International symposium "How to think about literary history today", October 4

27 September 2021

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The aim of this colloquium is to pursue the reflection on literary historiography begun in the Eurasian space, and to extend it to literature from other cultural areas. It will propose approaches to better account for the diversity, contacts and linguistic and literary dynamics between the world's literary spaces.
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Bibliothèque de Melk (Autriche) © Marie-Vrinat Nikolov‎

Event organized by the Centre de Recherche Europes-Eurasie-CREE (Inalco).

Monday, October 4, 2021 - 10:30-18:30 - Inalco - Maison de la Recherche - Auditorium Georges Dumézil - 2 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris

Contact: marie.vrinatnikolov@inalco.fr

How to think literary history today?

International Colloquium

Starting from the observation that literary historiography, strongly challenged by structuralism, has still mostly remained aloof from the major epistemological questions posed by cross-history, World Literature, the study of transfers and subalternity, researchers from and working in various cultural areas of the world will reflect on "how to think about literary history today", questioning in particular the foundations and usefulness of literary history, the national/transnational/supranational framework, notions of literary fields and spaces, the transmitted canon and its margins.

The aim of this colloquium is to pursue the reflection begun for the Eurasian space and to extend it to literatures that do not have the same articulation with the national space (Hebrew literature, Arabic, Indian, Amerindian literatures, for example), the same historical periodization (Chinese and Japanese literatures, African literatures), so as to be able to propose, in the absence of "models", approaches that better account for the diversity, contacts and linguistic and literary dynamics between literary spaces around the world.