De l'innutrition à l'anthropophagie, un parcours du comparant à partir de La Défense La littérature entre singularité et imitation

Since É. Faguet, « innutrition » is the word used to refer to the poetic principle of imitation in the Pleiade’s poetry. An archeological inquiry up to Quintilian reveals a large set of metaphors and helps to assess the proper sense in Du Bellay’s text.“Innutrition” thus expresses the link between imitation and mimesis and leads to conceive metaphor as a way for an artist to seize natural Energeia. A look at posterior writers put the light on the ambiguous relationship between any creator and his models.