La subversion du genre romanesque dans le De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii de Martianus Capella

In Martianus Capella’s Wedding of Philologia and Mercury, using novel as a ‘genre’ is the pretext for a work which focuses on the academic disciplines. Novel is subverted and used as an attractive package for a common handbook. I will intend to study all transgressions committed by the author: the frontiers are blurred between humanity and divinity, between microcosm and macrocosm, within the framework of a very cryptic construction. The result is polyphony within a work which intends to reflect an entirety. I will try to show that the novel intends to reflect a whole — be it cosmic, academic or literary.