Narrative silences in Far from the Madding Crowd
The article examines the punctuation marks that signal narrative silences in Far from the Madding Crowd. There are three series of typographical silence-markers: “2-m rules” or “2-m dashes”, “ellipses”, and “m rules” or “m dashes”. These typographical signs, hardly noticed on first reading the text...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:fathom_373 https://doi.org/10.4000/fathom.373 urn:doi:10.4000/fathom.373 en https://journals.openedition.org/fathom/373 2013-07-23T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/gahl All rights reserved Narrative silences in Far from the Madding Crowd FATHOM Association française sur les études sur Thomas Hardy info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2270-6798 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/fathom Morel, Michel roman stylistique ponctuation typographie réception lecteur narration novel stylistics punctuation typography reception reader narration The article examines the punctuation marks that signal narrative silences in Far from the Madding Crowd. There are three series of typographical silence-markers: “2-m rules” or “2-m dashes”, “ellipses”, and “m rules” or “m dashes”. These typographical signs, hardly noticed on first reading the text but necessarily interpreted by the reader, reproduce interruptions of speech which encapsulate some intense axiological exchange connected with the judgements on the characters’ thoughts or actions that the text leads us to pass. The markers thus take on various functions (from mimesis to suspense and to the narrator’s comments) which are essential to maintaining verisimilitude. The article ends on an assessment of such a persuasive strategy and of its effect on the reader, in a text which is undeniably influenced by the format of the serial publication it originally appeared under. L’article s’intéresse aux signes de ponctuation marquant les silences narratifs dans Far from the Madding Crowd. Les marqueurs concernés sont de trois types : 1. le double tiret cadratin ; 2. les points de suspension et 3. les tirets cadratins. Ce guidage typographique, à peine remarqué à première lecture mais nécessairement déchiffré par le lecteur, miment des interruptions de parole ou de discours qui sont le lieu d’un intense échange de nature axiologique ayant trait aux jugements que le texte nous fait émettre quant aux pensées ou actions des personnages en jeu. Les diverses fonctions ainsi assurées (de la dimension mimétique au suspens et aux commentaires du narrateur) sont essentielles pour assurer et maintenir le sentiment de vraisemblance et donc notre adhésion au texte. L’article se termine par une évaluation de cette démarche de persuasion narrative et de son action sur le lecteur, dans un texte qui reste influencé par la forme feuilleton sous laquelle il a d’abord été publié. |
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The article examines the punctuation marks that signal narrative silences in Far from the Madding Crowd. There are three series of typographical silence-markers: “2-m rules” or “2-m dashes”, “ellipses”, and “m rules” or “m dashes”. These typographical signs, hardly noticed on first reading the text but necessarily interpreted by the reader, reproduce interruptions of speech which encapsulate some intense axiological exchange connected with the judgements on the characters’ thoughts or actions that the text leads us to pass. The markers thus take on various functions (from mimesis to suspense and to the narrator’s comments) which are essential to maintaining verisimilitude. The article ends on an assessment of such a persuasive strategy and of its effect on the reader, in a text which is undeniably influenced by the format of the serial publication it originally appeared under. |
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