Leur rire est jaune d’or taché de sang vivant : à propos de la signification métaphorique des couleurs chez Jacques Prévert Their laughter is golden yellow and stained with living blood: About The Metaphorical Meaning of Colours in Jacques Prévert’s Poems
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ABSTRACT: In this paper, we aim to identify and analyse the metaphors of colour and their place in Jacques Prévert’s poems. We will begin with a brief presentation of the artistic and philosophical credo of the author, and then we will proceed to a detailed study of the texts that we have selected from the following collections: Things and others (1972), Jumble (1966), Grand Spring Ball (1951), Stories and other stories (1946), The Fifth season (1984), Rain and sunshine (1955), Words (1946) and Night Sun (1980). We will focus on the stylistic and semantic analysis as an essential method of our research and that will allow us to define the new dimensions that colours take up in Prévert's work, as well as the elements of the traditional meaning that they retain in the texts in question.
RÉSUMÉ : Dans la présente contribution, nous nous donnons pour but de dégager et d’analyser les métaphores de couleur ainsi que leur place dans les poèmes de Jacques Prévert. Nous commencerons par une brève présentation du credo artistique et philosophique de l’auteur, pour procéder ensuite à une étude détaillée des textes que nous avons sélectionnés à partir des recueils suivants : Choses et autres (1972), Fatras (1966), Grand Bal du Printemps (1951), Histoires et d’autres histoires (1946), La cinquième saison (1984), La pluie et le beau temps (1955), Paroles (1946) et Soleil de nuit (1980). C’est l’analyse stylistique et sémantique que nous privilégierons en tant que méthode essentielle de notre recherche et qui nous permettra de définir les dimensions nouvelles que prennent les couleurs dans l’oeuvre de Prévert, de même que les éléments de la signification traditionnelle qu’elles gardent dans les textes en question.)
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