Figures of the Text
Reading and writing (in) La Fontaine
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 1992
XI, 154 pages
978-90-272-7733-6 (ISBN)
Description
The works of Jean de La Fontaine have invited an extraordinary variety of readings in the three centuries since their composition. By engaging selected fables and tales with contemporary notions of intertextuality, reader reception theory, and grammatology, Figures of the Text raises questions about what "reading La Fontaine" meant in the 17th century, and what it means today. The study integrates a theory of reading and a theory of textual production by drawing attention to those aspects of the text that figure writing and reading, for instance: scenes of reading; other modes of writing (emblems, hieroglyphics); inscriptions and epitaphs; proper names; and citation (proverbs, maxims, allusions); the relation of represented orality to textuality, of textuality to corporeality, and of textuality to the visual arts (ekphrasis); and the archaeology of textual figures, such as labyrinths, textiles, and veils.
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Content
- FIGURES OF THE TEXT
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- Preface
- Note on Editions and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. "Hiéroglyphes tout purs": Representations of Writing
- 2. Book, Brain, Body: Citation and the Scene of Reading
- 3. Bodies and Souls: The Intertextual Corpus
- 4. Making the Difference: Textuality and Sexuality
- 5. Inscribing the Voice: Oral Performance and the Written Text
- 6. Description, Representation, and Interpretation
- 7. Reading (through) the Veil
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
