THE COMEDY OF AUTHORSHIP Hinds
نویسنده
چکیده
For centuries, readers have had great difficulty in attributing various works to the polygraph Charles Sorel. From Jean-Pierre Nicéron in the eighteenth century (1344) to Antoine-Alexandre Barbier (q.v.) and Émile Roy in the nineteenth (402-424), critics strove to establish a referential relationship between Sorel, the man, and the contradictory manifestations of authorial voice in his various literary, critical, historical, and scientific texts. Sorel refuses to acknowledge his texts as his own —a gesture which works not only be means of anonymity, pseudonyms in his titles and explicit denial in his criticism, but also by a deliberate effort to promote confusion concerning his authorship within the texts themselves (Adam 1343-1344; Verdier: dissertation 2, Charles Sorel 74). The source of this ambiguity lies both in the disparity between Sorel’s literary theory and practice, and in the “ironic” nature of the authorial voice, which says the contrary of what it means by suggesting more than it explicitly denotes (Hodgson 25-26). JeanPierre Faye situates this ambiguity on the narrative level in Sorel’s comic novels; by techniques of masking and posturing, the authorial figure is mutable, multiple, and capable of reproaching and subverting successive representations of itself (Faye 40). Therefore, every time the reader thinks that he/she finds the consummate embodiment of authorial functioning, it absconds and eludes the reader’s expectations. As Martine Debaisieux’s study of Sorel’s Francion shows, the dispersal of authorial activities on narrative and metanarrative levels contributes to the “mystification” of a single, monologic project, and thus evinces “l’instabilité de l’identité d’un écrivain conscient de l’emprise de la tradition littéraire sur sa propre création” (145).
منابع مشابه
Comedy, Context and Unsaid Meaning: A Case Study in Conversational Implicature
Pragmatics moves away from the word level and sentence level study of language towards the study of language in real-world context and at discourse level whereby two or more participants take part in conversation. There are moments when the speaker explicitly says something but the listener may have other interpretations and inferences from their statements. The aim of this study was to demonst...
متن کاملAn Information Theoretic Clustering Approach for Unveiling Authorship Affinities in Shakespearean Era Plays and Poems
In this paper we analyse the word frequency profiles of a set of works from the Shakespearean era to uncover patterns of relationship between them, highlighting the connections within authorial canons. We used a text corpus comprising 256 plays and poems from the 16th and 17th centuries, with 17 works of uncertain authorship. Our clustering approach is based on the Jensen-Shannon divergence and...
متن کاملControl of red deer (Cervus elaphus) stag domination in rut season by estrus synchronization
BACKGROUND: Inbreeding is one of the major problems of small size herds of red deer in refuge wildlife parks. OBJECTIVES: The aim of the present study was to use estrus synchronization technique in red deer (Cervus elaphus) based on natural mating to control the dominancy and social rank of stags and inbreeding. METHODS: In this study, hinds (n=6) were captured and caged at breeding season (ear...
متن کاملMapping co-authorship network of Iranian researchers in the field of knowledge management
Background and aim: So far, many researches have been conducted on the co-authorship study of all authors of universities and organizations as one of the most important topics in the field of scientometrics in various fields and disciplines. The aim of this study was to map the co-authorship network of Iranian researchers in the field of knowledge management in Web of Science (WoS). Material a...
متن کامل