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Vers le héros téméraire ou un drame existentiel de Francis Ponge
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Auteur / Autrice : Asako Yokomichi
Direction : Jean-Luc Steinmetz
Type : Thèse de doctorat
Discipline(s) : Langue et littérature françaises
Date : Soutenance en 2015
Etablissement(s) : Nantes
Ecole(s) doctorale(s) : École doctorale Sociétés, Cultures, Echanges (SCE) (Angers)
Partenaire(s) de recherche : autre partenaire : Université Nantes-Angers-Le Mans - COMUE (2009-2015)

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This study is aimed at describing the development of Francis Ponge's poetry, with emphasis on the role of heroism in this work. Part 1 looks at events leading to the development of his masterpiece, Le parti pris des choses. Facinated by the image of a hero that he encountered in his childhood , he developped "poesie active" (active poetry), based on a violent hate against emotion and symbolism. However, his earliest works attest to the difficulty of realizing his initial plan : He did nothing but complain, without presenting a new poetic method. Early in the 1920s, he began to describe a new program that materialized as Le parti pris des choses, under the influence of contemporary poetic works, such as the unanimism begun by Jules Romains, the critical works of Jean pauhan (who became with which Ponge was associated with for a short while in 1930. Building a new poetic style allowed the poet to identify himself with a hero, but his heroism developed further. Part 2 of this report follows the evolution of his heroism from 1930s to 1950s, that lead the poet to invent a new form of prose poem, wich destroys the classical notion of a poem. His heroism was fortified by the reading of Albert Camus's the Myth of Sisyphus and the hero's image is completed at last by reflection on Malherbe, that Ponge considered as the "foolhardy hero". As a result of poetic inspiration from Malherbe, Ponge's works assume the character of this hero, distinguished by temerity and virility.