The Impersonal in A Dam Against the Pacific by Marguerite Duras: Semiotic Analysis of the Literary Discourse

Nedret KILIÇERİ

Makale detayları

The Impersonal in A Dam Against the Pacific by Marguerite Duras: Semiotic Analysis of the Literary Discourse

Yazarlar:

Nedret KILIÇERİ

Yayıncı:

Istanbul University

Ana Başlıklar:

Edebiyat

Dergi:

Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies 2020 Vol.30 Issue 1, pp.1-25

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

6/2020

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2000516408

Sıklık:

Aylık

eISSN:

2602-2117

Özet:

 

A dam against the Pacific is one of Marguerite Duras’s novels and is based on the author’s life. The story told traces the succinct panorama of Indochina in the 1940s. The novel is about a time when thousands of French families were leaving for Indochina for a better life. One of these families is the Duras family.  This article is based on a semiotic analysis of an excerpt from the novel (Duras, 1950, p. 115-119) which is a description of the plain where the protagonists and the natives live. The long description of the Kam Plain, which is our corpus of analysis, draws not only a precise topographical space, but also the living space of the natives. Our analysis focuses on the recurring elements of the narrator’s discourse to reveal the semantic organization proposed by the general universe of the narrative. Our approach is that of semiotic analysis of literary discourse as it is elaborated and practiced in the work of A. J. Greimas, D. Bertrand and J. Fontanille, but also by linguists and narratologists J.-M. Adam and J.-P. Goldenstein. The analysis takes into account two aspects of the text: the statement and the enunciation. The discursive units frequently used in this description draw the isotopies of the corpus. The figurative and thematic elements allow us to address the profound organization of the meaning of the text.

Makale detayları

The Impersonal in A Dam Against the Pacific by Marguerite Duras: Semiotic Analysis of the Literary Discourse

Yazarlar: Nedret KILIÇERİ

Yayıncı: Istanbul University

Ana Başlıklar: Edebiyat

Dergi: Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies 2020 Vol.30 Issue 1, pp.1-25

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 6/2020

Belge Dili: Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.): 2000516408

Sıklık: Aylık

eISSN: 2602-2117

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Nedret KILIÇERİ

Yayıncı:

Istanbul University

Ana Başlıklar:

Edebiyat

Dergi:

Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies 2020 Vol.30 Issue 1, pp.1-25

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

6/2020

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2000516408

Sıklık:

Aylık

eISSN:

2602-2117