Le jeu de l’intertextualité dans Rome sauvée ou Catilina de Voltaire: Les enjeux de transmotivation et de transvalorisation

• Authors: Očenáš Marek

Title variants

EN

THE INTERTEXTUALITY IN THE VOLTAIRE’S TRAGEDY ROME SAUVÉE OU CATILINA: THE ISSUE OF TRANSMOTIVATION AND REVALUATION

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

The article deals with intertextual relationships of the xviiith century tragedy : these relationships are particularly rich, because the contemporary dramatist partly seeks a theme in the works of ancient authors, and he partly uses contemporary drama procedures and he separates himself from dramas/plays with the same subject. The characteristic feature of processing of the play of the same idea is transmotivation and revaluation, which functioning is supported by author’s analysis of Voltaire’s tragedy “Rome sauvée ou Catilina”, taking into account Voltaire’s rivals plays — Catiline by Ben-Johnson and especially Catilina by Crébillon. Just the confrontation of these plays allows defining principles of Voltaire’s dramaturgy : the structural role of love in motivating acts and the moral elevation of the hero, who has to be an example.

Keywords

FR

Voltaire; tragédie du XVIIIe siècle; transmotivation; transvalorisation

EN

Voltaire; XVIIIth Century tragedy; transmotivation; revaluation

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: Special Issue: Le monde de la litérrature
• Pages: 117-124

Contributors

author

Očenáš Marek

• Institut d’Études Romanes, Faculté des Lettres, Université Charles de Prague