Les particularités stylistiques d'une langue non-métaphorique : Andromaque de Jean Racine
An inquiry on the particular status of metaphor in French poetry and theatre in the second half of the 17th Century, our study is organized around three goals. In our first chapter, we show that this rhetorical figure was the object of numerous discussions throughout the Grand siècle, and that a conscious effort to eliminate it or reduce it to a cliché had already begun to manifest itself at the beginning of the century, not only in the form of literary criticism, but also in the work of various authors. We dedicate our second chapter to the poetry of Racine, which we approach by analyzing three dominant rhetorical figures in the Andromache, his first great success, the powerful presence of which might be attributed to its way of compensating for the lack of original metaphors. In our third chapter, a comparative analysis between two hypotyposes in Racine and one in Victor Hugo will permit us to prove, with respect to the use of metaphor, one of the significant differences between classic and romantic aesthetics, which succeeds the former.
Racine oxymore attelage hypotypose metaphor classicism Andromache rhetoric syllepsis oxymoron hypotyposis