Métaphores correspondanscielles dans quelques écrits sur la musique du début du XIXe siècle

This paper deals with the rules and uses of metaphors in the writing of French art criticism – mainly music and literature – in the first half or so of the 19th century. It aims to demonstrate that metaphors tend to imply two kinds of writing craftsmanship. One is instrumentally linked with the simple use of a tool, for which rhetoric and aesthetics have developed legal procedures of practice and evaluations. The other one derives from the internal impulse of poetry; it no longer has links with the trivial handling of a tool; on the contrary, it gives texts their energy, their colors, their rhythms, and – finally – their significance. Examples from Varinot, Sudre, Soumet, Alkan, and many others, help to justify this statement. (In French)(J-P St.-G)