Le texte littéraire
The Literary Text

Author(s): Réal Ouellet
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, French Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: literature; nature; function
Summary/Abstract: From the point of view of a theoretician, literature evokes a certain social and psychological reality that is prefigured in other representations of the world as well. But unlike history and sociology, for example, it has no pretentions of representing an objective or even external reality, but rather it plays on words as it will with its manipulation of verbal matter, like a sculptor with wood or stone. In the light of this, a text is literary when its prevalent aspect lies in its making the use of language evident and no longer in its message.

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