The comparative method in Maupassant’s (A woman’s Life)

Le système comparatif dans Une vie de Maupassant

Authors

  • Lubna Abdullah Mohammed University of Baghdad, College of Languages, Department of French Language, Baghdad, Iraq.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36586/jcl.2.2021.0.43.0319

Keywords:

syntactic correlation, comparative method, global comparison, gradual comparison., la corrélation syntaxique, système comparatif, la comparaison globale, la comparaison graduée

Abstract

The comparative method plays a major role in Maupassant’s novel (A woman’s Life).This is due to a good theme choice and smooth writing style characterized by simplicity, spontaneity and brevity.

The author uses the comparative method in the introduction of his novel where he compares the monastery’s closed world to the open world of the countryside of La Normandie, which represents the dream life of the heroine Jeanne.

The present paper is an attempt to answer the question regarding the importance of applying the comparative method in the novel (A Woman’s Life) by Maupassant. The paper stresses the fact that the novelist employs the comparative method in his book for certain features .One of these features is the brief yet far-reaching meaning that brings out the things’ sensory sides and adds the text an aesthetic touch that cannot be found in any other style.

La comparaison joue un rôle important dans le roman Une vie de Guy de Maupassant. La supériorité de Maupassant dans le genre littéraire revient au type de sujet qu’il choisit et à sa manière d’écrire ; car il a excellé dans son style simple, bref et naturel. Il a utilisé le procédé de la comparaison à l’entrée de son roman qui correspond au passage d’un lieu clos représenté par le couvent à l’espace ouvert des campagnes Normandes, image de la liberté retrouvée chez son héroïne Jeanne.

 Cette recherche répond aux questions concernant l’importance du système comparatif dans le roman Une vie de Maupassant. Nous avons trouvé que l’auteur l’a utilisé pour ses fonctions variées ; comme la concision qui résulte et facilite la narration des faits, ainsi que la comparaison sert à nous rapprocher du coté sensuel et nous donne un aspect d’ornement contribué infiniment à la beauté du style.

 

 

Author Biography

  • Lubna Abdullah Mohammed, University of Baghdad, College of Languages, Department of French Language, Baghdad, Iraq.

     MA in linguistic.

    E-mail :[email protected]

    Other published research:

    1-“The comaparative method in Maupassant’s (A woman’s life).”

    2-“The use of anchored words and the discontinued words in the case of their enunciation in the narration of Robb - Grillet (The jealousy) selected as a sample.”

    3-“The difficulty of translating the collocations in the Qur’an”.

     Le chercheur  Asst. Ens. Lubna Abdullah Mohammed Hasan, département de français, faculté des langues, magistère en linguistique.

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2021-01-02

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Department of French Language

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The comparative method in Maupassant’s (A woman’s Life): Le système comparatif dans Une vie de Maupassant. (2021). Journal of the College of Languages (JCL), 43, 319-339. https://doi.org/10.36586/jcl.2.2021.0.43.0319

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