This study is concerned with the first part of Les Angoysses douloureuses qui procedent d'amours by Helisenne de Crenne which conforms to the writing rules of the rhetorical deliberative discourse. It is destined to a recipient in the text, to try to influence his future course of action, in a determinated way. This persuasion exercise is mostly done with examples which make up the main component of the story. The purpose of the text, explicit, manifest and admitted, is to incite the "dames" to live a life of virtue, without repeating in the future the misdeed, which the narrator is the example. The intent is therefore apparently one of edification. / However, a double intention, less apparent, also shows through in the text. The character of Helisenne, far from trying to alert her female readers, is re-enacting her passion by the very fact that she is writing it; she also makes it legitimate by using the exemplum and the godly predestination. Furthermore, she gives another recipient to her writings, her lover, who should be prompted to come to her rescue once he has read the story. / This study shows that it is in the superposition of the divergent aims of the deliberative discourse that lies the "delit".
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.23209 |
| Date | January 1995 |
| Creators | Desbiens, Caroline, 1970- |
| Contributors | Desrosiers-Bonin, Diane (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: 001473602, proquestno: MM07919, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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