Auteur / Autrice : | Samir Manuel Sellami |
Direction : | Jonathan Pollock, Fernando Resende |
Type : | Thèse de doctorat |
Discipline(s) : | Littérature générale et comparée |
Date : | Soutenance le 20/02/2018 |
Etablissement(s) : | Perpignan en cotutelle avec Universidade federal fluminense (Niteroi, Brésil) |
Ecole(s) doctorale(s) : | École Doctorale INTER-MED (Perpignan) |
Jury : | Examinateurs / Examinatrices : Pascale Amiot-Jouenne, Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Benjamim Picado |
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Starting from the notion of hyperbole as rhetoric figure and philosophical concept, my dissertation places Pynchon's and Bolaño's maximalist novels in a wider context shaped by the emergence of the Anthropocene as a new historical and geological epoch, by the return of realism in the humanities, by the renewed philosophical interest for ontological and metaphysical questions, by the possibility of a posthumanist phenomenology and by literature's 'anxiety of obsolescence' in a post-literate age. In this context, I examine a variety of literary questions (such as abundance as a modality of uncertainty, the dramaturgy of light and darkness, metaphors, ekphrasis etc.) to reveal the novels' hyperbolic structures that can nevertheless be inscribed within a realist framework. In Pynchon's and Bolaño's novels, hyperbolic doubts and linguisticuncertainty punctuate the narrative universes. If these doubts and uncertainties are over and over again vanquished by the adventurous labor of figuration, they are never fully abolished, but form the dark core of literary discourse and, after all, any linguistic act.