A poem by the “second” Verlaine presents itself, on the formal level, as a “metrical false pretense” and, on the semantico-pragmatic level, as deliberately enigmatic discourse. Verlaine does not aim to deliver a primary or derivative meaning; he uses traditional resources to provide himself with an ethos..
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
ISBN:978-2-406-09083-0
EAN:9782406090830
ISSN: 2426-8860
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-09083-0.p.0155
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 03-30-2019
Periodicity: Annual
Language: French
Keyword: Paul Verlaine, nineteenth-century French literature, poetry, linguistics, pragmatics, semantics, versification