This essay deploys a semiotic approach to proper names in an analysis of the vast landscape of Alfred de Musset's female characters. No distinction is made among literary genres: characters examined belong to theatre, prose fiction, and poetry. This study is informed by the basic analytical tools developed in a chapter devoted to onomastics in Alfred de Musset's work (in Gilles Castagnes, Les Femmes et l'esthétique de la féminité dans l'œuvre d'Alfred de Musset, Bern, Peter Lang, 2003). It fleshes out this approach to proper names through an analysis combining several different aspects of the sign. The proper name is posited as a complex linguistic sign which is defined by its signifier, its signified, the relationship it establishes with a...
Literature has often been, in spite of itself, a pretext: depending on the era, it has been deployed...
Les XIIe et XIIIe siècles voient se développer les romans arthuriens, en vers puis en prose, qui con...
In order to explain the role of proper names in narrative fiction the literary text is seen as a sys...
This essay deploys a semiotic approach to proper names in an analysis of the vast landscape of Alfre...
The metaphoric use of proper names applies the image of a notorious character (initial referent) to ...
Cette thèse analyse le fonctionnement des noms propres dans le corpus des onze tragédies de Jean Rac...
International audienceThe authors intend to revive exchanges between historical onomastics and theor...
Se situant délibérément en marge des investigations biographiques qui, depuis un siècle et demi, ont...
The proper name is generally accepted as an important element in the interpretation of a given novel...
About Balzac’s naming in the ‘Comédie humaine’. A contribution to literary onomastics. What do Gobse...
International audienceThis paper aims at analysing the use of expanded proper nouns referring to hum...
Lorsque Jean Rhys décide de narrer, dans Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), l’histoire de la première femme d...
This dissertation examines the approximately 700 anonymous female characters who appear in Sir Thoma...
The analysis of the signification of proper names is illuminating for the study of the medieval appr...
L'objectif de la thèse consiste à analyser les modes de signifiance du nom propre dans les œuvres de...
Literature has often been, in spite of itself, a pretext: depending on the era, it has been deployed...
Les XIIe et XIIIe siècles voient se développer les romans arthuriens, en vers puis en prose, qui con...
In order to explain the role of proper names in narrative fiction the literary text is seen as a sys...
This essay deploys a semiotic approach to proper names in an analysis of the vast landscape of Alfre...
The metaphoric use of proper names applies the image of a notorious character (initial referent) to ...
Cette thèse analyse le fonctionnement des noms propres dans le corpus des onze tragédies de Jean Rac...
International audienceThe authors intend to revive exchanges between historical onomastics and theor...
Se situant délibérément en marge des investigations biographiques qui, depuis un siècle et demi, ont...
The proper name is generally accepted as an important element in the interpretation of a given novel...
About Balzac’s naming in the ‘Comédie humaine’. A contribution to literary onomastics. What do Gobse...
International audienceThis paper aims at analysing the use of expanded proper nouns referring to hum...
Lorsque Jean Rhys décide de narrer, dans Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), l’histoire de la première femme d...
This dissertation examines the approximately 700 anonymous female characters who appear in Sir Thoma...
The analysis of the signification of proper names is illuminating for the study of the medieval appr...
L'objectif de la thèse consiste à analyser les modes de signifiance du nom propre dans les œuvres de...
Literature has often been, in spite of itself, a pretext: depending on the era, it has been deployed...
Les XIIe et XIIIe siècles voient se développer les romans arthuriens, en vers puis en prose, qui con...
In order to explain the role of proper names in narrative fiction the literary text is seen as a sys...