Ebguy, Jacques-David

Poe avec Foucault : le paradigme herméneutique de « La lettre volée » - 2007.


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The 19th century gives rise to a new hermeneutics, exemplified, according to Carlo Ginzburg, by Freud, Morelli, and Conan-Doyle; Poe’s story however shows the emergence of another model, where, since any thing is already an interpretation, what counts is what is done to and with it.