MYTHE ET INTERTEXTUALITE DANS LE THÉÂTRE DE BERNARD-MARIE KOLTÈS: APPROCHES INTERTEXTUELLE ET MYTHOCRITIQUE

• Authors: Galyna DRANENKO

Title variants

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MYTH AS INTERTEXT IN BERNARD-MARIE KOLTÈS’ DRAMA: INTERTEXTUAL AND MYTHOCRITICAL APPROACHES

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

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Myth in literature is an enunciative matter that lends itself to two interrelated studies. On the one hand, one should analyse the way a text rewrites and reinterprets mythical themes and motives. This is the object of thematology. On the other hand, one is also supposed to bring to light the workings of the imagination in its anthropological dimension and see how it is embodied in a significant writing process based on a palimpsestuous reading in which myth functions both as intertext (quotation, allusion, plagiarism) and hypertext (imitation, transformation). This is the object of mythopoetics. The interpretation of “myth as intertext” thus requires analytical approaches that combine and reconcile the tools of mythocriticism with Genette’s theories of transtextuality. This inter-/transdisciplinary approach is particularly appropriate in the study of B.-M. Koltès’ plays. Not only does the French playwright’s production echo and re-actuate biblical and ancient myths, but the haunting recurrence of a whole array of mythemes and mythologemes also generates “Figures” – in Deleuze’s definition of the term – that are truly mythical in the sense that they appear as universal singulars, as symptoms of the forces that pervade our universe.

Keywords

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myth; mythocriticism; palimpsestuous writing; mythical creation; B; -M; Koltès

• Publisher: Inter Litteras Research Centre, STEFAN CEL MARE University, Suceava, Romania; STEFAN CEL MARE Publishing House
• Journal: Concordia Discors vs Discordia Concors: Researches into Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross-Cultural and Translation Strategies
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 3
• Pages: 135-162

Contributors

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Galyna DRANENKO

• The National University of Chernivtsi, Ukraine