Composed of four poems of varying length, Symphonie musicale: pour une poévie de la Vie is a collection by Jean-Baptiste Fondjo, published in 2022 by L’Harmattan editions in Paris. This poetic work, essentially lyrical, is defined as a hymn to life. This life, so dear to the poet, is celebrated from the generic scene of poévie, as evidenced by the ...
Published in Journal of Literary Semantics
This article introduces the special issue by outlining the current state of research into the role of textual-linguistic features in eliciting narrative empathy. Firstly, we address the complexities around defining the term ‘narrative empathy’ and provide some definitional criteria. We then review the ways in which the role of language in narrative...
Prispevek predstavlja nominalizacije predikatnih vsebin v besedilih o slovenski zgodovini. Avtorici na podlagi analiziranega gradiva odgovarjata na tri osnovna vprašanja: katere vrste predikati nastopajo v obliki izglagolskih samostalnikov, kateri so tipični procesi pri nominalizaciji (npr. zakritje argumentov ali izražanje argumentov s pomočjo pri...
Prispevek prikazuje pomen vzhodnoštajerskega pridigarja Antona Krempla (1790-1844), ki je s svojim vsestranskim delom vplival na razvoj šolstva in slovenskega jezika v vzhodno- štajerskem kulturnem prostoru ter se z izdajo Dogodivščin štajerske zemlje (1844) v literarno zgodovino vpisal kot prvi Slovenec, ki je napisal in izdal zgodovino Slovencev ...
Les marques de négation invitent à un parcours complexe, qu’il s’agisse des modalités de la présence du positif à travers le négatif et des jeux figuraux concernant un possible positif imposé, visé ou suggéré, des modes de contextualisation du morphème négatif qui peut condenser, impliquer, tout un discours, ou encore du rôle dévolu à la négation d...
Published in Semiotica
Literature for children is often designed to stimulate imagination through variants of the “real” world that we inhabit, expanding their potential for construing different possible worlds – variants that include imaginary characters like animals with human traits or toys that are somehow animated and conscious. Here we will examine one version of M...
Léopold Sédar Senghor et Ousmane Sembène sont les deux écrivains sénégalais les plus reconnus et ont joué un rôle de premier plan dans le processus de décolonisation culturelle. Ils semblent toutefois incomparables à bien des égards. Cette thèse a l’ambition d’étudier la manière dont Senghor, poète, théoricien, académicien et premier président du S...
Published in Trends in Classics
This paper approaches Lysianic ēthopoiia from the methodological perspective of ‘mind style’, a concept taken from modern stylistics. It is argued that Lysias gave his speakers individualized speaking styles that are indicative of their characters. The narrative of Lysias 1 is used as test case, and the analysis is based on a variety of linguistic ...
L’état z’héros is a work in which Maurice Bandaman integrates the tale into the frame structure of the novel. Its discursivity is based on a number of oral intertexts including ritual songs, stanzas, opuses and references integrated in the form of a literary collage. At the narrative level, the voices of the narrators interact with those of the cha...
