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If the notion of antipathy is of primary interest to psychology and moral philosophy, it concerns also literary studies in that it is sensitive to the question of axiology. Some fictional characters are thus designed to be disliked by readers. But what if it were the narrator? This article summons the problems of ethos, values and evaluative norms in order to tackle this question.
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In the literature dealing with the onomasiological phase of translation, various terms are often used with no real distinction to refer to rephrasing: “rewording”, “restating”, “rewriting”, “recreating”. However, the analysis of these terms in the wider perspective of language sciences, both from an intra- and interlinguistic point of view, suggests that they are not exactly synonymous and are variously distributed along the literary/pragmatic, oral/written and common/specialized axes. Moreover, it appears that the prefix “re-”, which is very productive in French, does not only denote a new occurrence and change and can have its own meaning, beyond that of the verbal stem to which it is attached.
Keywords: reverbalisation, reformulation, réénonciation, réécriture, recréation, préfixe re-, rephrasing, rewording, rewriting, recreating, prefix re-
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Bien que généralement comprise comme un désir mélancolique du passé, la nostalgie peut prendre diverses formes. Cette thèse explore les nostalgies (c’est-à-dire divers modes et expressions de la nostalgie) dans la fiction et le cinéma américains du XXe siècle. Plus précisément, cette thèse interroge les fonctions critiques de la nostalgie dans The Great Gatsby (1925) de F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1949) d’Elliott Nugent, Lolita (1955) de Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (1962) de Stanley Kubrick, The Long Goodbye (1953) de Raymond Chandler et The Long Goodbye (1973) de Robert Altman. S’intéressant aux expressions narratives et formelles de la nostalgie dans ces romans et films, ainsi qu’aux expériences de nostalgie des lecteurs et des spectateurs en réaction à ces œuvres, Visions of the Present examine à …
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AbstractThis essay tackles the question of a possible-impossible theological re-working of the figure of « the liberal ironist » as cultural hero in the work of the American philosopher Richard Rorty. After a short description of the « aesthetic turn » in relation to the advent of the figure of the « liberal ironist », the author considers Rorty's « secularism » and identifies the principal ways in which this philosopher resists attempts to relativize (or challenge) the opposition between « ironic discourse » and « theological discourse ». The author then proceeds to describe the conditions under which an ironist may achieve liberal status ; to that end, he examines Rorty's reading of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita.
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This article attempts to clarify the issue of the unreliable and/or untrustworthy narrator, a “textual device” likely to help us indirectly formalize the question of polyphony in literary fiction. We first present the metatheoretical position taken by proponents of the “rhetorical” approach (Booth), of structural narratology (Lintvelt, Jouve) and of cognitivism (Fludernik, Nünning), in order to clarify the criteria needed to establish the unreliability of the narrative voice. From a more critical perspective, we then mention several poetological typologies (Mercier and Fortier, Langevin) which help identify the textual variants of the “process” as well as its range of functions and effects. Through this discussion, we hope to shed light not only on the epistemological and aesthetical stakes and challenges of interpreting unreliable and/or untrustworthy narrators but also on polyphony in literary fiction.
Keywords: Polyphonie, voix, narrateur, non fiable, indigne de confiance, auteur impliqué, rhétorique, structuralisme, cognitivisme, lecture, Polyphony, voice, narrator, unreliable, untrustworthy, implied author, rhetoric, structuralism, cognitivism, reading