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L’écriture des interventions narratoriales dans Melyador*

Nathalie Bragantini-Maillard
p. 423-465

Abstracts

The narrative voice of Jean Froissart’s romance Melyador is characterized by its omnipresence and by the originality and the delicacy of its manifestations. In order to ascertain how Froissart handles this repertoire reputedly limited by tradition, the object of this study is to examine his interventions on the microstructural level, taking into account the various functions they perform in the text. It appears that the formulas and the syntactic forms employed originate from the verse romance, from the epic poem, from the narrative but also the historiographic prose. Is thus exposed a tension between the writing and the oral modes that could be defined as orality founded on solemn writing. Despite some borrowings from tradition, the writing of narratorial interventions is not set. Concerned about variety and lexical as well as syntactic research, the author combined ancient formulas, at times of prosodic function, with less stereotypical, not to say openly personal, expressions. It emerges that the narrator is deeply involved in his story, nearly present physically and engaged in a constant dialogue with the audience, on a conversational mode that is lively, elegant and not devoid of humour.

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Notes

*  Le présent article a profité des remarques critiques de Monsieur Pierre Kunstmann et de Madame Corinne Denoyelle, qui ont eu la gentillesse d’en lire la première version. Nous tenons à les en remercier. La recherche qui nous occupe ici est rendue possible grâce au soutien financier du Fonds québécois pour la recherche sur la société et la culture.

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References

Bibliographical reference

Nathalie Bragantini-Maillard, “L’écriture des interventions narratoriales dans MelyadorCahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes, 19 | 2010, 423-465.

Electronic reference

Nathalie Bragantini-Maillard, “L’écriture des interventions narratoriales dans MelyadorCahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes [Online], 19 | 2010, Online since 30 June 2013, connection on 19 February 2025. URL: http://0-journals-openedition-org.catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/crmh/12032; DOI: https://0-doi-org.catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/10.4000/crm.12032

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Nathalie Bragantini-Maillard

Université d’Ottawa

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