Love shattered and reconstituted. A few characteristics of Réjean Ducharme’s rewriting’ Cover Image

L'amour éclaté et recomposé. Sur quelques particularités de la réécriture de Réjean Ducharme
Love shattered and reconstituted. A few characteristics of Réjean Ducharme’s rewriting’

Author(s): Petr Vurm
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Réjean Ducharme; Roch Plante; rewriting; intertextuality; deconstruction; courtly love; surrealism

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the problem of rewriting and intertextuality in the texts of a Québecois writer, Réjean Ducharme. The author analyses Ducharme’s recurrent topic of courtly love in relation to rewriting and intertextuality, juxtaposing the author’s literary texts and his sculptures and paintings, created under the pseudonym of Roch Plante. The text shows the similarity between Ducharme’s literary activity and his artistic collages. Both consist in permanent deconstruction/recomposition of a plethora of literary references, an inomissible element of Ducharme’s creativity.

  • Issue Year: 2007
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 128-137
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: French
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