FACÉTIE ET ENJEUX COMIQUES DANS LA PREMIÈRE MODERNITÉ
JOKES AND COMIC ISSUES IN EARLY MODERNITY

Summary/Abstract: Despite its constant presence in the theoretical discourse related to humoristic literature, the facetiae represents a rather new interest centre of literary research. The complexity of the facetious manifestations in the comic literature at the dawn of modernity is due on one hand to the difficulties of finding the unity of its lexical definitions and on the other hand to its genericity, meaning its capacity of appearing within more than one literary genres. Our paper proposes to synthetize the phenomenon of the facetious expression, which crosses a long period (since the end of Middle Age until the dawn of Enlightenment). Always oscillating between placere and docere, between pure entertainment and socio-pragmatic utility, the facetiae finds its essential place within the European cultural space, both in literature (especially in narratives as well as in theatre), and in the new social relations, signs of a new sociability.

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