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- Title
ENTENDEMENT ET VÉRITÉ: De la littérature et des autorités dans le Livre de l'Esperance d'Alain Chartier.
- Authors
BOUCHET, FLORENCE
- Abstract
This article evaluates the ambiguous status of literature in Chartier's Livre de l'Espérance. A manipulative, even perverted, use of literary examples renders the speaker's intentions suspect, and tests the reader/listener's capacity for discernment. Historical texts nevertheless provide a morally-profitable truth, while fiction seems to be no more than theoretically rehabilitated. Overall, secular literature is required to cede to Biblical authority, and to the force of real events.
- Publication
Journal of Medieval & Humanistic Studies / Cahiers de Recherches Médiévales et Humanistes, 2017, Issue 33, p211
- ISSN
2115-6360
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4000/crm.14755