Search results for "Métaphore"

Le discours de la dégustation : des métaphores entre lexicalisation et séduction

2016

International audience; En se fondant sur un corpus de notes de dégustations, nous désirons interroger le statut stylistique d’un lexique à cheval entre technicité et poétisation. Il s’agit de comprendre comment, dans le genre textuel de la dégustation, s’articulent l’analyse perceptive et une isotopie hédoniste latente.Au sein d’un lexique aux nombreuses analogies sensorielles, nous nous interrogerons sur certaines tendances synesthésiques au statut stylistique incertain. Quand l’analyse gustative évoque le caractère « friand », « juteux » ou « salivant » d’un vin, la perception en bouche est partagée entre dimension descriptive et subjective. A cet égard, une typologie laisse apparaître u…

: Russell Banks, Raymond Carver, David Cronenberg, Bret Easton Ellis, David Lynch

2008

The use of the French adjective “malsain” (usually translated in English as “unhealthy,” “unwholesome” or “sick”) to judge a work of art has led me to question the relevance of this metaphor, the way this value is determined, the reasons which lead the subject to consume shocking material and the possibility to distinguish art from mere symptom. I consider the unhealthy, on the one hand, as a relation of transmission which produces an aesthetic based on metaphor and metonymy, and on the other, as a subjective value delivered by a self or a law, and I argue that, as it is entirely discursive, the unhealthy is in effect an uncanny metonymy. I show that the works under study represent and cond…

La Propagande du rêve

2010

David Cronenberg : une mission utopique

2002

This essay is meant as an introduction to the body of Cronenberg's work up to and including Spider. It is an attempt to analyze what Cronenberg calls his mission in aesthetic and ethical terms, Cronenberg having admitted to Serge Grünberg that he wanted to participate in changing contemporary norms by encouraging the spectator to see something beautiful when his initial reaction is repulsion. I argue that the utopian/dystopian aspect of the diegeses of Cronenberg's early films becomes a structuring element in his later films. I first examine Cronenberg's approach to the fantastique in Shivers and Rabid, with particular interest to the monster as a metaphor of the repulsive. In the later fil…