LA MÉTAPHORE VESTIMENTAIRE
DES ROUGON-MAQUART DANS TOUS SES ÉTATS
THE METAPHORS OF CLOTHING IN THE ROUGON-MACQUART
Author(s): Corina SanduSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Semantics, Sociolinguistics
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova
Keywords: metaphor; clothing; clothing as sign; Zola Émile; The Rougon Macquart;
Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this study is to organize, while analyzing, the plethora of metaphors of clothing conveyed by Zola’s Rougon-Macquart. Our categorisation, which takes into account the disciplines/topics associated to these metaphors, opens the way to some more focused analyses (on a title or on a character, for instance) and to the in-depth exploration of a limited number of metaphors. The originality of our study consists in combining the stylistic analysis of the compared/comparing clothing with a semiotic analysis that places the clothing as sign in a well-established system based on Zola’s Rougon-Macquart, where the meaning of clothing is associated to a value judgment (or judgment of socialisation) able to be interpreted by both Zola’s contemporaries and today’s readership.
Journal: Analele Universităţii din Craiova. Seria Ştiinţe Filologice. Limbi şi literaturi romanice.
- Issue Year: XXII/2018
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 153-164
- Page Count: 11
- Language: French