This essay attempts to deconstruct the corpus of so-called elegiac comedies. The criticism of the presuppositions of anachronistic reading of these texts constitutes the basis for the methodological postulates of an interpretation anchored in medieval theory of rhetoric.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques