L’écriture « contractuelle » du roman français à la première personne au tournant des Lumières

• Authors: Andrzej Rabsztyn
• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

FR

The present study argues that the French first-person novel, which came into fashion in the Enlightenment period through the adoption of epistolary, diary or memoir forms, or through their admixture in texts, lends itself particularly well to “reading pacts”. The sociopolitical context of the period favored romantic fictions of intimate literature that were attuned to the events of the day. In this paratextual discourse, novelists relied on contemporary events to initiate readers into questions such as the status and the goals of novelistic writing, while attempting to legitimize and to valorize thelatter. Key words: Epistolary novel, memoir-novel, Enlightenment period, reading pact.

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
• Journal: Romanica Silesiana
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 4

Dates

published

2009

Contributors

author

Andrzej Rabsztyn