Anna Gęsicka
Romanica Cracoviensia, Tom 18, Numer 4, Tom 18 (2018), s. 185 - 192
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.18.019.9591Les trois aveugles de Compiegne by Cortebarbre (13th century) and Les Trois Aveugles de Compiègne by Jean Ott (20th century): a transtextual analysis
The subject of this paper is a transtextual analysis of two texts entitled Les trois aveugles de Compiègne: a 13th-century “fabliau” and its play adaptation by a lesser-known French author, Jean Ott (1878–1935). Applying Gérard Genette’s terminology (Palimpstestes, Seuils), the author examines different levels of transformations, focusing mainly on the semantic message of hypo- and hypertext.
Anna Gęsicka
Romanica Cracoviensia, Tom 22, Numer 4, Tom 22 (2022), s. 355 - 364
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.22.032.16197The corrupted ideal and the rediscovered ideal. The function of metaphor in Donet baillié au roy Loÿs twelfth by Jean Molinet
The subject matter of the analysis is an interesting poem by Jean Molinet. This paper focuses on the aspect of a certain nostalgia for the ideal which aims at both the semantic and poetic aspects of the poem. The existential ideal ‒ conceived from a spiritual perspective – is transmitted through a refined metaphorical system, conveying complex ideas and equivocal meanings, and covers two eponymous aspects, one of which turns out to be denied by the second. From an eschatological perspective, the author demonstrates how insignificant the old “worldly” ideal and alleged intellectual ideal will be in the eyes of God at the moment of Judgment. The opposition within the same metaphor of the two antithetical ideals is a process accentuating a revalorization of the existential perspective of the poet.