« Peut-être ce chat jaune est-il toute la littérature » : pour une lecture non sémiotique de la couleur chez Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway mistrusted abstraction: he sought to put into words the experience of the senses without betraying its nonverbal essence. The representation of color is a crucial point in this aesthetic pursuit; but because language addresses the mind, not the senses, color is often used as a semio...

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Hovedforfatter: Mallier, Clara
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Sprog:Français
Udgivet: 2005
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Summary:Ernest Hemingway mistrusted abstraction: he sought to put into words the experience of the senses without betraying its nonverbal essence. The representation of color is a crucial point in this aesthetic pursuit; but because language addresses the mind, not the senses, color is often used as a semiotic tool of significance in literary texts. In Hemingway’s fiction, however, color plays no semiotic part. Drawing its strength from an unusually strong demand on the reader’s imagination, the non-semiotic use of color is very potent as a verbal rendition of sensorial experience.