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Claire Lejeune's essays exemplify a type of writing that partakes of ideas as well as of metaphoric forms; hence their declared purpose of rehabilitating the poetic in Western thought. Based in part on Ricoeur's theory of metaphorical function, this study proposes to demonstrate that the use of both argumentative and metaphoric discourse leads to an analogic form of thought in which images precede ideas. Upon analysis this particular form of essay discloses a utopia of language: the capacity to think poetically.
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Our passion for archive is founded on a certain renouncement to the “power of elation” of stories : the poetics of archive urges us to relate to our own past under the form of attestation, conservation, or amazement. This article proposes to consider this as a mark of what Ricoeur called “a night of narrative intelligence”, and to explore its implications. The documentation gathered by Roquentin in Nausea, the collection of photographs of the proustian world by Roland Barthes, the contemporary success of filiation-narratives…, invite us to observe the triumph of memory ands its emotional strength, but also to associate it to a long-lasting crisis of narrativity, of the prospective aspect of stories.
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The concept of dialogue is a common occurence in the field of Reception theory. It is used as a way of defining our understanding of literature. But is the concept of dialogue really appropriate ? Can it help us describe the activity of reading ? Contrary to what H.-G. Gadamer and M. Bakhtine hold, for Paul Ricoeur nothing is less dialogical than the meeting of texts and interpreters. Ricoeur proposes a challenging counter-position to which I try here to respond in the light of the notion of dialogue as articulated by Gadamer and Bakhtine, hoping to secure the place of dialogical understanding in the arrays of contemporay theoretical concepts in the humanities.
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