The proper name "Jehovah" among nineteenth-century French authors

Abstract

This article discusses the proper name 'Jehovah' in nineteenth-century French authors. Our aim is to study such a name as a rhetorical feature of narrative and poetic modernity in French literature. Thus, our corpus is limited to authors in whom the use of this name is identified. To this end, the criteria of the enunciative approach allow us to analyse this proper name in relation to the cultural and ideological competences of authors such as Lamartine, Hugo, Flaubert, Gauthier and Balzac. The expected results are based on the literary uses of the proper name "Jehovah" which are built on the stylistic procedures of intertextuality, polyphony, persuasion and tropes. Keywords: Jehovah, Intertextuality; Polyphony; Tropes; Metaphor and Persuasion