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Les contes de Mlle de Lubert : les textualités du ludique Duggan, Maryse
Abstract
The fairy tales of Mile de Lubert (1710-1779) are all but forgotten today even though they stand out as unusual in the vast production of the eighteenth century. This research, based on Gerard Genette's theory of "transtextualite" presents, as a minor literary case, a phase in the evolution of the genre, in which the concept of fairy tale has been revisited and often pushed to extreme. Chapter one studies the aspect of paratext and essentially of definition by title. Due to their repetitive scheme, titles function as contracts of reading. According to a structural approach which takes into account the concept of typology, the titles outline two categories of fairy tales, one being traditional, the other totally outside the norm. Chapter two considers the remaining aspects of paratextuality, namely the information on author and conditions of publishing, and the liminary texts. The prevalent censorship encourages the mention of phony places of publishing; author and dedicator remain broadly anonymous; prefaces are places to fight preconceived ideas about fairy tales and to offer a complete theory of the genre with a unique motto: pure entertainment. In chapter three, the intertext considers the literary and esoteric realms, including Greco-Roman mythology and Cabal. The major intertextual field remains the folktale with a predilection for motives such as metamorphosis and monstrosity among masculine and feminine characters. Chapter four takes into account the principle of hyper/hypotextuality. The texts with an obvious hypotext are mainly imitations but transformation can become usurpation. Some tales present the characteristics of parody without being given as such. These converging textualities surround Mile de Lubert's practice in literary fairy tales and settle the corpus as an outburst in the pleasure field.
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Les contes de Mlle de Lubert : les textualités du ludique
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University of British Columbia
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| Date Issued |
1996
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| Description |
The fairy tales of Mile de Lubert (1710-1779) are all but
forgotten today even though they stand out as unusual in the vast
production of the eighteenth century. This research, based on Gerard
Genette's theory of "transtextualite" presents, as a minor literary
case, a phase in the evolution of the genre, in which the concept of
fairy tale has been revisited and often pushed to extreme. Chapter one studies the aspect of paratext and essentially of
definition by title. Due to their repetitive scheme, titles function as
contracts of reading. According to a structural approach which takes
into account the concept of typology, the titles outline two categories
of fairy tales, one being traditional, the other totally outside the
norm.
Chapter two considers the remaining aspects of paratextuality,
namely the information on author and conditions of publishing, and
the liminary texts. The prevalent censorship encourages the mention
of phony places of publishing; author and dedicator remain broadly
anonymous; prefaces are places to fight preconceived ideas about
fairy tales and to offer a complete theory of the genre with a unique
motto: pure entertainment.
In chapter three, the intertext considers the literary and
esoteric realms, including Greco-Roman mythology and Cabal. The
major intertextual field remains the folktale with a predilection for motives such as metamorphosis and monstrosity among masculine
and feminine characters.
Chapter four takes into account the principle of
hyper/hypotextuality. The texts with an obvious hypotext are mainly
imitations but transformation can become usurpation. Some tales
present the characteristics of parody without being given as such.
These converging textualities surround Mile de Lubert's practice in
literary fairy tales and settle the corpus as an outburst in the
pleasure field.
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eng
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| Date Available |
2009-02-19
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use.
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10.14288/1.0087260
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University of British Columbia
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1996-05
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Graduate
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