With a reading of the sonnet “À Made Sand” as its point of departure, this article sheds light on Les Chimères in a threefold way: epistemologically, showing how Nerval borrows from the forgotten knowledge of the Baroque Renaissance reactivated by romanticism; phenomenologically, showing how his poems outline the contours of an imaginary geognosic landscape; lastly, by showing how they are “grotesque” and “sublime,” carried by an elementary reverie that implies a cosmogony.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
ISBN:978-2-406-09216-2
EAN:9782406092162
ISSN: 2554-8948
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-09216-2.p.0221
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 05-28-2019
Periodicity: Annual
Language: French
Keyword: Romantic knowledge, Naturphilosophie, geognosy, Du Bartas, grotesque, sublime