The purpose of this article is to establish how the use of the dash takes root in Verlaine’s prose as a kind of “jeu.” Opening up a nonbreaking space for the author’s freedom, this particularly versatile sign allows Verlaine to insert reformulations, glosses, quotations and other flights of wit, leaving an almost perpetual zigzag behind in the text: dialogical, digressive, transgressive, the dash is also a particularly corrosive way of impeding the act of reading.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
ISBN:978-2-406-11882-4
EAN:9782406118824
ISSN: 2426-8860
DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-11882-4.p.0141
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 06-16-2021
Periodicity: Annual
Language: French
Keyword: Paul Verlaine, prose, dash, space, play, zigzag