Amours cachées : la nouvelle rhétorique mondaine bretonne

It may seem quite bold to try to rhetorically define Kerenveyer’s sonnets. On first reading, they may only be of interest for one reason for some readers: finally, some sex in Breton. These sonnets are obviously interesting from a philological point of view because they contain the first known writt...

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Main Author: Ronan Calvez
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Université de Bretagne Occidentale – UBO 2013-02-01
Series:La Bretagne Linguistique
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/lbl/1866
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Summary:It may seem quite bold to try to rhetorically define Kerenveyer’s sonnets. On first reading, they may only be of interest for one reason for some readers: finally, some sex in Breton. These sonnets are obviously interesting from a philological point of view because they contain the first known written occurrences of words designating female and male characteristics. In addition, however, Kerenveyer employs numerous rhetorical figures and figures of knowledge in his sonnets, which some would consider to be of the ‘genre poissard’. How are we to understand this paradox?
ISSN:1270-2412
2727-9383