Ironie et dissimulation dans la nouvelle et dans la comédie : réflexions sur les œuvres de Des Périers, Marguerite de Navarre, Molière et Mme de Lafayette
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department or school: Philosophy, Department of
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alternative: Irony and dissimulation in the novella and the comedy : reflections on the works of Des Périers, Marguerite de Navarre, Molière and Mme de Lafayette
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Edinger, Monika G. B.
issued: 2019-04-29T15:49:40Z
issued: 2019
related degree: Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: Irony, in its common sense, is a linguistic phenomenon (a rhetorical device or a literary technique such as verbal irony), a philosophical concept (Socratic or Ciceronian irony), the intentional disguise of an utterance in order to convey a meaning different from what has been said to what is implied, or the result of unintentional actions (such as situational irony). Although there are connections between verbal and situational irony, between literary and philosophical principles, the complexity of irony still gives rise to numerous questions. Consequently, this dissertation examines the functions of verbal and situational irony in a corpus of 16th- and 17th-century texts with respect to the affinity between the genres of the nouvelle and the comedy. Our principal objective is to present a comparative and structural analysis which shows the interplay between the poly-functional uses of irony, along with the phenomenon of laughter, and the theme of marital infidelity in the following works: the Nouvelles Récréations et joyeux devis of Bonaventure Des Périers, the Heptaméron of Marguerite de Navarre and the Dames galantes of Brantôme (pertaining to the nouvelles and discussed in the first chapter); the Comédie des quatre femmes of Marguerite de Navarre and Dom Juan by Molière as representatives of comedy (discussed in the second chapter); conversely, Madame de Lafayette’s Princesse de Clèves is a hybrid text analysed in the third chapter. To complement our corpus, we also consider classic concepts of irony as established by Socrates and Cicero, early principles of laughter as defined by Laurent Joubert, as well as critical theory of key figures such as Henri Bergson, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Philippe Hamon. The framework for this study arises from the fact that the affinity between the novella and the comedy with respect to the concept of verbal irony remains relatively unexplored. While the contrastive mechanisms of ironical utterances often turn the communication of tr…
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note: Ironie et dissimulation dans la nouvelle et dans la comédie : Réflexions sur les œuvres de Des Périers, Marguerite de Navarre, Molière et Mme de Lafayette Irony and dissimulation in the novella and the comedy: Reflections on the works of Des Périers, Marguerite de Navarre, Molière and Mme de Lafayette by Monika G. B. Edinger B.A. (Honours Program), The University of British Columbia, 2008 M.A., The University of British Columbia, 2010 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL STUDIES (French) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver) April 2019 © Monika G. B. Edinger, 2019 ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for acceptance, the dissertation entitled: Ironie et dissimulation dans la nouvelle et dans la comédie : Réflexions sur les œuvres de Des Périers, Marguerite de Navarre, Molière et Mme de Lafayette submitted by Monika Edinger in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in French Literature Examining Committee: Richard Hodgson, French Studies Supervisor Joël Castonguay-Bélanger, French Studies Supervisory Committee Member Gaby Pailer, Germanic Studies Supervisory Committee Member Nancy Frelick, French Studies University Examiner Patricia Badir, English Studies University Examiner Additional Supervisory Committee Members: Daniel Maher, School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures External Examiner iii ABSTRACT Irony, in its common sense, is a linguistic phenomenon (a rhetorical device or a literary technique such as verbal irony), a philosophical concept (Socratic or Ciceronian irony), the intentional disguise of an utterance in order to convey a meaning different from what has been said to what is implied, or the result of unintentional actions (such as situational irony). Although there are connections between verbal a…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2019-09
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0378511
language: fre
degree discipline: French
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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scholar level: Graduate
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/69979