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L'écriture du détournement chez Jacques Ferron
Jacques Ferron's Rerouting Writing

Author(s): Aleksandra Grzybowska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Jacques Ferron; intertextuality; irony in literature; Faust myth; Mary Magdalene biblical episod; Laclos' Les Liaisons dangereuses'; Jean Rotrou's Saint Genest

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the instance of triple intertextuality in Jacques Ferron's Le “Saint-Elias”. It focuses on representations of women and studies Ferron’s references to the Faust myth, to the biblical story of Mary Magdalene, to Pierre Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos’ “Les Liaisons dangereuses”, as well as to Jean Rotrou's “Saint Genest”.

  • Issue Year: 2007
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 42-49
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: French
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