La Chanson De Roland" and in Hermann Broch's "Der Tod Des Virgil" Thomas Lee Miller Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
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Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses Graduate School 2000 Shaping the Subject in "La Chanson De Roland" and in Hermann Broch's "Der Tod Des Virgil" Thomas Lee Miller Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_disstheses Recommended Citation Miller, Thomas Lee, "Shaping the Subject in "La Chanson De Roland" and in Hermann Broch's "Der Tod Des Virgil"" (2000). LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses. 7161. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_disstheses/7161 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at LSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses by an authorized administrator of LSU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. INFORMATION TO USERS This manuscript has been reproduced from the microfilm master. 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TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT.................................................................................................... v AN INTRODUCTION...................................................................................... 1 Roland................................................................................................. 3 Virgil..................................................................................................... 12 PARTI......................................... ROLAND................................................... 17 M -M U N JO IE ............................................................ 18 OUTLAWS............................................................... 35 HONUR E DREITURE................................................................................... 85 An Immodest Proposal..................................................................... 88 Vengeance ........................................................................................... 98 Exill....................................................................................................... 110 Deujui'se.............................................................................................. 120 VEIRE P A TE (R )N E ....................................................................................... 131 Pate(R)ne............................................................................................ 134 Eschange estrange............................................................ ............... 153 L ib e rG ilie ........................................................................................... 164 PART II.......................................... VIRGIL.................................................... 187 ICH-VERLU&T................................................................................................ 188 A Child’s Name................................................................................... 192 In Paternal Succession..................................................................... 204 Plotia..................................................................................................... 214 SCHICKSAL.................................................................................................... 223 Feuer..................................................................................................... 225 Schicksabsuf-sich-nehmen.............................................................. 232 Wahrheit und WirkUehkeit............................................................... 244 ROME............................................................................................................... 251 Gleichnis, Erkenntnis, WirkUehkeit ................................................ 253 Togapurpur.......................................................................................... 263 Dein Werk is t Rom.............................................................................. 274 CONCLUSION.................................................................................................. 285 NOTES.............................................................................................................. 294 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. BIBLIOGRAPHY............................................................................................... 311 VITA................................................................................................................... 315 iv Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. ABSTRACT This dissertation explores two texts, each of a different era, language and culture, to discover what they may each tell us about the role played by writing in the construction of subjectivity. Accordingly, the first part of the dissertation departs from custom in treating the Chanson de Roland less as a repository of accumulated oral performance than as a document of singular textual integrity. Militating against the premise of textual unity is the uncontested fact that the Roland is clearly divided into two distinct narrative panels. This reading, however, reveals the manner in which the writer of the Roland integrates the text’s two narrative panels by positioning ‘history’ against ‘fiction,’ and ‘word’ against ‘deed’ in order to effect a unified and unifying literary work. The argument of the first part of the dissertation concludes with the observation, rooted in the text, that the narrative divide mirrors a divide within the subject and the integration of narrative effects a reintegration of the split subject into a newly created subject of fiction. Hermann Broch’s Tod des Vergil brings to writing not the integration of ‘history1 and ‘fiction,’ but the integration of fiction with the most intimate sort of personal experience, namely, the experience of an encounter with death. Part v Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. two of the dissertation examines how Broch, in attempting to ‘realize’ through fiction a prior encounter with death, creates within the text of the TDV a reflection of his own subjectivity. Broch's writing reveals to the reader that death is indeed realized (inscribed) in fiction, and that death is the mirror that does not merely reflect subjectivity, as does the verisimilitude of representation, but creates the subject through the fictionalization of personal experience. This reading examines closely the TDV for what it reveals to us about the complex and inextricable relation between fiction and subjectivity. vi Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. AN INTRODUCTION The texts brought under close critical scrutiny over the pages