http://archives.univ-biskra.dz/handle/123456789/1152 2026-04-06T19:15:56Z http://archives.univ-biskra.dz/handle/123456789/1569 Titre: The Re-Writings of Conrad’s Heart of DarknessAurae in E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India: A Comparative Study Auteur(s): Abdelaziz NACER Résumé: This dissertation discusses the relationship existing between A Passage to India and Heart of Darkness by focusing on the process of rewriting in fiction. In terms of a range of critical theories, it throws light on the similarities and divergences operating between the two pieces of writing. Thus, Forster’s text is discussed as a response to and a repetition of Conrad’s. The point here, however, is not merely to show the way Forster’s novel echoes Conrad’s, but the way that discourses, as a set of statements involving certain assumptions and insights about specific issues, are transposed into one another. In this connection, the main focus is on how Forster uses his novel not only to reject the period’s prevailing values in life and art, but also to defiantly assert his difference and re-appropriates this rebellious tone to criticise the Western mind. The two novels are examined and made to interact with each other in terms of dialogical and intertextual principles...... 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z http://archives.univ-biskra.dz/handle/123456789/1568 Titre: Social Constraints and the Quest for a Spiritual Identity: A Comparative Study between Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy and Richard Wright’s Native Son Auteur(s): GOUFFI Mohammed Résumé: The present research delves into the social constraints, behind the tragedies of Clyde Griffiths and Bigger Thomas: protagonists of An American Tragedy and Native Son .The study equally endeavors at shedding light on the protagonist’s journey of quest for a religious identity. The dissertation therefore aims at (1) eliciting the various societal constraints (2) identifying the different aspects necessary to the establishment of a spiritual identity (3) disclosing the influence of the social constraints on the establishment of a spiritual identity within the materialistic confines of America’s twentieth century society. In their fictional renditions, Theodore Dreiser and Richard Wright denounce society for holding responsibility of the protagonists’ acts. For them, Griffiths and Thomas are not culprits, since they do not act out of their free will. Society imposes on them heavy restraints and compulsion. Accordingly, their criminality is the inevitable ramification of society’s restrictions. From a naturalistic perspective, societal constraints are to censure, not the weak Thomas and Griffiths, entirely ignorant to the law of social deterministic game. Dreiser and Wright, in other words, view them as blameless products of a disclosed environment, which predetermined their actions. In a sense, the two novels constitute an excruciating testimony to the consequences of the social constraints..... 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z http://archives.univ-biskra.dz/handle/123456789/1567 Titre: Puritanical Dimensions in The Scarlet Letter: Moral Demands Versus Individual Needs Auteur(s): Kahhoul Imene Résumé: This thesis concerns itself with those obstacles in American experience that placed themselves in the way of the search of happiness. The Puritan ethic is examined in relation to Hawthorne’s romance The Scarlet Letter. Its heroine, Hester Prynne, though on a binary position as a woman in Puritan society, rebels power and puts up a tenacious fight against the colonial rule combined by church and state. From her rebellious actions, we can see her struggle with the Puritan community. She becomes totally different from the traditional women who are always obedient to the unfair rules enacted by society. She has won not only the self-reliance in economy, but also in thought. It can be sensed that a new image for the individual is born. This dissertation tries to analyze Hester’s conflict as an individual with society and its strict morals at the respect of her rebellious spirit, self-reliance and strong mind. 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z http://archives.univ-biskra.dz/handle/123456789/1566 Titre: Feminist/ Womanist Aesthetics and the Quest for Selfhood in the Black American Novel. A Special Reference to Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and Zora Neal Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God Auteur(s): Amri Chenini Boutheina Résumé: Written by two pillars of the American black women’s tradition, Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Color Purple trace the lives of two coloured women in a typically racist and sexist American society of the early 20th century. The protagonists in the two books are women who progress physically and emotionally through a shower of social paradigms. During their quest for self-knowledge and spiritual fulfilment, they clash with the belittling values that their daily circumstances impose upon them. Both novels are a kind of "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Black Woman". They depict the process of a woman’s coming to consciousness, finding her voice and developing the power to lead a life on her own. This fresh and muchneeded perspective was met with incomprehension by the male literary establishment in the case of Hurston. However, Walker’s experiences decades later were very successful in a literary climate that changes with the tick of the second; despite controversies about the image of black culture and the reviving of old stereotypes. Thematically and technically Walker and Hurston reclaim two territories: the experience of uneducated rural southern women and the language of black folk culture. Our purpose in this study is to show essentially how black women writers use their literary productions to tell the stories of black women who try to find out the truth about themselves and the world they live in through different circumstances and in different cultures. To achieve this goal, we found it necessary to employ textual and thematic criticism. 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z