L’emploi rythmique des connecteurs

According to Senghor’s theory of “negro-African” languages and literatures –which derives from the famous opposition between “negro emotion” and “Hellenic reason”– the poetic production of black authors is characterized by asyndeton. However, in his own poems, Senghor often employs strongly argument...

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Main Author: Edoardo Cagnan
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Language:English
Published: Institut des textes & manuscrits modernes (ITEM) 2024-10-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/coma/12793
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description According to Senghor’s theory of “negro-African” languages and literatures –which derives from the famous opposition between “negro emotion” and “Hellenic reason”– the poetic production of black authors is characterized by asyndeton. However, in his own poems, Senghor often employs strongly argumentative discourse articulators such as car and or. This use seems to run counter to theorizing, but a closer analysis of the occurrences reveals that these words are emptied of their syntactic function: they are more akin to interjections and part of a rhythmic and semantic search. Examination of the manuscripts reveals the resemantization of what Senghor called “cement-words”.
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L’emploi rythmique des connecteurs
Continents manuscrits
poetry
Senghor (Léopold Sédar)
textual genetic
French-speaking literature
expressivity
positioning
title L’emploi rythmique des connecteurs
title_full L’emploi rythmique des connecteurs
title_fullStr L’emploi rythmique des connecteurs
title_full_unstemmed L’emploi rythmique des connecteurs
title_short L’emploi rythmique des connecteurs
title_sort l emploi rythmique des connecteurs
topic poetry
Senghor (Léopold Sédar)
textual genetic
French-speaking literature
expressivity
positioning
url https://journals.openedition.org/coma/12793
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