Title: On the Historicization of Romanesque Discourse
Abstract: By historicisation, one means the enunciation of history in narrative discourse, the taking into account of constructed fiction. This means that the ways historical events are inscribed within the narrative of the novel are studied. Thus, “historicisation”, defined as a mode of enunciation, is the invention-revelation of a sensitive subject from which one discovers a set of more or less standardised values we shall call ideology. To deal with these traces of the subject, which mark consciousness by the presence of a passage, we have chosen to work on three 1830 novels : Stendhal’s Le Rouge et le Noir, Balzac’s Peau de Chagrin, George Sand’s Valentine. With these texts, whose styles differ greatly, we learn that the historical novel of modern consciousness --id est the novel of the individual who has become a subject-- is now first and foremost the novel of a story within history.
Publication Year: 2002
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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