Because it tells in advance an event of the story, prolepsis runs the risk of ruining suspense; because it only evokes this event allusively, it may, on the contrary, help to create suspense. The book studies the paradoxes of this device, through a corpus ranging from the decade of the Astrée to the last novels of Abbé Prévost.
CLIL theme: 3154 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Linguistique, Sciences du langage -- Stylistique et analyse du discours, esthétique
ISBN:978-2-406-10872-6
EAN:9782406108726
ISSN: 2269-4501
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-10874-0
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 05-05-2021
Language: French
Keyword: Prolepsis, early modern French, poetics of the novel, narrative order, syntactic order, reliability, narrator, narrative tension, suspense
