(en) Uses of Inspiration in Jeanne-Marie Guyon’s Poésies et Cantiques spirituels This paper aims at showing how Jeanne Guyon’s books of collected poems Poésies et Cantiques spirituels (1722) use the figure of a divinely inspired author in order to restore the charismatic power she was fulfilling as regards her disciples. Three settings are examined, namely the books’ preface, which defines the sacred value of Guyon’s inspiration; the peritext as a means of a pragmatic rolling-out of such inspiration; and the poetic text as an “apostolic” enunciation.
Duyck, C. (2020). Usages de l’inspiration dans les Poésies et cantiques spirituels de Jeanne-Marie Guyon. Littératures classiques, 2(102), 143-155. https://doi.org/10.3917/licla1.102.0143 (Original work published 2020)