Roger Pensom Knihy

The book explores the integral role of accent and rhythm in French verse, challenging the notion that accent is irrelevant to metre. It highlights a thousand-year tradition in French poetry, demonstrating how alternating accent patterns are crucial for understanding metricality. Through a detailed examination of the relationship between accent and syllable count, the author conducts close readings of French poetry from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries, revealing the dynamic interplay between rhythm and meaning.

Ce livre entreprend de rendre plus explicite le rapport qu’entretient le Molière de l’histoire avec le Molière du lecteur/spectateur moderne. La «mise en espace» du texte théâtral, tel que nous le trouvons imprimé dans un livre, lui ajoute une nouvelle dimension où s’entrecroisent les traces des codes symboliques, pragmatiques et logiques appartenant autant au monde vécu qu’au seul langage. Mais il n’est jamais question que le metteur en scène se creuse la tête pour inventer les moyens de mettre le texte «en relief». Chez Molière, bien que l’événement signifiant dans l’espace scénique ait des propriétés sémiotiques sui generis, chaque articulation du «texte scénique» est commandée par un dispositif inhérent au «texte théâtral».

This book proposes a new approach to the problems of the text's meaning and aesthetic unity. A stylistic and semantic analysis of the text's discourse identifies the poet's compositional method and reveals pragmatic and truth-conditional features which lead the reader outwards into the world of the text's reception. This analysis and its corollaries form the basis for an anthropology of the text's reception which situate it between the surviving social institutions of Celtic Gaul and those of Germanic feudalism. The notorious contradictions and discontinuities of the text are identified as consequences of its liminal status between competing paradigms of social ordering.