Sémiotique et onomastique dans Le Roi des Aulnes de Michel Tournier

This article addresses the ubiquitous presence of semiotics in Tournier’s Le Roi des Aulnes . First, the different categories of signs are investigated, including the signs’ influence on the protagonist Tiffauges, who reports on this influence in his journal. By doing so, Tiffauges involves the diar...

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Published in:Neophilologus 2019-01, Vol.103 (1), p.23-65
Main Author: van der Toorn, Nicolaas
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Comparative Linguistics
Comparative Literature
Crítica literaria
Diaries
Escritores
Fictional characters
Figuras literarias
French literature
Historical Linguistics
Influence
Linguistics
Literary criticism
Literary devices
Literatura francesa
Narratario
Narratee
Novel
Novela
Onomastics
Onomástica
Personajes literarios
Personal experiences
Philology
Reading difficulties
Semiotics
Semiótica
Social Sciences
Symbols
Syntax
Tournier, Michel (1924-2016)
Writers
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Summary:This article addresses the ubiquitous presence of semiotics in Tournier’s Le Roi des Aulnes . First, the different categories of signs are investigated, including the signs’ influence on the protagonist Tiffauges, who reports on this influence in his journal. By doing so, Tiffauges involves the diary’s narratee, and, indirectly, the novel’s implied reader, into his struggling with signs and signification. Secondly, this article focusses upon one particular semiotic category, namely onomastics. This category, despite its omnipresence in the novel, has been underresearched until now. This article proposes a detailed analysis of the novel’s onomastics in all its anagrammatical richness and ambiguity.
ISSN:0028-2677
1572-8668
DOI:10.1007/s11061-018-9572-x