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The Presence of Touch in Musset’s André del Sarto and Proust’s Le Mystérieux Correspondant
Author(s) -
Françoise Paulet Dobois
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
thélème/thélème/revista de filología francesa
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1139-9368
pISSN - 1132-1881
DOI - 10.5209/thel.69205
Subject(s) - narrative , art , literature
Touch, as a sense of proximity, is very important in emotional and intellectual communication. Is it possible to insert it in literature? By analysing lexical-semantic networks of terms related to the sense of touch in two nineteenth-century literary works—a play by Musset and a tale by Proust—this paper aims to explain the preeminent narrative role that these two young authors accord the sense of touch.  

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