Literature and discourse analysis

Abstract

Literary discourse analysis – viewed legitimately as a branch of discourse analysis – is a new approach to literature. In this article, we begin by studying its emergence, taking into account the evolution of the relationship between literature and linguistics throughout the twentieth century. This allows us to bring its main characteristics to the fore. Subsequently, two concepts of interest to literary discourse analysis are discussed: self constituting discourse and scenography. The article ends by explaining that the introduction of discourse analysis to the field of literary studies modifies its map, from an institutional and an epistemological viewpoint. This assumption implies a distinction between two paradigms: “hermeneutic approaches” and “discourse approaches”.

Keywords:

• literary discourse
• discourse analysis
• stylistics
• context
• scenography
• self-constituting discourses