By studying the modes by which dialogue is inscribed in Le Cote de Guermantes, as well as the way it operates within the narrative discourse, we show that the sociolectal realism of this novel is derived mostly from the inscription and the circulation, within the fictional discourse, of pragmalinguistic and socio-ideological presuppositions obtaining in the "faubourg Saint-Germain" of the French III$ sp{ rm rd}$ Republic. Indeed, this novel absorbs and reproduces, in addition to a limited number of socially marked words or expressions, the role relationships, the power relationships, and, especially, the discursive strategies of the real world aristocratic ideology. Furthermore, this study demonstrates that if Proustian intratextual utterances undergo many systematisations, distortions and subjectivations promoting the insertion, within the dialogal component, of functional and structural characteristics of the description which modify the temporality of real dialogue and introduce pragmatico-structural modifications unthinkable in the real world, these systematisations, distortions and subjectivations partake of the text's aesthetic and ideological presuppositions, that is the anti-mimetism both of the characters' discourse in novels and of literature, the incapacity of language to reveal the truth directly.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.23350 |
| Date | January 1995 |
| Creators | Pellerin, Dominique |
| Contributors | Lane-Mercier, Gillian (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | French |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts (Département de langue et littérature françaises.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001488921, proquestno: MM12071, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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