Le lieu de l’abus: poésie et taḫyīl chez ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Ǧurǧānī (m. 471/1078)
This article aims to determine the specificity of the notion of taḫyīl in ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Ǧurǧānī’s (d. 471/1078) work. We will attempt to define this rhetorical device and explain the rhetorician’s interest in it. Taḫyīl consists in taking a word or sentence used in a figurative sense, in its lite...
| Published in: | Arabica |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | French |
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Brill
[2019]
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| In: |
Arabica
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| Further subjects: | B
Rhétorique
B Hyperbole B Topos B kināya B Poésie B ʿilm al-bayān B Ethics B abus B balāġa B Éthique B šiʿr B Taḫyīl B Poetry B Rhetoric B ḫaṭāba B Asrār al-balāġa B ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Ǧurǧānī B lieu |
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| Summary: | This article aims to determine the specificity of the notion of taḫyīl in ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Ǧurǧānī’s (d. 471/1078) work. We will attempt to define this rhetorical device and explain the rhetorician’s interest in it. Taḫyīl consists in taking a word or sentence used in a figurative sense, in its literal sense. Although this definition is well-known, it remains uncertain in many respects (what is its decisive criteria? Is it a figure?). To answer these questions, it is necessary to take into account the ethico-rhetorical frame of the question of the taḫyīl in al-Ǧurǧānī’s work. It is first determined as a rhetorical misuse resulting from a deceptive syllogism, and then as a specificity of poetry: indeed, taḫyīl is not to be blamed only in poetry. We will show that taḫyīl should not be considered as a figure but as a topos (literally a “place,” in Aristotelian rhetoric) used to overemphasize one’s statement, i.e. to provide an excess of the assertion (mubālaġa fī l-iṯbāt). |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0585 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Arabica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700585-12341537 |