Rimbaud's life and works have been the subject of numerous readings ever since the poet's first appearance on the literary scene. This thesis is an attempt to reconstitute the multiple layers of interpretations which were grafted onto Rimbaud's life and works between 1883 and 1935 approximately. Successive readings keep a text alive and, in so doing, function also as prefaces. The concept of "preface" is thus expanded here to include the critical text. / These strata consist of readings and commentaries influenced both by the historical and intellectual circumstances in which they were formed and by the progressive revelation of the text; added one to another without cancelling each other out, these layers continually enrich and transform the original, making both its meaning and its import denser, investing it with new significance and new values and thereby keeping it alive, in fact making it even more present with the passing of the years. Over the years, the focus of reflexion on Rimbaud has shifted from the study of his particular "case" to a more profound questioning, via Rimbaud, of poetry itself, its nature, its meaning, its scope. In the minds of the commentators, Rimbaud and poetry's destinies are intertwined; thus, they "read" them together as if the value and the meaning of the poetry's destiny were dependent on the destiny of Rimbaud.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.56938 |
| Date | January 1992 |
| Creators | Fortier, Anne-Marie |
| Contributors | Ricard, Francois (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: 001325492, proquestno: AAIMM87664, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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