Du théâtre au récit de soi dans le roman-mémoires du XVIIIe siècle

Theatre and fictional memoir are supposedly opposites: the former has to do with the performing arts, while the latter focuses on the intimate side of life. A literary genre emblematic of the eighteenth century, fictional memoir invites readers to move beyond this assumption. Although lived experien...

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1. Verfasser: Deharbe, Charlène (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:fre
Veröffentlicht: Leiden ; Boston Rodopi Brill 2016
Schriftenreihe:Faux titre volume 409
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Zusammenfassung:Theatre and fictional memoir are supposedly opposites: the former has to do with the performing arts, while the latter focuses on the intimate side of life. A literary genre emblematic of the eighteenth century, fictional memoir invites readers to move beyond this assumption. Although lived experience is at the heart of the memoir, such fiction also appropriates the language of comedy or tragedy for the benefit of a novel of interiority. This book highlights fictional memoir’s debt to the theatre, while examining how its writing developed based on various borrowings and processes characteristic of the stage. By self-inventing within a culture dominated by enthusiasm for stage performance, this genre thereby endowed future literature with the constitutive elements of a language of the intimate.0
Beschreibung:X, 407 Seiten
ISBN:9789004313651
978-90-04-31365-1