The intertext is the effective presence of a text in another one. This relation of co-presence between texts is the subject of the present essay. Colum McCann's work is studied here as a mosaic of references to and quotations from other texts. In its dialogue with other texts, it absorbs and transforms them, and lets itself transformed by them. The multiple and complex relations that exist between them are approached in both synchronic and diachronic terms. Various modes of intertextuality - influence, intentionality, authority - are analyzed here and applied to McCann's complete work. His novels and short stories denote a transposition of texts taken from the Bible or Irish mythology, but also Anglo-Saxon novels, plays or poems. Through McCann's work, the present study highlights the articulation and interdependence of literary texts. This study has the advantage of filling a gap. Indeed, critical books on McCann's fiction emphasize the importance of intertextuality in this work, but do not go into the subject in greater depth.Therefore, it seems to be useful and innovative to decode McCann's texts in the light of other texts, particularly when they quote them, refer or allude to them.
Si son nom est d'embl e associ aux films succ s qu'il a r alis s ( The Crying Game, Entretien avec un vampire, Michael Collins ...), Neil Jordan est galement un homme de lettres. Son oeuvre litt raire, compos e de huit romans et d'un recueil de nouvelles, est riche, complexe et foisonnante. Elle manifeste un int r t pour l'histoire et la politique irlandaises, mais aussi pour le surnaturel et l'irrationnel. Elle cr e un univers o le temps et l'espace peuvent s'abolir, le mat riel et le spirituel se confondre, le visible et l'invisible s'interp n trer. Aussi transgresse-t-elle les fronti res plus d'un titre. A la fois r aliste et fantastique, elle tablit de nombreuses connexions avec la psychanalyse, la religion chr tienne, la mythologie ou la tradition culturelle qu'elle revisite de mani re originale. La pr sente tude aborde l'oeuvre litt raire de Neil Jordan dans toute sa diversit . Elle s'int resse essentiellement au romancier, mais aussi au nouvelliste et au sc nariste, la production cin matographique de l'artiste ne pouvant tre ignor e. Ce premier ouvrage en fran ais consacr l' crivain a pour objectif de rendre justice une grande figure de la vie culturelle irlandaise contemporaine dont tout un pan de la cr ation artistique reste encore largement m connu.
Neil Jordan is immediately associated with the successful films he has directed (The Crying Game, Interview with the Vampire, Michael Collins...). And yet, he is also a man of letters. His literary work, composed of eight novels and a collection of short stories, is rich, dense and complex. It shows an interest in Irish history and politics, but also in the supernatural and the irrational. It creates a universe where time and space can abolish themselves, the material and the spiritual merge, the visible and invisible interpenetrate. Jordan’s fiction also transgresses the borders in more than one way. Both realistic and fantastic, it establishes numerous connections with psychoanalysis, Christian religion, mythology or cultural tradition, and revisits them in an original way. The present study approaches Neil Jordan’s literary work in all its diversity. It focuses primarily on the novelist, but also on the short story writer and the screenwriter, as his film making cannot be ignored. This book, devoted to the writer, aims to do justice to a major figure in contemporary Irish cultural life, whose artistic creation remains largely unexplored.
