Ethos et blog d’écrivain : le cas de L’Autofictif d’Éric Chevillard

This article examines the characteristics of the online construction of a writer’s self-image, through the study of Eric Chevillard’s blog L’Autofictif. By writing a blog, an author doesn’t invest a ‘genre’ as conceived in the editorial system, but a formal mold that precisely questions the notion o...

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Main Author: Ugo Ruiz
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Language:fra
Published: Université de Liège 2013-12-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/contextes/5830
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description This article examines the characteristics of the online construction of a writer’s self-image, through the study of Eric Chevillard’s blog L’Autofictif. By writing a blog, an author doesn’t invest a ‘genre’ as conceived in the editorial system, but a formal mold that precisely questions the notion of text. Digital writing also affects the status of the author, given the fact that the writer communicates directly with the readers of his blog, and can thus construct his own frame of legitimation. On the basis of concepts from discourse analysis (Maingueneau, Amossy), it is shown how Chevillard makes use of his status as an established writer to construct his legitimacy online. Through irony, metadiscursive statements, declarations of literary friendship and critical standpoints, his blog offers a definition of the ‘real’ writer and of ‘good literature’. Meanwhile, the author status of Chevillard gives his blog a literary dimension, something that anonymous authors cannot do because they lack an author image established by others.
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Ethos et blog d’écrivain : le cas de L’Autofictif d’Éric Chevillard
Contextes
Littérature contemporaine
Ethos
Auctorialité
Blog
genre
Chevillard (Éric).
title Ethos et blog d’écrivain : le cas de L’Autofictif d’Éric Chevillard
title_full Ethos et blog d’écrivain : le cas de L’Autofictif d’Éric Chevillard
title_fullStr Ethos et blog d’écrivain : le cas de L’Autofictif d’Éric Chevillard
title_full_unstemmed Ethos et blog d’écrivain : le cas de L’Autofictif d’Éric Chevillard
title_short Ethos et blog d’écrivain : le cas de L’Autofictif d’Éric Chevillard
title_sort ethos et blog d ecrivain le cas de l autofictif d eric chevillard
topic Littérature contemporaine
Ethos
Auctorialité
Blog
genre
Chevillard (Éric).
url https://journals.openedition.org/contextes/5830
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