Hypertextualités décadentes

• Authors: Melmoux-Montaubin Marie-Françoise

Title variants

EN

DECADENT HYPERTEXTUALITIES

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

This article aims at demonstrating the double hypothesis that hypertextuality both constitutes the essence of the end of the century’s literature and explains the negative term of « decadence » used to describe the literary production of the 1880–1900’s. Reading the two founding texts of the decadence, Huysmans’ A rebours (1884) and Les Déliquescences, poèmes décadents d’Adoré Floupette (1885), one can draw some of the major consequences of these practices of rewriting. They mark the end of a mimetic regime of literature defended by the Classics and the Realists, in which the aim is to represent the world, and substitute a new form of creation based on the texts only. They destroy in the same way the claim of originality praised to the skies by the Romantics. Those rewrites also contribute to the setting of new reading strategies that demand culture and erudition. Literature is affected by the rewritings of which she is constantly the object and which sometimes take the appearance of mystifications more or less melancholic. The use of hypertextuality both threatens and enchants literature.

Keywords

FR

Hypertextualité; Décadence; Lecture; Bibliothèque; Mystification

EN

Hypertextuality; Decadence; Reading; Library; Mystification

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: 11-20

Contributors

author

Melmoux-Montaubin Marie-Françoise

• Université de Picardie Jules Verne
• CERR/CERCLL (Centre d’études du roman et du romanesque/Centre d’études des relations et des contacts linguistiques et littéraires)