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Florence Magnot: "Le récit féminin inséré: étude comparative des Mémoires et Aventures d'un Homme de qualité de Prévost et des Mémoires du Comte de Comminville de Du Castre d'Auvigny



Abstract:

The article examines the function and the transformations of a narrative sequence which occurs several times in Prévost's Mémoires et aventures d'un homme de qualité and which is used by Jean Du Castre d'Auvigny in Mémoires du comte de Comminville. This sequence (a man gives money to a woman, an act which we could classify as *GIFT_OF_MONEY) reveals a correlation in the texts between the scenes involving the gift of money, a female narrative embedded in a male narrative and the theme of prostitution. The analysis of the sequence reveals that the embedded narratives assume the status of tribute, and function according to different rules than those that govern the homogeneous exchanges of male narratives. While the male narrators insist on the reciprocity and/or the gratuitous nature of their narrative, the embedded female narrative exposes the commercial and also libidinous mechanisms that underlie the circulation of all the narratives.




AsK, jan 2011


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