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- Title
Le sublime et la rhétorique de la dissimulation: The Castle of Otranto ou la stratégie de l'ineffable.
- Authors
DUROT-BOUCÉ, Élizabeth
- Abstract
The unconscious is a great rhetorician and unconscious mechanisms are precisely those at work in figures of speech. Artifice is the other side of fiction: telling lies in order to create the illusion of truth. The Castle of Otranto (1764) enables Walpole to express his difference with the rhetoric of the sublime providing a strategy for unveiling the ineffable. Walpole as a fringe figure voices his rebellion through the Gothic whose irregularity echoes his own. The fictional encoding expresses desire in a distorted but decipherable way. Tropes make it possible to show an image so as to disclose another one. The basic theme underlying the Gothic is deviation from reality, which is also conveyed by the use of figures of speech as division and deviation from the norm.
- Subjects
ILLUSORY truth effect; FIGURES of speech; CASTLES; RHETORIC; FICTION; INSURGENCY
- Publication
Mélanges francophones, 2022, Vol 17, Issue 20, p11
- ISSN
1843-8539
- Publication type
Article