Sentiment and Perception: Editorial Cortex in Andre Gide’s <i>Pastoral Symphony</i>

Sekou Cherif

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Sentiment and Perception: Editorial Cortex in Andre Gide’s Pastoral Symphony

Sekou Cherif

Published in International Journal of Literature and Arts (Volume 10, Issue 4)

Received: 8 July 2022 Accepted: 25 July 2022 Published: 10 August 2022

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The sentimental and perceptive expression cross several literary productions among which we can quote André Gide’s La Symphonie pastorale. The author puts in the foreground a fictional diarist who is torn between religious principles and affects for a daughter that amaurosis plunges into a recluse existence. Indeed, taken in by the latter after the death of her guardian, she lives a religious education which is inculcated to her by the narrating subject. Expressing a reciprocal sensitivity towards the subject actor in this state, Gertrude, the object actor, manifests an affective inversion after the recovery of her sight. She is now in love with Jacques, the narrator's son, who was a suitor for her in her blindness; hence the dialectic of feeling and perception. Thus, this conceptual field seems the nodal point of the Gidian text. Taking into account the different notions, this article aims at deciphering the narration through narrative semiotics and theories of perception. It is precisely a question of identifying the construction of the narrative fabric which seems, on the one hand, encrypted and governed by affective affordance, and, on the other hand, by the "phenomenological-empirical" relationship of perception. In fact, the study will reveal the combinatory system of concepts that, through the writer's scriptural strategy, presents itself contrapuntally.

Published in	International Journal of Literature and Arts (Volume 10, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijla.20221004.15
Page(s)	220-227
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Editorial Cortex, Narrative Dendrite, Axonal Functioning, Perception, Feeling, Gidian, Romance

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