We owe to the work of Kittang, Reboul, Murphy and Whidden crucial observations on the formal features, the referential dimension, and the sources of Les mains de Jeanne-Marie. Yet several aspects of its composition and meaning remain enigmatic. This paper examines how a precise description of the chromatic contrasts evoked, and of the way Rimbaud resorts to a series of religious backgrounds and intertexts, helps to capture the progression of the text and the symbolic mechanisms at work in it.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
ISBN:978-2-406-14632-2
EAN:9782406146322
ISSN: 2262-2268
DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-14632-2.p.0053
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 03-15-2023
Periodicity: Annual
Language: French
Keyword: form and meaning, chromatic contrasts, religious background and intertext, discursive progression, symbolic mechanisms