Revue Romane. Langue et littérature - Online First

The most important part of the production of the Danish Romanist Kristoffer Nyrop (1858–1931) focuses on French, but he has also laid the foundations for the teaching of Italian in Denmark. The grammar and the textbooks which he devised have been thoroughly studied by Viggo Bank Jensen. This article aims to analyse his contribution to the study of the Italian language, literature and civilization. Besides some studies on lexicology Nyrop was especially interested in the study of Italian folk tales. After losing his sight he concentrated on writing for the general public, as evidenced by the 74 contributions published in the newspaper Politiken, a dozen of which deal with “Italian“ topics.

L’objet de cet article est une analyse comparative, à partir d’un instrument théorique proposé par Genette, d’un célèbre conte du XIIIe siècle, Lai d’Ignauré, avec son adaptation théâtrale L’Oubliette de Jean Ott, auteur français moins connu (1878–1935). Il offre à son récepteur un jeu intertextuel intéressant. Le lecteur, dans la « version modèle », serait censé identifier différents niveaux de correspondance entre deux textes. L’analyse révèle des correspondances multiples et surprenantes au niveau des signes textuels, du lexique, des noms, des topoïs, des symboles et des idées. Dans le contenu complètement différent de l’adaptation, dans le contexte réinventé, on trouve des concepts et des motifs repris ou inversés, qui répondent d’une manière ou d’une autre à l’enjeu et au message de l’hypotexte polysémique et inspirant.

This article explores memorial distances — i.e., forms of distances that are both personal, temporal, medial, cultural, linguistic, and hermeneutic — in Pas pleurer by Lydie Salvayre (2014) and L’Art de perdre by Alice Zeniter (2017). The two novels are retellings of violent and traumatic historical events — the Spanish war and the Algerian war respectively — by persons who did not themselves witness these events. As such, they are emblematic examples of indirect mediation of conflict memory. The article emphasizes the importance of studying the complexity and the multiplicity of memorial distances in such narratives and argues that such an approach allows a broader and deeper understanding of the multi-layered memory work that takes place in Pas pleurer and L’Art de perdre.

During the collection and anonymisation of the party proceedings that are part of the PRIN project “Atti Chiari” database, an exploratory and qualitative analysis of the texts revealed a widespread and transversal use of the quotation marks (“ ”), in association – or as an alternative – to the use of italics. It has been possible to verify that, in addition to the typical uses of the standard language, the introduction of inverted commas and italics in the party proceedings responds to the lawyers’ need to include in the text basic vocabulary that in the standard language would not need any modalisation strategy. This seems to show the authors’ reserve in introducing very common words in the texts as if they were not entirely appropriate; however, if italics and inverted commas are used to justify a communicative choice that has clearly not yet become standard, they are also evidence of a significant opening towards the drafting of clearer documents.