De la rhétorique à la tectonique Mise en livre et construction du sens chez les lecteurs de Christine de Pizan (xviii^e et xxi^e siècles)

By bringing a contemporary reading to the testimonies of eighteenth century readers of medieval texts, the article demonstrates a contrast between two modes of reading. The first reading understands the text as a linear rhetoric. The second reconstructs a form of textual tectonics in order to discern the hidden meaning that lies below its surface. These two modes of reading are invited by the text, whose form is shaped by a perspective that is both typological (or syntagmatic) and hermeneutic (or tabular).