Fiction du moi en auteur satiriste: nom propre et posture d’autodérision dans le songe al-légorique chez Raoul de Houdenc, Rutebeuf et Martin Le Franc

Abstract

The aim is to study the ways in which the proper name is inserted and (re)semantised in the text, and the games of fictionalisation of the authorial persona authorised by the first-person narrative in order to establish an auctorial persona in an ironic mode: Belzebuth’s minstrel, songeur-laboureur, bœuf rude or ivrogne, author accused by his book, Malebouche’s victim. The I-actor-narrator puts himself on stage and projects himself into apparently devalued or disqualifying roles in order to express, paradoxically and with impunity, a writer’s ambition in the distanced and playful mode allowed by the distance of the dream. Self-mockery in the auctorial posture is thus at once a game, a weapon, an alibi for criticism or satire, and a claim to auctorial dignity between humility and the ambition for recognition.