The superlativism of Rimbaud’s Illuminations

Journal: Revue d'Histoire littéraire de la France
1 – 2022, 122e année, n° 1. varia
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Abstract: This article examines forms of amplification in the poems of Illuminations from a stylistic point of view in order to reveal their underlying rhetoric: Rimbaud’s superlativism reaches its peak in this collection, characterized by its vocation to undermine the very grandiloquence that it displays.
Number of pages: 252
ISBN: 978-2-406-12822-9
ISSN: 2105-2689
DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-12822-9.p.0039
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
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Keyword: rhetoric, superlative, superlativism, style, hyperbole