Quelle méthode d'analyse littéraire dans le cadre d'une théorie de la lecture?

Abstract

This article seeks to explore the methodological aspects of the semiotics of reading. How can one proceed to a literary analysis if one only has in view only the reader’s position, and no longer that of the author or the text? This article presents some theories of reading, then performs a text analysis that situates itself in this perspective. The chosen text, “Le pied de momie” by Théophile Gautier, belongs to the genre of the fantastic and thereby possesses a number of generic particularities that stimulate its readers’ imagination.