Unit:
Deparment of French Language and LiteratureLibrary of the School of Philosophy
Dissertation committee:
Frideriki TABAKI-IONA, Professeur des universtiés - Université Nationale et Capodistrienne d’Athènes
Marie-Françoise MELMOUX-MONTAUBIN, Professeur des universités – Université de Picardie Jules Verne
Valentina BISCONTI, Professeur des universités – Université de Picardie Jules Verne
Jean-Marie FOURNIER, Professeur des universités – Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3
Ioanna PAPASPYRIDOU, Professeur adjoint – Université Nationale et Capodistrienne d’Athènes
Maria SPYRIDOPOULOU, Professeur adjoint – Université Nationale et Capodistrienne d’Athènes
Alain VAILLANT, Professeur des universités – Université Paris Nanterre
Original Title:
L'apostrophe dans la poésie romantique française: Hugo, Lamartine, Musset, Vigny
Translated title:
The apostrophe in French romantic poetry : Hugo, Lamartine, Musset, Vigny
Summary:
In our thesis we approach the concept of apostrophe in French romantic poetry and mainly in the poems of Hugo, Lamartine, Musset and Vigny. We define and analyze this phenomenon, investigate its connexions to the lyrical genre and evaluate its role as modificator of a poem and as founder of intertextuality. We also try to answer the question whether the apostrophe influences the enunciation (act of producing an utterance) or the enunciation influences the apostrophe or both. Until now we have detected only one thesis on apostrophe in Latin literary texts. There is a certain gap in the given literature about this versatile feature. We apply a rather interdisciplinary and multimethod approach so to reveal the aspects of the apostrophe and its connexions to the context and paratext; we establish our method on speech theories, on pragmatic theories, on semiotics, on stylistics and on the analysis of the grammar and syntax. We come to the conclusion that the apostrophe is synonymous to the romantic poetry and capable of affecting the enunciation in order to create an allocutaire otherwise inexistent. In romantic poetry the apostrophe is addressed even to the poetry itself; in this way it announces a metapoetry within the romantic poem and at the same time it creates a meta-metaenunciation. Sometimes the romantic poets contact each other through the apostrophes in their poems which reflect a vivid and innovating intertextuality. The apostrophe holds an illocutionary force capable of creating acts of speech; we introduce the concept of performative apostrophe. Every attempt to synthesize the aspects of the apostrophe seems vain only because the reader can detect the apostrophe but he cannot always perceive its origin and interpretation; so we proved the reader’s embarrassment. Thus, our thesis registers as part of research on literature, stylistics and semiotics so that our method of analysis of the apostrophe can be applied in other poetry movements as well.
Main subject category:
Language – Literature
Keywords:
apostrophe, adresse, allocutaire, énonciation, illocution, interlocuteur, locuteur, lyrisme, méta-métaénonciation, métapoétique, performativité
Number of index pages:
45
Number of references:
450
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