This research paper delves into the intricate role of music as a symbolic form in Pascal Quignard’s novel Tous les matins du monde,exploring its capacity to convey profound human emotions and experiences.Set against ...This research paper delves into the intricate role of music as a symbolic form in Pascal Quignard’s novel Tous les matins du monde,exploring its capacity to convey profound human emotions and experiences.Set against the backdrop of 17th-century France,the narrative follows the lives of Monsieur de Sainte Colombe and Marin Marais,renowned viola da gamba players,to contemplate the essence of music and its representation of human sentiment.The paper examines the semiotic nature of music,its relationship with memory and emotion,and the philosophical inquiry into music’s intrinsic value as an art form.It also discusses the novel’s adaptation into a film and its impact on the revival of Baroque music.Furthermore,the paper draws parallels between the myth of Orpheus and the characters’personal journeys,highlighting the transformative power of music and its ability to transcend reality.The analysis is grounded in the works of various scholars,including Ferdinand de Saussure,Suzanne Langer,and Charles Sanders Peirce,to provide a comprehensive understanding of music’s symbolic essence in Quignard’s literary creation.展开更多
This research paper examines the novel TerrasseàRome by renowned contemporary French writer Pascal Quignard,analyzing the historical writing and the artist’s growth narrative in the work,as well as the intrinsic...This research paper examines the novel TerrasseàRome by renowned contemporary French writer Pascal Quignard,analyzing the historical writing and the artist’s growth narrative in the work,as well as the intrinsic connection between the two.Set in the 17th century,TerrasseàRome tells the story of the engraver Meaume,who,after suffering facial disfigurement,travels across Europe to revo-lutionize engraving art.The novel illustrates how the protagonist achieves self-reconstruction through the semiotic self’s interactions amid temporal displacement and spatial transformation.Quignard constructs the dynamic generation of the se-miotic self through the temporal dimension of historical writing and presents the tension of the artist’s growth through the polysemy of spatial symbols.Through the growth narrative of an ordinary or marginalized individual,the author deconstructs authoritative history and reevaluates the existential significance of individual life.展开更多
文摘This research paper delves into the intricate role of music as a symbolic form in Pascal Quignard’s novel Tous les matins du monde,exploring its capacity to convey profound human emotions and experiences.Set against the backdrop of 17th-century France,the narrative follows the lives of Monsieur de Sainte Colombe and Marin Marais,renowned viola da gamba players,to contemplate the essence of music and its representation of human sentiment.The paper examines the semiotic nature of music,its relationship with memory and emotion,and the philosophical inquiry into music’s intrinsic value as an art form.It also discusses the novel’s adaptation into a film and its impact on the revival of Baroque music.Furthermore,the paper draws parallels between the myth of Orpheus and the characters’personal journeys,highlighting the transformative power of music and its ability to transcend reality.The analysis is grounded in the works of various scholars,including Ferdinand de Saussure,Suzanne Langer,and Charles Sanders Peirce,to provide a comprehensive understanding of music’s symbolic essence in Quignard’s literary creation.
文摘This research paper examines the novel TerrasseàRome by renowned contemporary French writer Pascal Quignard,analyzing the historical writing and the artist’s growth narrative in the work,as well as the intrinsic connection between the two.Set in the 17th century,TerrasseàRome tells the story of the engraver Meaume,who,after suffering facial disfigurement,travels across Europe to revo-lutionize engraving art.The novel illustrates how the protagonist achieves self-reconstruction through the semiotic self’s interactions amid temporal displacement and spatial transformation.Quignard constructs the dynamic generation of the se-miotic self through the temporal dimension of historical writing and presents the tension of the artist’s growth through the polysemy of spatial symbols.Through the growth narrative of an ordinary or marginalized individual,the author deconstructs authoritative history and reevaluates the existential significance of individual life.
