Le portrait dans le roman français au XVIII siècle
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This study traces the history of the uses, transformations and repurposing of portraits in 17th- and 18th-century French fictional works. The first chapter analyses Fénelon's novel Télémaque (1699) and takes into consideration his original approach, which draws from ancient Greek sources and innovates at once 17th-century portraiture practices. The use of portraits as hermeneutic, proleptic and pedagogic tools in a text which will become one of the most read and studied works of the 18th-century paves the way for new applications of what had thus far been a sum of descriptive elements or a socialite practice at best. The second chapter brings to light the elements of continuity existing between 17th and 18th-century portraiture practices while analyzing the symbiotic relationship established between portraits and fictional memoirs. By considering the portrait as a technological tool I am able to uncover the complex and reciprocal transformations of novels and portraits, but also the latter's ludic, proleptic and pedagogic functions. The third chapter focuses on Jacques Cazotte's Le diable amoureux (1772) and explores this author's long and playful use of portraits across his works. The analysis of this novel reveals a major portraiture innovation of the late 18th century, one that transforms portraits into tools promoting obfuscation and suspense.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2022; ©2022 |
| Publication date | 2022; 2022 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Giancotti, Cinzia Laura |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Cohen, Margaret, 1958- |
| Thesis advisor | Cohen, Margaret, 1958- |
| Thesis advisor | Bender, John B |
| Thesis advisor | Edelstein, Dan |
| Degree committee member | Bender, John B |
| Degree committee member | Edelstein, Dan |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of French & Italian |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Cynthia Laura Vialle-Giancotti. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of French & Italian. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2022. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/xn496tp0123 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2022 by Cinzia Laura Giancotti
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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