Esquisse d'une grammaire du sublime chez Longin - article ; n°137 ; vol.34, pg 102-121

Langages - Année 2000 - Volume 34 - Numéro 137 - Pages 102-121
The study has three objectives: (i) to reinforce the still fledgling hypothesis of the schematism of tension. This hypothesis proposes to accentuate the orientation of the interval which is considered to be more dynamic than opposition; the sublime according to Longinus' description is characterized by suddenness, hence speed, by which he forces the enunciatee to bridge the semantic gap; (ii) establish that the principal distinctions of rhetoric, in this case restricted if one relates it to the works of Aristotle, are already those that tensive semiotics is labouring to specify; (iii) finally, from the perspective of future generalization, the point of view adopted here is indirect as it is not presented as the ordinary relation of a commenting texte [D2] to a commented text [Dl], but as a commentary [D3] of a commentary [D2], such that the point of view has for its formula: [D3 - D2 - Dl]. The possibility of grammaticality, that is , the constraining recurrence of certain semantic categories , is related to the stabilization of the relation [D3 - D2].
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