L'intertextualité de l'oeuvre poétique de Jim Morrison

par Tracey Simpson

Thèse de doctorat en Littérature comparée

Sous la direction de Sylvain Floc'h.

Soutenue en 1997

à Pau .

mots clés

• Intertextualite
• Perception dans la litterature
• Intertextualité
• Perception -- Dans la littérature

Résumé

Cette etude, consacree a "l'intertextualite de l'oeuvre poetique de jim morrison," explore les sources (notamment nietzsche, rimbaud, artaud et kerouac) et les parentes litteraires ou thematiques de l'oeuvre (avec blake, huxley, yeats, lawrence, hesse). Son eclectisme reflete la nature heterogene de l'heritage poetique de morrison. En effet, ce dernier se situe a un veritable carrefour, cherchant dans le passe et le present un remede a sa vision pessimiste du futur d'une amerique gangrenee. La premiere partie de la these se penche sur la maniere dont l'artiste envisage la perception poetique, reprenant a sa maniere la problematique platonicienne de la vision humaine, voie d'acces et obstacle a la connaissance. La deuxieme partie developpe la mystique morrisonienne, dans le sillage de la tradition illuministe (reprise par blake, yeats et lawrence). Le raffinement de sa perception permet au poete de spiritualiser sa quete de la verite. Sa mort symbolique lui permet de decouvrir son etre spirituel, occulte par la societe, qui prone une exteriorisation excessive de la vision. Redecouvrant ainsi la dualite fondamentale de l'etre, le poete renait symboliquement a une sagesse ancienne, jusqu'alors latente. La troisieme partie s'interroge enfin sur la nature et le role de la creation artistique : morrison pousse a bout les theories syncretistes et, par la transmutation du langage, il s'efforce de creer un art total, universel, mobilisant toutes les ressources de l'homme. Il rejoint tres nettement les traditions alchimiques et chretiennes en assimilant d'abord l'artiste a l'adepte, recepteur et emetteur du message hermetique, puis a l'apotre, "pecheur d'ames" et martyr.

Titre traduit

Intertextuality in the poetic works of jim morrison

Résumé

This study concentrates on the notion of "intertextuality in the poetic works of jim morrison. " it explores the sources (notably nietzsche, rimbaud, artaud and kerouac) and the literary and thematic relationships of the work (with those of blake, huxley, yeats, lawrence, hesse). Its eclecticism reflects the heterogeneous nature of morrison's poetic legacy. Morrison is situated at a crossroads, seeking, in the literature of the past and the present, a solution to his pessimistic vision of a corrupted america. The first part of the thesis concentrates on the nature of poetic perception, re-assessing the platonic philosophy of human vision which simultaneously represents the key and obstacle to knowledge. The second part develops morrison's mysticism, in the wake of the illuminist tradition (reinterpreted by blake, yeats and lawrence). The purification of his perception allows the poet to spiritualize his quest for the truth. His symbolic death enables him to discover his spiritual being, denied by a society which advocates an excessive exteriorisation of man's vision. By thus rediscovering the fundamental duality of man's being, the poet is symbolically reborn into an ancient wisdom, until then latent within him. The third part questions the nature and the role of artistic creation : morrison pushes syncretist theories to the extreme and by a transmutation of language, he endeavours to create a universal art summoning up all of man's resources. In this way he adheres to the alchemical and christian traditions by assimilating the artist firstly with the adept, receiver and transmitter of the hermetic message, and secondly with the apostle, "fisher of souls' and martyr.