Le Manifeste littéraire revisité. Explorations fictionnelles du genre dans la littérature francaise contemporaine
Sammanfattning
This study shows how features of the literary manifesto, a genre associated with the avant-garde period, are integrated in three contemporary French novels: Le Caoutchouc décidément (1992) by Éric Chevillard, Tout-monde (1993) by Édouard Glissant and Le Post-exotisme en dix leçons, leçon onze (1998) by Antoine Volodine. The aim of the study is to understand what these features reveal about the way writers today claim a position in the literary field and to determine whether the novels can be considered a continuation of the manifesto genre in present times. To conduct this research in the fields of the novel and of the manifesto, a pragmatic approach is applied. The macro-speech acts that define the manifesto discourse are outlined and the proclamation of a new aesthetic is found to be dominant. To assess the impact of these macro-speech acts in the novels, it is necessary to take into account the authorial ethos, which indicates the writer’s position. The analyses expose that the fictional worlds consolidate the aesthetic convictions that the writers seek to assert in the literary field. In fact, to different degrees, the novels reproduce the performativity of the manifesto. However, the manifesto discourse in the novels differs from its original revolutionary form by its loss of the collective enunciation, as well as by its intention: rather than subverting the values of the literary institution, the novels are configured to support them. These results are compared with statistical studies on the evolution of the manifesto genre and with case studies, confirming that the tendencies in the novels correlate with the evolution of the literary manifesto in France.
Examinationsnivå
Doctor of Philosophy
Universitet
Göteborgs universitet. Humanistiska fakulteten
University of Gothenburg. Faculty of Arts
Institution
Department of Languages and Literatures ; Institutionen för språk och litteraturer
Disputation
Lördagen den 7 mars 2015, kl. 14.00, Lilla hörsalen, Humanisten, Renströmsgatan 6, Göteborg.
Datum för disputation
2015-03-07
Fil(er)
Datum
2015-02-13Författare
Tjell, Mette
Nyckelord
literary manifesto
Éric Chevillard
Antoine Volodine
Édouard Glissant
Le Caoutchouc décidément
Le Post-exotisme en dix lecons, lecon onze
Tout-monde
contemporary literature
avant-garde
speech acts
ethos
Publikationstyp
Doctoral thesis
ISBN
978-91-628-9307-1
Språk
fra