« Chaque mot qu’il dit pénètre mon cœur et prend un sens nouveau pour moi » : le paysage sonore dans Janet’s Repentance de George Eliot

Abstract

To pursue the theme of soundscape (to use Murray Schafer’s term) in George Eliot’s Janet’s Repentance, this paper will successively address more specific topics: the forms of sound representations, the sound as an articulation of the social, the affinity of sound and sympathetic resonance. It will also look at how critical hearing and speaking are to the crafting of the narrative and characterisation.