Suzanne et les mères : une histoire d’amour et de mort. Une lecture sémiotique de La Religieuse de Diderot
By analyzing interacting processes in Diderot’s posthumous novel The Nun, the aim of this paper is to show that passions stimulate so often actions and thus provoke Actants’ narrative programs. The Actants in The Nun (Suzanne, the main character, but also the Superiors) merely take action; they reac...
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| description | By analyzing interacting processes in Diderot’s posthumous novel The Nun, the aim of this paper is to show that passions stimulate so often actions and thus provoke Actants’ narrative programs. The Actants in The Nun (Suzanne, the main character, but also the Superiors) merely take action; they react in response to other Actants’ actions; they are in the heat of ungovernable passions. All Actants either evoke or seek a passion.Suzanne claims that her desire to renounce her vows is not motivated by an enlightened self-interest, neither by a secret illegal passion; however, the analysis of the text shows that Suzanne’s action is mainly evoked by a specific passion: the anger.Suzanne is not only a Subject, but also an Object toward which the Superiors are directed and with which they try to create a close and intense relationship. Yet the relationship between the Superiors and Suzanne is perverted, and consequently doomed to failure. The wrong-headed objective of the Superiors to acquire Suzanne is patently mistaken and it leads, inevitably, to a fatal issue. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7d9a06a4c28b4fd3973804d6726bf17f2022-12-21T17:17:02ZengUniversité de liègeSignata2032-98062014-12-01524527710.4000/signata.501Suzanne et les mères : une histoire d’amour et de mort. Une lecture sémiotique de La Religieuse de DiderotHouda LandolsiBy analyzing interacting processes in Diderot’s posthumous novel The Nun, the aim of this paper is to show that passions stimulate so often actions and thus provoke Actants’ narrative programs. The Actants in The Nun (Suzanne, the main character, but also the Superiors) merely take action; they react in response to other Actants’ actions; they are in the heat of ungovernable passions. All Actants either evoke or seek a passion.Suzanne claims that her desire to renounce her vows is not motivated by an enlightened self-interest, neither by a secret illegal passion; however, the analysis of the text shows that Suzanne’s action is mainly evoked by a specific passion: the anger.Suzanne is not only a Subject, but also an Object toward which the Superiors are directed and with which they try to create a close and intense relationship. Yet the relationship between the Superiors and Suzanne is perverted, and consequently doomed to failure. The wrong-headed objective of the Superiors to acquire Suzanne is patently mistaken and it leads, inevitably, to a fatal issue.http://journals.openedition.org/signata/501tensivitypassionsliterary theory |
| spellingShingle | Houda Landolsi Suzanne et les mères : une histoire d’amour et de mort. Une lecture sémiotique de La Religieuse de Diderot Signata tensivity passions literary theory |
| title | Suzanne et les mères : une histoire d’amour et de mort. Une lecture sémiotique de La Religieuse de Diderot |
| title_full | Suzanne et les mères : une histoire d’amour et de mort. Une lecture sémiotique de La Religieuse de Diderot |
| title_fullStr | Suzanne et les mères : une histoire d’amour et de mort. Une lecture sémiotique de La Religieuse de Diderot |
| title_full_unstemmed | Suzanne et les mères : une histoire d’amour et de mort. Une lecture sémiotique de La Religieuse de Diderot |
| title_short | Suzanne et les mères : une histoire d’amour et de mort. Une lecture sémiotique de La Religieuse de Diderot |
| title_sort | suzanne et les meres une histoire d amour et de mort une lecture semiotique de la religieuse de diderot |
| topic | tensivity passions literary theory |
| url | http://journals.openedition.org/signata/501 |
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