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• Title:
  The silence of the cabbages: Delegation of the vegetal discourse in Cyrano de Bergerac
• Creator:
  Mangili, Adrien
• Description:
  Cyrano de Bergerac’s comic narratives provocatively grant speech to animals and plants, radically decentering anthropocentric perspectives. While animal enunciation has been extensively studied, vegetal discourse in Cyrano’s works remains underexplored. This article focuses on the Demon of Socrates’ encomium praising the intellectual superiority of cabbages in the Lune. Beyond its materialist subversion, the speech act raises ethical concerns about appropriating and translating vegetal silence. Though fiction allows cabbages a voice, their muteness persists, foregrounding the incommensurability between human and plant communication. Cyrano’s burlesque world paradoxically highlights the violence inherent in ventriloquizing mute beings.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2025 Adrien Mangili;
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
• Date:
  2025.06.30
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Artykuł naukowy
• Language:
  French
• Source:
  Studia Romanica Posnaniensia; Vol. 52 No. 2 (2025): Le Silence et l’éloquence des plantes; 91-101;
  Studia Romanica Posnaniensia; Tom 52 Nr 2 (2025): Le Silence et l’éloquence des plantes; 91-101;
  2084-4158;
  0137-2475
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/srp/article/view/48630/39477
• Subject:
  free thought;
  pansensualism;
  phytosemiotics;
  skepticism;
  thought experiments;
  appropriation of speech
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/srp/article/view/48630
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text