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Dévoilement et dérobade : lecture de l'univers romanesque de Daniel Defoe, 1719-1724

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Auteur / Autrice : Elisabeth Soulier-Détis
Direction : Paul-Gabriel Boucé
Type : Thèse de doctorat
Discipline(s) : Études anglaises
Date : Soutenance en 1995
Etablissement(s) : Paris 3

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The corpus is made up of daniel defoe's (1660?-1731) six novels : robinson crusoe (1719), memoirs of a cavalier (1720), captain singleton (1720), moll flanders (1722), colonel jack (1722), roxana 1724). The method is that of semiotics and tackles the themes of veiling, unveiling and evading. The study is based on an analysis of the networks of images referring to clothing, nakedness and disguise. The issues of survival, of segregation and sexuality are dealt with through the questioning of what, broadly speaking, clothes man. What is he in a state of nature, of suffering, of absolute truth, as delineated by his nakedness? how are his identity and alienation made clear via a narrative medium that disquises as much as it reveals? the dialectics of hiding, confessing and evading is both a theme and a technique : for this two-fold reason, it constitutes the organic metaphor founding defoe's fiction and the approach of this thesis.