Congruence of two polyphonic theories in the stylistic analysis of novelistic texts: intertextuality and dialogism in Maurice Bandaman’s L’état z’héros ou la guerre des gaous Cover Image

Congruence de deux théories polyphoniques dans l’analyse stylistique des textes romanesques : intertextualité et dialogisme dans L’état z’héros ou la guerre des gaous de Maurice Bandaman
Congruence of two polyphonic theories in the stylistic analysis of novelistic texts: intertextuality and dialogism in Maurice Bandaman’s L’état z’héros ou la guerre des gaous

Author(s): Daouda Coulibaly
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Stylistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: stylistics; dialogism; intertextuality; polyphony; literarity

Summary/Abstract: L’état z’héros is a work in which Maurice Bandaman integrates the tale into the frame structure of the novel. Its discursivity is based on a number of oral intertexts including ritual songs, stanzas, opuses and references integrated in the form of a literary collage. At the narrative level, the voices of the narrators interact with those of the characters in dialogues and autonomous monologues by characters or narrators. These dialogic relationships highlight narrative metalepses that are polyphonic. It is one of the marks of literarity, the main driving force of stylistic analysis. The aims of this article are, firstly, to show that dialogism and intertextuality are two approaches echoing each other in the stylistic analysis of novelistic texts and, secondly, to prove that intertextual relations lead to polyphony and bring literarity to the fore.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 1-12
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: French