Poétique de l'horreur dans l'épopée et l'historiographie latines

Ce travail vise à reconstituer la vision romaine de l'horreur, au sens d'émotion extrême de peur et de phénomène horrible. L'étude porte sur l'épopée et l'historiographie latines, afin de cerner l'originalité du thème, qui relève normalement de la tragédie, dans deux genres dont il est a priori exclu. La revue des termes désignant la peur permet d'abord d'établir le champ sémantique de l'horreur au sens d'émotion ; s'en extrait l'imaginaire de l'horreur au sens de phénomène, qui s'organise en thèmes et motifs centrés autour des notions de noirceur, de grandeur et de laideur, se partage entre vision péjorative et laudative (horror ad odium/ ad uenerationem) et relève du profane ou du sacré. "This work aims to reconstruct the Roman vision of horror, in the sense of extreme emotion of fear and horrible phenomenon. The study focuses on the Latin epic and historiography, in order to identify the originality of the theme, which is normally tragedy, in two genres from which it is a priori excluded. The review of the terms designating fear first allows us to establish the semantic field of horror in the sense of emotion; The imaginary of horror in the sense of phenomenon is extracted from it, which is organized into themes and motifs centered around notions of darkness, grandeur and ugliness, divided between pejorative and laudatory vision (horror ad odium / ad uenerationem) and pertains to the profane or the sacred. On the aesthetic level, horror poses problems of transposition to epic poets and historians, particularly in the field of violence: to account for the excessive nature of horrible violence, they mobilize amplification processes that derogate from generic expectations, emphasis, euidentia and tumor. Finally, horror disrupts the reader's horizon of expectations: the delectatio it induces paradoxically combines a trivial taste for the sensational and an intellectual pleasure in recognizing the problems of mimesis, functioning in aemulatio with the literary and plastic arts. or scenic; the utilitas it conceals is essentially ethical questioning, since horror ad uenerationem can lend itself to criticism, and horror ad odium give rise to the ambiguous growth of evil. In the end, the notion of horror is structured in both genres around two themes whose symbolism interferes: the Underworld and civil wars."--Publisher description.

Year

2020

Language

French

Series

Scripta antiqua -- 127

Publisher

Ausonius

Editions

1

Pages

471

ISBN

9782356133304

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