| Titre | Le sphinx dénaturé : une écologie du discours ? | |
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| Auteur | Bruno Monfort | |
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Revue | Revue française d'études américaines |
| Numéro | no 129, 3ème trimestre 2011 De la nature à l'environnement | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Dossier : De la nature à l'environnement |
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| Page | 19-34 | |
| Résumé anglais | The narrator in E.A. Poe's “The Sphinx” tells a story in which the huge proportions of an insect call the reader's attention to the “monstrous” character of democracy. As the narrative develops, however, the sphinx appears as a creature which might be accounted for in a variety of ways. But the telling of the text repeatedly generates whatever line or lines of interpretation are likely to reinstate the enigma in which the sphinx is caught. As it directs the reader's attention almost exclusively towards a political reading of a natural object, this narrative strategy makes it virtually impossible for readers to relinquish anthropocentric concerns, and for environment to emerge in and as fictive discourse. | |
| Article en ligne | http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=RFEA_129_0019 |
