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Le monologue intérieur dans les oeuvres médiévales: les leçons des littératures géorgienne et arménienne (II)
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Interior monologue in medieval works: lessons from Georgian and Armenian literature (II)
Abstract: If it is generally assumed that interior monologue in the modern sense of the term (after Dujardin) cannot be found in medieval literature (it has always the form of a speech, with complete phrases), medievalists are far from being unanimous on its characteristics, particularly with regard to its exteriorization and/or its interiorization, which depend mainly on its enunciation (uttered, or out loud, versus silent). Consequently, reflection on the forms of monologue in French medieval literature necessarily takes into account the traces of orality in the transmission of texts. However, we sometimes run the risk of no longer perceiving the border between fiction and the situation of enunciation or performance of the text, when we assert for example that, since most of the texts were oralized, it seems difficult to clearly distinguish the internalized speech from externalized speech. On the contrary, it seems to us that, in other medieval literatures, such as Georgian and Armenian, a character’s thoughts (internalized speech) may be introduced in such a way that they are clearly distinguished from that of his/her words (externalized speech). There are episodes where we find successively: 1) expression of a thought; 2) inner speech; 3) external speech. The comparative study of such narrative device as the character’s monologue in the three literatures will lead us to the following essential conclusion: the clearly higher rate of occurrence of silent interior monologues in works in Georgian and in Armenian could not but be related to the much less general weight of orality in these two cultures at the time when the respective works were created.
Keywords: interior monologue/non uttered soliloquy, reported speech, medieval literary works, Old French literature, Georgian literature, Armenian literature, literary traditions, orality/ scripturality/ literacy, Shota Rustaveli
Citation suggestion: Velinova, Malinka. “Le monologue intérieur dans les oeuvres médiévales : les leçons des littératures géorgienne et arménienne(II)”. Transilvania, no. 9 (2025): 1-6.
https://doi.org/10.51391/trva.2025.9.01.
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