Distant parts and the whole world: Intertextuality Pseudoworks in the Abbé Prévost’s Voyages de Robert Lade

Authors

  • Benjamin H. Baker

Keywords:

pseudowork, intertextuality, Abbé Prévost, Voyages de Robert Lade, eighteenth century, prose, narration, esthetics

Abstract

To reach a better understanding of the particularities of eighteenth-century prose narrative esthetics, this analysis of the Abbé Prévost’s Voyages de Robert Lade uses the lens of intertextuality to examine the role of “pseudoworks,” or texts that present themselves as independent works within another work.

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References

Dionne, Ugo (2008), La Voie aux chapitres, Paris, Seuil.

Duflo, Colas (2009), “Le Voyage de Robert Lade, du monde réel à la littérature (ou le canard de Buffon)”, in Catherine Graal and Marielle Macé (eds.) Devant la fiction, dans le monde, La Licorne, no 88, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes: 49-68.

Lallemant, Jacques-Philippe, Guillaume François Berthier and Jean-Louis Aubert, eds. (1745), Mémoires pour l’histoire des sciences & des beaux arts, Trévoux, Imprimerie de S.A.S., February: 334-48, and Mars: 528-48.

Prévost, Antoine François (1744), Voyages du capitaine Robert Lade en différentes parties de l’Afrique, de l’Asie et de l’Amérique: contenant L’Histoire de sa fortune, & ses Observations sur les Colonies & le Commerce des Espagnols, des Anglois, des Hollandois, &c. Ouvrage traduit de l’Anglois, Paris, Didot, [Google Books].

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Published

2014-06-29

How to Cite

Baker, B. H. (2014). Distant parts and the whole world: Intertextuality Pseudoworks in the Abbé Prévost’s Voyages de Robert Lade. Cadernos De Literatura Comparada, (30). Retrieved from https://ilc-cadernos.com/index.php/cadernos/article/view/84

Issue

No. 30 (2014): De Idas e Regressos. Declinações da Viagem

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Artigos