Catherine Bernard

Although she is still best known for her work as a novelist and short story writer, Virginia Woolf ranks among the most inventive and thought-provoking essayists of the Modernist canon. Throughout her productive and far-ranging career as an essayist, she worked towards a redefinition of the compass of literature and of the complex economy of reading...

Modernisme et illisibilité 23-25 octobre 2008

Isabelle Alfandary, Axel Nesme

Questioning “Modernism and Unreadability” means exploring Modernism from the perspective of one of its most roblematic effects: unreadability.

Jean-Michel Ganteau, Christine Reynier

This collection of essays means to explore the interaction between autonomy and commitment in an attempt at revisiting and possibly, revising conventional literary history. Until recently, literary history has indeed tended to present twentiethcentury British literature as either autonomous or committed, but such a position certainly needs qualification.

Sandrine Sorlin

Lorsque le pouvoir de défamiliarisation que l’on reconnaît à la littérature touche le texte dans sa chair même, alors l’expérience de lecture se fait à la fois inquiétante et intime...

Frédérique Amselle

« Virginia Woolf et les écritures du moi » s’intéresse aux cinq textes qui constituent Moments of Being, au journal de jeunesse, The Early Diaries, au Journal, ainsi qu’à Carlyle’s House and Other Sketches...

Jean-Michel Ganteau, Christine Reynier

This volume comes as a sequel to a previous publication, Impersonality and Emotion in Twentieth-Century British Literature, which explored the paradoxical connections between impersonality and emotion, two notions central to modernist as well as to later British literature...