Elisabeth Zawisza: "Le jeu masculin/fémin dans Les Liaisons dangereuses de Laclos et L'Histoire d'Ernestine de Madame Riccoboni"
Abstract:
On three occasions, Laclos enters into dialogue with the trope of Histoire d'Ernestine: in La Protégée sans le savoir (his true literary debut), in Les Liaisons dangereuses (his scandalous masterpiece), and in a novel about familial happiness (left as a work in progress). Using concepts developed in Palimpsestes by Genette, the article studies three types of relationship that the texts by Laclos establish with feminine tropes: relations of transformation, intertextuality, and, finally, imitation. This dialogue, which continues for several years, always in parallel with the debate of the sexes, thus invites analysis as an itinerary traced by various intertextual exchanges and by various wordplays. It shows that the novelistic trope, feminine or masculine, echoes certain recurrent formulas elucidated in other discursive categories (social, esthetic, philosophical).
AsK, jan 2011
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