| Titre | Molinet le sequelle. Du maître au prince et du pouvoir à l'écriture, une difficile filiation | |
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| Auteur | Marie Jennequin | |
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Revue | Le Moyen Age |
| Numéro | tome 118, no 3, 2012 | |
| Page | 617-639 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Molinet's sequel : A difficult lineage from master to prince and from power to writing The work of Jean Molinet exemplifies a type of writing narrowly defined in terms of its relationship with the literary tradition and more specifically with the direct and impressive legacy of Georges Chastelain. In Chastelain's hands, the chronicle became a written space conducive to a construction of history as narrative. In the sequel to his chronicles, Molinet carries out a project of détournement and of reinvestment in the narrative procedures and motifs bequeathed to him by his master. Chapters 34 and 36 as well as both prologues, which have not previously received close critical attention, are illuminating examples of a process through which the master sees historiography as a space for comprehension and redemption of the world through the written word, while the disciple considers the possibility that it might have pragmatic power and emphasizes its use as recollection. The same is true of the treatment of the figure of Mary. The theological and poetic density of Chastelain's representation of Mary is replaced by Molinet's theological and political figure, whereby the Virgin is no longer a mirror in which his writing is reflected but a model that he presents to Marie of Burgundy, his mistress. Hence Molinet's work constitutes an attempt at distorting Chastelain's rhetorical edifice, affecting the representation not only of the prince but also of the writer as well the conceptualization of writing as redemption. Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
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