L'histoire de la thèse vue par les écrivains -- Attaquer la Sorbonne de l'interieur (Charles Péguy) -- Le contournement du thétique : Jean Paulhan et La NRF --Le doctorat barthésien, ou le désir contrarié -- Les dialogues de la thèse et de l'œuvre (de 1975 à nos jours).
Summary:
The thesis is often considered to be a wholly academic genre. However, since the mid-nineteenth century, several great French writers have written a doctoral thesis, each in an original way. Mallarmé began a linguistics thesis in order to recover from an existential crisis, Péguy's thesis is nothing but a long insult to the Sorbonne, Paulhan's thesis is lost in countless drafts written over more than 35 years. Céline submitted a self-portrait barely concealed behind a tribute to a Hungarian doctor, and Barthes said that the thesis should be a "corps erotique," an "erotic body." Antithèses is a historical inquiry where the literary and academic worlds meet and challenge each other. It is also an anti-manual of theses in which writers question academic norms and standards while distilling their writing advice.
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