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Du sphinx égyptien et de la sphinx grecque on connaît, outre les corps hybrides et le goût du mystère, la prédilection partagée pour les terres arides, sables du désert pour l'un, roches escarpées pour l'autre. C'est pourtant en plein océan qu'on les trouve réunis, au milieu du XIXe siècle, dans les romans maritimes de Victor Hugo et Herman Melville. Baleines, pieuvres, récifs, tempêtes, tous expressions de l'énigme universelle, y prennent tour à tour noms et attributs sphinxiaux. Pourquoi cette rencontre mythique, inédite et incongrue? Pourquoi, surtout, en ces lieux, en cette époque? La question n'est pas seulement symbolique. Elle est aussi, essentiellement, poétique. Autour des sphinx visibles s'inventent des modes secrets du dire, signes d'une dissémination de la figure antique dans la forme même des œuvres. Propos ambigus, histoires intriquées, digressions complexes, investigations criminelles redoublent les ténèbres sous-marines. Comme s'il convenait, à l'âge où la garantie divine quitte le navire, de compenser littérairement le déclin du mystère. L'évocation du grand sphinx sublime, sépulcre silencieux d'un ésotérisme en déroute, se trouve ainsi constamment remotivée par les énigmes enchanteresses de la sphinx légendaire, créature ravissante, rhapsode et ailée. Ultimes vols, en abîme, d'une parole énigmatique sur le naufrage du sens. Explorer, au gré des flots, les anamorphoses du dieu oriental et du monstre thébain, en suivre le sillage poétique entre profondeur symbolique et surface métaphorique, sonder derrière le mot de l'énigme les mots pour la dire, tel est le libre parcours que propose cet ouvrage. II nous entraîne dans une lecture plurielle et audacieuse qui tient à la fois de l'enquête littéraire et du voyage imaginaire.

Comparative literature --- Hugo, Victor --- Melville, Herman --- Sphinxes (Mythology) in literature --- Melville, Herman, --- Hugo, Victor, --- Maritime novels --- 19th century --- Sphinxes (Mythology) in literature. --- Melville, Herman, - 1819-1891 - Moby Dick --- Hugo, Victor, - 1802-1885 - Travailleurs de la mer --- Sphinx (mythologie) --- Hugo, victor (1802-1885). les travailleurs de la mer --- Melville, herman (1819-1891). moby dick --- Romantisme (mouvement littéraire) --- Dans la littérature --- Thèses et écrits académiques

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Animal Narratology interrogates what it means to narrate, to speak—speak for, on behalf of—and to voice, or represent life beyond the human, which is in itself as different as insects, bears, and dogs are from each other, and yet more, as individual as a single mouse, horse, or puma. The varied contributions to this interdisciplinary Special Issue highlight assumptions about the human perception of, attitude toward, and responsibility for the animals that are read and written about, thus demonstrating that just as “the animal” does not exist, neither does “the human”. In their zoopoetic focus, the analyses are aware that animal narratology ultimately always contains an approximation of an animal perspective in human terms and terminology, yet they make clear that what matters is how the animal is approximated and that there is an effort to approach and encounter the non-human in the first place. Many of the analyses come to the conclusion that literary animals give readers the opportunity to expand their own points of view both on themselves and others by adopting another’s perspective to the degree that such an endeavor is possible. Ultimately, the contributions call for a recognition of the many spaces, moments, and modes in which human lives are entangled with those of animals—one of which is located within the creative bounds of storytelling.

animal narrators --- anthropocentrism --- cultural ontologies --- discourse analysis --- fiction–nonfiction distinction --- framing and footing --- life writing --- narratology --- politeness --- self-narratives --- animal studies --- human-animal studies --- speaking animals --- Tolstoy --- Bulgakov --- trauma theory --- Russian literature --- allegory --- humanism --- literary theory --- film studies --- George Orwell --- Animal Farm --- Chicken Run --- Uwe Timm --- ‘Morenga’ --- African history --- colonialism --- postcolonial German literature --- animal narratology --- multi-perspective narration --- animal agency --- The Plague Dogs --- Richard Adams --- unreliability --- talking animal stories --- non-human focalizer --- Pincher Martin --- non-human narrators --- intradiegetic narration --- Gerard Genette --- anthropomorphism --- Eric Linklater --- The Wind on the Moon --- direct speech --- characterization --- posthumanism --- inter-species comprehension --- Hindi cinema --- Bollywood --- animal narrator --- world literature --- empathy --- Cartesian dualism --- Maurice Merleau-Ponty --- animal poetry --- ‘Inventing a Horse --- ‘Spermaceti’ --- eco-humanities --- eco-criticism --- eco-philosophy --- Industrial Farm Animal Production --- narrative --- plot --- conflict --- environmental crisis --- catastrophe --- play theory --- Franz Kafka --- manuscripts --- speaking-for --- narrative representation --- literary representation --- animal autobiography --- fictional autobiography --- meta-autobiography --- contextualist narratology --- cultural and literary animal studies --- poetics of knowledge --- zoology --- natural history --- equine autozoography --- horse-science --- narrative voice --- inoperativity --- singing mice --- zoopoetics --- anthropological machine --- community --- music --- Cervantes --- Novelas ejemplares --- El coloquio de los perros --- Novela del casamiento engañoso --- Siglo de Oro --- Early Modern Age --- cynicism --- Diogenes of Sinope --- Montaigne --- Derrida --- Animal Studies --- rhetoric --- animal narration --- fable --- Aesopic fables --- Greek fable --- antagonistic fables --- comics --- animals --- cinema --- sound effects --- science fiction --- Achilles --- Archilochus --- fox --- Gryllus --- Hesiod --- Homer --- Lucian --- pig --- Plutarch --- Pythagoras --- rooster --- Xanthus --- talking dogs --- agency --- animal --- dystopia --- Marie Darrieussecq --- human --- non-human --- Truismes --- Kafka studies --- adaptation studies --- intertextuality --- intermediality --- mimesis --- emulation --- imitation --- repetition --- parody --- autobiography --- genre --- entanglement --- Cixous --- dogs --- earth --- worldviews --- indigenous wisdom traditions --- relationality --- ecology --- language --- more-than-human geography --- multispecies ethnography --- ecopsychology --- anthropology --- environmental philosophy --- decolonization --- intuition --- instinct --- myth --- non-verbal communication --- IK --- TEK --- animality --- film --- White God --- filmic representation of animals --- material ecocriticism --- Moby-Dick --- Werner Herzog --- Hans Sahl --- lyric poetry --- mole --- space --- time --- species --- metamorphosis --- transformation --- exile --- n/a --- fiction-nonfiction distinction --- 'Morenga' --- 'Inventing a Horse --- 'Spermaceti' --- Novela del casamiento engañoso