En marge de l’histoire : les fictions médiévales et Gérard Genette by Isabelle Delage-Béland

“…This paper offers a methodological reflection which brings into dialogue some aspects of Gérard Genette’s thought (fictionality, literariness, paratext, the distinction between “closed” and “open” poetics) in Fiction et Diction (1991), Seuils (1987), and “Vraisemblance et motivation” (1969) and medieval French literature, by examining more precisely the problem of the development of a fictional poetics for fabliaux, short narratives composed from the end of the 12th to the beginning of the 14th century. …”
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