Stylistique de l’hypotypose dans l’oeuvre romanesque de Marin Le Roy de Gomberville
Stylistics of Hypotyposis in the Novels of Marin le Roy de Gomberville

Summary/Abstract: This paper considers the treatement of hypotyposis in baroque French narrative fiction. After providing a definition of this figure, understood as a discourse particularly suited to the representation of a striking and pathetic « spectacle », the study focuses on its usage in the corpus of novels by Marin Le Roy de Gomberville, a successful author whose fictional production covers the 1619-1651 period. Through the stylistic study of some representative excerpts, this article aims to identify some elements of a rhetorics and a pragmatics of hypotyposis.

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