Rewriting of Don Juan in the XXth century: between hybridity and intermediality, the new modes of exploitation of a myth Cover Image

Réécrire Don Juan au XXe siècle : entre hybridité et intermédialité, nouveaux modes d’exploitation d’un mythe
Rewriting of Don Juan in the XXth century: between hybridity and intermediality, the new modes of exploitation of a myth

Author(s): Aurélia Gournay
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Comparative Study of Literature, French Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Instytut Filologii Romańskiej & Wydawnictwo Werset
Keywords: myth; Don Juan; rewriting; intertextuality; intermediality

Summary/Abstract: The contemporary rewritings of Don Juan’s myth highlight several forms of hybridity and illustrate the stakes involved. The hybridation affects in the first place the sources of the myth since the authors appeal to numerous intertextual references. But the successive transpositions of the mythical scenario also lead to a generic hybridity. This intermediality has a reflexive dimension: it raises the question of the limits of language to talk about the myth and abolishes the frontier between fiction and critical speech.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 118-127
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: French