Écrire l'immortalité : La nature et la transcendance chez Colette et Hannah Arendt

dc.contributor.advisor	Corbin, Kathryne
dc.contributor.advisor	Brust, Imke
dc.contributor.author	Coleman, Jacob
dc.date.accessioned	2021-07-13T17:59:23Z
dc.date.available	2021-07-13T17:59:23Z
dc.date.issued	2021
dc.description.abstract	In my thesis (text in French), I work primarily with Hannah Arendt's conception of immortality and eternity as proposed in The Human Condition (1958) to widely interpret depictions of "time" and "nature" in two works by Colette, Les Heures longues (1917) and Le blé en herbe (1923). I propose a definition of a "natural time" inspired by Arendt's immortal cycle, and extend this definition to the homeostatic processes within the human body, simultaneously speculating on the relationship between literature and immortality. In the final chapter, I examine Julia Kristeva's commentary of Colette, critiquing Kristeva's use of the Freudian "death drive" as not wholly applicable to Colette. I suggest an alternative view of a creative death, inspired by Simone Weil's mystic theology.
dc.description.sponsorship	Haverford College. Department of French and Francophone Studies
dc.description.sponsorship	Haverford College. Department of German and German Studies
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10066/23596
dc.language.iso	fre
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dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.title	Écrire l'immortalité : La nature et la transcendance chez Colette et Hannah Arendt
dc.type	Thesis

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