| Titre | La comparaison en mue dans les nouvelles de Patricia Eakins | |
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| Auteur | Françoise Palleau-Papin | |
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Revue | Revue française d'études américaines |
| Numéro | no 73, juin 1997 Paroles d'excentriques : fictions américaines récentes. | |
| Page | 8 pages | |
| Résumé anglais |
In The Hungry Girls and Other Stories, Patricia Eakins uses similes extensively, often eluding the object compared in a maze of references. She varies the modes of comparison and utlimately modifies the standard comparative forms in the language. Comparisons are meant to bridge the gap between things and language, forever approximating what the description is trying to convey, as if the teller were commemorating the fictive time when things and language were one. Eakins builds up a mythical origin of language in which tales and songs are materially binding and may be powerfully destructive as well as seductive. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | https://www.persee.fr/doc/rfea_0397-7870_1997_num_73_1_1693 |
