needle). Both writers, in reaction to their 19th century competitive and ugly societies tried to imagine a fairer and more beautiful world. This work is a comparison of the two writers' respective representations of what an ideal society is or should be, with a view to exploring and pinpointing the similarities and differences between the two on the basis of three major ideas which are: Egalitarianism, Agrarianism, and Art. This constitutes our thematic concern in this research. This comparative study will also examine the aesthetic side of the romances as a specific literary genre. The similarities and differences in the romances are explored in the light of the Cultural Materialist theory (essentially as developed in Raymond Williams's seminal work Culture and Society). This approach will enable us to link the romances to their 19th century context, on the one hand, and to open new venues of interpretation more relevant to the 21st century social, economic and even ecological issues, on the other hand. This study is divided into four chapters. The first chapter entitled "The Egalitarian Land" discusses the egalitarian doctrines, and then moves to a close study of the text showing the two writers' egalitarian views. The second chapter entitled "The Agrarian Garden" looks at agrarianism in the contexts of 19th century England and America, a doctrine which helps in the establishment of a more egalitarian society to replace the unfair 19th century social system. A study of the text follows to show the agrarian stance of the two utopias as tackled through the dramatization of incidents and situations in the two romances. The third chapter entitled "Of Beauty and Soul" highlights the artistic side of Morris and his influence by the social and art critic Ruskin. Morris advocated "popular art", an art performed by, and accessible to the common man. This idea he shared with Howells. This part, on the other hand, insists on Howells's more markedly religious stance. The fourth and last chapter deals with the aesthetic study of the two romances. It looks at some major literary devices such as setting and atmosphere, characterization, plot and point of view. It shows how far both Morris's and Howells's romances conform to the genre and prove adequate to the presentation of their ideal society.
Haunted Hunters Moby Dick and Heart of Darkness
(University of Algiers. Faculty of Arts and Letters, 2007) Bouranane, Aïcha; Amrane, Nadjia (Directeur de thèse)
This dissertation consists of a comparative study between Moby Dick (1851), written by the American writer Herman Melville, and Heart of Darkness (1902), written by the Polish author Joseph Conrad. In spite of the distance which dissociates those two works both in time and in space, a number of affinities make them similar to a significant extent. Thus the present study offers to bring the various affinities, but differences as well into light, and discuss them thoroughly. The comparative approach to the two narratives is based on Mikhail Bakhtin's theory which considers that a text is an absorption of and a reply to another or other texts. Our study may also be supported by Julia Kristeva's concept of intertextuality or the transposition of one system of signs into another. In this sense, our comparative analysis will first discuss the themes and worldview which are unfolded through the two works. After that, the stylistic and symbolic aspect of the two works will be studied. Finally, both similarities and differences noted between the two narratives along the precedent analysis will be assessed in the light of Harold Bloom's theory of influence. Thus we shall explain the nature of the relationship between Moby Dick and Heart of Darkness or how that Conrad has been influenced by Melville's Moby Dick. In other words, we shall demonstrate how that Heart of Darkness shows both the expression of Melville's strong influence on Conrad and the latter's attempt at freeing himself from the haunting spirit of the White Whale.
Edith Wharton and René Girard’s Sacrificial Crisis in The House of Mirth and The Custom of the Country
(University of Algiers. Faculty of Arts and Languages, 2006) Loulia, Nabila; Amrane, Nadjia (Directeur de thèse)
“Social and Cultural Crisis in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth and The Custom of the Country” is a work based on René Girard’s theory of mimetic desire. Recent critical works have demonstrated a renewed interest in the works of Edith Wharton, focusing on varied aspects of her works, and trying to rehabilitate her place in the literary ground. In the hope of adding to this rehabilitation, this work is centred on a very specific subject, which is the mimetic desire, and the sacrificial crisis advocated and explained by René Girard in his works Violence and the Sacred., Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World and Deceit, Desire and the Novel, Self and Other in Literary Structure. Edith Wharton wrote at a critical period of change in the American society, and her works, especially The House of Mirth and The Custom of the Country, reflect the aspects and consequences of this change. In this work, I tried to show that the sacrificial crisis as advocated by René Girard exists in these two novels, I divided the work into four chapters, the first one containing a social, cultural and literary background, the second dealing with the social aspect of the novels and the form of the sacrificial crisis in the social groups and their relationships. The third chapter deals with the cultural aspect of the novels and the crisis in the cultural order described by the author. In both second and third chapters, I showed the different cases of mimetic desire and the results it leads to, as I described the situation prior to the sacrifice, namely the sacrificial crisis itself. In the last chapter, I dealt with the aspects of violence that characterise the society described by Wharton and the ultimate step in the crisis which is the sacrifice of the victim held to be the V cause of all the chaos and violence which prevail in the society. In the same chapter, I tried to give a literary analysis, and show the link between Wharton’s subject matter and the literary genre she uses in her novels, such as the novel of manners, realism, and some aspects of naturalism. Finally, I concluded the work with an assessment of the applicability of Girard’s theory of mimetic desire to the two selected novels, and gave a small comparison between my readings of the same.

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