The functioning of authorship in Oscar Wilde’s epistle De Profundis
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-1124.v0i12p20-32Keywords:
Analysis of literary discourse, authorship functioning, epistolographyAbstract
In this article, based on the theoretical foundations of literary discourse analysis proposed by Dominique Maingueneau and, fundamentally, based on the concept of author formulated by him in his book called Literary Discourse, , we intend to identify in which ways the three instances postulated by the author – namely, the person, the writer and the inscriptor – overlap in the consecrated letter De Profundis written by the Irish writer Oscar Wilde. The aim is, ultimately, to demonstrate that the notion of author formulated by the French discourse analyst may provide to certain genres of discourse produced in the field of literature, such as autobiographical accounts and letters written by authors, a status that goes beyond their biographical and documental values.Downloads
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