This paper examines the way in which Marivaux, in The Life of Marianne, plays at “making it true” by deploying a set of rhetorical and narrative devices: from the old trick of themanuscript found by chance to the call of prestigious witnesses ready to guarantee the authenticity of the episode, all means are good to produce the effect of veracity expected by the reader. However, in an opposite movement, Marivaux constantly violates the reading pact which he instituted: the reader ends up wondering about the composition of what he reads and realizes that the text exhibits too much negligence for the story to be true. Fiction is thus staged, and Marivaux underlines the processes which force the reader to question his own credulity. This paper ...
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Vanity, in its most general representation, invites us to stop for a moment our race ahead, to set a...
By its mimetic exaggeration, the caricature could seem incompatible with the aesthetics of realism, ...
As a substitute father figure, a mentor, a tutor and a writer to be admired and imitated, Barbey d’A...
The “Le Bilboquet” of Marivaux illustrates the social frenzy incited by this game at that time. Driv...
This study examines the mechanics of memory as depicted in the works of Michel Leiris. Already in hi...
Duras’s work is a deep reflection on the emptiness of the human condition. In her works, a man reali...
What is the value of play for a reader when the literary text itself is radically conceived as a lud...
The caricature, in its most elementary representation, in its polysemy, its multiple extensions, ref...
There is no fiction in narrative prose that testifies to a playful intentionality more manifest than...
Could vanities be the overlooked essence of so-called ‘libertine’ fiction? 18th century French eroti...
At its peak in the 17th century, Vanity, thanks to its codification, persists beyond that age favour...
According to Emil Cioran, every human being is “full of the conviction that all is vain.” But Cioran...
This article aims to highlight the importance of memory in the poetic practice of Léopold Sédar Seng...
By requiring us to think the notion of play in his dramaturgical aspect, the main purpose of this pa...
Les Neuf Consciences du Malfini by Patrick Chamoiseau is a Bildungsroman centred around pedagogical ...
Vanity, in its most general representation, invites us to stop for a moment our race ahead, to set a...
By its mimetic exaggeration, the caricature could seem incompatible with the aesthetics of realism, ...
As a substitute father figure, a mentor, a tutor and a writer to be admired and imitated, Barbey d’A...
The “Le Bilboquet” of Marivaux illustrates the social frenzy incited by this game at that time. Driv...
This study examines the mechanics of memory as depicted in the works of Michel Leiris. Already in hi...