Un autre palimpseste. L’hypertextualité genettienne à l’épreuve de l’intertextualité médiévale : l’exemple des « lais bretons » moyen-anglais

The definitions put forward by Gérard Genette in Palimpsestes have enabled to study central forms of rewriting in medieval literature in a new way. But they have also highlighted the resistance of a literature where “the intertextual current is everywhere” (Zumthor) to an essentially analytical and...

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Main Author: Mireille Séguy
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Language:English
Published: Société de Langues et de Littératures Médiévales d'Oc et d'Oil 2021-06-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/peme/37623
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description The definitions put forward by Gérard Genette in Palimpsestes have enabled to study central forms of rewriting in medieval literature in a new way. But they have also highlighted the resistance of a literature where “the intertextual current is everywhere” (Zumthor) to an essentially analytical and chronological approach to the phenomena of hypertextuality. What happens to the Genettian palimpsest when it is brought into contact with this diffuse and omnipresent intertextual current? This article attempts to answer this question by focusing on the Middle English lais, in which the practice of rewriting is decisive in the relationship they have with the recomposed family of the “Breton lais”. It thus highlights the significance of another palimpsest, no longer vertical, but horizontal and multidirectional, which is in line with contemporary theories that insist on the importance of the actualization of the possibilities of a text and the primacy of memory in the manufacture of intertextuality.
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spelling doaj-art-2d7c3ac52a3f4d4cabfe23ea61403afe2025-01-13T15:29:47ZengSociété de Langues et de Littératures Médiévales d'Oc et d'OilPerspectives Médiévales2262-55342021-06-014210.4000/peme.37623Un autre palimpseste. L’hypertextualité genettienne à l’épreuve de l’intertextualité médiévale : l’exemple des « lais bretons » moyen-anglaisMireille SéguyThe definitions put forward by Gérard Genette in Palimpsestes have enabled to study central forms of rewriting in medieval literature in a new way. But they have also highlighted the resistance of a literature where “the intertextual current is everywhere” (Zumthor) to an essentially analytical and chronological approach to the phenomena of hypertextuality. What happens to the Genettian palimpsest when it is brought into contact with this diffuse and omnipresent intertextual current? This article attempts to answer this question by focusing on the Middle English lais, in which the practice of rewriting is decisive in the relationship they have with the recomposed family of the “Breton lais”. It thus highlights the significance of another palimpsest, no longer vertical, but horizontal and multidirectional, which is in line with contemporary theories that insist on the importance of the actualization of the possibilities of a text and the primacy of memory in the manufacture of intertextuality.https://journals.openedition.org/peme/37623intertextualitymemoryhypertextualitytranstextualityBreton laisMiddle English lais
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Un autre palimpseste. L’hypertextualité genettienne à l’épreuve de l’intertextualité médiévale : l’exemple des « lais bretons » moyen-anglais
Perspectives Médiévales
intertextuality
memory
hypertextuality
transtextuality
Breton lais
Middle English lais
title Un autre palimpseste. L’hypertextualité genettienne à l’épreuve de l’intertextualité médiévale : l’exemple des « lais bretons » moyen-anglais
title_full Un autre palimpseste. L’hypertextualité genettienne à l’épreuve de l’intertextualité médiévale : l’exemple des « lais bretons » moyen-anglais
title_fullStr Un autre palimpseste. L’hypertextualité genettienne à l’épreuve de l’intertextualité médiévale : l’exemple des « lais bretons » moyen-anglais
title_full_unstemmed Un autre palimpseste. L’hypertextualité genettienne à l’épreuve de l’intertextualité médiévale : l’exemple des « lais bretons » moyen-anglais
title_short Un autre palimpseste. L’hypertextualité genettienne à l’épreuve de l’intertextualité médiévale : l’exemple des « lais bretons » moyen-anglais
title_sort un autre palimpseste l hypertextualite genettienne a l epreuve de l intertextualite medievale l exemple des lais bretons moyen anglais
topic intertextuality
memory
hypertextuality
transtextuality
Breton lais
Middle English lais
url https://journals.openedition.org/peme/37623
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