Le sphinx dénaturé : une écologie du discours ?
RésuméThe narrator in E.A. Poe’s “The Sphinx” tells a story in which the huge proportions of an insect call the reader’s attention to the “monstrous” character of democracy. As the narrative develops, however, the sphinx appears as a creature which might be accounted for in a variety of ways. But th...
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cairn-RFEA_129_0019RFEARevue française d’études américaines https://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2011-3-page-19?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.129.0019 Le sphinx dénaturé : une écologie du discours ? Monfort, Bruno2012 anthropocentrismeentomologie et discours littérairefiction et sciences de la naturelittérature américaine et politiqueAmerican literature and politicsanthropocentric concernsentomology and literaturefiction and natural sciencesfre Revue française d’études américaines | 129 | 3 | 2012-07-01 | p. 19-34 | 0397-7870 RFEA_12980 RésuméThe narrator in E.A. Poe’s “The Sphinx” tells a story in which the huge proportions of an insect call the reader’s attention to the “monstrous” character of democracy. As the narrative develops, however, the sphinx appears as a creature which might be accounted for in a variety of ways. But the telling of the text repeatedly generates whatever line or lines of interpretation are likely to reinstate the enigma in which the sphinx is caught. As it directs the reader’s attention almost exclusively towards a political reading of a natural object, this narrative strategy makes it virtually impossible for readers to relinquish anthropocentric concerns, and for environment to emerge in and as fictive discourse.Cairn free access |
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RésuméThe narrator in E.A. Poe’s “The Sphinx” tells a story in which the huge proportions of an insect call the reader’s attention to the “monstrous” character of democracy. As the narrative develops, however, the sphinx appears as a creature which might be accounted for in a variety of ways. But the telling of the text repeatedly generates whatever line or lines of interpretation are likely to reinstate the enigma in which the sphinx is caught. As it directs the reader’s attention almost exclusively towards a political reading of a natural object, this narrative strategy makes it virtually impossible for readers to relinquish anthropocentric concerns, and for environment to emerge in and as fictive discourse. |
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