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Linguistique de l’événement mescalinien chez Henri Michaux

2012; John Benjamins Publishing Company; Volume: 47; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1075/rro.47.1.08leg

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Dominique Legallois,

Semiotics and Representation Studies

Misérable Miracle by Henri Michaux, is not only a poetic account of mescalinian experiments : in our opinion, the book also gives rise to a semiotic thinking on the notion of event . The paper is devoted to a detailed investigation of the manner in which 1) words — thanks to their iconic property — are events, 2) sentences are formed by the structure of events, and 3) texts — thanks to the rhetoric of energeia and enargeia — are designed as events by the reading horizon.