The Disfigured Night: from figures to subject in Maupassant’s “The Night”

Authors

  • Denis Bertrand
  • Dílsom Ferreira da Cruz Junior (Tradutor)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21709/casa.v2i2.616

Keywords:

semiótica literária, retórica, figurativização, figura, Maupassant, literary semiotics, rhetoric, figure, Maupassant.

Abstract

Analyzing Maupassant's short story "The Night", this article intends to articulate the rhetorical and semiotic perspectives of the concept of figure, and to outline some considerations on its connections with the subject, whose identity would be built by the figures that it elaborates. Keywords: Literary semiotics. Rhetoric. Figure. Maupassant.

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Published

07/03/2008

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 2 (2004)

Section

Tradução

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