La femme orientale dans deux récits de voyage de Nerval et de Flaubert /

The portrayal of the middle eastern woman in Le voyage en Orient of Nerval and Les notes de voyage en Orient of Flaubert is the written representation of a personal experience. The transposition of observations to literary images is subject to cultural and personal constraints that the present thesis aims at deciphering and analysing.We have entitled Informational intent the first section of our research, in which we have discovered that intelligible descriptions tend to the fragmentation and the categorization of the middle eastern woman. This approach has led us to find that the authors' perceptions are often limited to appearances. Moreover, our literary analysis have confirmed that the representations follow the laws and patterns established by centuries of oriental studies.The second section, entitled The narrative organization shows that the episodes where women are involved have been organized into quasi-autonomous narrative entities reflecting the rhythm of the travel. On the other hand, the autobiographical expression serves as a unifying element.In the last section, The woman as part of a global interpretation of the Middle East, we have realized that her representations are influenced by the attitudes and cultural context of the time as well as the specific poetic world of the authors