ScriptaManent 2026-09-23T18:33:12+02:00 1 37581 Bib Article https://heurist.huma-num.fr/heurist/?recID=37581&db=ScriptaManent 2023-06-04 13:00:55 2023-06-04 15:05:21 public « Laisse le plourer aux molz hommes effeminez » : échec de la virilité et mollesse romanesque dans <i>Alector ou le coq</i> de Barthélemy Aneau 37583 <i>Alector ou le coq</i>, a novel written by Barthélemy Aneau and published in 1560, tells the story of two characters, Franc-Gal and his son Alector, who present typical characteristics of herculean masculinity. The author develops an epic, heroic, chivalrous universe, showing a concern for a masculine identity that should be built under the sign of the father. At the same time, the novel thematizes, at a metapoetic level, the need for a vigorous and rigorous narrative form. These elements, however, are subject to an estrangement and negation process in which a dialectics of virility and non-virility, rigour and irregularity is crucial. Character and text go through a misplacement process; some elements of diffraction establish themselves at the heart of a universe exhibited as heroic and vigorous, coherent and rigorous. The author seems to conceive a discursive strategy able to legitimize a man/father model and a writing that distance themselves from the canonical models in terms of masculinity and poetics. https://www.academia.edu/35241835/_Laisse_le_plourer_aux_molz_hommes_effeminez_%C3%A9chec_de_la_virilit%C3%A9_et_mollesse_romanesque_dans_Alector_ou_le_coq_de_Barth%C3%A9lemy_Aneau_Zeitschrift_f%C3%BCr_franz%C3%B6sische_Sprache_und_Literatur_128_2018_2_3_212_225 https://doi.org/10.25162/zfsl-2018-0008 212 225 37582 37580 1