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De Darwin À La Littérature : Un Regard Évolutionniste Sur Cinq Romans D'ian UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES _____ ÉCOLE DOCTORALE SOCIÉTÉS, CULTURES, ÉCHANGES (SCE) ) Année 2015 N° attribué par la bibliothèque De Darwin à la littérature : un regard évolutionniste sur cinq romans d'Ian McEwan et de Margaret Drabble (Enduring Love, The Peppered Moth, Saturday, The Sea Lady, Solar ___________ THÈSE DE DOCTORAT Discipline : ANGLAIS Spécialité : LITTÉRATURE Présentée et soutenue publiquement par Bruno ARQUIÉ Le 4 décembre 2015, devant le jury ci-dessous Président Mme Catherine LANONE (Université Paris 3) Rapporteurs Mme Laurence TALAIRACH-VIELMAS (Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès) Mme Nicole TERRIEN (Université Rennes 2) Examinateurs M. Stéphane TIRARD ( Université de Nantes) Directeur de thèse M. Georges LETISSIER (Université de Nantes) 1 REMERCIEMENTS Je remercie Georges Letissier. Sans sa direction infaillible, sans sa lucide bienveillance, sans sa patience inentamable, ni sans sa chaleureuse humanité, ce travail serait resté un fouillis « inextricable » de mots et d'idées. Je remercie Laëtitia d'avoir tenu la barre du quotidien, notamment pendant que j’exprimais des idées indispensables sur l’investissement parental. Nos conversations quotidiennes ont inspiré une bonne part de ce travail. Ce travail est tout particulièrement dédié à Gabrielle et Aloys, qui, bientôt, écriront et penseront mieux et plus vite que leur vieil étudiant de père. Qu'ils veuillent trouver ici ses plates excuses pour ce qui va suivre. 2 Dans les citations nous utiliserons les abréviations suivantes : EL pour Enduring Love SA pour Saturday SO pour Solar PM pour The Peppered Moth SL pour The Sea Lady 3 TABLE DES MATIÈRES INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................9 PREMIÈRE PARTIE................................................................................................23 1. Première partie : Circonscrire le moment romanesque.....................................25 1.1. Une continuité entre les romans étudiés et le texte darwinien ?............................25 1.2. Une coupe transversale : 1859-2015.....................................................................40 1.2.1. À travers les roches plissées.......................................................................................40 1.2.2. Suivre le filon darwinien............................................................................................47 1.2.2.1. Les romances scientifiques, anticipation, dystopies...........................................48 1.2.2.2. Romans sociologiques, sagas familiales, romans de formation.........................53 1.2.2.3. Une typologie des romans darwiniens à l'ère postmoderne................................59 1.3. Classifier les romans étudiés : néo-, post- et hyper-..............................................73 1.3.1. Des romans néo-naturalistes.......................................................................................73 1.3.2. Des romans post- ou hyper-modernes ?.....................................................................89 1.4. Un effet de convergence......................................................................................105 1.4.1. Convergences personnelles et ontologiques.............................................................105 1.4.2. Convergence épistémologique..................................................................................114 1.4.3. Espaces et environnements recomposés...................................................................119 4 DEUXIÈME PARTIE..............................................................................................135 2. Deuxième Partie : Une approche darwinienne de la fiction............................136 2.1. Quels principes pour ce paradigme ?...................................................................136 2.1.1. Jeux autour de la figure humaine.............................................................................140 2.1.2. Quid des personnages dans un cadre darwinien ?....................................................143 2.1.3. Un système agoniste.................................................................................................152 2.2. Survivre...............................................................................................................163 2.2.1. Survivre, physiquement............................................................................................164 2.2.2. Survivre aux contaminations....................................................................................171 2.2.3. Survivre aux histoires...............................................................................................180 2.2.4. Lutter pour survivre..................................................................................................184 2.3. Trouver un partenaire amoureux occasionnel......................................................192 2.3.1. Relations contraintes................................................................................................194 2.3.2. Affaires amoureuses.................................................................................................197 2.4. Relations longues : modalités et spécificités.......................................................207 2.4.1. Un comparatif agoniste des relations longues..........................................................208 2.4.2. Relations longues, relations stables ?.......................................................................210 2.4.3. Féminisme et darwinisme.........................................................................................219 2.4.3.1. Faro : la consilience consensuelle ?..................................................................221 2.4.3.2. Bessie : féminisme contradictoire et névrose...................................................224 2.4.3.3. La reconquête de la préhistoire.........................................................................232 2.5. La lutte pour le pouvoir.......................................................................................236 2.5.1. La conquête du prestige............................................................................................239 2.5.2. Transformation et temporalité..................................................................................243 2.5.3. Métamorphoses et espérances..................................................................................245 2.5.4. Métamorphoses et sacrifices....................................................................................251 5 2.5.5. Bildungsroman et libre-arbitre.................................................................................256 2.5.5.1. Progressions, régressions..................................................................................256 2.5.5.2. Le capitaine du capitaine..................................................................................260 2.5.5.3. Cercles et cycles...............................................................................................268 2.6. Sélection de la parentèle......................................................................................272 2.6.1. Miser sur les enfants.................................................................................................274 2.6.2. Routines nourricières et instincts détournés.............................................................283 2.7. Entraide universelle.............................................................................................287 2.7.1. Bâtir des mégalopoles..............................................................................................288 2.7.2. Altruisme intéressé...................................................................................................297 2.7.3. L'entraide narratologique..........................................................................................304 2.8. Bilan provisoire...................................................................................................320 TROISIÈME PARTIE............................................................................................323 3. Troisième partie : De la morale dans les études darwiniennes........................324 3.1. Quelle est la place de la morale dans le discours darwinien ?.............................324 3.1.1. La position darwinienne...........................................................................................326 3.1.2. « L'éthique darwinienne » aujourd'hui.....................................................................329 3.1.3. Quid du cadre libéral britannique.............................................................................333 3.1.4. Une proto-éthique darwinienne applicable à la critique...........................................336 3.2. Un modèle éthique darwinien.............................................................................341 3.2.1. Cerner le sujet, cerner l'autre....................................................................................341 3.2.2. La valeur adaptative morale de la lecture.................................................................349 3.2.3. De quels universaux humains dispose-t-on ?...........................................................353 3.3. Les limites à l'extension de nos sympathies envers les animaux.........................360 3.3.1. L'expérimentation animale.......................................................................................362 3.3.2. L'animal à l'ère de la consommation de
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