Cycnos | Volume 14.2 - La problématique de l'auteur | 1. Approches théoriques

Résumé :

This essay is a critical reading of Maurice Couturier’s La figure de l’auteur. Starting from the paradox in the title (“figure”; as trope and person), two contradictory tendencies are analysed in the work of Couturier : a pragmatic/communicational theory of the author as actant and a psychological/psychoanalytical theory of the author as centre of control and of intention of meaning. The essay develops the first conception into alternative, pragmatic, conception of the author, based on a structure of Greimassian actants (alter: Author, Language, Text, Encyclopaedia, Reader) and of the interpellation of egos in the separate moments of writing and interpretation.

Date de publication : 2008-06-18