La musique du personnage

Just as, in a film, the arrival of a character is often accompanied by music, the figures of a literary text are often linked to surrounding sounds. Studying this “music” of the character allows us to understand its value, its meaning and its function in a given text. How to proceed, concretely? A p...

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Main Author: Vincent Jouve
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Language:English
Published: Association Portugaise d'Etudes Françaises 2020-05-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/carnets/11741
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description Just as, in a film, the arrival of a character is often accompanied by music, the figures of a literary text are often linked to surrounding sounds. Studying this “music” of the character allows us to understand its value, its meaning and its function in a given text. How to proceed, concretely? A posteriori, four domains should be retained. The first two, the body noise and the correlation to music, pertain to the level of content; the last two, the use of musical metaphors and the rhythm of the text, are to be studied at the level of writing. Finally, we will show how the character's musical being affects the different dimensions of the act of reading.
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