French Literature Reviews - 2026
Agrégation: Style, Genres, Authors N° 6
Literary Theory, Linguistics and Stylistics
Style, Genres, Authors N° 6.
La suite du roman de Merlin, Marot, Molière, Prévost, Chateaubriand, Saint-John Perse
Edited by Van Dung Le Flanchec and Claire Stolz
Paris, Presses universitaires de Paris-Sorbonne (PUPS)
Collection/Series: "Bibliothèque des styles"
2006
ISBN : 2-84050-476-6
14 €
Publisher's Description:
This volume is primarily intended for students preparing for the Agrégation in Literature, but also for any reader interested in stylistic research. It brings together the papers presented at the traditional "Agrégation Day," organized by the Institut de Langue Française, focusing on the 2007 syllabus for the French grammar and stylistics exams: from La Suite du roman de Merlin to Saint-John Perse, including Marot's L'Adolescence clémentine, Molière's Le Malade imaginaire, Prévost's Cleveland, and Chateaubriand's Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem. These studies share a common precision, rigor, and scientific currency, demonstrating an exemplary balance between specific textual analysis and generalizable interpretive scope.
Table of Contents:
Georges Molinié
Stylistics in Competitive Exams
Competitive French national examinations such as the Agrégation have long sustained a specialized tradition of stylistic and linguistic commentary. By bringing together focused scholarly contributions on specific texts from different periods, publications of this kind provide candidates and researchers with detailed close readings that illuminate broader questions of poetics, grammar, and literary history.
Readers interested in French stylistic research and literary history may find this volume relevant. The volume examines works ranging from medieval narrative and Renaissance verse to classical theater, eighteenth-century prose, and modern poetry. Contributors analyze textual mechanisms such as syntax, poetics, discourse representation, and pragmatic effects, maintaining a balance between localized textual observation and wider interpretive approaches.
CHATEAUBRIAND
Alain Guyot
Scholarly Discourse in the Itinéraire:
Avoidance, Evasion, and Integration