Comparatism of the Francophone Tale: The Poetics of Rewriting and Transtexual Issues in the Tales of...

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" Comparatism of the Francophone Tale: The Poetics of Rewriting and Transtexual Issues in the Tales of Tahar Ben Jelloun and Amélie Nothomb "
Kadji, Deproux Laurent Picone, Michaël D.

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	French
Record Number	:	1054351
Doc. No	:	TL53468
Main Entry	:	Kadji, Deproux Laurent
Title & Author	:	Comparatism of the Francophone Tale: The Poetics of Rewriting and Transtexual Issues in the Tales of Tahar Ben Jelloun and Amélie Nothomb\ Kadji, Deproux LaurentPicone, Michaël D.
College	:	The University of Alabama
Date	:	2020
Degree	:	Ph.D.
student score	:	2020
Note	:	294 p.
Abstract	:	Central to this dissertation is a reflection on the properties of deformability and variability that occur in the retelling of an oral tale. The tale is defined as a text with multiple origins whose articulations vary from one storyteller to another, such that variability becomes a defining feature of the story itself. Consequently, inasmuch as a literary tale has no stable form, it is crucial to take into account the intertextual relations that exist between an original text and all the others that are extensions of it through various rewritings. To that end, an investigation is undertaken of the rewriting, by two outstanding figures of Francophone literature, of seven French traditional fairy tales taken from Les Contes by Charles Perrault. The work of the rewriters, the Moroccan Tahar Ben Jelloun and the Belgian Amélie Nothomb, refocuses the question of the transtextual and dialogical relationships that exist in such cases. The main focus of the reflection and analysis concern the following themes: Characterizing the textual specificities that make every tale recast by Ben Jelloun and Nothomb a different story from Perrault’s. Accounting for the manner in which the tales comprising the corpus fit into a discursive and narratological enterprise owing to the authors’ desire to suggest new ways of reading and understanding them. Determining what is at stake in terms of discourse and meaning building, in a situation where the voice of the author is liable to be absorbed or obscured in the recounting of the tales themselves.
Descriptor	:	Comparative literature
	:	French literature
	:	Literature
Added Entry	:	Picone, Michaël D.
Added Entry	:	The University of Alabama