« 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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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Language: | Français |
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2005
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| Online Access: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| 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. |
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