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Anonymat et signature dans les Bestiaires moralisés
Presses universitaires de Provence, 2016; Series: L’Anonymat dans les arts et les lettres au Moyen Âge
The notion of “author-function” was proposed for the first time by Michel Foucault in a conference presented in 1969 to the French Philosophical Society, subsequently published in the Bulletin of the same year ... This idea of ??an evolution, of a progress in a single and unilinear direction seems very questionable to me. Nor can we assimilate purely and simply the Foucauldian definition of the author function, marked by the recognition of a singularity, to the medieval concepts of auctor and auctoritas. It is clear here the overall accuracy of the analyzes of M. Foucault and R. Chartier, but they cannot be generalized to the entire corpus of medieval texts, which is more complex and less homogeneous than we often think. I will examine this question by taking as my subject a text, the Greek Physiologus, and the genre which derives from it, the Moralized Bestiary, Latin and French. These are part of these classes of “scientific” texts endowed, in the Middle Ages, according to M. Foucault and R. Chartier, with the author function. However, in fact, the Bestiaries represent a case of massive anonymity among medieval literary genres, with the only, or almost only, exception of the French Bestiaries. As we will see later, the modes of classification and assignment of a text/texts are nevertheless composite and significant, playing on both anonymity and the presence of an author's name, which is not necessarily (but could just as easily be) that of the editor of the current text. - [Author]
Language: French
979-10-365-7689-8; DOI: 10.4000/books.pup.47818
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