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Etude du couple narrateur-narrataire à travers les "Voyages extraordinaires" de Jules Verne

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Jan. 1, 1995

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Paris 3

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Abstract EN:

Our research is in line with the movement for the revaluation of jules verne's workwhich has long been hold on the fringe of great literature. Thanks to modern criticism, the extraordinary travels have become - in the same way as balzac's, zola's and flaubert's work - a privileged field for the confrontation of numerous critical trends from contrasting methodological prespectives. As from as we are concerned, we suggest to study the narratee-narrator, the degree of their presence in the vernian text. In brief, the methods of the representation utterance, since we approach the extraordinary travels as utterance in their (realist on fictional) relation to reality. The point is to see, through the study of the variants of the narratee-narrator couple, how the reading and writing and "machines" work.

Abstract FR:

Notre recherche s'inscrit dans la lignee du mouvement de la reevaluation de jules verne, car l'oeuvre de cet auteur a ete longtemps consideree en marge de la grande litterature. Grace a la critique moderne, les voyages extraordinaires sont devenus au meme titre que les oeuvres de balzac, de zola de flaubert, un champ privilegie pour la confrontation de plusieurs tendances critiques en provenance d'horizons methodologiques tres contrastes. Pour notre part, nous nous proposons d'etudier le narrateur et son narrataire, leur degre de presence dans les textes verniens, bref les modalites d'une representation d7enonciations et l'enonciation representee en enonce. Il s'agit de voir a travers l'etude des variantes du couple narrateur-narrataire comment fonctionnent les "machines" a lire et a ecrire inscrites dans les voyages extraordinaires.