Metalepsis Drifts: for a Figurative Reading of Conspiracy Narratives. The Example of Umberto Eco and the Conspiracy Machine
Many experts on conspiracy theory reduce the phenomenon to its rational, cognitive dimension. 1Yet the aesthetic dimension and narrative pleasure are obvious in conspiracist discourse, whose rhetoric closely follows the codes of popular fiction. Have we not underestimated the quest to “please”? We p...
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Language: | fra |
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University of Tel-Aviv
2024-10-01
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Series: | Argumentation et Analyse du Discours |
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/aad/8606 |