In his novel, States and Empires of the Worlds of the Moon and of the Sun, Cyrano de Bergerac displays a wide range of languages, both verbal and non-verbal, among which the most interesting, called "matrix language", is asserted to be the language of nature itself. The aim of this paper is to identify a strong Epicurean, and mainly Lucretian influence on this topic, not only as regards the thesis of the natural genesis of language, but also as regards its implications on the author's view of the place of man in nature. This also makes the connection between Cyrano and his libertine milieu more evident.
La genesi del linguaggio: memorie lucreziane in Cyrano de Bergerac
SCHIANO, CLAUDIO
2014-01-01
Abstract
In his novel, States and Empires of the Worlds of the Moon and of the Sun, Cyrano de Bergerac displays a wide range of languages, both verbal and non-verbal, among which the most interesting, called "matrix language", is asserted to be the language of nature itself. The aim of this paper is to identify a strong Epicurean, and mainly Lucretian influence on this topic, not only as regards the thesis of the natural genesis of language, but also as regards its implications on the author's view of the place of man in nature. This also makes the connection between Cyrano and his libertine milieu more evident.File in questo prodotto:
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